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Naqash Ahmed | Microsoft Student Partner

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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...

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Setting Expectations
• Target Audience
– Start-Ups
– Students
– Project Managers
• Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material
– mva.ms

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• 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!

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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

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01 | The Workplace Today
Naqash Ahmed | @Naqash_Biz

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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?

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02 | Definition of SharePoint

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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

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What it does?

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What it does?
• It integrates working environment
• Intranet
• Documents
• Collaboration
• Extranet
• Websites
• BI

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03 | Objects of SharePoint

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Functions
SharePoint
Sites
Communities
Content
Search
Insights
Composites

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Sites
• SharePoint makes websites
–People work together, place documents
–Collaborative work
–Single source for projects
–Common set of information

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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

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Content
• There will be lots and lots of content
• All forms, all policy manuals, all documents etc.

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Search
• Where to find those “content”? SharePoint has built-in search
engine.
• Search any single document, any individual, any community

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• We can analyse the work and aggregate information
• We can do reporting
• Statistics about the project workflow
Insights

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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

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SharePoint Logical Architecture

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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

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• 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

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Farm
Web
Application
Site
Collection
Subsites
with Lists

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Hardware & Software Requirements for
SharePoint 2013

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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

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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

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04 | Takeaways

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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

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