SharePoint Publishing Portal

Client Business Area: The Company provides CRM services.

Case Details

The company wanted to create public facing site using SharePoint® Publishing feature. The website has been created using SharePoint® publishing features. All the publishing pages, web part pages, required lists are placed inside SVN Source safe and the one installer batch (.bat) script will create web application at IIS level and create the website and sub-site inside that web application. Once website has been created, STSADM commands provision requires publishing pages using SharePoint feature. Only one batch file (.bat) will create whole site as SharePoint solution package (WSP).

Following are the main objective that client wanted to achieve.

  • To create SharePoint WSP (Solution package) and install in newly created site.
  • Logging at each level when installer script is running.
  • Use of custom STSADM command by http://stsadm.blogspot.com/
  • Apply best security policy for public facing site.

Technologies

  • Microsoft ® Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • ASP.NET Framework 2.0
  • MS SQL Server 2005
  • AJAX
  • Windows Server2003 (Deployment Platform)

Challenges

  • Customization of SharePoint master page to achieve the design.
  • SharePoint Publishing Portal
  • Custom STSADM commands.
  • Refactoring to enhance the performance.
  • Cross browser compatibility
  • Create one install.bat file that create site in IIS and publish all the pages and feature as SharePoint solution package.

Achievement

Atomizing SharePoint site creation with predefined features and setting using STSADM commands.

Advantages

Get rid of performing repetitive job to create site with repetitive settings and contents with security.

Salient Features

One single STSADM script will create site in IIS and publish all the designed pages content and features to newly created site using .bat file. Minimize the efforts for creating site with great amount of accuracy.

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