Mo chomhghleacaí, David Drinkwine, does a (slightly more than) pen-on-napkin estimate for building a truly world class intranet for a large enterprise organization.  Is féidir leat read about it here: (http://www.bigapplesharepoint.com/pages/View-An-Insight.aspx?BlogID=86&stitle=WCI).

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Mo airteagal is déanaí chun SharePointBriefing.com Is é bun agus kicking anseo: http://sharepointbriefing.com/features/article.php/3887276/The-Road-to-SharePoint-Mastery.htm

Seo a teaser:

Tá sé seo go bunúsach ar leagan deas gearr agus comhdhlúite arb de mo láthair poiblí is mó tóir ar "Ar to Learn SharePoint."  Uimh scéalta grinn bainseó, áfach,.

Seiceáil sé amach!

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Nuashonraigh 09/01/09: Bunaithe ar aiseolas twitter, I need to clarify that InfoPath is supported in the sense that BPOS provides forms libraries. What I mean when I write "not supported in any way" is that InfoPath forms services functions are not supported. That means that you can’t publish an InfoPath form to BPOS and and have it render in the web browser. It also means that some out of the box workflows, which use InfoPath (even in MOSS standard edition) don’t work in BPOS because their initiation and other forms use InfoPath. Hopefully that clears things up.

I had a chance to really dig into Microsoft Online’s offering earlier this year and specifically the business productivity online suite (BPOs). This came along before I even hard a firm plan to set out on my own at Arcovis. I immediately saw, áfach,, that BPOS could be a key part of my company’s internal infrastructure and over time, it has become exactly that. Arcovis, uses it on a daily basis. I thought I’d share some of that experience from a practical perspective in case you want to evaluate it for yourself or are just curious about it.

As the word “suite” in BPOS implies, you get a small bundle of applications:

• Exchange
• Live Meeting
• Communicator
• SharePoint

You can buy each of them separately, Creidim. It’s all spelled out relatively clearly on the Microsoft online site. You may be able to get better deals through MSFT partners. Arcovis has been working with Straitéisí Cloud agus is cosúil leo go mbeadh a fhios a n-stuif, mar sin ba mhaith liom iad a áireamh i do liosta de dhíoltóirí má dhéanann tú cuardach il-díoltóir.

Tugaim achoimre ar mo thaithí agus smaointe do gach ceann de na seach.

Exchange

Is é seo an timpeallacht mhalartú óstáil agus ó mo thaobhsa, it works like any other Exchange server I have ever used. It’s fully integrated with all of my fellow Arcovis partners’ environments and gives me access to the calendar (atá ollmhór). Good stuff.

Soláthraíonn sé freisin ar an Rochtain Gréasáin Outlook (OWA) interface. That means I can get my email on any machine that has a web browser.

Mo fón póca HTC, ag rith Windows Mobile 6.1(?) connected to it nicely via Active Sync. It did this in exactly the way I expected and wanted.

I don’t consider myself much more than a casual outlook and exchange user so there may be really important Exchange features that just aren’t supported and I wouldn’t necessarily know it.

I think the strongest recommendation I make for this is that I am completely unaware that my exchange environment is “somewhere else.” I don’t know see any difference in Exchange and how I use it on a daily basis versus the half dozen or so other times I used someone’s exchange environment. Go deimhin, this is better because it simply works.

Bottom line – hosted exchange is what it needs to be and I’m very happy with it.

Live Meeting

This is a truly indispensible tool when you’re in the consulting business. I fire up instant live meetings several times a week to show intermediate work product to clients, to watch them break my solutions so that I know how to fix them, do sales presentations, etc. Live meeting is bundled with BPOS and it’s very easy to use.

I’m even less of a live meeting expert than I am on exchange. Mar sin féin, for my purposes, it’s great.

