IT help needed on Sharepoint

Does anyone on here have a good general knowledge of SharePoint from an IT Infrastructure and Business Intelligence point of view? Could you answer a few questions about it's implementation, differences between WSS and MOSS, infrastructure, licensing, etc?

Thanks

[timwilky]

please pass any information to me as well.

After 10 years we are abandoning notes and going micro$oft. 50,000 users worldwide. Exchange & Sharepoint are to be our way forward. 2 microsoft hosted clusters to manage our global email. I think it will be a nightmare.

My boss tells me I need to get to grips with Sharepoint and Oracle Apex as they are the UK business key to future survival

Just started playing with this myself and it's a bit of a pig getting a development environment working. First off, if you want to develop through Visual Studio you have to install it and develop on the server (ok if you've got VMWare or similar), which basically means you can't connect remotely to a Sharepoint site via Visual Studio (2005/2008 and 2010). If you're used to developing sites in Visual Studio then you'll pretty much have to start again with your structuring and way of thinking. A good tool I found is WSPBuilder:

http://wspbuilder.codeplex.com/

You can download Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer 2007, but it's ****e.

I'm playing with Webparts at the moment and I'm trying to host a web user control inside a webpart. Once I've got that working I'll be able to share some more knowledge.

Cheers,

Paul

[timwilky]

I did a bit of work on a couple of web parts about 2 years ago, the idea being to implement a traffic light(red/yellow/green) system against a set of rules seemed to work but damm slow. (more an exercise in building and processing a rule base to dashboard realtime NetIQ data as analysis centre did not do the work we wanted, Off Topic)

All I know at present is that everything is to go MS 10. great when our MS office is still office 2000. I have just asked for a dev system based on sharepoint 2010 beta. first stumbling block is our hosting centre doesn't yet support server 2008.

So I am playing with sharepoint 2007 on a VM at home.

Something to consider if you're going to implement Sharepoint 2010 - it's 64-bit only:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/arc...uirements.aspx

We're running Sharepoint 2007 at the moment and have no plans to upgrade in the near future.

Cheers,

Paul

Its stuff like

• How would you secure it if accessing from the web, with an authentication challenge, possibly requiring two-factor such as RSA SecurID? IAG? Don't mind SSL VPN's if they are transparent to the user as in IAG and they are created automatically on log-on, but using VPN clients for IPSEC is not an option. Pure SSL hitting an AD authentication page is not secure enough.
• If you use MOSS and want indexing and searching facility on file share data and exchange public folders, what kind of bandwidth would you need between sharepoint and the rest of the infrastructure which would be in a different DC
• What is the DB compatibility if you want to include data from Non-Microsoft applications in your data cube for sharepoint analysis and reporting?

I need to talk to customers about it and architect hosted Sharepoint solutions, from simple DIY WSS collaboration sites, right up to bespoke MOSS enterprise Business Intelligence. We do have a Sharepoint partner we can enegage when it gets complicated, but at the moment I am completely wet behind my Sharepoint ears.

If any of you want to buy any sharepoint consultancy let me know