Use of Microsoft SharePoint atLandcare Research
Mike CochraneMarch 2009
www.landcareresearch.co.nz
About Landcare Research
Crown Research Institute (CRI)• Government owned, independent
science company
• One of nine CRIs in New Zealand
• Approx. $52m annual turnover
• 450+ staff over nine locations
• Extensive national and international linkages
InfoFile• InfoFile is Landcare’s implementation of SharePoint• Not currently used for the Intranet• Collaboration and Document Management• Public Records Act• Projects and Team sites
Environment - Servers
Environment• MOSS Standard Edition
• Mainly Microsoft development tools• Some other tools for GIS, science projects• Microsoft Office 2003 (moving to 2007 this year)• Outlook 2007• Internet Explorer 6 (moving to 7 shortly)• Looking at Colligo for offline access and easier email handling
People• Information Support Specialist• Developer/Technical Support• Technical Group
• Computer Support• Governance Group
• IT Manager• CSS Manager• Library/Information Services Manager• Users
Business Taxonomy
Site Collections
InfoFile – Home
InfoFile – Site Directory
InfoFile - Teams
InfoFile - Projects
InfoFile - Projects
InfoFile – Contracts
InfoFile – Contracts
InfoFile – Contracts
InfoFile – Contracts
InfoFile – Staff Locator
InfoFile – Staff Locator
InfoFile – Staff Locator
InfoFile – Employee Kiosk
InfoFile – Employee Kiosk
InfoFile – Employee Kiosk
InfoFile – Employee Kiosk
InfoFile – Staff Locator
InfoFile – Staff Locator
InfoFile – Staff Locator
InfoFile – Staff Locator
InfoFile - Help
InfoFile - InfoCentre Integration
InfoCentre - Workspaces
InfoCentre – Web Services
InfoCentre - Timesheets
Tools• Telerik RAD Editor
• Visual Studio 2008 WSS 3.0 Extensions• Sharepoint Designer• CodePlex• STSDEV – Simple Tools for Sharepoint Development• Sharepoint User Group• Corasworks
Still To Do• Search
• Faceted search• Repaying some technical debt• Public Records Act• More following up on site users• Training• Looking at the Intranet• Moving to Office 2007• Automating some tasks (Powershell)• InfoPath
Developing on Sharepoint