Use of Microsoft SharePoint at Landcare Research

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Use of Microsoft SharePoint atLandcare Research
Mike Cochrane March 2009
www.landcareresearch.co.nz
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About Landcare Research

• Crown Research Institute (CRI)
• Government owned, independent science company
• One of nine CRIs in New Zealand
• Approx. 52m annual turnover
• 450 staff over nine locations
• Extensive national and international linkages

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InfoFile

• InfoFile is Landcares implementation of
  SharePoint
• Not currently used for the Intranet
• Collaboration and Document Management
• Public Records Act
• Projects and Team sites

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Environment - Servers
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Environment

• MOSS Standard Edition
• Mainly Microsoft development tools
• Some other tools for GIS, science projects
• Microsoft Office 2003 (moving to 2007 this year)
• Outlook 2007
• Internet Explorer 6 (moving to 7 shortly)
• Looking at Colligo for offline access and easier
  email handling

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People

• Information Support Specialist
• Developer/Technical Support
• Technical Group
• Computer Support
• Governance Group
• IT Manager
• CSS Manager
• Library/Information Services Manager
• Users

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Business Taxonomy
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Site Collections
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InfoFile Home
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InfoFile Site Directory
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InfoFile - Teams
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InfoFile - Projects
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InfoFile - Projects
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InfoFile Contracts
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InfoFile Contracts
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InfoFile Contracts
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InfoFile Contracts
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InfoFile Staff Locator
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InfoFile Staff Locator
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InfoFile Staff Locator
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InfoFile Employee Kiosk
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InfoFile Employee Kiosk
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InfoFile Employee Kiosk
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InfoFile Employee Kiosk
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InfoFile Staff Locator
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InfoFile Staff Locator
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InfoFile Staff Locator
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InfoFile Staff Locator
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InfoFile - Help
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InfoFile - InfoCentre Integration
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InfoCentre - Workspaces
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InfoCentre Web Services
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InfoCentre - Timesheets
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Tools

• Telerik RAD Editor
• Visual Studio 2008 WSS 3.0 Extensions
• Sharepoint Designer
• CodePlex
• STSDEV Simple Tools for Sharepoint Development

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Still To Do

• Search
• Faceted search
• Repaying some technical debt
• Public Records Act
• More following up on site users
• Training
• Looking at the Intranet
• Moving to Office 2007
• Automating some tasks (Powershell)
• InfoPath

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Developing on Sharepoint