This document provides an overview and demonstration of Microsoft SharePoint. It discusses SharePoint's features for improving productivity, collaboration and document management. The presentation covers the benefits of SharePoint such as easy use of collaborative tools, version control of documents, integration with Microsoft Office and tools for building customized solutions. It demonstrates how to design SharePoint sites and provides next steps for assessing SharePoint requirements.

1. Microsoft SharePoint
Overview &
Demonstration
Ed McGovern, Seth Zarny, and Evette Collins
Raffa Technology Group
March 1, 2012
Thrive. Grow. Achieve.

2. WHAT’S ON TAP
• Introduction – Overview, Introductions & Agenda
• SharePoint Overview
• SharePoint Portals – Web Based Tools – Ed McGovern
• General Q&A
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3. DO YOU NEED IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY?
Hint – Sometimes technology can help!
Doing More with Less
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4. SHAREPOINT SERVER
• Introduction – Overview, Introductions & Agenda
• SharePoint Foundation
• SharePoint Server
• Enterprise SharePoint Server
• Business & SharePoint Portals – Web Based Tools – Ed McGovern
• General Q&A
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5. SHAREPOINT SERVER FEATURE AREAS
TO MEET THE ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
FOR THE NEW WORLD OF WORK
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6. MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT SERVER
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7. WHAT IS SHAREPOINT SERVER?
COST-EFFECTIVE CHOICE TO
• Increase productivity by
–Connecting people and teams
–Allowing easy access to information in/out of IT network.
• Improves efficiency of business processes by providing
–Rich collaboration tools
– versatile foundation for building highly scalable Web-based applications.
BUILT ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER
MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT SERVICES PROVIDES
• Robust and scalable infrastructure
• Familiar Web-based interface and close integration with
–Microsoft Office
–Outlook
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8. TOP 10 BENEFITS OF MICROSOFT
SHAREPOINT
IMPROVE TEAM PRODUCTIVITY WITH EASY-TO-USE COLLABORATIVE
TOOLS
• Connect people with info & resources
• Users create team workspaces,
• coordinate calendars,
• organize documents, and
• Receive notifications and updates
EASILY MANAGE DOCUMENTS & ENSURE CONTENT INTEGRITY.
• Enhanced document management capabilities
• Required document checkout before editing,
• View revisions to documents
• Restore to previous versions,
• Control document- and item-level security
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9. TOP 10 BENEFITS OF MICROSOFT
SHAREPOINT
QUICKLY GET USERS UP TO SPEED.
• Enhanced views and menus simplify navigation
• Integration familiar productivity tools
– Microsoft Office system
– Users create workspaces,
– Post and edit documents,
– View and update calendars
– While working within Microsoft Office
DEPLOY SOLUTIONS TAILORED TO YOUR BUSINESS PROCESSES.
• Standard workspaces in SharePoint are easy to implement
• More customized deployment uses application templates for specific business
processes
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10. TOP 10 BENEFITS OF MICROSOFT
SHAREPOINT
BUILD A COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT QUICKLY AND EASILY.
• IT departments deploy a collaborative environment with minimal administrative time
and effort
REDUCE THE COMPLEXITY OF SECURING BUSINESS INFORMATION.
• Provides IT with advanced administrative controls for increasing the security of
information resources
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11. TOP 10 BENEFITS OF MICROSOFT
SHAREPOINT
PROVIDE SOPHISTICATED CONTROLS FOR SECURING COMPANY
RESOURCES.
• Set permissions deep down at the document or item level, and
• Site managers, teams, and other work groups initiate self-service collaborative
workspaces and tasks within these preset parameters.
IMPLEMENT ROBUST STORAGE CAPABILITIES FOR FILE SHARING
• Supplies workspaces with document storage and retrieval features
• Check-in/check-out functionality,
• Version history,
• Customizable views.
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12. TOP 10 BENEFITS OF MICROSOFT
SHAREPOINT
SCALE YOUR COLLABORATION SOLUTION
• Quickly manage SharePoint Services using a Web browser or command-line utilities
• Manage server farms, servers, and sites using the Microsoft .NET Framework
PROVIDE A COST-EFFECTIVE FOUNDATION FOR BUILDING WEB-
BASED APPLICATIONS
• Common framework for
– Document management and collaboration
– Flexible and scalable Web applications and Internet sites
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13. DESIGN SHAREPOINT SITES
• Design SharePoint Sites Tailored to Your Company’s Needs
• Professional-quality design tools to create great-looking pages
• Change the layout and format of your site efficiently.
• Use the full support for ASP.NET master pages
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14. DEMONSTRATION
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15. NEXT STEPS – SHAREPOINT
ASSESSMENT
REVIEW OF REQUIREMENTS
IDENTIFY ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS
SHAREPOINT SITE(S) LAYOUT
SHAREPOINT ASSESSMENT
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16. QUESTIONS?
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