Office SharePoint Server 2007 and

Windows SharePoint Services v3

Agenda

ChallengesSharePoint VisionSharePoint Feature Areas

CollaborationEnterprise SearchEnterprise Content ManagementPortalBusiness ProcessesBusiness Intelligence

Today’s IT Challenges

EmployeeSelf Service

Portal

Project “X”Site

BusinessIntelligenceDashboard

ExtranetCollaboration

Site

CustomSAP

Front-End

GenevaOfficeSite

KnowledgeManagement

Portal

B2BSupply ChainNews/Alerts

R&DCommunity

CustomerService

Site

RegulatoryComplianceRepository

CorporateWeb

Presence

Team “ABC”Site

SalesDivisionPortal

WeeklyIssue Tracking

Meeting

Business Impact

Islands of information and applications

Slow responsiveness to business and user needs

Costly custom development and maintenance

Poor sharing inside and outside the organization

Difficult to find the right content, data, and people

Increasing information management risk

Technology Convergence

SharePoint Portal Server 2001SharePoint Team Services “v1”

Content Management Server 2002

SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Windows SharePoint Services “v2”

Windows SharePoint Services “v3”

Office SharePoint Server 2007Portal, Web Content Management, and More

Business intelligence

Collaboration Content management

Streamlined processes

PortalsSearch

Word processing

Business modeling

Presentations

Business data

management

Informationmanagement

Platform Services PlatformServices

Platform Services

User ExperienceImprovements to usability, navigation, trimming, customization

Platform ImprovementsASP.NET 2.0 - web parts, master pages, pluggable authenticationCustomization enhancements – templates, feature extensibilityWindows Workflow FoundationList enhancements – scale, content types, versioning

ManageabilityImproved backup \ restore including wastebasket and VSS supportExtranet deployment with ADFS and reverse proxy supportFull and side-by-side upgrade

Seamless integration with Office SharePoint Server 2007

Provisioning, security, navigation, search

PlatformServices

Security Trimmed UI PlatformServices

Commands only available when logged

in user has permissions to access

Collaboration Collaboration

Collaboration

Core improvementsTracking and project managementDocument library improvements

Anywhere accessOutlook integrationKeeping informed with Alerts and RSSMobility

Community and CommunicationWikis & BlogsEmail and DiscussionsPeople and Groups

Collaboration

Document Library Improvements

Check-out documents locallyOffline document libraries in OutlookMajor/Minor version trackingVersion managementMultiple content type supportTree view support

Collaboration

Outlook Integration

Outlook allows user to work with personal and team data in one place

Read/Write access to SharePoint datatypes Calendar, tasks, contacts, discussions, and documents

Synchronization for offline support Users can ‘check out and edit’ documents when offline.Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across sites

Improved calendarSharePoint’s calendar module with richer calendar views, recurrence support, all-day events, and more

Collaboration

Collaboration Collaboration

Search Search

RelevanceTop results on first page, every timeEnterprise Search different from Internet Search

Less of rich linkingLots of non-web content – Office docs, line-of-business data, etc.Security is paramount

Revamped ranking engineExtensive collaboration with Microsoft Research and MSNNew ingredients tuned for the enterprise

Search

End User Experience

Search CenterStandard tabbed interface

Search BasicsQuery hit highlightingSearch syntax matching de facto standardsDuplicate collapsing“Did you mean” query correctionEditorial results (Best Bets) and definitionsAlertsMore…

Search

Improved Manageability

Consistent search system across WSS v3 and Office SharePoint Server 2007Revamped indexing management

Simpler UIBetter indexing log

Flexible scopingScopes decoupled from index definitionsSimple and compound scopes

SchemaMap foreign schema into search systemCleaner UI

Simple query reportsGet visibility into user search behaviorLogging for more detailed custom reports

Best BetsEditorial results for specific queriesStreamlined UI

Continuous propagation

Indexed content is immediately searchable

Updated object model across all management areas

Useful for custom tools

Search

Search

SearchBeta

Search

Search Center Search

Tab through different vertical

search types

Completely customizable page

– here with Site Directory Web Part

Better Search Results Search

Tabbed interface

Query hit highlighting

“Did you mean” query correction

Alerts on search results

Across RepositoriesCustomer Search

Search

Customer data from SAP system

Across RepositoriesPeople Search

Search

People from employee directory

DLs and SharePoint groupsResults organized

by social distance

Content Management ContentManageme

nt

Content Management

Document Management

Workflow

Policy and Compliance

Web Content Management

ContentManageme

nt

Investments

Document Management Scalable Document Libraries and Repositories

Security and Tracking

Workflow and ApprovalOut of box multi-stage Serial and Parallel document workflows

