Adam Macaulay is responsible for research and development of the technology platform driving the success of CorasWorks products. He has over 14 years of experience, 12 in Microsoft and 8 in SharePoint, developing Internet Applications that have taken internal, cost ineffective solutions and turned them into profitable Internet applications that continue to exist today.

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Planning Applications/Solutions on SharePoint

In this session you will learn about how to plan and leverage the SharePoint platform needed to build applications. Application planning will cover data structures (List Design), UI (Site Design), Security, and Governance (Management). This will help you understand when you will need to develop technology, when you will need to integrate external systems, and when you should consider the MOSS enterprise. With this proper planning you will be able intercept any of the issues that normally would stop projects in their tracks and instead build successful applications.

SharePoint Administrator for medium size biotech firm.  Active member of Baltimore SharePoint Users Group.  Devoted husband and father of three boys.  Coaches a Boys U12 club soccer team.  Plays soccer in spare time.

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How to drive Adoption of SharePoint in Your Organization

Your organization has decided to implement SharePoint.  Now what?  It’s not:  “Build it and they will come.”   If you want to drive adoption of SharePoint, you’ll need to start thinking about how to engage the users from the very beginning.  In this session, you’ll learn tips and techniques that will help drive adoption of your SharePoint and have it provide real business value for your organization.

Speaker, SharePoint Services MVP, Principal Trainer, and Technical Writer for CallahanTech. Author of "Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0." With over ten years of experience working on, writing about, and teaching others to use Microsoft products, Callahan travels around the US speaking at conferences and user groups about Windows SharePoint Services. When she's not either traveling, speaking, (prepping for said speaking engagements), or writing about WSS, she is working with clients to get the most out of their SharePoint implementations.

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The Frugal Admin, Do it yourself dashboards

Dashboards are easy, depending on what you want to do with them. Why pay for one when you can roll your own? Come see the secrets of the simple dashboard; how to create the views, the web parts, and the web pages that make a site's home page more relevant from management to worker. See how far you can go out of the box before you spend a dime.

Cathy Dew is a graphic designer and SharePoint Consultant for CTS in Birmingham, Alabama. Cathy comes from an Advertising Agency and Graphic Design background, so her focus is on User Interface Design and User Experience with sites. She has worked on many SharePoint installations to brand SharePoint and make it look “Not like SharePoint”. She is also the President and Founder of the Birmingham SharePoint User’s Group

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SharePoint Branding: Themes and Master Pages Working Together

In this session, I go over how to create a simply custom theme and minor edits to a master page. How to use them for creating a custom intranet portal that utilizes some rollups from sub site sections.

Chris Donlan is a Senior Consultant at Sogeti USA, where he has acted as the lead SharePoint developer on several high profile projects in the New York office. Chris has expanded on his broad-based knowledge of SharePoint to focus on developing custom SharePoint search solutions and publishing sites with MOSS. Chris holds a Computer Science degree from Florida State University and is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for WSS 3.0 and MOSS.

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Automating sharepoint deployment with powershell

The deployment process of custom SharePoint solutions can cause costly delays in delivery. Maintaining consistency within SharePoint environments is another challenge faced by developers throughout the project life-cycle.

PowerShell provides a useful tool to minimize these obstacles by automating the process thereby allowing developers to focus on the functionality of the solution rather than deployment. This session will discuss the fundamentals of integrating PowerShell into your deployment strategy.

Dan is a Senior SharePoint Consultant & Speaker. As an Information Technology Professional he has 10 years of experience in development, design, architecture, and administration. He specializes in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. He is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer as well as a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in the configuration of SharePoint. Dan speaks about topics in relation to SharePoint at Code Camps, SharePoint Saturday’s, User Groups, Seminars, and more. Dan is from Charlotte, NC, where he is active in the SharePoint community and on the committee for the Charlotte SharePoint User Group. He enjoys public speaking, participating in the online community, and blogging about SharePoint.

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SharePoint Error. HELP!

This session will cover best practices and tips for resolving error messages that a SharePoint Administrator will encounter when maintaining a SharePoint server farm. Attendees will leave this session better prepared to resolve the dreaded ‘Error’ message in SharePoint. From the Web Application to the Event Manager, to the SharePoint logs - we will dive in to some real-world common errors that occur and the resolutions to fix them. We’ll demonstrate a proven practice to resolving error messages and utilizes to help SharePoint Administrators in their daily job.

Dan Usher, MCP, MCTS, Security+, is an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he is a lead SharePoint Solutions Manager and Architect. He has extensive experience with the Microsoft Windows Networking Infrastructure and has been implementing, customizing, architecting and deploying Enterprise collaboration solutions utilizing the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for the past 4 years.

