The SharePoint 2010 Platform has provided Information Workers with the ability to utilize common tools found within Microsoft Office to take data out of applications and surface it to the masses within SharePoint. In this talk we’ll explore 2 of the newest avenues for data visualization within SharePoint: Visio Services and Excel utilizing PowerPivot. Visio Services allows you to take the traditional boxes and arrows modeling of Visio and apply real-time business data against the model and making it readily accessible within SharePoint while PowerPivot harnesses the number-crunching power of Excel 2010 and allows for the easy deployment of rich reporting and dashboards into SharePoint. Roy HiggsSession SpeakerRoy is a Technical Specialist at K2 where his duties include conducting product demonstrations, leading Strategy Briefings, and the creation and display of Proof of Concepts. He resides in northern California and serves the West and Southwest regions. Roy has been in the IT industry for over 15 years. As a Solution Architect for ten years at a glo
... Read MoreLego Sets are all the rage. With all Lego sets, whether large and complex or small and simple, you must know how and where each piece goes and interacts with the others to create the entire masterpiece. The same can be applied to the SharePoint 2010 and all its components that make the solution for your organization and/or enterprise. In this beginner to intermediate session, we’ll ensure we review the key architectural components of the SharePoint 2010 application platform, concentrating on the capacity and planning changes of Service Pack 1. Miguel WoodSession SpeakerMiguel is a Principal and the National Practice Lead for SharePoint Solutions for Statera, a National Systems Integrator (NSI) partner of Microsoft. He also serves as President and CEO of TekFocus, a minority-owned and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). Miguel’s background includes consulting and mentoring organizations to bet
... Read MoreOrganizations often spend lots of money planning and deploying SharePoint only to fail to achieve the full return on their investment because of a lack of user adoption. Savvy companies are realizing that the benefit of training their end-users goes far beyond the success of a SharePoint implementation. It can have a great impact on the sustainability of the organization over time. Staying competitive is the key to any company’s success. Training your staff on new technologies is essential to achieving that goal. Employees benefit too, by learning new skills and increasing their productivity, they are intrinsically motivated and often more loyal. This presentation explores these topics and provides ideas to consider when developing a training plan for SharePoint. NREL’s recent SharePoint deployment will demonstrate how a strong training program can foster user adoption. Jen DoddSession Speaker Jennifer Dodd is a Senior SharePoint Consultant for Planet Technologies, specializing in infrastructure, architecture and composite solutions. She is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and has been providing SharePoint training for the past 7 years. Recently, she developed a custom, all-inclusive, enterprise-wide training program for SharePoint e
... Read MoreWith its roots in document management and collaboration, SharePoint has always had a need for records management. Version after version, SharePoint has increased its capabilities in this area to the point where SharePoint 2010 has a viable records management story. Come learn about these new features, see how to implement them, and hear about real success stories. Ryan McIntyreSession Speaker Ryan McIntyre is the Practice Director at Neudesic for portals and collaboration, including the SharePoint platform. He has been involved in delivering SharePoint solutions since the beta version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) and holds Microsoft Professional certifications in both SharePoint 2010 Configuration and SharePoint 20
... Read MoreHave you ever created a fantastic solution that your end users simply hated? Maybe they just don’t understand the awesome-ness of your creation, and they need more training (and convincing!). Well, let’s stop avoiding what we all know to be true: functionality alone is not enough—we must make solutions that people want to use.
This session will explore techniques specifically for InfoPath, SharePoint Designer Workflows, and the SharePoint interface that can help ensure that Solution User Experience is integrated in every stage of the project. The techniques include: 1) using personas to establish requirements, create security and navigational models, and determine both conforming and non-conforming test procedures; 2) designing visually engaging InfoPath forms that can be upgraded with no impact to end users; and 3) avoid common workflow problems when end users deviate from normal processes. April WolfeSession SpeakerApril Wolfe is a SharePoint Engineer at Planet Technologies. Her specialties include codeless solution development using SharePoint Designer and InfoPath forms, with a focus on Solution User Experience and Branding. Over the past five years working exclusively in SharePoint, April has provided internal and external consulting, codeless development
... Read MoreIn this session you will learn how to create Windows Phone 7 applications that use the social capabilities SharePoint has to offer such as people search, user profile data, activity feeds, and colleagues. You will also learn how to provide push notifications in Windows Phone 7 applications that alert users when SharePoint list data, or social data has changed. Finally, you will learn how to use external social web sites like Twitter and Facebook to compliment your social functionality and broaden the reach of your application to the world. Todd BaginskiSession Speaker Todd is a founder and director at Aptillon, Inc. and six-time Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional who uses SharePoint, Silverlight, Office, Windows Phone 7, Azure, and .NET technologies to create web sites and custom solutions. Todd is the content author and presenter for the BCS portion of the SharePoint MCM program and a regular spea
