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SharePoint PortfolioA Visual Summary

Keith B. RimingtonApplication Developer

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Objective:

To implement SharePoint with

Corporate colors, fonts, and

themes enforced throughout

all sites.

Solution:

Created replacements for

default.master and

application.master.

Rather than modify original

SharePoint system files, and to

decrease upgrade risks,

implemented an HttpModule

that configures site theme and

master page at runtime.

Branding

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Objective:

To provide configurable

navigation items across all

sites.

Solution:

Implemented new

SiteMapProvider, using a links

list as a data source.

Added menu (green bar) to the

master page connected to new

provider.

Added page to Central

Administration to configure the

global links list on a per-

application basis.

Navigation

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Objective:

To provide visual cues in a

SharePoint list.

Solution:

Implemented new column data

type, called the Dashboard

Status Indicator.

Column type configuration

included support for 16 icon

sets, trending, text position,

and alignment.

The column appears in forms

as a drop-down list.

The column appears in

spreadsheets as text which

can be subject to conditional

formatting.

Status Indicator Column

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Objective:

To facilitate sorting, filtering,

and grouping by employee

information.

Solution:

Implemented new column data

type, called Personnel

Information.

The column supported up to

fourteen different employee

attributes, stored in an external

Oracle 10g database.

Adding a personnel

information column also

associated a list item event

receiver to the list, responsible

for retrieving the calculated

data.

Personnel Information

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Objective:

To provide special-case

reporting and visualization of

SharePoint data.

Solution:

Implemented web part based

loosely on the Open Source

project, ChartPart, to present

live data stored in a family of

SharePoint lists.

The utilized the library,

System.Data.Visualization, or

MSChart, provided by

Microsoft (now part of .NET 4).

This part supported a flexible

set of configuration options via

an editor part.

Business Intelligence

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Objective:

To provide insight into site

usage and promote

responsible disk consumption.

Solution:

Implemented a site usage

dashboard to supplement the

SharePoint storage manager.

The bar chart provides insight

into current storage versus

site quota.

The double-pie chart provides

insight into storage size of the

largest lists and libraries. The

outer ring is image-mapped to

the version settings page for

each list. The red slices in the

peppermint-candy inner pie

represent old file versions.

Site Analytics

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Objective:

To provide unified search

portal across multiple

SharePoint farms.

Solution:

Led a geographically

distributed, cross-

organizational team to

implement federated search.

Provided training and

examples to assist

administrators with their

implementation.

Federated Search

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Objective:

To provide multiple columns

on a lookup for use in list

calculations.

Solution:

Developed a column type and

list item event receiver to

provide additional calculated

columns based on an existing

lookup field.

Multiple Column Lookup

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Objective:

To provide enterprise reporting

of SharePoint list data.

To enable reports bound to the

SharePoint lists service, it was

necessary to resolve a conflict

between SharePoint’s handling

of null values in the Lists Web

service, and Reporting

Services method of inferring

schema from XML data.

Solution:

Created an enhanced Lists

Web service, allowing XML-

bound reports such as is

shown here.

Reporting

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Objective:

To increase effectiveness of

SharePoint administration.

Solution:

Developed several STSADM

extensions and PowerShell

modules to automate repetitive

tasks, including:

Bulk-starting workflows.

Copying menus between sites.

Bulk-purging list item and

document versions.

Bulk-updating access request

emails based on site owners.

Bulk-configuring search

scopes across site collections.

…and many more.

Automation

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Objective:

To increase effectiveness of

SharePoint administration.

Solution:

Developed PowerShell scripts

managing a variety of

automation tasks, including:

Packaging of .wsp solutions,

Staged solution installation

and upgrades,

Migrating data to/from

SharePoint lists,

Voice synthesis of SharePoint

list data,

Scheduled maintenance,

Ad hoc SharePoint Ninjutsu.

Automation (cont’d.)

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Objective:

To reduce maintenance costs

by consolidating legacy

applications into SharePoint.

Solution:

Utilized PowerShell to migrate

data from legacy databases to

new SharePoint lists.

Designed

lists, views, pages, and reports

to replace and improve legacy

application functionality.

Pictured at right is an

application developed by a

former intern, ported into

SharePoint.

Applications

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Objective:

To provide effective training to

end-users and administrators.

Solution:

Configured SharePoint site

dedicated to ongoing training

and user education.

Provided regular screencasts

using Camtasia Studio.

Provided navigation to publicly

available training from

Microsoft and its partners.

Reviewed and published user

submissions for training

materials and topics.

Training