Moss 2007 Technology Briefing

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Ronny [email protected]

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Agenda

Customer ChallengesMicrosoft’s VisionMicrosoft’s Strategy Roadmap and TimelineFeature Areas OverviewQ&A

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Customer Challenges

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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

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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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Microsoft’s Vision

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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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SharePoint Vision

HR, Finance, etc.

Team Collaboration

Personal

Enterprise Portal

Internet Presence

Employees

Customers

Partners

Business Applications(SAP, data warehouse, custom . . .)

XML Web Services

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• enabling faster and more insightful decision making

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Microsoft’s Strategy

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Leverage the Market Momentum

Broad platform adoption70mm licensed usersWSS + SPS in CoreCAL . . . SBS, MS Dynamics, VS Team Server . . .

Portal and collaboration leadership

Office SystemSPS #1 with Forrester and in Gartner Leaders Quadrant300+ case studies on ms.com

Growing developer community800+ partnersGSIs, verticals, horizontals . . .MSDN, books, blogs . . .

Growing number of SharePoint applications and Web Parts

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Converge the Technology Platforms

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, Content Management, Search, and Much More

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Feature Areas Overview

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SharePoint Feature Areas

Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration,

project management “lite”, Outlook integration,

offline docs/lists

CollaborationBusiness

Intelligence

Portal

Enterprise Portal template, Site

Directory, My Sites, social networking,

privacy control

Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance, rich people and business data

search

Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO

Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards

Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow

Business Process &

Forms

SearchContentManagement

PlatformServices

Workspaces, Mgmt,Security, Storage,

Topology, Site Model

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SharePoint Feature AreasDocs/tasks/calendars, blogs,

wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”,

Outlook integration, offline docs/lists

My Sites, social networking, privacy control, content

targeting and aggregation,

Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance,

rich people and business data search

Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable Enterprise single sign-on

Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards

Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow

BusinessProcess &

Forms

SearchContent

Management

PlatformServices

Workspaces, Mgmt,Security, Storage,

Topology,Site Model

PartnerSolutions

Portal

CollaborationBusiness

Intelligence

People & Personalization

Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, content aggregation, LDAP integration, composite applications

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Platform Services PlatformServices

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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 2007Provisioning, security, navigation, search

PlatformServices

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Security Trimmed UI PlatformServices

Commands only available when logged

in user has permissions to access

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Collaboration Collaboration

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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

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Document Library Improvements

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

Collaboration

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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

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Search Search

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Relevance

Top 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

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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

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Search Center Search

Tab through different vertical

search types

Completely customizable page

– here with Site Directory Web Part

Pre-release software, subject to change

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Better Search Results Search

Tabbed interface

Query hit highlighting

“Did you mean” query correction

Alerts on search results


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Across RepositoriesCustomer Search

Search

Customer data from SAP system


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Across RepositoriesPeople Search

Search

People from employee directory

DLs and SharePoint groupsResults organized

by social distance

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Content Management ContentManageme

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Content Management

Document Management

Records Management

Policy and Compliance

Web Content Management

ContentManageme

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Documents

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

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Records and Web Content

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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New Web Authoring Console ContentManageme

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Browse available content assets

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Portal Portal

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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

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My Site Public with User ProfilePortal

Organizational network

User Profile

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My Site Privatewith Social Networking and Roll-Up

Portal

Social or knowledge

network

Roll-up from relevant sites

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Business Process & Forms BusinessForms

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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.

BusinessForms

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Forms Services InvestmentsReach more users with better forms

Browser 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

BusinessForms

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Internet Explorer

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

Designed once!

Same experience inInternet Explorer,Firefox,Safari,Netscape

and theInfoPath rich client

Firefox

BusinessForms

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Business Intelligence BusinessIntelligen

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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

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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

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Excel ServicesZero-footprint, interactive, browser access to spreadsheets

BusinessIntelligen

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Table Formatting

Pivot Tables

KPIs from SQL

Graphs & Charts

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Knowledge Discovery and Insight Business Intelligence Dashboards

KPI Lists

Live Excel spreadsheets

Common Filters

BusinessIntelligen

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