As the popularity of using SharePoint 2007 as a development platform continued to grow, the need for a mature application lifecycle methodology and associated toolsets grew as well. Developers and managers struggled to try to apply traditional ALM techniques and tools to the management and maintenance of SharePoint solution development. SharePoint 2010 marks a new era in which SharePoint development becomes a 1st class citizen, bringing with it a robust infrastructure to meet the needs of today’s development shops. This is great news for developers who want to be productive.
In this session, we’ll explore the differences between developing, deploying and maintaining SharePoint solutions in 2007 versus 2010. We’ll also take a look at the enhancements that have been added to Microsoft’s 2010 suite of products to achieve this, and how to best take advantage of the new feature sets. Ricardo WilkinsSession Speaker Ricardo is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for Information Control Corporation (ICC). He has worked on SharePoint solutions in the public, non-profit, and private sector. He has also been heavily involved in the local SharePoint community, participating as a liaison for Ohio state agency SharePoint users, and giving talks and technical demo
... Read MoreOverview: Discuss why many enterprise social computing projects miss the mark due to lack of employee engagement and low end-user adoption around SharePoint.
Key take-away: Provide a framework that drives employee engagement & end-user adoption enabling organizations to realize the full benefit of their enterprise social computing return on investment in SharePoint. Jeff WillingerSession Speaker Jeff Willinger is the Director of Social Computing at Rightpoint, specializing in corporate intranets and portals and increasing employee engagement inside the four walls. A true character with character, he fuses the gift of communications with the acumen of strategic and creative thinking. With experience spanning more than two decad
... Read MoreWhat a weird title but it got you to read. This session is really going to talk about the ins and outs of Kerberos and SharePoint for the purpose of BI. The idea is to make all of those cute little charts and graphs and “dashboards” you the admin have lots of little knobs to turn. In this session I plan to give you the scoop on the knobs and how I turn them for tools such as SQL Server Reporting Services, Excel Services, PowerPivot, and PerformancePoint. Shane YoungSession Speaker Shane has over 14 years experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past five years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant and trainer. Shane has been recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint and is among an elit
... Read MoreSharePoint can be used as a repository for paper based assets. The design aspects can range from simple to complex and can scale from a ew dozen pages to thousands of pages to millions of pages. The innate capabilities of the SharePoint platform are perfect for capturing, extracting data, and launching workflow tasks and storing paper based assets.
This session will explain the basics of Document and Data Capture. We will demonstrate both ad hoc and batch capture capabilities and how easy it is to store, retrieve and manage documents and data within SharePoint. Kevin DidaySession Speaker Kevin Diday is a veteran in the Document Capture and Management industry. Over the past 14 years he has worked with end users and partners to design, develop, and deploy document capture and management technologies. Kevin is currently a Solution Sales Manager for the Kodak Document Imaging Division. He is considered a subject mat
... Read MoreYou may have heard of multi-tenancy, but what exactly is it? Come check out this brief introduction to what multi-tenancy or hosting capabilities are built into SharePoint (even SharePoint Foundation), how to set them up, and how to use them. There are a few gotchas and limitations, but multi-tenancy is definitely something every SharePoint administrator should know. Stop by and add this important capability to your administrative arsenal. CA CallahanSession Speaker Author of "Mastering Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010", a followup to her successful "Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" book, CA Callahan is a frequent speaker at industry events, such as Windows Connections and various SharePoint Saturdays. Callahan has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer for over a decade, and is
... Read MoreYou can use Project and Project Server to manage a project but what about all of the "miscellaneous" things that a good project manager has to keep track of and manage through completion or resolution? In this discussion you'll learn how there's more to SharePoint than just storing documents. SharePoint can be a platform for managing issues, risks, and the other information about a project. We'll show you some simple techniques for making SharePoint a more powerful tool in your tool belt. Robert BogueSession Speaker Robert Bogue, MS MVP Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, MCITP:SharePoint Administrator, MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA:Security, etc., has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. Robert’s latest book is The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users. You can find out more about the book at http://www.SharePointShe
... Read MoreThis session discusses the continued adoption and expansion of services of SharePoint after you deliver the product to your users. Once it moves to operational mode, you want to make sure the users are staying up-to-date, with controlled growth, governance, and knowledge transfer. Additionally, placing metrics into place to see how you are doing is critical. John BurkholderSession Speaker John is a SharePoint technologist with a view on SharePoint that it will someday take over the world and everyone will be assimilated. Working in technology for over 25 years and with SharePoint for 10 years, he recognizes the unique challenges with adoption, security, and business continuity of SharePoint and how Out-of-the-box doesn’t always wor
... Read MoreA multi-billion dollar liquor distributor runs an expensive promotional campaign every year, but can only guess if it actually boosts profits. A top five US retailer experiences a supply chain disruption, and the office of its President urgently needs to quantify the impact. A social media network collects millions of data points each day but has no way to track whether users signing up this year are being retained better than last year’s signups.
