Scaling SharePoint has presented many challenges in the past. Those days are gone. Learn how new features like Remote BLOB Storage (RBS), a dramatically improved search subsystem, improved database efficiency, and resource throttling in SharePoint 2010 can be leveraged to scale SharePoint to heights we’ve not seen before. Russ HoubergSession Speaker Russ Houberg is a SharePoint Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and has been a Senior Architect at KnoweldgeLake for over 5 years. Russ is responsible for designing the taxonomy and topology architecture for KnowledgeLake’s document imaging customers that require enterprise class scalability. Russ is the author of the SharePoint Storage
... Read MoreThis session will cover the process of customizing and branding a SharePoint site from start to finish. It will focus on how to leverage Cascading Style Sheets and Master Pages in order to implement a unique design and layout, using SharePoint Designer as the primary tool. We will look at several public-facing SharePoint sites in order to shed light on how these designs were achieved and discuss techniques that you can utilize in a real-world SharePoint Branding project. Susan HenrySession SpeakerSusan Henry is a SharePoint Consultant with ettain group, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, based in Charlotte, NC. Her career began in web design and development, but for the past two years her primary focus has been with Mircosoft SharePoint Technologies. She specializes in Administration, Architecture and Design. She has extensive experience
... Read MoreI wish I knew that before I implemented SharePoint!
I have heard that statement many times. In fact, I have uttered that exact phrase at least once! Because of the different ways SharePoint is introduced into organizations, sometimes things just don't go right. This session will help you formulate a plan and give you pointers to successfully implement SharePoint in your organization.
Topics Covered
1. What are we building? Beyond the hype!
2. Who's playing. Selecting your team.
3. Don't forget HAL. What hardware do we have?
4. Lock it up. What security?
5. Someone has to install it!
6. Wire Me Up! Why wire frames are your best friend.
7. Sites, Webs, Libraries, Lists! Lions, Tigers and Bears. Oh my!
8. Governance. The who, what, when, where, how.
9. You say meeta, I say meta. Beyond the file system.
10. Train - stay on track. Dave PetersenSession Speaker From desktop support to IT Director, Dave Petersen has seen IT from just about every conceivable vantage point. For the last two years, Dave has worked with organizations planning and implementing SharePoint solutions.
... Read MoreWhen developing with SharePoint, many developers often choose to set their SharePoint server to run in Full Trust or deploy a DLL to the GAC. This works, but it is not as secure as using partial trust. This session will show you how to develop in partial trust using Code Access Security. We'll walk through using Visual Studio 2010 to configure a solution manifest to deploy code access security settings for you. Then we'll take a look at Sandboxed solutions and how its security settings work. Corey RothSession Speaker Corey Roth is an Enterprise Consultant at Stonebridge specializing in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has ten years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Vi
... Read MoreThrough the years and the versions we've come to love and hate InfoPath. It is one of those tools that has saved us a ton of time or cost us fistfuls of hair. With the new version coming out we are all wondering what has been fixed and what is there now that will make our lives easier. In this session we will review some of the short comings that have remained constant in Infopath as well as some new ones to add to the list. Its not all doom and gloom however, the InfoPath team has made great strides in the
integration of InfoPath into SharePoint 2010 as well as added a bunch of time saving and eye candy type features that will make your day and leave you with a little more hair at the end of the day. In this session we will review some of the new features and new areas to become familiar with as we
embrace the new office 2010 Suite regardless if you are a developer, ITPro
or an 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 Harlan 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
... Read MoreDesigning applications for SharePoint 2007 can be tricky at first glance. This session will help lay out a plan on how to setup the development environment for a team or single developer when starting a SharePoint project. We will focus on best practices for creating the dev environment with Virtual PC differencing disks. We will also go over both the tools Microsoft offers as well as many different community-driven tools that we use on our dev projects! Join us for a lively, entertaining and highly interactive session. John AlexanderSession Speaker Consultant, Author, and Coach John Alexander is a recognized Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and is a Managing Partner with AJI Software, a Kansas City-based Microsoft partner and software consulting firm., John has also served as the Microsoft Regional Director for the Kansas City Region for the la
... Read MoreSharePoint has now joined the rest of the Microsoft Office by implementing a Ribbon UI. Whether you love it or hate it, you'll need to know how to customize the Ribbon to extend your SharePoint environment. In this presentation we'll look at the following:
- Controls that can be used in the Ribbon
- How to Add, replace, and remove Controls from the Ribbon Declaratively
- How to Add custom Groups to an existing Tab in the Ribbon
- How to activate or deactivate a button depending on selections in the UI
Paul Papanek StorkSession Speaker Paul is a SharePoint MVP who has specialized in Microsoft products since the mid-1990s. As a "Jack of all Trades" he has developed expertise as a network administrator, developer, and DBA. Paul works as a consultant/trainer for Mindsharp where his breadth of knowledge makes him ideally suited to combine Administrative, Development, and S
... 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 covers 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 and Development.
