Naqash Ahmed | Microsoft Student Partner

Naqash Ahmed | Student of Bachelors in Software Engineering Microsoft Student Partner since November 2014 I do. –Windows Phone Development –Web development –Office 365 Administration –SharePoint Development (*Beginner) Blogger at Speaker, developer, technology enthusiast and other good stuff...

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Course Topics What we will be learning today… 01 | The Workplace today06 | SharePoint Logical Architecture 02 | Definition of SharePoint 07 | Hardware & Software Requirements for SharePoint 03 | What it does?08 | How to get SharePoint 2013? 04 | Components of SharePoint 09 | Q&A 05 | Objects of SharePoint

01 | The Workplace Today Naqash Ahmed

Workplace today! More demands, less resources Information Overload –How can I prioritize my work? –How to react to over increasing data and workload? Globally distributed partners/teams –How to contact them? –How to coordinate with them on projects? High cost of communication –Skype? Facebook? WhatsApp?

02 | Definition of SharePoint

Definitions What an end-user think SharePoint is? –Website factory –Document Repository –Collaboration –Project Workplace –Search Engine What an IT Pro or Developer think SharePoint is? –ASP.NET 4.0 App –Windows Server, IIS, SQL Server –Cloud

What it does?

It integrates working environment Intranet Documents Collaboration Extranet Websites BI

03 | Objects of SharePoint

Functions SharePoint Sites Communities Content Search Insights Composites

Sites SharePoint makes websites –People work together, place documents –Collaborative work –Single source for projects –Common set of information

Communities When sites are shared, they turn into community It is a team-site Invite people from different sets of views Helping others in their projects

Content There will be lots and lots of content All forms, all policy manuals, all documents etc.

Search Where to find those “content”? SharePoint has built-in search engine. Search any single document, any individual, any community

We can analyse the work and aggregate information We can do reporting Statistics about the project workflow Insights

Composites Ability to create custom apps, custom libraries Makes SharePoint extensible Makes solutions on customized set-of-views Users will be able to solve problems on their own

SharePoint Logical Architecture

Server Farm – Outermost boundary of SP – Collection of SharePoint servers Service Applications –A resource that can be shared throughout a farm. Application Pool –A web server based on IIS –More apps, more app pools

Web Application –With SharePoint, web applications can be made inside IIS quickly –It will be ASP.NET web application Site Collection –Each web application has one or more site collection –Buckets of individual websites –Represents administrative boundaries of a web application Lists and Libraries –Both are similar as they are documents or data

Farm Web Application Site Collection Subsites with Lists

Hardware & Software Requirements for SharePoint 2013

Hardware Requirements Processor –64 bit, four cores RAM –4 GB (minimum) for developer –8 GB (minimum) for multiple farms Storage –80 GB (minimum) system drive

Software Requirements Windows –Windows Server 2012 R2 SP1 Framework –.NET Framework 4.5 –Windows Identity Foundation –Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime Web Server –IIS

04 | Takeaways

How to get SharePoint 2013? products-and-free-trialhttps://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint- products-and-free-trial licensing-overviewhttps://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint- licensing-overview

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