Tamas Csaki

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 2007

CollaborationBusiness

Intelligence

PortalBusiness

Forms

SearchContent

Management

PlatformServices

Item level security for lists and libraries

Recycle bin

2 phase

User-base restore within a time period

Admin restore within second time period

Major.minor versioning & publishing

A way of controlling:

File Template

Workflow

Columns

Policies

Conversion Types

Information Panel in Office

2 types of column Library-specific columns like SPS 2003

Site Columns Create at root and apply to multiple libraries

Change the site column and all libraries get updated automatically

Can be used as part of Content Type

New data types Business Data

Connect columns to BDC data

Audience Target content to audiences directly

2 ways to take MOSS data offline: Check-out offline With Office 2007 installed, documents automatically go into

‘SharePoint drafts’

Part of My Documents in Windows

Can then be taken offline using Windows Offline Folders

Outlook 2007 Read-only sync of document libraries and most lists in

Outlook

Integration with ‘Check-out Offline’ to allow offline editing

Read/Write capabilities for outlook style items (tasks, events, contacts)

Wiki Lists:

Community-based knowledge bases

A quick and easy way to capture knowledge and link it to other articles

Blog Sites:

Online journal (WeB LOG)

RSS

All lists & libraries are available as RSS feeds

Outlook 2007 has built-in RSS aggregation

Alerts

Combined alerts engine across sites and portal

Control over when to send alerts

My Site has several new webparts: Your Sites, Documents etc

Relationship to you

Colleague Tracker

User Profile Database People are specially highlighted in search results

Lookup properties

Business Data Catalogue properties

Combined engine between MOSS & WSS

Three syntax options: Standard keyword

MSN-style advanced syntax ... Author:Martin Kearn

TSQL style queries SELECT x WHERE x CONTAINS x

Much broader UI control Search Centre site type

Different tabs can be implemented which offer different search options and scopes

People tab added by default

Search Business Data Catalogue Allows user to search across business data systems in addition to SharePoint

and other document repositories

Full CMS 2002 capabilities: Add pages and author via rich browser-based

controls Spell checker

Image picker

HTML editing

Document to Page Conversion

Approval workflow

Schedule publication & removal

Managed linking & navigation

MOSS builds on Windows Workflow Foundation Workflow platform provided as part of .net framework

Several OOB document-based workflows Approval, Feedback, Signatures, Disposition

Can design your own workflows SharePoint Designer 2007 for GUI drag & drop design

Visual Studio.net 2005 for highly custom workflows

InfoPath forms via the browser No requirement for InfoPath client locally

InfoPath client only required to design forms

Data connection libraries All designer to use pre-defined data connections

Plugs directly into workflow Forms used as front-ends for workflow apps

Forms used in standard workflows

Report Centre site type

Key Performance Indicator (KPI) lists

Red, green, amber traffic lights

Can examine multiple data sources:

SharePoint Lists

Excel Spreadsheets

SQL databases

Manually entered data

OOB webparts to build report dashboards