... Read MoreLarry Tenison will describe out of the box (OOTB) SP2010 Workflow and showcase the Nintex Workflow 2010 platform. Marquam Group will demonstrate building complex SharePoint workflows using Nintex to simplify design, incorporate mobile devices, and extend workflow functionality. Larry TenisonSession Speaker Mr. Tenison is a senior level IT consultant with Marquam Group. He has accumulated more than 33 years of IT experience as a consultant, architect, and business analyst. Mr. Tenison specializes in evaluating and analyzing enterprise architecture and technology infrastructure domains, including security, applications, networks, data, middleware and
... Read MoreWant to avoid the performance mistakes before you make them? This in-depth session we will discuss how to properly position your SharePoint farm for success beginning with "hardware" and ending with troubleshooting methodologies to maximize performance. Find the pitfalls before you hit them from someone who has climbed out of the deep dark holes in the wild. Best Practices from the Field combines recommendations from Microsoft with the experience of trial and error. Jason HimmelsteinSession Speaker Jason Himmelstein, MCTS, MCITP, is the SharePoint Practice Director for Sentri, Inc. and has been working with Microsoft Server technologies since 1998 when he was supporting Motorola in Austin, TX. He went to work for the University of Texas for 5 years where he developed expertise in Active Directory and Exchange. He left UT to go on the road d
... Read MoreHigh availability requirements are becoming more and more common in setting up SharePoint 2010 farms. To achieve higher levels of recovery time objectives (RTO) utilizing database mirroring features in SQL Server and SharePoint 2010 is necessary. In this session we will showcase the database mirroring capabilities of SharePoint 2010 and show how to set them up. Dave MilnerSession Speaker Dave Milner is an MCSD/MCITP in SharePoint 2010 and a MCM candidate. He works for ShareSquared as a Practice Lead and Products Lead, is an APress author and a speaker at local and larger SharePoint events.
... Read MoreInternal SharePoint branding embodies the company culture and deepens the employees’ understanding of corporate goals and processes and it has the potential to help users accomplish their daily jobs faster, easier and with more excitement. If you combine consistent branding, information architecture and user experience, you will steer your user base in a new direction. In this webcast, hear about specific cases where SharePoint branding has made a huge difference and learn more about the steps you should consider for branding your next SharePoint deployment. Tracey NolteSession Speaker Tracey Nolte, User Experience Architect, has branded SharePoint sites for many large Fortune 500 companies. Tracey is an expert in User Centered Design methodology. With a background in Business Intelligence, Process Design and Creative Design, the combination has afforded a unique perspective to SharePoint. Tracey practices her branding magic wit
... Read MoreSharePoint Document Centers and Records Centers officially support an unlimited database size. This session will provide architectural and implementation guidance for deploying multi-terabyte repositories. After a little bit of background on Records Centers and Document Centers and how they lend themselves to very large content archives, the session will provide scalable architecture concepts from the ground up starting with storage with respect to new guidance from Microsoft, continuing with scalable taxonomy, and finishing up with tuning and monitoring. Russ HoubergSession Speaker Russ Houberg is a SharePoint 2010 Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and has been a Senior Architect at KnowledgeLake for 7 years. Russ is responsible for designing the taxonomy and topology architecture for KnowledgeLake’s document imaging customers that require enterprise class scalability. He has spent the last several years focused on pushing th
... Read MoreAre you a .NET developer? Are you new to SharePoint Development? Have you recently been asked to build something in SharePoint, but without much experience? This session will help bridge the gap between your ASP.NET programming background and the standard SharePoint Development best practices. This session will cover coding techniques and patterns, debugging and troubleshooting, Solution packaging and deployment as well as Unit Testing. Shawn BeesonSession Speaker Shawn Beeson is the Principal Consultant in the Portals and Collaboration practice with RBA Consulting in Denver and has expertise in all facets of SharePoint with a strong emphasis on architecting and delivering highly customized, highly usable solutions built on the SharePoint platform. Shawn has worked in IT for the past 12 years and as an IT c
... Read MoreWe are going to get the weather from an address in a SharePoint list, using REST Connections, and web part connections. Patrick CurranSession SpeakerI am a SharePoint Architect for Planet Technologies. I have been working with SharePoint since 2003 doing everything from Administration, Branding, and Development to Upgrading, and Troubleshooting. MCP, MCTS, MCITP, MCT
... Read MoreHave you ever wanted to deploy multi-farm scalable enterprise service applications, similar to the User Profile or Managed Metadata service applications? In this session you’ll learn how to build a shared service infrastructure and move your application into a service oriented paradigm. Daniel LarsonSession SpeakerI write code at NewsGator. You may have read my books on SharePoint, AJAX and service orientation. I’m an architect and developer on the NewsGator Social Sites team, which is the social collaboration platform of choice for SharePoint 2010.