Communicator

Go dtí seo, I use communicator almost only for presence information. I say “only” but have that presence data available to me whenever I’m connect has become addictive. With communicator installed and running, my colleagues know when I’m available, what my schedule is like at this moment, and can IM me (though the IM interface is pretty dull, at best). It’s one of those things that I really miss when I don’t have it. I actually get a little annoyed when my colleagues aren’t running communicator because the presence information is missing.

The presence indicator feels pervasive. It shows up in SharePoint whenever their name appears as an author to a document, assigned a task, etc. It shows in email, embedded right in outlook. It shows up in the communicator client itself.

For the most it just sits there running in the background and decorates my outlook and SharePoint screens with real-time presence information. It’s very cool.

SharePoint

Mo is fearr leat giotán, ar ndóigh, is SharePoint.

BPOS provides a modified version of MOSS standard edition. I’ll explain “modified” below. We’ve been using our BPOS SharePoint portal for stuff like:

• Faisnéis Margaíochta
• Díolacháin (moltaí, mar thoradh rianú) -> a dhéanann muid plean a infheistiú i réiteach CRM ach do anois, SharePoint ag obair amach mar ár réiteach CRM.
• Comhpháirtí agus an custaiméir teagmhálacha
• Cuardaigh
• Faisnéis tionscadal Cliant
• Billeála (go príomha le haghaidh stóráil ár sonraisc)
• Plé
• Réitigh Prototyping
• Tógáil amach láithreáin taispeántais (e.g. new hire management HR process)
• Time sheets
• Document collaboration

Go bunúsach, all the stuff you’d expect to use SharePoint for.

Along the way, we use technical features like:

• Alerts
• SharePoint Dearthóir
  • Workflows
  • Branding
• Cineálacha Ábhar
• CQWP
• Document libraries with version control
• Custom lists for all kinds of things (like our time sheets)
• jQuery (and all the goodness that can come from that, including AJAX calls to SharePoint web services)

What can’t I do with it? There are a bunch of things that would be nice:

• I cannot provide anonymous access. Go deimhin, i don’t think I can do that for any price. I could be wrong, or hopefully MSFT will change this in future.
• No InfoPath of any kind.
  • This has the slightly strange side effect of blocking a few standard MOSS workflows that rely on InfoPath.
• No server side code. That means, i measc nithe eile:
  • No event receivers
  • No custom SharePoint designer actions
  • No custom field types
  • No proper SDLC (i.e. features/solutions).
  • No access to stsadm

No access to a shared service provider.

The last bit is a little sad because we can’t do as much search configuration I would like.

You basically give up a lot of technical capability and are forced to live within the confines of out-of-the-box SharePoint functionality.

I can live with that. I have found myself wanting to slap together an event receiver or use a custom action once or twice,, but for the most part, I don’t notice the lack.

I should add that this is not a comprehensive list of the differences between a hosted “on prem” MOSS environment and SharePoint on line. Cloud Strategies has a very detailed presentation that goes into all that if you’re interested. I’m speaking from the perspective of a business owner leveraging the tool.

Ease of Use

Microsoft provides a nifty desktop application that enables quick and easy access to all of the BPOS functions:

You don’t need to use it, but eliminates the need to log into each of the applications separately and for live meeting, It’s quite nice because you can do a “meet now” session with just 2 clicks (one on the “web conferencing” button above and another on the web browser that pops up). It’s also nice to get OWA with one click, though you can just put that in your browser favorites as well.

The other major advantage with this desktop application is that it provides a background kind of single sign on service. As long as this is running in the background, I can open up web browsers and connect to my BPOS environment without ever needing to enter credentials.

Full Disclosure

Microsoft made BPOS available to me for free so I am not currently paying the monthly per user fee at this time. Mar sin féin, I see value there and you can accept on faith (nó nach) that I would pay for this service. The fact is that I can’t count on Microsoft providing this for free forever and it’s become so strongly integrated with my business that moving … the mind quails.