In the past, answering each of these literal million-dollar questions would have been the focus of a massive, expensive, and time consuming Business Intelligence project, if it were tackled at all. But in recent months, all of these real-world problems were quickly resolved by a small team of business users and a SharePoint 2010 feature known as PowerPivot.
Sophisticated business calculations. Analysis “mashups” that cross-reference multiple data sources. Interactive dashboard applications. All created without a single line of code, and not by BI professionals, but by the business unit experts themselves. All firmly anchored in, and empowered by, SharePoint 2010. Rob CollieSession Speaker Rob spent 13 yrs at Microsoft in Redmond WA before relocating to beautiful Cleveland early last year. At MS, he worked primarily on Excel, designing many features of Excel 2003 and 2007. In his final act at MS, Rob joined the PowerPivot team and designed much of the PowerPivot platform. Today, Rob is CTO at Pivotstream, the world's leading adopter
... Read MoreThis talk will discuss a holistic view of an environment created for long term success in delivering high quality SharePoint solutions in a timely fashion. This talk will cover a range of topics including:
1. Building a SharePoint developer machine
2. Creating an optimal environment for development
3. Estimating projects
4. Using code storage, building, and automation tools
5. Testing strategies
6. Code reviews and best practices Bill CriderSession Speaker Bill has worked with every version of SharePoint dating back to the free Digital Dashboard download in the mid 90s. His experiences have covered a wide range of activities, including custom development, portal architecture, deployment and administration. His current interests include mobile and Silverlight experiences in SharePoint, composite solu
... Read MoreDespite the hype, there is still a lot of confusion and misunderstanding surrounding managed metadata. We cover the basics of metadata, why you should spend the time and energy on it, and show some of the cool things that it can do for your organization.
*Creating Metadata/how-to
*Explanation of the parts; Defining and comparing keywords, content types, tagging, and metadata and when to use each
*How it drives search results
*How metadata is utilized in User Profiles
*Lists, Views
*Forms
*Importing from external data sources
*How it relates to Records Management and Information Management Policies Stacy DeereSession Speaker Stacy Deere (MCITP) is the SharePoint Architect Practice Lead for the PCMS IT Advisor Group, a Cincinnati, OH based company that provides consulting services to the mid-market. Stacy is leading PCMS’ rapidly growing SharePoint practice where she engages in a wide range of consulting projects across various industries. With nearly 15 ye
... Read MoreThe problem with SharePoint Developers is that they know too much. Well, between us admins, we know that’s not true…the REAL problem is that they think they know too much. “Can you reset IIS for me?” “Let’s just change this service account.” “What do you mean I can’t put that in the GAC?!?” “Why would I need to run tests, it compiled didn’t it?!”
It would be nice to think that as SharePoint administrators we can just set up and run a nice, simple, vanilla SharePoint 2010 farm and spend our time figuring out how to get all that user traffic to stop slowing down our PowerShell scripts, but in the majority of organizations and environments that’s just not the case. Developing customizations for SharePoint can dramatically increase the ROI of your SharePoint sites, but getting those customizations in place can often also drive up your blood pressure too.
