SharePoint Saturday Chicago Suburbs 2016 - Modern Intranet Development Best Practices on SharePoint and Office 365
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This document provides contact information for Nik Patel, including his email, blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Slideshare profiles. It also lists his role as a Solution Principal at Slalom Consulting focusing on Office 365 and SharePoint platforms.
SharePoint Saturday Chicago Suburbs 2016 - Modern Intranet Development Best Practices on SharePoint and Office 365
- 2. About Me • Solution Principal, Slalom Consulting, Chicago • Current focus area Office 365 and SharePoint Platforms Contact Info • Email - patenik2@yahoo.com • Blog - Office 365 and SharePoint with Nik Patel - http://nikpatel.net/ • Twitter - @nikxpatel • LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/nikspatel • Slideshare - slideshare.net/patenik2
- 5. Communicate Corporate Portal Department Sites Resource Centers Context Personalized, Contextual, and Relevant Information Collaborate Team and Project Sites Internal and External Collaboration Converse Likes, Comments, and Open Communication Convey Design for Mobile and Touch Friendly Applying Organization brand – look and feel Customize Business Processes Automation Content Current and Frequently Updated Information Able to find and search content easily
- 8. https://www.nngroup.com/reports/topic/intranets/ Features and Trends • Emphasis on organization brand • Responsive design over stand-alone mobile apps • Flat and boxy layouts, simple and clean design • Visual design – photos and videos • Spotlights & news on home page • Better employee profile pages & personalized home pages • Blogs by both executives and regular employees • Emphasis on search • Use of pre-defined page layouts • Content curators and training for site managers • Mega menus and fat footers • Social comments and likes • Multi-language support Top 10 Sites Platforms 2016 – 7 SharePoint 2013, 1 Office 365 2015 – 4 SharePoint 2013, 1 SharePoint 2010 2014 – 4 SharePoint 2010, 2 SharePoint 2013 2013 – 7 SharePoint 2010 2011 – 5 SharePoint 2007
- 10. What’s it Good At • Sites Hierarchies & Taxonomies • Branding - Look and Feel Customizations • Lists as Data Storage • Document Library • Web Parts Architecture • Sites and Pages Templates Architecture • Wiki Pages, Web Part Pages, and Publishing Pages • Granular Permission Support • In-Built Search Engine • Sites and Permission Management Delegations • Customizations and extensibility support with App Model and APIs What’s it Isn't Good At • Social, Gamification • Multi-Language Support • Web Analytics and Usage Analytics • OOB Responsive Design Support • Accessibility Support • Mobility Support
- 13. 2014 Divesture (New) SharePoint Online 2013 2015 Refresh (New) Cold Fusion -> SharePoint 2013 On-Premises 2013 Refresh (New) Cold Fusion -> SharePoint 2013 On-Premises 2012 Divesture (New) SharePoint Online 2010
- 14. Architectural Details Hosting Platform SharePoint Online 2010 (Initial version of Office 365) Application Development Frameworks No full trust code, No CSOM across site collections, Apps Model wasn't even released, Sandbox with Code still considered as best practice for the online. Data Storage Architecture SharePoint Lists and Pages Library Information Architecture Site collections per department due to content size - client wanted to use both as collaboration team sites and communication platform, designed root site collection for corporate home and other corporate applications like news center & policy center but each department had dedicated site collections Branding and Experience Multiple master pages - search, my site, and intranet, no requirements for mobile & touch friendly, no requirements or needs for responsive UI, there was no trend of responsive UI Navigation SharePoint List in Root Site based navigation, used SP Services for cross-site data retrieval Site Templates Manual approach for creating department sites, save as site template doesn’t work publishing sites, no site collection provisioning APIs available in SPO at that time. Content Pages Templates Custom publishing page layouts for events, news, and leadership message articles, Wiki pages for quick article authoring. Web part pages for structured pages. Custom Widgets Custom sandbox web parts for departments and custom content query web parts for home page Rollups and Categorizations Some of the features required rolling up news & events & leadership messages from departments. Content Query web parts for root site collection rollups for news, Custom web parts using SPServices for cross-site collection rollups for events, Search based rollups for forms & policies, used content type hub to standardize the content types Code Packaging and Deployment No full trust but sandbox with code was still a best practice, used sandbox feature & solutions framework to package up artifacts and deployed in site collection galleries - style library, content types, web parts etc.
