User adoption is the most critical success factor in any SharePoint implementation. When IT delivers a SharePoint solution and no one uses it, the implementation was not successful. Or when you hear: “SharePoint? We have that. I hate it”, then something went wrong.
User adoption needs to be planned for from the beginning of the project, using a project management approach that integrates a strategy for user adoption best practices. These best practices ensure that the customer is involved in the process from start to finish, in a managed way, while allowing IT to focus on what they do best: design and deliver the technology. This session is for anyone involved in the planning of SharePoint projects. Leanne BatemanSession Speaker Leanne Bateman has 18+ 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. She is currently writing a book on SharePoint Project M
... Read MoreInformation architecture is a scary word, but it doesn’t need to be. In this session, we’ll break apart information architecture and talk about what it really means. We’ll provide some practical tips on what you should be thinking about. We’ll walk through challenges like folders vs. metadata, and cover the relationship between hierarchy and navigation. Robert BogueSession Speaker Robert Bogue is a thought leader on all things SharePoint. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP designation nine times and earned recognition as a Microsoft Patterns and Practices Champion. He is the author of 22 books including The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users-2010 which is also available in a Wiki version as The SharePoint Tutor.&n
... Read MoreJoin Scott as he makes sense of the various BI technologies in SharePoint. See PerformancePoint KPIs and dashboards, decomposition trees, and PowerPivot in action. Discover what SSRS can do when it's integrated, what SQL 2012 adds, and what PowerView means to decision makers. Check out the tools in action – Dashboard Designer, Report Builder, Data Alert Designer – it’s all included! Scott BrickeySession Speaker Scott Brickey is the SharePoint Practice Manager at Strategic Data Systems, with 16 years of experience in the IT industry and 8 years of consulting. Scott focuses on delivering solutions which drive business value, as well as providing community involvement and presentations. Scott's experience includes solution architecture, systems administrati
... Read MoreFind out how to use simple innovation games to build better solution requirements for SharePoint projects. You will learn seriously fun ways to do work – Seriously! Learn how to tap into true innovation and discover new ideas. Come learn how to put your ideas into action. Michelle CaldwellSession Speaker Michelle is a SharePoint Delivery Executive with over 15 years of IT experience including 7 years of SharePoint experience. She has managed all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle taking projects from original concept through final implementation. Michelle oversees a team of 43 talented SharePoint consultants across multiple disciplines
... Read MoreWhat is a hacker? In the dictionary a hacker is defined as a computer user who attempts to gain unauthorized access to proprietary computer systems. We all now that in reality a hacker is someone who tries to gain access to anything that they do not have access too, fileshares, websites, wifi or even your blog site. SharePoint is such a large platform that has many entry points that we need to minimize the attack surface. In this session we will look at what it would take to “hack” SharePoint, but more importantly how to protect and secure the content and the site entry points to stop those pesky hackers getting in. Liam ClearySession Speaker Liam Cleary is a passionate individual who is excited about technology. Over 13 years ago he started his IT Career as an IT Trainer, became a Software Developer, looked after Servers, Firewall, Security and Network Design and Architecture, Consultant for SharePoint, a Principal Consultant for .NET Development and Collaboration and now works as a S
... Read MoreThere has always been a struggle between the good admin and the bad developer. Or maybe it’s the good developer and the bad admin?! Depends on who you ask…right? At every level there is give and take and the battle has been lengthy. As the demands of a new site build and change from simple logo and theme updates into the coveted ‘rounded corners’ and data view web parts, there is much to consider. Branding and customization sounds great and normally looks great, but at what cost? In this session I will be discussing the difference between branding and design, and the effects it can have on the functionality and effectiveness of a site. More importantly there will be an overview of Basic Customizations (OOTB) vs. Advanced Customizations and how to avoid the rabbit hole of non-stop customization requests and tweaks. To ensure you get the most out of your SharePoint site, we will discuss best practices and governance, planning, and testing based on real word scenarios. Stacy DeereSession Speaker Stacy Deere is an MCITP and owner of Focal Point Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati, OH based company that provides SharePoint Solutions for the Enterprise in the mid-to-large market. Previously, Stacy lead PCMS’ rapidly growing SharePoint practice where she engages in a wide range of consulting projects across various industries. With nearly
... Read MoreEverybody knows PowerShell is powerful, it’s in the name! But did you know that PowerShell can read and understand XML? By leveraging XML among other things, complete builds can be automated – making them efficient and predictable.