... Read More“Are my nightly SQL Server backups good enough?” “Do I need an off-site disaster recovery facility?” “How do I even start the process of disaster recovery planning?” These are just a few of the more common questions that arise when the topic of SharePoint disaster recovery comes up. As with most things SharePoint, the real answer is often “it depends.” In this session, we will be taking a look at the topic of SharePoint disaster recovery from multiple perspectives: business stakeholder, technical owner, end user, and others. Critical concepts and terms will be explained and defined, and an effective process for analyzing and formulating a disaster recovery plan will be discussed. We’ll look at the range of tools and technologies that are available to you, and we’ll identify if and when they make sense for you given your disaster recovery needs. By the end of this session, you will be armed with the knowledge needed to plan or review a disaster recovery strategy for your SharePoint environment. Sean McDonoughSession Speaker Sean is a Product Manager for SharePoint Products at Idera, a Microsoft gold certified partner and creator of tools for SharePoint, SQL Server, and PowerShell. As a consultant, Sean has worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies to architect, implement, troubleshoot, tune, and customize their SharePoint environments. Sean is an MCPD, an MCTS, a
... Read MoreSharePoint has the ability to one thing extremely effectively. That one thing is to help Customers and Partners have one version of the truth. When all of the content in a SharePoint system is born digital this is a little easier to enforce, but what about when you include paper based assets. Every company needs to deal with paper on some level – even those that claim to be paperless. The companies that handle their paper based assets the most effectively find that they can reduce their costs, improve their productivity and maintain their compliance efforts. This session will highlight how customers and partners can get the most out of their investments in SharePoint. Jeff ShueySession Speaker Jeff Shuey is a veteran in the Enterprise Content Management industry. Over the past 20 years he has worked with customers and partners to design, develop and deploy solutions around the world. Jeff is currently the Director of Business Development for the Kodak Document Imaging division. He has worked for Microsoft, FileNet, K2, Captaris, Open Te
... Read MoreThis is the fastest general overview of SharePoint admin and architecture - east or west of the Mississippi! Join me for a rapid fire introduction to architecture, installation, upgrade, administration, troubleshooting and optimization. Based on over 10 years in the field designing and supporting enterprise SharePoint installations, we’ll go through a live upgrade, set up search and security, troubleshoot a slow SQL server and a “bad” web part, and more! In addition, I’ll teach you seven best and seven worst practices for running an enterprise SharePoint farm. Finally, we’ll recap the most common end user support requests and resolutions. Chris McNultySession Speaker Chris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife. He is SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner. Chris holds an MBA from Boston College in Investment Management and Corporate Finance, and is a member of the Microsoft MSA, MVTSP, MCSE, and MCTS programs. A freque
... Read MoreThis session will walk through a series of tips and tricks that can help you make the most out of Windows PowerShell with SharePoint 2010. I’ll walk through some of the common mistakes that people make when first learning PowerShell as well as some helpful tips to avoid making the same mistakes. Finally, I’ll throw in a few random scripting goodness as time permits. This session will be very light on slides as we’ll spend most of the time working with PowerShell directly. Prior experience with PowerShell is not necessary but will be helpful. Gary LapointeSession Speaker Gary Lapointe is founder and director at Aptillon, Inc. and a SharePoint MVP who has been planning and implementing SharePoint solutions since early 2007. A developer by trade, Gary spends most of his spare time developing tools that enable IT professionals to be more productive so that they can focus on solving business problems and satisfying th
... 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 SpeakerJoined Rackspace in October of 2007 after 5+ years facilitating internal operations, procurement and vendor management in the Austin area. Matthew’s skills sets are centric on operational efficiencies, project and process management, procurement and enterprise negotiations. His current role at Rackspace as SharePoint Evangelist dedicates him as a
... Read MoreThis SharePoint 101 session will offer an overview of exactly what is SharePoint. We hear a lot about SharePoint in the press, online, and possibly from our coworkers. However, quite often we do not know or understand SharePoint. This session will answer your questions whether you are new to SharePoint, are currently using SharePoint as an end-user, or may be thinking about using SharePoint in your business. The theme of the session is “what does SharePoint mean to me and my organization?” This session will go beyond the Microsoft formal definition of SharePoint and explain why this powerful platform may be useful to you. Nedra AllmondSession SpeakerNedra Allmond has been working with SharePoint since 2006. She is a MCTS whose background includes working with the Department of Defense, the aerospace, biotech, telecommunications and media/entertainment industries, as well as non-profit organizations. She has been described as a User Advocate and has been involved with the SharePoint
... Read MorejQuery is the current ""SharePoint Silver Bullet"" promising to cure all your SharePoint ailments allowing customizations that at one point were unattainable without cracking open Visual Studio. But what is the real story with jQuery and SharePoint? How do you implement it with SharePoint? Should you implement it? Is it all a big hoax or is jQuery the missing piece to your SharePoint development took kit?
In this session attendees will learn:
1) Best practices for deploying jQuery in a maintainable way in their organizations
2) What can be done with quickly and powerfully in jQuery taking advantage of incredible third party libraries
3) What are the real consequences of using jQuery and when should you NOT use it. 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 MoreLearn the details about the SharePoint Server 2010 upgrade pipeline and how to prepare for upgrades from SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010. Also learn some cool tricks and tools that will help you during the upgrade process to SharePoint Server 2010. Jacob WilsonSession SpeakerJacob Wilson is a principal consultant working for Neudesic in the Denver office. He has over 5 years of experience with SharePoint and has been actively involved in SharePoint projects spanning architecture, custom development, administration, configuration, and 24/7 support for SharePoint 2003, 2007, and 2010.
