High level overview of SharePoint tips, tricks, and tools

1. World Class Web Solutions
INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT
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2. INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT
Agenda
Tools
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SharePoint Designer
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STSAdm
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Extensions for Visual Studio
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Powershell
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Tips
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Virtualization
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Deploy using Features and Solutions
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Tricks
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Make a reference to 12 hive
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Quick and Dirty Web Part design
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3. INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT
Tools – SharePoint Designer
Desktop application similar to FrontPage
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Use it to modify look and feel of sites
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Can cause problems with pages and sites – use it carefully
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Data View Web Parts – useful for pulling information into
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SharePoint sites
Demo: Opening a site using SharePoint Designer
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Demo: Modifying a Master Page using SD
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4. INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT
Tools – STS Admin
Command-line module for SharePoint Administration
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Available on the Server from the 12 “Hive”
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(%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%microsoft sharedweb server
extensions12bin)
Use it for backups and restores, feature enabling, managing
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scheduled jobs - pretty much anything!
Complete list of commands: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
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us/library/cc263384.aspx
Demo: Running stsadm from the command line
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Demo: Exporting a site collection
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5. INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT
Tools – Office Extensions for Visual Studio
Visual Studio can be used to write SharePoint Web Parts, Site
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Definitions, and Workflows
WSS Extensions for Visual Studio adds these projects to VS:
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=
7BF65B28-06E2-4E87-9BAD-086E32185E68&displaylang=en
The projects even allow you to package the code as a
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SharePoint Feature or Solution and automatically deploy it
Contains SharePoint Solution Designer
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Demo: Creating a new Web Part
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Demo: Publishing a SharePoint Web Part
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6. INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT
Tips - Virtualization
Makes it easy to create SharePoint farms
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Allows you to make snapshots and rollback
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Virtualization is supported in Production
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Most people use VMWare
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Microsoft has a Virtual PC evaluation version of SharePoint
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(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID
=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&DisplayLang=en)
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7. INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT
Tips
Always use Features and Solutions to deploy code
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CodePlex contains a lot of free SharePoint components
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Before writing code, see what SharePoint already offers OOTB
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Before writing code, check out 3rd party solutions
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8. INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT
Tricks
Make a reference to the 12 Hive
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Quick and Dirty Web Parts
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Use SharePoint Solution Generator to turn existing site into a
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Site Definition
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