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Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint

User Group

Agenda

• Quick Intro• Office System 2007 Overview• Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook• Break• OneNote, InfoPath, SharePoint Designer, Visio, Groove• Q & A / Networking


User Group Goal / Objectives

Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

• Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies• Transfer knowledge within the community• Communicate best practices• Introduce new products / solutions


Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors

Inetium (www.inetium.com)• Twin Cites based Microsoft consulting company• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner• Practice Area focused on Information Worker Technologies

New Horizons – Minnesota (www.newhorizonsmn.com)• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner• Training on many technologies

Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)• I’m guessing you’ve heard of them


www.sharepointmn.com

• Website for user group• SharePoint resource documents• SharePoint resource websites links• RSS Feeds • Meeting Schedule• Past User Group Presentations

www.sharepointmn.com


Upcoming Schedule

• Next Meeting

• February 14th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

• Microsoft’s Bloomington Office

• Topics:

• SharePoint Administration and Configuration

• Ongoing Schedule

• 2nd Wednesday of every month

• 9:00 to 11:30 am

• Microsoft’s Bloomington Office


Previous Meetings• SharePoint 2007 Overview: – May 2006 MNSPUG Presentation – This presentation provides an overview of a number of the key features and

capabilities that SharePoint 2007 provides. http://sharepointmn.inetium.com/User Group Presentations/May 2006 MNSPUG.ppt • Document Management / Records Management: June 2006 MNSPUG Presentation – This presentation covers how documents and records are

managed using SharePoint. This presentation also covers SharePoint Content Types. http://sharepointmn.inetium.com/User Group Presentations/June 2006 MNSPUG.ppt

• Workflow: July 2006 MNSPUG Presentation – This presentation covers how workflow and digital forms work in SharePoint 2007.

http://sharepointmn.inetium.com/User Group Presentations/July 2006 MNSPUG.ppt

• Business Intelligence: August 2006 MNSPUG Presentation – This presentation covers many of the new features of SharePoint 2007 that are used to

address Business Intelligence including Dashboard sites, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) lists, Excel Services and the filter web parts. http://sharepointmn.inetium.com/User Group Presentations/August 2006 MNSPUG.ppt

• Web Content Management: September 2006 MNSPUG Presentation – This presentation focuses on the web content management features of

SharePoint 2007 that allow end users to publish their own web content (ex: articles). http://sharepointmn.inetium.com/User Group Presentations/September 2006 MNSPUG.ppt

• Search, Business Data Catalog (BDC), and the Knowledge Network: October 2006 MNSPUG Presentation – This presentation focuses on the search

capabilities of SharePoint 2007 including leveraging the Business Data Catalog. http://sharepointmn.inetium.com/User Group Presentations/October 2006 MNSPUG.ppt


Events

• Microsoft Minneapolis Product Launch Event– Microsoft Office 2007, Exchange 2007, Vista

• When: February 1st, 2007• Where: Minneapolis Convention Center• Time: 9:00 – 3:30pm (Registration begins at 7:45am)• http://msevents.microsoft.com/ • Event ID: 1032314652


Microsoft Launch Event – February 1st, 2007

• Registration and Breakfast: 7:45 - 9:00 AM • Executive Keynote : 9:00 - 10:30 AM • Technical Sessions : 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

– Track #1 – Desktop Support– Track #2 – IT Infrastructure– Track #3 – Solutions Capabilities– Developer Track – Application Building

• Lunch: 12:00 - 1:15 PM • Technical Sessions : 1:15 - 3:30 PM


Microsoft Launch Event – February 1st, 2007

• Key breakout sessions to attend

– SharePoint Server 2007 Post Installation Configuration and Management

• Time: 1:15 – 2:15pm

– Search• Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm


Other Events

• “Hit a Home Run with CRM”– Building a successful and competitive organization using CRM– Audience: Sales/Marketing Professionals– When: February 8th from 6:00-8:30pm

• CRM Direction (Microsoft speaker), CRM Mobility (Inetium)• Minnesota Twins plans for using CRM (Twins)• Twins Ballpark “Sneak Peek”• Baseball as America Exhibit• Dinner/Beverages• Networking

– By Invitation Only (See Steve Svensson - [email protected])


Microsoft Office System 2007Overview

Microsoft Office System 2007

What’s New?• New UI: Ribbon/Office button• IGX Graphics “SmartArt”• Improved Charting• Document Information Property Panel (DIP)• Live Preview• .XML File formats• PDF/XPS (XML Paper Specification) support*• Products

Overview

The Ribbon

• New user interface • Goal is to make features easier to find• Requested features were already in system


Overview

The Office Button


Overview

IGX Graphics /Smart Art

• Graphic building tool• Text entry• Builds as you type


Overview

Improved Graphing Engine

• Richer formatting

• Shared Charting between Excel, Word, and PowerPoint


Overview


Document Information Property Panel (DIP)

• Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Overview

Galleries / Live Preview

• Flyouts from ribbon• Easily see changes


Overview


.XML File Formats• Word, Excel, PowerPoint• New file extensions:

– .docx– .xlsx– .pptx– .accdb New extension, but not XML

• Ecma standard• Published Specification with a royalty-free license

Overview


PDF/XPS Support

• Adds support for saving/exporting to PDF/XPS

• Available as a free Add-in

Overview

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Overview

ProductsWord Office Accounting Express

Excel Office Groove

PowerPoint Office Communicator

Outlook Business Contact Manager

Publisher SharePoint Designer

Access

InfoPath

OneNote

Visio

Project


Overview

• Client Tools Individuals• Servers Organization

Business intelligence

Collaboration Content management

Streamlined processes

PortalsSearch

Word processing

Business modelling

PresentationsData

management

Informationmanagement

Clients

Servers

Microsoft Office Access 2007


What is it?