... Read MoreThe introduction of Office 365 drastically changed the SharePoint development landscape. As a managed online service the rules for developing customizations for SharePoint Office 365 are radically different from the ones for an “on-premise” installation. They are also slightly different than developing sandbox solutions. In addition many companies who currently use dedicated SharePoint installations are beginning to consider eventual migration to the Office 365 cloud environment. That means even current “on-premise” development is often constrained in new ways. No matter what kind of development you currently do you need to know how to develop for Office 365.
In this workshop/session we’ll cover the following topics:
• How to Develop sandbox solutions for Office 365
• Building custom workflows for Office 365
• Leveraging client side code for Office 365
• Developing Office 365 solutions using Silverlight Paul StorkSession Speaker Based in Ohio, Paul is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and Chief Architect at ShareSquared. He has an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management and holds myriad of Microsoft certifications including being a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, Developer, Database Admin, IT Professional and Professional Developer. Paul
... Read MoreIn this deep dive session, we will break down successful SharePoint IA strategy into 3 spheres of understanding.
1. Why SharePoint information systems usually fail – including the ‘silo affect’, ‘small picture thinking’ and other painful lessons we can learn from real world examples.
2. What makes an Information Architecture strategy REALLY work – We will identify what IA really is (not what IT has makes it), learn the core principals of a solid IA strategy, and explore the solid foundation that needs to be in place before the word ‘SharePoint’ is even mentions.
3. How you can use SharePoint and solid IA practices to build a scalable information structure – Including interactive activities where we participate in IA exercises, develop an ideal IA for an organization (case study), and explore the SharePoint features that can support our newly defined foundation’s growth. Virgil CarrollSession Speaker Virgil has run High Monkey Consulting over the past 14 years and is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design / Development. Virgil has countless years of experience working with Microsoft technologies and assisting clients in building systems that both work and are 'easy-to-use' (I know, crazy
... Read MoreLoren PhillipsSession SpeakerMr. Phillips has 14 years of experience in the Enterprise Content Management industry focused on automating document related business processes. As Regional Sales Manager for the Desert Mountain Region at KnowledgeLake, Inc., Loren works with government, commercial, healthcare and other industries in bringing KnowledgeLake’s award winning Enterpri
... Read MoreThe number one complaint about Enterprise Search is usually summed up by a statement like this: “I can’t find anything!”. Whether you are using SharePoint Foundation with Search Server Express, SharePoint Server 2010, or FAST Search for SharePoint, the quality of the results you receive from search is only as good as the input you give it. Out-of-the-box, SharePoint gives you a very functional search engine, but you need to do some work to really enable the full power it provides. This intro level talk will teach you the basics of Enterprise Search in SharePoint. Here you will learn about the basic building blocks such as content sources, crawled properties, managed properties, and scopes. We will also cover what types of data can be indexed. Then we’ll follow up with some basic customization of the Search Center. We’ll demo search using SharePoint 2010, but most of the topics apply to MOSS 2007 as well. Corey RothSession Speaker Corey Roth is a consultant at Infusion Development specializing in SharePoint solutions in the Oil & Gas Industry. Corey has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award in SharePoint Server. He has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, LINQ, and Silverlight. W
... Read MoreDuring this session attendees will see, at a high level, how SharePoint and its workflow capabilities can be used to facilitate continuous process improvement. Derek will take you through the case studies of two clients who used SharePoint along with a third-party workflow tool to realize significant improvements in their business processes. Finally, the session will close by comparing the capabilities of SharePoint’s out-of-the-box workflow capabilities with those of Visual Studio as well as a number of 3rd-party workflow tools. Derek NeidingSession SpeakerDerek Neiding has been with Razorleaf, a business process automation and consulting corporation since its founding. Derek has held a number of technical and management roles and currently heads up Razorleaf’s SharePoint consulting business unit.
... Read MoreLearn how to utilize the Activity Feed to maximize your company’s social impact. We will discuss how the activity feed works, what options are available for out of the box administration. We will also discuss how to extend the activity feed to build in your own company branded ‘feeds’ that users can subscribe to. Elijah Van EenwykSession SpeakerBased out of Buffalo NY, Eli Van Eenwyk is a Microsoft Certified Master and Senior SharePoint Consultant for Inergex, Inc. As a consultant, Eli enjoys working with all aspects of SharePoint, including architecture, administration and development. Eli has worked with numerous large organizations to bring their existing (or non-existing) SharePoint
... Read MoreSharePoint lists don't need to be flat and boring. Learn how to integrate jQuery templates with a REST service call to create a responsive and attractive display of your list data. A jQuery template consists of HTML markup and template tags, which enables the creation of a data-driven UI. By binding a template to JSON data returned from a ListData.svc query, we can replace the need for cryptic XSL transformations. In this practical session we will walk through each step to bring a SharePoint list to life by formatting HTML for different jQuery UI widgets. Laurie AtkinsonSession SpeakerLaurie Atkinson is a Principal Consultant for Notion ONE, specializing in .NET and SharePoint 2010 development. She holds certifications in SP2007 and SP2010 in Configuration and Development as well as .NET Enterprise Application Development. She has been a computer science faculty member, has conducted training courses, and has developed .NET sys
... Read MoreDespite the challenges there are numerous things you can do to increase the opportunity for a successful training rollout. Discover training best practices to keep your stakeholders happy. This session will teach you how to avoid the common mistakes that often occur during software training implementations. Learn how to identify and solve potential problems before they happen.
