Overcoming Collaboration Challenges with SharePoint

1. Overcoming Collaboration Challenges with SharePoint Chris Samson Leslie Sistla Virtual hosted by Rackspace SharePoint Summit 2010

2. Agenda • Introduction to WSS 3.0 • Features Overview • WSS 3.0 Demonstration • Top 10 Benefits of Windows SharePoint Services • SharePoint Server 2010 • Questions

3. What Is WSS 3.0? Windows SharePoint Services helps teams stay connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information they need to make more informed decisions and get their jobs done.

4. WSS 3.0 Overview • Collaboration and Community • Alerts, notifications, and RSS support • Integration with familiar Office applications • User interface and navigation • Application templates

5. Collaboration and Community • Document collaboration • Standard site templates • Calendars • Task coordination • Issue Tracking • Surveys

6. Collaboration and Community (cont.) • Wikis • Blogs • People and Groups list • Real-time presence and communication • Mobile device access

7. Alerts, Notifications, and RSS Support • Rich alert information • Alert customization • Alert filtering • Task notifications • RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds

8. WSS 3.0 Demonstration

9. Integration with Office Applications • Integration with 2007 Office Suites • Integration with Office SharePoint Designer 2007 • Platform for Office SharePoint Server 2007

10. User Interface and Navigation • Consistent user experience • Rights-trimmed user interface • Automatic breadcrumb bar • Quick Launch bar • Top navigation bar • View improvements • Descriptive Actions menu • Simplified Web Part user interface

11. Application Templates • Site Admin Templates • Employee Self-Service Benefits • Discussion Database • Team Work Site • Timecard Management • Server Admin Templates • Change Request Management • Help Desk • Inventory Tracking • Physical Asset Tracking and Management

12. Web Browsers • Any Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX client computer can use Windows SharePoint Services provided it runs one of the following Web browsers: • Level 1 Web Browsers • Level 2 Web Browsers

13. Top 10 Benefits of WSS 3.0 • Improve team productivity with easy-to-use collaborative tools • Easily manage documents and help ensure integrity of content • Get users up to speed quickly • Deploy solutions tailored to your business processes • Build a collaboration environment quickly and easily

14. Top 10 Benefits of WSS 3.0 (cont.) • Reduce the complexity of securing business information • Provide sophisticated controls for securing company resources • Take file sharing to a new level with robust storage capabilities • Easily scale your collaboration solution to meet business needs • Provide a cost-effective foundation for building Web-based applications

15. Microsoft SharePoint 2010The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Web Sites Connect and Empower People Composites Communities Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure Insights Content Rapidly Respond to Business Needs Search

16. SharePoint Sites Easy site editing, including theming & branding Office Ribbon UI for faster training & adoption Rich offline experience with SharePoint Workspace Rich User Experience Anywhere Access Mobile-based interaction with people and content Read-write web access using Office Web Application Cross-browser support for maximized participation Single Platform Collaboration across Intranet, Extranet & Internet Improved interoperability with standards support Out-of-box accessibility compliance for WCAG 2.0

17. SharePoint Sites Site authoring and publishing made simple! Interactive Silverlight Live preview Embedding rich media Theming AJAX-based usability Easy editing Pre-Beta screenshots, subject to change

18. SharePoint SitesTaking entire sites offline with SharePoint Workspace Custom lists LOB Data Synchronizing changes, not entire files Rich and native integration with InfoPath Forms Ribbon UI Pre-Beta screenshots, subject to change

19. SharePoint Communities Informal Knowledge Promote sharing with easy social authoring Easily navigate resources with pervasive tagging Find better answers faster via user feedback Social Connections Connecting users through enhanced profiles Staying up-to-date using news feeds and alerts Make expertise discovery easy across the enterprise Participation Anywhere Work with peers whether online or offline Collaborate on the go through the mobile UI Enrich existing applications with social context

20. SharePoint Content User-centric Intuitive interaction with content through Office Fast discovery using content metadata and tagging Rapid creation and publishing of web content Flexibility and Compliance Pervasive records management and legal holds Enterprise-wide taxonomies and folksonomies Cross-farm policies and rules for all content types Management Efficiency Metadata and tagging managed by same services Less storage and bandwidth for Office & binary content Interoperability framework to link legacy repositories

