This document provides an overview and introduction to Microsoft SharePoint. It begins with an agenda that lists topics to be covered such as basic concepts, new features, web parts, and demonstrations. It then defines SharePoint as a rich server application for enterprise collaboration and content management. The rest of the document discusses basic concepts like the technology convergence that led to SharePoint, new features in SharePoint 2007 including Office forms, Excel services, and business data catalog, and how to work with web parts, features, and solutions in SharePoint. It concludes with demonstrations of portal creation, new features, web part development, and the solutions framework.

1. HELLO SHAREPOINT!
MARWAN TAREK
Senior Software Engineer
ITWorx

2. Agenda
• What is SharePoint
• Basic concepts
• New features
• Web parts
• Features and Solutions
• Demos, Demos,…..

3. What is SharePoint?
“MOSS 2007 is a rich server application for the enterprise
that facilitates collaboration, provides full content
management features, implements business processes.
It provides an integrated platform to plan, deploy, and
manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications
across and beyond the enterprise.”

4. HELLO SHAREPOINT
DEMO

6. SHAREPOINT DEVELOPER

7. Technology Convergence
Office SharePoint Server 2007
Portal, Web Content Management, and More
Windows SharePoint Services “v3”
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Content
Management
Windows SharePoint Services “v2” Server 2002
SharePoint Portal Server 2001
SharePoint Team Services “v1”

8. SHAREPOINT SERVER 2007
Connecting people, process, and Information across boundaries
Server-based Microsoft Office Documents/tasks/calendars, blogs,
Excel® spreadsheets and data wikis, e-mail integration, project
visualization, Report Center, BUSINESS COLLABORATION management “lite,” Outlook
business intelligence Web INTELLIGENCE integration, offline documents/lists
Parts, KPIs/Dashboards
OOB workflows, BUSINESS
WF integration, PLATFORM Enterprise Portal
rich and Web forms– PROCESS SERVICES PORTAL template, Site
based front-ends, LOB Directory, My Sites, social
AND FORMS Workspaces, Mgmt,
actions, pluggable SSO Security, Storage, networking, privacy
Topology, Site Model control
Integrated document ENTERPRISE
management, records
CONTENT SEARCH
management, and Web Enterprise scalability,
content management with MANAGEMENT contextual relevance, rich
policies and workflow people and business data
search

9. SHAREPOINT TECHNOLOGY STACK
APPLICATIONS / PORTALS
COLLABORATION ENTERPRISE PERSONALIZATION SEARCH BUSINESS BUSINESS PROJECT
CONTENT MGMT. PROCESS INTELLIGENCE
INTEGRATION
My Sites Indexing Server Calc. Tasks
Discussions Authoring Rich Forms Web Rendering Schedules
Targeting Relevance
Calendars Approval Web Forms KPIs Resources
People Metadata
Web Publishing Biz Data Catalog Dashboards Budgets
E-Mail Finding
Policy/Auditing Alerts Data in Lists Report Ctr. Deliverables
Presence Social Networking
Rights Mgt Customizable LOB Actions SQL RS Int. Reports
Project Mgt. Privacy
Retention User Exper. Single Sign-On SQL AS Int.
“Lite” Profiles
Multi-Lingual BizTalk Integr.
Offline Staging
CORE WORKSPACE SERVICES
STORAGE SECURITY MANAGEMENT TOPOLOGY SITE MODEL APIs
Repository Rights/Roles Admin UX Config. Mgmt. Rendering Fields/Forms
Metadata Pluggable Auth Delegation Farm Services Templates OM and SOAP
Versioning Per Item Provisioning Feature Policy Navigation Events
Backup Rights Trimming Monitoring Extranet Visual Blueprint Deployment
OPERATING SYSTEM SERVICES
ASP.NET (Web Parts, Personalization, Master Pages, Provider Model for navigation, security, etc. )
Database Search Workflow
= WSS = MOSS

10. BASIC CONCEPTS

11. CONCEPT #1
User requests
Load balances web
front end servers
Index Search Excel Project
Application
servers
Clustered SQL server

12. CONCEPT #2
• Better integration Windows
with ASP.NET SharePoint
ASP.NET 1.1
Services
– More ASP.NET features “v2”
“shine through”
• Still some conceptual
differences;
SharePoint has Windows
– Template Model ASP.NET 2.0 SharePoint
Services “v3”
– Users can edit pages

13. CONCEPT #3
IIS WSS v2 / SPS 2003 WSS v3 / MOSS
Web Sites Virtual Servers Web Applications
Physical Server
Web Application(s)
Top Level Site(s)
Site(s)
Site(s)
Site Collection

14. CONCEPT #4
• Shared services
– Grouped, high-value, resource intensive services
– One to many per farm
– Inter-farm capable
Shared Services Shared Services Shared Services - # 2
Office Server Search Targeting Server Search
Office Office Server Search
Targeting Targeting
Directory import Business data catalog
Directory import Directory import
Business data catalog Business data catalog
User profile synch Excel calculation service
User profile synch User profile synch
Excel calculation service Excel calculation service
Audiences Usage reporting
Audiences Audiences
Usage reporting Usage reporting
Web App Web App
CorpWeb OfficeWeb WinWeb LegalWeb

15. PORTAL CREATION
DEMO

16. NEW FEATURES

17. MASTER PAGES default.master
default.aspx

18. WORKFLOW AUTHORING SCENARIOS
LOB
Structured
Integration
Visual Studio and Industry
specific processes
Workflow SDK Purchase orders
Product lifecycle mgmt
Custom Tracking Apps
Service Requests
SharePoint Designer Asset Tracking
Workflow
Custom Form Actions Document Processes
Email Notification Spec Review
Exception Handling Weekly Status Report
Out-of-the-Box Tracking Applications
Issue tracking
Ad Hoc
Solutions Routing and Approval Office Server Features
(with customization)
Review – Approval List Moderation
Signature collection Publishing Process
East Asian workflow Document Expiration

19. New Features
• Office Forms Server
– Runs InfoPath forms without client
• Excel Services
– Server-side Excel calculation engine
• BDC
– Integration into line-of-business (LOB) systems
• ECM (Replaces CMS 2002)
– Page Layout= template ASPX file
– Field Control= placeholder control

20. Web Parts
• Similar to web user controls
• Editable properties
• Personalizable

21. WEB PARTS DEVELOPMENT
DEMO

22. Features
• Pluggable behavior
• Reduce the complexity involved in making simple site
customizations

23. FEATURES
DEMO

24. Solutions Framework
• provides a way to bundle all of the components for
extending WSS in a new file, called a solution file
• a cabinet or .CAB-based format with a .wsp extension
• A unified infrastructure for deploying solutions
• Integrated deployment

25. SOLUTIONS FRAMEWORK
DEMO

26. Thank You
THANK YOU