Topics including the full training implementation cycle will be examined as follows:
• Why you must write a training strategy plan document to be successful.
• How to conduct needs analysis to determine the right curriculum for your business users.
• What instructional design method is best under tight timelines.
• Where does e-learning fit in and should you do it at all.
• How to work with the helpdesk to maximize training success.
• The importance of pilot training and why you should do it.
• How valuable a mentoring program can be to your training rollout?
• How to avoid the common mistakes of training rollout logistics.
• How to effectively evaluate training.
• How important is a communications plan to training.
• Why the lack of a sustainment plan is the number one failure of most software training rollouts.
Participants will walk away with hands-on guidelines to successfully execute their own SharePoint training strategy plan. Scott LavoieSession SpeakerScott Lavoie has been implementing software training rollouts for 13 years. He has worked in healthcare, energy, finance, corporate governance, and telecommunications in the private and public sectors. He spent 6 years in the Enterprise Content/Document Management industry, where he built 2 training departments from the ground up. He has
... Read MoreWhat are the various Microsoft reporting and analytical tools and how do they integrate with SharePoint? If you find yourself asking this question, you won’t want to miss this presentation. Martin Wells from the Marquam Group will help you make sense of the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack by describing the various tools and explaining in simple terms how you can leverage them to provide effective reporting and analytics, all surfaced through SharePoint. Through discussion and demonstration, Mr. Wells will show how SharePoint is positioned as the presentation layer for meaningful reporting that can be decentralized yet managed. Additionally, Mr. Wells will discuss Denali (the newest version of SQL Server) and what it provides to your future BI reporting with SharePoint 2010. Martin WellsSession Speaker Mr. Wells is primary delivery executive with Marquam Group. He specializes in Project Management, Enterprise Strategy, Business Intelligence, and Software Engineering. Mr. Wells has worked in technology services for over 20 years – that last 8 years with Marquam Group.
... Read MoreCaching is a critical variable in the SharePoint scalability and performance equation, but it’s one that’s oftentimes misunderstood or dismissed as being needed only in Internet-facing scenarios. In this lively and fast-paced session, we’ll build an understanding of the caching options that exist within the SharePoint platform: object caching, BLOB caching, page output caching, and the Office Web Applications’ cache (for SharePoint 2010). We’ll examine each option in detail, discuss how it works, identify how it can be controlled, and cover common pitfalls that may impact its use. We’ll also walk through a handful of “what if” scenarios at the end of the presentation to test audience knowledge (just for fun, of course!) Those who attend this session will leave with the knowledge needed to leverage and control caching in their own SharePoint environments. Sean McDonoughSession SpeakerSean is a Product Manager for SharePoint Products at Idera, a Microsoft gold certified partner and creator of tools for SharePoint, SQL Server, and PowerShell. As a consultant, Sean has worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies to architect, implement, troubleshoot, tune, and customize their SharePoint environments. Sean is an MCPD, an MCTS, a
... Read MoreIn this session you will learn how to create Windows Phone 7 applications that use the social capabilities SharePoint has to offer such as people search, user profile data, activity feeds, and colleagues. You will also learn how to provide push notifications in Windows Phone 7 applications that alert users when SharePoint list data, or social data has changed. Finally, you will learn how to use external social web sites like Twitter and Facebook to compliment your social functionality and broaden the reach of your application to the world. Todd BaginskiSession SpeakerTodd is a founder and director at Aptillon, Inc. and six-time Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional who uses SharePoint, Silverlight, Office, Windows Phone 7, Azure, and .NET technologies to create web sites and custom solutions. Todd is the content author and presenter for the BCS portion of the SharePoint MCM program and a regular spea
... Read MoreECM is all grown up in SharePoint 2010. We'll run through the range of solutions, starting with classic collaboration, authoring, versioning and approvals. From there, we'll move through real world best practices on metadata and content types, rules based content organizers, records management and eDiscovery, and Information Lifecycle Management. We'll conclude by diving into web content management. Chris McNultySession SpeakerChris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife. He is SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner. Chris holds an MBA from Boston College in Investment Management and Corporate Finance, and is a member of the Microsoft MSA, MVTSP, MCSE, and MCTS programs. A freque
... Read MoreAre you building more and more solutions on SharePoint? You need to ensure quality and repeatability of these solutions within your organization, but not sure how to get started in a SharePoint environment? This session will give you insight on how to abstract the SharePoint Server installation away from your application using good development patterns and then dive into good Mocking & Testing tools and frameworks that will allow you to build thoroughly tested applications that will ensure quality and repeatability. Shawn BeesonSession SpeakerShawn Beeson is the Principal Consultant in the Portals and Collaboration practice with RBA Consulting in Denver and has expertise in all facets of SharePoint with a strong emphasis on architecting and delivering highly customized, highly usable solutions built on the SharePoint platform. Shawn has worked in IT for the past 12 years and as an IT c
