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Sharepoint Nuggets

Sharepoint Startup:

One of the primary functions of a network is file sharing, but these days, simply sharing files isn’t enough: Workers need the ability to collaborate and become more efficient. To meet this need, Microsoft created SharePoint, which extends Windows 2000’s basic file-serving power to a new level. SharePoint helps you create a powerful, easy-to-use portal that lets users share, collaborate on, and search for documents and other data files and links. In this Daily Drill Down, I’ll introduce you to some of SharePoint Portal Server’s capabilities and how they work.

A tale of two SharePoints :

When Microsoft first started talking about "Tahoe" (SharePoint Portal Server's name during development), there was intense interest among beta testers and reviewers, many of whom had already faced the challenge of managing large document collections. Tahoe promised to solve document management needs with integrated access to Microsoft's Office suite of products.SharePoint came out in two different versions, each with a different perspective on how to solve the document management problem. SharePoint Team Services, available with FrontPage 2002, is designed to manage tasks. It provides a storage area for documents, but doesn't handle document version control or have any features that could be legitimately considered advanced.SharePoint Portal Server (SPS), on the other hand, is a very different animal. Despite the similarity in name, there is very little else that SPS has in common with SharePoint Team Services.

While SharePoint Team Services handles basic tasks and rudimentary document management, SPS does more.

It has three main benefits:

1. Portal generation
2. Document management
3. Searching

You can use SharePoint Portal Server to build a portal on your network. Let's look at SharePoint Portal Server’s main benefits one-by-one.

Portal generationSimply put, a portal is a home page for Web-based information that is important to your users. Internet portals like MSN.com and Yahoo.com provide a convenient, centralized place to access the Internet, with collections of links to interesting or pertinent pages.

SPS can do the same thing for your organization. SPS lets you define workspaces, which are essentially root folders that will contain information. A workspace can be made up of a single portal with a few dozen documents, or it can contain many different portals connecting to an array of options. The portal's main page, or home page, allows you to navigate to the content contained in the workspace and other areas of the Internet or your intranet.

Document management

The second key advantage of SPS is its ability to manage documents. Document management systems have been around for years. Historically, however, they’ve been very expensive programs that didn't integrate well with Microsoft Office or other applications. SPS doesn't offer all of the advanced features of high-end document management systems, such as document routing, but it does have the basic functionality that most organizations need. It also integrates well with Microsoft's Office suite of products, giving it capabilities that most document management systems struggle with.

There are essentially two levels to document management. At the first level is a tool that lets you perform check-in and check-out operations. This is a simple way to control the number of people working on the same document at the time. SPS expands this slightly to encompass the idea that documents should not be available to the users at large until they’ve been approved, or “published” in the terminology of SPS.


Search;

SPS also provides a powerful, timesaving search feature. It has the ability to read and index documents of several types, including Word documents, Excel worksheets, and PDF files. The indexing process reads all of the words in the document and places them in a search database that you can query. The architecture is also extensible, allowing vendors to provide the ability to index other kinds of files, such as AutoCAD files.

SPS can index Public Folders on an Exchange Server, a file share, Lotus Notes databases, and other kinds of storage. By indexing all of the text in the documents on your network in all of the places where they might be stored, you create a central place to look for a document, and you don't have to know the document title or where it's filed on the network to find it. This can be particularly helpful for large organizations that have no centralized knowledge repository.

For example, let's say that you work for a company that sells flooring. You're getting ready to quote a job for a new mall opening in your area. You've heard that one of your colleagues did a really spectacular job in another region, but you don't remember the name of the mall so you can't look up the job by the client’s name. Your colleague is on vacation for a week and is unreachable. You really want to look at that proposal, but you don't have enough information to find it.

SharePoint can help you organize your networkSPS doesn't solve every problem, but its mix of solutions and its cost-effective price make it a great tool for an organization that needs a single, easy-to-manage portal for employees, a basic document management system, or a searching tool.

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Technical Requirements for the MOSS Developer

Hi frnds,
The Technical requirements for the Moss Developer are mentioned Below


1)Knowledge on Microsoft Technologies Like MOSS 2007/WSS, .Net(asp.net,C#.net) ,MSOffice(Sharepoint Desginer,infopath)

why ASP.net?

In MOSS we use Master pages and page layouts These are dictate the overall look and feel of your SharePoint site. Master pages contain controls that are shared across multiple page layouts, such as navigation, search, or language-preference for multilingual sites. Page layouts contain field controls and Web Parts. here comes the role of Asp.net ,in asp.net we used to develop the master pages.if we have the knowledge on the master pages creation it would be added advantage for the MOSS Development.

Why C#.Net?

In MOSS We Use Webparts.

what is Webpart:

• Web Parts are one of the core ASP.NET technologies used by SharePoint to
  present dynamic information to users.
• They are the most common customization created for SharePoint.
• A Web Part is a reusable component which exists on a Web Part Page and can present any type of web-based information.

By using the C# Language we can Develop the Custom Webparts.How to develope the Webpart i will give u the clear Picture in "Development of Webparts" post.

Why MSoffice :

In MS office there are So many Tools like Word,excel,PowerPoint ,sharepoint designer ,infopath etc.

Sharepoint Designer:

• Microsoft SharePoint Designer (full name Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web Design program from Microsoft, replacing Microsoft Office FrontPage, and part of the SharePoint family of products.
• It is part of the Microsoft Office 2007 family but not included in any of the Office 2007 suites. The name change, from FrontPage, reflects the emphasis on designing and customizing SharePoint websites. SharePoint Designer shares its HTML rendering engine with Microsoft Expression Web.

Infopath:

• The most common usage of InfoPath is to integrate it with Microsoft SharePoint technology using InfoPath Form Services (included in the enterprise commercial version of MOSS or as the separate Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 product.
• In SharePoint, a "Form Library" can be created and developed by using InfoPath. InfoPath fields will be exported as "Columns" in the library and can be directly read in SharePoint or be used as part of web services results in workflow development.

2)Databases Like Sql Server 2005/2008

3)Active Directory:

what is Active Directory?

Active Directory is a directory service used to store information about the network resources across a Domine and also centralize the network.

Role of Active Directory in Sharepoint?

The sharepoint portal or site is to integrate with the Active Directory because the users present in the Domine will get the permissions to access the Portal or Site.

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Installing a New Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Portal: Step-by-Step Instructions

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History Of Sharepoint

The first version, called SharePoint Team Services (usually abbreviated to STS), was released at the same time as Office XP and was available as part of Microsoft FrontPage. STS could run on Windows 2000 Server or Windows XP.
Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 was marketed as an upgrade to SharePoint Team Services, but was in fact a completely redesigned application[citation needed]. SharePoint Team Services stored documents in ordinary file storage, keeping document metadata in a database. Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 on the other hand, stores both the document and the metadata in a database, and supports basic document versioning for items in Document Libraries. Service Pack 2 for WSS added support for SQL Server 2005 and the use of the .NET Framework 2.0.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 was released on November 16, 2006 as part of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite and Windows Server 2008. WSS 3.0 is built using .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0 Windows Workflow Foundation to add workflow capabilities to the basic suite. By the beginning of 2007 WSS 3.0 was made available to the public. Windows 2000 Server is not supported by WSS 3.0, nor is SQL Server 2000.

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Sharepoint

SharePoint is an enterprise information portal, from Microsoft, that can be configured to run Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 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. 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.

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