This document discusses using free tools from SharePoint for collaboration and productivity. It provides an overview of SharePoint and Windows SharePoint Services, and highlights Windows SharePoint Designer. The agenda outlines what SharePoint is, Windows SharePoint Services, and Windows SharePoint Designer. It then demonstrates SharePoint Designer 2007, noting it can be used to customize SharePoint, integrate data, automate workflows, and is now free for SharePoint users.

1. Using free tools from SharePoint
for collaboration and productivity
Patrick Yong
MVP, SharePoint Server
http://patrickyong.net

2. Agenda
• What is SharePoint?
• Windows SharePoint Services
• Windows SharePoint Designer
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3. SharePoint’s Vision
Customers
Internet Presence
Partners
Enterprise Portal
Employees
HR, Finance, etc.
XML Web Services
Team Collaboration
Business Applications
Personal (SAP, data warehouse, custom . . .)
A unified, enterprise-ready solution that boosts organizational
effectiveness by:
• making information and knowledge sharing intuitive and easy
• controlling and reusing content while reducing information
management risk
3 • enabling faster and more insightful decision making

4. SharePoint Feature Areas
Server-based Excel Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs,
spreadsheets and data wikis, e-mail integration, project
visualization, Report management “lite”, Outlook
Center, BI Web Parts, integration,
KPIs/Dashboards offline docs/lists
Business
Intelligence Collaboration
Rich and Web forms Platform
Enterprise Portal
based front-ends, Services template, Site
Business Workspaces, Mgmt, Portal
LOB actions, Directory, My Sites,
pluggable SSO Processes Security, Storage,
social networking,
Topology, Site Model
privacy control
Content Search
Management
Integrated document Enterprise scalability,
management, records contextual relevance, rich
management, and Web people and business data search
content management with
policies and workflow
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5. Microsoft Collaboration Architecture
Microsoft Office Groove SmartPhone Live Meeting Office
Professional Communicator
(Workspace (Real time web (Integrated
(Rich client) team client) (Mobile client) conference client) communications client)
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile (client OS)
InfoPath
Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Exchange Server
Portal, e-form, content management and search) (Messaging, calendar, scheduling)
SharePoint
Designer
Windows SharePoint Services (collaboration services)
LCS (Presence)
SQL Server (Enterprise collaboration data repository)
Windows Server (Platform, Security)
Active Directory (Identity Management)
VS .NET
XML Web Services
(Visual Studio)
Enterprise Data Line-of-Business
5 (SQL Server or other
Database) Applications

6. Demo

7. SharePoint Designer 2007
• Customize look & feel of SharePoint
• HTML, CSS & ASP.NET Editor for SharePoint
• Integrate business data to SharePoint
• Can be used for both WSS and MOSS
• Automate workflows processes in SharePoint
• Free of charge since April 2009 for SharePoint users
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8. Demo

9. Q&A

10. Thank you
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