Presented by Ted Pattison
I chose this session out of curiosity to find out more about Sharepoint. Not having noticed the "4" in the code for this session I wasn't expecting a deep dive introduction but hey, even though it was the first session of the day, I managed to keep up with this one!
Ted started the session off with an observation that there were hardly any delegates in last years SharePoint sessions and the reason for the increase in numbers at this years sessions was probably due to developers being "diagnosed with SharePoint development responsilbilites".
Ted notes 3 phases that you go through with SharePoint:
Phase 1 - Denial. "SharePoint is an end user thing! Developers don't use SharePoint". Developers are used to having access to nice toolsets. But SharePoint doesn't have any of that so when developers start to use SharePoint they move into Phase 2...
Phase 2 - Anger.
Phase 3 - Acceptance. Ted wants to use this session as a self help group to get from Anger to Acceptance.
Unlike asp.net which is purely aimed 100% at developers, SharePoint is aimed at the end user.
WSS - Windows SharePoint Services
WSS is licensed as part of Windows Server 2003. It has out-of-the box collaboration features. It is essentially a site provisioning engine which provides core workspace services - an engine for creating, running and managing sites.
It is the development platform.
There is built-in versioning - it is possible to revert to previous versions of sites.
MOSS - Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (2007)
Unlike WSS, MOSS is licensed separately. MOSS sits on top of WSS. It is a unification of SPS 2003 and CMS 2002. There are huge changes between 2003 and 2007 with 2007 containing lots more functionality.
Microsoft have rearchitected the platform to sit on .net 2.0.
More to follow...
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