Microsoft Office Access is a

relational database management

system. It allows you to create

databases, forms, and reports.



What’s New?• Updated User Interface (The ribbon, Navigation Pane, Tabbed

documents)• Getting started page with database templates (Assets,

Contacts, Issues, Sales Pipeline, Projects, Tasks)• Support for Rich Text in memo fields, multivalue fields, and

Attachment data type



Integration Points• Export Table/Query

to a SharePoint List




to a SharePoint List• Import from or Link

tables to SharePoint Lists




to a SharePoint List• Import from or Link

tables to SharePoint Lists

• Publish rich reports using PDF/XPS from SharePoint Lists


Demo


Microsoft Office Word 2007



What is it?

Microsoft Office Word is a word

processing application.


What’s New?• Quick Styles and Themes• Remove metadata and personal information before sharing• Prevent changes to a final version – Mark as Final



Integration Points• Create Blog / Wiki

Content from Word




Content from Word• View document

version history




Content from Word• View document

version history• Graphical

comparison between two versions


Demo


Microsoft Office Excel 2007



What is it?

Microsoft Office Excel is a spreadsheet

application. It also allows you to

perform calculations and generate charts

and graphs.


What’s New?• Increased limits: 1 million rows, 16 thousand columns in a

single worksheet• Conditional formatting• Better Printing

• Excel Services!




Integration Points – Without Excel Services

• Export to Spreadsheet from SharePoint



Integration Points – Without Excel Services

• Export to Spreadsheet from SharePoint

• Search SharePoint via the research task pane



Integration Points – With Excel Services

• Save a workbook to Excel Services

Demo


Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007



What is it?

Microsoft Office PowerPoint is a presentation application.


What’s New?• Custom Slide Layouts• New effects (Shadow, glow, bevel, 3-D rotation, etc)• Presenter view



Integration Points• Slide library support


Demo


Microsoft Office Outlook 2007



What is it?

Microsoft Office Outlook is a

personal information

management application. It

supports email, calendar, task and

contact management.


What’s New?• Task integration on the calendar• Auto Account Setup based on your email account or network

login• Support for InfoPath forms• Instant search



Integration Points• RSS support



Integration Points• RSS support• Offline support



Integration Points• RSS support• Offline support• Tasks/Calendar

synchronization


Demo


Break

5 – 10 minutes

Microsoft Office OneNote 2007



What is it?

Microsoft Office OneNote is a note taking application.


What’s new?• Multiple Notebooks• Improved Search (speed, text recognition in pictures)• Outlook task integration• Shared Note Sessions



Integration Points• Create shared

notebooks hosted/saved on SharePoint


Demo


Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007



What is it?

Microsoft Office InfoPath is an application for

creating and filling out xml-based

forms.


What’s New?• Email integration and forms storage (Outlook)• Embed InfoPath forms in business applications• Template Parts allow for reusable content (shared form parts)

• Forms Server!



Integration Points – Without Forms Server


• Publishing to a Forms Library


Integration Points – With Forms Server


• Publish to a forms server


Integration Points – With Forms Server


• Publish to a forms server

• Compatibility checker

Demo


Microsoft OfficeSharePoint Designer 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007


What is it?

Microsoft Office SharePoint

Designer is a WYSIWYG HTML

editor that allows advanced

SharePoint customizations


What’s New?• Workflow• Improved intellisense



Integration Points• Workflow



Integration Points• Workflow• Create/Manage Sites

and Lists




and Lists• Modify Pages and

manage Web Parts




and Lists• Modify Pages and

manage Web Parts• Data View Web Parts


Demo


Microsoft Office Visio 2007



What is it?

Microsoft Office Visio is a vector-based

diagramming application


What’s New?• Ease of use: simpler template categories, larger template

previews• New Data Menu lets you connect to common data sources• Export to PDF/XPS



Integration Points• Use SharePoint Lists

as data sources



Integration Points• Use SharePoint Lists

as data sources• Visio Dashboard

Web Part


Demo


Microsoft Office Groove 2007



What is it?

Microsoft Office Groove is a peer-

to-peer collaboration application


Integration Points• Tools

– InfoPath– SharePoint

• Take SharePoint docs offline




More to come!

Resources

• Microsoft’s SharePoint Products and Technologies site– http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/default.mspx

• Microsoft’s Office Online– http://www.microsoft.com/office

• Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog– http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint

• The Inetium Blog Server– http://blogs.inetium.com

– SharePoint blogs listed under IW

Meeting Resources

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