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1. OFC331Organizing Sites And Topics With SharePoint Portal Server Howard Crow Program Manager SharePoint Portal Server 20mg

2. SharePoint InvestmentsSmart 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

3. ASP.NET SharePoint Investments • SharePoint Portal Server • News and Links • Site Directory and Connections • Audience Targeting • Personal Sites • Index, Search and Alerts • Single Sign-On • BizTalk Integration Enterprise Portal Solution built on top of Windows SharePoint Services Hub and Aggregator for SharePoint personal, team and portal sites • SharePoint Services • Collaboration • Document Collaboration • Flexible Lists • Web Part Pages • Personalization • Life Cycle Management • Scale-Up/Out Foundation Team Collaboration Solution well beyond file server Scalable Workspace Platform

4. 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

5. Rich Publishing And Organization Applications Topics, News, And Sites

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

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

8. 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 • Existing Site Registration • Full site content searching (approved) • File shares, HTTPS, Extranet/Intranet sites

9. Portal Connections • SharePoint Sites Connected to Portal • “Parent Portal” registered upon provisioning • Name and URL saved in team site • From a Team Site: • Navigate back to “Parent Portal” • Submit List or Document to Portal • Area or Topic • my Page QuickLink • Search on the portal • View Rich people profiles on the Portal

10. demo Topic, News, And Sites

11. Scaleable Portal Site Architecture .NET Portal

12. Shared Site Framework • Collection of Windows SharePoint Sites • Sub-second ASPX page rendering • Web Part Pages and .NET Web Parts • SharePoint Lists & Collaboration • Integrated security & Admin OM • Microsoft Office, FrontPage & Visual Studio Editing • Additional Portal Services • Areas & Listings • Profiles and Audiences • Enterprise Search

13. 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

14. Portal Listings • Aggregate and Organize Content • Audience Targeting • Approval Model • Can Contain Content • Deep crawled by search • Managed for individual area or entire site • Programmable • SOAP • Managed Code

15. Search Integration • Unified Browsing and Searching • Navigation scoped searching • “Search in this Topic” • All area web contents are crawled • Topics as Search Results • Can be excluded • Security is honored • Items as Search Results • Tagged with Topic • Full-text crawl • Joined with Item title and description • Topic Assistant suggestions

16. demo Scaleable .NET Portal Architecture

17. Customizing And Personalizing The Portal Top 6 Tasks

18. 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 • Updating the Logo • Overwrite file in “images” folder • Change Portal Setting in UI

19. Managing Security • Area is the atomic security Unit • Per area rights management • Honored by all Site Navigation • Inherited • Performance Tweaks • “Make Public” • Security Caching • Adding Users • Use NT groups for aggregating users • Add NT groups as users to portal

20. Targeting Content • Publish content for specific audiences • Portal News • Navigation/Links • Applications (ex. Headtrax for managers) • Targeting API for developing apps • Define very specific audiences based on • Profile properties • Organizational Hierarchy • Distribution Lists • NT Security Groups

21. Editing Navigation • WYSIWIG Creation and Arranging • Areas and Listings • 4 Core UI controls • Vertical & Horizontal Navigation • Areas • Listing Summary • All parts can be hard anchored (GUID) • Multiple levels can be shown

22. Web Part Pages • Flexible Web Part Publishing • Customized • Personalized • Audience Targeted • Web Part Features • Web Part Connections • Data Bound Web Parts Using SSO • Manageable Personalization • Set per portal, area, page or zone • Zones Locked down individually

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

24. demo Customizing And Personalizing The Portal

25. SharePoint Products and Technologies At TechEd • Ask the Experts • Partner Booths and Theater • SharePoint Development and Deployment sessions – check the CommNet • 6 Hands on Labs • Introduction to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 • Managing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Content and Navigation • SharePoint Portal Server 2003 People and Personalization • Using Windows SharePoint Services with Office 2003   • Using FrontPage 2003 to Customize SharePoint • Creating Web Parts for SharePoint

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

27. Questions?

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