When building SharePoint 2013 Apps, developers are restricted from using the SharePoint Server Object Model. To enable you to build fully-featured solutions using the App model, Microsoft has greatly enhanced and extended the Client Object Model and REST API. This session explores how these APIs have changed since SharePoint 2010 and how to use them effectively when building Apps or traditional SharePoint Solutions. Rob WindsorSession Speaker
Rob Windsor is a SharePoint Consultant with Portal Solutions - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in DC and Boston. He has twenty years experience developing applications on the Microsoft platform and is currently spending most of his time working with SharePoint. He is the co-author of Professional Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5 and contributes con
... Read More One of the most critical factors for successful user adoption is developing and implementing an effective and comprehensive training program for the customers. This session will outline the top ten best practices for developing and providing SharePoint training to end users to ensure successful customer adoption and support. It will also cover the variety of training methods, materials and tools that can be used, depending on resources and the customer base. This session is geared toward Business Decision Makers and the overall project team. Leanne BatemanSession Speaker
Leanne Bateman has 20+ years of project management experience, and is the Principal Consultant with Beacon Strategy Group in Boston. Since 2008 Leanne has been focused on applying project management principles to SharePoint implementations to ensure maximum user adoption and customer support. Leanne is a certified Project Management Professiona
... Read More Apps for SharePoint were introduced in SharePoint 2013 to maximize the level of capability and flexibility that developers can deliver without risking compromise to the farm. In this session, we will delve into apps that leverage resources running outside the SharePoint farm—whether in an on-premises web server or in the cloud. We will examine how OAuth is used to manage permissions for cloud-hosted apps and how these apps can securely access data stored in SharePoint. We will introduce users to the “Napa” development tools for Office 365 and conclude by building and provisioning a real-world app for SharePoint to Windows Azure. Danny JesseeSession Speaker Danny Jessee is a senior manager in the SharePoint practice at Protiviti. For over eight years, he has specialized in the development of custom SharePoint solutions. He holds an MCPD certification (SharePoint Developer 2010) and two MCTS certifications (SharePoint 2010, Application Development and SharePoint 2010, Configuring). He lives in the Was
... Read More Building solutions in SharePoint isn’t simply about getting the functionality right based on the business requirements. Developers must think about the entire user experience (UX), which goes far beyond the technical aspects of the solution. It’s no longer good enough to meet the specifications, we must exceed them in terms of usability. This takes many developers out of their comfort zones and into the messy world of end users.
In this interactive session, we’ll discuss questions like:
• How should the user feel when they use this piece of functionality?
• Will they perceive that this functionality saves them work or creates new work?
• How will the functionality compare to what they see on the consumer Web?
• How can we use technologies which haven’t historically been considered mainstream SharePoint developer tools (like jQuery and CSS) to make SharePoint feel more like the sites people love?
We’ll look at good and bad examples from SharePoint itself as well as specific customizations. Marc D AndersonSession Speaker
Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA. Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the enterprise using the SharePoint application platform. Marc is a three-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP award for SharePoint Server (2011, 2012, 2013). Marc has almost 30
... Read More SharePoint 2013 includes new and improved features for web content management to enhance the authoring and publishing processes of your organization, and that simplify how you design publishing sites.
In this session, we will review the new Site Navigation Taxonomy, the new enhanced multi-lingual variations support, rich content authoring, multimedia support, ease of branding a site, and much more surrounding building an internet site with SharePoint 2013.
Mike Maadarani + Mathieu DesmaraisSession Speaker
Mike Maadarani is a SharePoint Architect and had been providing strategic SharePoint solutions for the past 10 years. With over 17 years of IT industry experience, Mike spent the last few years managing and delivering SharePoint solutions to a wide range of mid to large scale projects. He is an evangelist and visionary where he can and provide t
... Read More This session will focus on customizing the SharePoint application to improve the end user experience while making SharePoint more enjoyable to work with. Custom application branding and UI improvements are some of the simplest ways to encourage user adoption of SharePoint. The more familiar a site looks with colors and logos, the more comfortable a user will feel getting to know the ins and outs of SharePoint. This session will concentrate on:
• Writing a custom SharePoint branding code solution to automatically apply your corporate brand
• Best practices around deploying custom CSS styles and master pages
• Cross site collection global navigation for all intranet portal sites
• Using delegate controls to efficiently customize site look and feel
Using these solutions that avoid interfering with the internal workings and styles of SharePoint, you will be able to create and aesthetically pleasing and easily navigable site that will make users enjoy learning how to use your SharePoint site.
