Sharepoint Workspace 2010 Licensing
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In Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) enables you to interact and search external systems securely from Microsoft Office applications and SharePoint Server.
Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010
In this article
External Data in Search
Secure Store Service
Business Data Web Parts
External Data in Workflow
Rich Client Integration
Sharepoint Workspace 2010, released July 15, 2010. Microsoft claims the name change is a natural progression since Groove is to SharePoint what Outlook is to Exchange. Support for SharePoint Workspace 2010 ended on October 13, 2020. If you are using this product for SharePoint sync, we recommend that you migrate to OneDrive. For more information, see Which OneDrive apphttps://support.microsoft. Microsoft SharePoint Designer (SPD), formerly known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, is a discontinued HTML editor freeware for creating or modifying Microsoft SharePoint sites, workflows and web pages. It is a part of Microsoft SharePoint family of products. SharePoint Designer 2007 is a part of Microsoft Office 2007 family, but is not included in any of the Microsoft Office suites. We are migrating to SharePoint 2010 and use workflows. I am trying to install SharePoint 2010 which I believe is a free product. Its prompting for a license key. Where can I find a licence key for this product? We use Office 2007 for Word, Excel, etc. Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive. Share them with others and work together at the same time.
Business Connectivity Services includes all the features offered by Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Foundation 2010, and in addition provides the following:
External data in search
Secure Store Service
Business Data Web Parts
Profile pages
External data in workflow
Rich client integration
External Data in Search
Business Connectivity Services enables you to search external data in SharePoint Server. SharePoint Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server uses the Business Data Connectivity (BDC) service to crawl and index external data, and offers full-text search on structured and unstructured data. Search also uses the BDC to perform query-time security trimming of external data. SharePoint Server 2010 provides the following support for search:
Efficient crawling through incremental crawls
Indexing of binary large objects (BLOBs)
Pulling of custom security descriptors at crawl time
Crawling customer's proprietary interfaces through the BDC pluggable connector model
Secure Store Service
The Secure Store Service replaces the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Single Sign On feature. Secure Store Service is a shared service that provides storage and mapping of credentials such as account names and passwords. It enables you to securely store data that provides credentials required for connecting to external systems and associating those credentials to a specific identity or group of identities. It is very common for solutions to try to authenticate to an external system in which the current user is known differently or has a different account for authentication. In such cases, Secure Store Service can be used to store and map user credentials required by the external system. You can configure Secure Store Service so that multiple users can access an external system by using a single set of credentials on that external system.
For example, if a user named 'Fred' has one account on the server that is running SharePoint Server and another in a Siebel application, the SharePoint Secure Store Service mechanism enables his Siebel credentials to be stored with his user profile in SharePoint Server. As a result, if he uses a solution from SharePoint Server to obtain data from the Siebel application, SharePoint Server looks up the Secure Store Service database on the server and provides his credentials to Siebel. In this way, Fred automatically logs on to the Siebel application without having to log on to the Siebel application separately.
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To provide similar functionality on Office clients, Business Connectivity Services provides a Secure Store provider that uses the Windows Credential Store.
In addition, SharePoint Server enhances the Secure Store Service functionality to include a pluggable single sign-on mechanism that enables you to use alternate Secure Store providers.
Business Data Web Parts
Business Data Web Parts are available only in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with Enterprise Client Access License.
Business Connectivity Services continues to offer the following Web Parts: External Data List, External Data Item, External Data Item Builder, External Data Related List, and External Data Connectivity Filter. These Web Parts rely on the BDC, and offer three main benefits:
No required coding, and reusability These Web Parts enable you to display external data on your portal site without writing any code. Also, these Web Parts are generic and reusable and can show any kind of data (external content type) that is registered in the BDC.
Connectability These Web Parts support Web Part connections and make it easier to create Master-Detail applications without writing any code. For example, you can display customers and their details by using the External Data List and External Data Item Web Parts by connecting them. These Web Parts can also be integrated in dashboards.
Customization These Web Parts support WYSIWYG editing in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 and can be customized by using XSLT transformations.
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The Business Data Web Parts are read-only and do not offer write-back capability to the external system.
External Data in Workflow
Although external lists do not specifically support workflows, workflows designed at a site or SharePoint list level can now access data from an external list. New workflow activities are also provided to read and write data to the external system.
Rich Client Integration
Rich client integration is available only in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with Enterprise Client Access License.
Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Server provides rich client integration by bringing external data to Microsoft Office 2010 applications. You can connect external lists to Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010. This enables you to work with external data such as native Outlook Item types (for example, Contacts, Tasks, and Appointments) in Outlook and in lists in SharePoint Workspace.
