SharePoint Architect

Core:

•IIS 6/7

•Windows Server 2003/2008

•DNS/WINS (Name Resolution)

•TCP/IP & other network considerations

•SQL Server 2005 Advanced Administration (Backup, Monitoring, Logshipping or Database

Mirroring)

•Basic Firewall rules and Proxy

•IT Infrastructure Design

•Hardware Acquisition (RAM, CPU, Disk I/O, and other hardware considerations)

•Performance Monitoring

•Capacity Planning, Growth Management

•Workflow (Windows Workflow Foundation)

•Client Troubleshooting & Support: IE, Firefox, Safari, Office XP, 2003, 2007, etc...

•HTML & Client side scripting (Javascript, AJAX, DHTML, XSL, XSLT, XHTML)

•Exchange and SMTP integration (Inbound and Outbound email including contact objects)

•High Availability: Microsoft Cluster Services, Windows Network Load Balancing

•Storage: Appliances, HBAs, SANs, Archive Storage

•Backup Solutions: Various Tape, Hardware and software snapshots, software nearline and offline storage
(soon to add DPM 2007)

•Hardware load balancing, ISA Secure Web Publishing

•IAG (Internet Application Gateway) Whale Communications

•Single Sign on integration

•Connection Monitoring & Troubleshooting (ADO.NET, Web Services, CDO)

•Global Deployments - Multi farm deployments

•Dev, Test, Staging, Production - Staged deployments

•MOF, ITIL, MSF Frameworks and strong understanding of the development life cycle
•Virtualization - Virtual Server 2005, Virtual PC, VMWare

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Solutions:

•Internet Publishing

•Internet Community Portal

•Intranet Central Search Portal

•Intranet Departmental Dashboard Portal

•Intranet Collaboration

•Business Process Management

•Extranet Collaboration

•Document Management

•Records repository

•BI Solutions

•Search Center or Intranet and Internet Search Solutions

•Reports Center

•Mobile Solutions

•Remote employee solutions

•Multi lingual solutions

•Project Server

•Web 2.0 Solution: Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking (Profiles & My Sites)

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Extended:

•AD (Group Policies, Security Groups, DLs, Contacts, authentication, and attributes for profile import)

•Desktop Management (IE settings, Office deployment, storage and collaboration considerations)

•MOM Systems Center Operations Monitoring of performance and system health of servers and
dependencies

•WAN and Network performance testing and considerations, (minimum performance levels) caching

•File Services & (extremely light... policy SMS and Patching considerations)
•Antivirus management solutions like Forefront

•Presence Integration (LCS, Office Live Communication Server, SMTP and SIP)

•Understanding and supporting Dev: ASP.NET, C#, Assemblies, GAC, Bin, web.config, web parts, web
part connections, missing assemblies

•MIIS in cross forest or resource forest scenarios or dynamic security groups

•Migration Skills: Public Folders, Documentum, Lotus Notes, CMS, WebSphere

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Interop and Integration:

•Office Interoperability (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook)

•Project Server deployment

•Microsoft Dynamics (CRM, ERP, AXAPTA, GreatPlains, etc...)

•Infopath forms troubleshooting and basic design skills (XML, HTML)

•Visio integration , Biztalk

•SharePoint Designer for workflows, CSS, Design, etc...

•Reporting and Analysis Integration: SQL Reporting Services, SQL Analysis Services

•SAP integration with Duet

•BDC Siebel web services integration

•Oracle Financials integration in BDC and Excel Services

•Other ADO.NET BDC connections: includes various CRM, ERP, DBMS

•Commerce integration in Internet sites

•Web Services integration

•Documentum, WebSphere

•Search/Indexing Integration

•Data warehouses RDBMS

•Single Sign on solutions and integration with client certificates, smart cards, and 2 factor auth

•N tiered web apps, web services, and stores , Samba and NFS?
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