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what is SharePoint?

Portal Collaboration Software.

what is the difference between SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services?
SharePoint Portal Server is the global portal offering features like global navigation and searching. Windows SharePoint Services is more content management based with document libraries and lists. You apply information to certain areas within your portal from Windows SharePoint Services or directly to portal areas.

what is a document library?


A document library is where you upload your core documents. They consist of a row and column view with links to the documents. When the document is updated so is the link on your site. You can also track metadata on your documents. Metadata would consist of document properties.

what is a meeting workspace?


A meeting workspace is a place to store information, attendees, and tasks related to a specific meeting.

what is a document workspace?


Document workspaces consist of information surrounding a single or multiple documents.

what is a web part?


Web parts consist of xml queries to full SharePoint lists or document libraries. You can also develop your own web parts and web part pages.

what is the difference between a document library and a form library?


Document libraries consist of your core documents. An example would be a word document, excel, powerpoint, visio, pdf, etc Form libraries consist of XML forms.

what is a web part zone?


Web part zones are what your web parts reside in and help categorize your web parts when designing a page.

how is security managed in SharePoint?


Security can be handled at the machine, domain, or sharepoint level.

how are web parts developed?


Web parts are developed in Visual Studio .Net. VS.Net offers many web part and page templates and can also be downloaded from the Microsoft site.

what is a site definition?


Its a methods for providing prepackaged site and list content.

what is a template?
A template is a pre-defined set of functions or settings that can be used over time. There are many templates within SharePoint, Site Templates, Document Templates, Document Library and List Templates.

how do you install web parts?


Web Parts should be distributed as a .CAB (cabinet) file using the MSI Installer.

what is CAML?
tands for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an XML-based language that is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to define sites and lists, including, for example, fields, views, or forms, but CAML is also used to define tables in the Windows SharePoint Services database during site provisioning.

what is a DWP?
he file extension of a web part.

what is the GAC?


Global Assembly Cache folder on the server hosting SharePoint. You place your assemblies there for web parts and services.

what are the differences between web part page gallery, site gallery, virtual server gallery and online gallery?
Web Part Page Gallery is the default gallery that comes installed with SharePoint. Site Gallery is specific to one site. Virtual Server gallery is specific to that virtual server and online gallery are downloadable web parts from Microsoft.

what is the difference between a site and a web?

The pages in a Web site generally cover one or more topics and are interconnected through hyperlinks. Most Web sites have a home page as their starting point. While a Web is simply a blank site with SharePoint functionality built in; meaning you have to create the site from the ground up.

What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services a key piece of the information worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and it serves as a platform for application development. Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence.

What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?


SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams, and knowledge across business processes. SharePoint Portal Server integrates information from various systems into one secure solution through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities. It provides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilitates end-to-end collaboration through data aggregation, organization, and searching. SharePoint Portal Server also enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of portal content and layout as well as through audience targeting.

What is Microsoft Windows Services?


Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop applications, as well as serving as a plat form for application development. SharePoint sites provide communities for team collaboration, enabling users to work together on documents, tasks, and projects. The environment for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development.

What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows Services?
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexible deployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for team collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and business processesfacilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational and

management tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entire organization.

Who is Office SharePoint Server 2007 designed for?


Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be used by information workers, IT administrators, and application developers. is designed

What are the main benefits of Office SharePoint Server 2007?


Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise. * Business users gain greater control over the storage, security, distribution, and management of their electronic content, with tools that are easy to use and tightly integrated into familiar, everyday applications. * Organizations can accelerate shared business processes with customers and partners across organizational boundaries using InfoPath Forms Servicesdriven solutions. * Information workers can find information and people efficiently and easily through the facilitated information-sharing functionality and simplified content publishing. In addition, access to back-end data is achieved easily through a browser, and views into this data can be personalized. * Administrators have powerful tools at their fingertips that ease deployment, management, and system administration, so they can spend more time on strategic tasks. * Developers have a rich platform to build a new class of applications, called Office Business Applications, that combine powerful developer functionality with the flexibility and ease of deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Through the use of out-of-the-box application services, developers can build richer applications with less code.

What is the difference between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 have identical feature functionality. While the feature functionality is similar, the usage rights are different. If you are creating an Internet, or Extranet, facing website, it is recommended that you use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites which does not require the purchase client access licenses. Websites hosted using an Internet sites edition can only be used for Internet facing websites and all content, information, and applications must be accessible to nonemployees. Websites hosted using an Internet sites edition cannot be accessed by employees creating, sharing, or collaborating on content which is solely for internal use only, such as an Intranet Portal scenario. See the previous section on licensing for more information on the usage scenarios.

What suites of the 2007 Microsoft Office system work with Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Office Outlook 2007 provides bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries, discussion groups, contacts, calendars, and tasks. Microsoft Office Groove 2007, included as part of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, will enable bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries. Features such as the document panel and the ability to publish to Excel Services will only be enabled when using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007or Office Enterprise 2007. Excel Services will only work with documents saved in the new Office Excel 2007 file format (XLSX).

How do I invite users to join a Windows SharePoint Services Site? Is the site secure?
SharePoint-based Web sites can be password-protected to restrict access to registered users, who are invited to join via e-mail. In addition, the site administrator can restrict certain members' roles by assigning different permission levels to view post and edit.

Can I post any kind of document?


You can post documents in many formats, including .pdf, .htm and .doc. In addition, if you are using Microsoft Office XP, you can save documents directly to your Windows SharePoint Services site.

Can I download information directly from a SharePoint site to a personal digital assistant (PDA)?
No you cannot. However, you can exchange contact information lists with Microsoft Outlook.

How long does it take to set up the initial team Web site?
It only takes a few minutes to create a complete Web site. Preformatted forms let you and your team members contribute to the site by filling out lists. Standard forms include announcements, events, contacts, tasks, surveys, discussions and links.

Can I create custom templates?


Yes you can. You can have templates for business plans, doctor's office, lawyer's office etc.

How can I make my site public? By default, all sites are created private.

If you want your site to be a public Web site, enable anonymous access for the entire site. Then you can give out your URL to anybody in your business card, e-mail or any other marketing material. The URL for your Web site will be: http:// yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com Hence, please take special care to name your site. These Web sites are ideal for information and knowledge intensive sites and/or sites where you need to have shared Web workspace. Remember: Under each parent Web site, you can create up to 10 sub-sites each with unique permissions, settings and security rights.

How do the sub sites work?


You can create a sub site for various categories. For example: * Departments - finance, marketing, IT * Products - electrical, mechanical, hydraulics * Projects - Trey Research, Department of Transportation, FDA * Team - Retention team, BPR team * Clients - new clients, old clients * Suppliers - Supplier 1, Supplier 2, Supplier 3 * Customers - Customer A, Customer B, Customer C * Real estate - property A, property B The URLs for each will be, for example: * http://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/finance * http://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/marketing You can keep track of permissions for each team separately so that access is restricted while maintaining global access to the parent site.

How do I make my site non-restricted?


If you want your site to have anonymous access enabled (i.e., you want to treat it like any site on the Internet that does not ask you to provide a user name and password to see the content of the site), follow these simple steps: # Login as an administrator # Click on site settings # Click on Go to Site Administration # Click on Manage anonymous access # Choose one of the three conditions on what Anonymous users can access: ** Entire Web site ** Lists and libraries ** Nothing Default condition is nothing; your site has restricted access. The default conditions allow you to create a secure site for your Web site.

Can I get domain name for my Web site?


Unfortunately, no. At this point, we don't offer domain names for SharePoint sites. But very soon we will be making this available for all our SharePoint site customers. Please keep checking this page for further update on this. Meanwhile, we suggest you go ahead and set up your site and create content for it.

What are picture libraries?


Picture libraries allow you to access a photo album and view it as a slide show or thumbnails or a film strip. You can have separate folder for each event, category, etc

What are the advantages of a hosted SharePoint vs. one that is on an in-house server?
* No hardware investment, i.e. lower costs * No software to download - ready to start from the word go * No IT resources - Anyone who has used a Web program like Hotmail can use it * Faster deployment

Can I ask users outside of my organization to participate in my Windows SharePoint Services site?
Yes. You can manage this process using the Administration Site Settings. Simply add users via their e-mail alias and assign permissions such as Reader or Contributor.

Are there any IT requirements or downloads required to set up my SharePoint site?


No. You do not need to download any code or plan for any IT support. Simply complete the online signup process and provide us your current and correct email address. Once you have successfully signed up and your site has been provisioned, we will send a confirmation to the email address you provided.

I am located outside of the United States. Are there any restrictions or requirements for accessing the Windows SharePoint Services?
No. There are no system or bandwidth limitations for international trial users. Additionally language packs have been installed which allow users to set up sub-webs in languages other than English. These include: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish and Swedish.

Are there any browser recommendations?

Yes. Microsoft recommends using the following browsers for viewing and editing Windows SharePoint Services sites: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 with Service Pack 2, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 2, Internet Explorer 6, Netscape Navigator 6.2 or later.

What security levels are assigned to users?


Security levels are assigned by the administrator who is adding the user. There are four levels by default and additional levels can be composed as necessary. * Reader - Has read-only access to the Web site. * Contributor - Can add content to existing document libraries and lists. * Web Designer - Can create lists and document libraries and customize pages in the Web site. * Administrator - Has full control of the Web site.

How secure are Windows SharePoint Services sites hosted by Microsoft?


Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Technical security measures provide firewall protection, intrusion detection, and web-publishing rules. The Microsoft operation center team tests and deploys software updates in order to maintain the highest level of security and software reliability. Software hot-fixes and service packs are tested and deployed based on their priority and level of risk. Security related hot-fixes are rapidly deployed into the environment to address current threats. A comprehensive software validation activity ensures software stability through regression testing prior to deployment.

What is the difference between an Internet and an intranet site?


An internet site is a normal site that anyone on the internet can access (e.g., www.msn.com, www.microsoft.com, etc.). You can set up a site for your company that can be accessed by anyone without any user name and password. An intranet (or internal network), though hosted on the Web, can only be accessed by people who are members of the network. They need to have a login and password that was assigned to them when they were added to the site by the site administrator.

What is a workspace?
A site or workspace is when you want a new place for collaborating on Web pages, lists and document libraries. For example, you might create a site to manage a new team or project, collaborate on a document or prepare for a meeting.

