School of Information Systems

IS305: Enterprise Web Solutions Term 2 2012/2013

Week 10 Lab: Using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Personalisation features

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SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IS305 ENTERPRISE WEB SOLUTIONS LABORATORY EXERCISE

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OBJECTIVE AND LEARNING OUTCOMES OBJECTIVE

The objective of this exercise is to provide students with basic skills in utilising personalisation features in Enterprise web portals. Estimated time to complete the Lab: 60 minutes

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the laboratory session, students should be able to: 1. Create an audience and target an audience at selected portal users 2. Configure user profiles and create new user profile properties 3. Set up and use MySite features

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LAB SETUP

All required software and services for this and subsequent lab sessions have been installed on the VMware image. Below is the list of software and services: Software Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (you may use Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, too) SharePoint Designer 2010 Visual Studio 2010 Professional SQL Server 2008 Professional edition .NET Framework 4.0 Services Internet Information Services 7.5 Login credentials for the virtual images: User: administrator, Password: password1 (Foundation) User: administrator, Password: pa55w0rd# (Server)

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GRADING POLICY

This lab is a non-graded lab. It is, however, required to submit the outcome of the lab to get full attendance marks for this class.

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LABORATORY EXERCISE

For this lab, you will need to refer to the INNOXX Inc. case study (the content has been extended) to understand the background of the tasks carried out in this lab. In this lab, you will be watching three videos which show you how to perform the following tasks on Microsoft SharePoint 2010: 1) Creating user profile properties: a. Using the User Profile Service Application to i. create new user profile properties ii. edit existing properties 2) Creating and customizing audiences: a. Using the User Profile Service Application to i. create new audiences ii. manage audiences iii. compile audiences iv. create and manage audiences rules 3) Creating new objects in a SharePoint site and targeting those objects via an audience to a selected users of the portal There are three videos: 1) Video 1 User Profiles.wmv 2) Video 2 MySite.wmv 3) Video 3 Audiences.wmv User Profiles.wmv video shows how to locate the User Profile Service Application and how to use it to extend the User Properties collection of the SharePoint Server. MySite.wmv video shows how to open the MySite of a particular user and how to use this site to maintain and manage personal details. Audiences.wmv video shows the setup of an audience in SharePoint and compilation of this audience. This video also shows how to use audiences to target specific information to a group of portal users who fulfill specific conditions (i.e. who mention specific terms in their user profile properties).

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Please note: when watching videos you will need to switch to Full screen mode to get best results.

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PROBLEM EXERCISE

Create a new user property called research interests. Task 2: Create a new audience Discussions: Common research which targets users who either have mentioned the term epidemiological as their research interests or have entered the term dermatological in this field. Task 3: Create a new discussion board in the main INNOXX Inc. portal (call it Discussions: Common research and add one discussion to it (title: Discussion 1, description: Dermatological research on diabetes-related drugs). This discussion board should be added to the main page just below the Epidemological research - Discussion series announcement board. Task 4: Set up the MySite for the user Alberto Ramirez. Modify the field research interests the way that both, Alberto Ramirez as well as the administrator see the new discussion board, but only administrator still sees the announcement board created in the video exercise.

Submission

In your submission video you need to show the new user property created in the User Profile Service Application. In addition, you need to open the INNOXX Inc. main portal and demonstrate that your audience settings are working (i.e. logging in as administrator shows two announcement boards, logging in as Alberto Ramirez shows only one). The video has to be zipped and uploaded to eLearn. Please use the following naming policy for your video submissions: Lab 6_[your name]_[your section].zip For example: Lab 6_IlseBaumgartner_G1.zip Note: For some hints how to use Expression Encoder to take screen shot videos please refer to a document available on eLearn in the Lab 1 folder.

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