Examples from the presentation demo and starter source code will be provided along with branding “tips and tricks” quick reference guide will be provided for attendees. James SturgesSession Speaker James is the Manager of PMO & Quality at Jornata, a leading SharePoint consulting and software product firm headquartered in Boston, MA. At Jornata, James leads the design and branding team for SharePoint and other custom applications. Most recently his experience includes custom theming applications for SharePoint 2010 and 2007, focusing on i
... Read More Display Templates:
Gone are XSL transformations to manipulate the format of search results. Display templates are HTML and JavaScript based components that render varied formats. There are a number of new result types, each with its own display template. Of course, we will build our own display template for one of the existing result types.
Query Rules:
With FAST Search now included with SharePoint, we get a new toolset to manipulate the search experience. This toolset gives us query rules which allow us to enhance search results and manipulate relevancy. We will explore this feature by creating result blocks, query transforms, and XRANK based relevancy all using custom query rules.
Content Search:
Search results are no longer relegated to a search center. Content can now be aggregated through web parts using the search index. This breaks the site collection boundaries when surfacing content. We will showcase the new SharePoint 2013 Content Search web part, which compliments the familiar Content Query web part by surfacing dynamic content across site collections using a native query builder toolset.
John FerrariSession Speaker John Ferrari has deep experience in the design and implementation of SharePoint solutions and is an accomplished .NET and SQL Server developer. His recent SharePoint projects range from higher education solutions to customer portals for professional service firms. John frequently serves as a project manager at Greystone. He is an MCTS and earned a
... Read More Microsoft SharePoint delivers a secure platform that allows a tailored approach towards achieving business goals with an Extranet. Some of the objectives a SharePoint Extranet can support:
• Build an online community
• Allow interaction between organization and customers, partners, vendors, and volunteers
• Reduce supply chain inefficiencies
• Offer customer self-service strategies
• Share business resources with partners
In this session, we will cover off the following topics:
• Extranet scenarios on premise and in the cloud with both Office 365 and Windows Azure
• Licensing implications
• For on-premise installations, Microsoft is eliminating the For Internet Sites license requirement, bringing the licensing costs down significantly
• Likewise in the cloud, Microsoft now provides up to 10,000 external user accounts for Extranets in Office 365, with no additional subscription fees
• User management and authentication
• Case studies
Some of the examples we will be showcasing are:
• As an Internet web site members-only area developed for non-profit organizations Peter CarsonSession Speaker Peter is President of Envision IT, a Microsoft SharePoint MVP, and Virtual Technical Specialist with Microsoft Canada. Leading his team at Envision IT in the use and deep customization of SharePoint since 2001, he is also the VP of the Toronto SharePoint Users Group and Past President of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partne
... Read More With projected market growth to $3.7 billion by 2017, the “gamification” of business problems is becoming one of the most sought after new tools for engaging employees and customers alike. In this session we will focus on what a gamified system is and provide tools for executives to make informed decisions about whether they should “gamify” their business problems. Josey NeidhartSession Speaker Josey is a Senior SharePoint Consultant and Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist in Digital Marketing with ICC in Columbus, Ohio. With 14+ years’ experience working with Web technologies, and 3 years with SharePoint, he specializes in streamlining a company’s Web business and empowering business users through thoughtful SharePoint development.
... Read More The “Napa” Office 365 Development Tools make it easy to start building apps for SharePoint without leaving the browser, just requiring adding the app from the store to our Site.
