What are we discussing? Show me the value Understanding the costs What is right for me? Mythbusters Foundation vs SharePoint What is MSF2010? Francois Pienaar

Me Myself and Irene Daft Punk – Been around the world Blog – Linkedin - Twitter – fhpienaar – Note: Clapping & Cheering is allowed throughout this presentation.

Agenda And your point is?

What is SharePoint Foundation? Foundation vs SharePoint “Mythbusters” (Real World vs Brochure) Which edition is right for me? Understanding the costs Show me the value! Agenda What we will discuss This should be good Note: No actual servers were hurt while producing this slide show.

What is SharePoint Foundation? Get it?

What is SharePoint Foundation? Do you like the purple? Intranet Internet / Extranet Enabling Technologies

What is SharePoint Foundation? ?? Underlying tech for SharePoint Formally ~ Windows SharePoint Services Create sites & collaborate on content Building block for web based applications

What is SharePoint Foundation? [Deck Title]

What is SharePoint Foundation? [Deck Title] Screenshot of house. Explain Foundation, SPS Std & SPS Ent in terms of add-ons to the house. Foundation = Foundation SPS STD = basic house SPS ENT = basic house + awesomeness

What is SharePoint Foundation? Are you reading this? SITES CONTENT COMMUNITIES SEARCH COMPOSITES INSIGHTS

Wasn’t that easy?

Integration, BOOM! Bring any requirement!

Knowledge Base anyone?

Foundation vs SharePoint [Deck Title] SharePoint ellipse Foundation does NOT have: –Enterprise Content Management –Business Intelligence, –Enterprise Search, –and Personal Profiles through My Sites

Foundation vs SharePoint Are you reading this? SITES CONTENT COMMUNITIES SEARCH COMPOSITES INSIGHTS

Foundation vs SharePoint I miss spy vs spy SITES CONTENT COMMUNITIES SEARCH COMPOSITES INSIGHTS SITES COMMUNITIES COMPOSITES

This is my happy face

If you like, show me the money

Enterprise Content Management

Ermm, dare to compare?

BI is for grown ups

Let’s build something No coding for me thanks.

Workflow in Foundation If its complex, get a 3 rd party app Foundation has workflow, BUT “Three state” only Relationships between tasks & items r manual ITPro understanding required to use SPD Good for 1 step operations Complexity++ is less appropriate

Search in Foundation Can’t find what you’re looking for? Foundation has Search, BUT No scopes SQL Full-Text indexing only Cannot federate from external sources No custom search web parts No search applications No Best Bets / Sorting

Content Management in Foundation CQWP = U need it! Foundation has Document Libraries, BUT No CQWP = no aggregation How do you tag content? Columns vs Tags Duplication of content No Document Sets No Content Organiser

Branding in Foundation SharePoint is gr8 if used correctly You can brand Foundation, BUT No publishing framework Each site is isolated thus Each master page updated individually Maintenance++ No page layouts = reliance on IT for pages

What edition is right for me? Pick one. We want to move away from file share – MSF We need basic workflow – MSF We have 1 IT Manager – MSF We have in house developers – MSF / SPS

What edition is right for me? Right tool for your need We have < 50 employees – MSF Configure, and let business run it – SPS Configure, and let service provider run it – MSF Advanced records requirement – SPS Need intranet & extranet - SPS

Understanding the costs Pay peanuts, get monkeys Free with Windows Server ’08, but Active Directory CALs SQL –Express (10GB limit) –Standard Srv Services Adoption / Training

Show me the VALUE What can small business get? Good document control Internal comms++ Basic workflow From Excel  Lists Keep IP internal (discussions, wiki, blogs etc) Better insight  Issue tracking

Show me the VALUE Solution Examples Asset Register Basic HR functions Document Control Project Coordination SHEQ Incident Management Scanning Catalogue

Baie dankie Enkosi Q&A Come visit the IMMIX stand Keen to chat afterward? Thanks for the opportunity!

Resources Hey look, a pidgeon (Getting Started with Microsoft Foundation 2010) (SharePoint Foundation 2010 – Technet) (SharePoint Edition Comparison) (SharePoint in Plain English)