Conclúid

BPOS is an insanely feature rich platform. Exchange, SharePoint (MOSS Standard!), presence, instant live meetings – it’s a lot of functionality that I would sorely, sorely miss if I had to live without it. My business would be severely impacted without it. Could I find replacement functionality? Probably, but I think I would have to cobble it together from a variety of other vendors, complicating my life. BPOS has so far proven itself to be stable and reliable. For the right kind of customer (like my company), BPOs is fiú breithniú láidir.

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Bhí mé ag tar éis fóraim MSDN le go maith os cionn bliain (agus b'fhéidir beagnach 2 bliana ag an bpointe seo) and every now and then I hear from someone how “hard” it is to do that. I find it quite easy and thought I’d share my “technique”. This technique also works for www.endusersharepoint.com (http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP).

Ag tabhairt MSDN mar shampla, Liom dul chéad leathanach fóram caighdeán cosúil leis an Ceisteanna Ginearálta do SharePoint príomh-leathanach anseo: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/threads

Ba chóir duit fógra ar an bpointe boise go bhfuil na fóraim RSS cumasaithe, mar a thaispeántar:

Tá mé ag baint úsáide as Google Reader a bhainistiú mo RSS feeds ar feadh i bhfad anois (www.google.com / léitheoir). I go there, add the RSS feed for the forum and now I’m getting all new forums posts via RSS. My Google feeds for SharePoint forums look like this:

Google Soláthraíonn dom d'fhonn deas a phostú féin:

Agus ar deireadh, Google ligeann dom a bhaint as an méarchlár a scrollbharra tríd an postings i bhfóraim ar an mbealach seo.

Is féidir liom a scanadh go tapa trí phoist agus díriú ach ar na dóigh liom gur féidir liom a dhéanamh ar ranníocaíocht úsáideach.

Alerts close the loop. Updates to posts don’t come through RSS (cé I mo thuairimse, a úsáidtear iad chun i bhfad ó shin). Mar sin féin, má liom post a fhreagairt ar fóram phost, the forums alert me via email and IM that someone responded in turn. Nó, más rud é nach féidir liom a dhéanamh ar ranníocaíocht úsáideach ach ba mhaith liom a fháil amach cad iad na daoine eile a rá, Is féidir liom a druilire isteach é agus go follasach iarraidh foláirimh nuair a dhéanann daoine eile freagra a.

I uair an chloig nó níos lú is féidir leat a leagtar ar an bpróiseas suas agus agus in aghaidh na seachtaine de úsáid go rialta, foghlaim na cleasanna éagsúla agus méarchlár aicearraí ionas go mbeidh an dara cineál.

I use the exact same technique for End User SharePoint.Com’s “Stump the Panel” forums. This is their RSS feed: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/rss/.

Tá fóraim ar bhealach uamhnach, b'fhéidir, an bealach is fearr gearr de thaithí phearsanta dhíreach, na foghlama ar an táirge agus ag fáil suirbhé deas ar conas ar fud an domhain, i gcoitinne, uses SharePoint. Give it a try!

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An chúis a chaitheamh againn an oiread sin ama (nó ba chóir, mar sin féin) working out governance plans is because we want the SharePoint solution to be as effective as possible. We want good infrastructure and rules to keep it humming and safe in case of disaster. We want good security processes to both properly secure the environment but also make it reasonable to manage. We want a good information architecture that will stand the test of time, ideally managing to survive a major organizational change in the company.

Chun cuspóir inmhianaithe a bhaint amach, Is féidir cáipéis rialachais agus plean chineachadh isteach a bunch de "beidh tusa" agus "Ní dhéanfaidh tusa ar", mar atá i:

• Ní bheidh Thusa chruthú SharePoint grúpa slándála; AD úsáid in ionad.
• Ní bheidh Thusa fillteáin i leabharlanna doiciméad chruthú; úsáid a bhaint as cineálacha ábhar agus tuairimí ionad.
• Beidh tusa a chruthú gach cineál ábhar doiciméad bunaithe ar thalamh le cineál sonrach bonn saincheaptha.
• Ní bheidh Thusa chruthú tacsanomaíocht eolais bunaithe ar thalamh chairt org an lae inniu cuideachta.