21. SharePoint Search Better Answers, Faster Improved relevance based on usage and history Rich results-navigators for shorter search time Support for 400+ content types and 85 languages Phonetic and multi-lingual for global relevance Social connections driven by interests and expertise Secure access to content, whether internal or external Knowledge Amplification Enterprise Deployment Improved scale to meet any demand volume Deployment-specific tuning for best results Search-driven applications to enrich platform

22. SharePoint Insights Data interaction Advanced analysis with Excel Services Richer data visualization and easy sharing Incorporation of LOB data in data analysis Powerful Self-Service capabilities and visualizations Compelling dashboards to drive business results Rich reports with access to millions of rows Decision Making Organizational Effectiveness Drive accountability and alignment with scorecards Identify issues and opportunities with real-time access Improved API for richer extensibility and development

23. SharePoint InsightsEffective data analysis and decision-making with Excel Services • Access to unlimited data secured in SharePoint with Gemini capabilities Data Slicers • Interactive PivotTables • Dashboards and heat maps Pre-Beta screenshots, subject to change

24. SharePoint InsightsEnhanced business insight with PerformancePoint Services • Integration with SharePoint, including: administration, scalability and deployment Visual scorecards Detailed KPIs Pre-Beta screenshots, subject to change

25. SharePoint Insights Visualize data and interact with it using Visio Services • Real-time updates with connectivity to any data source • User Interaction with shapes, graphics, and hyperlinks • Real-time, visual data • Visio diagrams within a browser Pre-Beta screenshots, subject to change

26. SharePoint Composites Enhanced toolset for end-user solutions Process automation and data validation with Forms Visio services integration for data visualization User-Driven Solutions Data Connectivity Business Connectivity Services for LOB data exchange LOB data in Outlook, Word & Workspace without code SharePoint data exposed through web services & APIs Solution Deployment Sandboxed Solutions for self-service and fast installation Platform stability with resource quota-management Standards support for integration and accessibility

27. IT Pro Investments Terabytes of data and multi-million item lists Improved Platform resiliency and redundancy Advanced back-up, restore and disaster recovery Scale with Governance Deployment Flexibility Collaboration across Intranet, Extranet and Internet On-premise and/or hosted options Data storage inside and outside the SharePoint DB IT Productivity Enterprise-wide management capabilities Robust installation and predictable upgrade process Higher availability with better patch management

28. Developer Investments Developer Productivity Rapidly develop solutions with Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle Management & Team Development Solution quality improved with debugging tools Rich solution UI with Silverlight, XSLT View, Clean HTML Data Foundation – Relationships, Lookup Better programmability with Linq, Client API, Events Development Platform Standardized WSP Package Deployment SharePoint Online shared solution hosting Install on Vista SP1 or Windows 7 for Developers only Solution Hosting

29. Questions?

30. Helpful Links • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 • Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Sample: Example Master Pages • SharePoint Designer 2007 • Learn SharePoint Server 2010

31. Appendix

32. Level 1 Web Browsers • Level 1 Web browsers take advantage of advanced features provided by ActiveX controls and provide the most complete user experience. Level 1 browsers offer full functionality on all SharePoint sites, including the Central Administration Web site. • For Windows systems: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later; Windows Internet Explorer 7.0 or later

33. Level 2 Web Browsers • Level 2 Web browsers provide basic functionality, so that users can both read and write in SharePoint sites and perform site administration. However, because ActiveX controls are supported only in Level 1 browsers, and due to the functionality differences within different browsers, a different user experience might be provided and there could be some variances from the user experience from the Level 1 browsers. • For Windows systems: Firefox 1.5 or later; Mozilla 1.7 or later; Netscape Navigator 8.1 or later • For UNIX/Linux systems: Firefox 1.5 or later; Netscape Navigator 7.2 or later • For Macintosh systems: Firefox 1.5 or later; Safari 2.0 or later