Human-Computer Interaction: Microsoft Sharepoint - Coursework Example

MS Sharepoint
“ "SharePoint" is a shorthand that some people use to refer to one or more Microsoft SharePoint products or technologies.” quotes the website of the official makers of the software package.

The package of Microsoft Sharepoint includes the following technologies:
• SharePoint Foundation 2010

The web pages on these sites may be enabled with collaboration via web pages, other documents, and of course, data, etc.

• SharePoint Server 2010
This component of the Ms. Sharepoint Package is the server in the setup of SharePoint just in accordance with its name. It takes Sharepoint Foundation as its baseline upon which it grounds itself. It is characterized by the property to organize site administration, compiling of lists and libraries, and customization of the website concerned.

Since SharePoint Server banks on SharePoint Foundation for all its basics it naturally incorporates all its properties along with its own. Significantly its own properties include The Content Management of an Enterprise, Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence, enterprise search, and personal profiles through My Sites.

Cloud-based services such as Microsoft Office 365 can also be incorporated within SharePoint Server.

• SharePoint Online
The very latest and the foremost with respect to the most current technological needs of the say, SharePoint Online is a cloud-based solution provided by the Computing giant Microsoft. It is suitable for businesses of all sizes. Instead of having the need of incorporating the entire massive structure of MS SharePoint within its premises any business can now log onto the cloud server of the application package. The only requirement is that a subscription needs to be done and the employees of the organization/ business setup can be provided with an enterprise-grade solution for creating sites. These sites would enable sharing of documents and information with partners, customers, and colleagues.

• SharePoint Designer 2010
The web pages that run on the SharePoint paradigm can be designed, built, and customized using this utility.

• SharePoint Workspace 2010
“SharePoint Workspace is a desktop program that you can use to take SharePoint site content offline and collaborate on the content with others while you are disconnected from the network. While you and other team members are offline, you can make changes to SharePoint content that will eventually synchronize back to the SharePoint site.” (Microsoft, 2011)

MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT 2010 DEVELOPMENT
With the onset of Microsoft SharePoint 2010, organizations all over the world started switching to it at a much higher rate than before. This as a result encouraged the targeted software development for the SharePoint environment. The SharePoint application development is extremely simple. The main reason behind the simplicity is that SharePoint applications are not actually created. Instead, they are actually extended. The Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 offers built-in applications that are designed to cater to the needs of different environments with rich possibilities. The SharePoint developers just have to customize selected applications by adding some additional features. Sometimes the application development starts by extending a fully operative website.

SharePoint Farms
SharePoint Farm is a collection of multiple servers that work hand in hand to facilitate the deployment of the SharePoint applications. These servers individually offer different facilities and can be configured accordingly on the basis of customized needs of applications like publishing etc.

SharePoint Solution Packages
The application is deployed using SharePoint Solution Packages. A solution package is a zipped set of developed files with a .wsp extension. The main idea is to make deployment easy and secure through one single functioning solution package.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 contributes significantly to the growth of SharePoint application development. A specialized new set of tools for SharePoint application development is included in Visual Studio 2010 that helped in pacing up the development along with abstraction of lower-level complexities.

Development Building Blocks
The most common type of component in an MS SharePoint solution is a “Feature”.