In this fun, interactive and demo-filled session – I will show you how you can leverage PowerShell to help you build your branded, company website from the ground up using PowerShell and XML. I will also pass along some tips and tricks that will help you become a PowerShell Rockstar! Ryan DennisSession Speaker Ryan Dennis is a Senior SharePoint Engineer for Information Control Corporation (ICC) in Columbus, Ohio. Ryan is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) and a Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist (vTSP) in SharePoint 2010. An accomplished blogger and speaker, he has worked on SharePoint solutions in the public, non-profit, and priva
... Read MoreIt's an easy mistake to make. Because so much planning, preparation, and configuration can go into properly protecting your SharePoint environment from disaster such as a data center outage, server failure, or unintentional deletion, you don't always have a chance to think about how you are going to get those resources back once you've protected them. It comes down to this: all the backups in the world aren't going to do you a bit of good if you don't know how to restore them when you need to. In this presentation, SharePoint expert and author John Ferringer will help you turn the focus away from what you should do before a disaster and start thinking about what you need to do after it. John will cover the characteristics of a successful restore, how to know when you've recovered your backups properly, and what you can do to better position your backups for a successful restore when the chips are down. John L. FerringerSession Speaker John is a SharePoint IT Professional with over eight years of experience administering and supporting SharePoint technologies and has spent over fyears working in the information technology consulting industry. He has worked with Microsoft Online Services (MSO) since 2008 and is a Microsoft Delta Force Ranger for Office 365. John co-authored the &
... Read MoreAnalyst: What would you like SharePoint to do?
Customer: Well, what can it do?
Analyst: Tons! Let me show you…
All too often, this is how conversations between analysts and customers/stakeholders begin, and it isn’t helpful to anyone. SharePoint has a vast array of capabilities, but if you start by describing or demonstrating what SharePoint can do and how the technology works, you will end up with customers who are confused and don’t know where to begin, or who have massively overblown expectations.
In this session, you will learn how to set up and conduct workshops with various stakeholders that will allow you to understand their real needs. You will then learn how to document and organize this information so that it is useful to the stakeholders and that will allow you to guide them through prioritization and planning.
You will learn when NOT to do demonstrations of SharePoint, and when and how to do demos that are powerful and effective. Ruven GotzSession Speaker Ruven Gotz is a Senior Consultant & SharePoint MVP with Avanade, the Global Microsoft Partner based in Toronto, Canada. With over 20 years of IT industry experience, Ruven has spent the past eight years delivering award-winning SharePoint solutions for a wide range of clients. Working as a Business Analyst and Information Architect, Ruven is a
... Read MoreClaims-based identity is a new paradigm in SharePoint 2010 that opens up a vast array of possibilities for developers and architects alike, including the ability to leverage Windows Azure AppFabric's Access Control Services (ACS) to integrate OpenID authentication providers such as Facebook with SharePoint. This integration is likely to drive user engagement with public-facing implementations of SharePoint in the future. In this demo-intensive session, I will introduce Claims-based identity, demonstrate how to configure the integration between SharePoint, Azure ACS, and Facebook, and then show some of the many exciting ways SharePoint and Facebook can leverage one another to maximize the value of this integration to users. Danny JesseeSession Speaker Danny Jessee is a senior consultant with Corbin Company. For over eight years, he has specialized in the development of custom SharePoint solutions for federal government, military, and corporate clients. He holds an MCPD certification (SharePoint Developer 2010) and two MCTS certifications (SharePoint 2010, Application Development and SharePoint
... Read MoreAs the world continues to see an increased usage in mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets, customers are increasingly demanding solutions that work across both the deskop and mobile spaces.
