Windows SharePoint Services - Basics
- Posted by admin
- 08 November 2009
- Blog
Introduction
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) is Microsoft’s fastest and largest growing server application. As a development environment, WSS has been defined as an ecosystem that operates by enabling development partners the ability to build and design new methods of enhancing the features and establishing third party integrations all into one solid and secure environment.
By adopting the SharePoint environment, applications will continue to benefit from the technology enhancements and new features that are supported by Microsoft or any Microsoft partnered organization.
Setting up a WSS Application
- Central Administration
- This is the source for all high level administration for the set up and maintenance of WSS applications and other important functions including site backup and restore
- Application Management
- Operations
Create New Web Application
- Authentication Provider
- Kerberos
- The most secure server authentication support by Active Directory
- Require a lot more configuration and is much more complicated to setup
- NTLM (NT LAN Manager)
- Easy to set up, virtually no configuration required
- Secure, but not as secure as Kerberos
- Kerberos
The difference is… When using Kerberos, any server component that the user invokes enjoys full network access
- Setup the content database
- WSS ships with a version of SQL Server Embedded Edition (SSEE). Therefore, no SQL Server license is required
- You can create the content database with an external data catalog, but you need to choose collation LATIN1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS
- Select a template
- Set a quota
- Create a site collection and reset iis
WSS Application Out-of-the-box
Depending on the type of site template being used, features will be available right away
- Announcements
- Calendar
- Document Library
- Workflows
- Content Versioning
- Many more… www.codeplex.com has a bunch of downloads and add-ons for templates as well
Site Actions
- Site Settings
- Zone for site collection configuration
- Main activities
- People and Groups
- Site Theme
- Web Parts
- Create
- Create new pages or add features to the current page
- Libraries, Communications, Tracking, Custom Lists, Web Pages
Customize Web Applications
- Customization Tools
- SharePoint Designer
- Customize pages and modify masterpages
- Visual Studio 2005, 2008
- Build customized Web Parts
- STSDEV
- Utility designed to quickly transform your ideas into real-world components that you can deploy into a staging or production Web. http://www.codeplex.com/stsdev
- SharePoint Designer
Preferred Development Environment
Unfortunately, to take advantage of the dev tools available such as STSDEV, it is required to run development on the WSS machine.
Debugging is available but configuration is necessary.
- Start Remote Debugging
- Attach to Process (ctrl + p)