... Read MoreThere are many changes and new features in SharePoint 2010, not the least of which is workflow. Come to this session and see all that is new and some examples of what you can do in SharePoint 2010. Chris GeierSession Speaker Chris Geier is a 15 year veteran of the IT industry, specializing in security and Microsoft product lines. For the past 4 years he has been working in the workflow and BPM space. Also dabbling in community development and Social Media.
... Read MoreIn this session you will learn about how to plan and leverage the SharePoint 2010/2007 platform needed to build applications. Application planning will cover data structures (List Design), UI (Site Design), Security, and Governance (Management). This will help you understand when you will need to develop technology, when you will need to integrate external systems, and when you should consider the MOSS/SharePoint Server 2010. We will also cover need to know items for going from 2007 to 2010 when building your applications. With this proper planning you will be able intercept any of the issues that normally would stop projects in their tracks and instead build successful applications. 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 MoreThe session reviews the solution that Microsoft is supporting to address the issues that exist in SharePoint around Data Transparency, Security, Search and Privacy. The presentation is divided into Background, Problem, Solution and Approach and uses the work currently being done at the Army Records Management and Declassification Agency, and the US Air Force Medical Services as references. The method and technology used will be discussed from a SharePoint® perspective as well as its applicability outside of SharePoint. Juan J. CelayaSession Speaker Juan has been a leader and innovator in the world of electronic content management system applications for over two decades. He is the founder, President and CEO of COMPU-DATA International, LLC, a company successfully delivering content & data integration solutions through the use of capture, administration, collaboration and retrieval techno
... Read MoreIn this session we'll discover some of the new, cool and improved features that SharePoint Designer 2010 brings with it to the customization table. Designer 2010 has transformed into something beyond an html editing tool. There is truly more here than meets the eye. Daniel A. GalantSession SpeakerDaniel A. Galant is an Associate with English, Bleeker and Associates and has been specializing in SharePoint and its related technologies for the past few years. With a long history in IT education and consulting, Daniel brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the SharePoint table. Daniel is also an accomplished speaker having presen
... Read MoreUsing SharePoint Designer to Build Dashboards for SharePoint: Learn how any SharePoint site (WSS or MOSS) can have custom dashboard views of list data using SharePoint Designer. The technologies we'll explore will include conditional formatting of data form web parts using SharePoint Designer, along with formatting data using unusual fonts based upon SharePoint calculated columns. This session requires no code but is for advanced Information Workers - having access to SharePoint Designer. Susan LennonSession Speaker Susan Lennon is an independent consultant / Microsoft Certified Trainer. She has been an independent for seven years and has been working on US Navy projects during that time. The last five years have all been involved with architecting SharePoint solutions for the Navy. Susan has certifications as an MCT, IT PRO Database Admin, MCTS SharePoint an
... Read MoreThe CQWP is a powerful tool for rendering your data. In this session, we’ll begin with nothing more than a few lists and we’ll walk thru each step of customizing the out-of-the-box CQWP. David FretteSession Speaker For over 12 years, David has been delivering technical solutions that make sense. He runs a small consulting business helping companies leverage and support Microsoft SharePoint and .NET. When he is not working, he spends time with his beautiful wife and two adorable children. David may be reached at david.frette@gmail.com.
... Read MoreOne of the powerful features of SharePoint is the SharePoint Web Services. With these web services .NET developers can quickly and easily integrate their legacy applications with list data from their SharePoint applications or create applications that do not have to reside on a SharePoint farm.
