1. SharePoint What it is, What it isn’t and What it might be
Colin Farrow and Diane Montgomery

2. What it is
MOSS

3. Portals and Personalisation Search Content management
What it is - SharePoint
Collaboration
Portals and Personalisation
Search
Content management
Business Processes and Forms
Business Intelligence

4. MySite Collaboration What it is Single Sign On Personalised Portal
Personal Web space
MySite
Shared Web space
Collaboration
Team Web space
Access – Anywhere, Anytime

5. private and shared space Create own ad-hoc team site
What it is - MySite
user personal pages
private and shared space
Create own ad-hoc team site
direct access (via SSO) to
Exchange
Moodle VLE
WebSurf Student Records
Library books/search/catalogue
Print Credits
Business applications

6. Student projects Research projects Admin groups Colleges & Schools
What it is -Team Collaboration Sites
Student projects
Research projects
Admin groups
document libraries
surveys
blogs, wikis
forum
lists
alerts
Colleges & Schools
Services
Research
Clubs & Societies
Centralised setup
Devolved admin

7. What it is – Site Templates
Team Site
Meeting Workspace
Document Centre
News Site
Absence and Vacation Schedule
Event Planning
IT Team Workspace
Knowledge Base
Physical Asset Tracking and Management
Project Tracking Workspace

8. What it is - Permissions
Audience Targetting
Resources
Permissions
View pages; add items; create alerts; modify; ...
Permission Levels
Contribute; Approve; Design
People and Groups
People Picker
Inheritance

9. What it isn’t
Not a replacement for existing services
Document Management → ERDMS
VLE → Moodle
Public facing Web Content → T4
Network filestore
An additional tool
complimentary to existing services.
Expect new and innovative uses!

10. Platform and environment for custom web applications
What it might be
Platform and environment for
custom web applications
web interfaces
Forms
Databases
Workflow
documents
etc
News and Alerts
College, School, Division
Course, Class
Special Lectures
Change of Venue
Etc, etc
Audience targeted to user MySite

11. application servers – search, index SQL active passive cluster
Server Farm
web front ends
application servers – search, index
SQL active passive cluster
in two sites for DR

12. Team Sites – 6 x 100Gb content databases Search databases
Storage
MySites – 256Mb per user
Team Sites – 6 x 100Gb content databases
Search databases
80% fill factor
120% bloat factor
mapping database files to drive spindles
RAID and mirror
transaction logs
backup
restore and recovery

13. Backup and disaster recovery
MySite recycle bin
User accessible – 30 days
Site collection recycle bin
Site admin – 30 days
Disk and tape backup
System admin – 90 days

14. Single Sign On – our solution
MySite
Resources
Open ...
SSO application
Identity
Vault
SessionDB

15. only the start of a process ... on the horizon ...
What next? DR
database mirror
backup
SSO webpart tweaks
Training
Devolved management
only the start of a process ...
on the horizon ...
Sharepoint 2010
Federated Access Management

16. So, what does it really look like?
Demo
So, what does it really look like?