SharePoint 2010

Building With SharePoint 2010

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is the Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and Web. SharePoint 2010 focuses on three key areas:

1. Connecting and empowering people to enhance productivity by offering improved and simplified tools to create and manage sites and associated content. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 integrates smoothly with Microsoft Office 2010 which makes it possible for users to be more productive while using a more familiar set of tools to interact with SharePoint Server.
2. Unifying infrastructure to cut maintenance and training costs by providing an integrated set of features and the ability for organizations to build their business productivity solutions on top of the SharePoint Server.
3. Responding rapidly to business needs by providing the ability to quickly build and deploy dynamic solutions to end users, power users and professional developers. SharePoint 2010 provides the tools to easily create business solutions that can be integrated with existing data and process.

 

 

SharePoint Sites

SharePoint sites are websites that aim to be an entry point to the World-Wide Web. They typically offer search capability and links to useful pages, news, or other services. SharePoint sites can be organization-wide or global, e.g., MSN, Yahoo, and Google.

SharePoint 2010 offers: a rich user experience, support for multiple browsers, mobile based interaction with people and content, MS Office integration, and collaboration across the internet, intranet, and extranet for creating, editing, and managing sites.

 

Visionet’s Hands-on Expertise:

• Identifying and planning SharePoint site architecture
• Creating SharePoint sites
• Managing site structure
• Defining custom site templates
• Customizing site templates
• Managing site settings and features
• Creating custom themes

 

SharePoint Communities

SharePoint Communities enable users to collaborate with each other using smart connections across people and teams. Enhanced social networking tools available with SharePoint 2010 allows users to connect and share information through blogs, wikis, calendars, discussions, tasks, contacts, pictures, videos and much more. My Sites and user profiles provide an organized way to create, share, and find personal and professional information across the organization.

 

Visionet’s Hands-on Expertise:

• Designing the social network structure for the organization Creating My Sites and Profiles
• Creating blogs, wikis, and discussions
• Setting up and managing profile synchronization with directory service
• Managing people search and organization browser

 

SharePoint Content

Organizations produce various types of content including documents, records, and web pages. SharePoint 2010 offers great ways to manage different types of content while maintaining strict control through governance policies to ensure compliance. Key features that make SharePoint 2010 an ideal tool for creating, authoring, publishing, and managing content are: integration with Office applications, offline client experience, speedy and easy web publishing, and the ability to create and manage custom content types and Meta data.

 

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Top Benefits

1. Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience across multiple platforms.
2. Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.
3. Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.
4. Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.
5. Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.
6. Connect people with information and expertise.
7. Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries.
8. Share business data without divulging sensitive information.
9. Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location.
10. Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and internet applications across the enterprise.

 

Visionet’s Hands-on Expertise:

• Designing and deploying content management processes to facilitate creation, authoring, and publishing of content
• Applying governance policies to ensure compliance
• Managing enterprise Meta data
• Setting up and using out-of-the box workflows
• Creating and deploying custom workflows using SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Visual Studio
• Creating custom activities for designer-based workflows
• Creating workflows for content approval

 

SharePoint Search

SharePoint 2010 makes it easier to find data including content and people. It does this by providing enhanced search capabilities, the ability to plug in “FAST” searches for SharePoint, connecting and indexing data from external sources, and phonetic search.

 

Hands-on Expertise:

• Planning searches by identifying data, rules, filters, and scopes
• Configuring searches and indexing content
• Defining, organizing, and managing Meta data
• Customizing advanced search capabilities of SharePoint
• Connecting to external sources to fetch search results using custom web parts
• Configuring and managing search scopes

 

SharePoint Insights

SharePoint 2010 enables collaboration and analysis to help everyone in the organization get richer insights by offering excel services, new visualization, navigation, and BI features. These features greatly facilitate and speed up the business decision-making process.

 

Hands-on Expertise:

• Integrating excel based data with SharePoint using excel services
• Creating Dashboards
• Creating Key Performance Indicators
• Integrating with SQL Server’s reporting services

 

SharePoint Composites

SharePoint 2010 serves as a platform to build and deploy business solutions for all types of users by providing powerful tools like SharePoint Designer, InfoPath Form, and Microsoft Access Services. Business connectivity services in SharePoint 2010 offer a nice way to create, read, update, delete and search line of business (LoB) data.

 

Hands-on Expertise:

• Creating and deploying solutions using SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio
• Importing and synchronizing LoB data
• Using business connectivity services to give a web presence to LoB data
• Creating and Deploying web enabled InfoPath forms
• Managing and associating Form Templates as content types
• Using data connection libraries to change InfoPath data sources without deployment
• Creating and Managing InfoPath workflow to automate business processes
• Building and deploying custom solutions on top of basic SharePoint features

 

SharePoint 2010 offers the flexibility of an in-place upgrade from SharePoint 2007 as well as an upgrade through data migration. An in-place upgrade is suitable for small environments where the existing setup of SharePoint 2007 already satisfies the infrastructural and software requirements for the upgrade. A more serious approach for the upgrade is to deploy SharePoint 2010 and then run the data migration/re-configuration process.

Careful planning is required before performing a migration upgrade. Starting with satisfying the hardware and software requirements, the process goes on to selecting a suitable approach for the upgrade, proactively identifying and resolving any issues that may hinder the upgrade process, backing up content and configuration data, executing the actual migration process, re-configuration/upgrade of services and finally performing the post-upgrade verification checks.

 

Visionet’s Hands-on Expertise:

• Planning the structure of SharePoint Farms
• Deploying SharePoint Farms
• Planning the upgrade/migration
• Analyzing the existing environment to identify, back up, and record the configuration of critical components
• Identifying and resolving pre-upgrade issues
• Upgrading and migrating data
• Configuring farm level services to resume normal operations after the upgrade/migration
• Planning and execution of application service packs deployment

 

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