10 Things You May Not Know About SharePoint Technology Arpan Shah Director, SharePoint Technology TPM Microsoft Corporation

#1 – SharePoint Technology on the Internet Check out some of these examples: – – – – –

#2 – SharePoint Technology is Browser Friendly -Improvements with the 2007 wave of SharePoint technology -Authoring support with Telerik -Rich Field Editing including Wikis -Content Editor Web Part -WCM RTE Field Control -

#3 – Build Mashups with PopFly

#4 – Integrate with other Portals Of course you can with custom code… but really easy with: – RSS Web Part – Page Viewer Web Part Partners like Vorsite Standards support

#5 – Standards support XML – RSS Everywhere – even on views! – Web Parts (RSS, Data View Part) – XSLT support – XML Web Services (see demo later) WCAG compliance – Accessibility Kit DOD

#6 – Office + SharePoint = better together GBB Whitepaper Client customizations – Example. Document Information Panel (InfoPath Panel) XML Web Services – Write

#7 – Web 2.0 functionality Out-of-the-box Community Kit for SharePoint – Tag Cloud – Enhanced Blogs Build MOSS Wiki Templates example “Will Microsoft Become the Facebook of the Enterprise (CIO Insight Magazine)

#8 – Rich Community Projects and Samples 50+ CodePlex SharePoint Projects Examples of Interesting Projects: – CKS ( – Site Recycle Bin (

#9 – Federate Search SharePoint Designer Magic – Form Field – Data View Part – Write

#10 – Community Resources SharePoint Portal – SharePointPedia (coming soon) SharePoint Team Blogs SharePoint Forums

SharePoint Community Portal The “starting point for the worldwide SharePoint community.” Friendly URL: – Redirects to:

SharePointPedia Enable community driven and supplemented content lifecycle for SharePoint Products and Technologies.

SharePoint Team Blogs Designer Designer And dozens of individual blogs! Reach: ~120,000 unique visitors per month!

Community Kit for SharePoint and CodePlex Community Kit for SharePoint ( – A set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website based on SharePoint technology for practically any group of people with a common interest. CodePlex – 60 shared source projects focused on SharePoint.

CKS 2.0: Enhanced Blog Edition Beta 1 “Your blog should look as smart or creative as you think you are” Features: Modular Theme Framework Friendly URLs RSS feed fixups In Development: Support for trackbacks/ pingbacks Blog import tool