In this demo-heavy presentation we’ll go through getting the toolset and building out our first SharePoint applications that talk directly to SharePoint. Craig PilkentonSession Speaker
As an experienced SharePoint, .NET, and SQL developer/engineer I am accomplished at using my years of experience to analyze, develop, & deploy business solutions with excellent customer service and attention to detail. I use my solution delivery skills along with other toolsets such as Windows Powershell and JavaScript/JQuery, to increase th
... Read More You’re constantly busy operating without a budget, you don’t code, and you want to make your SharePoint 2010 Farm become better adopted. You’re looking for tips on how others are using and managing their Farms. You’re a SharePoint Administrators or you’re someone who is responsible for the SharePoint Farm. You’ve always got something going on and you want to make your job easier and you need to save time – oh and you have little to no budget. I’ve put together a summary of what I have learned and of what I use day-to-day to be effective without a budget for some of the great 3rd party products out there - like the sponsors here today. Matthew CarterSession Speaker Administrator of SharePoint since WSS 2003 and transitioned from being a System / Network Administrator to a SharePoint Administrator in Q4 2012. Currently using Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition SP1 and looking to move the company to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 by the end of year. Manage the SharePoint farm in a virtual environm
... Read More Did you miss this session at the 2012 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas? Come see live demonstrations of the top 10 ways that SharePoint 2013 will help drive end user adoption and make end users want to use SharePoint. From new social computing capabilities to a new user experience we'll review the top ways that SharePoint will change the way people collaborate, find and share information and keep them coming back to SharePoint. We will also discuss the related critical success factors for customers to consider in their adoption, communication, migration and deployment plans. Chris BortlikSession Speaker
Chris Bortlik works at Microsoft as a SharePoint & Office collaboration technology specialist. He works with Enterprise customers and partners in the Northeast in a pre-sales technical role focused on SharePoint and other parts of the Office System. Chris is a SharePoint “Insider” within Microsoft and works closely with the SharePoint produc
... Read More 2003 called and they want their crappy web design back. In the last ten years, so much has changed in the design community that organizations are still asking for designs that are outdated both from a design perspective as well as from a best practices perspective. This session is focused on showing you the benefits of designing for multiple devices, resolutions and needs. We’ll look at the latest design trends, some of the latest and best SharePoint 2013 implementations and what steps you can take to bring your corporate intranet to 2013. Kanwal Khipple Session Speaker Kanwal Khipple is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and has been working with SharePoint since 2006. He thrives on discussing SharePoint and how it affects users in the real world. He specializes in SharePoint Architecture, Governance, Information Architecture, Enterprise Search and is very passionate about Web Content Management.
... Read More First, we will step back and examine some SharePoint related deficiencies, common portal design flaws, and challenges that exist in the enterprise. Next, we will align ourselves with an overarching Enterprise Architecture strategy and redefine the role of SharePoint Search in the organization. From there, we will design a SharePoint 2013 portal that is optimized and ready for Search Driven design patterns. Finally, we will construct Search Driven components using creative techniques and reflect on the benefits of the overall approach that we followed.
This session provides high level Enterprise Architecture concepts, SharePoint 2013 Search configuration best practices from lessons learned, and technical deep dives. The demonstrations cover Search pages, Search Results Web Parts, Content by Search Web Part, Display Templates, Query Rules, Result Sources, as well as Search Driven Design patterns in motion. Nicholas BisciottiSession Speaker Nicholas, Business Area Manager for Information Management Solutions at Quantech Services, works in a blended capacity as a Solutions Architect, PM, BA, and Consultant. Leveraging SharePoint, SQL Server, and other technologies, Nick focuses on Portals, Collaboration, Search, BI, ERP and CRM solutions. Nick’s functional knowledge covers such indu
... Read More When deploying FIS (For Internet Sites) you have a whole new concern to address. That concern is the real possibility of your site getting hacked. This talk will focus on the exact steps to security harden your deployment. Most of these concepts are foreign as they are not part of the common Intranet install. I will cover these concepts at a high level and then dive in to the exact settings based on real world experience. Clint RichardsonSession Speaker Clint has over 12 years of IT experience with extensive knowledge of network troubleshooting, security, and architecture, specializing in SharePoint Administration and infrastructure for the past five years. He has assisted multiple branches of the military (most recently in Baghdad, Iraq) to plan, build, and optimize large-scale SharePoint deploy
... Read More Hot off the press, SharePoint 2013 attained Release to Manufacture in October 2012 and is speeding ahead to general availability in early 2013. Interesting in learning what’s new and different? Then come and learn more about new capabilities in the product such as Shredded Storage and Distributed Caching among others as well as how the migration story changes for SharePoint 2013. Scott Hoag + Dan UsherSession Speaker Scott Hoag, MCITP, MCPD, is an Infrastructure Consultant with Applied Information Sciences. With over 8 years of experience, Scott has been utilizing Microsoft based content management solutions from MCMS 2002 to SharePoint 2010 today.
Dan Usher, MCT, MCITP, MCP, MCTS, is a SharePoint Solutions Manager and Architect. He has extensive experie
... Read More In this session, we’d like to describe how System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 can be used to better deploy manage, operate and service SharePoint 2013. Some of the concepts described are directly coming from Microsoft internal experience running SharePoint Online. The aim is to show some of these concepts implemented with the help of System Center 2012 SP1. This Service Pack allows Windows Server 2012 deployment by System Center, which will be the server foundation used to explain the various ways administrators and architects can benefit its features with SharePoint 2013.
