2. Naqash Ahmed | @Naqash_Biz
• Student of Bachelors in Software Engineering
• Microsoft Student Partner since November 2014
• I do.
– Windows Phone Development
– Web development
– Office 365 Administration
– SharePoint Development (*Beginner)
• Blogger at http://microsoftalkies.blogspot.com
• Speaker, developer, technology enthusiast and other good
stuff...
3. Setting Expectations
• Target Audience
– Start-Ups
– Students
– Project Managers
• Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material
– mva.ms
4. • Microsoft Virtual Academy
– Free online learning tailored for IT Pros and Developers
– Over 2M registered users
– Up-to-date, relevant training on variety of Microsoft products
Join the MVA Community!
5. Course Topics
What we will be learning today…
01 | The Workplace today 06 | SharePoint Logical Architecture
02 | Definition of SharePoint
07 | Hardware & Software Requirements for
SharePoint
03 | What it does? 08 | How to get SharePoint 2013?
04 | Components of SharePoint
09 | Q&A
05 | Objects of SharePoint
6. 01 | The Workplace Today
Naqash Ahmed | @Naqash_Biz
7. Workplace today!
• More demands , less resources
• Information Overload
– How can I prioritize my work?
– How to react to over increasing data and workload?
• Globally distributed partners/teams
– How to contact them?
– How to coordinate with them on projects?
• High cost of communication
– Skype? Facebook? WhatsApp?
9. Definitions
• What an end-user think SharePoint is?
– Website factory
– Document Repository
– Collaboration
– Project Workplace
– Search Engine
• What an IT Pro or Developer think SharePoint is?
– ASP.NET 4.0 App
– Windows Server, IIS, SQL Server
– Cloud
14. Sites
• SharePoint makes websites
–People work together, place documents
–Collaborative work
–Single source for projects
–Common set of information
15. Communities
• When sites are shared, they turn into community
• It is a team-site
• Invite people from different sets of views
• Helping others in their projects
16. Content
• There will be lots and lots of content
• All forms, all policy manuals, all documents etc.
17. Search
• Where to find those “content”? SharePoint has built-in search
engine.
• Search any single document, any individual, any community
18. • We can analyse the work and aggregate information
• We can do reporting
• Statistics about the project workflow
Insights
19. Composites
• Ability to create custom apps, custom libraries
• Makes SharePoint extensible
• Makes solutions on customized set-of-views
• Users will be able to solve problems on their own
21. SharePoint Logical Architecture
• Server Farm
– Outermost boundary of SP
– Collection of SharePoint servers
• Service Applications
– A resource that can be shared throughout a farm.
• Application Pool
– A web server based on IIS
– More apps, more app pools
22. • Web Application
– With SharePoint, web applications can be made inside IIS quickly
– It will be ASP.NET web application
• Site Collection
– Each web application has one or more site collection
– Buckets of individual websites
– Represents administrative boundaries of a web application
• Lists and Libraries
– Both are similar as they are documents or data
26. Hardware Requirements
• Processor
– 64 bit, four cores
• RAM
– 4 GB (minimum) for developer
– 8 GB (minimum) for multiple farms
• Storage
– 80 GB (minimum) system drive
27. Software Requirements
• Windows
– Windows Server 2012 R2 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2
• Framework
– .NET Framework 4.5
– Windows Identity Foundation
– Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime
• Web Server
– IIS
29. How to get SharePoint 2013?
• https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-
products-and-free-trial
• https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-
licensing-overview
• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262957.aspx
