SharePoint What it is, What it isn’t and What it might be Colin Farrow and Diane Montgomery

What it is MOSS

Portals and Personalisation Search Content management What it is - SharePoint Collaboration Portals and Personalisation Search Content management Business Processes and Forms Business Intelligence

MySite Collaboration What it is Single Sign On Personalised Portal Personal Web space MySite Shared Web space Collaboration Team Web space Access – Anywhere, Anytime

private and shared space Create own ad-hoc team site What it is - MySite user personal pages private and shared space Create own ad-hoc team site direct access (via SSO) to Exchange e-mail Moodle VLE WebSurf Student Records Library books/search/catalogue Print Credits Business applications

Student projects Research projects Admin groups Colleges & Schools What it is -Team Collaboration Sites Student projects Research projects Admin groups document libraries surveys blogs, wikis forum lists alerts Colleges & Schools Services Research Clubs & Societies Centralised setup Devolved admin

What it is – Site Templates Team Site Meeting Workspace Document Centre News Site Absence and Vacation Schedule Event Planning IT Team Workspace Knowledge Base Physical Asset Tracking and Management Project Tracking Workspace

What it is - Permissions Audience Targetting Resources Permissions View pages; add items; create alerts; modify; ... Permission Levels Contribute; Approve; Design People and Groups People Picker Inheritance

What it isn’t Not a replacement for existing services Document Management → ERDMS VLE → Moodle Public facing Web Content → T4 Network filestore An additional tool complimentary to existing services. Expect new and innovative uses!

Platform and environment for custom web applications What it might be Platform and environment for custom web applications web interfaces Forms Databases Workflow documents etc News and Alerts College, School, Division Course, Class Special Lectures Change of Venue Etc, etc Audience targeted to user MySite

application servers – search, index SQL active passive cluster Server Farm web front ends application servers – search, index SQL active passive cluster in two sites for DR

Team Sites – 6 x 100Gb content databases Search databases Storage MySites – 256Mb per user Team Sites – 6 x 100Gb content databases Search databases 80% fill factor 120% bloat factor mapping database files to drive spindles RAID and mirror transaction logs backup restore and recovery

Backup and disaster recovery MySite recycle bin User accessible – 30 days Site collection recycle bin Site admin – 30 days Disk and tape backup System admin – 90 days

Single Sign On – our solution MySite Resources Open ... SSO application Identity Vault SessionDB

only the start of a process ... on the horizon ... What next? DR database mirror backup SSO webpart tweaks Training Devolved management only the start of a process ... on the horizon ... Sharepoint 2010 Federated Access Management

So, what does it really look like? Demo So, what does it really look like?