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Why Can't I Access the Portal?  SharePoint Authentication 101

With market share in SharePoint Products and Technologies on the rise by information workers, ensuring usability and accessibility of SharePoint systems is an increasingly important priority.  In this session we'll investigate how the implementation and deployment of SharePoint can make or break the end users' experience.  We'll work through different scenarios based on the SharePoint use case is to enhance the knowledge of the audience while determining what will work best in their environments.

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux (you're right, it's pronounced as "ducks") has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft-certified, business technology consulting and services company that serves startups to Global 50 clients. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is the author of “SharePoint for Project Management” published by O’Reilly Media.

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SharePoint 101

Eric Harlan has been in the I.T. industry for ten years, and heavily involved with SharePoint for six years.  Starting from a developer role, Eric has moved on to a more architectural role with a focus on configuration and server implementation

Never forgetting his developer roots, he still jumps in when needed to pick up the slack on custom dev needs. As Principle Architect for Sogeti Baltimore Eric is the first on the ground to plan and initiate SharePoint engagements and guide them to fruition.

Eric is involved with many volunteer organizations from the Maryland Elder technology Outreach, SharePoint Saturdays, and educational code camps to President and Co-Founder of the Baltimore SharePoint Users group.

Eric also does many speaking events revolving around SharePoint. Topics range from InfoPath development tricks and gotcha’s to basic SharePoint sessions for the end user.

@ericharlan

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Errin focuses his efforts on implementing Microsoft Technologies in organizations throughout the country. He manages EPC Group’s corporate strategy as well as architects the proven methodologies around collaboration, enterprise content management, and custom application development that have set EPC Group apart from its competitors. Errin is the author of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out by Microsoft Press. Errin has completed more than 110 successful individual SharePoint implementations and has worked with some of the largest organizations in the United States. He is also the founder of WebPartGallery.com an online solutions provider of SharePoint web parts and custom solutions and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft SharePoint events throughout the United States and Canada.

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Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Implementing Key Deployment Methodologies

Real World Case Studies on What is Proven to Work This session will provide information around avoiding the common pitfalls that so many organizations fall into in their SharePoint implementations. This session will also provide the Key Implementation Methodologies that are time tested and will provide feedback on real world case studies on what is proven to work within organizations of any size.

Gary is a SharePoint Governance Advisor to the State Department and a consultant with Worldwide Information Network Services (WINS). He is active in SUGNOVA, and authored a white paper for their last users conference on Maximizing Business Value from SharePoint: A Management and Governance Perspective. Prior to his work on SharePoint, he was a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, with a focus on project, program and knowledge management. He has graduate degrees in international relations, business administration and computer systems management.

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An SDLC for SharePoint

As SharePoint deployments mature, project management and governance are becoming increasingly important. All stakeholders in the enterprise need a practical methodology to help guide deployment from initial requirements and design to later adoption and business impact. This presentation will outline a time-phased SharePoint implementation approach and discuss how it may differ from a traditional SDLC. It will also touch on skill sets needed in and outside a client organization to help ensure SharePoint success, as well as deployment and adoption metrics.

Geoff Varosky (MCP, MCTS) is a Senior Solutions Developer for Grace-Hunt, LLC, a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint and Dynamics Solutions based out of Hudson, MA. He has been architecting developing web based applications for over a decade, and has been working with SharePoint since 2004.

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Introduction to Developing Custom Actions within SharePoint

Custom Actions control features in SharePoint such as the Edit Control Block, the Site Actions menu, tool bars, and the links within the Site Settings page. Learn how to leverage Custom Actions to extend the SharePoint User Interface. This session will describe the basics of Custom Actions, a demonstration to build one or more and apply them to a site in SharePoint, as well as provide resources for additional information.

Joel is the first SharePoint Admin as well as previous Architect for Microsoft’s SharePoint Online Hosted, Intranet and Extranet Deployments.

Twitter: @joeloleson

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Preparing today for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010

In this session I take you through what we know and how to assess your current environment.  WSS and SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 upgrade checker includes a lot of critical information about preparing for 2010.  We'll walk though the known information for what you can do today to be ready.

Senior SharePoint Architect and former MVP John Gerl will walk through enterprise deployment of SharePoint and how Department of Justice handles cloud services, unique security requirements, authentication, services, and end user and for the National Security Division and 39 related sections and components.

Kenneth Lo (PMP, MSCD, MSTS) is an experienced solutions architect with over 12 years of experience in all facets of systems development. His subject matter expertise includes K2 blackpearl, SharePoint 2007, Project Server 2007, and Microsoft-centric solutions. Being a risk-averse person at heart, Kenneth spends his leisure time on mountain biking, rock climbing, and scuba diving.

