Moss 2007 Technology Briefing

1. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Ronny Sugiadha
ronnys@microsoft.com
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2. Agenda
Customer Challenges
Microsoft‟s Vision
Microsoft‟s Strategy
Roadmap and Timeline
Feature Areas Overview
Q&A
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3. Customer Challenges
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4. Today‟s IT Challenges
Regulatory Extranet
Compliance Collaboration
Sales R&D Repository Site
Division Community
Portal Corporate
Web
Knowledge
Presence
Management
Employee Portal
Self Service Geneva
Portal Office
Customer Site
Project “X”
Service
Site
Site
Team “ABC” Custom
Site SAP
B2B Front-End
Business
Supply Chain Weekly
Intelligence
News/Alerts Issue Tracking
Dashboard
Meeting
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5. 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
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6. Microsoft‟s Vision
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7. Office System Vision
A system of software and services
that empowers people to drive
organizational success by:
Maximizing employee impact
Reducing information risk
Enabling efficient decision-making
Connecting with customers and partners
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8. SharePoint Vision
Customers
Internet Presence
Partners
Enterprise Portal
Employees
HR, Finance, etc.
XML Web Services
Team Collaboration
Business Applications
Personal (SAP, data warehouse, custom . . .)
A unified, enterprise-ready solution that boosts organizational
effectiveness by:
• making information and knowledge sharing intuitive and easy
• controlling and reusing content while reducing information
management risk
8 • enabling faster and more insightful decision making

9. Microsoft‟s Strategy
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10. Leverage the Market Momentum
Broad platform adoption
70mm licensed users
WSS + SPS in CoreCAL . . .
SBS, MS Dynamics, VS Team
Server . . .
Portal and collaboration leadership
Office System
SPS #1 with Forrester and in
Gartner Leaders Quadrant
300+ case studies on ms.com
Growing developer community
800+ partners
GSIs, verticals, horizontals . . .
MSDN, books, blogs . . .
Growing number of SharePoint
applications and Web Parts
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11. Converge the Technology Platforms
Office SharePoint Server 2007
Portal, Content Management, Search, and Much More
Windows SharePoint Services V3
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Content Management
Windows SharePoint Services “v2” Server 2002
SharePoint Team Services “v1” SharePoint Portal Server 2001
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12. Feature Areas Overview
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13. SharePoint Feature Areas
Server-based Excel Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs,
spreadsheets and data wikis, e-mail integration, project
visualization, Report management “lite”, Outlook
Center, BI Web Parts, integration,
KPIs/Dashboards offline docs/lists
Business
Intelligence Collaboration
Rich and Web forms Platform Enterprise Portal
based front-ends, Business Services template, Site
LOB actions, Process & Workspaces, Mgmt, Portal Directory, My Sites,
pluggable SSO Security, Storage, social networking,
Forms
Topology, Site Model privacy control
Content Search
Management
Integrated document Enterprise scalability,
management, records contextual relevance, rich
management, and Web people and business data search
content management with
policies and workflow
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14. SharePoint Feature Areas
Server-based Excel Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis,
spreadsheets and data e-mail integration, project
visualization, Report Center, management “lite”,
BI Web Parts, Outlook integration,
KPIs/Dashboards offline docs/lists
Business
Intelligence Collaboration
Rich and Web forms My Sites, social networking,
based front-ends, LOB
Business Platform People & privacy control, content
actions, pluggable Process & Services Personalization
targeting and aggregation,
Enterprise single sign-on Forms
Workspaces, Mgmt,
Security, Storage,
Topology,
Site Model
Content
Management Search
Integrated document Enterprise scalability,
management, records Partner contextual relevance,
management, and Web rich people and
content management with
Solutions
business data search
policies and workflow
Portal
Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory,
content aggregation, LDAP integration, composite applications
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15. Platform Services Platform
Services
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16. Platform Services Platform
Services
User Experience
Improvements to usability, navigation, trimming, customization
Platform Improvements
ASP.NET 2.0 - web parts, master pages, pluggable authentication
Customization enhancements – templates, feature extensibility
Windows Workflow Foundation
List enhancements – scale, content types, versioning
Manageability
Improved backup / restore including wastebasket and VSS support
Extranet deployment with ADFS and reverse proxy support
Full and side-by-side upgrade
Seamless integration with Office SharePoint Server 2007
Provisioning, security, navigation, search
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17. Security Trimmed UI Platform
Services
Commands only
available when logged
in user has permissions
to access
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18. Collaboration Collaboration
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19. Collaboration Collaboration
Core improvements
Tracking and project management
Document library improvements
Anywhere access
Outlook integration
Keeping informed with Alerts and RSS
Mobility
Community and Communication
Wikis & Blogs
Email and Discussions
People and Groups
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20. Document Library Improvements Collaboration
Check-out documents locally
Offline document libraries in Outlook
Major/Minor version tracking
Version management
Multiple content type support
Tree view support
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21. Outlook Integration Collaboration
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 calendar
SharePoint‟s calendar module with richer calendar views,
recurrence support, all-day events, and more
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22. Search Search
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23. Relevance Search
Top results on first page, every time
Enterprise Search different from Internet Search
Less of rich linking
Lots of non-web content – Office docs, line-of-business
data, etc.
Security is paramount
Revamped ranking engine
Extensive collaboration with Microsoft Research and
MSN
New ingredients tuned for the enterprise
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24. End User Experience Search
Search Center
Standard tabbed interface
Search Basics
Query hit highlighting
Search syntax matching de facto standards
Duplicate collapsing
“Did you mean” query correction
Editorial results (Best Bets) and definitions
Alerts
More…
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25. Search Center Search
Tab through
different vertical
search types
Completely
customizable page
– here with Site
Directory Web Part
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26. Better Search Results Search
Tabbed interface
“Did you mean”
query correction
Alerts on
search results
Query hit
highlighting
26 Pre-release software, subject to change