So how do we go about putting these crazy developers in a position to successfully build their web parts, features, and other insidious creations and at the same time bend them to your iron will, dance to your beat, and keep from screwing things up? I’ll warn you, it’s not easy but it’s possible. And if you do it right, they’ll even thank you for it! John FerringerSession Speaker John is a SharePoint IT Pro with over seven years of experience administering and supporting SharePoint technologies and has spent over thirteen years working in the information technology consulting industry. He co-authored the "SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide" in September, 2010 (http://tinyurl.com/SPDR2010book) and the “ShareP
... Read MoreThe SharePoint 2010 Platform has provided Information Workers with the ability to utilize common tools found within Microsoft Office to take data out of applications and surface it to the masses within SharePoint. In this talk we’ll explore 2 of the newest avenues for data visualization within SharePoint: Visio Services and Excel utilizing PowerPivot. Visio Services allows you to take the traditional boxes and arrows modeling of Visio and apply real-time business data against the model and making it readily accessible within SharePoint while PowerPivot harnesses the number-crunching power of Excel 2010 and allows for the easy deployment of rich reporting and dashboards into SharePoint. Jorge GuerreiroSession Speaker Jorge has been in business application systems development, deployment, and operation for more than 25 years. He has seen the industry come full circle from centralized computing, to the network, and now back to the cloud. He has held positions with companies such as IBM, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Thomas J. Lipton, and UPS, and has work
... Read MoreWith the 2010 releases both for Visio and SharePoint, the ability to quickly create and share powerful, intuitive, automatically-refreshing dashboard visualizations of both your critical IT and business data has never been easier to accomplish. This session will have a quick overview of Visio Services and then discuss how users can use out-of-box settings and basic, no-code customizations in Visio 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 and SharePoint Online to create refreshable dashboards that efficiently improve insights into business performance. We will go through the process to set up an IT dashboard in SharePoint Online and highlight customer-proven best practices like including business data, and explore new uses for IT Pros using Visio 2010 and Visio Services in SharePoint Online. The session is demo heavy and is aimed at IT Pros. Chris HopkinsSession Speaker Chris Hopkins is a Senior Consultant with the US Services, Premier ISV team based at Microsoft. Chris' expertise focuses in on the areas of .NET application development, SharePoint 2010 development, as well as Visio and Visio Services development.
... Read MoreAttendees will learn about how to brand their SharePoint environment. The presentation is broken up in to the following parts: What is branding, key aspects and considerations, demo (where I spend most of the time). This presentation includes a custom branding solution from one of my favorite video games and includes multiple walk-throughs of how to develop and troubleshoot branding. In this presentation, I explain how you use Solution packages, Features (with Feature Stapling), and Event Receivers to create branding the right way…and at a Farm level, not just at the Site Collection level. I’ll explain many of my “lessons learned”, best practices, and what to watch out for when branding your environment. Lastly, Designers will get some things from this presentation, however, its geared towards developers mostly. Matt HuberSession Speaker I’m a MCTS for SP2010 Development and also a MCITP/MCTS in Configuration for SP2010, MOSS, and WSS 3.0. I’ve been working with SharePoint since 2006, starting with SPS2003. It’s been tons of fun and greating seeing the product change over the years. I also write C#, however, I stick mainly in the SharePoint space for development.
... Read MoreIn SharePoint 2007 we used various template tools in Visual Studio 2008 to build custom solutions, such as STSDev, WSPBuilder, SPServices, and VSEWSS. Now we find ourselves with a consistent toolset built into Visual Studio 2010, so how do we upgrade this legacy code to fit into SharePoint 2010? In this session we will discuss the various tools available in Visual Studio 2008 and how we can get these projects into Visual Studio 2010 for deployment in SharePoint 2010. We will also discuss the various workarounds available for different issues that may arise when upgrading code from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010. By the end of the session attendees should have a better understanding of each code upgrade path based on the template set used in Visual Studio 2008. Becky IssermanSession Speaker Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer in SharePoint Server 2010 (MCPD), a SharePoint Server MVP in 2011, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). She has been a web designer/developer
... Read MoreIn this intro-level session on utilizing jQuery with SharePoint, the focus will be to empower users on how to satisfy some of the common UI changes clients request by writing clean and unobtrusive Javascript with the help of the jQuery library. We'll begin by diving into the different ways that jQuery can be hooked up to SharePoint. We'll talk about CDN versus local copies of the library, as well as linking jQuery via masterpages, custom actions, content editor web parts, and more.
