This session will provide an overview of the available SharePoint 2010 upgrade options and advanced migration scenarios. The presenters will address upgrade scenarios from WSSv2/WSSv3/SPS2003/MOSS2007 to SharePoint 2010 including granular and partial migrations, re-structuring of list, library and site content during migration and how Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager can enable organizations to take advantage of new site templates in SharePoint 2010. Metalogix will also demonstrate how Website Migration Manager can enable organizations to migrate content from existing web content management solutions, wikis and blogs to the SharePoint 2010 publishing platform. We will discuss the Planning, Disaster Recoverability, and Compliance challenges that result from storing documents in SharePoint content databases along with the proven, easily-implemented, and high ROI approaches for solving them. Tom MillerSession Speaker Tom has over thirteen years experience within the IT industry with a strong focus on ECM technologies. Since 2001, he has architected/designed dozens of SharePoint solutions as well as implemented several SharePoint-based 3rd party tools. Other areas of expertise include BPM/Workflow, Capture/Imaging, Network Architecture and Administr
... Read MoreWondering what's new in SharePoint 2010 Backup and Recovery? In this session we'll look under the hood and see what changes SharePoint 2010 brings to data backup and recovery. We'll talk about what's coming in SharePoint 2010, how the new changes will make things easier, and how to take advantage of the new features to protect your SharePoint investment in case of diaster.
Ilia SotnikovSession Speaker My name is Ilia Sotnikov, and I work as a Product Manager at Quest Software. My background includes over 7 years in different positions in R&D with Aelita Software and now Quest Software: Technical Documentation, Support Escalation Engineer, Software Analyst, Program Manager… During this time I have been working on various migration and manage
... Read MoreWe will be discussing 2010 service applications. We will go into a little bit of everything from what they are, their components, how to configure, how to publish, and then how to scale them out. Jason GallicchioSession Speaker Jason Gallicchio is the SharePoint Administrator for Rosetta, the largest independent interactive marketing agency in the US, running their internal SharePoint Infrastructure. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) in both WSS and MOSS. He has been in the tech field for over 10 years pr
... Read MoreI find it most interesting is the amount of misinformation that still exists around the core capabilities of the SharePoint platform, as well as the wide variety of perspectives on how SharePoint fits into the ECM space. Most seem to be having trouble wrapping their heads around the sheer scope of SharePoint the “platform”. Come see how interesting it will be to see how things develop over the coming year, as SharePoint 2010 impacts ECM and records management. John HollidaySession Speaker John Holliday is an independent consultant and Microsoft MVP for Office SharePoint Server and has over 25 years of professional software development and consulting experience. John has been involved in a broad spectrum of commercial software development projects ranging from retail products to enterprise information systems for the Fortune 100.Aft
... Read MoreIn this presentation, Enhancing the SharePoint Interface with jQuery Solutions, Mark Miller will examine free cut-and-paste jQuery scripts from the various jQuery solutions provided by the authors of EndUserSharePoint.com. He will cover how to create a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center and the advantage of having scripting resources reside within SharePoint. The jQuery solutions presented will include web parts that:
• Manage a calendar interface to take advantage of the entire browser window
• Expose information across multiple site collections through LyteBox
• Display deep metadata of objects exposed in a web part without drilling into a list or library
• Dynamically read list data to expose charts, graphs and colored analysis dashboards
This presentation will give you ideas and methods for creating interfaces in SharePoint 2007 and 2010 that not only look good, but provide key functionality enhancements for your site’s End Users.
Mark MillerSession Speaker 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 d
... Read MoreAre you responsible for responding to user requests for updating a website, troubleshooting SharePoint, or send information? Are there multiple people responsible for the same task? How do you track these requests; exchange public folder, excel spreadsheet? With a simple E-mail enabled SharePoint list and some quick SharePoint Designer workflows you can centralize your process without changing your user’s experience, or introduce a simple new process that increases efficiency even further. This session will demonstrate three real-life use cases on how E-mail enabled lists were successfully used to create long-term solutions. Adam LevithanSession Speaker Adam Levithan, MBA, has been working almost exclusively with MOSS since early 2007. Adam’s focus has been on architecture, user adoption, and training. He is currently working as a SharePoint Consultant and Trainer serving the federal government for LCG Systems, Inc. He has been an independent consulting working with government clients and was for
... Read MoreYou will be introduced to the BCS and will learn how to leverage technologies such as SharePoint Designer 2010 to create entities and leverage them within the SharePoint 2010 interfaces. You will learn what connection mechanisms you have to the BCS Entity and how to leverage them within Office Clients and other SharePoint containers. 85% of what you experience will not involve Visual Studio while the remaining 15% will. Adam MacaulaySession Speaker 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 co
... Read MoreCome see why SharePoint is quickly becoming Microsoft’s preferred business intelligence platform. A local SharePoint expert will provide an overview of SharePoint business intelligence features and share with you some examples of how SharePoint Insights compliment Dynamics, Office and your business reporting needs.
During this session you will learn about the different capabilities of SharePoint Insights, including Excel Services, Performance Point Services, KPIs, Scorecards, Dashboards, and PowerPivot. Ash BonebrakeSession Speaker Ash Bonebrake is the Managing Member of Watkins IT. He is responsible for the successful implementation of key systems and solutions to our clients. In this role, Ash provides many services for clients, including product and systems evaluation, complex systems design, workflow management, security analysis, and systems usage and monitoring practic
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 now has Silverlight baked into the assemblies making it easier for SharePoint Developers and Designers to create a rich environment. In this session we will discuss how to blend together SharePoint and Silverlight. We will create some basic Silverlight Applications and discuss how to get these Silverlight applications to work in SharePoint. We will go over two possible data binding techniques using WCF Web services and the new Client Object Model. 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 an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePa
... Read MoreAs marketers and sales people we must adapt our message and methods to an ever-evolving marketplace. Join B-to-B lead gen specialist Ben Bradley for “Somewhat Agile Selling and Marketing for SharePoint Shops.” This short presentation will provide guidance for developing effective and engaging key account selling campaigns without worrying about traditional marketing baggage. Ben BradleySession Speaker Known for wearing plaid and sweater vests before they were popular, Ben Bradley is managing director of Macon Raine, Inc. He enjoys soup. His interests include the intersection of technology and marketing. As an avid indoorsman, his primary interests include the role of marketing on selling, micro-finance, self-organizing networks, collaboration a
... Read MoreThis session will discuss ways to create enhanced solutions for SharePoint 2007 sites without always needing to create complex programming code or deploy solutions to the server. The audience for this session is SharePoint Power Users and Developers in scenarios where they do not have access or control to fully customize the instance of SharePoint they are using. We see this often while working for various government and commercial clients.
All too often, you are thrown into a situation where you have access to a SharePoint site collection or even just a single site and the only way to edit and enhance the site is through the browser interface. SharePoint Designer access is disabled or otherwise unavailable. Access to a programmer or the IT folks is limited or non-existent, so a compiled solution is out of the question or would take a very, very long time. But your users need functionality now. Your client wants the site to be useful now.
So what do you do?
There are quite a few ways to tackle the problem. We will discuss solutions in tiers:
• First and foremost, SharePoint can do quite a bit out-of-the-box. Why not start there and see if you can accomplish what you need?
• If it’s just not possible, the second tier includes solutions using JavaScript, jQuery, and other client site-code that can be deployed in places like the Content Editor Web Part.
• The next tier up may be a mix of client site (jQuery) and/or server side (Solutions/Features) code.
• The top tier, for the really complex scenarios, may include an extensively designed application that runs on top of or next to the SharePoint site.
We will cover a handful of specific scenarios we have encountered that can be tackled from tier 1 to tier 3 or 4, depending on the level of access and expertise that you have at your disposal. The focus of the demonstrations will be the first two tiers, with shout outs to tier 3 and 4 solutions where applicable. Bethany KaplanSession Speaker Bethany Kaplan works at Deloitte Consulting LLP as a functional SharePoint lead and SME, and also as a business process reengineering/change management specialist. Originally from Maine, she received her BS and MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and subsequently worked for Booz Allen Hamilton. In her 3 years working with ShareP
... Read MoreYou’ve spent all of that money and all of that time! Your infrastructure is built. You have a vague idea about how you would like to present SharePoint to your company or organization, but you just don’t know if they will get as excited as you are! Come and learn a few creative ways to present your SharePoint application, intranet, team sites, project sites, etc., so you can begin to get buy in before rollout or recreate excitement with each new addition to your platform. Your SharePoint deployment can be successful! Bonnie SurmaSession Speaker Bonnie Surma serves as president of the Richmond SharePoint User Group. She combines her creative talents, love of technology and passion for end users/power users in developing out-of-the-box solutions in SharePoint. She enjoys networking with other SharePoint enthusiasts, connecting folks with “the experts” who have answers, and prov
... Read MoreHow will SharePoint 2010 allow organizations to collaborate and share knowledge with clients and partners? SharePoint empowers organization to build extranet sites and partner portals inexpensively and securely. Learn what exactly is claims based authentication and how can to use it. Learn about the new multi-authentication mode in SharePoint 2010. Learn how SharePoint 2010 can help your organization open its doors to its clients and partners securely.
What three things will the attendees learn?
