I will be deploying MOSS in our environment and migrating our current SPS 2003 sites/information in the very near future. Phase 1 will be the creation of the MOSS structure and Phase 2 will be the migration of data (in-place). I am wanting to develop the MySite feature to the point that our users (IT staff only, 15 departments and about 100-250 users) can make it their launchpad/home page.
Here are some of the things that I will be trying to work in:
- link back to MOSS Portal (I know that there are multiple blogs/posts about this)
- Pre-population of user's information based on the data fields in their AD account (Profile info: department, phone number, email address, ect)
- LDAP query to display user's picture from physical access badging system (IVIS)
- Toolbar to display quicklaunch of user's available Citrix applications ( I know that I can enable the web portion on the Citrix servers and serve up apps based on AD security groups)
- Ability to Pass-Through AD credentials to Citrix apps (SSO??)
- My Tasks web part (for assigned Project tasks)
- Relevant Documents web part
- Inbox and Calendar web part (OWA)
- RSS web part (for future purposes)
Those are just the items that I know of right now. I imagine that after more research I will be wanting to incorporate more default web parts that pull information based on the user's OU level within AD. I'm trying to design this good enough that our staff can have access to everything they need from this one site (email, tasks, personal links, work links, HR info, Cafeteria menu, ect). The ability to launch Citrix applications from the MySite is very important. We have the AD structure in place and currently link to the ica file from the existing intranet pages based on login ID. However, the user still has to log into the application. I need to find a way for MOSS to pass through the credentials to Citrix when the user establishes a connection from their MySite.
Any ideas, comments, suggestions, concerns, or links would be very appreciated. I'm the only SharePoint person in our organization and area. So there is not an audience to bounce ideas off of other than this forum :)
Cheers,
Steve