The session will start describing few fundamental concepts used to run SharePoint Online, then describe System Center 2012 components, what they do and how they could be used with SharePoint 2013, to finish explaining and demonstrating examples of these concepts implementation. There is no ambition to be exhaustive on all the combinations and interactions these 2 products can have, but increase knowledge and awareness of SharePoint ecosystem, relying on few real life examples. Emmanuel BergeratSession Speaker
Emmanuel works as Consultant for Microsoft for the last 9 years. He contributed to numerous SharePoint projects since SPS 2003. His specialization is in Infrastructure and complex architectures/integrations, designing, implementing and troubleshooting farms varying from 20k to 440k users. He wrote the MOSS scripted install TechNet whitepaper, an
... Read More Do you feel that SharePoint document management is missing something? It is. It’s missing documents. Sure it manages files well enough, but are files and documents the same thing?
This session focuses on the relationships and differences between files and documents, and the effects they have on SharePoint’s document management capabilities. We will look at what we should expect from a true document management system, and examine some strategies for converting SharePoint from just a file management system to a document management system.
Attendees will gain concrete insights into why their SharePoint implementations are not fulfilling their document management needs, and what requirements they should consider when embarking on or enhancing a SharePoint document management implementation. Attendees will be able to express to upper management what they need from their document management system and why. Eugene RosenfeldSession Speaker Eugene Rosenfeld is a 2-time Microsoft MVP awardee, and the CTO of Black Blade Associates, a company focused on delivering SharePoint document management, information architecture, distributed systems, systems integration, and training to DoD, life sciences, financial services, real-estate, and construction organizations. Eugene holds the strong b
... Read More This session designed to address beginning administrators in understanding both the capabilities and limitations of SharePoint when looking at CR, DR, and HA. We will go through some obvious and not so obvious facets of this topic. We will also discuss some common errors and get a good best practice. Javier BarreraSession Speaker Javier Barrera is a SharePoint Engineer at Rackspace (USA), a premier service leader focusing on business class audience. He is the Senior Lead Engineer who is an architect, and administrator, to hundreds of enterprise-level SharePoint farms. Javier delivered over 30 presentations at SharePoint focused events, authored numerous blogs and articles.
... Read More Want to avoid the performance mistakes before you make them? This in-depth session we will discuss how to properly position your SharePoint farm for success beginning with "hardware" and ending with troubleshooting methodologies to maximize performance. Find the pitfalls before you hit them from someone who has climbed out of the deep dark holes in the wild. Best Practices from the Field combines recommendations from Microsoft with the experience of trial & error. Jason HimmelsteinSession Speaker SharePoint Practice Director at Sentri,Inc. Speaker, Author of O'Reilly's "Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint" & http://SPFLogger.codeplex.com NHSPUG & SPSNH Organizer
... Read More With the push towards client-only apps in SharePoint 2013, it’s best to take the time now and learn how best to separate the concerns of the front end, business model, and back end code you need to write to get the job done. In this session, you’ll get an introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel pattern, how it can be applied to a SharePoint project, and how to use Knockout.js and the SharePoint Client-Side Object Model to implement it in a way that can be used for SharePoint 2010 now, and 2013 later. Greg HurlmanSession Speaker
Greg Hurlman is a Solution Architect for Planet Technologies, gamer, PAX Enforcer, and father (not necessarily in that order). He has been a SharePoint developer since 2006, .Net developer since 2001, and programmer since 1984. He organizes the Princeton SharePoint User Group, SharePoint Saturday NYC, and SharePoint Saturday NJ.
... Read More You may have heard about the Social Graph in Facebook and Google but wondered how this kind of technology can be made use of in the enterprise? Delve into the social intelligence of SharePoint and even big data reporting services to learn more about your internal users and consumers from your public facing sites. Naomi MoneypennySession Speaker Naomi Moneypenny is CTO at Synxi (a ManyWorlds brand) where she leads the development team for the adaptive recommendations & learning engine for SharePoint and other social business systems such as Yammer and Tibbr. Previously, Naomi was a business and IT strategist at Shell working on technology forecasting and collaboration. She has a Mast
... Read More As SharePoint has evolved from its collaborative roots to its current multi-faceted platform, we’ve seen it grow from an IT shop favorite to a globally distributed Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform. With this adoption and the success of SharePoint come the 3rd party tools to fill gaps and the governance to keep it all running as smooth as possible. With regard to ECM, we’ve seen SharePoint in the user community go from “SharePoint, what’s that?” to “We can do that with SharePoint, right?” This presentation will show you best practices for taxonomy and tools that are built with the end user experience as the driving force to easily capture, classify, store, search and retrieve content from SharePoint. The presentation and corresponding whitepaper will focus on the key lessons and how to manage metadata to achieve the best-in-class solutions for SharePoint ECM. Jeff BorghoffSession Speaker Jeff Borghoff is Senior Technical Architect with KnowledgeLake, Inc. He is a CompTIA Certified Document Imaging Architect (CDIA+), Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) and an AIIM SharePoint Practitioner & Specialist. Jeff has been developing enterprise business applications with Microso
... Read More TMany SharePoint 2010 customers would like to upgrade to the more powerful features of FAST for SharePoint search, yet have been put off by the complexity of configuring and maintaining FAST in their SharePoint 2010 environment.
