1. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity 27, 28 & 29 March 2007 International Convention Center (ICC) Ghent, Belgium

2. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Session abstract. The new Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 puts Excel spreadsheet calculation and rendering on the server. Excel Services enables managed and secure distribution of Excel reports. This session explains Excel Services' basic concepts and architecture in combination with Single Sign On (SSO) & Centrally managed Data Connections. After this session you will be able to understand the concepts enables you to set up Excel Services in a secure & well managed way. This session includes a conceptual introduction & Live Demo’s. At the end of the session we will link the Excel Services functionality with Business Data Catalog & Search. The end result will be a scenario where the user uses SEARCH to find a customer, clicks on the SEARCH result and arrives at the customers dashboard including all structured information as well as non-structured information.

3. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity MOSS 2007 Configuration of Excel Services, SSO & Data Connections - The Mac Guyver Techniques ! Gunter Staes Technology & Solution Advisor http://blogs.msdn.com/gunterstaes gstaes@microsoft.com

4. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Goal of this session. Explain Excel Services Functionalities Explain Excel Services basic concepts Show some real-life scenario’s Usage of Excel Services in a Customer Dashboard Scenario

5. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity The Agenda What is Excel Services Understanding the components Connecting to external data What’s next. Resources

6. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity What is Excel Services What it is NOT : Thin client Excel replacement/Alternative. What it is : Web Based UI to publish Excel Workbooks Web Service API Secure sharing of Workbook Control over items to share Manage permissions using SharePoint Security. Trusted File/Connection Location Include Workbook in BI Dashboards Reliability & Availability Offload Calculation workloads to Server Multi User Scenario’s

7. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Excel Services Overview Excel “12” Design and author BI Abilities Visualization Browser High quality web rending Zero-footprint Interactive View and Interact Custom applications Set & get spreadsheet values Perform calculations Retrieve full workbook file Programmatic Access Open snapshots Open full spreadsheet Excel “12” Export/Snapshot into Excel Spreadsheets stored in document libraries Server calculation and rendering External data retrieval and caching Choose the parts you want to publish Protect, Share & Reuse Spreadsheets Publish Spreadsheets Office SharePoint Servers

8. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Extensibility Explore Workbook by Web Services. Manage Session Set Values Data/Workbook processing Return Results User Defined Functions VBA or native code languages. Managed Code extension

9. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Understanding the components Excel Calculation Services Excel Web Access Excel Web Services Excel Calculation Service Proxi (on the front end). Also Balances Load on multiple App Servers Trusted File Locations

10. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Scenario 1 : Publish a Calculation Workbook. Scenario 2 : Web Service Integration.

11. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Connecting to External Data Connections Embedded connections Linked connections (with embedded copy or not) Trusted Subsystem & Delegation TS : Front&Back end have 2-Way Trust. Files can be retrieved Security token cannot be delegated to other computers. D : Front-ends delegate user’s identity to back-end servers which can delegate it to other servers. Unattended Account Used when XLS-Services accesses a Data-Source not using Windows Authentication Authentication Windows authentication SSONone

12. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Connecting to External Data Data Connection Libraries Central management Securing by Sharepoint’s Access Control Lists Trusted File Locations Excel Services only loads workbooks from TFL Spec’s define how External Data can be processed Trusted Data Connection Libraries Excel Services will only load Data connection files from trusted resources. Relying on Sharepoint Security (Approval, Worlflow, Item- Level sec,...) Trusted Data Providers ODBC, MSOLAP,... Must be explicitly trusted.

13. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Scenario 3 : Connecting to External Data with SSO Scenario 4 : Connecting to External Data with Windows Authentication Scenario 5 : Handling data Refresh. Scenario 6 : Filter Web Parts Scenario 7 : Centrally managed Data Connection & windows authentication.

14. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Putting it All Together BI in the tools where you need it + workflow + portal + ecm + Business Data Catalog + Search + … Ready to use, easy to customize The sum is greater than the parts.

15. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Scenario 8 : Use Search functionality to find a customer & show all available info.

16. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity Book : Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (Administrator’s Companion). http://blogs.msdn.com/gunterstaes http://www.microsoft.com/bi http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/7e6ce086-57b6-4ef2-8117- e725de18f2401033.mspx?mfr=truehttp://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/7e6ce086-57b6-4ef2-8117- e725de18f2401033.mspx?mfr=true

17. Satisfy Your Technical Curiosity