Attendees will learn:
1. How to use SharePoint Web Services to retrieve, update, and insert list data from a SharePoint List.
2. Use CAML to query SharePoint list data more efficiently.
3. Work around the quirks of SharePoint to properly identify field names and field values in the XML return by SharePoint.
PREREQUISITES: This is a level 100 session for developers. Developers need to have a very basic understanding of SharePoint Lists. 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
... Read More I plan on covering what’s new with Document and Records Management in SharePoint 2010. Will provide further detail after the SharePoint Conference in October. Justin Jackson & Matt BremerSession Speaker When deploying SharePoint as a business-critical collaboration tool and digital-asset repository, implementing intelligent strategies for data protection, platform management, and accessibility is absolutely essential. Though SharePoint natively provides some data protection and administration capabilities, they prove inadequate for most competitive organizations. In this session we will discuss the key attributes of all successful SharePoint data protection, archiving, and administration initiatives, and review how to develop strategies for your specific organizational needs. After analyzing SharePoint's native backup and recovery, administration, archiving, and data-access capabilities, we will identify best practices, available free tools, and other best-of-breed solutions for ensuring a fully protected, efficiently managed, and highly performant and accessible SharePoint platform. Tony LanniSession SpeakerTony Lanni, AvePoint’s Vice President of Marketing, performs research and analysis on Microsoft SharePoint landscape and evaluates industry trends that impact the course of business. Tony co-develops strategies for new product design and works on enterprise-level data protection and management software deployments for Microsoft SharePoint Technolo
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Roles and responsibilities are vital aspects towards building
successful SharePoint teams and Practices.
The release of SharePoint 2010 has introduced dozens of new feature
sets and methodologies to an already difficult
task of assigning the right SharePoint professional for the job.
In this session, we discuss how SharePoint 2010 impacts the SharePoint
Administrator, Developer, Project Manager roles and
how these changes are projected to manifest within SharePoint
deliverables today and tomorrow.
This session is valuable information for SharePoint Practice Leads,
Technical Leads, Decision Makers, and
technical professionals needing a birds-eye view of how SharePoint
2010 impacts their career overall.
Shadeed EleazerSession SpeakerMy background spans over 10 years of supporting the unique demands of Federal and state government sectors. I am a US Navy veteran with extensive background in cloud servicessupport and implementation, configuration management,
process development, SharePoint backup and recovery, and SharePoint integration. My primary projects include suppo
... 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 is a graphic designer and SharePoint Consultant for CTS in Birmingham, Alabama. Cathy comes from an Advertising Agency and Graphic Design background, so her focus is on User Interface Design and User Experience with sites. She has worked on many SharePoint installations to brand SharePoint and make it look “Not like SharePoint”. Sh
... Read MoreDescription: View a day in the life of a SharePoint Admin as we compare and contrast the 'New World' of SharePoint Operations and Administration. From the redesigned central admin, health rules and throttles to quick recovery, insights and how to take advantage of the wave of SharePoint 2010. Joel OlesonSession Speaker Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect and he maintains a popular blog. Joel is a frequent speaker at popular technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, and
... Read MoreJoel OlesonSession SpeakerJoel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect and he maintains a popular blog. Joel is a frequent speaker at popular technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, and
... Read More In addition to being an absolute game-changer for companies looking to increase collaboration and teamwork, Microsoft SharePoint is a powerful document and content management tool, right out of the box. But companies who fail to plan the taxonomy of their corporate information and the metadata used to catalog and find that information will never realize the full potential of SharePoint within their organization.
During this presentation, we will give a brief introduction to the concepts behind and importance of taxonomies and metadata to a corporate knowledge management tool such as Microsoft SharePoint. Then, we will build out a demo taxonomy and metadata structure from scratch, implement it within SharePoint and show the resulting positive effects on knowledge workers in the organization.
We will also highlight some of the SharePoint-specific benefits of metadata, such as attribute-level integration with Microsoft Office 2007 documents and search relevance. Joe MackSession Speaker A recognized Microsoft SharePoint thought leader, evangelist, consultant, author and blogger. Joe is also the Founder and Managing Partner for The Portal Group, LLC, an Indianapolis-based consultancy, and SharePointSupport.com, which provides off-site SharePoint administration, support and maintenance services.