We'll then spend time discussing css selectors, and some of the common patterns and jQuery methods you'll want to familiarize yourself with when targeting page-level elements. After that, the remainder of the presenation will be focused on walking through real-life scenarios of altering the UI with jQuery, such as adding interaction and animation to content query webparts, changing the behavior of links inside a page, and more. The code utilized in the presentation will be made available online after the Conference is completed. Matt JimisonSession Speaker Matt Jimison is a Senior Consultant from Indianapolis, IN, that specializes in SharePoint 2010 Design and Development. His areas of focus include custom development inside Visual Studio, as well as utilizing out-of-the-box functionality. Matt has been involved in a variety of Intranet, Internet, and Extranet projects, and brings over 10 years of w
... Read MoreThis session focuses on what works and what doesn’t when redesigning a SharePoint User Interface in both SharePoint 2007 and 2010. You are invited to listen to real life stories of SharePoint Branding and User Interface redesigns-- the pain, the glory, the pressure and the teamwork. You will walk away from this session with some key tips on how to see the red flags that could mean your SharePoint branding project is in trouble and how to manage them.
This session is intended for Project Managers, Business Decisions Makers, Architects, Designers and anyone who’s head will roll when things go wrong. This session also offers time for Q&A at the end so bring your own questions.
Marcy KellarSession Speaker Marcy Kellar is an experienced SharePoint consultant and User Experience designer. Marcy’s primary focus is on designing and implementing SharePoint Branding and User Interface solutions but also provides design strategy, usability testing and functional design consulting for web application development, mobile platform and digital marketing
... Read MoreA summary about the SharePoint 2010 Toolkit 2.0 but an in-depth presentationa bout SP Diag 3.0
View the SharePoint 2010 Diagnostics (SPDiag 3.0) in Action. To go over in-depth to show toolset can assist a SharePoint administrator assess/troubleshoot a SharePoint 2010 environment.
Also toolset can assist a SharePoint team on understanding the enviornment by getting reports to gain insight to the SharePoint enviornment to have a proactive approach to make decisions of improving the system such as tracking Memory, CPU's, Database I/O, etc.
There are great 3rd party tools that perform this function very well. However, if you are in an environment that is not budget friendly or your want to troubleshoot a CERT/INT/DEV enviornment, this toolset works well. Tony MaddinSession Speaker Tony Maddin is a Senior Practice Consultant with Ascendum Solutions in Blue Ash, Ohio.
