RJB Technical Consulting First Look Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Russ Basiura RJB Technical Consulting

RJB Technical Consulting Agenda Customer Challenges Microsoft’s Vision Microsoft’s Strategy Feature Areas Overview

RJB Technical Consulting Business Impact Islands of information and applications Slow responsiveness to business and user needs Costly custom development and maintenance Poor sharing inside and outside the organization Difficult to find the right content, data, and people Increasing information management risk

RJB Technical Consulting SharePoint Vision HR, Finance, etc. Team Collaboration Personal Enterprise Portal Internet Presence EmployeesCustomersPartners Business Applications (SAP, data warehouse, custom...) XML Web Services

RJB Technical Consulting Leverage the Market Momentum Broad platform adoption Portal and collaboration leadership Growing developer community Growing number of SharePoint applications and Web Parts

RJB Technical Consulting SharePoint Feature Areas Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists My Sites, social networking, privacy control, content targeting and aggregation, Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable Enterprise single sign-on Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow Business Process & Forms Search ContentManagement PlatformServices Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model Partner Solutions Portal Collaboration Business Intelligence People & Personalization Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, content aggregation, LDAP integration, composite applications

RJB Technical Consulting Platform Services User Experience –Improvements to usability, navigation, trimming, customization Platform Improvements –ASP.NET web parts, master pages, pluggable authentication –Customization enhancements – templates, feature extensibility –Windows Workflow Foundation –List enhancements – scale, content types, versioning Manageability –Improved backup / restore including wastebasket and VSS support –Extranet deployment with ADFS and reverse proxy support –Full and side-by-side upgrade Seamless integration with Office SharePoint Server 2007 –Provisioning, security, navigation, search PlatformServices Pre-release software, subject to change

RJB Technical Consulting Content Management Document Management Records Management Policy and Compliance Web Content Management ContentManagement

RJB Technical Consulting Documents Document Management –Scalable Document Libraries and Repositories –Security and Tracking Workflow and Approval –Out of box multi-stage Serial and Parallel document workflows –Integrated with and Office 2007 desktop applications –Customizable through Windows Workflow Foundation ContentManagement

RJB Technical Consulting Records and Web Content Policy and Compliance –Centrally controlled auditing, expiration & retention policies –Archival, retention and regulatory compliance – content as records Web Content Management –Designed for Internet and Published Sites –New Web and Word Authoring capabilities –New Content Deployment and Publishing tools ContentManagement

RJB Technical Consulting Scalable Document Repositories Manage large document sets with treeview Search for documents through metadata Manage document approval with integrated workflow Establish enterprise- approved content types ContentManagement

RJB Technical Consulting Capturing Rich Metadata Define required metadata in content type definition Customizable Document Information panel based on InfoPath technology Capture meta data as part of authoring process ContentManagement

RJB Technical Consulting Reusing Content – Slide Library “Tag” and store slides for re-use by others. Alerts in PowerPoint if slides in a presentation have been updated Access the slide library from within the presentation ContentManagement

RJB Technical Consulting New Web Authoring Console ContentManagement Browse available content assets

RJB Technical Consulting Portal Investment Areas Portal Site –Integration with Windows SharePoint Services –Intranet Portal Template – Topics, Site Directory People and Expertise Search –People specific search “tab” –Social network support My Site –Improved Public Page, Personal homepage Targeting and personalization –Easier targeting – Distribution lists and Security Groups Profile store improvements –Scalability, flexible schema, LDAP synchronization Portal

RJB Technical Consulting My Site Public with User Profile Portal Organizational network User Profile

RJB Technical Consulting My Site Private with Social Networking and Roll-Up Portal Social or knowledge network Roll-up from relevant sites My Site Private with Social Networking and Roll-Up Portal Social or knowledge network Roll-up from relevant sites

RJB Technical Consulting Forms Services Enables organizations to… reach more customers, partners and suppliers with user friendly forms. accelerate form-driven business processes through data integration. rapidly develop and deploy sustainable form solutions. Business Forms

RJB Technical Consulting Forms Services Investments Reach more users with better forms –Browser enabled InfoPath forms –Offline data connections, New controls, Better printing –Intranet, Extranet, Internet Automate form-driven business processes –Forms in Outlook, including Property Promotion –Workflow, Archiving, Information Rights Management –Integration with Workflow Tasks Rapidly develop and deploy form solutions in the enterprise –Common development platform (OM, data connectivity) –ActiveX, Windows Form and ASPX control –Importer/Exporter Framework Business Forms