What are the various kinds of roles the users can have?
A user can be assigned one of the following roles * Reader - Has read-only access to the Web site. * Contributor - Can add content to existing document libraries and lists. * Web Designer - Can create lists and document libraries and customize pages in the Web site. * Administrator - Has full control of the Web site.

Can more than one person use the same login?


If the users sharing that login will have the same permissions and there is no fear of them sharing a password, then yes. Otherwise, this is discouraged.

How customizable is the user-to-user access?


User permissions apply to an entire Web, not to documents themselves. However, you can have additional sub webs that can optionally have their own permissions. Each user can be given any of four default roles. Additional roles can be defined by the administrator.

Can each user have access to their own calendar?


Yes there are two ways to do this, * by creating a calendar for each user, or * by creating a calendar with a view for each user

How many files can I upload?


There is no restriction in place except that any storage consumed beyond that provided by the base offering may have an additional monthly charge associated with them.

What types of files can I upload / post to the site?


The only files restricted are those ending with the following extensions: .asa, .asp, .ida, .idc, .idq. Microsoft reserves the right to add additional file types to this listing at any time. Also, no content that violates the terms of service may be uploaded or posted to the site.

Can SharePoint be linked to an external data source?


SharePoint data can be opened with Access and Excel as an external data source. Thus, SharePoint can be referenced as an external data source. SharePoint itself cannot reference an external data source.

Can SharePoint be linked to a SQL database?


This is possible via a custom application, but it not natively supported by SharePoint or SQL Server.

Can I customize my Windows SharePoint Services site?


YES! Windows SharePoint Services makes updating sites and their content from the browser easier then ever.

SharePoint includes tools that let you create custom lists, calendars, page views, etc. You can apply a theme; add List, Survey and Document Library Web Parts to a page; create personal views; change logos; connect Web Parts and more. To fully customize your site, you can use Microsoft FrontPage 2003. Specifically, you can use FrontPage themes and shared borders, and also use FrontPage to create photo galleries and top ten lists, utilize standard usage reports, and integrate automatic Web content.

Will Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 run on a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows?
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office Forms Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search will support 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003.

How Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help you?


Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help us: Manage content and streamline processes. Comprehensively manage and control unstructured content like Microsoft Office documents, Web pages, Portable Document Format file (PDF) files, and e-mail messages. Streamline business processes that are a drain on organizational productivity. Improve business insight. Monitor your business, enable better-informed decisions, and respond proactively to business events. Find and share information more simply. Find information and expertise wherever they are located. Share knowledge and simplify working with others within and across organizational boundaries. Empower IT to make a strategic impact. Increase responsiveness of IT to business needs and reduce the number of platforms that have to be maintained by supporting all the intranet, extranet, and Web applications across the enterprise with one integrated platform. Office SharePoint Server 2007 capabilities can help improve organizational effectiveness by connecting people, processes, and information. Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides these capabilities in an integrated server offering, so your organization doesn't have to integrate fragmented technology solutions itself.

What are the features that the portal components of Office SharePoint Server 2007 include?

The portal components of Office SharePoint Server 2007 include features that are especially useful for designing, deploying, and managing enterprise intranet portals, corporate Internet Web sites, and divisional portal sites. The portal components make it easier to connect to people within the organization who have the right skills, knowledge, and project experience.

What are the advanced features of MOSS 2007?


* User Interface (UI) and navigation enhancements * Document management enhancements * The new Workflow engine * Office 2007 Integration * New Web Parts * New Site-type templates * Enhancements to List technology * Web Content Management * Business Data Catalog * Search enhancements * Report Center * Records Management * Business Intelligence and Excel Server * Forms Server and InfoPath * The Features feature * Alternate authentication providers and Forms-based authentication

What are the features of the new Content management in Office SharePoint 2007?
The new and enhanced content management features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 fall within three areas: * Document management * Records management * Web content management Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on the core document management functionality provided by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, including check in and check out, versioning, metadata, and role-based granular access controls. Organizations can use this functionality to deliver enhanced authoring, business document processing, Web content management and publishing, records management, policy management, and support for multilingual publishing. Does a SharePoint Web site include search functionality? Yes. SharePoint Team Services provides a powerful text-based search feature that helps you find documents and information fast.

Write the features of the search component of Office SharePoint Server 2007?

The search component of Office SharePoint Server 2007 has been significantly enhanced by this release of SharePoint Products and Technologies. New features provide: * A consistent and familiar search experience. * Increased relevance of search results. * New functions to search for people and expertise. * Ability to index and search data in line-of-business applications and * Improved manageability and extensibility.

What are the benefits of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?


* Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience. * Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities. * Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content. * Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value. * Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems. * Connect people with information and expertise. * Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries. * Share business data without divulging sensitive information. * Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location. * Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.

Will SharePoint Portal Server and Team Services ever merge?


The products will come together because they are both developed by the Office team.

What does partial trust mean the Web Part developer?


If an assembly is installed into the BIN directory, the code must be ensured that provides error handling in the event that required permissions are not available. Otherwise, unhandled security exceptions may cause the Web Part to fail and may affect page rendering on the page where the Web Part appears.

How can I raise the trust level for assemblies installed in the BIN directory?
Windows SharePoint Services can use any of the following three options from ASP.NET and the CLR to provide assemblies installed in the BIN directory with sufficient permissions. The following table outlines the implications and requirements for each option. Option Pros Cons Increase the trust level for the entire virtual server. For more information, see "Setting the trust level for a virtual server" Easy to implement.

In a development environment, increasing the trust level allows you to test an assembly with increased permissions while allowing you to recompile assemblies directly into the BIN directory without resetting IIS. This option is least secure. This option affects all assemblies used by the virtual server. There is no guarantee the destination server has the required trust level. Therefore, Web Parts may not work once installed on the destination server. Create a custom policy file for your assemblies. For more information, see "How do I create a custom policy file?" Recommended approach. This option is most secure. An assembly can operate with a unique policy that meets the minimum permission requirements for the assembly. By creating a custom security policy, you can ensure the destination server can run your Web Parts. Requires the most configuration of all three options. Install your assemblies in the GAC Easy to implement. This grants Full trust to your assembly without affecting the trust level of assemblies installed in the BIN directory. This option is less secure. Assemblies installed in the GAC are available to all virtual servers and applications on a server running Windows SharePoint Services. This could represent a potential security risk as it potentially grants a higher level of permission to your assembly across a larger scope than necessary In a development environment, you must reset IIS every time you recompile assemblies. Licensing issues may arise due to the global availability of your assembly.

Does SharePoint work with NFS?


Yes and no. It can crawl documents on an NFS volume, but the sharepoint database or logs cannot be stored there.

How is SharePoint Portal Server different from the Site Server?


Site Server has search capabilities but these are more advanced using SharePoint. SPS uses digital dashboard technology which

provides a nice interface for creating web parts and showing them on dashboards (pages). SS doesn't have anything as advanced as that. The biggest difference would be SPS document management features which also integrate with web folders and MS Office.

What would you like to see in the next version of SharePoint?


A few suggestions: # SPS and STS on same machine # Tree view of Categories and Folders # General Discussion Web Part # Personalization of Dashboards # Role Customization # Email to say WHY a document has been rejected for Approval # More ways to customize the interface # Backup and restore an individual Workspaces # Filter for Visio # Better way to track activity on SPS

Why Sharepoint is not a viable solution for enterprise wide deployments?


Document management does not scale beyond a single server, but scales great within a single server. For example, a quad Xeon machine with 4GB of RAM works great for a document management server that has about 900,000 - 1,000,000 document, but if you need to store 50,000,000 document and want to have them all in one single workspace then it does not scale at all. If you need a scenario like this, you need to plan your deployment right and it should scale for you, it just does not right out of the box. If you are using your server as a portal and search server most for the most part it scales great. You can have many different servers crawl content sources and have separate servers searching and serving the content. If you have < 750,000 documents per server and fewer than 4 content sources and fewer than 50,000 users, SPS should scale just fine for your needs with the proper planning.

What are the actual advantages of SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) over SharePoint Team Services (STS)?
SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) has MUCH better document management. It has check-in, check-out, versioning, approval, publishing, subscriptions, categories, etc. STS does not have these features, or they are very scaled back. SharePoint team Services (SPS) has a better search engine, and can crawl multiple content sources. STS cannot. STS is easier to manage and much better for a team environment where there is not much Document Management going on. SPS is better for an organization, or where Document Management is crucial.

How Does SharePoint work?

The browser sends a DAV packet to IIS asking to perform a document check in. PKMDASL.DLL, an ISAPI DLL, parses the packet and sees that it has the proprietary INVOKE command. Because of the existence of this command, the packet is passed off to msdmserv.exe, who in turn processes the packet and uses EXOLEDB to access the WSS, perform the operation and send the results back to the user in the form of XML.

How do I open an older version of a document?


Normally, all previous versions are located in the shadow, so if you right click a published document from within the web folders, go to properties and then the third tab, versions you can view older versions. If you want to do this in code: <pre> strURL = "url of the last published version" Set oVersion = New PKMCDO.KnowledgeVersion Set prmRs = oVersion.VersionHistory(strURL) Set oVersion = Nothing </pre> prmRS will contain a recordset, which contains the url to the old versions in the shadow.

Why do the workspace virtual directories show the error stop sign symbol in the IIS snap-in?
If World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) starts before Microsoft Exchange Information Store (MSExchangeIS), stop sign symbols appear under the Default Web Site folder of the Internet Information Services console in Microsoft Management Console (MMC). There is a dependency between the local paths of the SharePoint Portal Server virtual directories and the MSExchangeIS. You must start MSExchangeIS first, followed by W3SVC. Complete the following steps to prevent the stop signs from appearing each time you restart: # Change the Startup type for W3SVC to Manual. # Restart the server. The MSExchangeIS service starts automatically. # Start W3SVC.

What newsgroups are available?


There are two, * microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver and * microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver.development.

What is SharePoint from a Technical Perspective?

Technically SharePoint illustrates neatly what Microsoft's .net strategy is all about: integrating Windows with the Web. Microsoft has previously made accessing stuff on a PC easier, (Windows) then on a network (NT) and now on the web (.NET). SharePoint is an application written to let a user access a web accessible directory tree called the Web Storage System. SharePoint was written with a set of technologies that allow the programmer to pass data, functions, parameters over HTTP, the web's medium. These are XML, XSL and SOAP, to name a few I understand the basics of! To the user it looks easy, like Hotmail, but every time they click a button or a link, a lot has to happen behind the scenes to do what they want to do quickly and powerfully. Not as easy as you might think, but SharePoint does it for you. Accessing this Web storage system and the server itself is also done using technologies like ADO, CDO, PKMCDO, LDAP, DDSC, ADSC. More on these later. SharePoint is a great example of how the Internet Platform can be extended and integrated into an existing well adopted technology, Windows.