Tony Maddin has been a technology specialist with 15 years of experience as a web developer, web administrator, web applications administrator, and 6 years as a SharePoint administrator. He has worked for United States Army (Airborne), Sinclair Community Colleg
... Read MoreIn this session you will get a first-hand account of what has worked well in our deployment and what has not worked so well. The journey will start out with testing the waters with 2007 and finish up with jumping straight into 2010. Along the way we will be discussing the failures we had with consultants as well as the great successes we have with them. I will also give tips on how to choose a great consultant. This session will be perfect for those that are planning or just in the beginning stages of their SharePoint deployment, but will also be relevant during any phase of a deployment. Chris MaiersSession Speaker Chris Maiers is a SharePoint novice making his way through the SharePoint Universe. He is an Intranet Applications Administrator at Heartland Financial USA, Inc., in Dubuque Iowa. Heartland Financial is a multi-bank holding company with over 70 locations. His current position includes wearing multiple hats as a SharePoint administrator
... Read MoreIn this session we will look at some basic out of the box ways to create powerful dashboards for managing teams and projects. Our dashboards will be created using multiple connected web parts all configured from the browser. This session will give you a good overview of lists, views, web part pages and web part connections. This is a great session for those just getting started with SharePoint who want to push the limits of out of the box configuration. Jennifer MasonSession Speaker Jennifer Mason has dedicated the last seven years to working with SharePoint. She started out as an intern focused on SharePoint and eventually began working as a full-time SharePoint consultant. She is currently working as a Senior SharePoint Consultant with the team at SharePoint 911. Her focus has been on strategy, project planning, proje
... Read MoreOne of the most common questions a customer asks us is “How can we make SharePoint look less like SharePoint?” Beyond simple master pages, html and CSS, one of the richest libraries available to a developer for extending SharePoint’s User Experience is the JQuery UI library. During this session we will look at patterns for integrating JQuery, with a specific focus on the JQuery UI libraries. The session will include building a generic JQuery Template Web Part, as well as a rich File Upload page that can attach metadata and upload multiple documents in a single step. Jonathan MastSession Speaker Jonathan has been working with Microsoft based technologies for over 10 years and has been developing against SharePoint since v2 of the product was released. He especially enjoys exploring the composite nature of the SharePoint platform, asking questions like: “How far can we take the platform without customization and development?” and then foll
... Read MoreSharePoint is a complex platform with many moving parts and dependencies, and most administrators know that they need some form of backup protection to safeguard their environments. When it comes to actually protecting a SharePoint environment, though, what should an administrator focus on? What's important? In this session, we'll take a look at SharePoint disaster recovery with an eye towards identifying farm protection targets. We'll examine all of the common (and many of the not-so-common) elements that need to be protected, discuss why those elements may or may not be important for any given environment, and talk about tools and technologies that are available for protection. We'll also cover some special circumstances and watch-outs that may help or hinder efforts to protect targets that are selected within a farm. By the end of the session, you will be able to prioritize backup targets in your SharePoint environment and select appropriate strategies for protection. Sean P. McDonoughSession Speaker Sean is a Product Manager for SharePoint Products at Idera, a Microsoft gold certified 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 M
... Read MoreIn this session we will discuss the best approach, leveraging the various SharePoint content management features, to efficiently organize and easily find content through-out an organization’s enterprise. This presentation emphasizes the importance of establishing consistency on how users classify, describe and find information. Tom MullenSession Speaker Tom Mullen is a SharePoint Practice Consultant at KnowledgeLake, focusing on SharePoint as your enterprise document imaging and capture solution. He has 18 years of experience with Document Management and Imaging technology, software development, and consulting to many organizations.
... Read More“Rapid, problematic growth” is a phrase often heard when people describe a successful SharePoint deployment. As SharePoint content fills expensive SQL Server storage, administrators need to consider priorities such as cost, performance, supported sizing limits, etc. and then make storage-influenced decisions that can impact broad areas of the SharePoint deployment. These decisions can influence everything from Information Architecture to feature enablement to backup strategy and disaster recovery capabilities. This session will review the specific storage challenges any successful deployment will face, review best practices for optimizing SharePoint storage, and detail strategies administrators can implement now to plan for advanced SharePoint functions like ECM and records management. Topics discussed in detail will include EBS, RBS, archiving, records management, connected file systems and more. John PelusoSession Speaker John Peluso is a Technology and Corporate Training professional with over 17 years of experience helping organizations understand how they can drive results and business productivity through an effective use of technology. He has consulted with technical and business decision makers at organizations of all sizes, and conducted SharePoint planning
... Read MoreLists are used as the core of many things SharePoint but they are rarely used as well as they can be. Learn the top tips and tricks for getting the most of your lists: How to build them smarter, how to display them more clearly, and how to use them in your environment for effectively. Also see how these practices evolve from 2007 to 2010. Wes PrestonSession Speaker Wes Preston is a SharePoint consultant and Microsoft MVP and owner of TrecStone (www.trecstone.com). He works primarily as a SharePoint product specialist, Solution Designer and IT Pro – helping align business needs with the SharePoint platform and guiding organizations through the use of best practices. Wes has been a developer, consultant and te
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 has many new features. This session will look at five of these features from a power user perspective and show how to implement and use them today to be more effective immediately. These features are Document Sets, SharePoint designer workflow, Content Query web part, Content Type hub, and using InfoPath with your List. While some of these existed previously, they have been enhanced. This session will delve into these components and provide guidance on how to efficiently leverage these components to be more productive. Peter SerzoSession Speaker Peter Serzo (MCSD .Net, MCP, MCTS) is a published author, an organizer of SharePoint Saturday Michigan, member of the SouthEastern SharePoint group, a speaker at conferences, and works for High Monkey Consulting as a SharePoint Architect. Peter has been in the IT industry for 20 years. He has extensive experience with SharePoint implementing
... Read MoreThis session will get you, the SharePoint Site Owner, started in customizing your SharePoint site. It is not a programming session, but does include some JavaScript coding. It is not a graphics design session, but does include some Cascading Style Sheets. It is not a SharePoint Designer session, but it will make use of it. And nothing requires access to the SharePoint servers.
