Tyler Butler on SharePoint Server 2007 at MIX07
Added: May 3rd, 2007 (tagged with: coding, conference)
Microsoft MIX07 Developer Breakout Session: DEV06 - Internet Sites with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Tyler Butler, Program Manager at Microsoft and fellow IIT alumni, recently gave a presentation at MIX07 on using MOSS with public-facing web sites. Most of my experience with SharePoint comes from my tenure at SPSS where it was used as a document management system. What is really nice about what I have seen in MOSS 2007 is that SharePoint makes it easy to author, brand, and control the publishing of web pages as well as other documents and pulls SharePoint away from the old stereotype of being "just for documents".
Tyler recently moved his personal site over to MOSS (documented here: Building tylerbutler.com on MOSS). While he did a good job maintaining his old layout under the new platform, it still felt like the SharePoint I have been used to. In his presentation however, Tyler takes us to Hawaiian Airlines, who recently also made the move to MOSS and, while it is not perfectly smooth, does show the power MOSS has at developing rich web applications and breaking away from the old SharePoint "just for documents" look-and-feel.
