Basics of Share Point

Share Point Portal

Def: SP is a business collaboration Software.

Six pillars of sharepoint / Building blocks of SP / Life cycle of SP

1) Collaboration

2) portal

3) CMS(Content Management System)

4) Search

5) Business Forms

6) Business Intelligence

Collaboration :

Sharing of information among team members, teams & projects by  using sharepoint software.we can achieve using SP blogs, wiki's, calendar,announcements, links etc.,

Portal :

Collection of websites to share the information from a centralized location

CMS/DMS/ECMS/WCMS :

CMS(Content management system) involves in sharepoint to manage contents info and documents in a secured manner, by providing

1) permission strategies

2) Versioning

3) Work flows

4) Publishing features

Search:

Using Sharepoint search engine feature we can achieve three types of searches, without writing single line of code.

• Basic Search
• Advanced Search
• Enterprise Search

Business Forms:

Using this feature organisation can store the electronic documents in a centralized database/location(server).

eg: Infopath form services, BDC .,

Business Intelligence:

In Sharepoint using excel services,KPI lists,KPI web parts we can achieve BI(analysing the data and displaying reports)

Sharepoint Products and technologies

• WSS V3
• MOSS 2007
• MOSP Designer 2007

WSS V3:
It is a free component comes with windows services  with sp1.

It contains all the required collaboration features like blogs, wiki's, calendar, announcements, lists, libraries and templates like meeting work space,search center etc.,
WSS V3 is suitable for small and medium scale organisations, employee ranging 400 to 600.
we can create inbuilt web application.

MOSS 2007:

This is a licenced version of sp comes with all the advanced & enterprise features like publishing, social webparts, kpi's, bdc, excel service, mysite, audiance targeting, etc.,

MOSP Designer:

This is a designer tool which is used to customise the UI of sp website.
To customize master pages, page layouts
To create custom workflows

Pre-requisites of sharepoint installation:

• windows server 2003 with sp1 or above
• sql server 2000 with sp3 or above
• dotnet frame work 3.0 or above
• IIS 6.0 or above
• WSS V3
• MOSS 2007

Web Applications and configuration:

In sp we need central administrator to create web appl . for creating web appl we need
application pool
websites
port number
physical directory
physical database

Creation of web application in moss 2007:

we can create web application by giving required parameters to configure IIS, creation of db and physical directory in inetpub.

steps to create web application:

1) start--programs--msofficeserver--sharepoint central administrator.
2) provide required user admin and password to login central admin.
3) Goto application management tab-- select create extend webapplication from sp webpart management section --click create a new web application.
4) Provide the required parameters like port number
 note: Advice to select the port number greater than 1024.

Creation of website collection:

(collection of webpages,pagelayouts,masterpages,webparts,custom list & libraries)

start--programs--msofficeserver--central admin

provide required username and password

goto appl mang-- create site collection from sp site mang section.

select web application from web appl drop down .

provide titles and in url field select proper managed path from dropdown.

Managed path: We can manage the url path of our website collection by creating new managed paths.

select proper template based on your requirement

provide site collection admin id(primary(mandatory)/secondary)

select no quota and click create.

DataBases in sharepoint:

• Configuration db
• content db
• search (or) index db

Configuration db:

• This is single for each  sharepoint intialization
• All the web applications share the configuration db to store the configuration settings.

Content db:
To store specific website content sharepoint creates an content db for one web application.

Search db:

• In sharepoint for each share service provider one search db should be created.
• we can create 20 ssp's only,we can create 20 search db.

 Webparts:

These are integrated set of webserver controls just like user controls and can be customized by the user[minimize and maximize]

To work with web parts we required two classess

• Webpart Manager
• Webpart Zone

Webpart manager:
It is a class which is used to manage on the actions like customizing properties,drag down.
we can have any one webpart manager in one webpage.
Webpart zone:
It is a container to hold the webpart on the web page.


Without webpart zone we cannot place webparts and we can reduce errors.


we can place any number of web parts in one webpart zone, and any no. of webpart zone in one web page.