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Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint

User Group

http://www.sharepointmn.com

April 13th, 2011

SharePoint Internet Sites

Raymond Mitchell

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Agenda• Introductions• Preview: Crawl, Walk, and Run• Crawl - Simple sites on Foundation• Break• Walk - Introducing Publishing• Run - Advanced Publishing• Wrap-up and Giveaways

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User Group Goal / Objectives

Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

• Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies• Transfer knowledge within the community• Communicate best practices• Introduce new products / solutions

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Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors

Avtex (www.avtex.com) • Technology consulting company• Practice area focused on SharePoint

Benchmark Learning (www.benchmarklearning.com)• Training on many technologies

Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)

Wrox Press (www.wrox.com)

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www.SharePointMN.com• Website for user group• SharePoint resource documents• SharePoint resource links• RSS Feeds • Meeting Schedule• Past User Group Presentations

• info@sharepointmn.com www.sharepointmn.com

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Social Networking• Linked In group – The most interactive… includes job postings…

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792

• Facebook grouphttp://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=27333305456

• Twitter tags - @MNSPUG and #MNSPUG

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Upcoming Schedule• Next Meeting

• May 11th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM• Microsoft’s Bloomington Office• Topic: TBD

Check www.SharePointMN.com for updates!

• Ongoing Schedule• 2nd Wednesday of every month• 9:00 to 11:30 am• Microsoft’s Bloomington Office

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ConferencesTechEd, North America – May 16-19th, 2011http://northamerica.msteched.com/Atlanta, GA

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Announcements

• Happy Birthday, SharePoint!• 10th anniversary of the first release http://

sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=968

• SharePoint in Pictures• “a blog dedicated to visualizing SharePoint”• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointpictures

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Quick Intro

Raymond Mitchell• Senior SharePoint Consultant• Author• @iwkid, www.iwkid.com

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The Business Case – Why SharePoint?• SharePoint is a platform for Web Content Management• SharePoint ships with powerful search functionality

• Intranet content owners are frequently Internet content contributors

• IT is already managing your SharePoint Intranet?• Developers are already customizing your SharePoint Intranet?

• Wide platform adoption = available support

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SharePoint as a Web Content Management Platform

2003• Designed for Collaboration• Poor UI Customization

2007• Extended WCM Support• Enhanced UI Customization

2010• Proven Platform• Standards Support

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Licensing• Foundation• SharePoint for Internet Sites Standard (FIS)• SharePoint for Internet Sites Enterprise (FISe)

• Windows & SQL External Connectors

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Hosting• In house

• Hosted• Microsoft? Not today

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Crawl, Walk, Run…

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Internet Sites

Crawl:• SharePoint Foundation Site• Anonymous access• Custom branding* / Theme• Wiki Page Editing and Web Parts

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Internet Sites

Walk: • SharePoint Server Site• WCM via Publishing framework• Custom branding via Master & Layout Pages

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Internet Sites

Stumble: • SharePoint Server Site• NOT properly leveraging the Publishing framework

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Internet Sites

Run: • Advanced Publishing• Custom Search• Variations• Content Deployment

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Internet Sites: Crawl

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SharePoint Foundation• Lists / Libraries• Site Templates (blogs, wikis, etc)• Some issues with foundation blogs (comment approval)• No search center / OOTB search solution

Crawl

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Site Pages• Site Pages• Wiki Page Editing

• Site Assets• Style Library

Crawl

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Branding• Themes

• Master Page• Style Library

Crawl

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SharePoint Designer• Custom Workflows• Custom ASPX pages• Data Views• External Data

Crawl

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Anonymous Access• Configured in Central Administration• Configured in each site / list

Crawl

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Break!

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Internet Sites: Walk

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SharePoint Server• Site Template (Publishing Portal)

• Publishing Framework• Features with LOTS of additional functionality• Leverages Content Types and Site Columns

Walk

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Publishing Framework• Pages – content as list items• Page Layouts – structured look & feel

Walk

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Content Editing Experience• Layout Pages• Field controls

• Major / Minor Versioning

• Approval Workflow• OOTB changes modified by to “System”

Walk

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Branding• Master Pages• Layout Pages• Alternate/Additional CSS

Walk

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Internet Sites: Stumble

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LEVERAGE Publishing – or don’t• Intended for strict environments• Separation of duties• Content Owner / Approver• Content Contributor

• Layout Pages & Field Controls NOT Content Editor Web Parts• Dynamic Content• Content Query Web Part

Stumble

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Internet Sites: Run

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Advanced Publishing• Scheduling Content / Content Expiration

• Publish via Word

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Advanced Publishing• Custom Field Controls

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Custom Approval• Custom Workflow

• Built with SharePoint Designer

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Custom Search• Custom search configuration

• Keywords and Best Bets

• Core Search Results - XSLT

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Variations• Replicate site structure

• Scenarios:• Regional / Language Sites

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Content Deployment• Deploy content between environments

Run

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• Andrew Connell (Mr. WCM)• http://www.andrewconnell.com

• Variations• http://

blog.consejoinc.com/2011/01/creating-multilingual-sites-in.html

References

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Q & A

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Thanks for coming!

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