1. The extranet authentication options and new features offered in SharePoint 2010.
2. The strengths and weaknesses of the different authentication options.
3. Best practices and samples for implementing an extranet site.
Demonstrate how to build an extranet for a partner site and a quick tour of the extranet site. Brian CulverSession Speaker Brian Culver is an independent consultant and SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions in Houston, Texas. Brian is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in SharePoint 2007 and a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD). He has worked in the Information Technology industry for since 1998 and he has been working wi
... Read MorePowerShell is becoming the de facto command line admin tool for SharePoint 2010. Start getting prepared for 2010 by learning how you use PowerShell in your current 2007 farm. In this session we will introduce PowerShell and demonstrate how you can combine PowerShell with the SharePoint 2007 API to automate manual administration and development tasks with greater ease. Examples include quickly creating test sites, populating list data, and performing bulk custom edits across your farm. This session is targeted to developers and farm administrators and no previous experience with PowerShell is required. Basic knowledge of the SharePoint API is suggested. Brian JackettSession Speaker Brian Jackett is a Senior Consultant at Sogeti USA specializing in Microsoft Collaboration and BI technologies, primarily SharePoint development and administration for almost 3 years. Brian is a steering committee member of the Central Ohio SharePoint User Group and enjoys giving back to the community through giving presentations, volunteeri
... Read MoreThrough the examination of a case study of Developing a Reservation Process, SharePoint Surveys will be explored. The case study will discuss the Business Requirements and the process used to evaluations alternative solutions. The benefits provided by the SharePoint Survey will be presented and demonstrated.
• Surveys can be administrated through the SharePoint user interface.
• Surveys can be personalized based on a specific requirements
• Surveys enable branching and can direct the user to answer only pertinent questions.
• Surveys can be saved as a template to be used for future implementations
• Web Parts allow the User Interface to be customized.
• Security settings can manage what the user sees and can update.
• The Results can be exported and managed. Carl BrownSession Speaker Carl Brown has Bachelor of Information Systems from VCU and a Master of Information Technology from VA Tech. Carl has worked as a Project Manager and Application Programmer for over 20 years. Carl is married and has two grown sons. Carl presently works for the International Mission Board which is a non-profit organization which supports the Southe
... Read MoreIn this presentation, the author discusses a series of best practices with live demos showing how to control the names of the databases created in the share point farm including the central configuration database. This session shows how to plan/architect the naming convention, how to create the databases, and how a proper naming convention helps the administrator keep track and control the database growth/sprawl. Carlos RodriguezSession Speaker Senior Trainer and SharePoint solutions architect focusing on the health industry.
... Read MoreIn this Seminar, we plan to discuss some of the pain points of MOSS and how SharePoint 2010 simplified them with Out of Box features such as
• User Interface & Designing
• Compliance
• BDC
• Creation of Workflows
• Reusable Workflows
• Charting
• Document Management
• Meta Data
• List Behaviors
We will adopted the ""Before"" and ""After"" technique to demonstrate these new features. Chanaka PereraSession Speaker Chanaka Perera has over seven years of experience in the IT industry focused primarily on delivering Internet and client/server software solutions to mid-to large size businesses. Mr. Perera is involved in all aspects of the project life cycle and has proven his ability to propose, manage, design, develop, and deliver complete business solutions w
... Read MoreA practical overview of the SharePoint 2010 platform for IT professionals. This session will provide a brief introduction to the platform by looking at new browsers and tools like SharePoint Workspace. Following that, we’ll dive more deeply into infrastructure and topology, upgrade paths, administration, optimization and branding – with live extensive demonstrations and real world scenarios. Chris McNultySession Speaker Chris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience in financial services technology at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife. He is currently SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner, where he leads engagements using SharePoint, SQL Server, Project Server, and .NET. Chris also holds an M
... Read MoreMany companies, whether considering further investment in their SharePoint 2007 deployments or planning upgrades to SharePoint 2010, are reviewing their social media strategies. Many users are chomping at the bit to deploy and use the new, natively supported social media features in SharePoint 2010. But most administrators do not fully understand the taxonomy and data governance issues within SharePoint that are associated with these kinds of solutions. The intent of this presentation is to walk participants through the taxonomy and governance (and Intellectual Property) implications of the new social media capabilities within SharePoint 2007 and 2010, providing guidance, best practices, and working examples on how to track metadata, align these tools with their broader corporate content management strategies, and to maintain manageability of their SharePoint environment. I will demo both 2007 and 2010 environments, showing some light-weight integrations (IM conversations), capture the metadata, and show it within portal search results. Christian BuckleySession Speaker Christian Buckley is a SharePoint Evangelist and Senior Product Manager for echoTechnology where he helps drive product strategy and marketing. Christian previously worked at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform (now part of BPOS), and led an engineering and PM team in advertising operations. Prior to
... Read MoreMOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010’s Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is extremely powerful and enables the ability to create custom views of data queried from many sources that present data in one place. The CWQP is often an underrated and overlooked feature despite its powerful query and content refinement options. CQWP is such a powerful approach for managing and displaying content in SharePoint portals.
This session will demonstrate how to leverage SharePoint’s web content management (WCM) features to help empower non-IT staff to manage content along with aggregating content using the CQWP. The demonstration for this session will show both MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010. Christina WheelerSession Speaker Based in Philadelphia, PA, Christina (MCTS: SharePoint) is a Senior Consultant for Summit 7 Systems and founder of CM Portal Solutions, LLC. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, Christina has a background in graphic design, web development, custom development, and has been working with SharePoint since May 2005. She helps Summit 7 cli
... Read MoreThe best thing about SharePoint is that you can put any content into it. The worst thing about SharePoint is that you can put any content into it. For most organizations, Microsoft SharePoint compliance is crucial.
While organizations that use SharePoint are taking advantage of the Internet in a powerful way, they are potentially putting themselves at risk through uncontrolled content creation and posting by participating employees. Additionally, as organizations develop and implement their Web 2.0/Gov 2.0 strategies, it creates additional challenges for balancing access to public vs. private information. You probably have more hidden risk than you realize and it's growing exponentially every day as more employees use SharePoint.
Whether malicious or not, confidential information, personally identifiable information (PII) like credit cards and social security numbers, obscene or offensive language, secure sensitive information (SSI), or other material that violates regulatory or organizational standards can find its way into the hands of everyone on the system ‒ unless an automated governance solution is in place.
In this session Dana Simberkoff will review the challenges associated with content governance in SharePoint and demonstrate how an automated and integrated compliance management solution can easily translate your organization’s guidelines into a repeatable and enforceable process. Learn:
• About the accessibility (Section 508), privacy, and operational security vulnerabilities and risks your organization might be exposed to due to the collaborative nature of SharePoint.
• How to easily manage SharePoint content compliance to address Web Accessibility and other Web Governance issues including privacy, personally identifiable information (PII), profanity and operational security (OpSec) mandates.
• How to automate and enforce federal and agency guidelines and standards within websites, intranets, document libraries, email, and social and collaborative media to stay ahead of compliance challenges before they become an issue. Dana SimberkoffSession Speaker Dana Louise Simberkoff is Vice President of Public Sector-at HiSoftware Inc, an industry leader in the field of Web Governance and content compliance. She is responsible for managing HiSoftware's public sector organization, cultivating strategic business and technology partners for HiSoftware, and managing the alliance, education and outreach prog
... Read MoreDuring this session, you will learn the different versions and deployment options for SharePoint. We will focus on understanding what version of SharePoint is right for you, the differences between online and on premises and the new packaging available in 2010 Daniel Cohen-DumaniSession Speaker Daniel Cohen-Dumani is the founder and CEO of Portal Solutions, LLC. Daniel has more than 20 years experience in the computer science field. Since 2002, Daniel has been focusing on building a successful practice focusing on Microsoft SharePoint Product and Technologies solutions. Prior to founding Portal Solutions, Mr. Cohen-Dumani was a Chief Tec
... Read MoreMike Herrity and Dave Coleman have been working together over the last three years on the development of a mature SharePoint Solution for Twynham School in Christchurch, Dorset, UK. Having created their first SharePoint solution (The Revision Gateway) in March 2007 they witnessed an explosion in end user adoption which led to the rapid growth of the Learning Gateway.
One of the main features of the Twynham School Learning Gateway is the strong ownership by end users. By creating resources, content and solutions focused on the needs of the end user Twynham has gained an enviable reputation for very high adoption. On a recent snow day 86% of students and 92% of staff chose to use the Learning Gateways to support their independent study and maintain productivity when the school was closed.
This session will focus on the story of the development of the Twynham School Learning Gateway. Covering key milestones from the methodology used to engage end users to the ways in which we improved productivity within the institution. We will cover the three differing topologies we have implemented from 2007-2010 as we have moved from a single server farm to a highly available virtualized solution.
The session will also focus on how Twynham has gotten the most from the out of the box elements in SharePoint 2007 to our custom web part developments during our Parental Engagement strategy. We will finish with a demonstration of our SharePoint 2010 set up and work with Microsoft during the SharePoint 2010 TAP Programme. Dave ColemanSession Speaker 18 years working in the IT industry with 11 of those working in the education sector and i have worked with many versions of Windows server, Exchange, SQL Server. Over the last few years i have been specializing in SharePoint starting with SharePoint team services back in 2001 through SharePoint portal server 2003 with Class Server and on to Share
... Read MoreMOSS 2007 left a gap in enterprise metadata management, between enterprise need and product functionality. SharePoint 2010 has made a significant step forward in filling that gap. In this presentation, David will address the features, limitations, architecture, and administration of MMS. He’ll also dive into C# and PowerShell as he demonstrates how to populate and manage the MMS. David FretteSession Speaker For nearly thirteen years David has been delivering technical solutions that make sense. He runs a small consulting business helping companies leverage and support SharePoint technologies. David is currently writing the book Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook.When he is not working, he spends time with his beautiful wife and two adorab
... Read MoreBased on Ed’s interactions with many customers at the MTC, he will show you how to solve common scenarios with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 as a development platform. These scenarios include automating document assembly, building mashups, merging sharepoint data into office documents or presentations, integrating line of business data, site provisioning workflows, and more. The focus of the session will be how the tools in Visual Studio 2010 enable combining the many services in SharePoint 2010 into compelling customer solutions. The session will be almost entirely demo driven.
