| SharePoint 2010 Search for the Business | Whatever you work, finding the information what you are searching for is one of the most critical part of your everyday tasks. Either you’re familiar with MOSS 2007 capabilities or not, SharePoint 2010 is a good surprise with its renewed search engine and functions.
In my session I’ll show you the searching capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010, focusing on the new functions and especially on the FAST Search Server 2010.
| Ágnes Molnár, Hungary |
| Data-Centric Composites (Mashups) in SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint composites focuses on rapid creation of collaborative solutions ( and in many cases without code), the main purpose of composites is to hook up all of the different data you already have in the enterprise, bring it out, surface it in SharePoint, create forms to manipulate it and create Business Process Automation solutions that operates on this data.
In this session, Ayman El-Hattab will be demistifying the two buzzwords "Composites" and "Mashups", giving an overview on the Business Connectivity Services as well as showing the power of Data Views and JQuery in SharePoint 2010.
Demos:
- Surfacing external data in SharePoint 2010
- Creating Dashboards using DataViews and JQuery
- Creating mashups with BCS, Google Maps and REST Services
Please note: This session will be delivered in Arabic
| Ayman El-Hattab, Egypt |
| The Power of Content Editor Web Part | The beauty of SharePoint is that its final output is in HTML. Having that in mind we can also be aware that the final HTML can be manipulated and (ab)used to our own advantage.
In the session I'll present couple of useful tools that we already have to help us with customizing the user experience. And almost entire magic will be happening in Content Editor Webpart that comes out-of-the-box with SharePoint. We'll be seing things like: SharePoint DOM manipulation, visual improvements, using webservices, and we'll get to know the ERTE solution for embedding videos in SharePoint content (like announcements, blogs,…).
Some jQuery-ing will also be included. | Boris Gomiunik, Slovenija |
| KPI roll-up in SharePoint 2007 (WSS and MOSS) | Do teams in your organization need to report on the status of their projects or action items? Are managers and executives looking for a way to aggregate and synthetize this information, to help them focus on key issues?
In this session, we'll see on a case study how to display visual indicators in SharePoint 2007 lists, and aggregate these lists at different levels of the hierarchy to populate dashboards.
No third party tool is involved in this customization. All is done on the client side using OOTB SharePoint features, and applies to all flavors of SharePoint 2007 (wss and MOSS).
| Christophe Humbert, China |
| Understanding, using and customizing PowerShell for a SharePoint 2010 Environment | PowerShell is by far the most flexible and powerful shell interface that can be used to administer a Windows server.
SharePoint 2010 embraces PowerShell as “the” tool for farm administrators, providing a huge set of ready-to-use commands that can be combined to accomplish the vast majority of the administrative tasks.
After a short overview of its building blocks and scripting language, this session will focus on the best ways to leverage PowerShell on a SharePoint environment, starting from the simplest command-lets … but also talking about some of the advanced topics related to the PowerShell extension through custom CmdLets and custom Providers.
| Claudio Brotto, Italy |
| Notes from the Field: Social Computing in the Enterprise, from 2007 to 2010 | This session is all about sharing the experience gained in over 2 years spent developing large scale Social Computing solutions on SharePoint.
This session will primarily look at the technical challenges, but also delve into the business benefits that Social Applications derive in the Enterprise.
Finally, the session will close by looking at key Social functionality coming down the line with SharePoint 2010.
| Daniel McPherson, The Netherlands |
| Delivering SharePoint Success - Why Collaboration is More Than Just Technology | SharePoint has shifted the paradigm in enterprise information management and team collaboration. By empowering knowledge workers, SharePoint can increase worker productivity, improve efficiency and streamline business processes. To achieve this goal, focusing on technology deployment is not enough. Effectively gaining stakeholders' support and managing SharePoint projects is paramount to success.
In this presentation, you'll learn key techniques in:
- Gaining executive buy-in for SharePoint projects
- Proper planning and appropriately managing expectations
- Engaging the business for better adoption
- Defining organizational SharePoint readiness
- Iterative release of SharePoint solutions | Dux Raymond Sy, United States |
| Client Side Technologies in SharePoint 2010 | One of the enhancements in SharePoint 2010 is the introduction of a set of client side object models. These object models will allow developers to easily connect to SharePoint 2010 and consume the data in their applications.
This session will focus on the three of the Client Object Model flavors (the .NET, Silverlight and Javascript object models) and show you how you can use them in your applications, both hosted in SharePoint 2010 and outside SharePoint 2010. | Jan Tielens, Belgium |
| Developer Introduction to SharePoint 2010 | This session will provide what’s new in SharePoint Designer 2010. How power users can build composite applications, customize and build workflows etc. | Jerry Yasir, Saudi Arabia |
| SharePoint 2010 Planning and Best Practice Approaches to Upgrade | Waiting for session description... | Joel Oleson, United States |
| Introducing the SharePoint 2010 Out-of-Box Web Parts | SharePoint 2010! You will not only see how the new web part user interface is different, but will get a demonstration of some new ones, like the chart web part, and the new social media web parts.
