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Office System 2007 Perspectives

Office System 2007 Perspectives is a 3 day consultancy engagement designed to provide your organisation with a comprehensive understanding of the capabilities of Microsoft Office System 2007 applications and how to achieve the best results from these technologies.

Attendees will gain an understanding of the types of business applications which can be built using these technologies ranging from collaboration and content management, to business intelligence and enterprise project management.

Microsoft Office System 2007 includes client and server services and tools for solution developers built around XML and a new set of extensibility technologies. Microsoft Office System 2007 helps organisations to gain better control and insight over their content, streamline their business processes, and access and share information. In addition, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 gives IT professionals the tools they need for server administration, application extensibility and interoperability.

Topics may include

Office 12 Developer Roadmap

  • Architectural overview of Office System 2007
  • Office Client WSS V3 SharePoint Server 2007
  • Office Client application enhancements and new UI

The Open File Format for Office Documents

  • Motivation for the new Open File Format
  • Architecture of new file formats
  • Programmatic access to Office document content
  • Server-side generation of documents

Extending Office Client Applications

  • Extending the Ribbon in a document-centric manner
  • Extending the Ribbon in an application-centric manner with Shared Add-ins
  • Adding Custom Tasks panes
  • Visual Studio Tools for Office V3

Windows SharePoint Services V3

  • Creating sites for team collaboration
  • Customising Master Pages and Content Pages
  • Creating a Custom Web Part
  • Advances in WSS storage
  • Workflows

InfoPath and Forms Services

  • Designing forms with the InfoPath 2007 Designer
  • Leveraging new InfoPath features in offline scenarios
  • Rendering forms in the browser using Forms Services
  • Creating/deploying InfoPath forms for dual platform use

Creating Portal Sites

  • Shared Service Provider (SSP) architecture
  • User Profiles and Audiences
  • Extending Search
  • The Business Data Catalog (BDC)

Web Content Management

  • MOSS as the new Content Management Server
  • Creating pages and content in a Publishing Site
  • Understanding the content approval process
  • Converting Office documents into web-ready formats

Excel Server and Business Intelligence

  • Rendering Excel Server in the browser
  • Report Center integration with SQL Reporting Services
  • Report Center integration with SQL Analysis Services
  • Creating Dashboards with KPIs and Filters

Installing MOSS 2007

  • Prerequisites, install process and dealing with issues

Migrating WSS V2 to WSS V3

  • Expectations - what can be migrated
  • Process - how to migrate
  • Gradual versus Big Bang and dealing with issues

Migration from SPS 2003

  • In-place upgrade
  • Gradual upgrade
  • General notes

Search

  • Customising Search
  • Integration with BDC

Lists

  • Working with the new list templates
  • Building a blog site with MOSS2007
  • Business Data Catalog (BDC)

Administrative tasks

  • Setting up a server topology

Security

  • Managing list security
  • Site Security
  • Document policy management
  • Custom security providers (removing need for AD)

Web Content Management in 2007

Document Management

  • Document templates
  • Workflows on documents
  • Groove 2007 integration

Business Intelligence

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Personalisation

  • Mysites
  • SharePoint Designer 2007

Health monitoring

  • MOM
  • Various other new areas of monitoring

SharePoint 2007 / WSS API / Development

  • Using the Web Services
  • Building Custom Workflows with SharePoint Designer
  • Building Custom Workflows with Visual Studio
  • Building a custom BDC plug-in to access your business data