Ed HildSession Speaker Ed Hild is the Technology Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA specializing in Portal and Collaboration solutions. At the MTC, he meets daily with both commercial- and public-sector customer to discuss business requirements and map them to the Microsoft platform. He helps customers understand product features, best practices,
... Read MoreThis session will discuss ways to create enhanced solutions for SharePoint 2007 sites without always needing to create complex programming code or deploy solutions to the server. The audience for this session is SharePoint Power Users and Developers in scenarios where they do not have access or control to fully customize the instance of SharePoint they are using. We see this often while working for various government and commercial clients.
All too often, you are thrown into a situation where you have access to a SharePoint site collection or even just a single site and the only way to edit and enhance the site is through the browser interface. SharePoint Designer access is disabled or otherwise unavailable. Access to a programmer or the IT folks is limited or non-existent, so a compiled solution is out of the question or would take a very, very long time. But your users need functionality now. Your client wants the site to be useful now.
So what do you do?
There are quite a few ways to tackle the problem. We will discuss solutions in tiers:
• First and foremost, SharePoint can do quite a bit out-of-the-box. Why not start there and see if you can accomplish what you need?
• If it’s just not possible, the second tier includes solutions using JavaScript, jQuery, and other client site-code that can be deployed in places like the Content Editor Web Part.
• The next tier up may be a mix of client site (jQuery) and/or server side (Solutions/Features) code.
• The top tier, for the really complex scenarios, may include an extensively designed application that runs on top of or next to the SharePoint site.
We will cover a handful of specific scenarios we have encountered that can be tackled from tier 1 to tier 3 or 4, depending on the level of access and expertise that you have at your disposal. The focus of the demonstrations will be the first two tiers, with shout outs to tier 3 and 4 solutions where applicable. Edward WellsSession Speaker Ed Wells has been involved with SharePoint since the days of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0. He has worked in various capacities on SharePoint solutions for numerous clients.Ed began his SharePoint career seeing SharePoint as a simple document management tool. He would set up servers from barebones, install and configure WSS 2.0 in si
... Read MoreReview what's new, play with the new features and see what will still plague us going forward. We'll talk about some of the performance and UI changes from the new product line as well as new ways to feed forms up to the end user.
Eric HarlanSession Speaker In between searching the planet high and low for the best skiing conditions, deepest powder and crazy ‘steeps’, Eric Harlan spends most of his time in the technology field.Eric 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 architect
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“With SharePoint 2010, analysts and developers now have the ability to work together more efficiently to prototype solutions in SharePoint Designer 2010, and then deploy those re-usable solutions utilizing Visual Studio 2010. In this session we’ll introduce this new functionality available with SharePoint 2010 and its toolset, and complete a few demonstrations to showcase these new features.” Geoff VaroskySession Speaker Geoff Varosky (MCP, MCTS) is a Senior Solutions Developer for Grace-Hunt, LLC (http://www.grace-hunt.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint and Dynamics Solutions based out of Hudson, MA. He has been architecting and developing web based applications for over a decade, and has been working with SharePoint Technologies for the past 6
... Read MoreMany organizations are already planning their SharePoint 2010 implementations and some have already downloaded and tested the public beta version. As you may have already learned, one thing is very clear and that is that Microsoft has made some very significant investments into the social computing aspects of SharePoint. By now you may have already caught a glimpse on some of the new functionality and improvements on SharePoint MySites and User Profiles. But have you learned what they really mean to your organization? Are you aware of all the design and planning considerations that are necessary for a successful MySites rollout? Are you maximizing your SharePoint User Profiles within your organization?
In addition to delivering a quick tour of some of the new social computing features found in SharePoint 2010 this presentation will mainly focus on displaying the real business value that a properly designed MySites/User Profiles implementation can bring to your organization. If you are already familiar with MySites and User Profiles in MOSS 2007 in this session you would learn some of the major improvements that have been made in SharePoint 2010 and how much more flexible the new architecture is for administrators. Jaime VelezSession Speaker Jaime Velez is an enterprise services consultant with Microsoft and has over 7 years of experience working with SharePoint Products & Technologies. Over the past three years Jaime has worked solely on MOSS 2007 enterprise projects for various commercial and financial services customers across the U.S. and has extensive experience deploying lar
... Read MorePlanful Governance can be a key factor in the success or failure of a sustainable SharePoint implementation. In this session, Janis will overview some of the key functional and organizational considerations, highlighting proper planning, as well as some of the common pitfalls. Looking through the lens of the Business Executive, session content will provide insight on broad planning concepts that should be considered in any installation.
Janis HallSession Speaker Janis Hall combines more than 10 years of technical knowledge with business acumen when working with organizations on needs analysis and delivery for custom support models, system integration and upgrades, process analysis, and the design and implementation of collaborative sites. In her previous work at Mindsharp, and now as a MetroStar Systems I
... Read MoreJeff will discuss the various considerations that organizations must take into account when determining whether outsourcing SharePoint hosting and management is right for them:
1) Should we host on-premises or with a provider? (Can I do both?)
2) Who are the leading providers?
3) If we make the leap, what do we lose? What do we gain?
4) What questions should we be asking potential providers?
5) How do we select the right provider for our unique needs?
6) Do we need a dedicated solution, or is multi-tenant going to work for our needs?
7) How do we make the business case internally? Jeff BecraftSession Speaker A ten year veteran of the Hosting & Application Services group at AT&T (formerly USi), during which time he has been a consultant and team lead on a variety of Microsoft-based projects and solutions, Jeff now assists AT&T customers with planning and designing their SharePoint hosting and management solutions.
... Read MoreThe addition of the Managed Metadata Service Application in SharePoint 2010 helps companies “Speak the Same Language”. Combine these capabilities with the enhancements in Search and finding data in your SharePoint content actually becomes easy. In this session we will define and work to understand how the service is technically implements and then build a real world solution to increase findability within SharePoint. Jeff DeverterSession Speaker Jeff DeVerter has been working with SharePoint since 2003 which is early in the “v2” product line. He has been involved in the following disciplines within SharePoint:• System Planning and Architecture• SharePoint Governance and Taxonomy• SharePoint end user development• SharePoint Security Planning and Implementation• Sha
... Read MoreThis session will provide an overview of the available SharePoint 2010 upgrade options and advanced migration scenarios. The presenters will address upgrade scenarios from WSSv2/WSSv3/SPS2003/MOSS2007 to SharePoint 2010 including granular and partial migrations, re-structuring of list, library and site content during migration and how Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager can enable organizations to take advantage of new site templates in SharePoint 2010. Metalogix will also demonstrate how Website Migration Manager can enable organizations to migrate content from existing web content management solutions, wikis and blogs to the SharePoint 2010 publishing platform. Jeremy DavisSession Speaker Jeremy Davis is a systems engineer with Metalogix. Jeremy specializes in SharePoint migration and management. At Metalogix, Jeremy has participated in onsite solution deployment services, SharePoint technical support, and many public-facing speaking engagements at SharePoint events around the country.
... Read MoreThis session will discuss ways to create enhanced solutions for SharePoint 2007 sites without always needing to create complex programming code or deploy solutions to the server. The audience for this session is SharePoint Power Users and Developers in scenarios where they do not have access or control to fully customize the instance of SharePoint they are using. We see this often while working for various government and commercial clients.
All too often, you are thrown into a situation where you have access to a SharePoint site collection or even just a single site and the only way to edit and enhance the site is through the browser interface. SharePoint Designer access is disabled or otherwise unavailable. Access to a programmer or the IT folks is limited or non-existent, so a compiled solution is out of the question or would take a very, very long time. But your users need functionality now. Your client wants the site to be useful now.
So what do you do?
There are quite a few ways to tackle the problem. We will discuss solutions in tiers:
• First and foremost, SharePoint can do quite a bit out-of-the-box. Why not start there and see if you can accomplish what you need?
• If it’s just not possible, the second tier includes solutions using JavaScript, jQuery, and other client site-code that can be deployed in places like the Content Editor Web Part.
• The next tier up may be a mix of client site (jQuery) and/or server side (Solutions/Features) code.
• The top tier, for the really complex scenarios, may include an extensively designed application that runs on top of or next to the SharePoint site.