"Déanfaidh Thou" agus "Ní bheidh tusa" Tá a n-áit cinnte sa phlean rialachais.

A more successful governance plan will also have a strong marketing angle. It should sell and justify itself to the maximum extent possible. A truly successful governance plan relies upon the voluntary cooperation of all SharePoint users. (Tá cásanna imeall an áit a bhfuil bhfuil feidhm ag comhar an phobail ag teastáil, mar shampla nuair a bhíonn SharePoint úsáid ag líon an-bheag na n-úsáideoirí a bhainistiú go docht; Tá mé cinnte gur féidir leat smaoineamh ar dhaoine eile). If the user community doesn’t buy into your governance plan then it will be partially successful at best.

I use that word “buy” deliberately. The community will buy the governance plan if it’s fundamentally sound and you go to some effort to sell them on it. Selling leads to marketing and that’s why I think that a governance plan should be considered a marketing plan too. Convince your end users that they need to follow the governance plan and they will voluntarily follow it. If you can get a critical mass of people following the governance plan then the plan’s benefits follow and you’ll have a stronger environment for it.

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Raibh mé in ann a scríobh ar fad ag mór faoi fóraim MSDN, etiquette, coinbhinsiúin a ainmniú, cuardaigh, etc. I may do that, i ndáiríre. I wanted to point out a small thing which may help people have a better overall experience.

Tá mé le déanaí ag daoine ag rá go má ritheann tú i chineál éigin de fhadhb le do thimpeallacht SharePoint, tionscadal forbartha nó gníomhaíocht eile a bhaineann le SharePoint, post a question to the forums earlier in your action chain rather than later. I know for myself that when I have a problem, a number of potential solutions present themselves right away. I order these potential solutions in terms of likelihood, applicability and how easy they are to investigate. I go through that list and by the time I’ve gotten to #10, Tá mé ag déanamh athruithe registry go dtí eochair "/ foo / bar / almostThere / isThisIt / noThisIsNotIt / iCantBelieveIAmDoingThis / finallyThere!"Ar chomhairle ar bhlag le fáil ar leathanach 8 of a Google search. When that doesn’t work, Mé sa phost ar deireadh ceist a MSDN (e.g. anseo: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/threads).

I suggest that you reverse that approach. Post the forums much earlier in your investigation because:

• Tá sé saor in aisce a thabhairt duit ar aon nós.
• Níl aon SLA ráthaithe (de a bhfuil mé ar an eolas, ar a laghad).
• Dá bhrí sin,, Is féidir é a chur ar feadh i bhfad do dhaoine chun freagra a.
• Is minic a dhéanann daoine freagra sa deireadh.
• Má fhanann tú go dtí 2 nó 3 lá tar éis an fhadhb dromchla den chéad uair, tá tú frantic do fhreagairt agus nach bhfuil fóraim áit mhaith chun cabhair éigeandála (ach amháin má tá tú ádh).

Mar sin,, go bunúsach, tá sé éasca agus saor in aisce agus tá tú lámhaigh maith ag dul de shaghas éigin freagra, ach beidh sé a ghlacadh ar feadh tamaill a fháil go freagra (arís, ach amháin má tá tú ádh).

I used to think that I should hold off on looking for community help because I don’t want to waste someone’s time asking for help when I could find it out myself. Some forum moderators and active participants may feel that way, ach ní féidir liom (ar a laghad, Ní féidir liom a bhraitheann go bhealach ar bith níos mó). I don’t see any downside. The worst case is that you post a question and then answer it yourself some time later, possibly “wasting” some one’s time. I don’t see a big risk in that and there’s value in the researching of questions like that in any event.

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Mé a léamh retrospectives cúpla ar 2008 and this has got me to thinking about 2009. Here are my guesses at the future of SharePoint in 2009.