Integrated with email and Office 2007 desktop applications

Customizable through Windows Workflow Foundation

ContentManageme

nt

Investments

Policy and ComplianceCentrally controlled auditing, expiration & retention policies

Archival, retention and regulatory compliance

E-mail content as records

Web Content ManagementDesigned for Internet and Published Sites

New Web and Word Authoring capabilities

New Content Deployment and Publishing tools

ContentManageme

nt

Multi-language Support

French…/fr/etudesdecas/

German…/de/fallstudien/

English…/en/casestudies/

1. Create2. Workflow3. Go live!

“I need this available in German

and French”

Workflow

Workflow

After Approval

ContentManageme

nt

Content Management ContentManageme

nt

Scalable Document Repositories

Manage large document sets with treeview

Search for documents

through metadata

Manage document approval with

integrated workflow

Establish enterprise-

approved content types

ContentManageme

nt

Capturing Rich Metadata

Confidential – Microsoft Corporation

Define required metadata in content type

definition

Customizable Document

Information panel based on InfoPath

technology

Capture meta data as part of

authoring process

ContentManageme

nt

Reusing Content – Slide Library

“Tag” and store slides for re-use by

others. Alerts in PowerPoint if

slides in a presentation have

been updated

Access the slide library from within the presentation

ContentManageme

nt

New Web Authoring ConsoleContentManageme

nt

Browse available content assets

Portal Portal

Portal Investment AreasPortal Site

Integration with Windows SharePoint ServicesIntranet Portal Template – Topics, Site Directory

People and Expertise SearchPeople specific search “tab”Social network support

My SiteImproved Public Page, Personal homepage

Targeting and personalizationEasier targeting – Distribution lists and Security Groups

Profile store improvementsScalability, flexible schema, LDAP synchronization

Portal

My Site Public with User Profile Portal

Organizational network

User Profile

My Site Privatewith Social Networking and Roll-Up

Portal

Social or knowledge

network

Roll-up from relevant sites

Business Processes BusinessProcesses

Forms ServicesEnables organizations to…

reach more customers, partners and suppliers with user friendly forms. accelerate form-driven business processes through data integration. rapidly develop and deploy sustainable form solutions.

BusinessProcesses

Forms Services Investments

Reach more users with better formsBrowser enabled InfoPath formsOffline data connections, New controls, Better printingIntranet, Extranet, Internet

Automate form-driven business processes

Forms in Outlook, including Property PromotionWorkflow, Archiving, Information Rights ManagementIntegration with Workflow Tasks

Rapidly develop and deploy form solutions in the enterprise

Common development platform (OM, data connectivity)ActiveX, Windows Form and ASPX controlImporter/Exporter Framework

BusinessProcesses

Business Processes BusinessProcesses

Internet Explorer

Reach more users with better forms…via Browser enabled InfoPath Forms

Designed once!

Same experience in

Internet Explorer,Firefox,Safari,Netscape

and theInfoPath rich client

BusinessProcesses

Firefox

Business Intelligence BusinessIntelligen

ce

InvestmentsSharePoint is the “BI Portal and Report Center” for end users

Excel Services Share spreadsheets via zero-footprint browser experienceLive, interactive Excel 2007 spreadsheets in SharePointOnly publish what you want, control versionsUse Excel models in custom applications programmatically

BusinessIntelligen

ce

InvestmentsSharePoint is the “BI Portal and Report Center” for end users

Dashboards & Web componentsCommon filtering (“slicing”) across web partsKPIs, Excel workbooks, and SQL 2005 Reporting Services reports

Report Center WebsitesOut of the box website optimized for report access and managementConsistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connectionIntegrated with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Data Connection Libraries & Business Data CatalogCentralize storage of important data connections

BusinessIntelligen

ce

Business Intelligence BusinessIntelligen

ce

Excel ServicesZero-footprint, interactive, browser access to spreadsheets

BusinessIntelligen

ce

Table Formatting

Pivot Tables

KPIs from SQL

Graphs & Charts

Knowledge Discovery and Insight

Business Intelligence Dashboards

KPI Lists

Live Excel spreadsheets

Common Filters

BusinessIntelligen

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