Microsoft Office Share Point ServerMoss Basics Ashok Kandula

Microsoft Office Share. Point Server(Moss) (Basics) Ashok Kandula, IHLX, Pune.

Agenda : Evaluation of MOSS Need of Share. Point in this Business World. Step-By-Step Installation of MOSS 2007. MOSS Characteristics. Creating a Child Site. Understanding about Document Libraries. Creating Lists. Explanation About Master Pages. Understanding about Web Parts. Understanding Permission Levels and Share. Point Groups

Evolution of the MOSS Developer. MOSS 2007 ASP. NET 2. 0 WSS Site Definitions WSS Web Parts ASP. NET Pages ASP. NET 1. X. NET Framework COM Components ASP Java. Script CSS HTML evolution graphics courtesy of Sells. Brothers. com

What is a website ? �A starting point for people surfing the internet. It functions like a gateway, providing links to various sorts of websites across different locations. � A Web site or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, etc. �We have only the limited permissions to modify the content in the website. We don’t have any permissions to change the data. What is a Web Portal ? }Web. Portal is a central repository to store the informaion. } It is used for the collaboration of the content, Emailing, Searching the required content, Uploading the Documents. } Depending the user, there are various access permissions like full control, read-only, limited access.

Share. Point is used for? Creating Web Portals. Why Share. Point is Share. Point ? It is a central depository for storing & sharing information. For whom Share. Point was designed ? For All like IT Admins, Developers, End Users

Need of MOSS in this Business World: üTo create a Demo Portal using the previous Web Technologies Like ASP. Net, It takes a lot of time to design it. üEven, We design the website, the look and feel of the website is not as good as the website designed by MOSS. üWe can design a Portal for each and every business need as it takes very less time to design. üEx: My. Works, E&R Portal, CTY, IHL Portal and all.

Installation of MOSS 2007. Even MOSS is installed in our PC, It will work if and only if the below mentioned software available in the System. ü IIS 5. 0 or above üWindows Server 2003 OS(or) MS-Vista OS üSQL Server 2005 (Optional) üVisual Studio 2005 or above(Optional)

Step-By-Step Installation of MOSS 1. SQL SERVER 2005 –Installation Select all services while Installing 2. SQL SERVER 2005 – Configuring For Remote Connections 3. Creating MOSS Accounts on Local Machine with Administrative rights 4. Using same account in SQL SERVER Security and giving it appropriate rights(Db. Creator & Security. Admin).

Step-By-Step Installation of MOSS(Cont) Now Install MOSS 2007 Application 5. There are two types of Installation available Basic and Advanced. 6. Create Farm Using Database Server, Database Name, User and Password, Port No and NTLM authentication provider. 7. After this one can go to Central Administration 8. Click on Operations tab 9. Start ALL Services on the Server 10. Finally Create and Configure Shared Services

ASP. NET Integration Windows Share. Point Services “Version 2” Windows Share. Point Services 2. 0 ASP. NET 1. 1 ASP. NET 2. 0 Windows Share. Point Services “Version 3” Windows Share. Point Services 3. 0 MOSS 2007 ASP. NET 2. 0

MOSS Databases MOSS data and content stored in SQL Server Provides foundation for scaling to Web farm environment Configuration data stored in MOSS configuration database Site content and customizations stored in content databases P T HT HT ML

Characteristics of MOSS üA public Internet site like facebook and orkut. üAn intranet as well as extranet portal üA document management system that is compliant with international standards üA personal site for each user. üA place to search and locate any type of information üA record management system for storing legal information in a secure way

Why we have to opt for Share. Point ? Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards BI Business Intelligence Rich and Web forms based frontends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO Business Forms Collaboration Platform Services Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model Content Management Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists Portal Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control Search Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search

Sites and Site Collections MOSS manages sites in terms of site collections Each Web Application can host one or more site collections Each site collection has exactly one top-level site A site collection may (or may not) have child sites Click Here

