Michal Gideoni Senior Product Manager Microsoft Session Code: OFS205

Feedback Read/Write Read is nice… Write back would be even more powerful Tooling Support Need an easier way to create, debug and maintain appdef XML files I wish it was baked into the Platform Wouldn’t it be nice to offline?

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 The business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web 4

SharePoint Composites Enabling no-code collaborative solutions that balance self-service with control 5

Agenda Challenges with Back-End Data Introducing Business Connectivity Services Investment Areas Presentation Demo: External data in SharePoint and Office Connectivity Tooling Demo: External Content Type Designer in VS 2010 How do I get it? Q&A

Challenges With Back End Data Multiple user interfaces External systems can be difficult to use Can't work with the data when and where I want to Can’t easily search for business data Need to involve IT to service my requests for data access Islands of business data Overhead for IT to service all user requests Manage security, auditing, connectivity One off projects for connecting to external systems

Challenges With Back End Data

Investment Areas

SharePoint Design Tools Office Applications Business Connectivity Services

Superset of entity capabilities; describes: Structure of the external system (Fields, Methods, Connection) How this data behaves within SharePoint and Office Manage and reuse from a central location Added to the Business Data Connectivity service through: SharePoint Designer Visual Studio 2010 Import into the Business Data Connectivity service as part of a model

BCS-enabled solutions rely on ECTs to integrate external data into SharePoint and the Office client applications Can be reused in External List Search Outlook SharePoint Workspace Word InfoPath Access Other Office applications via code

External Content Type Customer CustomerID FirstName LastName Address Customer CustomerID FirstName LastName Address External data

Expose external data as a native SharePoint list Full CRUD capability Familiar UI and navigation Sort, Filter, Group Programmatic access via SPList OM Profile page available for each item in the list Form Auto-generated OOB Upsize to InfoPath Offline-able

Key Differences No default fields – Title, Created (By), Modified (By) List Items don’t have a unique int32 ID No Event notifications (eg. items being changed) Item level permissions provided by external source Read/Write depends on external source support Data stored in the External System List features that behave differently Search Lookup columns Paging (UX only; use filters to scope the view) Not supported RSS feeds Edit in Datasheet/grid view Export to Excel REST interface

Connect to Outlook as Contacts Tasks Calendars Posts Download to SharePoint Workspace as Lists Word doc libraries with external data columns

External Data Columns Add data from external content types to standard SharePoint lists Can be made available as Content Controls in Word Web Parts Scenario: Use for Dashboard pages External Data List External Data Item External Data Item Builder External Data Related List External Data Connectivity Filter Chart Web Part External Data Search Integrate External Data into search results

Office Client SharePoint Server External Systems Contoso Sales Solution

Demo Overview Connect Customer data from SharePoint to SharePoint Workspace External List InfoPath Forms SharePoint Workspace integration Create a Customer agreement document in Word External Data Column Word Content Controls External Content Type External List Outlook integration Bring Customer data into SharePoint and Outlook

Connectivity External data

Business Data Connectivity enhancements Read/write capability Claims aware Connect via ADO/SQL, WCF/WS,.Net Assembly and Custom Connectors Batch and bulk operation support BDC used for Search indexing connectors Added blob, incremental crawl and item level Security Symmetrical server and client runtimes Connect from client or server directly to external data Rich client cache SQL CE database is used to cache external data Allows for “cached mode” behavior on external data

OOB Support for: Windows Auth FBA Claims based Authentication Authentication modes Revert to Self Passthrough SSS Secure Store Service Can store windows creds or non-windows creds A credentials page is available to gather credentials from a user and store it in SSS Extensibility through ISSSProvider to plug in another SSO

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

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

Assembly No-code solutions in SPD External Content Type definitions Form layout and validation Workflow integration Build Pro-Dev Solutions in Visual Studio Create reusable components (UI parts, ECTs, actions) Custom Office Integration (add-ins) Custom connectivity.Net Assembly Connector Custom Connector Code-based business logic

Solution Types Simple Advanced Surface data in External Lists Connect those lists to Outlook, SPW Intermediate

Discover Database Web services.NET type Map operations Create, read, update, delete, lookup Connect to SharePoint/Office External List Contact Task Appointment Post

Lifecycle Management Part of WSP-based SharePoint application packaging, deployment, and administration Deploy solution to Server and Client Artifacts are packaged into a single versioned unit Solution Package is published to SharePoint Deployed to Office Client using ClickOnce Application upgrade management

Investment Areas

Baked into the Platform… Secure Store Service External Data Search Rich Client Extensions External Data Web Parts BDC Client Runtime Profile Pages External List External Data Column Business Data Connectivity Service

Bring External Data into SharePoint and Office Client/server connectivity with Read/write Online/offline Tools for rapid assembly of business solutions Baked into the Platform

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