What is SharePoint from an Administration Perspective?


Administering SharePoint mainly consists of setting it up, which is much easier than you expect, adding the content, which can be just dragging and dropping in whole directory structures and files, and then organizing the files better by giving them categories or other metadata. This is done either through the Web interface or through the SharePoint Client: a program what means you can access SharePoint as a Web folder and then right-click files to select options like "edit profile". Or add files by dragging them in individually or in bulk. Setting the security is also important, using NT accounts, either NT4 or Active Directory (or both in mixed mode) you can give users access to files/folders the same way as you do in standard Windows. Users can be grouped and the groups given access privileges to help manage this better. Also SharePoint has 3 Roles that a User or Group can be given on a particular item. Readers can see the item (i.e. document/file or folder) but not change it, Authors can see and edit items and coordinators can set security privileges for the part of the system they have control over. Thus, you could set 12 different coordinators for 12 different folder trees, and they could manage who can do what within that area only.

What is SharePoint from a Users Perspective?


From a Users perspective SharePoint is a way of making documents and folders on the Windows platform accessible over the web. The user visits the SharePoint Portal web page, and from there they can add documents, change documents & delete documents. Through this Portal, these documents are now available for discussion, collaboration, versioning and being managed through a workflow. Hence the name "Share-Point". Details about the document can be saved too, such as: who wrote it, when, for whom, its size, and version, category or target audience. These can then be used to find the document through SharePoint's Search facility. Even documents not "in" SharePoint can be included in the search engine's index so they become part of the portal. All in all, it's a great way to get stuff up on the web for users with average technical skills, and for administrators to manage the content.

What are the various Sharepoint 2003 and Exchange integration points?
Link to Outlook This is a button on contacts or events lists that lets Outlook 2003 add a pst file named Sharepoint Folders and it links to the data on the site. Its read-only, but you could make the home page for that PST be the Sharepoint site for easier viewing. The link to outlook feature seems more to be where some can public a calendar, but not want too much collaboration. For example, a holiday schedule, company meeting schedule, etc, can be made available for people to be able to view from Outlook without having to go to a web browser. Another nice thing about OL2K3 is that you can compare these calendars with others side by side. Searching Public Folders With SPS you can index Exchanges public folders with the search engine so that all that precious public folder content is searchable. Youll want to look at content sources and indexing in Sharepoint administration. Displaying Public Folders in a web part Since exchange web-enables public folders, you can create a web part that displays that content. IE, http://exchangeserver/Public/IT/Helpdesk will display the IT/Helpdesk public folder via OWA. So you add the Page Viewer web part to a page and point it at that URL. The key here is to add ?cmd=contents to the end of the url if you dont want the navigator pane on the left. Smart web parts Some of the web parts that come with SPS allow you to add a web part to a page that actually takes the users outlook info (calendar, inbox, contacts, tasks) and put them into the page.

Can SharePoint compare two document versions?


"In Word 2003, you can compare documents side by side. Open two documents. Then, from the Window menu of one of them, select the Compare Side By Side command. If you have only two documents open, the command will automatically choose to compare them. If you have three or more documents open, you'll have to select which document to compare with the current file. A floating toolbar with two buttons will open. If the button on the left is selected, Word will scroll both documents at the same time. Press the button on the right side of the toolbar to return to where the cursor was located when you started comparing."

What are the integration differences between SPS 2003 and the various Office versions?

SPS webpage can detect you have installed the Office 2003 and run local dll to implement some SPS function, e.g. multi-file upload only works when you have office 2003 installed. Integration with Office XP is gone. You will get guys telling you that you can integrate with SPSv2 if you install a backwards compatible document library - but thats really just putting a bit of SPS 2001 on the server. Believe me, check-in, check-out, which are themselves very basic, are not available from inside Office XP, or even from the context menu in Windows Explorer. The ONLY option you have is to use the web interface to check-in or check-out.

Basic Intro SharePoint Architecture Questions 1) What are Web Applications in SharePoint? An IIS Web site created and used by SharePoint 2010. Saying an IIS virtual server is also an acceptable answer. 2) What is an application pool? A group of one or more URLs that are served by a particular worker process or set of worker processes. 3) Why are application pools important? They provide a way for multiple sites to run on the same server but still have their own worker processes and identity. 4) What are zones? Different logical paths (URLs meaning) of gaining access to the same SharePoint Web application. 5) What are Web Application Policies? Enables security policy for users at the Web application level, rather than at the site collection or site level. Importantly, they override all other security settings. 6) What is a site collection? A site collection contains a top-level website and can contain one or more sub-sites web sites that have the same owner and share administration settings.

7) What are content databases? A content database can hold all the content for one or more site collections. 8) What is a site? A site in SharePoint contains Web pages and related assets such as lists, all hosted within a site collection. 9) What are My Sites? Specialized SharePoint sites personalized and targeted for each user. 10) What is the difference between Classic mode authentication and Claims-based authentication? As the name implies, classic authentication supports NT authentication types like Kerberos, NTLM, Basic, Digest, and anonymous. Claims based authentication uses claims identities against a against a trusted identity provider. 11) When would you use claims, and when would you use classic? Classic is more commonly seen in upgraded 2007 environments whereas claims are the recommended path for new deployments. 12) Describe the potential components for both a single server, and multiple servers, potentially several tiered farms: A single-server SharePoint Server 2010 environment leverages a built-in SQL Server 2008 Express database. The problems with this environment is scalability, not being able to install the with built-in database on a domain controller, the database cannot be larger than 4 GB, and you cannot use User Profile Synchronization in a single server with built-in database installation. An example of a multiple tier farm would be a three-tier topology, considered one of the more efficient physical and logical layouts to supports scaling out or scaling up and provides better distribution of services across the member servers of the farm. This is considered a good architecture since one can add Web servers to the Web tier, add app servers to the application tier, and add database servers to the database tier. SharePoint Backup and Restore Questions 13) What are some of the tools that can be used when backing up a SharePoint 2010 environment?

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14) What Microsoft tool can be used for incremental backups? System Center Data Protection Manager Managed Metadata Questions 15) What is Managed Metadata? Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define, and then use as attributes for items. 16) What are Terms and Term Sets? A term is a word or a phrase that can be associated with an item. A term set is a collection of related terms. 17) How do Terms And Term Sets relate to Managed Metadata? Managed metadata is a way of referring to the fact that terms and term sets can be created and managed independently from the columns themselves. 18) Are there different types of Term Sets? There are Local Term Sets and Global Term Sets, one created within the context of a site collection and the other created outside the context of a site collection, respectively. 19) How are terms created and used? There are several ways; however the most common is to use the Term Store Management Tool. 20) How is Managed Metadata, and the related Term technology used? Through the UI, the most common use is through the managed metadata list column which allows you to specify the term set to use. It also related to searching and enhancing the user search experience. Sandbox Solutions Questions 21) What is a sandboxed solution? Components that are deployed to run within the sandboxed process rather than running in the production Internet Information Services (IIS) worker process. 22) What are some examples of things that might run within the SharePoint sandbox?

Any of the following are acceptable answers: Web Parts Event receivers Feature receivers Custom Microsoft SharePoint Designer workflow activities Microsoft InfoPath business logic others. 23) Why are sandboxed solutions used? Primarily because they promote high layers of isolation. By default they run within a rightsrestricted, isolated process based around Code Access Security (CAS). Isolation is possible to increase with activities like running the sandboxing service on only specific SharePoint 2010 servers. SharePoint Search Questions 24) What is a content source in relation to SharePoint search? Whats the minimum amount of content sources? A content source is a set of options that you can use to specify what type of content is crawled, what URLs to crawl, and how deep and when to crawl. You must create at least one content source before a crawl can occur. 25) What is a search scope? A search scope defines a subset of information in the search index. Users can select a search scope when performing a search. 26) What is a federated location with SharePoint search? Federated locations provide information that exists outside of your internal network to your endusers. 27) How does managed metadata affect search? Enhances the end-user search experience by mapping crawled properties to managed properties. Managed properties show up in search results and help users perform more successful queries. 28) What is query logging in SharePoint 2010? Collects information about user search queries and search results that users select on their computers to improve the relevancy of search results and to improve query suggestions.

29) What authentication type does the SharePoint crawler use? The crawl component requires access to content using NTLM authentication. Services Architecture Questions 30) Please describe what a Service Application is in SharePoint 2010. Service applications in SharePoint 2010 are a set of services that can possibly be shared across Web applications. Some of these services may or may not be shared across the SharePoint 2010 farm. The reason these applications are shared is the overall reduction of resources required to supply the functionality these services cultivate. 31) Please provide an example of one of these service applications. Any of the below are acceptable answers: Access Services Business Data Connectivity service Excel Services Application Managed Metadata service PerformancePoint Service Application Search service Secure Store Service State service Usage and Health Data Collection service User Profile service Visio Graphics Service Web Analytics service Word Automation Services Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service 32) What are Service Application Groups used for? Just provides a logical grouping of services that are scoped to a particular Web Application. 33) How are Service Applications deployed in terms of IIS (Internet Information Services)? They are provisioned as a single Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site. 34) Explain how connections are managed with Service Applications. A virtual entity is used that is referred to as a proxy, due to label in PowerShell. 35) What are some common examples of SharePoint 2010 services architectures, and what are the advantages of each design?

The three most popular designs are single farms with either a single service application group or multiple service application groups, or Enterprise services farms. Single farms with a single service application group are generally the most common, and have the advantages of easy deployment, simple service application allocation, effective resource utilization and cohesive management. Single farms with multiple service application groups is less common, and have the advantage of potential individual management of service applications as well as allowing data isolation, and while being more complex to deploy and maintain allows targeting of sites to particular service applications. Enterprise Service Farms is pretty uncommon as it is a complete farm dedicated to Service Applications but promotes autonomous management and high levels of data isolation. 36) Are there any other type of relevant service architectures? Depending on the environment requirements, a specialized farm can also be used in order to deploy specific services tailored to the organizational requirements which can aid in scaling out and conservation of resources. 37) What is the User Profile service? Allows configuring and managing User profile properties, Audiences, Profile synchronization settings, organization browsing and management settings, and My Site settings. 38) What are User Profiles? Aggregates properties from diverse identity content sources together to create unified and consistent profiles across an organization, used throughout the SharePoint environment. 39) What is Excel Services? Allows sharing, securing, managing, and using Excel 2010 workbooks in a SharePoint Server Web site or document library. Excel Services consists of the Excel Calculation Services (ECS), Microsoft Excel Web Access (EWA), and Excel Web Services (EWS) components. 40) What is PerformancePoint Services? Allows users to monitor and analyze a business by building dashboards, scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPIs). 41) What is Visio Services?