RJB Technical Consulting Investments Excel Services Share spreadsheets via zero-footprint browser experience Live, interactive Excel 2007 spreadsheets in SharePoint Only publish what you want, control versions BusinessIntelligence Pre-release software, subject to change SharePoint is the “BI Portal and Report Center” for end users

RJB Technical Consulting Investments Dashboards & Web components Common filtering across web parts KPIs, Excel workbooks, and SQL 2005 Reporting Services reports Report Center Websites Out of the box website optimized for report access and management Consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connection Integrated with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Data Connection Libraries & Business Data Catalog Centralize storage of important data connections BusinessIntelligence SharePoint is the “BI Portal and Report Center” for end users

RJB Technical Consulting Excel Services BusinessIntelligence Table Formatting Pivot Tables KPIs from SQL Graphs & Charts Zero-footprint, interactive, browser access to spreadsheets

RJB Technical Consulting Knowledge Discovery and Insight KPI Lists Live Excel spreadsheets Common Filters BusinessIntelligence Business Intelligence Dashboards

Report Center

RJB Technical Consulting Collaboration Core improvements –Tracking and project management –Document library improvements Anywhere access –Outlook integration –Keeping informed with Alerts and RSS –Mobility Community and Communication –Wikis & Blogs – and Discussions –People and Groups Collaboration

RJB Technical Consulting Document Library Improvements Check-out documents locally Offline document libraries in Outlook Major/Minor version tracking Version management Multiple content type support Tree view support Collaboration

RJB Technical Consulting Outlook Integration Outlook allows user to work with personal and team data in one place –Read/Write access to SharePoint datatypes Calendar, tasks, contacts, discussions, and documents –Synchronization for offline support –Users can ‘check out and edit’ documents when offline. –Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across sites Improved calendar –SharePoint’s calendar module with richer calendar views, recurrence support, all-day events, and more Collaboration

RJB Technical Consulting Security Trimmed UI Commands only available when logged in user has permissions to access

RJB Technical Consulting Relevance Top results on first page, every time Enterprise Search different from Internet Search –Less of rich linking –Lots of non-web content – Office docs, line-of-business data, etc. –Security is paramount Revamped ranking engine –Extensive collaboration with Microsoft Research and MSN –New ingredients tuned for the enterprise Search

RJB Technical Consulting End User Experience Search Center –Standard tabbed interface Search Basics –Query hit highlighting –Search syntax matching de facto standards –Duplicate collapsing –“Did you mean” query correction –Editorial results (Best Bets) and definitions –Alerts –More… Search

RJB Technical Consulting Search Center Search Tab through different vertical search types Completely customizable page – here with Site Directory Web Part Pre-release software, subject to change

RJB Technical Consulting Better Search Results Search Tabbed interface Query hit highlighting “Did you mean” query correction Alerts on search results Pre-release software, subject to change

RJB Technical Consulting Across Repositories Customer Search Search Customer data from SAP system

RJB Technical Consulting Across Repositories People Search Search People from employee directory DLs and SharePoint groups Results organized by social distance

RJB Technical Consulting Licensing Collaboration portal + content management Document lifecycle capabilities Enterprise search enhancements E-Forms services Spreadsheet publishing & reporting Business data integration Windows SharePoint Services* Team CollabProject Mgmt Text search of team sites Issue tracking applications Project workspaces Workspace s and tools Blogs Workflow Document & Web Content Management Site Model, Security, and Management 5 out of box workflows reporting for ECM Policy Management Auditing Records management Personalization Deployment Site Manager Windows Workflow Foundation Admin and deployment Status and history Framework: repository, versioning, metadata Basic document management Site and role management infrastructure Search Extensible and customizable search of enterprise content and people Business data Data Integration E-FormsData Mgmt & Reporting Business data library Web part integration Mgmt, publishing, process creation and completion Spreadsheet publishing & calculation Report Center Enterprise CAL Standard CAL

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RJB Technical Consulting About RJBTech RJB Technical Consulting specializes in delivering SharePoint services and solutions that allow companies to conduct business and collaborate quickly and efficiently.

RJB Technical Consulting RJB Technical Consulting –Founded in 1995 –Microsoft Certified Partner –Information Worker Competency –Specialists in SharePoint –SharePoint 2007 Private Beta Partner – – –SharePoint Specialists include Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Developers and Engineers and Trainers –Sponsor / Operate PhillySharePoint User Group About RJBTech

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