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What a Good SharePoint Consultant Should Know!

August 23, 2008

Everyone who can spell SharePoint

o            What is Sharepoint?

 

Sharepoint is the portal. It is developed by Microsoft. This is used to create Content Management System web sites. We can develop individual sites, team sites and enterprise portals.

 

o            What is the difference between Sharepoint Portal Server and Windows Sharepoint Services?

 

Sharepoint Portal Server features are very high. Search portal and navigations are most important features of the Sharepoint Portal Server.

 

Windows Sharepoint Services are used to create CMS Web sites and blogs, Forums and document sharing Libraries.

 

o            What is a document library?

 

To share a document that referenced in news, articles published site.

 

o            What is a meeting workspace?

 

Meeting workspace is used to store information about particular organization employees work related tasks meetings (related information). And also place the minutes of the meeting and each person task details.

 

o            What is a document workspace?

 

To share a document with others, we create a document workspace site. We can easily share documents and some other files. We can give each and every file permissions.

 

o            What is a web part?

WSS 3.0 has a new infrastructure called Web Part. The WSS Web part classes are derived from ASP.Net Web Part Class. It is supported by Widows Sharepoint Services 3.0. We can also create connectable web parts. The connectable web part is connected to any other related web part. These two connected web parts are has some programs.

 

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o            What is the difference between a document library and a form library?

 

Document Library has documents and content, which gets stored in the Sharepoint content database.

Form Library has an Info path XML forms. When submitting with InfoPath Form Services, the submitted data is generated as XML which refers the original form template .XSN. The XML files are stored in Document Library.

 

o            What is a web part zone?

 

Web Parts are displayed by using Web Part Zone. The WebPartZone class derived from WebZone and WebPartZoneBase classes. A Web Part zone is a WebPart container that can be configured to control the organization and format of the Web Parts contained in it.

 

o            How is security managed in SharePoint?

 

Sharepoint using three types of user authentications. There are Windows, Form and Single Sign On.

Security Socket Layer (SSL) is also used for authentication in Sharepoint. Authorization, Authentication and Impersonation these are configured by config file.

 

o            How are web parts developed?

 

WebParts developed by using Visual Studio .Net 2005. It offers many Sharepoint templates like Site Definition, Web Part etc. And also using Widows Class Library.

 

o            What is a site definition?

 

A Site Definition is a group of files that used to define a unique type of Sharepoint Site. Example, one site definition defines the Team Site, Blank Site, and Document Workspace templates, and another site definition defines the Basic Meeting Workspace, Blank Meeting Workspace, Decision Meeting Workspace, Social Meeting Workspace, and Multipage Meeting Workspace templates.

 

o            What is a template?

 

Templates are built-in solutions for applications, business portals, Design and Look & Feel. Sharepoint has a some pre-build templates. The templates are customizing and deploying in to the server.

 

o            How do you install web parts?

 

  1. Open the Command prompt in Visual studio .Net.
  2. Find the path for you developed web part dll file path.
  3. Type the command gacutil /I  dll name, then press enter.
  4. Reset the IIS using iisreset command.
  5. Open the Folder “C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\” Open the web.config file. Copy the SafeControl for your installed web Part. And Open your web site config file, paste here the SafeControl tag.
  6. Open your web site. Go to Site Actions > Site Settings > Site collection Features. Now find and activate your installed web Part.
  7. Next, go to site settings> Web Parts here click the “New” link. Here find your installed Web Part and select. Then press “Pop up Gallery” button.
  8. Now you can add web part any page in this site.

  

o            What is the difference between a site and a web?

 

Site is defined as Website. It has many subsites.

Web is a single subsite of the Site.

 

o            What are the differences between web part page gallery, site gallery, virtual server gallery and online gallery?

 

1. Web Part Gallery has a many WebParts.

2. Site Gallery has a many site galleries. For example. Shared Document, Calendar, Announcement, Lists, Tasks, Team Discussion.

3. Virtual Server Gallery has developer developed web parts are stored in a particular server.

 

o            What is the GAC?

 

GAC is Global Assembly Cache. Each computer where the CLR installed has a machine code is called GAC. It stores assemblies. We can use GAC to install the web parts in Sharepoint application.

 

o            What is a DWP?

 

DWP means Dashboard Web Part. The DWP files are importing to the Sharepoint Site after we used.

 

o            What is CAML?

 

CAML is Collaborative Application Markup Language. It is the XML based language. That is used to build a customize web site based on Sharepoint services. It is used to get a list values, particular data in a list.

 

o            What are themes?

 

A theme is a collection of CSS and Graphics. That are modifying / customizing how a web site looks you want.

A Basic web site needs a graphical look and feel. Sharepoint has a some built-in themes. We can create new themes is possible for Sharepoint site.

 

o            What is presence?

Groove features include presence information, chat, application sharing, file sharing, contacts, messaging, project management, data sharing, and content synchronization.

  

o            Can web parts be connected? If so, how?

Yes. Two web parts has sharing information in a runtime. We use the Connection Interfaces to create Connectable Web parts.

 

o            What is a personal view and what is a shared view?

 

A Web Part page view has two views. There are Personal view and Shared View.

 

Personal View: This view is set by each user. For example, one user has changed the list in some format. The changes will not see the other users.