Allows users to share and view Microsoft Visio Web drawings. The service also enables dataconnected Microsoft Visio 2010 Web drawings to be refreshed and updated from various data sources. 42) What is Access Services? Allows users to edit, update, and create linked Microsoft Access 2010 databases that can be viewed and manipulated by using an internet browser, the Access client, or a linked HTML page. 43) What is the Secure Store Service (SSS)? A secure database for storing credentials that are associated with application IDs 44) What is Content Deployment? Content deployment enables you to copy content from a source site collection to a destination site collection. Backup / DR Questions 45) Describe how redundancy can be built into a SharePoint environment. Please be specific in regards to any auxiliary components. Multiple front-end web servers (WFEs) can be deployed and correlated through Windows NLB or anything approach. Application servers can be deployed into the farm for a variety of purposes, depending on organizational requirements. Databases can be clustered or mirrored, again depending on requirements and environment. 46) From a basic standpoint, what is the difference between SQL clustering and mirroring? Clustering provides a failover scenario whereby one or more nodes can be swapped as active depending on whether a node goes down. In mirroring, transactions are sent directly from a principal database and server to a mirror database to establish essentially a replica of the database. Governance Questions 47) What Is Governance in terms of SharePoint 2010? Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that guide, direct, and control how an organizations business divisions and IT teams cooperate to achieve business goals. 48) What are some useful, OOB features of SharePoint that aid with governance of an environment?

Any of the below are acceptable answers. There are some others but these are the major ones that I generally look for from a candidate: Site templates consistent branding, site structure, and layout can be enforce a set of customizations that are applied to a site definition. Quotas limits to the amount of storage a site collection can use. Locks - prevent users from either adding content to a site collection or using the site collection. Web application permissions and policies comprehensive security settings that apply to all users and groups for all site collections within a Web application. Self-service site creation - enables users to create their own site collections, thus must be incorporated into a governance scheme. Monitoring Questions 49) Describe the monitoring features that are baked into SharePoint 2010. Diagnostic logging captures data about the state of the system, whereas health and usage data collection uses specific timer jobs to perform monitoring tasks, collecting information about:

Performance Counter Fata Event Log Data Timer Service Data Metrics For Site Collections and Sites Search Usage Data

General Workflow Questions 50) What is a declarative workflow? Can non-authenticated users participate in workflows? Workflows created by using Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, the default setting enables deployment of declarative workflows. Yes, however you do not give non-authorized users access to the site. The e-mail message and attachments sent from notifications might contain sensitive information
What are the Hardware and Software requirements for SharePoint 2010. Ans. Hardware requirements : # Processor 64-bit, four-core, 2.5 GHz minimum per core.

# RAM 4 GB for developer or evaluation use, 8 GB for single server and multiple server farm installation for production use. # Hard disk 80 GB for installation For production use, you need additional free disk space for day-to-day operations. Add twice as much free space as you have RAM for production environments. Software requirements : # The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 Standard with SP2. If you are running Windows Server 2008 without SP2, the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2010 Preparation Tool installs Windows Server 2008 SP2 automatically. For more see : Prerequisites for SharePoint 2010 Q. What Has Changed with SSP in SharePoint 2010. Ans. In SharePoint 2010 Shared Service Providers (SSP's) are replaced by Service Applications. Services are no longer combined into a SSP. They are running independent as a service application. The service application architecture is now also built into Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, in contrast to the Shared Services Provider (SSP) architecture that was only part of Office SharePoint Server 2007. A key benefit here is that all services are installed by default and there is no SSP setup. Additional improvements for the service application model include: The services architecture is extensible, allowing third-party companies to build and add services to the platform. Services are managed directly in Central Administration (rather than a separate administration site). Services can be monitored and managed remotely. Services can be managed and scripted by Windows PowerShell. Shared services communications take place over HTTP(S). Shared services do not directly access databases across farms. Most new services are built on the Windows Communications Framework. They have optimization built into their protocol, using binary streams instead of XML for data transfer. Test results show improvements in network throughput with this change.

Q. What are the advantages of Service Applications over SSP ? Ans. The key limitation of the SSP architecture was that it was configured by using a set of services, and all Web applications associated with the SSP bore the overhead of all the services even if they werent being used. To change the service configuration for a particular Web application, a new SSP would have to be created. The service application architecture on the other hand, allows a set of services to be associated with a given Web application and a different set of services to be associated with another Web application. Also, the same service application can be configured differently in different Web applications; therefore, Web sites can be configured to use only the services that are needed, rather than the entire bank of services. Q. Can we create a Single set of Services that will be shared across the farm? Ans. Similar to the SSP model in Office SharePoint Server 2007, a single set of services can be shared by all sites in a farm. By publishing a service application (from the sharing group, under Service application tab), you can share it across server farms. This capability does not apply to all service applications, and some services can be shared only within a single server farm. Q. What are Managed Accounts? Ans. To reduce the load of managing various service accounts in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, the concept of managed accounts has been introduced. Much like managed accounts in Windows Server 2008, they allow SharePoint Server to take control of all the service accounts you use. After SharePoint Server has control of these accounts, it can either manage their passwords automatically changing them as necessary or it can notify you when an accounts password is about to expire, allowing you to make the change yourself. Q. What are the Methods of Backup and Recovery in SharePoint 2010? Ans. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides a broad range of levels for performing backups, including the entire farm, farm configuration information, site collections, subsites, or lists. SharePoint Server 2010 uses two different tools to configure backup and recovery. 1. Central Administration : Central Administration provides a user interface where SharePoint Administrators will be prompted via menu structures to select the information that needs to be backed up. (see the Image below)

2. Windows PowerShell : Windows PowerShell is a command line tool that provides SharePoint administrators a way to perform backup and recovery with additional options such as file compression or working with SQL snapshots. Listed below are a few of the benefits available when working with Windows PowerShell: Windows PowerShell scripts can be developed and scheduled (with Windows Task Scheduler), whereas Central Administration is used for single-use backups and restores. Windows PowerShell has the advantage of running against SQL snapshots instead of the production database. One of the parameters of the Windows PowerShell command will cause a SQL snapshot to be generated, and then Windows PowerShell will run the action against the snapshot instead of the production database. This will reduce the resource impact of the backup operation on the production environment. With Windows PowerShell, SharePoint administrators will have more granular control of options for the backup or restore. For more info See : Windows PowerShell Tutorial

Q. How to Move content Databases using PowerShell ? Ans. To attach\detach an existing content database use Mount-SPContentDatabase "<ContentDb>" DatabaseServer "<DbServer>" WebApplication http://WebapplicationName <ContentDb> is the content database to be attached. <DbServer> is the name of the database server. http://WebapplicationName is the name of the Web application to which the content database is being attached. To detach a content database: Dismount-SPContentDatabase "<ContentdBName>" See more Commands at Windows Powershell Common Commands Q. How to Export a Site or List in SharePoint 2010? Ans. SharePoint Server 2010 provides several new features that provide a granular

level of backup for various components of site content. This includes content at the site, subsite, and list level. Through Central Administration(Granular level Back-up) a SharePoint Administrator can configure a backup of a subsite or list. An Administrator can choose a site and a specific list to be exported.The administrators can also choose to export security and select the different versions that will be exported with the list.

Can you personalize Shared Services for a single Web application? Ans. You cannot assign or un-assign few services to a web application. If the web application is using a perticular SSP, it has to bear the burden of all the services configured in that SSP. Q. How will you move or separate a Site Collection which stays in a shared WebApplication content database, into its own separate database. Ans. You can create a new Content database in the target webapplication (which will contain the new site collection). Then adjust the maximum number of sites allowed for the content database currently being used. Then use stsadm command to backup and restore the site colletcion. For Details see Move Site Collections into Separate Databases Q. What are Security methods(Authentication methods) available in sharepoint 2007. Ans : Out of the box", SharePoint 2007 supports nine authentication methods. NTLM (short for NT Lan Manager, which is simply the Windows authentication that everyone is familiar with) and Kerberos (also a Windows "standard" authentication) are offered during installation. Q.How Does SharePoint work? Ans. The browser sends a DAV packet to IIS asking to perform a document check in. PKMDASL.DLL, an ISAPI DLL, parses the packet and sees that it has the proprietary INVOKE command. Because of the existence of this command, the packet is passed off to msdmserv.exe, who in turn processes the packet and uses EXOLEDB to access the WSS, perform the operation and send the results back to the user in the form of XML. Q. What is the difference between a site and a web? Ans: A site in sharePoint is a site collection. It is an object of SPsite class in sharepoint. While a Web is simply a blank site within that site collection. Web is a Part of SPweb class, thus represents a site within a site collection. Q. How will you backup and restore entire farm ? Ans. There are various methods to backup and restore SharePoint entire farm in SharePoint. Two main methods that you can use to back up and restore are: * Using SharePoint Central Administration Web site - This tool enables you to perform backups and restorations from the user interface. When you use this method, you can back up the server

farm, Web applications, and any or all of the content databases in your server farm. You can use the Stsadm command-line tool to view backup and recovery history and to view backup and recovery job status. * Stsadm command-line tool - Stsadm command-line tool offers a faster and more flexible command-line-based approach to farm backup and recovery. This method for backing up and restoring data does not require SQL Server 2000 tools or SQL Server 2005 tools. However, to perform this method of backup and recovery, you must be a member of the administrators group on a computer on which SharePoint Server or WSS 3.0 is installed. Other methods to Backup are : * Backup Farm by using SQL server Tools - You can perform Full, Differential and Transaction baclups from SQL server studio. * Third Party Tools - You can also use other Backup and Restore tools such as DocAve for taking daily backups. Q. When to use Diffrent Site Collections? Ans. An Individual Site collection offers following : For the Users: Dedicated Recycle bins Dedicated usage Reports Distributed administration (site collection administrators) Dedicated search scopes, keywords, and best-bets Custom feature deployments Dedicated language translation maintenance Dedicated galleries for web parts, master pages, content types, site columns, site templates, and list templates Dedicated shared libraries, such as site collection images and site collection styles Dedicated real estate (Self Containment) For the IT Administrators: Site quota templates Distributed administration Site locking Database maintenance options Backup / Restore abilities Content Deployments InfoPath forms services global template targeting

Q. Changes in Themes in SharePoint 2010. Can we re-deploy and use the Old Cutsom themes in SharePoint 2010? Ans. SharePoint Server 2010 has changed the way themes work, making them easier to customize. You can now, change colors, fonts, links etc from themes interface itself. Also, you can import PowerPoint themes directly into SharePoint Server. Additionally, themes can now be applied to all subsites from one interface. No, you cannot re-deploy and use your old cutsom themes in sharePoint. Any customizations and design work that you have done with themes will not be imported into the new interface. Q. What is Enterprise Metadata Management? Ans. Introduction to Enterprise Metadata Management Q. What is Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint ? Ans.SharePoint 2010 provides a new set of technologies known as Business Connectivity Services for retrieving, editing, updating, and deleting data from external systems(for e.g. data from ERP or CRM database). BCS enhances the SharePoint platforms capabilities with out-of-box features, services and tools that streamline development of solutions with deep integration of external data and services.

