Community Kit for SharePoint CKS

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Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS)

• Yvonne M. Harryman
• Microsoft Senior Consultant
• yvonne_at_harryman.com
• www.yvonne.harryman.com

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Agenda

• Who is the CKS team
• Show me what you got
• What is currently under development
• Future direction

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Who Are We?

• Team
• Microsoft
• Microsoft Partners
• MVPs
• SharePoint enthusiast from around the world!!!
• Vision a community-driven project that exists
  alongside the official product releases from
  Microsoft, exploring and extending the
  functionality of the product while at the same
  time providing a set of sample applications, best
  practices, and reusable modules that extend and
  support SharePoint.

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Show me what you gotEditions

• Enhanced Wiki Edition (EWE)
• Enhanced Blog Edition (EBE)
• User Group Edition (UGE)
• Intranet/Extranet Edition (IEE)
• External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint
  (ECTS)

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Enhanced Wiki Edition (EWE)

• Wiki Discussions The Wiki Discussions feature
  extends MOSS 2007 Wiki sites to include
  integrated discussions. For each Wiki Page, a
  SharePoint Discussion Board page allows you to
  maintain a threaded discussion on the topic.
  These are fully integrated so that the discussion
  thread simply appears as another facet of the
  wiki page deleting and renaming are
  automatically synchronized
• Frequently Asked Questions/Table of Contents
  through the introduction of some custom markup,
  this allows for the wiki-based construction of a
  Table of Contents containing links to tagged
  content on the current page.
• Enhanced Wiki Markup through the use of custom
  tokens, textual formatting (bold, italics,
  underline, etc) can be introduced using standard
  wiki markup.

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Quick Demo

• Enhanced Wiki Edition (EWE)

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Enhanced Blog Edition (EBE)

• Theming
• Modular Theme Framework (MTF) - no need to
  wrestle with the default blog master page - start
  from the HTML you want and simply insert the blog
  content via XSL.
• Friendly URL's - blog post URL's that look like
  /archive/2007/08/25/sharepoint-chart-tool.aspx
  instead of /Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID37
• 5 very cool themes to use as-is
• Linkbacks (aka Trackbacks)
• Send linkbacks to other blog posts you are
  linking to in your EBE blog post (these show up
  as trackbacks on the other blog)
• Receive linkbacks from other blogs who are
  posting about your blog post (these show up as
  trackbacks on your EBE blog)
• Spam control
• Akismet integration to detect comment spam
• CAPTCHA to help block comment spam at the source
• Option to automatically delete spam to recycle
  bin
• Option to automatically approve spam-free
  comments
• RSS
• Custom RSS link (e.g. http//feeds.feedburner.com/
  myblog)
• Post trimming (only a portion of post is sent via
  RSS)
• Specify RSS feed item count
• Category specific feeds (e.g. /rss.xml?catcoolstu
  ff)
• Validates W3C This is the W3C Feed Validation
  Service, a free service that checks the syntax of
  Atom or RSS feeds.
• Miscellaneous

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Quick Demo

• Enhanced Blog Edition (EBE)

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How can I get one?

• If you are Microsoft you can go get it at
  sharepoint.microsoft.com
• If you are not I am aware of 1 company but there
  are others
• RackSpace the contact would be Jeff Deverter

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User Group Edition (UGE)

• The Community Kit for SharePoint User Group
  Edition (or CKSUGE) 1.0 is a site admin template
  (.STP file) designed for user group websites. The
  default settings and content of a SharePoint site
  that's been created with this template can be
  used with minimal modification by any Microsoft
  product oriented user group.You can access the
  CKSUGE (English) demo site at http//sharepoint.m
  icrosoft.com/sharepoint/cks/uge.The French demo
  site is at http//sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepo
  int/cks/uge-fr.The German demo site is at
  http//sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/cks/uge
  -de.The Simplified Chinese demo site is at
  http//sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/cks/uge
  -cn.

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Quick Demo

• User Group Edition (UGE)

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Intranet/Extranet Edition (IEE)

• Web Parts
• Membership request
• Login
• Recover Password
• Change Password
• Easy Configuration
• Place on multiple pages
• Registration CAPTCHA
• Self-registration through custom web parts

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External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint
(ECTS)

• Microsoft Solution Accelerator Free tools and
  guidance from Microsoft. http//technet.microsoft.
  com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/default.aspx
• Capabilities and Features
• Provision New Site Collections
• Provision New Users

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ECTS Provision New Site Collections

• Create Site Collection. This Web Part allows an
  approved user either to create a new site
  collection (if workflow is not enabled), or
  request that a new site be created.
• Site Collection Manager. This Web Part shows an
  internal user all of the sites that they
  currently own. The user can navigate to one of
  the sites listed or delete the site.
• Site Collection Approval (optional). This Web
  Part gives an administrator the option to approve
  or deny site collection creation requests.