... Read MoreGood governance has always been one of the most important aspects of a successful SharePoint implementation. With the opportunities and emphasis of hosted SharePoint solutions in the cloud, there are some new unique governance concerns that need to be address. In this session we will not only look at many of the new governance considerations that 2010 brings, but will also discuss considerations and best practices in implementing a new cloud-based deployment which allows users to benefit from the expanded feature set and play a more active role in its management process. We will explore in-depth topics such as managing a hybrid (on-site, off-site) system, the can & cannots in the cloud as well as specific strategies and considerations around different deployments (i.e. BPOS-D, Office 365, 3rd party hosting) Virgil CarrollSession SpeakerVirgil has run High Monkey Consulting over the past 14 years and is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design / Development. Virgil has countless years of experience working with Microsoft technologies and assisting clients in building systems that both work and are 'easy-to-use' (I know, crazy
... Read MoreEvery company has some level of employee change and turnover. The question is how do you manage the graceful removal or modification of user information from SharePoint? If everything is perfectly aligned SharePoint will automatically process and delete the user account, permissions, profile, and MySite for users that are deleted from Active Directory. Updates to user information are also automatic in many cases. But most SharePoint installations don’t have all the necessary components aligned for automated removal of old users and some profile properties refuse to update. In this session we will examine the underlying processes controlling user accounts, permissions, profiles and MySites and how they interact. We’ll look at what works, what doesn’t work, and how to work around it. Along the way we’ll recommend Best Practices for managing users, their profiles, and MySites in a SharePoint environment. Paul StorkSession SpeakerBased in Ohio, Paul is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and Chief Architect at ShareSquared. He has an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management and holds myriad of Microsoft certifications including being a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, Developer, Database Admin, IT Professional and Professional Developer. Paul
... Read MoreThis session will take a deep dive in the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon and compare SharePoint list features between versions 2007 and 2010. The presentation will highlight improvements in the functionality of lists and how SharePoint 2007 list function have been enriched. In this presentation new feature of SharePoint 2010 lists will be explored such as calendar, lookup columns, and the huge change in working with large lists. Nedra AllmondSession SpeakerNedra Allmond has been working with SharePoint since 2006. She is a MCTS whose background includes working with the Department of Defense, the aerospace, biotech, telecommunications and media/entertainment industries, as well as non-profit organizations. She has been described as a User Advocate and has been involved with the SharePoint
... Read MoreThis session will demonstrate how we used the Managed Term Store on the Visio product site to handle the tagging of article and section pages, thereby creating a rich and dynamic navigational structure that could be easily updated and maintained by content authors; this approach has enabled content to appear where it is most relevant, regardless of its physical location within the site. During this session we will review how we created and used custom Content by Query Web Parts to aggregate and filter the tagged pages; additionally, we will examine the technical details of the Managed Term Store and associated Taxonomy Fields. Gary LapointeSession SpeakerGary Lapointe is founder and director at Aptillon, Inc. and a SharePoint MVP who has been planning and implementing SharePoint solutions since early 2007. A developer by trade, Gary spends most of his spare time developing tools that enable IT professionals to be more productive so that they can focus on solving business problems and satisfying th
... Read MoreWith its roots in document management and collaboration, SharePoint has always had a need for records management. Version after version, SharePoint has increased its capabilities in this area to the point where SharePoint 2010 has a viable records management story. Come learn about these new features, see how to implement them, and hear about real success stories. Ryan McIntyreSession SpeakerRyan McIntyre is the Practice Director at Neudesic for portals and collaboration, including the SharePoint platform. He has been involved in delivering SharePoint solutions since the beta version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) and holds Microsoft Professional certifications in both SharePoint 2010 Configuration and SharePoint 20
... Read MoreThe Traditional portal is on its way out. Employees demand more social tools and dynamic content that brings in content from across the enterprise. Facebook, Twitter, and blogs in the consumer space are changing what we expect in the tools at our finder tips. In this session we’ll look at this transformation and how Joel OlesonSession SpeakerBegins with SharePoint list customizations using the LVWP and DVWP, Moves to custom pages with custom renderings using the DVWP, Ends with custom edit forms and DVWP advanced topics like browser detection and XSLT customization. Todd WilderSession SpeakerTodd Wilder is both an MCPD and MCITP for SharePoint 2010, as well as an MCT. He has over 5 years of SharePoint experience.