Séanadh Beaga

Tá mé MVP SharePoint agus mar thoradh air sin, I sometimes get a little advance information before it’s public. I am NOT making any such information public. I really haven’t been around long enough to be entrusted with that kind of stuff anyway.

Leis sin amach as an mbealach, ar aghaidh go dtí an tuar ...

FAST

I believe that FAST will become a very hot topic in 2009. It’s already well known in the enterprise search community. Mar sin féin, gach duine go n-imríonn timpeall le SharePoint i 2009 will soon be interested in this product and what it can do for them. New consulting companies will spring up around it and existing partners will work and scramble to add it to its portfolio. This time next year, Beidh beagnach gach duine sa phobal SharePoint gur chuala de agus a bhfuil ar thuairim maidir le FAST.

FAST is targeted at large companies and that will continue. I think there’s at least an outside chance that Microsoft will release a more focused version of the product that is accessible to smaller companies. Failing that, they will open up the SharePoint search engine so that it can be customized along the lines that FAST can be customized. Mar shampla, FAST uses pipeline architecture for consuming content and indexing it. FAST admins and developers can assemble pipeline components per data source and even create new pipeline components. We don’t have this flexibility with SharePoint today. If FAST remains firmly targeted at very large companies, Beidh SharePoint cuardaigh a ghlacadh roinnt de na gnéithe FAST ar.

SharePoint V.Next

Creidim go mbeidh sé teacht amach i 2009.

I believe that it will provide us the ability to secure views on a list or document library. This may be more of a hope than a belief 🙂

Tá súil agam go mbeidh sé ar fáil ar roinnt tacaíocht níos fearr d'úsáideoirí deiridh i SharePoint Dearthóir agus go háirithe sreabhadh oibre.

Níl a fhios agam i bhfad eile, I have been actively tracking what I do find here: http://delicious.com/pagalvin/SharePoint_O14.

An mbeidh Díoltóirí Cruthaigh Iarratais Ghnó

Sa lá atá inniu, most SharePoint vendors seem to be gadget oriented. Take Bambú nó Corasworks mar shampla. They have a huge following and great portfolio of products. Mar sin féin, Is cosúil go siad saghas gadgety dom nó forbróir / tool focused. Admin tools, uirlisí sreabhadh oibre, etc. That’s not a criticism at all because SharePoint can definitely use some gadgets.

I 2009, roinnt díoltóirí (agus an-b'fhéidir bambú féin, má léigh mé an gceart) Beidh a chur le chéile iarratais gnó verticalized i bhfoirm teimpléid, gnéithe, réitigh, etc. I’m thinking about the fabulous forty templates today but tailored to specific industries. I’m sort of surprised it’s not already exploited this way. SharePoint is a platform for delivering these kinds of things. What’s everyone waiting for? They won’t wait any longer in 2009.

Ag an am céanna, Beidh Silverlight agus cool. Rudaí GLAN eile breosla nua, gadgets níos fearr agus níos suimiúla.

Beidh Sharepointreviews.com bheith ar an chatalóg phobail riachtanach de na táirgí seo.

Deireadh Fócas Úsáideoir

2009 beidh a fheiceáil ar theacht chun cinn an Úsáideoir Deiridh mar phríomhfhócas d'blagairí, organizations and Microsoft themselves. Mark Miller Úsáideoir Deiridh SharePoint.Com Bhí ról mór i 2008 and will continue to do so in 2009. End Users will begin to blog, cabhrú chun athrú grúpaí úsáideoirí i ionaid níos lú teicniúil agus fiú ina luí duine éigin nó eagraíocht a sheoladh Úsáideoir Deiridh íon Dhírigh an chomhdháil.

Comhdhálacha, Grúpaí Úsáideoirí, Campaí Cód, etc

Speaking of conferences – they will continue to expand and grow in number and focus. Aside from end user content, leanfaidh siad ar aghaidh chun freastal ar forbróirí agus riarthóirí.