In this presentation, we will review what Responsive Design is and how it allows us to create web applications that work in desktop and mobile browsers. We will discuss CSS 3 Media Queries, HTML 5 implications, and how to utilize the Modernizr library for detecting browser capabilities. We’ll then look at how these techniques can be utilized inside of SharePoint. Matt JimisonSession Speaker Matt Jimison is a Senior Consultant / Delivery Advisor from Indianapolis, IN, that specializes in SharePoint 2010 Design and Development. His areas of focus include utilizing out-of-the-box capabilities, creating custom solutions with Visual Studio, and leveraging client-side behaviors (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript) to solve business needs. Matt has bee
... Read MoreYour SharePoint implementation is a raving success. Your end users are creating and storing hundreds or even thousands of new documents and list items daily. This is a big step on the path to SharePoint brilliance! But now it’s time to take the next leap and extend SharePoint beyond simple content storage, by attaching business processes to your content to create efficient workflows amongst your end users. In this presentation, Jason Keller will explain the fundamentals of SharePoint Workflow, and go over its capabilities and limitations. He will also discuss Out of the Box workflows and extending workflow with SharePoint Designer. Got Workflow? TekDog does, and we love it! Jason KellerSession Speaker Jason Keller is the president of TekDog Inc., of Columbus, Ohio. Jason has over 14 years of experience in IT and has been working with Microsoft SharePoint technologies since 2001. Jason’s SharePoint experience includes roles as a Technical Instructor, Business Analyst, SharePoint Consultant, Project Manager and Solutions Architect. Jason also spe
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- "Creativity" to gain attention
- "Simplicity" to gain understanding
- "Responsivity" to gain action
Joshua LenonSession Speaker Joshua is a communicator, web designer, usability consultant, and entrepreneur who has been speaking and presenting for over ten years. He has been designing for the web for over five years.
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- "Creativity" to gain attention
- "Simplicity" to gain understanding
- "Responsivity" to gain action
Mark Tiderman Jr.Session Speaker Mark founded Streamlined Studio in 2007 and has been developing custom SharePoint solutions for over four years. He continuously scours the web for the best plugins, practices and resources in design, JavaScript, CSS, and typography.
... Read MoreTraining and learning have been defined as synonyms by many organizations. The difference is, training has focused on a classic and traditional model. Learning on the other hand, refers to achieving something from the receiving side of the story, not just delivery. In focusing on driving adoption it is important to have a strategy where learning is also part of the plan. This session focuses on how to creat a SharePoint Learning Plan, and how to deliver the plan through the implementation of a Learning Management System. Enrique LimaSession Speaker Enrique Lima (MCITP, MCPD, MCSE+I, MCP+SB, MCT, MCDBA, MCSD, MCAD, CCNA, CCNP, OCP, LCP, LCI, RHCE) has over 18 years of experience in training, application development, database development and management, IT solutions architecture, and project management. Enrique has participated as a speaker and technical learning guide at conferences such as T
... Read MoreSharePoint search is a fantastic service that can be the start for SharePoint adoption in any organization. This session will show and share strategies on how to leverage and extend search that goes beyond SharePoint. Tony MaddinSession Speaker Tony Maddin is a Principal Microsoft SharePoint Solutions Consultant with Software Information Systems in Cincinnati, Ohio. Tony has 15 years of experience as a web developer, web administrator, web applications administrator, and 7 years as a SharePoint administrator. He serves on many local boards such as the University of Dayton MIS Advis