Q. How is BCS Different from BDC in SharePoint 2007 ? Ans. Even though the BDC made it relatively easy to create read-only solutions that display data in the Business Data List Web Part, it was not so simple to create a solution that enabled users to make changes and write that data back to the external store. BCS, on the other hand, provides you with Read-Write capable connectivity from Client and Server to Database, WCF/Web Services and .Net Sources. A Developer can now use SharePoint Designer 2010 and VS 2010 rapid development tools to access external data. Read more at Business Data Catalog(BDC) VS Business Connectivity Services(BCS)

Q. How would you create an Information Site in SharePoint 2010? Ans. In SharePoint 2010 You can create a Read-Only Farm/site or site-collection by setting the Content database as Read-only. Read details : Read-Only Sites in SharePoint 2010

Q. What would you clean up before upgrading to SharePoint 2010? Ans. Before you begin upgrading from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, you should make sure that your environment is functioning in a healthy state and that you clean up any content that you do not have to upgrade. Read Details :Clean Up - Before Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 Q. What Browsers are not supported with SharePoint 2010? Ans. Older browsers such as Internet Explorer 6.x and Internet Explorer for Macintosh are not supported by Microsoft. Read More Browser Support at Browser Support in SharePoint 2010

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by Prabhu Q. Where is MOSS 2007 Files are located? You will normally, find it under C:\Program Files\Common Files\ shared\web server extensions\12\bin. Q. What is a DWP? Its a webpart file extension. Q. What is the GAC? Global Assembly Cache folder (or assembly) stores the strongly typed signed assemblies for webparts or other SharePoint components (which require full trust) for services to share them. Q. What are Application Pages, Site Pages and Content Pages? Application Pages An application page is deployed once per Web server and cannot be customized on a site-by-site basis. They stay in 12 hive folder structure, mostly under layouts folder. Site Pages These are pages that make up the site interface and are specific to one site or site collection.They mostly get stored in the content database of the site collection. Content Pages - Site Page which contains webpart or other custom components. This Page is stored in database. They mostly get stored in the content database of the site collection. Q.What are the Permission levels in SharePoint?

* Limited Access - They can view Application Pages, Browse User Information, Use Remote Interfaces, Use Client Integration Features etc. * Reader Limited Access permissions plus: View Items, Open Items, View Versions, Create Alerts, Use Self-Service Site Creation, View Pages. * Contributor Read permissions plus: Add Items, Edit Items, Delete Items, Delete Versions, Browse Directories, Edit Personal User Information, Manage Personal Views, Add/Remove Personal Web Parts, Update Personal Web Parts. * Design Contribute permissions plus: Manage Lists, Override Check Out, Approve Items, Add and Customize Pages, Apply Themes and Borders, Apply Style Sheets. * Administrator - Has full control of the Web site. * Full Control - All permissions. Q. What are Site Columns? Site columns are pre-defined data columns(along with default values) which are re-used in various content types. A Content type is usually a collection of site columns. For e.g. you can create a site column Category with a choice datatype along with the predefined values It,Hr. This column then can be added to any content type in your list or library. Q. What does each individual Site collection offers? An Individual Site collection offers following :

For the Users:

Dedicated Recycle bins Dedicated usage Reports Distributed administration (site collection administrators) Dedicated search scopes, keywords, and best-bets Custom feature deployments Dedicated language translation maintenance Dedicated galleries for web parts, master pages, content types, site columns, site templates, and list templates Dedicated shared libraries, such as site collection images and site collection styles Dedicated real estate (Self Containment) For the IT Administrators: Site quota templates Distributed administration Site locking Database maintenance options Backup / Restore abilities

Content Deployments InfoPath forms services global template targeting Q. When would you use a Different Site Collection for you new site?. We would prefer to make our new site in a seprate site collection for the following are the reasons: 1. Site quotas is one of the reasons. The issue is the recycle bin is based on site collections and the quota for a site collection. If everyone shares a site collection, then they share the recycle bins storage size. 2. Delegated Security and distributed administration is the next big thing. For eg, you have a IT department that doesnt know who should be able to see what content, besides how it should be organized. This is the job of the content owners and users. SharePoint site collections offers IT the ability to create a site collection for a project, team, department, document, or whatever the needs are, then assign an owner and hand it off to them. 3. In addition to these two if you need to separate the content between databases because of space issue. Q. What is a Field Control? Field controls are server controls that provide the basic field functionality of SharePoint. For example a Inputbox (single line text) to enter the title of the item. You can create your own FieldControl by inheriting classes from BaseFieldControl namespace. Q. How do you develop webparts in SharePoint? You can either develop a simple asp.net webpart with C# class library project or can use various tools available in the market. VSeWSS is an extension provided by Microsoft that consist of a webpart template for easy webpart creation and deployment. Other tools are wspbuilder, stsdev etc. Q.How Does SharePoint work? The browser sends a DAV packet to IIS asking to perform a document check in. PKMDASL.DLL, an ISAPI DLL, parses the packet and sees that it has the proprietary INVOKE command. Because of the existence of this command, the packet is passed off to msdmserv.exe, who in turn processes the packet and uses EXOLEDB to access the WSS, perform the operation and send the results back to the user in the form of XML. Q. What is Authentication and Authorization. An authentication system is how you identify yourself to the computer. The goal behind an authentication system is to verify that the user is actually who they say they are. Once the system knows who the user is through Authentication, authorization is how the system decides what the user can do. Q. What are Security methods(Authentication methods) available in sharepoint? Out of the box, SharePoint 2007 supports nine authentication methods. But NTLM (Windows authentication) and Kerberos (Windows standard authentication) are offered during installation. Q. Workflow can be applied to what all elements of SharePoint ? Workflow associations can be created directly on lists\libraries and content types. Q. What is the difference between a site and a web? A site in sharePoint is a site collection. It is an object of SPsite class in sharepoint. While a Web is simply a blank site within that site collection. Web is a Part of SPweb class, thus represents a site within a site collection.

http://www.interviewquestions365.com/interview-questions/sharepoint-job-interviewquestions.html Question: -What is SharePoint? Answer: SharePoint 2010 is a platform where user can share Data, Collaborate and people can also take this platform and customized platform as per their requirements. Question: What are the two different products in SharePoint 2010? Answer: SharePoint 2010 has basically two different products namely SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. SharePoint Foundation 2010 is basically a free version. SharePoint Server 2010 is basically a paid version. Question: -How to create a simple Website in SharePoint 2010? Answer: In order to create a Website in SharePoint 2010, we need to use SharePoint 2010 Central Administration tool. As soon as you click on SharePoint 2010 Central Administration tool it will ask for credential do put your credential and you will directed to the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration screen. Now from the Application Management screen click on Manage web applications, as soon as you click on Manage web applications a new window will open, now from the top most left of the screen click on New menu, again a new window will pop-up of Create New Web Application which enables you to create new web application. Question: How to create Users and Allocates permissions to the Users? Answer: -Permission management is a three steps process as follows. Step1: -Create Users. Step2: Create Permissions. Step3: Link the Users with the Permissions. In order to create a Users and Allocate permissions Click on Site Actions located on the top link bar and then click on Site Permissions.Now, under the Edit tab, click on Grant Permissions. Later, In the Users/group field, enter the users name, choose the permissions you wish the user to have under Give Permission, and then click on OK.

Question: How tocreate or deploy Web parts in SharePoint 2010? Answer: -Web part: It is a reusable functionality, which can be inserted on the web pages and can be configured by the end users. In order to create a web part, go to Visual Studio and create a new project > select SharePoint tab > select Visual Web Part > select on which local web site you want to deploy the web part > click on Validate and Click finish. Now, in order to deploy the project just go to > Solution Explorer > select your project > Right click on it > just select deploy.

Sharepoint Administrator Interview Questions MOSS 2007 Part 2


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by Prabhu Q. Where is MOSS 2007 Files are located? You will normally, find it under C:\Program Files\Common Files\ shared\web server extensions\12\bin. Q. What is a DWP? Its a webpart file extension. Q. What is the GAC? Global Assembly Cache folder (or assembly) stores the strongly typed signed assemblies for webparts or other SharePoint components (which require full trust) for services to share them. Q. What are Application Pages, Site Pages and Content Pages? Application Pages An application page is deployed once per Web server and cannot be customized on a site-by-site basis. They stay in 12 hive folder structure, mostly under layouts folder. Site Pages These are pages that make up the site interface and are specific to one site or site collection.They mostly get stored in the content database of the site collection. Content Pages - Site Page which contains webpart or other custom components. This Page is stored in database. They mostly get stored in the content database of the site collection. Q.What are the Permission levels in SharePoint? * Limited Access - They can view Application Pages, Browse User Information, Use Remote Interfaces, Use Client Integration Features etc. * Reader Limited Access permissions plus: View Items, Open Items, View Versions, Create Alerts, Use Self-Service Site Creation, View Pages.

