Share Point Faq

Q What is Sharepoint? Ans: Portal Collaboration Software. Q What is the difference between SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services?Ans: SharePoint Portal Server is the global portal offering features like global navigation and searching.Windows SharePoint Services is more content management based with document libraries andlists. You apply information to certain areas within your portal from windows sharepoint Services or directly to portal areas. Q What is a document library? Ans: A document library is where you upload your core documents. They consist of a row and columnview with links to the documents. When the document is updated so is the link on your site. Youcan also track metadata on your documents. Metadata would consist of document properties. Q What is a meeting workspace? Ans: A meeting workspace is a place to store information, attendees, and tasks related to a specificmeeting. Q What is a document workspace? Ans: Document workspaces consist of information surrounding a single or multiple documents. Q What is the difference between a document library and a form library? Ans:Document libraries consist of your core documents. An example would be a word document,excel, Powerpoint, visio, pdf, etc… Form libraries consist of XML forms. Q What is a web part zone? Ans: Web part zones are what your web parts reside in and help categorize your web parts when designing a page. Q How is security managed in SharePoint? Ans: Security can be handled at the machine,domain, or sharepoint level. Q How are web parts developed? Ans: Web parts are developed in Visual Studio .Net. VS.Net offers many web part and page templates and can also be downloaded from the Microsoft Site. Q What is a site definition? Ans: It’s a methods for providing prepackaged site and list content. Q What is a template? A template is a pre-defined set of functions or settings that can be used over time. There are manytemplates within SharePoint,Site Templates, Document Templates, Document Library and ListTemplates.

Q How do you install web parts? Ans: Web Parts should be distributed as a .CAB (cabinet) file using the MSI Installer. Q What is CAML? Ans: CAML stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an XML-based languagethat is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to define sites and lists, including, for Eg, fields, views, or forms, but CAML is also used to define tables in the Windows SharePoint Servies database during site provisioning. Q What is a DWP? Ans: The file extension of a web part. Q What is the GAC? Ans: Global Assembly Cache folder on the server hosting SharePoint. You place your assemblies there for web parts and services to share them. Q What are the differences between web part page gallery, site gallery,Virtual server galleryand online gallery? Ans: Web Part Page Gallery is the default gallery that comes installed with SharePoint. Site Gallery isspecific to one site. Virtual Server gallery is specific to that virtual server and online gallery aredownloadable web parts from Microsoft. Q What is the difference between a site and a web? Ans: The pages in a web site generally cover one or more topics and are interconnected through hyperlinks. Most Web sites have a home page as their starting point. While a Web is simply a blank site with SharePoint functionality built in; meaning you have to create the site from the ground up. Q What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related to Microsoft OfficeSharePoint Server 2007? Ans: Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web site for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services — a key piece of theinformation worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 — providesadditional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and itserves as a platform for application development.Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provideadditional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search,Enterprise content management,business process and forms, and business intelligence. Q. Who is Office SharePoint server 2007 designed for? Ans: Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be used by information workers, IT administrators, and application developers.

Q. What are the main benefits of Office SharePoint Server 2007? Ans: Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet,and Internet applications across the enterprise. * Business users gain greater control over the storage, security, distribution, and management oftheir electronic content, with tools that are easy to use and tightly integrated into familiar,everyday applications. * Organizations can accelerate shared business processes with customers and partners acrossorganizational boundaries using InfoPath Forms Services–driven solutions. * Information workers can find information and people efficiently and easily through thefacilitated information-sharing functionality and simplified content publishing. In addition, accessto back-end data is achieved easily through a browser, and views into this data can bepersonalized. * Administrators have powerful tools at their fingertips that ease deployment, management, and system administration, so they can spend more time on strategic tasks. * Developers have a rich platform to build a new class of applications, called Office BusinessApplications, that combine powerful developer functionality with the flexibility and ease ofdeployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Through the use of out-of-thebox applicationservices, developers can build richer applications with less code. Q. What is the difference between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007? Ans: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server2007 have identical feature functionality. While the feature functionality is similar, the usagerights are different.If you are creating an Internet, or Extranet, facing website, it is recommended that you useMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites which does not require the purchase client access licenses. Websites hosted using an “Internet sites” edition can only be used forInternet facing websites and all content, information, and applications must be accessible to nonemployees.Websites hosted using an “Internet sites” edition cannot be accessed by employees creating, sharing, or collaborating on content which is solely for internal use only, such as an Intranet Portal scenario. Q) What is the diffrence between Site & WorkSpace Q) What is SSP and its use

Q) Could we create many SSP for one web application? Or we can integrate many web applications to one SSP? Q) What is lookup column and it use? Q) What is webpart? Q) Whys of creating the webparts? Q) What is WSB tool and its use? Q) What is workflow? Q) Why WWF? Ans: 1. Workflow coordinate work performed by people and software. 2. Workflows are long running and stateful 3. Workflows are based on extensible models 4. Workflows are transparent and dynamic throughtout their lifecycled. Q) Types of work flows Q) What is WWF, WCF, WPF