OFC331 Organizing Sites And Topics With SharePoint Portal Server

20mg Howard Crow Program Manager SharePoint Portal Server

SharePoint Investments
Smart Connected Workspaces

Enterprise

Consistent rich experience users, developers, and IT Smart connections people, teams, topics, divisions, etc. Flexible deployment bottoms-up, centralized, hybrid on large scale farms

Division

Team

Individual

SharePoint Investments
Enterprise Portal Solution built on top of Windows SharePoint Services Hub and Aggregator for SharePoint personal, team and portal sites Team Collaboration Solution well beyond file server Scalable Workspace Platform
SharePoint Portal Server

News and Links Site Directory and Connections Audience Targeting Personal Sites Index, Search and Alerts Single Sign-On BizTalk Integration Collaboration Document Collaboration Flexible Lists Web Part Pages Personalization Life Cycle Management Scale-Up/Out Foundation

SharePoint Services

ASP.NET

Organizing Information Evolution

SharePoint Portal Server 2001

Dashboard & Web Part Based Sites Category Hierarchy Publishing Model News & Links Applications

Customer Feedback

Publishing & Organization Applications Scaleable .NET Based Site Framework Deep Customization & Personalization

Rich Publishing And Organization Applications

Topics, News, And Sites

Topics

Managed Space for subject matter expert Community based submission model Discussions, Documents, tasks and other lists Inline Editing Grouped and Ordered links Add people as expert contacts Security managed at Topic level Save from Microsoft Office 2003 or post from SharePoint Site

News

Publishing Embargo & Expiration Rich Text editing One-step Approval Cycle Audience targeting Inline Editing Extended with Lists and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Forms Libraries

Site Registry

Web Site White Pages

Pivotable list of sites Extensible Meta Data & Topics Search scoped to registered site content

Self Service SharePoint Site Creation

Users create their own sites Full site content searching (approved) Parent Portal Connections
Full site content searching (approved) File shares, HTTPS, Extranet/Intranet sites

Existing Site Registration

Portal Connections

SharePoint Sites Connected to Portal

Parent Portal registered upon provisioning Name and URL saved in team site Navigate back to Parent Portal Submit List or Document to Portal

From a Team Site:

Area or Topic my Page QuickLink

Search on the portal View Rich people profiles on the Portal

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Topic, News, And Sites

Scaleable Portal Site Architecture

.NET Portal

Shared Site Framework

Collection of Windows SharePoint Sites

Sub-second ASPX page rendering Web Part Pages and .NET Web Parts SharePoint Lists & Collaboration Integrated security & Admin OM Microsoft Office, FrontPage & Visual Studio Editing Areas & Listings Profiles and Audiences Enterprise Search

Additional Portal Services

Scaleable Portal Areas

Massive scale

V1.0 700 Categories

V2.0 250,000 Areas

Areas are the Site Backbone

Drives all site Navigation Backed by special SharePoint sites Built on .NET managed code & SQL

Areas are a Logical Layer

Organize Area Site Hierarchy Arrangement of Aggregating Listings Taxonomy storage

Portal Listings

Aggregate and Organize Content Audience Targeting Approval Model Can Contain Content Deep crawled by search Managed for individual area or entire site Programmable

SOAP Managed Code

Search Integration

Unified Browsing and Searching

Navigation scoped searching Search in this Topic All area web contents are crawled Can be excluded Security is honored Tagged with Topic Full-text crawl Joined with Item title and description

Topics as Search Results

Items as Search Results

Topic Assistant suggestions

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Scaleable .NET Portal Architecture

Customizing And Personalizing The Portal

Top 6 Tasks

Styling the Site

Editing Pages

Use Microsoft FrontPage 2003 or Microsoft Visual Studio.NET Page types templates, front end, DB

Changing Styles

SPS.CSS for portal OWS.CSS for team sites

Overwrite file in images folder Change Portal Setting in UI

Updating the Logo

Managing Security

Area is the atomic security Unit

Per area rights management Honored by all Site Navigation Inherited

Performance Tweaks

Make Public Security Caching Use NT groups for aggregating users Add NT groups as users to portal

Adding Users

Targeting Content

Publish content for specific audiences

Portal News Navigation/Links Applications (ex. Headtrax for managers) Targeting API for developing apps Profile properties Organizational Hierarchy Distribution Lists NT Security Groups

Define very specific audiences based on

Editing Navigation

WYSIWIG Creation and Arranging

Areas and Listings Vertical & Horizontal Navigation Areas Listing Summary

4 Core UI controls

All parts can be hard anchored (GUID) Multiple levels can be shown

Web Part Pages

Flexible Web Part Publishing

Customized Personalized Audience Targeted

Web Part Features

Web Part Connections Data Bound Web Parts Using SSO Set per portal, area, page or zone Zones Locked down individually

Manageable Personalization

Custom Portal Apps

Area Templates

Special Web Templates Integrated security Stored on front end servers Unique Lists & Doc Libs per area Common security across area web Area can be pointed at arbitrary web page Copy existing template on front end Make changes (ONET.XML) Add your new template file into webtempsps.xml IIS reset

Make your own templates

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Customizing And Personalizing The Portal

SharePoint Products and Technologies At TechEd

Ask the Experts Partner Booths and Theater SharePoint Development and Deployment sessions check the CommNet 6 Hands on Labs

Introduction to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Managing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Content and Navigation SharePoint Portal Server 2003 People and Personalization Using Windows SharePoint Services with Office 2003 Using FrontPage 2003 to Customize SharePoint Creating Web Parts for SharePoint

SharePoint Resources

Evaluate Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Betas http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint Download technical documentation and Software Development Kits from our Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com Find and contribute Web Parts and templates to the Web Component Directory
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/webparts

Visit our community websites

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/community/

Questions?

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