Ben RobbMVP, SharePoint ServerCTO, cScape Ltd

Interoperability Overview:All Roads Lead to SharePoint

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Interoperability Challenges

Enabling applications that work together Application IntegrationDeveloper Resources

Accelerating collaboration, workflowManaging heterogeneous environmentsSupporting key standards to enable better future interoperability

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SharePoint 2010 Interoperability

StorageExternal

Data

Search

UI Platform

Data AccessIden

tity

BCS

REST

CMIS

Open Search

HTML Standards

Claims

RBS

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UI Interoperability

Core ScenariosGreat user experience across all common browsersEasier for a web expert to understand

Expanded cross-browser supportWell-formed HTML/CSS outputWCAG 2.0

Core featuresCross-browser rich-text editorFirefox open/save integration

UI

User Interface

DEMO

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Identity Interoperability

3rd party authentication“My company doesn’t use Windows Integrated Authentication on its web sites.”

Delegation to back-end systems“I would like to show data from some other server on a SharePoint web page.”

Iden

tity

Multi-Signin with Claims

Active Directory

LiveID

ASP.net Membership Trust

SharePointSTSClient

SharePoint

Security token

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Service token request5

Identity ProviderSecurity Token Service

(IP-STS)

SAML Based

SharePointAuthorization

ClaimsProviders

Trust

Authentication Request

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Request Resource with service token

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Security token response6

Request Resource

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Authenticate Request/Redirect

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Iden

tity

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Standards

WS-Federation 1.1Provides the architecture for a clean separation between trust mechanisms, security tokens formats and the protocols for obtaining tokens

WS-Trust 1.4How to request and receive security tokens

SAML Token 1.1XML vocabulary used to represent claims in an interoperable way

Iden

tity

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Search Interoperability

Core ScenariosQuery a 3rd party search engine using SharePoint UIFederate queries to multiple search systemsIndex content from a range of content repositories

Search

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OpenSearch

Standard (Creative Commons) for syndication and aggregation of search resultsSyntax for executing queriesResults returned in RSS/ATOM + extensionsSupported by Microsoft Search Server 2008

Clients: Windows 7, IE, FireFox, SharePoint …Providers: Amazon, Flickr, Wikipedia, SharePoint…

Search

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OpenSearch Clients

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Interoperable Indexing

Content Indexing via BCSDatabases, web services or custom repositoriesConsistent access to external contentSharePoint Designer and Visual Studio Plug-in

Search

Search

DEMO

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Data Interoperability

Core ScenariosDisplay and interact with 3rd party data using familiar SharePoint UI mechanismsConsume SharePoint data using 3rd party UIDevelop against SharePoint data using standardized data access protocols

Data

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CMISGoals

Proposed standard for interoperability between Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories and applications.Includes a “domain model” and support for 2 protocols: SOAP & REST/Atom. Designed to be mapped onto existing ECM system

HistoryStarted in October 2006 by IBM, EMC, MSFT.

Expanded in 2007 to include: Alfresco, OpenText, Oracle and SAP.

Transferred to the OASIS Technical Committee as of 9/10.

Data

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Conceptual Architecture

Disclaimer: Product Plans by individual companies TBD

Data

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Target Scenarios E-Discovery:

Enable e-Discovery applications that can work against any repository, while still leveraging key ECM concepts like object types & metadata, relationships and versioning.

Archival:Enable consistent archiving of information from business systems to CMIS-compliant repositories

Compound / Virtual Document:Enable consistent modeling, discovery and persistence of compound document relationships for CMIS-compliant repositories

Data

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3rd Party Client on CMIS Providers Data

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SharePoint Client on CMIS Providers Data

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RESTAccess to SharePoint lists and document libraries

RESTful interface over HTTP Uses the ADO.NET Data Services interface conventionsFeature rich: retrieve, update, browse data using just URLs and XML/JSONLow barrier of entry: if you have an HTTP stack you can use it

Visual Studio integrationEntirely built on top of the open RESTful interfaceNo client required, Visual Studio creates proxies, visualizes schemas, provides LINQ support

Sample:GET http://myserver/_vti_bin/listdata.svc/ConferenceSessions?$filter=Level gt 200

Data

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External Data

Core ScenariosShow LOB data in my SharePoint UIBuild end-to-end client+server applicationsEasily connect custom applications into SharePoint

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Business Connectivity Services

Office Apps

BCS Client Runtime

DevPlatform

Business Intelligence

Enterprise Content Mgmt

Collaboration Social

EnterpriseSearch

Web 2.0DBWCFWeb ServiceLOB

SharePointDesign Tools

Visual Studio

SharePoint

Designer External ListsExternal Content Types

Business Data Connectivity

Data DEMO

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Investment Areas

• Extend Office and SharePoint‘s UX and capabilities to External Data and Processes

Presentation

• Read-Write capable connectivity from client and server to Databases, WCF/WebServices and .Net sources

Connectivity

• Integrated tooling experience scales from simple solutions to advanced Pro-Dev apps. Solution packaging, deployment and management.

Tooling

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Storage Interoperability : RBS

Store document contents outside SharePoint’s SQL databaseUsing a solution from a storage provider partner

SQL RBS Client Library

Provider Library X

BLOB Store X

Relational Access

Provider Library Y

Provider Library Z

BLOB Store Y

BLOB Store Z

RBS Maintainer

Provider Library

Provider API

SharePoint Object Model

ContentDatabase

SQL Server

ConfigDatabase

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SharePoint Interoperability

Working end-to-end scenariosSharePoint + 3rd Party systemsAll levels of the architecture

Interoperability PrinciplesEnsuring Open ConnectionsData PortabilityEnhanced Support for StandardsOpen Engagement

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SharePoint 2010 Interoperability

StorageExternal

Data

Search

UI Platform

Data AccessIden

tity

BCS

REST

CMIS

Open Search

HTML Standards

Claims

RBS

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Summary

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Resources

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