Business Connectivity Services also enables offline scenarios on external data in Outlook and SharePoint Workspace. Figure 1 shows how customers in the Northwind database are displayed in Outlook just as native Outlook contacts are.
Figure 1. Customers as Outlook contacts
In addition, Business Connectivity Services enables you to show external data columns in Microsoft Word 2010 by using External Item content controls. And by writing code by using the Business Connectivity Services object models, you can take external data to any Office 2010 application, including Microsoft Excel.
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Final release | 2010 (14.0.4761.1000) / June 15, 2010; 10 years ago |
| Operating system | Windows XP SP2 or later |
| Platform | IA-32 and x86-64 |
| Available in | Multilanguage[which?] |
| Type | Collaborative software |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | office.com/sharepoint-workspace/ |
Microsoft SharePoint Workspace, previously known as Microsoft Office Groove,[1] is a discontinued desktop application designed for document collaboration in teams with members who are regularly off-line or who do not share the same network security clearance. It is no longer included with Microsoft Office 2013. It has been replaced by a web-based service called SharePoint.
Groove's uses have included coordination between emergency relief agencies[2] where different organizations do not share a common security infrastructure and where offline access is important, and amongst teams of knowledge workers, such as consultants who need to work securely on client sites.It is also used as a staging system for documents in development, where content can be developed then transferred to a portal when complete.
Groove was initially developed by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie, and developed by Groove Networks of Beverly, Massachusetts, until Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks in March 2005.[3]
Collaboration tools[edit]
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Groove's basic set of services (including always-on security, persistent chat, store-and-forward messaging delivery, firewall/NAT transparency, ad-hoc group formation, and change notification) may be customized with tools.
Tools are mini-applications that rely on Groove's underlying functionality to disseminate and synchronize their contents with other members' copies of the workspace. Groove provides various tools that can be added to (and removed from) a workspace to customize the functionality of each space (for example a calendar, discussion, file sharing, an outliner, pictures, notepad, sketchpad, web browser, etc.).Tools that members use in a workspace often drive the nature of the person-to-person collaboration that ensues. In Groove 2007, the SharePoint Files tools can be used to take Sharepoint 2007document libraries offline.
Groove 2007 includes a presence subsystem, which keeps track of which users in the contact store are online, and presents the information in the launchbar. If Groove server is used, a user is considered online when they log on to the server. In absence of a server the Device Presence Protocol (which comes in different variants for LANs and WANs) is used. Groove also allows sending instant messages to peers. All session and user information is stored by the Groove client at client side.[4]
Versions[edit]
Groove Virtual Office 3.1 was the last version before Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks. The following versions have been released since:
Sharepoint Workspace 2010 Licensing Software
- Groove 2007 (Included in Office 2007 Ultimate and Enterprise editions and also available as a separate product), released January 27, 2007.[5]
- Sharepoint Workspace 2010, released July 15, 2010.[6]
Microsoft claims the name change is a natural progression since Groove is to SharePoint what Outlook is to Exchange. Microsoft asserts that features have been added to make it easier to deploy and manage, and claims that SharePoint Workspace will make it easier to access SharePoint content (or content from any server that implements the publicly documented protocols).[7]
Server application[edit]
Microsoft Groove Server is a tool for centrally managing all deployments of Microsoft SharePoint Workspace in an enterprise. It enables using Active Directory for Groove user accounts, and create Groove Domains, with individual policy settings.[8][9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Shaff, Reed (13 May 2009). 'Confirm or Deny'. Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering. Microsoft. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^Morello, John (October 2006). 'Building an Emergency Operations Center on Groove and SharePoint'. TechNet Magazine. Microsoft. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^'Microsoft, Groove Networks to Combine Forces to Create Anytime, Anywhere Collaboration'. News Center. Microsoft. 10 March 2005. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^Chou, Yung (October 2006). 'Get into the Groove: Solutions for Secure and Dynamic Collaboration'. TechNet Magazine. Microsoft. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^'Microsoft Product Lifecycle: Groove 2007'. Support. Microsoft. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^'Microsoft Sharepoint Workspace 2010 Life-cycle Information'. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
- ^Protalinski, Emil (15 May 2009). 'Office 2010: Groove renamed to SharePoint Workspace'. Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ^'Groove Server 2010'. TechNet Library. Microsoft. 12 May 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^'Groove Server 2010 features and benefits'. Microsoft Office website. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
Further reading[edit]
- Barbin, Fabrice (April 2007). 'Microsoft Office Groove 2007 / SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Microsoft Office SharePoint: The importance of common implementation'. Hommes & Process. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2009-08-26.
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