The beginning of SharePoint till SharePoint Foundation Server

Drawbacks of using Website without SharePoint Services:

• Cost
• Code Management
• Bandwidth Usage or management
• Managing Docs, Website, cms, search Feature
• Language options
• Customization
• Lower Dependency on third party for building of website
• Time frame
• Individual coded website (Non-use of standard practice codes abbreviations )
• Department handling
• And many more......

These are the customer challenges that are faced...


Today the demand has increased which includes the following:-  HR,Sales,Corporate website,R&D,Extranet collaboration site,Intranet Logging,B2B,BI-Dashboard,SAP Integration,News,Alerts,Customer Issues,Issue Tracking,Search Feature,Team Site,Knowledge Portal,Project "XYZ", ERP Integration .

"Using SharePoint Services you can over come all these  Verticals "

Basically there are Three Divisions in SharePoint:-

• Administrator
• Developers
• Designing

The current Product and the newest version is SharePoint Services 2010,The first service Pack for SharePoint would be released by March as proposed by Microsoft.The next version is going to be released by 2015.

2001:The first Version was released .It was a simple product,small application ,documents and libraries were supported.It was called as SharePoint server 2001, SharePoint team Service,also know as STS Admin,Tahu Server, It is still used in some banks.Performance and feature wise it was not satisfactory,Hence not a great deal of product.

2003:The start of success story for SharePoint starts here.The Next Version released in 2003 is also discontinued, which was called as SharePoint Portal server 2003,windows share Point services 2.0.This was a HUGE success for Microsoft.It had the following features:Docs,List,Meetings,Outlook,Good Overall Performance.

2006: This was the fastest selling product for Microsoft till date.It had been 40 times more subscribed then Predicted.

2007:SharePoint Service 2007 had Portals,Web Content Management,Best Search Feature,Profile Management,Crawling of sites,Security Trimming.WSS 3.0 had better hardware,better performance.

2010: It only runs in 64 bit OS,Windows 2008 Server.It is knows as Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 .Basically XML web service is called through which SharePoint works.

SHAREPOINT CAN BE DEFINED WITH THE FOLLOWING FEATURES AND DETAILS FOLLOWED BY THE PIE CHART:

1. PLATFORM SERVICES:Workspaces management,security,storage,Topology,Site Model.
2. COLLABORATION:Wikis,Docs,tasks,calendars,blogs,contacts,E-mail integration,Project management "lite",Outlook Integration,Office docs/lists (All related to daily activities)
3. PORTAL:Enterprise Portal Templates,Site Directory,My sites,Social Networking,Privacy control
4. SEARCH: Enterprise scalability,contextual relevance,rich peaple & business,data search.
5. CONTEXT MANAGEMENT:Integrated Docs mgmt,Records mgmt,Web content mgmt,Policies,Workflow.
6. BUSINESS FLOW:Rich & Web forms based front-Ends,LOB actions,Enterprise SSO.
7. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DASHBOARD:Spreadsheets,Data virtualization,Bi Webparts,KPI's,Docs,Server-based Excel.

New Improvements in WSS:-

• New Name-SharePoint Foundation Server
• 64 bit
• Shared Service
• Claims-based Auth
• Power shell
• Multi-tenancy
• Performance Improvements
• Health & Monitoring Improvements
• Manage Accounts
• Improved backup & restore ,High availability .

Pre-requisites  to install SharePoint:-

• SQL Server 2008 /2005 (*SP-3 , *x64 bit)
• IIS 7.0
• .Net 3.5 SP1 or later