 

Shared View: This view web part designs and any thing is not changed by users. Users will not be changed these types of web parts. The site admin can change the web part view and anything

 

o            What is an STP file?

 

STP means Site Template. We can create new site definition. This definition has webparts and list (there are derived from default Sharepoint components). We can save the file for .stp format.

 

o            What is an FWP file?

 

FWP file is nothing a backup file for Sharepoint site. We can restore and backup the Sharepoint site.

 

o            Can you upload MP3’s to SharePoint?

 

Yes. (http://manish-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2008/06/playing-audiovideo-files-within.html)

 

o            how does SharePoint support MS Outlook integration?

 

We can use some features from OutLook in Sharepoint, ex. Calendar and contacts

 

o            How can you extend lists in SharePoint?

 

We expand the size of the lists. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Central Administration.

 

 

o            Explain the document versioning in SharePoint document libraries

 

We can maintain version in all Sharepoint libraries and lists.  When we upload or update any document, while Sharepoint creates version.

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o            Where is web part resources contained?

 

The WebPart resources can not part of the DLL, because there are used in url based. Like images, jscript files. The WebPart is installed in GAC and Bin directory.

 

o            What are the different installation methods for deploying web parts? And what are the pros/cons?

 

  • We use GAC
  • We develop web part in Windows Class Library. While the web part once runs, it will install automatically in GAC.

 

o            What is a ghosted/unghosted page?

 

A Ghosted Page is modified by Sharepoint Designer. Example, Master page.

An Unghosted Page is not modified by Sharepoint Designer. Example, forum pages, calendar lists etc

 

It has another one page there is “Reghosted” it means by Reset to Site Definition

 

o            How is site data stored?

 

In Database.

 

o            Where is metadata for a web stored?

 

Meta Data is stored inside XML files on the server or SQL Server database.

 

o            What is an audience and describe the use?

 

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/syllabi/3370bfinal.mspx#EJB

 

The primary audience for this clinic is the IT Professional who generally works with both Windows and Office technologies. The types of duties that are typical of this IT Professional are administrative and support duties such as planning and deployment of Office server products in a Microsoft Windows environment, configuration and security administration, and updates of Office upgrades and patches. The target audience for this clinic is IT Professionals that want an overview of what Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is, and how to deploy it.

 

o            What are the trust levels and what is the default trust associated with Sharepoint?

 

The Sharepoint Trust Levels has Security and user interaction with the site. 3 types. There are WSS_FULL, WSS_MEDIUM, WSS_MINIMUM.

 

 

o            What are the two logging mechanisms for usage statistics?

  • All default log files are stored in \%windir%\system32\LogFiles\STS this path.
  • Virtual server Folder. It’s like a cache.

 

o            What functionality does owssup.dll provide for client side activities?

 

The owssup.dll is used to create Single Sign On in Sharepoint Portal Server.

 

o            What is the difference between a site owner and a site administrator?

 

Site Owner has only individual site and sub sites access only.

Site Administrator access all site and Central Administration

 

o            What is STSAdm and what can it be used for?

 

It is used to create/manage sites, lists, web parts etc..

 

o            Can WSS search subsites?

 

The Subsite has a unique permission of the parent site, we can search subsite content. Until we can’t search Subsite Content.

 

o            Can you register alerts for users?

 

No, the admin can give some permission.

 

o            Are PDFs searchable?

 

Yes, but default is now. We can use IFILTER type functionality do this moment.

 

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o            What is a SharePoint farm?

 

It is a deployment scenario, we have two are more server to host Sharepoint. It is 3 types.

1. Small Server, 2. Medium Server, 3. Large Farm.

 

o            Describe a large deployment

 

2 Sharepoint servers 2 SQL Server 1 Search Server 1 Clustering Server. It is called large deployment.

 

o            How can you synchronize custom Active Directory attributes to SharePoint?

 

Profile Importer from Shared Services Provider.

o            If it is anticipated that our organization would need to store 1 terabyte of documents, what is the recommended configuration and storage requirement?

 

It is based on your users count.

 

o            Describe the implementation of SharePoint and Project Server

 

We can use Project server web parts inside Sharepoint portal server and also create dashboards on Sharepoint pages and can also create custom WebParts using PDC and .Net.

 

o            What are the BKMs for workflow and SharePoint?

                                                   

o            Explain how you would deploy SharePoint on an extranet

 

Usually servers that are accessible from external sources are housed in DMZ’s. Depending on the requirements and the workflow for publishing content you could go with Multiple Servers hosting the same information. One server would reside inside with the SQL Cluster while the external server resides in the DMZ simply calling data. Security would be handled by the same or different active directory domain clusters as well increasing security.

 

o            What is the BKM for maximum number of virtual servers configured for SharePoint on a single box?

 

15 Virtual servers.

 

o            What are the migration strategies for moving sites around?

 

You could use the Sharepoint Portal Server backup and restore tool as well as the STSADMIN and GUI STSAMIN tools. We have migrated database from the SQL Level and have simply reconnected the front end.

 

o            What are the archiving strategies?

 

o            Describe the search strategies?

 

o            Can you implement forms-based authentication with SharePoint?

 

Yes. We can implement forms-based authentication with SharePoint.

 

o            Describe how single sign-on works

1. Easily maintain Role and group users’ information in one place.