We will cover a handful of specific scenarios we have encountered that can be tackled from tier 1 to tier 3 or 4, depending on the level of access and expertise that you have at your disposal. The focus of the demonstrations will be the first two tiers, with shout outs to tier 3 and 4 solutions where applicable. Joel WardSession Speaker Joel Ward works at Booz Allen Hamilton where he spends his time doing various projects in web development, providing SharePoint expertise, and even dabbling in infrastructure. Once destined to be an architect of buildings, he switched tracks and graduated with a degree in Integrative Arts halfway through his college career. His 12 years of profess
... Read MoreThis session describes the configuration parameters, challenges and opportunities for SharePoint 2010 in a multi‐tenant or hosted environment. Delving into the differences between multi‐tenant and hosted environments, the session describes customization and process and data isolation. Learn what integration points can be added to the multi‐tenant or hosted environments. This session covers technology challenges in the hosted environment include integrating into HMC, upgrading from WSS 3.0, and Federated AD. John BurkholderSession Speaker John Burkholder is a Senior Project Manager for Digicon Corporation, where he is the primary business manager for SharePoint and specializes in architecting hosted SharePoint environments. He has extensive experience with architecting MOSS, WSS as well as enterprise systems environments in general. John first started working with SharePoint since
... Read MoreIn this Seminar, we plan to discuss some of the pain points of MOSS and how SharePoint 2010 simplified them with Out of Box features such as
• User Interface & Designing
• Compliance
• BDC
• Creation of Workflows
• Reusable Workflows
• Charting
• Document Management
• Meta Data
• List Behaviors
We will adopted the ""Before"" and ""After"" technique to demonstrate these new features. John WardSession Speaker John Ward is an accomplished senior leader with a passion for achieving results and excels in originating and executing strategies to proactively respond to changing business conditions within client-centered professional service industries. Known for bridging the gaps between business, clients, and computer technologies, John creates value by dev
... Read MoreSharePoint has enabled organizations to collaborate in ways that were unheard of just 10 short years ago. With the new release of SharePoint 2010 Microsoft has provided even more effective and ingenious tools for organizations to use. However, despite all of the advances within the platform some organizations still are unable to use SharePoint in order to gain the successes and achievements promised by using the platform.
This session is devoted to the non-technical side or as I call it the “Human Factors” that need to be taken into consideration and worked on in order to achieve more success with using SharePoint. This session will focus on tasks that both Users and IT Departments can do in order to be successful with using the SharePoint platform. Johnathan LightfootSession Speaker Johnathan Lightfoot is the President/CEO of TechForce, Inc., a Microsoft Partner company, who has been involved with IT for over 15 years. He has worked in various roles including Help Desk, Level II and III Desktop Support, Windows and AS-400 Server Administration and Development. Companies he is fortunate to have worked for in the pa
... Read MoreSharePoint offers a wealth of functionality out of the box (OOTB) and an almost endless list of potential tweaks to customize the application. With so many possibilities, it can be challenging to choose a development strategy to adapt SharePoint to a company's particular business practices.
This session introduces the three core methods used to customize the functionality of SharePoint: Configuring OOTB features, using SharePoint Designer, and developing custom code. We will discuss the benefits and risks associated with these approaches and what types of business situations would warrant their use. Joy EarlesSession Speaker Joy has been harnessing technology to improve business practices and revamp legacy systems for 10 years. A SharePoint Business User Trainer, her SharePoint duties have recently expanded to include Administration.
... Read MoreMy session will provide an overview of the typical online SharePoint environment and how to successfully navigate the service provided, what types of customizations are generally allowed, managing expectations, and Service Level Agreements you should know before your organization moves to a “cloud”-based service.
The session will also outline some of the pros and cons of adopting a “Services + Software” strategy and we will review some of the differences that exist in the current Microsoft Online Services offering versus how a typical IT department would provide the same service. We will review security and other concerns that typically are addressed prior to adopting a hosted-service for large enterprises and federal/military organizations.
Finally, I will provide insights to some published cases studies related to Enterprise and Federal /Military deployments and direct feedback about the process from my first-hand experience. Ken PriceSession Speaker Ken Price is a Senior SharePoint Consultant for RDA Corporation’s Charlotte SharePoint Delivery team, which builds custom Collaboration and Information Worker solutions for some of largest and well-known companies in the US. Ken has been employed by Fortune 50, large enterprises, Federal, State and Military organizations and has over 13 years of w
... Read MoreIn this session we’ll look at how to overcome the shortcomings of the out-of-the-box blog template in SharePoint and extend it with the aid of the CKS:EBE (including the newly released V3!) and build a kickin’ blog with all the modern fixins. Kevin DostalekSession Speaker As VP of Innovation and Education at Ambassador Solutions, Kevin is responsible for trailblazing new technologies and insuring that both our consultants and customers are up to speed on how these new technologies impact existing investments as well as how they can be leveraged on new solutions. As a 15 year veteran to the IT industry with a
... Read MoreIn this session, I’ll demonstrate how to use jQuery to enhance your site pages and forms, specifically with the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services, which is an open source solution available on Codeplex. We’ll cover how to add the library to your SharePoint site and some of the most popular functions, such as SPCascadeDropdowns and SPDisplayRelatedInfo.
Since I’m writing this well in advance, expect that we’ll cover the latest developments, tips, and tricks which I haven’t even thought of yet. Marc AndersonSession Speaker Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in Newton, MA. Sympraxis Consulting focuses on collaboration within the enterprise and how to best enable it through effective use of SharePoint.
... Read MoreThis session answers common questions that arise when discussing “SharePoint Branding”.
Here’s a sampling of questions to be covered:
• Why does design matter?
• When to engage design?
• Who are the key players in design?
• What do designers do anyway?
• Where does design fit into a SharePoint project?
• How do I implement someone else’s design?
• How to work with digital agencies on SharePoint projects?
*Please bring your own questions or scenarios for discussion too. Marcy KellarSession Speaker Marcy is a solution driven consultant specializing in architecting web content management, user interface and user experience designs on the SharePoint platform. She has an extensive background in visual design, web content management, relational data modeling and life sciences. She has been advocating user centered implementation of S
... Read MoreRecent articles in industry publications have pointed to the challenges facing deployment of knowledge management systems within the DoD. This session will focus on current issues facing the SharePoint project manager in joint or inter-agency environments (specifically, medical operations). Focus will be on recent changes to IT policies in 1QFY10 and their impact on governance, planning, and implementation with particular attention to: HIPAA compliance, CAC authentication, records management and recent rapid action revisions to existing policies as part of a SharePoint SDLC. Objective is to ensure successful, effective and efficient project plans that take into account new requirements in initial planning. Designed for intermediate to advanced level SharePoint PMs, admins and devs involved in requirements analysis and project planning. Marie-Michelle Strah, PhDSession Speaker Michelle is the SharePoint SME for health services and specializes in governance, policy, planning and project management for SharePoint communities of practice in complex environments. Her current focus is on knowledge management, regulatory compliance and systems integration in federal and military settings. Her extensive background in education
... Read MoreWhether your existing SharePoint architecture supports in-place upgrades or if you have to move to a new environment, SharePoint 2010 provides a good opportunity to reorganize your stale content and take advantage of new features. This session will focus on making content ready to take advantage of new functions such as term stores, managed metadata, FAST search refinement panel, metadata key filters, navigation hierarchies and list group navigation. Mark KlinchinSession Speaker Mark Klinchin directs the technological vision and product development for MetaVis Technologies, focused on SharePoint information architecture, taxonomy and classification. Mark joined MetaVis with 15 years of experience as a software product architect with the past 5 years spent exclusively in the enterprise content management space. Mark holds
... Read More“What in the world have I gotten myself into?” “I’m so confused” “I hate SharePoint with a burning passion of a million suns!” If you are just getting started in SharePoint development or architecture and have ever uttered those words, then this is the session for you. What should every developer be aware of before diving head first into SharePoint? Being a talented .NET developer does not directly translate to being a SharePoint Developer. The learning curve can be huge and the environment taxing. Mark Rackley designed this session as the session he wished he would have seen when he started SharePoint Development.
Attendees will learn:
1. A greater understanding of what SharePoint is and how it’s structured including a crash course in Logical Architecture, Taxonomy, Governance and why these topics are so important in SharePoint.
2. What steps to take in order to become a SharePoint developer and a jumpstart on getting started down that path.
3. Why the SharePoint community is unique and important. Mark RackleySession Speaker Mark has been developing software applications for over 15 years filling the roles of Project Manager, Business Analyst, Lead Developer, and Software Architect. He has been involved in projects for such companies as Dell, Motorola, Intel and Agilent Technologies. He has worked in large corporate environments, small software start-ups, and as a con
... Read MoreSharePoint is a rich application development platform and offers a wide variety of ways in which developers can customize and extend the out of the box capabilities. One of the most powerful ways in which this can be done is by leveraging the fact that SharePoint sits on top of and leverages the ASP.NET pipeline. By exploiting this fact, developers can accomplish a great number of things that would ordinarily not be possible. The session will look closely at how Http modules and other aspects of the ASP.NET pipeline can be used to accomplish a number of different customization tasks and open up a whole new realm of possibilities when it comes to developing custom applications for SharePoint. The session will include many live demos and code samples to illustrate the techniques being presented. Matthew ResnickSession Speaker I have been an IT technology professional for approximately 15 years with the last 4 of those as a consultant with Microsoft. I have focused primarily on web-based solutions using a wide range of technologies, including heavy use of ASP.NET. Since joining Microsoft, I have worked extensively with SharePoint 2007, doing architecture, de
... Read MoreProject Server and SharePoint are together at last. Now you can view and update your projects directly from SharePoint. Installing and configuring Project Server on SharePoint can be a bit daunting but we will demystify the process. This session will cover what it takes to make this happen as well as some of the things you can do with Project inside of SharePoint so you can start taking control of your projects whether they be hundreds or thousands of people or just a few. Michael DoyleSession Speaker Michael Doyle is the SharePoint Architect for Waggener Edstrom, one of the leading PR companies with offices around the world. Michael has been working almost exclusively with SharePoint for the last seven years. He has been in the software arena professionally for the last 20 years and has worked for companies such as A-dec, Fedex, Intel, NETWARC
... Read MoreThe key to discovering SharePoint’s power, scope, and effectiveness within an organization is not in the clear cut yes and no answers but in the series of questions put to the organization and to SharePoint itself.