- 15. Architectural Details Hosting Platform SharePoint 2013 On-Premises Application Development Frameworks Used full trust code, Not much confidence in Apps Model as it was still new Data Storage Architecture Used both SharePoint List and SQL server for complex entities Information Architecture Architecture was multiple site collections for departments & community sites along with resource center Branding and Experience Used Master pages, CSS, and JavaScript to build custom UI Navigation Used custom database driven to build contents for mega menu, used cache for optimization Site Templates Used fully customized full trust based site provisioning engine to provision sites Content Pages Templates Used standard publishing page layouts for articles and web parts for content pages Custom Widgets Used full trust web parts Rollups and Categorizations Used Cross-site publishing and Content by Search web parts for News articles, used content type hub to standardize the content types for rollups Code Packaging and Deployment Typical full trust code - master pages, page layouts, web parts, page instances deployed as feature and solutions framework in 15 Hive
- 16. Architectural Details Hosting Platform SharePoint 2013 Online Application Development Frameworks No full trust code, No CSOM across site collections, Apps Model wasn’t matured, used OOB features Data Storage Architecture SharePoint Lists as data storage. Information Architecture Architecture was single site collection with root site and multiple department sub sites - client wanted separate collaboration team sites from communication platform, designed root site for corporate home and other corporate applications like news center & policy center and each department sites with dedicated permissions to delegate permissions as sub sites Branding and Experience Created multiple master pages with supported device channels to support multiple form factors. Created application, search, and my site master pages. Navigation Managed metadata based navigation. Limited to single site collection. Site Templates Manual approach to deploy site collections. Content Pages Templates Custom page layouts for article pages. Custom Widgets Custom content query web parts. Couldn't write any custom code using CSOM C# since Sandbox with code wasn't allowed instead used CSOM with JavaScript or REST API at places whenever data retrieval logic required. Rollups and Categorizations Custom Content Query web parts for root site collection rollups for news, forms, and policies, Content Search web parts wasn't available in SharePoint Online at that time Code Packaging and Deployment No sandbox with code but sandbox with declarative was still supported, used sandbox feature & solutions framework to package up artifacts and deployed in site collection galleries - style library, content types, web parts etc.
- 17. Architectural Details Hosting Platform SharePoint 2013 On-Premises Application Development Frameworks No full trust code, No Sandbox, both were supported but isn't a best practice for cloud readiness anymore. Data Storage Architecture Used SharePoint lists as data storage, there was no need for SQL for complex data entities. Information Architecture Architecture was single site collection with root site and multiple department sub sites - designed root site for corporate home and other corporate applications like news center and each department sites with dedicated permissions to delegate permissions as sub sites Branding and Experience Created custom master page with responsive UI, used Codeplex solution with Bootstrap Navigation Used managed metadata based navigation due to single site collection architecture. Site Templates Used custom site provisioning tool and deploy features necessary using Provider hosted model. Content Pages Templates Used standard SharePoint publishing pages. Designed these pages as responsive. Custom Widgets Used content editor, script editor web parts to design widgets to show data from SharePoint lists – Major benefit here is home page would be functional even if Search is down. Rollups and Categorizations Used content by search web parts to show rollup data - Major issue with this is rollup data view is delayed due to search crawl lag time. Code Packaging and Deployment Provider hosted high trust model used to deploy the artifacts as remote provisioning rather than feature- solutions framework.
- 20. On-Premises (Codeplex) Online (Office 365 PnP)
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- 25. Host Web App Web Add-in Hosting Servers CSS png aspx master js Web Services Databases SharePoint 2013/2016 On-Premises • Design Intranet on SharePoint Platform. • • Use either Database or SharePoint Lists as Data Storage. • On-premises hosted Provider hosted high-trust Add-ins as customizations and deployment framework. • Plan to use content search and script editor web parts rather than App parts. • Same URLs for both administrative and end-user UI, making maintenance quicker.
- 26. Add-in Hosting Servers CSS png aspx master js Web Services Databases SharePoint 2013/2016 On-Premises • Design Intranet as Standalone ASP.NET MVC or other development platforms application. • • Use either Database or SharePoint Lists as Data Storage and SharePoint sites hierarchy for sites architecture. • On-premises hosted Provider hosted high-trust Add-ins as intranet platform. • Multiple URLs - SharePoint UI for administrators (sites and lists structure & content storage) and standalone MVC ASP.NET or Angular JS Intranet application
- 27. Host Web App Web Add-in Hosting Servers CSS png aspx master js Web Services Databases Office 365 and SharePoint Online • Design Intranet on SharePoint Online Platform • Use either Database or SharePoint Lists as Data Storage • Plan to use Office 365 workloads in your intranet application in addition to SharePoint Online goodness - Delve, NextGen Portals, Video/KM Portal • Have Azure hosted Provider hosted low-trust Add-ins as customizations and deployment framework. • Plan to use content search and script editor web parts rather than App parts. • Same URLs for both administrative and end-user UI, making maintenance quicker
- 28. Add-in Hosting Servers CSS png aspx master js Web Services Databases Office 365 and SharePoint Online • Design Intranet as Standalone ASP.NET MVC or other development platforms application. • Use either Database or SharePoint Lists as Data Storage and SharePoint sites hierarchy for sites architecture. • Have Standalone application using Azure AD Consent framework to access Office 365 and SharePoint Online data. • Multiple URLs - SharePoint UI for administrators (sites and lists structure & content storage) and standalone MVC ASP.NET or Angular JS Intranet application
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