SharePoint 2007

Agenda

Introduction
Overview
New Features
Demo
Q&A
Survey & Raffle

Overview

Used for creating web site portals

Collaboration tool

Managing documents

Based on .Net framework and ASP.Net

Part of the MS Office suite but is purchased

separately.
SharePoint 2007 is 3rd major release

System Requirements

CMS/SPS/WSS Roadmap
Content Management
Server 2002
SharePoint Portal
Server 2003

Windows SharePoint
Services v2

Microsoft Office
SharePoint
Server 2007

Windows SharePoint
Services v3

SharePoint Feature Areas

Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs,
wikis, e-mail integration,
project management lite,
Outlook integration,
offline docs/lists

Server-based Excel
spreadsheets and data
visualization, Report
Center, BI Web Parts,
KPIs/Dashboards

Business
Intelligence
Rich and Web forms
based front-ends,
LOB actions,
pluggable SSO

Business
Processes

Integrated document
management, records
management, and Web
content management with
policies and workflow

Collaboration

Platform
Services
Workspaces, Mgmt,
Security, Storage,
Topology, Site Model

Content
Management

Portal

Enterprise Portal
template, Site
Directory, My Sites,
social networking,
privacy control

Search
Enterprise scalability,
contextual relevance, rich
people and business data search

New Features
Security Trimmed UI
Only show UI to users to which they have access

Breadcrumb
Site bread crumb provides user navigational context
Quick Launch and top navigation
Present on view pages
Customizable in the browser UI
View Improvements
Paging Backwards
Better Filter/Sort UI
Descriptive Menus
Simplified Web Part UI

New Features

Recycle bin

End users can easily restore items accidentally deleted

Provides lifecycle control of items

Document Level Permissions

Survey improvements

Branching
Page breaks for longer surveys

Accessibility

Section 508 compliance

W3C compliance

New Features

Mobility
Browse to sites on mobile phones
Scaled down sites suitable for small screens
Add, edit, and view items from the phone

Wikis and Blogs

New ways to collaborate
Great for pushing information out
informally

Alerts

E-mail Integration

SharePoint sites become the place where team email is archived, shared,
organized

Send Email to SharePoint lists

Emailed discussions, meetings and documents are archived in a SharePoint
discussion board

Send Email from SharePoint sites

Post a new announcement, optionally send it in email to your fellow team
members

View archived email in Outlook

Your discussion board shows up as an email folder in Outlook

Search

Breaking through silos of information

Find people and expertise
Easily connect to backend business systems
Key Technologies

Search improvements relevancy, hit

highlighting, query correction
Business Data Catalog
Customizable Search center
Rich people search

Enterprise Content Management

Document Management

Forms Automation
Records Management
Web Content Management

Enterprise Content Management

Document Management -> Records Management,

Web Content Management, e-forms/workflow
Compliance and multi-lingual scenarios
Rich and seamless Office integration
Key Technologies

Content Types
Integrated Workflow
Internet scale WCM
Records Management with policies and auditing
Integrated rights management

Document Management

Scalable Document Libraries and Repositories

Workflow and Approval

Extensible content types with rich metadata

Check-in/check-out with comprehensive versioning
Large document repositories and specialized library templates

Out of the box, serial and parallel workflows (e.g.Document review/approval and
Signature collection)
Participate & initiate workflows from within preferred application
Customizable workflows built with SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio 2005 on the
Windows Workflow Foundation

Security and Tracking

Per item security and access control

Out-of-the-box support for labeling, barcodes, electronic signatures
Deep integration with Information Rights Management (IRM)

Web Content Management

Designed for Internet and Published Sites

OOB site templates with flexible site navigation controls

Web based site manager for managing site structure & content

Customizable workflow and support for multilingual sites

New Web and Word Authoring capabilities

New web author HTML editor enables in context editing

Image asset browser for rich web page development

Serverside Word to HTML conversion

New Content Deployment and Publishing tools

Automated content deployment console with quick deploy override

Page scheduling and page expiry notifications

Extensible, pluggable framework for document conversions

Business Intelligence

The glue for BI for the Masses

Solves information underload by connecting
clients and servers
Delivers in-context BI
KPIs, Reports, Dashboards
Key technologies

Excel Services
Report Center
KPIs and KPI Lists
Business Data Catalog

Server Investments
SharePoint is the BI Portal and Report Center for end users
Excel Services
Share spreadsheets via zero-footprint browser experience
Live, interactive Excel 12 spreadsheets in SharePoint
Only publish what you want, control versions
Use Excel models in custom applications via programmatic access

Dashboards & Web components

Common filtering (slicing) across web parts
KPIs, Excel workbooks, and SQL Reporting Services reports
Easy to create and personalize dashboards

Report Center Websites

Out of the box website optimized for report access and management
Consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connection
Supports integration with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Data Connection Libraries & Business Data Catalog

Centralize storage of important data connections
Easily discover new sources of data
Update many spreadsheets, solutions with 1 central update
Maintain 1 version of the truth

Excel Services Overview

Browser
Publish
Spreadsheets

Excel 2007
Design and author
BI Abilities
Visualization

High quality web rending

Zero-footprint
Interactive

View and
Interact

Export/Snapshot into Excel

Programmatic Access

Office 2007
SharePoint
Servers
Protect, Share & Reuse Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets stored in document libraries
Server calculation and rendering
External data retrieval and caching
Choose the parts you want to publish

Custom
applications

Excel 2007

Open snapshots
Open full spreadsheet

Set & get spreadsheet values

Perform calculations
Retrieve full workbook file

Excel Services
Table Formatting

Pivot Tables

KPIs from SQL

Graphs & Charts

Availability

Office 2007 Beta 2 Available today!

RTM for Volume Licensing accounts in

November

GA in January with the Vista product

Web Casts

TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery Planning for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level
200)

TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology

(Level 200)

TechNet Webcast: Compliance and Records Management with Office SharePoint Server
2007 (Level 200)

MSDN Webcast: Extending the Web Content Management Features of Office SharePoint
Server 2007 (Level 200)

TechNet Webcast: Planning for and Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2)
(Level 200)

TechNet Webcast: Planning for and Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2)
(Level 200)

TechNet Webcast: Upgrading and Migrating to Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)