1. Dip Your Toes in the SharePoint Pool
Katrina Dittmer
Practice Support Manager

2. Introduction Faegre Baker Daniels Practice Support Manager
800 attorneys, 13 US offices, 3 International offices
SharePoint 2010 intranet
SharePoint 2007 extranet
Practice Support Manager
Part of Knowledge Management
NOT a developer; NOT an admin
Business-facing side of SharePoint
4 SharePoint Specialists

3. SharePoint – What’s it all about?
SharePoint is a powerful platform
What version of SharePoint?
SharePoint Foundation
SharePoint Standard
SharePoint Enterprise
SharePoint Online (cloud)
How do you want to use it?
Communication
Content
Collaboration
Activity (tasks)
Licensing
SharePoint Foundation – free w/Windows Server; base of SharePoint operations
SharePoint Standard – audience targeting, web analytics, MySites (profiles), faceted search, enterprise wiki, social tags & notes
SharePoint Enterprise – BI Integration, Dashboards, Business Data, Power Pivot, Performance Point, Access/Visio/Excel/InfoPath services, search extension
SharePoint Online – cloud-based offering; could be challenging if integrating with LOB applications

4. Under the Hood (very simplified)
SharePoint Farm
Could be 1 server (SharePoint in a box) or many servers
Site Collection has one or many sites and subsites
A Site Collection is contained in 1 content database
A Content Database can ‘house’ more than 1 site collection, but a site collection cannot span multiple content databases
Why important? Need to plan appropriately. A content database is a SQL database – if you need to restore a SQL database, how long will it take to restore a backup of a really large database? What is your SLA?

5. Talk the Talk SharePoint terminology Site Library Lists & views Page
Web Parts
Chrome
Backstage
Ribbon
Profile
Search

6. Walk the Walk Let’s take a look! Site Contact Resource Site
At Faegre Baker Daniels, Site Contacts are the content owners for each site. This is a site that we have created to help them with learning/training on SharePoint skills.
Before we dig in, some comments/observations about our SharePoint environment:
Branding – this is not OOB SharePoint
Master Pages and CSS (styling) can be modified to provide a SharePoint environment that matches your firm’s standards.
Navigation – use breadcrumb to show site structure
Business decision around when to create a site/subsite – for us, quite permissions based
Various site templates – we largely use Publishing sites because they allow for drafting/review process and have better control over navigation, but certainly not the only choice
Other common templates include Team Sites, Project Sites, My Site, Search
Take apart this page – what are we looking at?
Chrome
Web Parts
Left navigation

7. Questions?