27. Across Repositories Search
Customer Search
Customer data
from SAP system
27 Pre-release software, subject to change

28. Across Repositories Search
People Search
People from
employee directory
DLs and
Results organized SharePoint groups
by social distance
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29. Content Management Content
Management
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30. Content Management Content
Management
Document Management
Records Management
Policy and Compliance
Web Content Management
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31. Documents Content
Management
Document Management
Scalable Document Libraries and Repositories
Security and Tracking
Workflow and Approval
Out of box multi-stage Serial and Parallel document
workflows
Integrated with email and Office 2007 desktop
applications
Customizable through Windows Workflow Foundation
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32. Records and Web Content Content
Management
Policy and Compliance
Centrally controlled auditing, expiration & retention
policies
Archival, retention and regulatory compliance
E-mail content as records
Web Content Management
Designed for Internet and Published Sites
New Web and Word Authoring capabilities
New Content Deployment and Publishing tools
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33. Multi-language Support Content
Management
1. Create
English “I need this
2. Workflow available in German
…/en/casestudies/
3. Go live! and French”
After Approval
German
Workflow …/de/fallstudien/
French
Workflow
…/fr/etudesdecas/
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34. Scalable Document Repositories Content
Management
Search for
documents
through metadata
Manage large
document sets Establish
with treeview enterprise-
approved content
types
Manage document
approval with
integrated workflow
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35. Capturing Rich Metadata Content
Management
Customizable
Document
Information panel
based on InfoPath
technology
Define required
metadata in
content type
definition
Capture meta data
as part of
authoring process
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36. Reusing Content – Slide Library Content
Management
Access the slide
library from within
the presentation
“Tag” and store
slides for re-use by
others. Alerts in
PowerPoint if
slides in a
presentation have
been updated
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37. New Web Authoring Console Content
Management
Browse available
content assets
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38. Portal Portal
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39. Portal Investment Areas Portal
Portal Site
Integration with Windows SharePoint Services
Intranet Portal Template – Topics, Site Directory
People and Expertise Search
People specific search “tab”
Social network support
My Site
Improved Public Page, Personal homepage
Targeting and personalization
Easier targeting – Distribution lists and Security Groups
Profile store improvements
39 Scalability, flexible schema, LDAP synchronization

40. My Site Public with User Profile Portal
Organizational
network
User Profile
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41. My Site Private Portal
with Social Networking and Roll-Up
Social or
knowledge
network
Roll-up from
relevant sites
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42. Business Process & Forms Business
Forms
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43. Forms Services Business
Forms
Enables 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.
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44. Forms Services Investments Business
Forms
Reach more users with better forms
Browser enabled InfoPath forms
Offline data connections, New controls, Better printing
Intranet, Extranet, Internet
Automate form-driven business processes
Forms in Outlook, including Property Promotion
Workflow, Archiving, Information Rights Management
Integration with Workflow Tasks
Rapidly develop and deploy form solutions in
the enterprise
Common development platform (OM, data connectivity)
ActiveX, Windows Form and ASPX control
Importer/Exporter Framework
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45. Reach more users with better forms Business
…via Browser enabled InfoPath Forms Forms
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Designed once!
Same experience in
Internet Explorer,
Firefox,
Safari,
Netscape
and the
InfoPath rich client
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46. Business Intelligence
Business
Intelligence
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47. Investments Business
Intelligence
SharePoint is the “BI Portal and Report Center” for end users
Excel Services
Share spreadsheets via zero-footprint browser
experience
Live, interactive Excel 2007 spreadsheets in
SharePoint
Only publish what you want, control versions
Use Excel models in custom applications
programmatically
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48. Investments Business
Intelligence
SharePoint is the “BI Portal and Report Center” for end users
Dashboards & Web components
Common filtering (“slicing”) across web parts
KPIs, Excel workbooks, and SQL 2005 Reporting Services reports
Report Center Websites
Out of the box website optimized for report access and management
Consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connection
Integrated with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
Data Connection Libraries & Business Data Catalog
Centralize storage of important data connections
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49. Excel Services Business
Intelligence
Zero-footprint, interactive, browser access to spreadsheets
Table Formatting
Pivot Tables
KPIs from SQL
Graphs & Charts
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50. Knowledge Discovery and Insight Business
Intelligence
Business Intelligence Dashboards
Common Filters
Live Excel
spreadsheets
KPI Lists
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