SharePoint Server 2007 for MCMS 2002 Developers
Introduction to Office SharePoint Server 2007 As a Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 developer, you know that MCMS 2002 proved to be a great product for content management, and you have probably used MCMS 2002 successfully to maintain your sites. Some of the tasks for MCMS 2002 required the development of custom code that was costly to design, write, and maintain. In addition, repetitive code needed to be rewritten for almost every MCMS 2002 application. With Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS 2002 SP2, you no longer needed to write code for site navigation, for search integration, or to have more flexibility authoring workflows on each site. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 unifies content management and collaborative solutions to assist you in creating dynamic, highly customized, content-centric Web sites faster and easier. Office SharePoint Server 2007 default functionality frees you from the routine work of creating custom code for common tasks, and in addition, offers the following new features:
Extensible workflow
Enterprise Search engine
Multilingual site publishing
Recycle bin (new for SharePoint Server)
RSS feeds
Single Sign On
As an experienced MCMS 2002 developer, you can quickly use your Web content management knowledge in SharePoint Server 2007. You no longer have to deploy a solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and a solution based on MCMS because, in SharePoint Server, you can develop a single solution that includes both content management and collaboration capability. SharePoint Server is built upon Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and offers a powerful new API.
You have access to built-in Web Parts, lists, document libraries, templates, workflows, and RSS. This article provides a side-by-side comparison of the development concepts in MCMS and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with SharePoint Server 2007, to help you get up to speed quickly. This article does not provide code examples or step-by-step instructions for using SharePoint Server, but instead points you to the equivalent SharePoint Server concepts so you can know where to find additional information. This article provides a side-by-side comparison of the development concepts in MCMS and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with SharePoint Server 2007, to help you get up to speed quickly. This article does not provide code examples or step-by-step instructions for using SharePoint Server, but instead points you to the equivalent SharePoint Server concepts so you can know where to find additional information.
Terminology Changes Because Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on the Windows SharePoint Services platform, MCMS 2002 terminology has changed or been replaced to fit more naturally with its SharePoint foundation. The following table presents a one-to-one mapping of the main MCMS 2002 elements and their SharePoint Server 2007 equivalents or replacements. Read More