... 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. Chris GeierSession Speaker Chris Geier is a 15-year veteran of the technology industry and specializes in all things Microsoft. He was introduced to SharePoint in 2001 while working for Microsoft services. Chris is currently the community manager for K2, and is a participant in, and advocate for, the SharePoint community, as well as a regular participant/speaker at SharePoi
... Read MoreTogether Celina Baginski and Jamie Luetjen have branded 65 SharePoint sites. They have compiled a list of tips and tricks that will prove useful on every branding project that you are tasked with. Branding SharePoint can be a daunting mission, but the information covered in this session will make your project a success. Topics covered will include working with SharePoint Designer, master pages, page layouts, and CSS. Celina BaginskiSession SpeakerCelina Baginski has 7 years of experience with SharePoint and 14 years in design. Over the last 3 years, she has branded 45 SharePoint sites and has developed two SharePoint Branding product offerings. She has delivered project initiatives for 125 clients and up to $8M in revenue including SharePoint implementation and bra
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 has some exciting improvements on the client-side application front. Previously, with SharePoint 2007, accessing SharePoint data from client applications meant using web services. While there’s nothing wrong with that model, it wasn’t as intuitive or accessible as the new Client Object Model that ships with SharePoint 2010. With the Client OM we get a better development experience and native support for solutions both in and out of the browser. In this session we’ll explore the architecture of the Client OM, learn what it does and doesn’t give us, and demonstrate how easy it is to create custom solutions for SharePoint with no server-side code! Bart McDonoughSession SpeakerBart McDonough is the President and Founder of Incline Technical Group, a Microsoft technology consulting and training firm. He’s also an MCTS in SharePoint 2010 Application Development and is a contributing author for SharePoint Pro Magazine.
... Read MoreIn this session, we will review a real world business process around creating a request for a service. This will include creating the request in InfoPath 2010 which has filtered pick lists, dynamic help material, and tabbed pages. We will then use SharePoint designer to build workflows that will create various tasks for the fulfillment of the request, emailing the customer throughout the process. Ron FettersSession SpeakerSolutions Architect specializing in workflow, document management and business automation for 16 years. Built solutions in SharePoint for 6 years. Extensive experience with aerospace, manufacturing, finance, mortgage, point of sale, health care, and HSA markets.
... Read MoreIn this case study we’ll look at enterprise requirements for SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Portals and Team Sites, Project Server 2010, Reporting Services, Fast, TFS, and BI. We’ll drill into the decisions made around how we divided up the services and provided a set of service applications to be consumed and provide how we did it. We’ll include a demo on connecting services from one farm to another. Joel OlesonSession SpeakerAre you an administrator who manages your farm and want to be able to answer questions about best bets, scopes, or an Index? This course is designed to answer those questions and more! We will take a look at SharePoint search to demystify its functionality to make it work for you.
Including topics:
Crawl, search URL string, content sources, Index partitions, crawl rules, and more… Javier BarreraSession Speaker Javier Barrera is a 10-year IT veteran. He is a SharePoint Engineer for Rackspace Hosting Company, where he designs, implements, and troubleshoots SharePoint services for intranet and extranet environments. His primary focus is the infrastructure of numerous SharePoint farms ranging in size from single-server to multi-farm, multi-server configurat
... Read MoreMicrosoft’s commitment to the cloud is solidifying and advancing as details of Windows 8 and Azure releases are becoming public. Integrating SharePoint with Windows Azure is a compelling development story to build skills in and integrate into your SharePoint development toolkit. This session will investigate development patterns to help build these skillsets, including utilizing SQL Azure data stores, blending Azure fabric tools with on-premise data, and integrating client-side javascript and jQuery to easily access and expose data from the cloud. Dave MilnerSession SpeakerDave Milner is an MCSD/MCITP in SharePoint 2010 and a MCM candidate. He works for ShareSquared as a Practice Lead and Products Lead, is an APress author and a speaker at local and larger SharePoint events.
... Read MoreManaged MetaData Service in SharePoint 2010 enables companies to deploy a taxonomy based information model for tagging and organizing documents more effectively than ever before. In the is session, Mark Leher from WAND, Inc. will discuss the ins and outs of the managed metadata services including how to use the term store, how managed metadata improves search and findability in SharePoint 2010, best practices for building taxonomies, how to speed up a taxonomy project, and the pros and cons of manual versus automatic tagging of documents in SharePoint. Mark LeherSession SpeakerMark Leher is an expert on taxonomies and how to use them to improve findability of information assets. For nearly a decade, Mark has worked with companies of all sizes in building taxonomies, developing taxonomy strategy, and applying taxonomies to information assets, including in the SharePoint 2010 environment. Mark is the creator of the WAND G
... Read MorePerformancePoint services is fully integrated into the SharePoint 2010 platform, and now organizations can utilize what they already own to create powerful, integrated, data drive, dashboards that bring light to the performance of the organization. The session will cover the architecture of Performance Point as well as the integration points within SharePoint 2010. During the session we will demonstrate a fully functional Performance Point dashboard, followed be the breaking down of the components and what it takes for you to build a powerful dashboard. We will then show how to build a quick drill-down and drill-through Performance Point page. Jim LeffingwellSession SpeakerJim Leffingwell brings to the table over 20 years of diversified experience in Database Administration and application design and development, broad knowledge of Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies. He joined RBA Consulting as BI Solutions Architect in August of 2011.
