C ommunity K it for S harePoint (CKS)

1. Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) Yvonne M. Harryman Microsoft Senior Consultant yvonne@harryman.com www.yvonne.harryman.com

2. Agenda • Who is the CKS team • Show me what you got • What is currently under development • Future direction

3. Who Are We? • Team: • Microsoft • Microsoft Partners • MVPs • SharePoint enthusiast from around the world!!! • Vision: a community-driven project that exists alongside the official product releases from Microsoft, exploring and extending the functionality of the product while at the same time providing a set of sample applications, best practices, and reusable modules that extend and support SharePoint.

4. Show me what you got…Editions • Enhanced Wiki Edition (EWE) • Enhanced Blog Edition (EBE) • User Group Edition (UGE) • Intranet/Extranet Edition (IEE) • External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint (ECTS)

5. Enhanced Wiki Edition (EWE) • Wiki Discussions – The Wiki Discussions feature extends MOSS 2007 Wiki sites to include integrated discussions. For each Wiki Page, a SharePoint Discussion Board page allows you to maintain a threaded discussion on the topic. These are fully integrated so that the discussion thread simply appears as another facet of the wiki page; deleting and renaming are automatically synchronized • Frequently Asked Questions/Table of Contents – through the introduction of some custom markup, this allows for the wiki-based construction of a Table of Contents containing links to tagged content on the current page. • Enhanced Wiki Markup – through the use of custom tokens, textual formatting (bold, italics, underline, etc) can be introduced using standard wiki markup.

6. Quick Demo Enhanced Wiki Edition (EWE)

7. Enhanced Blog Edition (EBE) • Theming • Modular Theme Framework (MTF) - no need to wrestle with the default blog master page - start from the HTML you want and simply insert the blog content via XSL. • Friendly URL's - blog post URL's that look like /archive/2007/08/25/sharepoint-chart-tool.aspx instead of /Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=37 • 5 very cool themes to use as-is • Linkbacks (aka Trackbacks) • Send linkbacks to other blog posts you are linking to in your EBE blog post (these show up as trackbacks on the other blog) • Receive linkbacks from other blogs who are posting about your blog post (these show up as trackbacks on your EBE blog) • Spam control • Akismet integration to detect comment spam • CAPTCHA to help block comment spam at the source • Option to automatically delete spam to recycle bin • Option to automatically approve spam-free comments • RSS • Custom RSS link (e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/myblog) • Post trimming (only a portion of post is sent via RSS) • Specify RSS feed item count • Category specific feeds (e.g. /rss.xml?cat=coolstuff) • Validates W3C: This is the W3C Feed Validation Service, a free service that checks the syntax of Atom or RSS feeds. • Miscellaneous • Securing of system pages (e.g. so anonymous users can't browse your lists and libraries using SharePoint UI) • Metaweblog API to support Windows Live Writer and migration tools. • Client Date/Time - displays date/time in time zone of user instead of server

8. Quick Demo Enhanced Blog Edition (EBE)

9. How can I get one? • If you are Microsoft you can go get it at sharepoint.microsoft.com • If you are not I am aware of 1 company but there are others • RackSpace the contact would be Jeff Deverter

10. User Group Edition (UGE) • The Community Kit for SharePoint: User Group Edition (or CKS:UGE) 1.0 is a site admin template (.STP file) designed for user group websites. The default settings and content of a SharePoint site that's been created with this template can be used with minimal modification by any Microsoft product oriented user group.You can access the CKS:UGE (English) demo site at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/cks/uge.The French demo site is at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/cks/uge-fr.The German demo site is at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/cks/uge-de.The Simplified Chinese demo site is at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/cks/uge-cn.

11. Quick Demo User Group Edition (UGE)

12. Intranet/Extranet Edition (IEE) • Web Parts • Membership request • Login • Recover Password • Change Password • Easy Configuration • Place on multiple pages • Registration CAPTCHA • Self-registration through custom web parts

13. External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint (ECTS) • Microsoft Solution Accelerator: Free tools and guidance from Microsoft. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/default.aspx • Capabilities and Features • Provision New Site Collections • Provision New Users

14. ECTS: Provision New Site Collections • Create Site Collection. This Web Part allows an approved user either to create a new site collection (if workflow is not enabled), or request that a new site be created. • Site Collection Manager. This Web Part shows an internal user all of the sites that they currently own. The user can navigate to one of the sites listed or delete the site. • Site Collection Approval (optional). This Web Part gives an administrator the option to approve or deny site collection creation requests.