* Contributor Read permissions plus: Add Items, Edit Items, Delete Items, Delete Versions, Browse Directories, Edit Personal User Information, Manage Personal Views, Add/Remove Personal Web Parts, Update Personal Web Parts. * Design Contribute permissions plus: Manage Lists, Override Check Out, Approve Items, Add and Customize Pages, Apply Themes and Borders, Apply Style Sheets. * Administrator - Has full control of the Web site. * Full Control - All permissions. Q. What are Site Columns? Site columns are pre-defined data columns(along with default values) which are re-used in various content types. A Content type is usually a collection of site columns. For e.g. you can create a site column Category with a choice datatype along with the predefined values It,Hr. This column then can be added to any content type in your list or library. Q. What does each individual Site collection offers? An Individual Site collection offers following :

For the Users:

Dedicated Recycle bins Dedicated usage Reports Distributed administration (site collection administrators) Dedicated search scopes, keywords, and best-bets Custom feature deployments Dedicated language translation maintenance Dedicated galleries for web parts, master pages, content types, site columns, site templates, and list templates Dedicated shared libraries, such as site collection images and site collection styles Dedicated real estate (Self Containment) For the IT Administrators: Site quota templates Distributed administration Site locking Database maintenance options Backup / Restore abilities Content Deployments InfoPath forms services global template targeting Q. When would you use a Different Site Collection for you new site?. We would prefer to make our new site in a seprate site collection for the following are the reasons:

1. Site quotas is one of the reasons. The issue is the recycle bin is based on site collections and the quota for a site collection. If everyone shares a site collection, then they share the recycle bins storage size. 2. Delegated Security and distributed administration is the next big thing. For eg, you have a IT department that doesnt know who should be able to see what content, besides how it should be organized. This is the job of the content owners and users. SharePoint site collections offers IT the ability to create a site collection for a project, team, department, document, or whatever the needs are, then assign an owner and hand it off to them. 3. In addition to these two if you need to separate the content between databases because of space issue. Q. What is a Field Control? Field controls are server controls that provide the basic field functionality of SharePoint. For example a Inputbox (single line text) to enter the title of the item. You can create your own FieldControl by inheriting classes from BaseFieldControl namespace. Q. How do you develop webparts in SharePoint? You can either develop a simple asp.net webpart with C# class library project or can use various tools available in the market. VSeWSS is an extension provided by Microsoft that consist of a webpart template for easy webpart creation and deployment. Other tools are wspbuilder, stsdev etc. Q.How Does SharePoint work? The browser sends a DAV packet to IIS asking to perform a document check in. PKMDASL.DLL, an ISAPI DLL, parses the packet and sees that it has the proprietary INVOKE command. Because of the existence of this command, the packet is passed off to msdmserv.exe, who in turn processes the packet and uses EXOLEDB to access the WSS, perform the operation and send the results back to the user in the form of XML. Q. What is Authentication and Authorization. An authentication system is how you identify yourself to the computer. The goal behind an authentication system is to verify that the user is actually who they say they are. Once the system knows who the user is through Authentication, authorization is how the system decides what the user can do. Q. What are Security methods(Authentication methods) available in sharepoint? Out of the box, SharePoint 2007 supports nine authentication methods. But NTLM (Windows authentication) and Kerberos (Windows standard authentication) are offered during installation. Q. Workflow can be applied to what all elements of SharePoint ? Workflow associations can be created directly on lists\libraries and content types. Q. What is the difference between a site and a web? A site in sharePoint is a site collection. It is an object of SPsite class in sharepoint. While a Web is simply a blank site within that site collection. Web is a Part of SPweb class, thus represents a site within a site collection. What is SharePoint?

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SharePoint is an Enterprise Information Portal, from Microsoft, that can be configured to run Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server allows people, teams and expertise to connect and collaborate. A SharePoint enterprise portal is composed of both SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services, with SharePoint being built upon WSS (Windows SharePoint Services). WSS is typically used by small teams, projects and companies. SharePoint Server is designed for individuals, teams and projects within a medium to large company wide enterprise portal. What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows Services?

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexible deployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for team collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and business processes-facilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational and management tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entire organization. What is a SharePoint Feature? What files are used to define a feature?

A SharePoint Feature is a functional component that can be activated and deactivate at various scopes throughout a SharePoint instances, scope of which are defined as

1. Farm level 2. Web Application level 3. Site level 4. Web level Features have their own receiver architecture, which allow you to trap events such as when a feature is Installing, Uninstalling, Activated, or Deactivated. The element types that can be defined by a feature include menu commands, link commands, page templates, page instances, list definitions, list instances, event handlers, and workflows. The two files that are used to define a feature are the feature.xml and manifest file(elements.xml). The feature XML file defines the actual feature and will make SharePoint aware of the installed feature. The manifest file contains details about the feature such as functionality. Workflow can be applied to what all elements of SharePoint ?

Workflow associations are often created directly on lists and libraries, a workflow association can also be created on a content type that exists within the Content Type Gallery for the current site or content types defined within a list. In short, it can be applied At the level of a list/library At the level of a content type defined at site scope At the level of a content type defined at list scope

What are the types of input forms that can be created for a workflow ?

You can create four different types of input forms including 1. An association form 2. An initiation form 3. A modification form 4. A task edit form. Note that these forms are optional when you create a workflow template. What are ways to create input forms for workflow ?

Two 1. You can create your forms by using custom application pages, which are standard .aspx pages deployed to run out of the _layouts directory. ( disadv: lot of code required when compared to Infopath approach) 2. Using Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (disadv: picks up a dependenct on MOSS, i.e. it cannot run in a standalone WSS environment) What is the difference between method activity and event activity in WorkFlow ?

A method activity is one that performs an action, such as creating or updating a task. An event activity is one that runs in response to an action occurring. What are content types?

A content type is a flexible and reusable WSS type definition (or we can a template) that defines the columns and behavior for an item in a list or a document in a document library. For example, you can create a content type for a leave approval document with a unique set of columns, an event handler, and its own document template and attach it with a document library/libraries.

Can a content type have receivers associated with it?

Yes, a content type can have an event receiver associated with it, either inheriting from the SPListEventReciever base class for list level events, or inheriting from the SPItemEventReciever base class. Whenever the content type is instantiated, it will be subject to the event receivers that are associated with it. What two files are typically (this is kept generally) included when developing a content type, and what is the purpose of each?

There is generally the main content type file that holds things like the content type ID, name, group, description, and version. There is also the ContentType.Fields file which contains the fields to include in the content type that has the ID, Type, Name, DisplayName, StaticName, Hidden, Required, and Sealed elements. They are related by the FieldRefs element in the main content type file. What is SharePoint?

SharePoint is an Enterprise Information Portal, from Microsoft, that can be configured to run Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server allows people, teams and expertise to connect and collaborate. A SharePoint enterprise portal is composed of both SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services, with SharePoint being built upon WSS (Windows SharePoint Services). WSS is typically used by small teams, projects and companies. SharePoint Server is designed for individuals, teams and projects within a medium to large company wide enterprise portal. What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows Services? Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexible deployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for team collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and business processes-facilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational and management tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entire organization. What is a SharePoint Feature? What files are used to define a feature? A SharePoint Feature is a functional component that can be activated and deactivate at various scopes throughout a SharePoint instances, scope of which are defined as 1. Farm level 2. Web Application level 3. Site level 4. Web level Features have their own receiver architecture, which allow you to trap events such as when a feature is Installing, Uninstalling, Activated, or Deactivated. The element types that can be defined by a feature include menu commands, link commands, page templates, page instances, list definitions, list instances, event handlers, and workflows. The two files that are used to define a feature are the feature.xml and manifest file(elements.xml). The feature XML file defines the actual feature and will make SharePoint aware of the installed feature. The manifest file contains details about the feature such as functionality. Workflow can be applied to what all elements of SharePoint ? Workflow associations are often created directly on lists and libraries, a workflow association can also be created on a content type that exists within the Content Type Gallery for the current site or content types defined within a list. In short, it can be applied ... At the level of a list/library At the level of a content type defined at site scope At the level of a content type defined at list scope

What are the types of input forms that can be created for a workflow ? You can create four different types of input forms including 1. An association form 2. An initiation form 3. A modification form 4. A task edit form. Note that these forms are optional when you create a workflow template. What are ways to create input forms for workflow ? Two 1. You can create your forms by using custom application pages, which are standard .aspx pages deployed to run out of the _layouts directory. ( disadv: lot of code required when compared to Infopath approach) 2. Using Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 (disadv: picks up a dependenct on MOSS, i.e. it cannot run in a standalone WSS environment) What is the difference between method activity and event activity in WorkFlow ? A method activity is one that performs an action, such as creating or updating a task. An event activity is one that runs in response to an action occurring. What are content types? A content type is a flexible and reusable WSS type definition (or we can a template) that defines the columns and behavior for an item in a list or a document in a document library. For example, you can create a content type for a leave approval document with a unique set of columns, an event handler, and its own document template and attach it with a document library/libraries. Can a content type have receivers associated with it? Yes, a content type can have an event receiver associated with it, either inheriting from the SPListEventReciever base class for list level events, or inheriting from the SPItemEventReciever base class. Whenever the content type is instantiated, it will be subject to the event receivers that are associated with it. What two files are typically (this is kept generally) included when developing a content type, and what is the purpose of each? There is generally the main content type file that holds things like the content type ID, name, group, description, and version. There is also the ContentType.Fields file which contains the fields to include in the content type that has the ID, Type, Name, DisplayName, StaticName, Hidden, Required, and Sealed elements. They are related by the FieldRefs element in the main content type file.

What is an ancestral type and what does it have to do with content types? An ancestral type is the base type that the content type is deriving from, such as Document (0x0101). The ancestral type will define the metadata fields that are included with the custom content type. Can a list definition be derived from a custom content type? Yes, a list definition can derive from a content type which can be seen in the schema.XML of the list definition in the element. When creating a list definition, how can you create an instance of the list? You can create a new instance of a list by creating an instance.XML file What is a Field Control? Field controls are simple ASP.NET 2.0 server controls that provide the basic field functionality of SharePoint. They provide basic general functionality such as displaying or editing list data as it appears on SharePoint list pages. What base class do custom Field Controls inherit from? This varies. Generally, custom field controls inherit from the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.BaseFieldControl namespace, but you can inherit from the default field controls. Can multiple SharePoint installs point to the same DB? Multiple SharePoint installs can use the same database server. Not literally the same database on that server. That server must be SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005. It cannot be Oracle or another vendor. How to create links to the mapped network drives? Creating links to mapped drives in WSS v3 or MOSS 2007 can be done via the new content type for .lnk files. While creating a Web part, which is the ideal location to Initialize my new controls? Override the CreateChildControls method to include your new controls. You can control the exact rendering of your controls by calling the .Render method in the web parts Render method. What are the two base classes a WebPart you are going to use within SharePoint 2007 can inherit from?