Many times even successful SharePoint Implementations lack an open and completed conversation with the Business End User’s point of view.
A key player or leader can be found in the Business Super End User. Someone who is not the classic Administrator, but is nestled just under the Admin and the End User.
This session will help formulate that role and provide the questions they will need to answer in order to help cure the SharePoint Identity Crisis. Michael HinckleySession Speaker After ten plus years of developing and managing e-learning projects I have found myself in the unique position to drive the innovation at an enterprise level using knowledge management tools and social media.My current title is Instructor at Citibank, although training delivery is one aspect of what I do, most of my job and interests included know
... Read MoreSharePoint 2007 introduced the SharePoint platform to Windows Workflow. Along with it came some first generation design and development tools and a very disconnected experience between developers, designers, and business holders and between the toolset they work with including Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer, and Visio. Did you ever wish that the Visual Studio experience wasn’t as painful, or that you could make your SharePoint Designer workflows more portable, or that you could take your workflow designs developed by your business and port them into SharePoint? Well the wait is over with SharePoint 2010. In this session you see new features of SharePoint 2010 that allows you to develop workflows using Visio, import them into SharePoint Designer, make modifications in SharePoint Designer, extract to Visio for further modifications. Michael LotterSession Speaker Michael Lotter, MCTS, is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for B&R Business Solutions, and travels throughout the United States implementing SharePoint and InfoPath-based solutions. He is an active speaker at East Coast Code Camps and user group meetings, and is a co-author on O’Reilly’s SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide. You can also follo
... Read MoreThe new BCS/BDC in SharePoint 2010 affords tremendous potential for integrating line of business applications into SharePoint using the new create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) functions that allow users to interact with external application data in SharePoint. However, building out the connectivity required behind the scenes to leverage all these capabilities remains difficult, time consuming, and requires heavy coding. Come see how Enterprise Enabler® is being used by government and business to implement BDC in days or even hours by eliminating adapters, coding and ongoing maintenance. This enterprise scale integration software platform resides inside of SharePoint on the same server, leveraging SSS security and enabling transaction rollbacks when
connecting to external systems.
In this session you’ll see a multi-application integration with SharePoint 2010 built live with full CRUD capability. We will demonstrate how to use AppComms to auto discover endpoint data sources and their schema without adapters or custom coding. Learn how to build virtual relationships across disparate data sources by simply dragging and dropping, even more easily than building relationships across tables in a relational database! When you are done configuring, you’ll experience push button creation of the BDC. Within minutes your user is working live on the external data from a SharePoint list. Finally, you’ll see the security and rollback features live and begin thinking about how this could be applied in your environment. Users can interact with data from hard to expose applications, databases and control devices. You will see how you can quickly improve key performance indicators and create collaboration across departments and areas of expertise, without having to expose employees to new systems. At the end of the session you’ll get a free developers kit to allow you to use what you learned. Within days you’ll be connecting everything and everyone in your organization. Mike GuillorySession Speaker Michael Guillory is Enterprise Enabler Evangelist at Stone Bond Technologies. Mike leads the architecture and development of Enterprise Enabler’s SharePoint connectivity initiatives. Since late 2007 he has been the primary technical liaison with Microsoft’s SharePoint BCS development team, ensuring the best technical fit between the two prod
... Read MoreMike Herrity and Dave Coleman have been working together over the last three years on the development of a mature SharePoint Solution for Twynham School in Christchurch, Dorset, UK. Having created their first SharePoint solution (The Revision Gateway) in March 2007 they witnessed an explosion in end user adoption which led to the rapid growth of the Learning Gateway.
One of the main features of the Twynham School Learning Gateway is the strong ownership by end users. By creating resources, content and solutions focused on the needs of the end user Twynham has gained an enviable reputation for very high adoption. On a recent snow day 86% of students and 92% of staff chose to use the Learning Gateways to support their independent study and maintain productivity when the school was closed.
This session will focus on the story of the development of the Twynham School Learning Gateway. Covering key milestones from the methodology used to engage end users to the ways in which we improved productivity within the institution. We will cover the three differing topologies we have implemented from 2007-2010 as we have moved from a single server farm to a highly available virtualized solution.
The session will also focus on how Twynham has gotten the most from the out of the box elements in SharePoint 2007 to our custom web part developments during our Parental Engagement strategy. We will finish with a demonstration of our SharePoint 2010 set up and work with Microsoft during the SharePoint 2010 TAP Programme. Mike HerritySession Speaker Mike Herrity is an Assistant Headteacher at the K12 Twynham School in Christchurch, Dorset, UK. Twynham School has 1600 students, 200 staff and 1200 parents as part of its 3000 strong community. Twynham has an excellent reputation as a centre for learning having been graded the highest possible award of ‘Outstanding’ three consecutive times by the
... Read MoreA real world guide to establishing a Disaster Recovery Plan that aligns business needs with actual IT capabilities. Covering crucial key topics such as how to prioritize your content, knowing your environment, how to establish realistic recovery estimates and how to estimate the cost associated with system downtime. With this information you will be able to validate current business requirements and assumptions, increase the reliability of the plan as well as identify improvements that can help you meet if not exceed SLAs and drive confidence in SharePoint as a business platform. Mike OryszakSession Speaker Mike Oryszak is a SharePoint Server MVP and Principal Consultant with Intellinet in the Information Workers practice specializing in SharePoint Architecture and Development. Mike has been living in the Raleigh-Durham area since 1998 and held a number of development and consulting positions servicing clients from a range of industries including maj
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 provides rich features to make it ideal platform for Web Content Management Solution. Companies are moving towards a unified platform approach for all applications and SharePoint is ideal platform and solution for this. This session will cover many of these features including high level review of Silverlight, implementation best practices for development, architecture and infrastructure. It will also cover Global Deployments, multi lingual sites and security best practices. Parth PatelSession Speaker Parth Patel is Founder and Chief Solutions Architect at SharePoint Engine, a NJ based Microsoft Gold Partner focused on Enterprise Content Management, Business Process Management and Business Intelligence solutions based on SharePoint Platform. Parth Patel has over 8 years of experience in content management industry. He concentrates his efforts o
... Read MoreBusiness Intelligence is often thought of as the aggregation, storage, analysis, and presentation of data for the purpose of informing business decision makers. When solving complex Business Intelligence related business problems it is essential to have a solid Business Intelligence strategy that is supported by a solid base of Business Intelligence technologies. Both can streamline business processes and boost productivity and profit. A suite of server and client-side data integration tools provide powerful analytical, data management and reporting capability allowing key decision makers to make better informed decisions.
This session is based on a real world scenario involving a hypothetical not-for-profit association, called Benefits for You, whose purpose is to provide health and life insurance benefits to the uninsured. The session seeks to provide an example of how SharePoint's Business Intelligence capability can be applied in a practical scenario. In this session, Pat Christian will describe the business case, technical solution, and demonstrate how SharePoint's Business Intelligence features can be applied to coordinate day-to-day business activity across diverse geographic locations and organizations. The solution, developed on the SharePoint platform, showcases a variety of analytical, data management and reporting technology and tools including dashboards, scorecards, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), OLAP, SQL Server Integration Services, Fusion Charts and gauges, and SQL Server Reporting Services.
Pat ChristianSession Speaker Pat Christian is a certified Business Intelligence Professional who focuses on Project and Data Management. She has over 10 years of experience in data warehousing and business intelligence and over 20 years in traditional application development, system conversions, software implementations, and system integration. With a proven track record of s
... Read MoreEvery InfoPath solution requires certain common bits and pieces. This session describes those common bits which include things like providing consistent user feedback, saving to SharePoint forms libraries, embedding developer notes, managing form state data (treating the form itself as its own database), etc. I then describe how to build an InfoPath template that incorporates all of these features so that you don’t end up building them on-the –fly in your projects.
Along the way, we’ll talk about a few tips and tricks (how to get user profile data, how to determine group membership using a custom SharePoint list, some implications in an FBA environment and other goodies too numerous to list).
In the end, you’ll have access to a fully featured starter template that you can then take on to brand yourself and immediately use to be more productive in your InfoPath endeavors. Paul GalvinSession Speaker Paul Galvin has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years in a number of roles including software development, consulting and most recently SharePoint solutions design. Paul works with clients to create top-notch business solutions using the SharePoint platform. He contributes to the SharePoint community through MSDN forums, blogging (both as ho
... Read MoreBusiness Intelligence is becoming more and more important in the SharePoint development world. Come see how to implement this very valuable and often-requested feature in your SharePoint environment. Ram Kumar SainiSession Speaker Have over 22 years experience in IT. He holds Masters degrees in Computer Science Applications. Holds certifications MCTS: SharePoint and MCDBA. Worked as Architect, Administrator, Developer, and Business Analyst for SQL Server and SharePoint for various fortune 100 financial, insurance and telecommunication companies. Expertise includes bui
... Read MoreIf you are a person, who has, or is thinking about or actually implementing SharePoint you should know everything I will cover in this session. We will go over which technology fits, how to achieve and maintain buy in, how to implement successful governance, how to approach SharePoint and get great user adoption and will even cover how to handle new work and growth. Richard HarbridgeSession Speaker Richard Harbridge is from the GTA (Toronto, Ontario, Canada area) and is a geek who really enjoys learning and talking about technology, communication, social media, psychology, personal growth/development, and business.As an active member of the SharePoint community he is the VP of the Mississauga SharePoint User Group and is involved with many o
... Read MoreSharePoint is an awesome tool. It allows you to build web sites, manage lists of data, collaborate on documents, and so much more – all done through a simple, easy to use, web interface. When you need to go beyond the built in capabilities of the product, SharePoint also provides a rich set of APIs to code against. This is designed to introduce you to the foundational topics required to build customizations on the SharePoint platform. Specifically we will cover: Features, the solutions framework, the server object model, the client object model, and building simple Web parts. This session will be valuable for those working with SharePoint 2007 or 2010.
