Slide 1: OFC331 Organizing Sites And Topics With SharePoint Portal Server Howard Crow Program Manager SharePoint Portal Server
Slide 2: SharePoint Investments Smart Connected Workspaces    Enterprise Consistent rich experience – users, developers, and IT Smart connections – people, teams, topics, divisions, etc. Flexible deployment – bottoms-up, centralized, hybrid on large scale farms Division Team Individual
Slide 3: SharePoint Investments Enterprise Portal Solution built on top of Windows SharePoint Services Hub and Aggregator for SharePoint personal, team and portal sites Team Collaboration Solution well beyond file server Scalable Workspace Platform SharePoint Portal Server        News and Links Site Directory and Connections Audience Targeting Personal Sites Index, Search and Alerts Single Sign-On BizTalk Integration Collaboration Document Collaboration Flexible Lists Web Part Pages Personalization Life Cycle Management Scale-Up/Out Foundation SharePoint Services  ASP.NET      
Slide 4: Organizing Information Evolution  SharePoint Portal Server 2001     Dashboard & Web Part Based Sites Category Hierarchy Publishing Model News & Links “Applications” Publishing & Organization Applications Scaleable .NET Based Site Framework Deep Customization & Personalization  Customer Feedback   
Slide 5: Rich Publishing And Organization Applications Topics, News, And Sites
Slide 6: Topics         Managed Space for subject matter expert Community based submission model Discussions, Documents, tasks and other lists Inline Editing Grouped and Ordered links Add people as expert contacts Security managed at Topic level Save from Microsoft Office 2003 or post from SharePoint Site
Slide 7: News       Publishing Embargo & Expiration Rich Text editing One-step Approval Cycle Audience targeting Inline Editing Extended with Lists and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Forms Libraries
Slide 8: Site Registry  Web Site White Pages    Pivotable list of sites Extensible Meta Data & Topics Search scoped to registered site content Users create their own sites Full site content searching (approved) Parent Portal Connections Full site content searching (approved) File shares, HTTPS, Extranet/Intranet sites  Self Service SharePoint Site Creation     Existing Site Registration  
Slide 9: Portal Connections  SharePoint Sites Connected to Portal   “Parent Portal” registered upon provisioning Name and URL saved in team site Navigate back to “Parent Portal” Submit List or Document to Portal    From a Team Site:   Area or Topic my Page QuickLink   Search on the portal View Rich people profiles on the Portal
Slide 10: demo Topic, News, And Sites
Slide 11: Scaleable Portal Site Architecture .NET Portal
Slide 12: Shared Site Framework  Collection of Windows SharePoint Sites      Sub-second ASPX page rendering Web Part Pages and .NET Web Parts SharePoint Lists & Collaboration Integrated security & Admin OM Microsoft Office, FrontPage & Visual Studio Editing Areas & Listings Profiles and Audiences Enterprise Search  Additional Portal Services   
Slide 13: Scaleable Portal Areas  Massive scale   V1.0 – 700 Categories V2.0 – 250,000 Areas Drives all site Navigation Backed by special SharePoint sites Built on .NET managed code & SQL Organize Area Site Hierarchy Arrangement of Aggregating Listings Taxonomy storage  Areas are the Site Backbone     Areas are a Logical Layer   
Slide 14: Portal Listings        Aggregate and Organize Content Audience Targeting Approval Model Can Contain Content Deep crawled by search Managed for individual area or entire site Programmable   SOAP Managed Code
Slide 15: Search Integration  Unified Browsing and Searching    Navigation scoped searching “Search in this Topic” All area web contents are crawled Can be excluded Security is honored Tagged with Topic Full-text crawl Joined with Item title and description  Topics as Search Results    Items as Search Results     Topic Assistant suggestions
Slide 16: demo Scaleable .NET Portal Architecture
Slide 17: Customizing And Personalizing The Portal Top 6 Tasks
Slide 18: Styling the Site  Editing Pages   Use Microsoft FrontPage 2003 or Microsoft Visual Studio.NET Page types – templates, front end, DB SPS.CSS for portal OWS.CSS for team sites Overwrite file in “images” folder Change Portal Setting in UI  Changing Styles    Updating the Logo  
Slide 19: Managing Security  Area is the atomic security Unit    Per area rights management Honored by all Site Navigation Inherited “Make Public” Security Caching Use NT groups for aggregating users Add NT groups as users to portal  Performance Tweaks    Adding Users  
Slide 20: Targeting Content  Publish content for specific audiences     Portal News Navigation/Links Applications (ex. Headtrax for managers) Targeting API for developing apps Profile properties Organizational Hierarchy Distribution Lists NT Security Groups  Define very specific audiences based on    
Slide 21: Editing Navigation  WYSIWIG Creation and Arranging  Areas and Listings Vertical & Horizontal Navigation Areas Listing Summary  4 Core UI controls      All parts can be hard anchored (GUID) Multiple levels can be shown
Slide 22: Web Part Pages  Flexible Web Part Publishing    Customized Personalized Audience Targeted Web Part Connections Data Bound Web Parts Using SSO Set per portal, area, page or zone Zones Locked down individually  Web Part Features    Manageable Personalization  
Slide 23: Custom Portal Apps  Area Templates      Special Web Templates – Integrated security Stored on front end servers Unique Lists & Doc Libs per area Common security across area web Area can be pointed at arbitrary web page Copy existing template on front end Make changes (ONET.XML) Add your new template file into webtempsps.xml IIS reset  Make your own templates    
Slide 24: demo Customizing And Personalizing The Portal
Slide 25: SharePoint Products and Technologies At TechEd     Ask the Experts Partner Booths and Theater SharePoint Development and Deployment sessions – check the CommNet 6 Hands on Labs Introduction to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Managing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Content and Navigation SharePoint Portal Server 2003 People and Personalization Using Windows SharePoint Services with Office 2003 Using FrontPage 2003 to Customize SharePoint Creating Web Parts for SharePoint      
Slide 26: SharePoint Resources  Evaluate Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Betas http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint Download technical documentation and Software Development Kits from our Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com Find and contribute Web Parts and templates to the Web Component Directory http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/webparts    Visit our community websites http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/community/
Slide 27: Questions?
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