... Read MoreCaching is a critical variable in the SharePoint scalability and performance equation, but it’s one that’s oftentimes misunderstood or dismissed as being needed only in Internet-facing scenarios. In this session, we’ll discuss the reasons why developers need to be "cache aware" in order to sidestep common performance and responsiveness issues in SharePoint. We'll also investigate the array of programmatic options that are available to developers who wish to employ or extend SharePoint caching, including caching options for web parts, fragment caching, post-cache substitution, and the creation of an IVaryByCustomHandler implementation. By the end of this session, developers will have some new tricks to improve the performance and scalability of their SharePoint code using caching. Sean P. McDonoughSession Speaker Sean is the Chief SharePoint Evangelist for Idera, a Microsoft managed partner and creator of tools for SharePoint, SQL Server, and PowerShell. As a consultant, Sean has worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies to architect, implement, troubleshoot, tune, and customize their SharePoint environments. Sean is an MCPD, an MCTS, and the co-
... Read MoreWith SharePoint 2010, as has been said around the campfire, "5,000 is the new 2,000!" What does that mean? It means that we now need to be mindful of not just how many items are in our lists, but how our views are constructed as well. Today's talk will be a combination discussion and walkthrough of the various ways of handling a large number of items in a SharePoint list. Michael MukalianSession Speaker Michael Mukalian is a Director and SharePoint Architect for LiquidHub, Inc. (www.liquidhub.com) an information technology consultancy based in the Philadelphia area serving clients worldwide. He is co-owner of the Tri-State SharePoint User Group (www.tristatesharepoint.org), was a contributing author on the SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket C
... Read MoreIn this session, you will learn how you can use SharePoint to provide a consistent framework for managing the diversity of projects in your organization. I’ll show you how you can leverage SharePoint sites, lists, libraries, content types, approval workflows, surveys, and slide libraries to help your project managers be more efficient and effective. You will see how project managers can have the flexibility they need to manage projects with differing methodologies, artifacts, and templates, while still ensuring a level of consistency across your organization. We'll also discuss some tips for how IT and the EPMO can work together to create a value proposition for the enterprise and how using pilot groups and a phased rollout can promote user adoption. Shila NagarsenkerSession Speaker Shila is a PMP-certified Project Manager/Business Analyst in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has been working with SharePoint since version 2003 in multiple roles: developer, administrator, power user, project manager, and business analyst. She holds technical certifications in MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010, and Lotus Notes Domino. Shila is passionate ab
... Read MoreYou are the IT admin at Widget Global Mega Corp and your boss just returned from a trade conference. He is all fired up over this “SharePoint” tool every one has been talking about. He wants you to get up to speed on it pronto. There is just one problem, you haven’t even touched this Sharedpoint Porthole thing?!?!
Never Fear! In this session we will start from the ground floor. I will filter out all the noise and show you exactly what you need to know to make your deployment a success. From concepts, to installation best practices, to daily maintenance. By the end of this session you will know exactly what it takes to deploy and admin SharePoint! Clint RichardsonSession Speaker Clint has over 12 years of progressive 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 Share
... Read MoreManaging the implementation of SharePoint is a comprehensive task; one which requires strong project management skills, a detailed project plan and creativity. Inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor document management practices and undefined project collaboration standards can compromise project success.
