Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Vision & Key Facts Marek Šamaj

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Vision & Key Facts Marek Šamaj Consultant Microsoft

Increasing Productivity

SharePoint Vision Customers Internet Presence Partners Enterprise Portal Employees HR, Finance, etc. XML Web Services Team Collaboration Business Applications Personal (SAP, data warehouse, custom . . .) Consistent and connected enterprise End user and business unit empowerment Server consolidation with delegation for low TCO Business solutions agility and interoperability via web services

SharePoint Investments Make collaboration easy and intuitive Collaboration Make informed decisions through better insights into business date BI Forms Capture critical business data and automate processes Portal ECM Deliver in-context and rolebased access to information, processes, and people Manage the full enterprise content lifecycle Search Instantly connecting people with the right information and people Provide a foundation that is extensible by customers and Microsoft industry partners for organization-specific solutions

Collaboration Enhanced user experience Usability, navigation, trimming, customization Outlook sync calendar, tasks, contacts, documents . . Flexible collaboration mediums Enhanced discussions, blogs and wikis E-mail integration including mail to SharePoint Improved Groove synchronization Supporting structured collaboration Tracking, workflow and project management Staying current Improved search, alerts, task notifications and RSS

Enterprise Content Management One solution for documents, web content, forms Common platform with Office and browser experience Improved document library scalability Richer information organization Content types with schema, workflow, and policy InfoPath pane in Office apps Enhanced security Item level security and IRM on download Flexible business processes Workflow built on Windows Workflow Services Out-of-box and extensible via SPD and VS Records management including “Official File” support Audit sites, content and workflows Retention and expiration with Exchange 2007 integration

Web Publishing CMS-SharePoint integration Built on ASP.NET 2.0 – master pages, provider models . . . Built on WSS items, web templates, schema, workflow . . . SPS Area CMS Channel integrated into WSSv3 Web Web publisher productivity OOB: Portal templates, navigation, workflows, search . . . Web and Office-based content authoring and site management Page layout creation in SPD Scale to the most demanding sites Content deployment, multi-lingual sites, flexible authentication . . High scale via page output, navigation node and BLOB caching

Search Leading enterprise search solution One search system across collaboration, portal and Internet sites Site-scoped search in WSS and full experience in SPS Desktop search in Windows and Office based on common engine Dramatic relevance improvements New core algorithms developed in conjunction with MS Research UI improvements: query spell check, duplicate collapsing, . . . Flexible user experience Search Center template with tabs, hit highlighting, Best Bets . . . Rich results including people and business data (via new BDC) Search as an enterprise service

Browser-Based InfoPath Forms Server – reach more users . . . Browser-based forms with multiple browser support Validation, calculation, rules and interactivity via script Server-based forms management (templates, code) Smart invocation for browser or InfoPath client Open forms via link with parameters Embedding forms in aspx pages (chrome, data . . .) Client - . . . with better forms InfoPath forms within Outlook Offline data caching

Excel Services / BI Scenarios View and interact with live spreadsheets in a browser Lockdown spreadsheet viewing and access Create “BI portals” using Excel based dashboards, KPIs, and reports Build solutions with programmatic access to Excel spreadsheets Components Excel 2007: author and publish spreadsheets Excel Calculation Services: multi-user, scalable serverbased spreadsheet calculation with snapshotting Excel Web Access: high-fidelity thin rendering of spreadsheet data and charts with interactivity, parameters and lockdown Excel Web Services: API for server based calculating, setting and retrieving spreadsheet values Automatic updates of external OLAP and relational data

Sharing is everywhere Portal CRM e-Learning ERP/back office Infrastructure Improvement Knowledge Mgt Compliance SCM Search/Info Access Real time Collaboration Business Intelligence Teamware Project Portfolio Mgt ECM Information Quality Innovation Mgt Social Network Analysis Expertise Location Currently Using No Plans to Use 0% 20% 40% Plan to Use by 2008 Don't Know 60% 80% 100% Consider to Use by 2008

