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For owners of SharePoint
• SharePoint is a great platform for document management and
collaboration; however the capabilities and costs of SharePoint as
a Web Content Management System make Sitecore a very
compelling choice
• Multiply the value of SharePoint by publishing Intranet content to
public-facing websites and extranets
• Leverage the additional functionality offered by the Sitecore
Customer Engagement Platform including Engagement Analytics,
Personalization, MVT, Email Campaign Manager, Web Forms for
Marketers, Engagement Automation
• Bi-directional content access, with Single Sign On if required
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Features and capabilities
• Real time connection
• Views
• Folders
• Search
• Performance tuning
• Staging
• Limit requests to server
• Item limit
• API for customization
• AD single sign-on or service account
• Bidirectional item provider
• Configuration wizard
• Works for SIP and CMS
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Which versions of Sharepoint are supported?
• Works with SharePoint web services
• WSS
• All editions of SharePoint 2007
• All editions of SharePoint 2010
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Levels of integration
• Page-level integration
• Item-level integration
• API
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Page-level integration
• Primary use: intranet
• What it does:
• Seamlessly displays SharePoint lists in SIP
• Adds Menu items direct from SharePoint into SIP
• Display and interact with SharePoint content in real time
• Why?
• By surfacing live lists or menus from areas of SharePoint the SIP
users have up-to-date information from SharePoint in a familiar format
• Where there is no need to “synchronize” content for repurposing this
integration simply provides a view into the SharePoint server
• Sitecore controls
• Announcements, Documents, List, Search, Tasks, Web Menu
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SharePoint List Component
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SharePoint Web Menu Component
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Item-level Integration
• Primary use: external-facing web sites
• What it does
• Expose SharePoint content as Sitecore items
• Including Media library integration
• Bi-directional – content changes from SharePoint can update the
Sitecore items and vice versa (configurable)
• Why?
• Much of the content stored in SharePoint may prove useful for the
website e.g. job listings created by HR, by bringing the content in as
Sitecore items they can be used in the website and presented
according to the look and feel of the site.
• No more silos of content in the organization – SharePoint content can
now be used on websites without incurring the licensing costs from
Microsoft.
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SharePoint announcements as Sitecore items
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SharePoint documents in the Sitecore Media Library
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API
• Expose Sharepoint content through an object model
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• API uses Sharepoint web services
• Sharepoint does not need to be installed on the Sitecore server
• Sitecore pipelines for handling content creation and modification
• Sitecore  Sharepoint (create, update, delete)
• Sharepoint  Sitecore (create, update, delete)
• Convert field values (example: date formats)
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Architecture
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