SharePoint Design Tools Office Applications

Identity Federation service Identity Federation service BCS in SharePoint BCS Meta Data Store BCS Meta Data Store DBConnector WCF /WS Connector ASCustom AS CustomConnector.NET Assembly Connector SharePoint Client BCS in Office Client Client to Backend Direct Connection Client Data Cache Client Data Cache Persistence Store SAPORACLESiebelSQL Data Cubes Custom.NET assembly External data

BCS-enabled solutions rely on ECTs to integrate external data into SharePoint and the Office client applications Describes the schema and data access capabilities of an external data source and its behavior within Office and SharePoint *formerly known as BDC Entity

BCS Server FeaturesFoundationSharePoint StandardSharePoint Enterprise External Data Column External Lists Connectors (ADO, WCF,.net) CA BDC Admin Pages BDC Muti-Tenant BDC Admin OM Runtime OM Secure Store BDC Web Parts Profile Pages Packaging Rich Client Extensions InfoPath Forms

Intermediate Advanced Simple Developer Power User NO CODE* Advanced Developer CODE

Power User Developer VisualStudioVisualStudioSharePointDesignerSharePointDesignerSDKSDK Single machine Dev Environment Create reusable ECTs that provide custom integration logic to virtually any data source using.Net code Author thin and rich client UX as reusable components Create Office Add-Ins in Visual Studio Client-Server Environment Compose solutions (no code) that connect to existing WCF, Sql Server databases and.Net Objects Implicitly author thin and rich client UX for External List and InfoPath Forms IT Admin Production Environment Produce WSP Import & Configure SharePoint Server (Shared, Dev/Prod) “Live” Connection “Live” Connection Export, Import & Configure

No Code Solutions Custom Code

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SharePoint Server Legacy LOB Web 2.0 Claims Aware Service Secure Store Service BCSRuntime Process Account Logged-on user Credentials Ticket Delegation Token Other Credentials Application Delegated Token SAML Token Modes: PassThrough (Uses logged-on user) RevertToSelf (Uses process account) SSO Authentication (Credentials, etc. from Secure Store)

Popular Auth types WCF Connector DB Connector.NET Host Connector SQL Auth Username & Password NTLM Pass through Or Kerberos Claims Token Oauth / LiveID In code n/a In code