Information Loss is Costly Information loss – whether via theft or accidental leakage – is costly on several levels Financial Legal & Regulatory Compliance Image & Credibility The U.S. Dept of Justice estimates that intellectual property theft cost enterprises 250 billion in 2004 Loss of revenue, market capitalization, and competitive advantage Increasing regulation: SOX, HIPAA, GLBA Bringing a company into compliance can be complex and expensive Non-compliance can lead to significant legal fees, fines and/or settlements Leaked executive e-mails can be embarrassing Unintended forwarding of sensitive information can adversely impact the company’s image and/or credibility

We need to change the equation No anonymous communication Protect the information not storage point Policy on everything No more passwords The internet is the net Mobile User HomeOffice Sub 2 Dial In DMZ Sub 1 HQ

Microsoft Responds RMS: Rights Management Services Windows client and server add-on IRM: Information Rights Management Microsoft Office features enabled by RMS DRM: Digital Rights Management Windows Media DRM

Map Your Infrastructure Journey Secure and manage content with Enterprise Content Management Content on paper, fileshares and personal drives. Disparate search tools. Disconnected repositories and sites with basic search capabilities IT is a cost center IT is a more efficient cost center Integrated repositories to manage and publish documents and records, with advanced search IT is a business enabler Federated document and records management within and outside enterprise. Single search across desktop, enterprise content and IT is a LOB strategic asset

Key Facts Editions Technology stack Physical & Logical Architecture Localization

SharePoint editions Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform SharePoint 2007 for Search No people search, no BDC search, limited Search Center SharePoint 2007 Standard some server features, no Forms Services, no Excel Services, limited Search Center, no BDC SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Form Server 2007 WSS Forms support

SharePoint Technology Stack Applications/Portals Collaboration Enterprise Content Mgmt. Personalization Search Business Process Integration Business Intelligence Project Discussions Calendars E-Mail Presence Project Mgt. “Lite” Offline Authoring Approval Web Publishing Policy/Auditing Rights Mgt Retention Multi-Lingual Staging My Sites Targeting People Finding Social Networking Privacy Profiles Indexing Relevance Metadata Alerts Customizable User Exper. Rich Forms Web Forms Biz Data Catalog Data in Lists LOB Actions Single Sign-On BizTalk Integr. Server Calc. Web Rendering KPIs Dashboards Report Ctr. SQL RS Int. SQL AS Int. Tasks Schedules Resources Budgets Deliverables Reports Core Workspace Services Storage Security Management Topology Site Model APIs Repository Metadata Versioning Backup Rights/Roles Pluggable Auth Per Item Rights Trimming Admin UX Delegation Provisioning Monitoring Config. Mgmt. Farm Services Feature Policy Extranet Rendering Templates Navigation Visual Blueprint Fields/Forms OM and SOAP Events Deployment Operating System Services ASP.NET (Web Parts, Personalization, Master Pages, Provider Model for navigation, security, etc. ) Database Search Workflow

SharePoint Components Web Front Ends (WFEs) App servers (Search, Excel Services) SQL backend

Physical Topologies Single Point of Failure for all Offloaded SQL For Perf or Security Scale out for performance High Availability for MOSS

WSS User Authentication Windows Authentication Options IIS performs authentication with client Users authenticated to Windows account (AD or local) Only type supported in WSS V2 and SPS 2003 ASP.NET Forms Authentication Based on ASP.NET 2.0 authentication provider framework IIS configured for anonymous access Web SSO Authentication Based on Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)

Localization Language pack A Language Pack may be applied to an installed Office server product to create sites or site collections in other languages. Application of a Language Pack will not change the language of the installed Office server product SKU, or the language of the admin features. Regular version delivers the respective Office server product localized into a given language.

Localization - languages Language pack Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Czech, Brazilian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Croatian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian Latin, Ukrainian. Regular version Arabic, Brazilian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Hungarian, Indic (Indian languages), Portuguese, Turkish, Croatian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian.

Resources http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/shar epoint http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wi ndowsserver/sharepoint/default.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/office/sh arepointserver http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint http://www.microsoft.com/windowsse rver2003/technologies/rightsmgmt/ http://www.microsoft.com/io

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