Rob WindsorSession Speaker Rob Windsor is a developer, trainer, writer and Senior Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. He has over fifteen 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 member
... Read MoreMicrosoft has made big changes to taxonomy management in SharePoint 2010. Major shortcomings in MOSS 2007 have been corrected, but the world has also become more complex with the addition of tagging.
We will talk about the “taxonomy” vs. “folksonomy” debate and look at best practices for balancing these approaches in 2010. We will dig into Managed Metadata and its components including: Terms; Term Sets; Managed Keywords and the Term Store.
In MOSS 2007, we tried to steer users away from using folders in most instances; in SharePoint 2010, folders have important new functionality that connects them with the taxonomy. We will look at best practices for using these components in ways that enhance your site and your users’ experiences.
Finally, we will talk about how the new taxonomy tools will impact your process for working with stakeholders to plan and design your 2010 SharePoint implementations. Ruven GotzSession Speaker "Ruven Gotz is a senior consultant with Ideaca, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto. For the past five years he has been focused on delivering award-winning SharePoint solutions.Working as a Business Analyst and Information Architect, Ruven is able to apply his eclectic education and varied experience in Psychology, Computer Science, Ec
... Read MoreThis session is a case study of how SharePoint has been implemented at Castcon-Stone, a small custom manufacturer. It is presented by the owner of the business, who is also the entire IT “department”. Castcon primarily makes use of SharePoint’s Custom List features to allow its 15 users to share and access information about all aspects of the business… from CRM, to bidding, to manufacturing project tracking, to HR. Demos of the actual implementation will focus on how business issues have been solved using out-of-the-box SharePoint, with the relatively minimal time and financial resources available to a very small business. Sandy UssiaSession Speaker Sandy Ussia is Vice President and co-owner of Castcon-Stone Inc, a manufacturer of custom precast concrete stairs near Pittsburgh. She has managed the financial, HR, and IT aspects of this 40-employee company for the past 20 years. As the only member of the IT “department” for her business, Sandy began implementing MOSS 2007 for her 15 computer us
... Read MoreThis session examines the new client object model available in SharePoint 2010 and the differences between the three currently available client APIs.
We will examine some of the key benefits and pitfalls of moving processing off the server and out to the client including a short live-load test on a server to validate the metrics.
Discussions on the benefits of the new RESTful architecture and the batched lazy loading of the Client Object Model will end with brief examples of configuring REST and coding simple client interfaces.
Specific detail will be spent examining how to create and deploy Silverlight Applications using the client OM with the new Silverlight WebPart container. Scott SingletonSession Speaker Scott Singleton is a Senior Consultant and a Lead SharePoint Architect at i3solutions and has been working as a software architect and programmer for over 17 years. For the last three years he's been focused on leveraging his design and development skills to solve customer's business challenges in SharePoint as well as managing large i
... Read MoreNeverfail provides a high availability and disaster recovery software solution for critical Microsoft SharePoint environments. Neverfail delivers continuous availability for all elements of SharePoint including the front-end, search and index servers that need to be constantly available. Neverfail for SharePoint not only protects your collaborative efforts, but ensures that your business can continue operate regardless the cause of downtime. Scott SpicuzziSession Speaker Scott Spicuzzi is an industry veteran with over 30 years in storage, backup/recovery, disaster recovery and business continuance software. Scott has spent time with Epoch Systems, EMC, StorageTek, Legato, InMage Systems and Neverfail, where he has distinguished himself as a top contributor as both individual contributor and in managerial roles.
... Read MoreSharePoint has a built in best of breed Search Engine – if you understand how to utilize it. It empowers users to find the information and expertise needed to efficiently do their job. Find out what SharePoint Search can do and how to maximize the effectiveness of search on your web site, intranet, extranets and across the entire enterprise.
Actually give your users search results they are looking for
• Evolve your search solution
• Crawl your existing non-SharePoint systems
• Taxonomy based search results
• Targeted searches
• Security trimmed results (or not)
• What are your users NOT finding
• Pre-set your results based on search terms
• Quickly find the right person
• …and much more! Sean BordnerSession Speaker Sean is an inspiring and accomplished SharePoint Speaker who has presented SPTechCon (Boston), SharePoint Saturday (VA Beach, Boston & Washington, DC), The SharePoint Users Group Live (Chicago & DC), ASAE Technology Conference (DC), SharePoint .ORG Conference (Baltimore) and others. Sean’s specific areas of expertise include SharePoi
... Read MoreThe SSA deployed its pilot SharePoint deployment as the
precursor to a more robust deployment expected to follow in 1-2 years.
DocAve quickly proved a vital tool as the organization planned for a full-scale implementation of over 20 servers,
dispersed between data centers based in different US cities.
Join Shadeed Eleazer as he walks through the Office of Telecommunications and Systems Operations deployment for a close look into how his organization has leveraged
DocAve Backup and Recovery to manage and protect their
expanding environment.
Session Objectives:
• Provide roadmap towards smooth DocAve deployment using real-world case study
• List and explain steps to ensure easier deployments
• Identify gray areas and areas of focus when deploying DocAve in your environment
• Provide best practices for providing written justification for vendor purchase
• List best practices for deploying third party solutions in government environments
• Question and Answer session Shadeed EleazerSession Speaker My background spans over 10 years of specializing in the support of the unique demands of Federal and state government sectors. I am a US Navy veteran with extensive background in cloud services support and implementation, configuration management, process development, SharePoint backup and recovery, and SharePoint integration. I am the co-founder
... Read MoreWith a lot new features included in SharePoint 2010, it has and will become very easy for the developers to design, develop compelling and robust applications and deploy them safely ( under partial trust ) using the new Sandboxed Solutions. Administrators would be able to monitor, validate and block these solutions in case needed. The speaker would speak on why we need Sandboxed Solutions; cover Sandbox Solution Building, Deployment, Debugging, Monitoring and Validating them. Srini SistlaSession Speaker Srini is Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist with over 10 years of experience designing and implementing IT solutions on a variety of platforms, including SharePoint Services, SharePoint Server 2007 and now evaluating SharePoint 2010 beta. He works in many areas within SharePoint; however, his area of expertise includes SharePoint Feat
... Read MoreSharePoint Workspace 2010 along with Groove provides an application platform that integrates with SharePoint servers and extends it with an "offline/mobile client". This session will explore the integration architectures of SPW 2010 and SharePoint servers and how applications are built on the platform including the use of SPW 2010 Groove API. We will look at working examples of such extended applications. Supriyo "SB" ChatterjeeSession Speaker Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee is an Architect/Tech-lead based in Hartford CT. He has over 20 years IT experience and has worked at companies like Aetna, IBM, UNICEF and State of Connecticut. He holds graduate degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics. He was thrice awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for Groove. He moderat
... Read MoreThis will be an exploratory session for admins and devs alike. PowerShell mixes the worlds of both and is like managing SharePoint on steroids. PowerShell has been around as a server management tool for years and has recently become a strong player in the SharePoint management space. Looking forward to SharePoint 2010, Microsoft suggests using PowerShell over the familiar stsadm command line tool. Join us as we explore how to use PowerShell for both the current versions of SharePoint and SharePoint 2010. Susan LennonSession Speaker Susan Lennon is a Microsoft Consulting Services Senior Consultant as well as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. She was an independent for eight years and was working on US Navy projects during that time. The last six years have all been involved with architecting SharePoint solutions for the Navy. Susan has certifications as an MCT, IT PRO Datab
... Read MoreSince last summer's release of the SharePoint 2010 Beta, there has been much excitement about its amazing new features, the problems it will solve, and how it has been improved. We have been captivated by the promise of a better information technology tomorrow. But there has been little discussion of the snakes and dragons lurking in the shadows beside the road ahead. Now that tomorrow is today, it's time for pragmatism to replace euphoria. Join us for a intermediate to advanced developer oriented discussion on various aspects of the SharePoint platform with a focus on what SharePoint still can't do, what’s more difficult than it should be, what’s being taken away, and how we can muddle through until we all understand the product better than we do today. Project Managers are welcome, too. Come prepared to trade in your yellow hat for a black one – metaphorically speaking. We’re not actually giving away hats, but heavy audience participation is encouraged.
Thomas CarpeSession Speaker At the tender age of ten, Tom Carpe was abducted and lovingly raised by a pack of feral Commodore 64's. Eight years later, he returned to the civilized world where he attended the University of Hard Knocks. Since then, he went on to start several businesses. He has been working as a developer and consultant for Microsoft-based products for the pas
... Read MoreThis session focuses on the value added when those are reading and using the content and objects tag them. SharePoint 2010 has added this functionality to its offerings and it has the potential to greatly improve the findability and refindability of content. Getting to this points takes understanding what it is and why it works well and the guiding principles that underlie it.
