Microsoft Sharepoint 2003

Bryan Lewis McIntire School of Commerce April 14th, 2005

What is Sharepoint?

Two separate products

Windows

Sharepoint Services Sharepoint Portal Server 2003

Windows Sharepoint Services

Free (although only runs on windows server 2003) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detail s.aspx?FamilyID=efdc7227-549c-4de1a063-783f71a8bb2b&DisplayLang=en Requires IIS 6.0 Database backend can be any version of SQL server (including MSDE) Ships with WMSDE (MSDE with no 5 user limitation or 2 GB db ceiling)

Windows Sharepoint Services

Web Based content management and collaboration system Superset of FPSE 2002 Provides Alerts, Browser-based customization, discussion boards, document libraries, document and meeting workspaces, lists, surveys, calendar functionality All content Stored in database

Windows Sharepoint Services

Example Site
http://studwebs1.comm.virginia.edu

Most customization can be done via the browser Advanced customization is done using FrontPage 2003*

Sharepoint Portal Server 2003

Successor to SPS 2001 Not Free (SPS $1200 CAL $41.34) Designed for enterprise environments

Robust Scalable

(Server Farm topology)

Complete Portal solution Built on WSS technology DB backend SQL Server 2000

SPS 2003

Key Features
Audiences

Can target certain materials to certain groups Account creation Domain Account or Active Directory Account Creation Modes Microsoft Single Sign on Logon credentials can be passed to external applications

SPS 2003

Key features (cont)

Personal Topics Content

Sites

Areas BizTalk, InfoPath integration (XML based forms)

SPS 2003

Example Sites
http://intranet http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/calendars.h

tml

SPS 2003 and WSS

Great for
Sharing

documents within an organization using office 2003. (version control and history, central repository) Integrating with exchange and outlook 2003 (calendars, email, alerting*, meeting requests) Intranet portal applications (user customization, news distribution, internal calendars and scheduling)

SPS 2003 and WSS

Requires additional work

Extranet

and internet applications Non Microsoft environments* Must be careful with IE security settings to prevent unnecessary logon prompting Look and feel To match a specific look and feel requires extensive customization of css files and FrontPage

Best Practices
SPS 2003 and WSS Require Server 2003 WSS and SPS 2003 must reside in an NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or windows 2003 domain Use SPS 2003 for larger organizations with more than 2 GB of data Use SPS 2003 to use categorization, audiences, topic area, news, personal sites, single sign on, site directory, or user profiles Works best with office 2003 and IE 6.0

Comparison of Features

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx? scid=kb;en-us;830320

Appendix

Recommend Single Server Configuration for SPS 2003

Dual

Xeon 2.4 GHz 2 GB Ram 5 36 GB 10K RPM drives (2 NOS Raid 1, DB Raid 5)

Appendix

Books
Microsoft

Sharepoint 2003 Unleashed Sharepoint: Building Office 2003

0-672-32616-7

Microsoft

Solutions

1-59059-338-3

Appendix

Links
http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/FX010909721033.aspx http://www.sharepointu.com/ http://wss.collutions.com/default.aspx

Alternatives
www.dotnetnuke.com