This session will walk through effective planning techniques and implementation standards for a SharePoint implementation from the perspective of a Project Manager. We will discuss how to create and customize a SharePoint site for effective project collaboration and monitoring as well as analyzing the project schedule and milestones in a SharePoint site, generate on-demand project status reports and how to synchronize common project management tools with SharePoint. Eric RizSession Speaker Eric is the Executive Vice President of Concatenate, Inc. (www.concatenateinc.com), a software firm focused on maximizing SharePoint through product innovation and systems integration based in Toronto, Canada. He has worked with many Fortune 500 companies on their business productivity architecture and deployment plans to ensure they maximize the
... Read MoreThis session shows how to use PowerShell in both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 to find and extract all kinds of information not easily found using built-in features. In this session you will see how to use PowerShell to:
• Find all documents in any site, or the entire farm, that matches a pattern (example: *.avi)
• Find all users who have access to a particular file (or folder, or library or site)
• Find sites with no recent activity
• Find all content a single user has access to
• Find all libraries that use a selected Content Type
• Find all customized (un-ghosted) pages
• Find all pages that use a selected web part
• How to collect the results into reports
• and more… Michael T. SmithSession Speaker Mike Smith is currently a Senior Instructor at MAX Technical Training in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has worn many IT hats over the last thirty years as a business owner, developer, tech writer, trainer, DBA and consultant. He is a SharePoint MVP and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and has 13 other MC* certifications. He specializes in SharePoint, SQ
... Read MoreAn overview of all the ECM features built in to SharePoint 2010, on their own and grouped together in the Document Center and Records Center site templates. The sessions will explain each feature and help you decide the best approach for managing your content. Patrick TuckerSession Speaker Patrick is a SharePoint architect, developer and trainer with over 13 years of experience developing applications with Microsoft technologies and training others to do the same. He is a Principal Consultant in the SharePoint practice of Strategic Data Systems and has provided consulting services and solutions for a variety of companies, non-
... Read MoreSo you've heard about "Governance" from all angles in the SharePoint community – the fact that you need "People" to define "Policies", but what "Processes" are actually required to bring this to fruition? This session will introduce the three P's and the business requirements that drive SharePoint governance. In this session we will discuss the types of policies that organizations use within their SharePoint Governance plans.
From this session you should walk away with:
- An understanding of what the key concepts of SharePoint Governance is
- An understanding of the business requirements that drive SharePoint Governance
- An understanding of the types of policies you could have in your SharePoint Governance Plan
Ryan VanOsdolSession Speaker Ryan is Vice President of Sales in the Southeastern and Heartland U.S. regions for AvePoint, and works directly with Fortune 500 and other enterprise customers to develop and implement cost-effective SharePoint management, protection, and optimization strategies. Ryan’s experience with SharePoint dates back to the early days of WSS v2, when he wor
... Read MoreIf you've used SharePoint 2010 you know that there were significant changes to improve the user experience. Much of this was done by shifting code from the server-side to the client-side using technologies like JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, and Silverlight. End users are going to expect the same kind of user experience from the custom code that you write. Fortunately, Microsoft has given developers several new APIs they can use when doing client-side development: the JavaScript Client Object Model (JSOM), the Dialog Framework, and the REST API to name a few. In addition, there are hundreds of JavaScript libraries from the general Web development world available to you - the most prominent of these being jQuery. In this session we'll take a look at the world of SharePoint 2010 client-side development with a particular focus on the JSOM and jQuery. Rob WindsorSession Speaker Rob Windsor is a Lead SharePoint Consultant with Portal Solutions - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in DC and Boston. He has twenty years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint. Rob is a regular speaker at conferences, code camps,
... Read MoreIn this session, we will discuss and demonstrate how you can use SharePoint 2010 Web Templates and PowerShell scripts to give your team-based SharePoint development process a much needed productivity boost. Using these techniques, you enable your team to quickly test and review their custom components against your complete SharePoint solution while simultaneously eliminating inconsistencies often created by manual configurations.
By the end of this session, you will have learned:
- How SharePoint web templates can be used to provision customized SharePoint sites
- How to leverage PowerShell scripts to automate your custom site build and feature deployments
- The key benefits of this approach for team-based SharePoint development
So stop wasting time and come learn how you can help make your SharePoint team development better, faster, and stronger! Richard CalderonSession Speaker Richard Calderon, MCITP, is a Principal Consultant and SharePoint Solutions Architect with Catapult Systems and has developed web applications with SharePoint products and technologies since 2003. Richard currently specializes in designing and implementing solutions for secure intranet and extranet portals as well as large-scale public-facing inte
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