As always, it is important to get a feel for what you can do with SharePoint, before starting with custom code. | Laura Rogers, United States |
| Introduction, Closing and Moderator | Mark Miller will be host and keynote speaker for SharePoint Saturday EMEA. | Mark Miller, United States |
| SharePoint 2010, Getting Ready! | Introducing SharePoint 2010 new workloads, SharePoint versions evolution. In this session we will show SharePoint new features in UI, Workflows, BCS, Content management and PowerShell support. | Marwan Tarek, Egypt |
| SharePoint Identity Crisis: The Questions the Business Super End User Need to Ask of Their Organizations and of SharePoint | The 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 Hinckley, United States |
| Architecting a Fault Tolerant and High Performance SharePoint 2010 Farm | Significant architectural changes have been made between SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010, including a complete removal of the infamous Shared Services Provider and the ability to have redundant indexing functionality in a farm. In addition, the number of databases in a single farm has increased significantly and Microsoft has overhauled the authentication model used by SharePoint.
All of this translates to some significant architectural changes between SharePoint 2007 farm architecture and SharePoint 2010 farm architecture, changing the paradigm for SharePoint infrastructure architects.
This session focuses on outlining how the changes in SharePoint 2010 architecture allow for new design scenarios, and how you can design a new fault tolerant and high performance SharePoint 2010 environment to migrate your existing SharePoint 2007 content into.
- Learn how the significant architectural changes between SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 change how to design a SharePoint farm
- Examine best practice farm architecture and real world SharePoint design models
- Learn best practice advice for how to prepare to re-architect a SharePoint 2007 environment for an eventual migration to SharePoint 2010
| Michael Noel, United States |
| Access and SharePoint | During the session I will provide an overview about
• Access 2010 Web Database Features
• Forms
• Data Macros
• Templates
• Themes
• Importing data from SharePoint
• Creating Reports based on SharePoint data
• Access Services
The session will also include the following demos:
• Sample app to explore Access new features
• Importing data from SharePoint
• Create report based on SharePoint data
• Publish Access Database access
• Web Comptaiblity Checker
(This session may be delivered in Arabic, if there is a large enough request.)
| Mohamed Yehia, Egypt |
| SharePoint 2010 Development Tips & Tricks | In this session I will talk about the main features and enhancements of SharePoint 2010 Foundation, having a full understanding of this foundation is important for SharePoint solution builders, the session will cover the core enhancements In object model including 3 client APIs (From a managed .Net App. , From Silverlight App, and From JavaScript), Lists improvements, BCS enhancements, SandBox Solutions and Silverlight integration and fluid integration model.
The session is targeting the SharePoint Developers and savvy.Net Developers and is a code driven demonstrations session.
| Mostafa Elzoghbi, United States |
| Installing and Configuring SharePoint Server 2010 in a Virtual Environment | Having trouble installing and configuring SharePoint 2010? This session will walk you through everything you need to know to successfully install and configure SharePoint Server 2010 in a virtual environment.
Learn best practices on configuring your virtual machines for optimal performance and how to install and configure your SharePoint farm the right way. This session will cover installing SharePoint 2010 on both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 using Hyper-V R2, and will show you step-by-step instructions on how to configure Service Applications such as the User Profile Synchronization and the PowerPoint and Word Viewing Service Applications. | Muhanad Omar, Jordan |
| SharePoint Social Computing and Social Networking in Everyday Use | Discover what is new in SharePoint 2010 about Social Networking and how it interacts with the Microsoft Social Networking Platform.
This session will talk about what you need to get an efficient start of your SharePoint Social Networking project.
Follow a real world case study of social network usage with an International Sport Federation in an actually POC project and Joomla to SharePoint 2010 migration. | Nicolas Georgeault, France |
| Explaining Metadata: Working with stakeholders to build the taxonomy. | When it comes to defining the site columns and content types for a project, the first step is to help your stakeholders understand the concepts of metadata so that they can understand how they are going to organize their documents without using folders. This can be very tricky and is a process that is iterative in nature.
Once this concept is understood (even partially), you can help the client inventory the types of documents that are going to live in SharePoint, and then explain the function of site columns and content types.
In this session, we will discuss some tools and methods (including analogies and Excel based simulations) that have proven to be successful for explaining these concepts and then organizing the taxonomy.
You will see how to use tools that help users to inventory their documents and capture the metadata. You will see how to conduct workshops that help you and your clients to organize this information and then document the taxonomy in a form that can be shared, reviewed and modified.
At the final stages, you will see how the required document libraries begin to emerge as part of this process. | Ruven Gotz, Canada |
| Design and Manage site collections in SharePoint 2010 | In this session Steve will be covering some best practices for designing site collection models and also looking at some of the new features that are available for managing site collections | Steve Smith, UK |
| Creating Office Business Application Solutions with Business | Business Connectivity Services (BCS) lets you connect to external data through SharePoint Server 2010 and surface the data in Office 2010 client applications, but that is just the beginning.
Byfurther extending the Office 2010 client that exposes the external data you can create very rich, user-friendly, and intuitive solutions.
In this session you will see how, once the BCS connection is established there is still a great deal more that can be done in the client applications to enhance the user experience.
This is a level 300 technical session. | Zlatan Dzinic, South Africa |