Tagging (ad hoc metadata) has been around for over 20 years, but its commercial breakthrough to achieving its promise and value in around 2003 with the creation of del.icio.us social bookmarking site. This change in tagging and similar changes in many other services created a vastly different value and understanding of tagging. This difference was named folksonomy by Thomas Vander Wal in 2004. The value to individuals, the service, and the organization are different from each other and how to best handle them and understand them is needed to ensure each of the three entities gets the most value from them. Thomas Vander WalSession Speaker Thomas Vander Wal has years or working with vendors and services providers making tagging tools both on the web and intranets. He has 20+ years working on software and services helping people more easily contribute data and find needed information and objects. In 2004 he coined the term folksonomy to set it apart a newer approach to tagging that w
... Read MoreThe Service Application Framework is a brand new piece of the SharePoint 2010 architecture which is displacing the Shared Services Provider model from SharePoint 2007. It is a platform on which developers can build scalable middle-tier functions that can be shared intra- and inter-farm.
The goal of this session is to dive into scenarios of how the Service Application Framework can be used in the real world. The session will cover the basics of the Service Application Framework and its architecture, what problems it solves, and what applications it has in the wild. Also covered will be how KnowledgeLake is leveraging the Service Application Framework to build scalable applications on SharePoint 2010. The presentation will be a good mix of architectural overview, demos, and code. Todd KittaSession Speaker Todd is currently a Senior Engineer at KnowledgeLake, the industry leader in document imaging and ECM for SharePoint. His background includes software architecture & development, project management, consulting, and technology advisement. He has been working with the .NET platform since the beta time frame and has garnered a deep expertise on t
... Read MoreSharePoint is an outstanding tool for collaboration amongst personnel residing within the same enterprise. But competing successfully today requires collaborating with third-parties outside of a company’s virtual four walls. Organizations must interact with speed and flexibility, yet ironclad security must be maintained at all times – regardless of the number of constituents, their affiliations, or where they physically reside.
Projects that traverse corporate or geographic boundaries require a secure SharePoint service that controls entry to the collaborative community, limits access to information to only those partners and users with valid permissions, and protects intellectual property whether at rest or in transit. To achieve these objectives, such a service must incorporate three vital concepts: trust, compliance, and information governance.
• Trust: A key factor in establishing trust with partners is mitigating the risk associated with external identity management. How is administration of identities handled amongst partners, and how do partners fulfill their assigned responsibilities? In other words, trust but verify. How do you support these capabilities, and audit to certify that the user access process executes without compromise?
• Compliance: Compliance with privacy laws and regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley and EU Data Protection requirements is a must for any system that is managing data from multiple companies or countries. Does the service ensure enforcement? Does it go the extra step and support information release based not only on compliance-driven access rules, but also on project-specific explicit approvals for information sharing?
• Information Governance: Because project data may span a spectrum of sensitivity-levels, categorizing information properly in order to apply the appropriate amount of protection is essential. Does the solution promote the creation and governance of knowledge management rules that capture what can be shared, when to use various forms of collaboration, and how to segregate information so each party’s intellectual property is protected from unauthorized access?
In this presentation, we will describe each of these concepts in greater depth, explain why they are absolutely necessary for B2B project environments, and offer practical tips on how to embed them within a secure SharePoint service that promotes productive partner collaboration. Tom JohnsonSession Speaker Tom Johnson brings nearly 25 years of experience in the aerospace and defense industry guiding process improvement, managing technology deployment, and directing program teams to his position as Senior Director of Collaborative Services at Exostar. In this role, Tom leads the company’s collaboration program, focusing primarily on all aspects
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 is poised to revolutionize how organizations connect their people, processes, and information. It will mark SharePoint’s evolution from a server application to a full-fledged platform…the world’s first “enterprise eco-system.” In this session we will discuss how the changes coming in SharePoint 2010 will affect your platform deployment, administration, and performance optimization strategies. We will outline approaches for efficient management of both application lifecycles and multi-farm, geographically-dispersed environments, review best practices for optimizing storage resources, and conclude with an evaluation of options for consolidating and exposing your legacy content in the SharePoint 2010 platform. Tom LinSession Speaker For a number of years Tom has been working exclusively with enterprise-level data protection and management software deployments for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Tom’s extensive experience with SharePoint custom backup and recovery applications has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within SharePoint communities and at technical even
... Read MoreInformation management has taken a significant leap forward with SharePoint 2010, and it's not just for administrators anymore -- everyone can get involved. Come to this session and hear how you can be a part of the fun. This session will go over what is new, and how it affects what you do. You will also learn how properly managing your information can dramatically help in the "findability" of information in SharePoint. We will cover such things as Enterprise Content Management, Document Sets, records management and metadata management. Tom MillerSession SpeakerTom has over thirteen years experience within the IT industry with a strong focus on ECM technologies. Since 2001, he has architected/designed dozens of SharePoint solutions as well as implemented several SharePoint-based 3rd party tools. Other areas of expertise include BPM/Workflow, Capture/Imaging, Network Architecture and Administr
... Read MoreMapping Mashups with SharePoint Designer including an Overview of Current Map Service Providers, an Introduction to Customizing the Data View Web Part, and a Demonstration of Dynamic Mapping from List Data.
Tom ResingSession Speaker Tom is a Microsoft Certified Master in SharePoint 2007. He is passionate about online collaboration technologies and loves being active in the SharePoint Community. Tom has been blogging about SharePoint for the last 2 ½ years after certifying on the 2007 platform. Before SharePoint, Tom has spent 12 years in the internet industry developing produ
... Read MoreThis session seeks to build a definitive list of the “best and worst” about SharePoint 2010. Tony Byrne from SharePoint Watch (part of the Real Story Group) will lead an interactive session where audience members will propose what they like and dislike most about the new platform.
Of course, what one person likes about SP 2010 another might dislike, depending on their role, experience, type of industry, and personal or professional preferences. On the other hand, by participating in an open debate, individual audience members can make up their own minds.
In the end, the audience will vote on “Ten Best” and “Ten Worst” aspects of SharePoint. Tony will facilitate the discussion and document the group’s conclusions in real-time.
Have opinions? Join us and share... Tony ByrneSession Speaker Tony Byrne oversees all of The Real Story Group's technology streams and properties, which include CMS Watch, Enterprise Information Watch, and SharePoint Watch.
In 2001, Tony founded CMS Watch as a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies and publishes research comparing different solutions head-to-head. Over time, CMS
... Read MoreIntranet Essentials with SharePoint: For organizations about to take the plunge into SharePoint, or just considering it, for their Intranet, this session will provide real-world examples and practical tactics for building an Intranet with SharePoint 2007/2010. Using examples and live demos of real-world SharePoint Intranets in professional services firms, non-profits, and healthcare, participants will walk-away with a laundry list of best practices and quick wins for their intranet, as well as a step-by-step process for getting started. This is a non-technical session focused on business applications of SharePoint for an intranet and will provide affordable (!) answers to big questions like "how do I get started?" and "what can SharePoint do for us?" Tracey KleinSession Speaker Tracey Klein is Divisional Vice President of Sales for mindSHIFT’s Application Development & Integration practice group, managing a team of 40 consultants and software developers highly specialized on Microsoft Information Worker Solutions. She has consulted on, and managed projects for mindSHIFT’s application development customers for over 10
... Read MoreGood governance has always been one of the most important aspects of a successful SharePoint implementation. With the expanded feature set of 2010, this session will look at new considerations around governance strategy and the adjustments organizations will need to plan for to upgrade or implement. We will explore many of the new 2010 features that will require the greatest governance planning such as managed metadata services, new document / records management as well as implementation of the new social networking features.
Virgil CarrollSession Speaker Mr. Carroll has run High Monkey Consulting over the past decade and is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design / Development. Mr. Carroll has 10+ years working with Microsoft technologies and is currently pursuing his 2nd Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interactions. Mr. Carroll
... Read MoreYou’ve learned about the basic features of SharePoint Designer 2010 but what about some of the advanced features? Features like, DataForms, XsltListViewer, Actions, Advanced Workflow, Server Controls, External Content Types, and Meta Data Management of Content Types. We will delve deeper into Designer to learn how we can enhance our application interfaces and integration giving our users the application they desire to get their work done. Adam MacaulaySession SpeakerAdam 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 co
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 has improved ways to work with data. LINQ to SharePoint lets developers work with data from SharePoint lists in a strongly typed way that preserves relationships between lists. This session will demonstrate how to write code that uses LINQ data. Steven FowlerSession Speaker Steven Fowler is an author, speaker, and consultant possessing a mix of advanced technology and strategic business acumen derived from 14 years of progressive project management, architecture and engineering experience. Steven has worked with SharePoint since version 2003 and recently completed one of the world’s largest SharePoint implementations
... Read MoreBusiness Connectivity Services (formerly named the Business Data Catalog) provides read/write access to external data from line-of-business (LOB) systems, Web services, databases, and other external systems within Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 has product features that can use external data directly, both online and offline. Come and kick the tires! Demo External Lists, Content Types and Web Parts to BCS Deanna McNeilSession Speaker I have been an IT Professional for almost 15 years, specializing in SharePoint administration this past year. My passion is working with & teaching clients, helping them realize solutions and sparking their imagination to try. I love to work with technical communities by organizing events where folks collaborate & learn. When I am not work
... Read MoreIn this session, Bill English, MVP, will discuss Mindsharp’s original research on staffing SharePoint deployments. In this session, you’ll learn first-hand what others are doing to staff their deployments. You’ll also learn about their deployments in general and why the results are as they are. This is a thought-provoking session, so you won’t want to miss it. Bill EnglishSession Speaker Bill English (MCSE, MCSA, MVP, MCT) is an industry leader, author, and educator specializing in the exciting SharePoint Products and Technologies product set from Microsoft. In this role as Mindsharp’s CEO, Bill focuses on emerging technical changes in SharePoint to ensure Mindsharp continues to provide cutting-edge training and business solutions
... Read MoreMany companies rely upon Return on Investment (ROI) when making technology strategy decisions, but few take the time to actually determine how much that strategy will cost over time. That's unfortunate, because without estimating the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), ROI is meaningless. There's no way of knowing how large an investment is actually being made.
