Thank you to our sponsors

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NYC SharePoint User Group
3/15/2006 6PM Microsoft Office - 1290 6th Ave.
(51st/52nd)

• Welcome!
• Thank you to our sponsors

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NYC SharePoint User Group

• Thoughts on the user group
• Meeting format
• Networking/Food
• The News
• Top Tips
• Wow Us
• Surveys/Announcements
• Upcoming Meetings
• Giveaways

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The SharePoint News

• By the Numbers 600, 350, 105
• 600 ISVs, 350 Partners now, new features in v3
• For new features list and screen shots see
  www.sharepointshow.com
• Giveaways are not free for the giver
• Australian company gives away retention server
  (crashed site for several days)
• SharePoint User Groups are raising the bar
• Atlanta User Group releases SharePoint 123
  courses

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Best Practices for SharePoint Solution Deployment

• A collaboration by the NYC SharePoint User Group
• 3/15/06

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Solution Development Top Tips

• Its all about deploying solutions
• Know your Building Blocks
• Use Templates
• Lists can be your best friends
• Establish Standards
• Dont forget its App Dev

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SP Solutions are like Su Do Ku?
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Solutions Things you must know!

• (And many of you already know)
• SharePoint SoDoKu Rules
• Break into teams
• Each team gets one principle
• You decide what the group should know
• You can add more to the list
• Its easy!
• Collectively we will complete this presentation
• 10mins brainstorming, each team gets 2 minutes to
  report
• The following slides show what the groups came up
  with

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1. Know your Building Blocks

• Ghosting
• Modify CSS Styles
• Metadata for search purposes
• FrontPage Editing
• Using view vs. Folders in document libraries
• Usability of web parts/templates
• Security Model
• Which techniques to use
• Anonymous and Authenticated modes
• Lists, which are right for various requirements
• Site Collections
• Cross-Site Groups
• Pro/Cons of Site Collections and Site Hierarchies
• Backup/Restore
• Navigation
• Use SPS or just WSS

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2. Use Templates

• Develop templates and store in gallery
• Re-use look and feel for consistency
• Create site
• Save site as a template
• FrontPage customization (other tools?)
• SharePoint Designed will be the new incarnation
  of FrontPage

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3. Lists can be your best friends

• Lookups
• Releases, Feature Category, User List
• Metadata
• Searching, grouping, custom lists
• Think about making it mandatory in a doc library
• Templates
• Use to save time
• Security
• Document Libraries
• Lists have a form of item-level security

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4. Establish Standards

• Architecture
• Site Creation
• Communities/Practices
• Reporting Information vs. Unstructured
  collaboration
• For Adding Capabilities
• You have options
• SPS
• Partners
• ISVs
• Processes for requirements gathering
• Classes of
• Users
• Power users,
• Site Admins
• Portal Admins
• Deployment/Operations
• Backup/restore
• Galleries (Sites, Lists, Web Parts)
• Web Part Development

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5. Dont forget its App Dev

• Development Lifecycle
• Gathering Requirements is most important
• Learn to map requirements to SP features
• Mitigate Risks, Iterate
• Developers need their own development environment
• Architecture
• Use Site Templates
• Lookups, Parent/Child is difficult
• Make SharePoint the hub but dont store large
  sets of data (limit 2K items)
• Separate SQL and SharePoint Web Server
• Use a farm
• Tools
• FrontPage, Visual Studio
• Know the object model

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Upcoming Meetings

• April 12, 2006
• Jason Medero Top Tips for My Site
• Steve Palmo, Information Builders
• Deploying a collaborative Project Management
  Solution with Solution
• Nilesh Mehta, NGenious Solutions
• The new and improved NYC SharePoint User Group
  Site
• www.sharepointusergroup.org/nyc
• May 10, 2006
• Office 2007 Sneak Peek with Scot Hillier
• June, 14, 2006
• Connecting to External Data Sources???

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MS Solution Templates Demo

• Michael McCabe, Microsoft
• Useful link http//sharepoint.bilsimser.com/pages/
  templates.aspx