As a consultant and solution
... Read MoreIn this 200 level session, we will explore the Insights portion of the SharePoint 2010 arsenal. You will see a quick overview to answer the questions “What is business intelligence?” and “Why use BI?” for those new to this technology. You will explore each aspect of the Microsoft Business Intelligence strategy providing a definition of the components, what new for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, and see demos of the components. You will understand how all the components fit together in the architecture and understand the use cases for the technology. We will be reviewing the following components: Excel, PowerPivot (Gemini), Excel Services, Visio Services, PerformancePoint Services, Reporting Services, Report Builder, Integration Services, and Analysis Services. JD WadeSession Speaker J.D. Wade, SharePoint Consultant, has been providing infrastructure solutions for various Microsoft products in the St. Louis area for over 13 years. J.D.’s expertise is the design, deployment and troubleshooting of infrastructure and governance for SharePoint as well as interfacing with the surrounding technologies (directory services, e-mail, lo
... Read MoreEmail management in SharePoint is a hot topic for organizations looking to further leverage their SharePoint investment. However, getting emails effectively into SharePoint and capturing critical email metadata requires both strategies and technologies for a successful deployment. This session will discuss deployment tips and tricks that will ensure your email strategy in SharePoint is effective, adopted, and scalable. Bill EnglandSession Speaker With over 10 years of experience in the technology industry, Bill is responsible for all enterprise sales in North America for Colligo. From 2006 through May 2008 Bill was in charge of sales and channel development in the European market.
Prior to joining Colligo, Bill was involved in a VoIP start-up division at Spectrum Signal Processing as the
... Read MoreThis session explores the challenges commonly faced implementing an internet facing site in MOSS with WCM capabilities. The key topics covered include an overview of WCM design concepts, page and content publishing, team-based development with source control integration, multi-tier development
and customized deployment. Special topics include best practices and important considerations while designing a WCM system. Karthik VenkataramanSession SpeakerKarthik Venkataraman is a Senior Consultant with Trabon Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in the development of portals and web applications. With over 9 years of experience building & architecting a variety of enterprise applications, Karthik is proficient in Microsoft technologies and has a passion for developi
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 greatly improves the development experience. This talk provides an overview of the many enhancements to the SharePoint platform such as LINQ, Rest Services, and the Client Side Object Model. The talk will also cover new development environment options and enhancements to SharePoint Designer. Dennis BottjerSession SpeakerDennis J. Bottjer is a Solutions Architect, for Microsoft Gold Partner SpringPoint Technologies (www.MySpringPoint.com). He is a Microsoft ASP/ASP.NET MVP and has worked with FORTUNE 100 companies. Dennis has over 11 years of experience in helping companies build proactive solutions. His is also a MCP, MCTS, and a INETA Membership Mentor for
... Read MoreWith SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft has made a major leap forward in new enterprise search options that cover the full spectrum of business needs. This session will provide an overview of the key search capabilities in SharePoint 2010 through demonstrations of new features and example applications. Coskun CavusogluSession Speaker Coskun Cavusoglu is the Director of Consulting Services and the Chief Solution Architect of Captaré Consulting, LLC (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. As a Software Engineer specializing in the .NET F
... Read MoreCome and learn on how to create from scratch custom complex workflows utilizing SharePoint framework, InfoPath 2007 VSTA, Visual Studio 2008 and newly released VSEWSS. The session will provide tips and tricks on building and debugging workflows. Sandeep KhandelwalSession SpeakerSandeep has been working in Microsoft stack of technologies for over 12 years. For the past 3 years he has been involved with SPS 2003 and MOSS. Sandeep has done extensive work in integrating workflows using InfoPath forms, enhancing ECM capabilities utilizing third party scanning tools and is Lead Developer on Integration Now’s flagship product.
... 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 joint back to back session we will be showing off the 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 and finally extracting into Visual Studio for some hardcore workflow modifications. Josh Carlisle and Michael LotterSession SpeakerEvery 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 the 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 SpeakerI have been working professionally in the IT consulting world since 1991 but started off with the Timex Sinclair 1000 somewhere around the age of 10, learning to program its peculiar form of BASIC. In my “previous life” (before Microsoft) I worked with Progress technology products (e.g. 4GL, WebSpeed) using them to create a development toolset cal
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