That's particularly true when companies decide whether to use an IT hosting provider or take the do-it-yourself route; Buy v. Build. Because managed hosting is presenting a complete solution, all costs are on the table from the start. By contrast, in-house hosting often involves hidden costs that aren't surfaced until the do-it-yourself project is well underway.
Hidden cost when trying to ‘build’ an infrastructure will be buried in three phases; Capital Expenditures (CAPEX), Hardware Deprecation and overall infrastructure maintenance.
Matthew LathropSession Speaker Matthew Lathrop joined Rackspace in October of 2007 after several years facilitating internal operations, procurement and vendor management in the Austin area. Matthew’s skills sets were best utilized within Rackspace when it came to discussing operational efficiencies with companies how to better utilize capital resources. Quickly mov
... Read MoreIn this session, you’ll learn the basic steps to building out an information architecture for your organization. While many of the concepts will apply to SharePoint Server 2010, the concepts will broadly applicable to your other information systems as well. What will be presented in not technical in nature. Instead, you’ll learn about a way of thinking about how to manage your information better. Applications to SharePoint 2010 will be offered and it will be argued that not moving to SharePoint 2010 will hinder your ability to implement a full IA in your environment.
Bill EnglishSession SpeakerBill English (MCSE, MCSA, MVP, MCT) is an industry leader, author, and educator specializing in the exciting SharePoint Products and Technologies product set from Microsoft. In this role as Mindsharp’s CEO, Bill focuses on emerging technical changes in SharePoint to ensure Mindsharp continues to provide cutting-edge training and business solutions
... Read MoreIn SharePoint 2010 there are many new branding new features that enable Power End Users to change the look and feel of their SharePoint sites. With the advantages of the new Office 2010 themes, end users are empowered with the freedom to customize their SharePoint 2010 sites. In this new End User freedom, we need to educate our end users as to how to make effective design decisions for their sites.
This session will include information on how to add images to their sites, change colors by creating a theme and formatting text on the page. This is a vital part of helping with End User Adoption. In training End Users how to work on their own sites you are empowering them to use the sites more effectively.
Cathy DewSession Speaker Cathy Dew (MCTS) is a Senior Consultant and Graphic Designer for Summit 7 Systems in Huntsville, Alabama. Summit 7 Systems is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner which specializes in the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure, including Office SharePoint Server, Office Communications Server and Exchange Server.
Cathy comes from an A
... Read MoreCome to learn the unique purpose of My Site profiles, wikis, blogs, discussion boards, RSS Feeds, and Publishing sites and how to create a corporate culture of social networkers. Tiffany won’t just define each tool and explain how they differ but will focus on using social networking as a support model for your SharePoint implementation. When should you use a discussion board over an announcement or a wiki library versus a wiki site? Participants will take away information on how to document best practices, lean down knowledge base processes, customize out-of-the-box SharePoint Help, and communicate with site collection admins in the organization. Don’t miss this chance to hear from an expert in user acceptance and adoption who will tell you why you should never hide a help file in MS Word. Taking a cue from Dux Raymond Sy, Tiffany’s session ends with a lesson on community etiquette… in interpretive song.
Users takeaways:
• What’s coming in 2010
• Governance considerations
• How to leverage your existing corporate culture
Tiffany SongvilaySession Speaker A former stand-up comedian, Tiffany Songvilay uses humor and analogy to translate vision into practical solutions for SharePoint. Her passion for productivity comes across in a motivational way, and audiences often claim that her energy makes them tired. Participants come away with a renewed sense of service to their co-workers and a strange desir
... Read MoreIn this session we will go over the new default master page in SharePoint 2010. We will go over the differences between default.master and jump right into how to upgrade your MOSS 2007 master pages to SPS2010 master pages.
While doing that we will also see some of the new enhancements to how SharePoint renders the new controls.
This Branding/Web Developer session is a must see if you have worked on or will work on creating master pages in SharePoint.
Coskun CavusogluSession Speaker Coskun Cavusoglu is the Director of Consulting Services and the Chief Solution Architect of Captaré Consulting, LLC (http://www.captare.com).
He has been architecting and implementing technology solutions for more than 10 years in both large, enterprise organizations and fast growth midmarket firms. Coskun is a technology writer, blogger
... Read MoreWhen a request for information arrives at your company it is crucial that it be addressed very quickly. One straight-forward way to ensure a quick response is to add an alert mechanism to a ‘Contact Us’ page. In this presentation we will provide you with a high-level overview of how to add basic SMTP provisions to such a page in a SharePoint 2007 site, thus creating a simple alert mechanism for your corporation’s marketing and sales team.
Specifically we will:
• Use Visual Studio 2008 to add SMTP provisions to and digitally sign a DLL associated with the ‘Contact Us’ page
• Deploy the modified DLL to the GAC
• Use SharePoint Designer to successfully modify the master page
• Test the modified ‘Contact Us’ page
Tom FallonSession Speaker Tom Fallon has more than 20 years of professional and academic IT experience. As a senior consultant for Innovative-e, Inc., Tom leads the development of internal best practices for engagement processes, professional development and organizational standards.Tom is well versed in Java and Microsoft .NET technologies. He is an avid C# and SharePoint
... Read MoreOne key benefit of SharePoint is its ability to serve as a platform on which to develop solutions to organizational and business problems. Unlike any technology before, SharePoint can empower individuals and groups to be involved in the development of these solutions. This is incredibly empowering, but also creates challenges.
End users, power users, and executives are often untrained in analyzing the process to be changed or automated and lack understanding of the underlying complexities of the technology. Conversely, IT professionals and developers often take a technology centric approach to providing tools, getting the ‘lights on’ and then leaving the users to figure it out themselves.
Effectively building solutions on SharePoint requires understanding of the problem space, organizational change management principles and solid project management discipline.
We will look at specific examples in the PMIS, Transparency Solutions, Government 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 space where Mike TaylorSession Speaker Mike Taylor, president and CEO of Innovative-e, Inc., is a global entrepreneur, experienced business consultant and certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with more than 20 years of IT experience. Mike specializes in solving business problems through project management, custom application development, infrastructure and consulting service
... Read MoreBusiness Connectivity Services (formerly named the Business Data Catalog) provides read/write access to external data from line-of-business (LOB) systems, Web services, databases, and other external systems within Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 has product features that can use external data directly, both online and offline. Come and kick the tires! Demo External Lists, Content Types and Web Parts to BCS Fabian WilliamsSession Speaker Fabian Williams is a Technical Lead and SharePoint Architect for CDW Advanced Technology Services SharePoint Practice. He is based out of Herndon Virginia. Mr. Williams has a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems from Strayer University, Washington, D.C. and is 9 Credits and a Capstone away from Masters in CIS at Johns Hopkins Universit
... Read MoreThe Federal government and other large organizations want to take advantage of cloud infrastructure as a Service (IAAS). The most mature clouds on the market are Public IAAS providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS); however, due to security concerns and federal compliance requirements these clouds have become difficult to implement for the federal government. One way to tackle this problem is to provide a best of breed cloud solutions that breaks down the security and technical requirements and assess which IAAS provider is appropriate for each aspect of your solution. This session will review a case study of a federal agency that wants to migrate their public facing websites to SharePoint 2010 and host SharePoint 2010 on a cloud IAAS provider. James HirmasSession Speaker I am an information technology specialist with over 10 years of diverse Engineering, Architecture, Development and Analytic experience. My focus is SharePoint Engineering/Architecture and the Microsoft Enterprise Stack. I have experience in large commercial and government enterprise deployments of SharePoint. Additionally, I have speci
... Read MoreMick Herres, Executive VP of Technology for H3 Solutions, will demonstrate how easy it is to extend the power SharePoint to Smartphone users with Mobile Entrée® (ME). ME provides SharePoint users a rich interface to maintain business productivity from their Smartphone. Users can continue to collaborate and maintain access to SharePoint data, Line of Business Applications and keep up to date on key Business Intelligence (BI) directly from their mobile device.
Mick HerresSession Speaker With ten years in the IT/IS industry, Mick is considered a pioneer in the use and implementation of various web technologies including Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, and JavaScript/AJAX based Web 2.0 technology. As the lead technical architect on H3's Mobile Entrée, he is very excited about the emerging mobile computing ex
... Read MoreBamboo SolutionsSession SpeakerEstablished in 2001, Bamboo Solutions is the leading provider of technologies that augment the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Bamboo currently offers more than 60 products providing a broad range of enhanced capabilities for SharePoint.
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