Posts Tagged ‘hosted sharepoint application’

Capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint is composed of a number of products forming different components and offering different functionality. Based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint offers a fully functional portal post installation and hosted SharePoint application.

Many organizations have benefited from installing it. It gives a proper basic structure to build a single workspace. Server options include news, topic areas, catalogs, private websites, websites creation, and tools for searching or viewing information, employees, and work groups. SharePoint server can serve up to 1,000,000 end users, who are registered in Active Directory, all at the same time. It also has a capacity of 250 pages per second. The high performance and scalability have prompted many organizations to opt for SharePoint web application services.

Capabilities of SharePoint Server

Collaboration, Enterprise Portal Solutions, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process and Forms, Business Intelligence and Licensed for Internet/Extranet

SharePoint 2010 Sites delivers a single infrastructure to provide portal and collaboration capabilities across internet, intranet and extranet. Bring all users together to share information, and knowledgebase across organizations.

SharePoint 2010 Search gives users the ability to find the people, content, and information they need by combining an integrated, with enterprise search technology.

SharePoint 2010 Communities empowers organization to work with people in ways that are most effective for them. Allow employees to collaborate in groups, share knowledge and ideas, connect with colleagues, and find information and experts without difficulty.

SharePoint 2010 Insights enables users to access and act together with information across unstructured and structured data sources. Empower users to discover the right people and expertise to make better and more accurate business decisions.

SharePoint 2010 Content enables users to participate in a governed, compliant content management lifecycle. SharePoint Content makes it possible to skillfully balance user experience with organization policy and business process.

SharePoint Foundation 2010 is made for small business organizations or departments looking for a low-cost entry-level or pilot solution for secure, Web-based portal. Organization can use SharePoint Foundation to coordinate schedules, share, organize documents, and participate in discussions through team workspaces, blogs, wikis, and knowledgebase on the platform that is the underlying infrastructure for SharePoint Server.

SharePoint Designer 2010 is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. With the help of SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers can quickly create SharePoint solutions. Expert users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites and web publishing to line-of-business data integration, business intelligence solutions, and HR workflows. These great solutions leverage the building blocks available in SharePoint in an easy-to-use environment. Additionally, developers can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to get a rapid start on SharePoint development projects.

SharePoint Online Standard Capabilities

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

SharePoint Online is offered as a collaboration and communications tool for organization’s Intranets. It offers the following types of functionality.

  • Collaboration
  • Portals
  • Search
  • Content Management
  • Business Process and Forms

In the standard version, we do not get all the functionality that we would if we implemented our own version of SharePoint on premise or if we subscribed to the Dedicated Version. Here’s a look at what we get and don’t get.

Collaboration  -

What we get:

  • Six default site templates (wiki, blog, team site, document workspace, blank, basic meeting) Surveys
  • People and Groups
  • Calendars
  • Issue Tracking
  • Document Collaboration
  • Site Admin templates

What we don’t get:

  • Presence awareness
  • social networking
  • Templates (all meeting templates except basic)
  • Site Templates (My Site, News Site, Internet Presence Site)
  • Templates requiring server side code
  • Server Admin Templates

Portals

What we get:

  • Client Integration
  • SharePoint Designer Integration
  • Audience Targeting to a SharePoint group
  • Portal Site templates
  • Site Manager
  • Site and Document Aggregation
  • Document Rollup Web Part
  • Mobile Device Support

What we don’t get:

  • My Sites
  • Audience targeting to distribution groups or the ability to create audiences
  • Membership web parts
  • User Profiles Import
  • Back and Restore via SP Designer

Content Management

What we get:

  • Document Information and Panel Bar
  • Site Authoring
  • Master Pages, Page Layouts, navigation controls
  • Some retention and auditing policies
  • Three State Workflow and all standard document workflows
  • WYSIWYG Editor
  • Standard Publishing Site Templates: Collaboration and Publishing
  • Site Variations

What we don’t get:

  • Content Staging, Publishing and Deployment
  • Standard enterprise site templates
  • Records repository and legal holds
  • Email content as records

Search

What we get:

  • Search within site collection
  • Security trimmed results
  • Configurable scope

What we don’t get:

  • Cross collection search
  • Enterprise content sources
  • People Search
  • Search Federation
  • Business Data Search

Business Process and Forms

What we get:

  • Form Libraries
  • Custom no-code workflows

What we don’t get:

  • Custom workflows that are coded
  • Browser-based forms
  • SharePoint Server OOTB workflows

Customization Capabilities

Probably one of the most important questions we may have about using SharePoint Online is what can we customize. We can do customizations, but we are limited to customizing only what doesn’t require coding.

SharePoint Designer is the tool to use to customize our SharePoint Online site. With it we can:

  • Create no-code workflows
  • Modify and create master pages, page layouts
  • Create content types and taxonomy
  • Create custom site templates
  • Use the Data Form Web Part to create mashups of SharePoint data or other data brought in using Web Services
  • Create InfoPath Forms – no code allowed

If we are using Visual Studio to build custom web parts, features or workflows, then we don’t want SharePoint Online:

  • No in-line code is allowed, including code in InfoPath Forms or custom coded workflows
  • Can’t create features, site definitions, web parts, solutions – anything that requires something be installed and configured on the server.
  • we also can’t modify SharePoint files, web.config settings or security
  • No custom database modifications
  • No configuration changes that affect the web server or the .NET framework