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ECTS Provision New Users

• Add External User. This Web page allows an
  approved user to create a new external user
  account (if it does not already exist) or give an
  existing account access to the site collection.
  This page is analogous to the SharePoint New User
  page.
• External User Manager. This Web Part allows
  administrators to view all external users within
  the SharePoint environment and to perform common
  management operations on external users who have
  been created in ADAM. These operations include
  to
• Delete. Removes the external user from ADAM.
• Disable/Enable. Toggles the account disabled
  attribute in ADAM, which prevents the external
  user from logging on to the SharePoint site.
• Reset Password. Resets the external users
  password in ADAM.
• Modify Profile Information. Allows the
  administrator to change attributes of the users
  profile.
• External User Approval (optional). This Web Part
  gives an administrator the option to approve or
  deny external user account creation requests.

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ECTS Additional Features

• Configuration Utility. This Web Part allows
  administrators to modify how the software works.
  Settings that can be changed include the SMTP
  host, mail sender account, workflow for site
  creation and user creation, and so forth.
• Update My Account Information. Provides self
  service profile update functionality.
• Forgotten password reset. Provides functionality
  to help external users who have forgotten their
  passwords.
• Forms-based authentication. Lets external users
  authenticate using a logon form.
• Gather profile information at first logon.
  Directs external users to a Web page to input
  profile information.

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Show me what you got Components

• Virtual-Earth Maps
• World Clock and Weather
• Chatterbox
• Tag Cloud
• Taxonomy-Tagging Starter Kit
• Windows Live Authentication
• Group Email

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Virtual-Earth Maps

• VE Map Web part
• Custom PushPin DB
• Developed by MS IT
• Full source available

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World Clock Weather

• Specify multiple locations
• Full Source
• Calling web services
• Custom Editor

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Coming Soon

• Community Kit for SharePoint

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Enhanced Blog Edition (EBE) 2.5

• Some of the 2.5 Features Coming Soon
• Issue Fixes
• Ability to export post to PDF
• Localization (FR ES)
• Ability to theme wiki pages
• Ability to show your Tweets in a web part on the
  home page
• Ability to theme Wiki pages
• Technoroti Tags
• Ability to bookmark post with Delicious, Digg,
  Technorati, facebook, Twitter, Reddit

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Workbook A Social Networking Community

• Consider it the facebook for communities via
  SharePoint
• Features
• Interest Members will have the ability to
  maintain a list of skills, roles, capabilities
  and interest
• Associates Members can create associations
  "Friend Request"
• Communities Members will be able to create and
  join different communities/projects of interest
• Activity Log track and show activities about
  your associates in the different
  communities/projects with the ability to comment
• 2 Versions One for WSS and another for MOSS
  which will integrate with youre My Site

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What is Next? The Vision

• Community Kit for SharePoint

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Focus Areas

• The Community Kit for SharePoint moving forward
  will have four main focus areas
• Editions standalone projects that provide
  significant functionality on their own.
• Components Components are granular elements that
  provide very specific functionality that are used
  to build the Editions
• Tools Used in the development or maintenance of
  the CKS project elements
• Documentation Material that will help users
  learn or continue to learn SharePoint

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Steering Committee

• Overall ownership of CKS will be by a steering
  committee that consists of
• One Microsoft sponsor Dave Pae.
• One Microsoft project owner Yvonne Harryman.
• One community project owner David Mann.
• The steering committee is responsible for the
  overall direction of CKS as a whole and keeping
  all CKS projects moving forward.

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Organization Parent CKS Site

• The parent site will exist at www.communitykitfors
  harepoint.org and will be hosted on WSS. It will
  include
• information about the project as a whole
• marketing information
• links to related resources
• descriptive information about each project
• information about team members
• information about CKS processes, standards, etc
• Any output from the Documentation project
• links to each child site
• private communications between team members
  (Lightning Tools has donated a copy of their
  SharePoint Forums software for this)
• Links to demos of the editions

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Organization - CodePlex

• Each project will have its own Codeplex site,
  addressable as www.codeplex.com/cksltproject_namegt
  .
• It will be used for information, source control,
  bug tracking and public discussions about each
  specific project.
• Common homepage layout

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Project Qualification LevelsStill Being Defined

• White Belt basic requirements to even get
  listed as being part of CKS
• Clean installation and uninstallation
• Follow CKS namespace/class naming guidelines
• Documentation
• Pass SPDisposeCheck
• Red Belt Fully documented plus some code
  analysis for basic SharePoint practices/requiremen
  ts
• Blue Belt highest level of code analysis for
  SharePoint practices/requirements
• Black Belt Load Testing

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Reasons to Get Involved

• By putting your knowledge to the test in the
  community you learn develop from the experts
  themselves
• Access to a network of other community leaders
• Recognition by peers as an expert in the
  technology you choose to evangelize
• Role model for others aspiring to learn in your
  field
• Boost your career development
• Community involvement is a step in the right
  direction for awards such as the Microsoft Valued
  Professional (MVP)

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Thank You!!!