Beidh comhdhálacha Virtual tús le piocadh suas agus beidh comhdhálacha atá ann cheana fothaí beo ar fáil do lucht freastail iargúlta nach féidir a cheadú nó a roghnú gan a bheith i láthair go pearsanta.

Beidh ionaid Saor in Aisce leathnú, mar shampla Mike Lotter ar (et al) SharePoint Dé Sathairn.

Tá sé seo ag dul a bheith an-tábhachtach mar go mbeidh ann i gcónaí a bheith ina sní isteach mór na forbróirí nua, admins agus úsáideoirí deiridh a bheidh craving an cineál faisnéise a chur ar fáil leis na grúpaí.

Ríomhaireacht Shóisialta

Demand for social computing features will rise. All things being equal, Beidh cuideachtaí a chuireann straitéisí éifeachtacha ríomhaireachta sóisialta a dhéanamh níos fearr agus a bheith níos láidre ná a n-iomaitheoirí.

Beidh cuideachtaí níos lú a ghlacadh ar na gnéithe níos tapa agus go héifeachtach ná cuideachtaí móra.

Cuideachtaí móra: beware 🙂

Chleachtais is Fearr versus Fheabhsúcháin

I 2008, a lán de blagairí SharePoint agus eagraíochtaí agus Microsoft iad féin a chaith a lán ama figuring amach an bealach is fearr chun fadhbanna a réiteach áirithe (fadhbanna de ghnáth teicniúla).

There are still opportunities to define and foster adoption of best practices. Mar sin féin, cé go atá againn a bheith figuring amach an bealach is fearr a shuiteáil, chumrú agus a bhainistiú SharePoint, na céadta agus na mílte cuideachtaí a bheith a shuiteáil, chumrú agus a bhainistiú SharePoint gan na cleachtais is fearr ar láimh.

I 2009, a lot of companies are going to realize they have some deeply rooted problems to solve and will be looking to the elite members of the SharePoint community and Microsoft for help to fix them. I think this will extend well into 2010 agus b'fhéidir a sceitheadh ​​le tionscal tinteáin a sholáthraíonn Seirbhísí leasúcháin do chuideachtaí gur gá i ndáiríre agus a úsáid SharePoint, ach tá hurting go dona mar gheall ar chinntí bocht déanamh go luath i gcur chun feidhme.

An mbeidh an Long Máthair Fill ar ais

I 2009, Beidh an long ar ais Máthair agus a thabhairt Bob Fox baile.

Smaointe Deiridh

Ní raibh mé ag tosú ag obair le SharePoint mé féin ar aon bhealach fíor go dtí Eanáir 2007. Dealraíonn sé domsa go bhfuil SharePoint glacadh i ndáiríre de thalamh agus éirí féin in ann a sheachadadh a lán de luach sa dá bhliain. Sílim go bhfuil go leor bealaí, Ní raibh sé straighten i ndáiríre é féin amach go dtí an bhonneagair thabhairt cothrom le dáta. Tá sé fós ina bugs agus fadhbanna, ach tá teacht againn ar fad ar feadh slí ó 01/2007. 2009 ag dul a bheith ina bliain banner do SharePoint.

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I mo thuairimse, mar sin…

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Is é seo an tóir go cothrom "fabulous 40" teimpléad. It also has a bug which is widely known (Tá mé blogged fiú faoi conas a shocrú é).

Sogeti scaoileadh le CodePlex tionscadal an tseachtain seo go socróidh an fabht (atá deas féin, ach ní domhan-uafás) ach deir siad freisin go bhfuil réiteach ar fhadhb i bhfad thornier: slándála. The fab 40 Éilíonn teimpléad le socrú slándála an-fhlaithiúil (úsáideoirí riachtanais rochtain ar leibhéal ranníocóir le beagnach gach rud). Not any more! According to the codeplex summary:

"This template also includes a new custom workflow action which enables the template to work without having to give all users contribute permissions to the courses list."

Sin stuif maith agus fiú a sheiceáil amach.

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