@kenneth_lo

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Designer or Custom Workflows – Do I Look Fat In This?

What is a workflow? How can it be applied to automate and manage business processes? We will discuss the concepts of workflows and the different ways to quickly develop lightweight workflows that integrates with SharePoint. In addition, we will examine the pros & cons of developing workflows in SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio and K2 blackpearl.

Linc Williams is the Vice President of Delivery Services for i3solutions with over a decade of experience in the areas of Software Development, Infrastructure Design, Business Intelligence and Project Management. Mr. Williams has been responsible for the successful completion of several major solution implementations for clients such as the U.S. Army, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Education Association (NEA). Mr. Williams is a consummate professional, combining a background of technical development expertise with a keen understanding of business and management requirements to ensure our clients continually see measurable returns on their investment. Linc is presenting at several conferences this year including the Association of Proposal Management Professional National Conference, Microsoft Government Contractors Summit, and the Northern VA SharePoint Users conference.

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Starting your Proposal Resource Center in SharePoint

Are you currently using SharePoint for proposal management processes or knowledge bases? Do you want to or have plans to use SharePoint to support your proposal processes? Join i3solutions Linc Williams, as he reviews the concept of a Proposal Resource Center. Gain insight into the features and concepts that can make your PRC a POWERHOUSE of knowledge management allowing your people to work effectively and efficiently. Attendees will learn practical tips and techniques, such as:

* How to get started building your PRC on SharePoint

* How to capture data about your documents to make them easier to find again * How to look at data and make it informational and meaningful

* How to measure important key metrics, such as Win/Loss, Effort versus Value * A future vision of where your PRC can go Attendees will walk away with a PRC SharePoint Template that can be applied to their SharePoint systems.

Mark Miller is founder and editor of EndUserSharePoint.com, one of the world’s most popular sites for SharePoint End Users. He coordinates a group of a dozen contributing authors, managing the day-to-day aspects of editing and publishing content for the site.

Under Mark’s leadership EndUserSharePoint.com receives up to 23,000 unique page views a day, has a Weekly Newsletter subscription base of over 7000+ readers and handles hundreds of questions weekly through the Stump the Panel: SharePoint Q&A Forum. The site also provides three weekly live online workshops for all three levels of SharePoint End Users; Information Worker, Power User/Site Admin, Site Collection Admin.

When not teaching or writing about SharePoint, Mark can be found designing paper airplanes and studying the origami of Robert Lang. He lives in New York City with his wife, two children, one gerbil, one goldfish and one Nintendo DS that is constantly being fought over by the gerbil and the goldfish.

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SharePoint Charts and Graphs without Excel Services

The limitations for displaying charts and graphs in a WSS site can be daunting. At least in MOSS, there are Excel Services available. In this presentation, we will go over various solutions for providing dynamically generated charts and graphs in a WSS implementation.

The data used to drive the charts will come from SharePoint lists, libraries, RSS feeds and web services. Don't store your charts and graphs in Excel where noone can see them... expose them in the web browser through SharePoint!

Managed a top Microsoft SI that implemented SharePoint starting with 2001 version. Managed customers migrating from Stellent, hummingbird, livelink, fileshares, Documentum, FileNet to MOSS. Worked with multiple ISV software solutions built on MOSS (K2, Captaris, Nintex, Wisdom, KnowledgeLake, Bentley, Next Docs etc).

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Legacy Document Management Systems Migration to Microsoft SharePoint: How and Why you should do it.

Enterprise Content Management is an important part of many businesses, due to process efficiencies, regulations and compliancy. If you have the need for ECM but are tired of the costs, you need to look at SharePoint. SharePoint can typically provide comparable functionality at a third of the cost, but it is important to understand the Pros and Cons of migrating to this platform. If you are already using SharePoint in one form or fashion, this is an easy next step to consolidate some of your systems. We are going to look at how to plan and determine if MOSS will work for as a platform to replace existing document management systems.

Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored several major best-selling industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes, Windows Server 2008 Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael's writings and extensive public speaking experience across six continents leverage his real-world expertise helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure.

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Building a Bulletproof SharePoint Farm; Disaster Recovery and High Availability for SharePoint

This session covers best practice design and planning for setting up a highly available and disaster tolerant SharePoint 2007 farm. The session focuses on real-world guidance for building fault tolerance into a SharePoint environment for organizations of varying sizes. Cost-effective and easy solutions are presented and compared to more complex global failover options. Specific topics include SQL Server 2005/2008 Database Mirroring, network load balancing, replication with third-party products, and backup and restore options for the farm.

• Examine how Database Mirroring techniques with SQL Server 2008/2005 can be used with SharePoint content.

• Identify how to eliminate single points of failure from a SharePoint farm.