There are two base classes that a WebPart which is going to be consumed by SharePoint can inherit from, either the SharePoint WebPart Base class or the ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart base class. When inheriting from the SharePoint WebPart Base class your derived WebPart class will inherit from Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart. When inheriting from the ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart base class your derived WebPart class will inherit from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart. It is considered good practice to use the ASP.NET WebPart base class since the old base class is meant for backwards compatibility with previous version of SharePoint, however there are four exception when it is better to leverage functionality from the SharePoint WebPart base class: Cross page connections Connections between Web Parts that are outside of a Web Part zone Client-side connections (Web Part Page Services Component) Data caching infrastructure What are the differences between the two base classes and what are the inherit benefits of using one over another? The difference is the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart base class is meant for backward compatibility with previous versions of SharePoint. The benefit of using the SharePoint WebPart base class is it supported: Cross page connections Connections between Web Parts that are outside of a Web Part zone Client-side connections (Web Part Page Services Component) Data caching infrastructure ASP.NET 2.0 WebParts are generally considered better to use because SharePoint is built upon the ASP.NET 2.0 web architecture. Inheriting from the ASP.NET 2.0 base class offers you features that inherit to ASP.NET 2.0, such as embedding resources as opposed to use ClassResources for deployment of said types. What is the WebPartManager sealed class? What is its purpose? The WebPartManager sealed class is responsible for managing everything occurring on a WebPart page, such as the WebParts (controls), events, and misc. functionality that will occur in WebPartZones. For example, the WebPartManager is responsible for the functionality that is provided when you are working with moving a WebPart from WebPartZone to WebPartZone. It is known as the the central class of the Web Part Control Set. What does AllowUnsafeUpdates do ? If your code modifies Windows SharePoint Services data in some way, you may need to allow unsafe updates on the Web site, without requiring a security validation. You can do by setting the AllowUnsafeUpdates property.

What does RunWithElevatedPrivileges do? There are certain object model calls model that require site-administration privileges. To bypass access-denied error, we use RunWithElevatedPrivileges property when request is initiated by a nonprivileged user. We can successfully make calls into the object model by calling the RunWithElevatedPrivileges method provided by the SPSecurity class. What does SPWeb.EnsureUser method do? Checks whether the specified login name belongs to a valid user of the Web site, and if the login name does not already exist, adds it to the Web site. e.g SPUser usr = myWeb.EnsureUser("hitenders"); What is a SPSite and SPWeb object, and what is the difference between each of the objects? The SPSite object represents a collection of sites (site collection [a top level site and all its subsites]). The SPWeb object represents an instance SharePoint Web, and SPWeb object contains things like the actual content. A SPSite object contains the various subsites and the information regarding them. What does a SPWebApplication object represent? The SPWebApplication objects represents a SharePoint Web Application, which essentially is an IIS virtual server. Using the class you can instigate high level operations, such as getting all the features of an entire Web Application instance, or doing high level creation operations like creating new Web Applications through code. Would you use SPWebApplication to get information like the SMTP address of the SharePoint site? Yes, since this is a Web Application level setting. You would iterate through each SPWebApplication in the SPWebApplication collection, and then use the appropriate property calls (OutboundMailServiceInstance) in order to return settings regarding the mail service such as the SMTP address. How do you return SharePoint List items using SharePoint web services? In order to retrieve list items from a SharePoint list through Web Services, you should use the lists.asmx web service by establishing a web reference in Visual Studio. The lists.asmx exposes the GetListItems method, which will allow the return of the full content of the list in an XML node. It will take parameters like the GUID of the name of the list you are querying against, the GUID of the view you are going to query, etc. Side Question: I got asked how I built queries with the lists.asmx web service. In order to build queries with this service, one of the parameters that the GetListItems method exposes is the option to build a CAML query. There are other ways to do this as well, but that was how I answered it.When retrieving List items using SharePoint Web Services, how do you specify explicit credentials to be passed to access the list items?

In order to specify explicit credentials with a Web Service, you generally instantiate the web service, and then using the credentials properties of the Web Service object you use the System.Net.NetworkCredential class to specify the username, password, and domain that you wish to pass when making the web service call and operations. What is CAML, and why would you use it? CAML stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language. CAML is an XML based language which provides data constructs that build up the SharePoint fields, view, and is used for table definition during site provisioning. CAML is responsible for rending data and the resulting HTML that is output to the user in SharePoint. CAML can be used for a variety of circumstances, overall is used to query, build and customize SharePoint based sites. A general use would be building a CAML query in a SharePoint WebPart in order to retrieve values from a SharePoint list. What is impersonation, and when would you use impersonation? Impersonation can basically provide the functionality of executing something in the context of a different identity, for example assigning an account to users with anonymous access. You would use impersonation in order to access resources on behalf of the user with a different account, that normally, that wouldnt be able to access or execute something. What are WebPart properties, and what are some of the attributes you see when declaring WebPart properties in code? WebPart properties are just like ASP.NET control properties, they are used to interact with and specify attributes that should be applied to a WebPart by a user. Some of the attributes you see with ASP.NET 2.0 properties are WebDescription, WebDisplayName, Category, Personalizable, and WebBrowsable. Although most of these properties come from the System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts class, ones like Category come out of System.ComponentModel namespace. Why are properties important in WebPart development, and how have you exploited them in past development projects? What must each custom property have? Properties are important because WebParts allow levels of personalization for each user. WebPart properties make it possible for a user to interact, adjust, and increase overall experience value with the programmatic assets that you develop without having the need to use an external editor or right any code. A very simple example of exploiting a property would be something like allowing the user to change the text on the WebPart design interface so that they can display whatever string of text they desire. Each custom property that you have must have the appropriate get and set accessor methods. What are ClassResources? How do you reference and deploy resources with an ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart?

ClassResources are used when inheriting from the SharePoint.WebPart.WebPartPages.WebPart base class, and are defined in the SharePoint solution file as things that should be stored in the wpresources directory on the server. It is a helpful directory to use in order to deploy custom images. In ASP.NET 2.0, typically things such as images are referenced by embedding them as resources within an assembly. The good part about ClassResources is they can help to eliminate recompiles to change small interface adjustments or alterations to external JavaScript files. What is a SharePoint Solution File? How does it differ from WebPart .cab files in legacy development? What does it contain? A SharePoint solution file is essentially a .cabinet file with all a developers ustom componets suffixed with a .wsp extension that aids in deployment. The big difference with SharePoint solution files is that a solution: allows deployment to all WFEs in a farm is highly manageable from the interface allowing deployment, retraction, and versioning Can package all types of assets like site definitions, feature definitions (and associated components), Webparts, etc. Can provide Code Access Security provisioning to avoid GAC deployments And much more.. What is a .ddf file and what does it have to do with SharePoint Solution creation? A .ddf file is a data directive file and is used when building the SharePoint solution bundle specifying the source files and their destination locations. The important thing for someone to understand is that the .ddf file will be passed as a parameter to the MAKECAB utility to orchestrate construction of the SharePoint solution file. What file does a SharePoint solution package use to orchestrate (describe) its packaged contents? The solution Manifest.XML file. What deployment mechanism can you use to instigate Code Access Security attributes for your WebParts? SharePoint solution files can add in order to handle code access security deployment issues. This is done in the element in the SharePoint solution manifest.XML, which makes it easier to get assemblies the appropriate permissions in order to operate in the bin directory of the web application. What are event receivers? Event receivers are classes that inherit from the SpItemEventReciever or SPListEventReciever base class (both of which derive out of the abstract base class SPEventRecieverBase), and provide the option of responding to events as they occur within SharePoint, such as adding an item or deleting an item.

When would you use an event receiver? Since event receivers respond to events, you could use a receiver for something as simple as canceling an action, such as deleting a document library by using the Cancel property. This would essentially prevent users from deleting any documents if you wanted to maintain retention of stored data. What base class do event receivers inherit from? Event receivers either inherit from the SPListEventReciever base class or the SPItemEventReciever base class, both which derive from the abstract base class SPEventReceiverBase. If I wanted to not allow people to delete documents from a document library, how would I go about it? You would on the ItemDeleting event set: properties.Cancel= true. What is the difference between an asynchronous and synchronous event receivers? An asynchronous event occurs after an action has taken place, and a synchronous event occurs before an action has take place. For example, an asynchronous event is ItemAdded, and its sister synchronous event is ItemAdding What are content types? A content type is a flexible and reusable WSS type definition (or we can a template) that defines the columns and behavior for an item in a list or a document in a document library. For example, you can create a content type for a leave approval document with a unique set of columns, an event handler, and its own document template and attach it with a document library/libraries.Can a content type have receivers associated with it? Yes, a content type can have an event receiver associated with it, either inheriting from the SPListEventReciever base class for list level events, or inheriting from the SPItemEventReciever base class. Whenever the content type is instantiated, it will be subject to the event receivers that are associated with it. What two files are typically (this is kept generally) included when developing a content type, and what is the purpose of each? There is generally the main content type file that holds things like the content type ID, name, group, description, and version. There is also the ContentType.Fields file which contains the fields to include in the content type that has the ID, Type, Name, DisplayName, StaticName, Hidden, Required, and Sealed elements. They are related by the FieldRefs element in the main content type file. What is an ancestral type and what does it have to do with content types?