... Read MoreWant to avoid the performance mistakes before you make them? This in-depth session we will discuss how to properly position your SharePoint farm for success beginning with "hardware" and ending with troubleshooting methodologies to maximize performance. Find the pitfalls before you hit them from someone who has climbed out of the deep dark holes in the wild. Best Practices from the Field combines recommendations from Microsoft with the experience of trial and error. Jason HimmelsteinSession SpeakerJason Himmelstein, MCTS, MCITP, is the SharePoint Practice Director for Sentri, Inc. and has been working with Microsoft Server technologies since 1998 when he was supporting Motorola in Austin, TX. He went to work for the University of Texas for 5 years where he developed expertise in Active Directory and Exchange. He left UT to go on the road d
... Read MoreThis session will show you how to use SharePoint 2010 search functionality to build components which will help users find information faster. Extend search using out of the box components so users can view results in a way that matter by applying refiners, customized links, and filters. Attendees of this session will be able to leave with search concepts which can improve users productivity. Suzanne GeorgeSession SpeakerSuzanne George, MCTS, has developed, administered, and architected online web site applications since 1995 and has worked with many Technology Top 100 companies such as Netscape, AOL, Sun Microsystems, and Verio. With a focus on custom applications and SharePoint integration with applications such as ESRI, Deltek Accounting Software, and SAP; she
... Read MoreSharePoint has a wide range of third party products that can be used to scan documents and release them into various repositories in multiple formats within SharePoint. Companies typically do not understand the implications associated with embarking on an image capture solution. In this session we will explore and highlight the following key points:
• Common pitfalls made during image capture design
• The risks associated with incorrectly storing data in SharePoint
• The ROI and Business Value Proposition when converting paper to electronic content
• Technical considerations and best practices when implementing intelligent capture solutions
This session aims to provide both technical staff and business decision makers with the correct information to design, develop and deploy a successful Image Capture solution in a SharePoint environment. Jeff ShueySession SpeakerJeff Shuey is a veteran in the Enterprise Content Management industry. Over the past 20 years he has worked with customers and partners to design, develop and deploy solutions around the world. Jeff is currently the Director of Business Development for the Kodak Document Imaging division. He has worked for Microsoft, FileNet, K2, Captaris, Open Te
... Read MoreSo you've heard about "Governance" from all angles in the SharePoint community-the fact that you need "People" to define "Policies", but what Processes are actually required to bring this to fruition? This session will discuss how to bring these three P's together by enforcing established Policies through Processes built using out-of-the-box SharePoint by the People (SharePoint IT Administrators and Site Owners). The session will cover what is feasible using native SharePoint 2010 functionality, and what to watch for to ensure you are planning for common challenges customers face. Mary Leigh MackieSession Speaker Mary Leigh is AvePoint’s Director of Product Marketing, and works directly with AvePoint’s research & development team in the design and implementation of new SharePoint infrastructure management products and solutions. She has been actively engaged in the SharePoint space for several years, working with many Fortune 500 companies and gov
... Read MoreWhat 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 SpeakerMark 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 MoreLearn how to utilize the Activity Feed to maximize your company’s social impact. We will discuss how the activity feed works, what options are available for out of the box administration. We will also discuss how to extend the activity feed to build in your own company branded ‘feeds’ that users can subscribe to. Elijah Van EenwykSession SpeakerBased out of Buffalo NY, Eli Van Eenwyk is a Microsoft Certified Master and Senior SharePoint Consultant for Inergex, Inc. As a consultant, Eli enjoys working with all aspects of SharePoint, including architecture, administration and development. Eli has worked with numerous large organizations to bring their existing (or non-existing) SharePoint
... Read MoreOrganizations often fall into far ends of the spectrum when utilizing, planning and forecasting applications. On one end of the spectrum are those who simply use Microsoft Excel to manually integrate actual data, perform forecasting calculations, and then save silo worksheets to keep a history of their business predictions. On the other end of the spectrum are ERP plug- ins and complex financial planning packages that often come with a very high total cost of ownership.
This session will present an option that falls in the middle of the “Forecasting Application Spectrum”. Utilizing the Microsoft SharePoint & BI product stacks the speakers will provide a deep dive into the technologies used to create a Business Forecasting application leveraging Out-Of-The-Box features and functionality. We will demonstrate the ability to view historical data, construct a forecast, and then submit a forecast into a workflow. In addition, the demonstration will showcase how forecasted data can be consumed by information workers in the form of reports and dashboards. Nick PattersonSession SpeakerNick Patterson specializes in assisting organizations in maximizing the utilization of Microsoft SharePoint technologies by optimizing the SharePoint infrastructure and providing no-code business solutions using out-of-the-box features and functionality, as well as integration with Office products and third party products. He has 5 years experienc
... Read MoreIn this advanced session, we’ll examine the approach of properly architecting a SharePoint 2010 implementation for your organization, enterprise, or clients. We’ll discuss the proper planning for WFEs, primarily based on requests per second (RPS) and properly sizing the database layer and load, primarily based on IOPS. Time permitting, we’ll delve in to the more popular service applications and how to properly sizing them for your farm(s). Miguel WoodSession SpeakerMiguel is a Principal and the National Practice Lead for SharePoint Solutions for Statera, a National Systems Integrator (NSI) partner of Microsoft. He also serves as President and CEO of TekFocus, a minority-owned and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). Miguel’s background includes consulting and mentoring organizations to bet
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