SharePoint 2013 provides a new, unified search engine that combines the best features of FAST (such as deep refiners, previews, and entity extraction) with the best of Enterprise Search (such as phonetic people search and simple configuration).
In this talk you'll learn how to use the SharePoint 2013 search engine even if your content is still on SharePoint 2010. Through several live demos, you’ll see different solutions using both the old and new search centers, and you’ll learn how to decide which approach is right for you.
Come see how you can begin your 2013 migration with search and enjoy the new search engine without migrating a byte of content! Bob German + Neal McFeeSession Speaker Bob German is SharePoint Practice Director at BlueMetal Architects, where he leads the development and deployment of SharePoint solutions for enterprise customers. Bob has been developing on the SharePoint platform since it was called “Site Server”, and is a co-author of SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight for Addison-Wesley. Prior to jo
... Read More SharePoint 2010 introduced Claims Based web applications, and SharePoint 2013 now sets it as the default. This session covers an overview of what claims based authentication is; how we can write custom providers and subscriptions within SharePoint, and some of the benefits of using claims based authentication over traditional classic authentication mechanisms. Justin KobelSession Speaker Justin Kobel is a Principal Consultant over the SharePoint practice at KiZAN Technologies. Justin has experience with SharePoint 2003 through 2013 with deployments ranging from single servers with 10 users, to dozens of servers with thousands of users, and several BPOS and Office 365 deployments. Justin focuses in SharePoint infrastructure, enter
... Read More Visual Studio 2012 has additional features for the SharePoint developer. These include new list and content designers, templates for creating web parts, improved solution building and application performance profiling. This session will explore these new features and see how it makes the SharePoint developer more productive. Some knowledge of SharePoint 2010/2013 and C#/.NET development is presumed. Supriyo “SB” ChatterjeeSession Speaker Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee. Architect/Tech-lead based in Hartford CT. He has over 20 years IT experience and has worked at companies like Aetna, IBM, Microsoft, UNICEF, United Technologies and State of Connecticut. He holds graduate degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP Awa
... Read More The introduction of SharePoint Server 2013 brings a major advancement to workflow: enterprise features such as fully declarative authoring, the ability to connect to lines of business data, the greatly improved authoring processes using Visio, SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio all help to make great product even better.
SharePoint Server 2013 can use a new workflow service built on the Windows Workflow Foundation components of the .NET Framework 4.5. This new service is called Workflow Manager and it is designed to play a central role in the enterprise either through SharePoint 2013, Office 2013 or even Azure Cloud services.
Well defined business processes are central to any organization and workflow is the orchestrator of those processes. This session will unpack the changes to workflow since SharePoint 2010, highlight the improvements and possible short comings. Adrian Edgar + Dave ColemanSession Speaker
Adrian has over twenty years’ experience as an Educator, Technology Evangelist and Senior Manager in some of the top maintained and independent schools in the UK. For seven years he was Director of ICT and a member of SMT at Culford School, responsible for the strategic development of ICT across this 3 – 18 school. He has worked with SharePoint
... Read More For years, SharePoint has promised smoother collaboration using “social” technology – MySites, metadata, newsfeeds. But user satisfaction with social has trailed traditional document collaboration. Join us for an overview of:
• How to establish SharePoint social technology (2010 and 2013) – from both a technology and cultural perspective
• Best case, real-world scenarios for how to use social in effective distributed collaboration, and why!
• Measuring overall enterprise social maturity levels
• Setting up specific tactical operation business intelligence (real usage data) to identify successes and problems in SharePoint 2010 and 2013 social.
• The decision to extend: what the major third-party social vendors bring to the table Sadie Van Buren + Chris McNultySession Speaker Sadie Van Buren has spent the past ten years designing SharePoint solutions and leading deployments, while stealthily managing the human and cultural issues common to technology projects. She is a SharePoint Content Architect at BlueMetal Architects, based in the Boston area, with a strong focus on content experience, business strategy and alignm
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