Limitations of MOSS Central Administration Web Application(s) Site Collection 50, 000 Top Level Site(s) 2, 000 Document Library(s) 50, 000 Document(s) Document Library(s) Document(s) 50 MB upto 2 GB

Site Actions Menu Site Actions menu allows for site customization Menu available to Site Collection Owner Menu available to Site Administrators Menu available to Web Designers Menu not available to readers or contributors Click Here

Creating Child Sites MOSS site can contain one or more child sites Site hierarchy can be designed to partition and manage content Security can be configure differently for each site in hierarchy

Templates Available in MOSS • • • Collaboration • • • Meetings • • • Team Site Blank Site Document Work. Space Wiki Site Blog Basic Meeting Work. Space Blank Meeting Work. Space Decision Meeting Work. Space Social Meeting Work. Space Multipage Meeting Work. Space Document Center Record Center Site Directory Report Center Search Center with tabs My Site Host Search Center Enterprise • Collaboration Portal Publishing • Publishing Portal Click Here

MOSS Site Navigation MOSS leverages ASP. NET navigation features Intra-site collection navigation breadcrumb Intra-site navigation breadcrumb

Site Settings Used to change appearance and behavior of site Site setting page in top-level sites has site collection options Click Here

Creating Document Libraries WSS Document Library is a hybrid list type Provides support for uploading/storing documents Provides support for document check-in/check-out Provides support for document versioning Document images store in SQL Server content DB Document Library has a document template Document template used when user clicks New command Document Library can contain custom columns Provide easy way to add metadata to documents Click Here

Creating Share. Point Lists List types designed to store content in form of items Each list type defines schema including set of columns List type includes Form pages (e. g. All. Items. aspx) List type can have multiple views Creating a list instance from a list type Create list instance using WSS built-in list types (e. g. Contacts) Create list instance from custom list and define columns Users can add/remove/modify columns on list instance List template used to create list type from instance List instance can be template-ized from list settings page List templates create new list types scope at site collection Click Here

Master Pages are a primary feature in ASP. NET 2. 0 Provides effective template solution for pages within site Content page reuses chrome from master page Content page fill in placeholders defined in master page MOSS 2007 embraces ASP. NET master pages MOSS sites such as Team Site built using a standard master page Quick and easy to change look and feel of entire site Editing master page can be done with Share. Point Site Designer Click Here

Editing a Master Page

Share. Point Site Designer Product looks *strikingly* similar to Front Page

Editing Site Pages with Web Parts Site pages (e. g. default. aspx) are customizable Customization accomplished with browser using Web Parts Site page placed in Edit mode to add/customize Web Parts Where do Web Parts come from? One Web Part for each list and document library Other Web Parts made available through Web Part Gallery

Web Parts are used to build portal-style applications Content designed to modular, consistent and easy to navigate Web Parts add in support for customization and personalization

WSS Web Part Page Structure Web Part Page in WSS is designed with… One instance of SPWeb. Part. Manager control One or more Web. Part. Zone controls (this is a WSS-specific Web. Part. Zone control) Editor Zones and Catalog Zones supplied by Web. Part. Page base class SPWeb. Part. Manager Web. Part. Zone (Left) Web. Part. Zone (Right) Editor Zone Web Part 1 Web Part 3 Editor Part 1 Web Part 2 Web Part 4 Editor Part 2 Web Part 5 Catalog Zone Catalog Part 1 Catalog Part 2

Permission Levels Home Members Use this group to give people contribute permissions to the Share. Point site Home Owners Use this group to give people full control permissions to the Share. Point site Home Visitors Use this group to give people read permissions to the Share. Point site Viewers Members of this group can view pages, list items, and documents. If the document has a server rendering available, they can only view the document using the server rendering.

Summary: Evaluation of MOSS Need of Share. Point in this Business World. Step-By-Step Installation of MOSS 2007. MOSS Characteristics. Creating a Child Site. Understanding about Document Libraries. Creating Lists. Explanation About Master Pages. Understanding about Web Parts. Understanding Permission Levels and Share. Point Groups

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