Agenda

1
Introduction

• Agenda
• News
• FrontPage Friend or Foe?
• Break
• WSS vs Portal
• The Grand Prize Draw
• Wrap Up

Tuesday 16 August 2005
2
News

• Microsoft release WSS Applications
• http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/
  wssapps/default.mspx

3
News

• Bill Gates Lead PM on WSS v3 User Experience
  team
• http//blogs.msdn.com/bowerm/archive/2005/08/03/44
  7378.aspx
• Five things wrong with SharePoint
• http//www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p391
  848rl1
• http//blogs.msdn.com/danielmcpherson/archive/2005
  /07/11/437512.aspx

4
News

• TechEd 2005 Webcasts
• http//www.wssdemo.com/Pages/TechED2005.aspx?menu
  Resources
• TechEd 2005 Australia Sessions
• SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Best Practices for
  an Implementation
• Developing Site Definitions and Templates for
  Windows SharePoint Services
• SharePoint Products and Technologies Issues and
  Problems Solved
• Maximising SAP with Microsoft Technologies

5
Frontpage Friend or Foe?
FrontPage Friend or Foe?
Tuesday 16 August 2005
6
WSS v SPS
Windows SharePoint Services vs SharePoint
Portal Server
Tuesday 16 August 2005
7
Windows SharePoint Services

• Licensed as part of the Windows 2003 Operating
  System
• Load balance servers for scalability
• Supports WMSDE and SQL Server
• Supports searching in the current site
• Document Libraries
• Form Libraries
• Lists

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Windows SharePoint Services

• Permissions down to the list/item level
• Web Parts
• Connected Web Parts
• Personal Views of pages and lists
• WSS Alerts
• WSS Quotas
• AD Account Creation Mode
• Event Handlers

9
SharePoint Portal Server

• Separate Server License required for each server
  a component of Portal is running on
• Client Access Licenses (CALs) required for each
  end user or each device
• Web Publishing License
• Supports MSDE or full SQL
• Run components on separate servers for
  scalability
• Shared Services
• Enterprise Search (links from WSS search)
• Permissions managed at the sub-area level
• Topic Areas

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SharePoint Portal Server

• Content Aggregation
• Topic Assistant
• My Sites
• Portal Alerts
• Portal Quota
• User Profiles
• Audiences
• Site Directory
• Single Sign-On Service
• Site Directory
• BizTalk Integration

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Differences

• SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is designed to
  aggregate information, create a taxonomy, target
  content to users, and create personal portals (My
  Site) for individual users.
• Windows SharePoint Services is designed to the
  place where collaboration takes place as it
  relates to content development and team
  interactions.

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Differences

• WSS
• Easier site templates
• Easier to apply security
• Easier navigation within the site
• Structured URLs
• SPS
• Content aggregation
• Better navigation to other areas
• Subscribe to search results