INAUGURAL MEETING
We will be holding our first meeting on May 12th, 2010, from 6pm – 8pm EST at the Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD) Center. Our speaker will be Chris Bortlik of Microsoft, presenting “Introducing SharePoint 2010”. Our first meeting will also coincide with the official launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Watch the live launch event during the day, and come and see SharePoint 2010 in action at night!

 

A little bit about Chris…
Chris Bortlik works at Microsoft as a SharePoint technology specialist. He works with Enterprise customers and partners in the Northeast in a pre-sales technical role. Chris speaks frequently at Microsoft events (including the SharePoint Conference) and is a contributing author of the upcoming “Essential SharePoint 2010″ book. He also publishes a blog on TechNet at: http://blogs.technet.com/cbortlik/  Prior to joining Microsoft in 2008, Chris was a customer for 14 years working in technical IT architect, development and management roles – primarily leading .NET and SharePoint related projects.

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SharePoint Saturday has been held in almost 40 cities world wide.  If you or your company are interested in sponsoring or hosting the event in your area contact us.  To learn more about SharePoint Saturday visit the main web site at:
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org

This event coming up on Februay 27th, 2010 is going to be fantastic.  We have 30 speakers (some local and some from all over the country flying in) to speak about SharePoint 2010 and MOSS 2007 topics in three different tracks: End User, Developer, and Administrator.  Architects may be interested in all three.   To learn more about the speakers and sessions SharePoint Saturday event in Boston, visit:
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston

Look forward to seeing you there!

Talbott Crowell

SharePoint = WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 (or both)

WSS = Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
MOSS = Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007

The previous version of SharePoint was WSS 2.0 + SPS 2003 (SharePoint Portal Server), but we will be talking about WSS 3 and MOSS 2007 here.

WSS is part of Windows Server, specifically Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.  It is not automatically installed.  You must first install IIS (Internet Information Server) and ASP.NET 2.0, plus .NET 3.0.  These components are found either on your Windows Server media (CD/DVD) or through Windows Update.  The important thing to understand is WSS is part of your Windows Server license.

MOSS is a separate product.  MOSS requires either a MOSS Standard or MOSS Enterprise license.  These both install from the same media, just require a different activation key.  MOSS builds on top of WSS and adds additional components such as enhanced search, My Sites, Business Data Connector, Excel Services, and other features.

WSS and MOSS offer many of the same collaboration features:

• Site provisioning
• Document management (check in/check out)
• Discussions
• Wikis, Blogs, RSS Feeds
• Basic workflow
• Custom lists

MOSS builds upon WSS and adds:

• Additional workflows
• Web content management (web publishing features)
• Records management
• Auditing
• Additional search such as people search
• My Sites (each user has their own personal site with public and private areas)
• Enterprise features such as Excel Services and BDC

Both WSS and MOSS use SQL Server to store content and configuration.  If you don’t explicitly install or configure SharePoint to use a specific SQL Server instance, the stand alone installation will create something called Windows Internal Database (which is a variant of SQL Server Express).  This special version of SQL Server should be avoided for most business installations of SharePoint.  But you can use Windows Internal Database for development, demo, or trial instances of SharePoint.

For more information about the differences here are some more descriptions:

• Microsoft Office Online: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Edition Comparison
• Craig Bailey on Microsoft: CLARITY: SharePoint - WSS versus MOSS
• SharePoint for End Users: Differences between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007

Automating SQL Server Database Creation for SharePoint

In this session, Talbott will discuss the use of the SharePoint API for provisioning content databases in SQL Server to store documents. There are several scenarios that you will want to control and manage the database creation when building specialized applications using SharePoint. Topics include planning and estimating size requirements plus strategies around partitioning data into content databases. Attendees include SQL Server DBA’s supporting SharePoint installations and applications.

When: Saturday, January 24 at 11:15 AM to 12:30 PM

Where: Microsoft Waltham Office, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA

Register: Click to attend