An ancestral type is the base type that the content type is deriving from, such as Document (0x0101). The ancestral type will define the metadata fields that are included with the custom content type. Can a list definition be derived from a custom content type? Yes, a list definition can derive from a content type which can be seen in the schema.XML of the list definition in the element. When creating a list definition, how can you create an instance of the list? You can create a new instance of a list by creating an instance.XML file What is a Field Control? Field controls are simple ASP.NET 2.0 server controls that provide the basic field functionality of SharePoint. They provide basic general functionality such as displaying or editing list data as it appears on SharePoint list pages. What base class do custom Field Controls inherit from? This varies. Generally, custom field controls inherit from the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.BaseFieldControl namespace, but you can inherit from the default field controls. Can multiple SharePoint installs point to the same DB? Multiple SharePoint installs can use the same database server. Not literally the same database on that server. That server must be SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005. It cannot be Oracle or another vendor. How to create links to the mapped network drives? Creating links to mapped drives in WSS v3 or MOSS 2007 can be done via the new content type for .lnk files. While creating a Web part, which is the ideal location to Initialize my new controls? Override the CreateChildControls method to include your new controls. You can control the exact rendering of your controls by calling the .Render method in the web parts Render method. What are ClassResources? How do you reference and deploy resources with an ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart? ClassResources are used when inheriting from the SharePoint.WebPart.WebPartPages.WebPart base class, and are defined in the SharePoint solution file as things that should be stored in the wpresources directory on the server. It is a helpful directory to use in order to deploy custom images. In ASP.NET 2.0, typically things such

as images are referenced by embedding them as resources within an assembly. The good part about ClassResources is they can help to eliminate recompiles to change small interface adjustments or alterations to external JavaScript files.What is a SharePoint Solution File? How does it differ from WebPart .cab files in legacy development? What does it contain? A SharePoint solution file is essentially a .cabinet file with all a developers ustom componets suffixed with a .wsp extension that aids in deployment. The big difference with SharePoint solution files is that a solution: allows deployment to all WFEs in a farm is highly manageable from the interface allowing deployment, retraction, and versioning Can package all types of assets like site definitions, feature definitions (and associated components), Webparts, etc. Can provide Code Access Security provisioning to avoid GAC deployments And much more.. What is a .ddf file and what does it have to do with SharePoint Solution creation? A .ddf file is a data directive file and is used when building the SharePoint solution bundle specifying the source files and their destination locations. The important thing for someone to understand is that the .ddf file will be passed as a parameter to the MAKECAB utility to orchestrate construction of the SharePoint solution file. What file does a SharePoint solution package use to orchestrate (describe) its packaged contents? The solution Manifest.XML file. What deployment mechanism can you use to instigate Code Access Security attributes for your WebParts? SharePoint solution files can add in order to handle code access security deployment issues. This is done in the element in the SharePoint solution manifest.XML, which makes it easier to get assemblies the appropriate permissions in order to operate in the bin directory of the web application. What are event receivers? Event receivers are classes that inherit from the SpItemEventReciever or SPListEventReciever base class (both of which derive out of the abstract base class SPEventRecieverBase), and provide the option of responding to events as they occur within SharePoint, such as adding an item or deleting an item. When would you use an event receiver? Since event receivers respond to events, you could use a receiver for something as simple as canceling an action, such as deleting a document library by using the Cancel property. This

would essentially prevent users from deleting any documents if you wanted to maintain retention of stored data. What base class do event receivers inherit from? Event receivers either inherit from the SPListEventReciever base class or the SPItemEventReciever base class, both which derive from the abstract base class SPEventReceiverBase. If I wanted to not allow people to delete documents from a document library, how would I go about it? You would on the ItemDeleting event set: properties.Cancel= true. What is the difference between an asynchronous and synchronous event receivers? An asynchronous event occurs after an action has taken place, and a synchronous event occurs before an action has take place. For example, an asynchronous event is ItemAdded, and its sister synchronous event is ItemAdding t is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007? Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services a key piece of the information worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and it serves as a platform for application development.

Office Share Point Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence.

What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server? SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams, and knowledge across business processes. SharePoint Portal Server integrates information from various systems into one secure solution through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities. It provides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilitates end-to-end collaboration through data aggregation, organization, and searching. SharePoint Portal Server also enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of portal content and layout as well as through audience targeting. What is Microsoft Windows Services? Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop applications, as well as serving as a plat form for application development. SharePoint sites provide communities for team collaboration, enabling users to work together on documents, tasks, and projects. The environment for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development. What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows Services? Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexible deployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for team collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and business processesfacilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational and management tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entire organization.

Does SharePoint work with NFS? Yes and no. It can crawl documents on an NFS volume, but the sharepoint database or logs cannot be stored there. How is SharePoint Portal Server different from the Site Server? Site Server has search capabilities but these are more advanced using SharePoint. SPS uses digital dashboard technology which provides a nice interface for creating web parts and showing them on dashboards (pages). SS doesnt have anything as advanced as that. The biggest difference would be SPS document management features which also integrate with web folders and MS Office.

What would you like to see in the next version of SharePoint? A few suggestions: SPS and STS on same machine Tree view of Categories and Folders General Discussion Web Part Personalization of Dashboards Role Customization Email to say WHY a document has been rejected for Approval More ways to customize the interface Backup and restore an individual Workspaces Filter for Visio 10. Better way to track activity on SPS 11. Ability to Save as from Adobe to space on My Network Places Why Sharepoint is not a viable solution for enterprise wide deployments? Planning an enterprise deployment using SharePoint features is a very difficult task unless you can establish a Service Oriented Architecture, using AD for managing security with well defined roles based information access(EISA). Sounds reasonable, although it seems difficult to deploy with the tools limitations in document storage. Document management does not scale beyond a single server, but scales great within a single server. For example, a quad Xeon machine with 4GB of RAM works great for a document management server that has about 900,000 1,000,000 document, but if you need to store 50,000,000 document and want to have them all in one single workspace then it does not scale at all. If you need a scenario like this, you need to plan your deployment right and it should scale for you, it just does not right out of the box. If you are using your server as a portal and search server most for the most part it scales great. You can have many different servers crawl content sources and have separate servers searching and serving the content. If you have < 750,000 documents per server and fewer than 4 content sources and fewer than 50,000 users, SPS should scale just fine for your needs with the proper planning. What are the actual advantages of SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) over SharePoint Team Services (STS)? SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) has MUCH better document management. It has check-in, check-out, versioning, approval, publishing, subscriptions, categories, etc. STS does not have these features, or they are very scaled back. SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) has a better search engine, and can crawl multiple content sources. STS cannot. STS is easier to manage and much better for a team environment where there is not much Document Management going on. SPS is better for an organization, or where Document Management is crucial.

Document Library - how to set word template as default.


By default, it is word template. We can change the template also. Go to document library settingsform library settings-->Advanced settings In that Template URL option is there. We can give the path here.

2. Without using CreateChildControl is it possible to render a WebPart? Yes, by using RenderControl method.

3. Can you create folders in custom list? Yes. By default, Folder option is not available to the custom lists. For enabling it, go to the list settingsAdvanced settingsselect the Display New Folder command on the New menu option.

4. What is the maximum file size you can upload in SharePoint? 50MB- Central administrationApplication managementweb application general settings]

5. What are the file types we cant upload to SharePoint site? Central administrationOperationsBlocked file types under Security Configuration]

6. Content Retention: We can configure Information management policy settings on documents/content types to specify when they expire.

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Tuesday, 14 February 2012


TCS and HCL Interview Questions:
1. Connectable WebPart procedure 2. Content Retention 3. Document Library - how to set word template as default. 4. Site Variations(Ans:-Different languages support) 5. SharePoint architecture 6. LDAP services (Light Weight Directory Access Protocol). 7. Single sign on 8. About Administration work 9. Moss page life cycle 10. How to deploy webparts using sharepoint designer? 11. What does mean by group policies in sharepoint? 12. I want to delete one item in a list at a particular date and time? Which is the best approach to do it? 13.How to add dropdown control in master page. And how to add content to that drop down menu control (the data is coming from backend database). 14. How to perform unit testing? 15.How to display particular sever control in master page and also that control should be display for the admin only? 16. I deployed the features at the site collection level. It will store in site collection folder. How can I hide the deployed "feature" from the site collection feature level? 17.In WSPBUilder, what is the use of manifest.xml file? 18.List definitions means? 19.Page viewer webpart and dataview webpart? 20.CAS in sharepoint? 21.How to increase thedlls trust levels that are placed inside \bin folder. One way is increase the turst level minimal to medium. Can you explain onther way also? Will post the answers to the above Questions soon. Posted by sasikumarreddy valipireddy at 18:52 0 comments

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TCS Interview Questions:


1. How to perform unit testing? 2. How to display particular sever control in master page and also that control should be display for the admin only? 3. I deployed the features at the site collection level. It will store in site collection folder. How can I hide the deployed "feature" from the site collection feature level? 4. In WSPBUilder, what is the use of manifest.xml file? 5. List definitions means? 6. Page viewer webpart and dataview webpart? 7. CAS in sharepoint? 8. How to increase thedlls trust levels that are placed inside \bin folder. One way is increase the turst level minimal to medium. Can you explain onther way also? 9. Is it possible to maintain same content DB for more than one web applications? 10.How to access the outside users without having credentials? 11.Single sign on means? 12.I have 2 features. If I activate the one feature, another feature has to activate automatically? 13.Which of one best: user control or web parts? Will post the answers to the above Questions soon. Posted by sasikumarreddy valipireddy at 18:50 0 comments Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Labels: InterviewQuestions, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Interview Questions, SharePoint technical interview questions, Sharepoint2007, technical interview questions

Sonata Interview Questions


1. What do you mean by extending web application? 2. Use of SSP 3. WebPart deployments other than solution packaging. Tell something about different package methods. 4. What is the use of Features? 5. How do you embed .js files in WebPart

6. How do you attach external .js file in SharePoint 7. webusercontrol - how do you put in custom WebPart 8. Difference site pages/ application pages 9. How you create master pages(different methods) 10.How you deploy master pages. 11.How you configure audience.. all methods 12.WebPart lifecycle 13.Different scopes for features 14.What is farm(SharePoint hosted on multiple machines that behave as a single instance) 15.Dispose() method in WebPart life cycle 16.Custom list/ Document library differences 17.Can you create folders in custom list? 18.SP designer workflow procedure. tell all steps 19.Out of the box web parts available in SharePoint 20.Difference Content query WebPart / Content editor WebPart 21.Data View WebPart 22.Master page - default content placeholders 23.WSS design placeholder. Its use 24.Namespaces and classes in object model 25.How do you create sub sites in object model 26.Different types of events. 27.Event receivers and their methods 28.KPI list WebPart 29.Approval workflow

Will post the answers to the above Questions soon.

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Ramp InfoTech Groups


1. List content type and site content type means? 2. I created one custom Webpart. Now my custom Webpart should display whenever I create a new site. 3. Difference between solutions and features? 4. What kind of permission levels need to run the stsadm cmd tool? 5. How to deploy only .doc files to document library by using event receivers? 6. Alternative mapping means?

7. How can you upload collection of documents by using SharePoint object model? 8. I created one custom Webpart? Now I want deploy it to specific sub site. How can do it?

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