• Learn some ‘Alternative’ techniques for making SharePoint redundant, such as through replication of content to multiple farms.

Mike Watson (MCSE, MCSA) is a senior product manager at Quest specializing in SharePoint manageability, scalability and availability. Before moving to Quest Software, Mike was instrumental in planning and deploying Microsoft Managed Services and Microsoft Online, as well as Microsoft Services efforts such as MOSSRAP (MOSS Risk Assessment Program) and SLM (Service Level Manager). Mike is a top-rated speaker at technical conferences, an instructor for Microsoft's Certified Master program, and a frequent contributor to whitepapers, articles, and books.

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Deploying SharePoint Globally

Do you have users all over the world? Do you want to know how Microsoft deployed their corporate intranet, extranet, and Microsoft Online? Come learn how the biggest companies in the world deploy SharePoint and how to plan and improve your global deployment. You'll learn about multi-farm management, search coordination and federation, global navigation, and WAN acceleration.

Paul Schaeflein, MCTS, is a Sr. Instructor for Mindsharp, a technology training company for Microsoft Enterprise products. Previously, Paul was an independent consulting specializing in solutions built using ASP.NET and SharePoint. Paul spent 5 years teaching programming and has presented at numerous User Groups and MOSS Camps. Paul maintains a SharePoint-oriented weblog at http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/paul/

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Using Elevated Privileges and Impersonation

Microsoft's SharePoint Services and Technologies has a robust security model. Every operation attempted within the SharePoint framework is subject to the security settings and policies that apply to any affected objects. This presentation discusses the classes and methods within the framework that developers can use to accomplish tasks that may otherwise be denied with the current security context.

Russ Basiura Jr. is the President and Chief SharePoint Architect of RJB Technical Consulting, Incorporated, an information technology company established in 1995 to provide business collaboration services. He is a published author and his books include “Professional Asp.Net Web Services” through Wrox Press, Inc. and is “.Net Security”. Additional publications include “Professional Web Services using C#” and “Professional Web Services using VisualBasic.Net”. Mr. Basiura holds the following technology certifications: Microsoft Certified Professional + internet (MCP+I), Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) - SharePoint Configuration and Development, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Russ is also the President of the Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group which he established and is now in its 4th year.

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Customizing MySites with Personalization and Social Media Features

This session will be a deep dive into the personalization of MySites. It will include a review of the Social Media capabilities and the process for combining and customizing the personalization and social media features of MOSS into a MySite.

Sahil Malik, the founder and principal of Winsmarts, has been a Microsoft MVP and INETA Speaker for the past many years, author of many books and numerous articles, consultant and trainer who delivers training and talks at conferences internationally.

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In this session Sahil shares some of his tricks in building rich interactive UIs in SharePoint, that both look good, are very functional, and do not need a superman developer that knows everything!

Sandeep has been working with SharePoint for more than 3 yrs and have more than 8 yr of IT experience and is a very regular SharePoint blogger.

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SharePoint Solution Generator : quickly create List Definition / Site Definition.

This session is a step by step hand-on session to create a list definition/ site definition keeping in mind the best practices using Solution Generator. Also you will learn what can be and can't be done using solution generator.

Co-founder/organizer of the Baltimore SharePoint User Group, Shadeed is focused on strengthening SharePoint resources, training, and hosting events in the mid-Atlantic region. His SharePoint specialties include enterprise backup and recovery, design and implementation, SharePoint integration, migration and end-user training

Twitter: @mrshadeed

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Steve Andrews is a Team System MVP and INETA Speaker, and has been working as a developer for more than 9 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as trust accounting, medical information management, supply chain management, and retail systems. Steve is also an MCP, ICSOO, and community fanatic.

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Easing Deployment with MSBuild

Deploying custom SharePoint features and web parts has never been an easy task. In this session, we will look at utilizing MSBuild in Visual Studio to automate and extend the build process to make deployment a snap.

Susan is an independent consultant / Microsoft Certified Trainer. She has been an independent for seven years and has been working on US Navy projects during that time. The last five years have all been involved with architecting SharePoint solutions for the Navy. Susan has certifications as an MCT, IT PRO Database Admin, MCTS SharePoint and MCSD .NET. Susan is deeply committed to the development community and helps run three user groups in VA and is a frequent speaker at Code Camps.

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Using jQuery on SharePoint sites

This is an entry-level session which will look at how we can use jQuery and JavaScript on any SharePoint (Windows SharePoint Services or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) sites. We'll discuss jQuery resources and different ways to implement jQuery on SharePoint sites. We'll explore several jQuery functions that provide no-code deployment to provide functionality such as: calendar preview pane, collapse/expand toggle for list view, photo light-box viewer, dynamic resize web page viewer, etc.