While the session is for the SharePoint Site Owner, it's also for the developer who does not want to "reinvent the wheel". All you need to apply what you learn here are basic SharePoint skills, how to copy and paste and some puzzle solving skills. Mike 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 MoreA scenario-driven explanation and demonstration of how to utilize the new records management features of SharePoint 2010 which include the Record Center, Content Type Hub, Content Organizer, and the Managed Metadata Service. This demonstration will highlight the effectiveness of utilizing these features within a business setting and how all different types of organizations can take advantage of this functionality to reduce time spent managing and finding records within a SharePoint 2010 environment. Adam SolzsmonSession Speaker Adam Solzsmon is currently a Practice Consultant with Ascendum Solutions in Blue Ash, Ohio
Adam Solzsmon has been a working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as well as SharePoint 2010 products for multiple clients in the heartland district for over 3 years. Adam worked as a full time SharePoint Administrator/Educator for a Fortune 500
... Read MoreIn this session you will learn everything you always wanted to know about SharePoint Online (SPO) from Microsoft Online Services as the presenter will cover the following questions: How does SPO differ from a SharePoint on-premise deployment? What is Office 365? What’s new in SharePoint 2010 Online? How does SharePoint Online integrate with other Microsoft Online Services? Can I develop custom solutions for SharePoint Online? At the end of the presentation the speaker will provide plenty of time for and interactive Q&A session and live demos.
Jaime VelezSession Speaker Jaime R. Velez is the CEO/Founder and Principal Consultant of WEBFORCE1, a Microsoft Cloud Practice delivering Office 365 and SharePoint-based solutions to the SMB market. Prior to launching WEBFORCE1, Mr. Velez spent five years at Microsoft in various roles focused on delivering SharePoint and BPOS (now known as Office 365) solutions to enterpris
... Read MoreThis case study is intended for organizational decision makers, business analysts, IT pros, Information workers and developers a like. We will support the idea that ‘ANYTHING’ is possible with SharePoint especially when working with cost and time constraints. We utilized SharePoint 2010 as change management application, which was deployed at an enterprise level to ensure transparency and control of complex business processes and procedures. This session will showcase SharePoint as a cost effective enterprise solution, the level of complexity SharePoint can drive, the level of customization of SharePoint workflows and how SharePoint can be integrated with other enterprise applications such as; TeamCenter (Product Lifecycle Management software),QAD (Enterprise Resource Planning software) and Cognos (Business Intelligence software). The session should interest anyone that wants to utilize SharePoint as a integrated enterprise application to drive production objectives. Herman VermaakSession Speaker Herman is business analyst by trade with experience in manufacturing and mobile development. He’s been part of Aculocity’s dynamic consulting team for the past 3 years specializing in business process reengineering and custom Microsoft .NET system implementation.
Herman is certified in Prince 2 and he’s also a Microsoft Certified Technol
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