15. ECTS: Provision New Users • Add External User. This Web page allows an approved user to create a new external user account (if it does not already exist) or give an existing account access to the site collection. This page is analogous to the SharePoint New User page. • External User Manager. This Web Part allows administrators to view all external users within the SharePoint environment and to perform common management operations on external users who have been created in ADAM. These operations include to: • Delete. Removes the external user from ADAM. • Disable/Enable. Toggles the account disabled attribute in ADAM, which prevents the external user from logging on to the SharePoint site. • Reset Password. Resets the external user’s password in ADAM. • Modify Profile Information. Allows the administrator to change attributes of the user’s profile. • External User Approval (optional). This Web Part gives an administrator the option to approve or deny external user account creation requests.

16. ECTS: Additional Features • Configuration Utility. This Web Part allows administrators to modify how the software works. Settings that can be changed include the SMTP host, mail sender account, workflow for site creation and user creation, and so forth. • Update My Account Information. Provides self service profile update functionality. • Forgotten password reset. Provides functionality to help external users who have forgotten their passwords. • Forms-based authentication. Lets external users authenticate using a logon form. • Gather profile information at first logon. Directs external users to a Web page to input profile information.

17. Show me what you got… Components • Virtual-Earth Maps • World Clock and Weather • Chatterbox • Tag Cloud • Taxonomy-Tagging Starter Kit • Windows Live Authentication • Group Email

18. Virtual-Earth Maps • VE Map Web part • Custom PushPin DB • Developed by MS IT • Full source available

19. World Clock & Weather • Specify multiple locations • Full Source • Calling web services • Custom Editor

20. Chatterbox • Based on ASP.NET • Persistent chat functionality of the previous version • Color coded chat entries and presence detection.

21. Tag Cloud • Tag Cloud web part – displaying tags in weighted format. The popular a tag is, the bigger it’s shown.

22. Taxonomy/Tagging Starter Kit Allow users to tag content and set preferences for content they would like to see and save it to their profile

23. Taxonomy/Tagging Starter Kit Here's a screenshot of the customized CQWP that shows a single "Interesting Page" link compared with a default CQWP that shows the same link plus an "Not Interesting Page" link.

24. Coming Soon Community Kit for SharePoint

25. Enhanced Blog Edition (EBE) 2.5 • Some of the 2.5 Features **Coming Soon** • Issue Fixes • Ability to export post to PDF • Localization (FR & ES) • Ability to theme wiki pages • Ability to show your Tweets in a web part on the home page • Ability to theme Wiki pages • Technoroti Tags • Ability to bookmark post with Delicious, Digg, Technorati, facebook, Twitter, Reddit

26. Workbook – A Social Networking Community • Consider it the facebook for communities via SharePoint • Features • Interest: Members will have the ability to maintain a list of skills, roles, capabilities and interest • Associates: Members can create associations "Friend Request" • Communities: Members will be able to create and join different communities/projects of interest • Activity Log: track and show activities about your associates in the different communities/projects with the ability to comment • 2 Versions: One for WSS and another for MOSS which will integrate with you’re My Site

27. What is Next? The Vision Community Kit for SharePoint

28. Focus Areas • The Community Kit for SharePoint moving forward will have four main focus areas: • Editions: standalone projects that provide significant functionality on their own. • Components: Components are granular elements that provide very specific functionality that are used to build the Editions • Tools: Used in the development or maintenance of the CKS project elements • Documentation: Material that will help users learn or continue to learn SharePoint

29. Steering Committee • Overall ownership of CKS will be by a steering committee that consists of: • One Microsoft sponsor: Dave Pae. • One Microsoft project owner: Yvonne Harryman. • One community project owner: David Mann. • The steering committee is responsible for the overall direction of CKS as a whole and keeping all CKS projects moving forward.

30. Organization – Parent CKS Site • The parent site will exist at www.communitykitforsharepoint.org and will be hosted on WSS. It will include: • information about the project as a whole • marketing information • links to related resources • descriptive information about each project • information about team members • information about CKS processes, standards, etc • Any output from the Documentation project • links to each child site • private communications between team members (Lightning Tools has donated a copy of their SharePoint Forums software for this) • Links to demos of the editions

31. Organization - CodePlex • Each project will have its own Codeplex site, addressable as www.codeplex.com/cks<project_name> . • It will be used for information, source control, bug tracking and public discussions about each specific project. • Common homepage layout

32. Project Qualification LevelsStill Being Defined • White Belt – basic requirements to even get listed as being part of CKS • Clean installation and uninstallation • Follow CKS namespace/class naming guidelines • Documentation • Pass SPDisposeCheck • Red Belt – Fully documented plus some code analysis for basic SharePoint practices/requirements • Blue Belt – highest level of code analysis for SharePoint practices/requirements • Black Belt: Load Testing

33. Reasons to Get Involved • By putting your knowledge to the test in the community you learn develop from the experts themselves • Access to a network of other community leaders • Recognition by peers as an expert in the technology you choose to evangelize • Role model for others aspiring to learn in your field • Boost your career development • Community involvement is a step in the right direction for awards such as the Microsoft Valued Professional (MVP)

34. Thank You!!!