General Meeting: SharePoint, IPads, Smartphones

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The outside world has gone mobile. Now your users are asking for the same tools inside the company. How do you provide mobile access for employees for different devices, content and security requirements. In this talk we will discuss: 1. Emerging mobile trends 2. SharePoint capabilities 3. A quick review of the best mobile apps 4. A solution for all devices Bring your IPads and phones. This will be a hands-on interactive session!

Bill Crider

Session Speaker

Bill Crider is a principal consultant with Ascendum Solutions and has been working with SharePoint technologies for over 10 years, beginning with the 2001 release. Since then, he has taken on administrative, development, and solution architecture roles. His current projects include developing user-centric intranets, extending the social computing ... Read More

General Meeting: Frugal Admin series: What can you get for nothing? Quite a lot actually...

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SharePoint doesn't have to be a budget buster. Come see some cool places to go to plumb for riches, what looks free but isn't, demos of free monitoring tools, so lacking in SPF, some interesting web parts, audit log solution (who said SPF can't do auditing?) and more...

CA Callahan

Session Speaker

Author of "Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" and the more recent "Mastering Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010" books, CA Callahan is a frequent speaker at industry events, including Windows Connections and SharePoint Saturdays. She is the owner of CallahanTech, a training, consulting, and technical writing compa ... Read More

General Meeting: Security Hardening SharePoint FIS

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When deploying FIS (For Internet Sites) you have a whole new concern to address. That concern is the real possibility of your site getting hacked. This talk will focus on the exact steps to security harden your deployment. Most of these concepts are foreign as they are not part of the common Intranet install. I will cover these concepts at a high level and then dive in to the exact settings based on real world experience.

Clint Richardson

Session Speaker

Clint has over 12 years of progressive IT experience with extensive knowledge of network troubleshooting, security, and architecture, specializing in SharePoint Administration and infrastructure for the past five years. He has assisted multiple branches of the military (most recently in Baghdad, Iraq) to plan, build, and optimize large-scale Share ... Read More

General Meeting: MS Access and SharePoint – A Join made in SQL!

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This session will explore the compatibility of Microsoft Access with SharePoint 2010 sharing examples, pitfalls, and best practices he’s learned along the way and why it’s beneficial for everyone to know.

David Bannister Jr.

Session Speaker

David has declared himself a Power User of SharePoint. In his role, he is a Site Admin and has had to learn a lot about customizing SharePoint UI by using what’s available Designer, jQuery, and mostly basic enterprise features of SharePoint. David is a challenge motivated person and loves problem solving and ideating. ... Read More

General Meeting: Creating Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2010 & SQL2012 on Windows 8 Server

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Session Description: Please join SharePoint MVP Ivan Sanders as he presents his Creating Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2010 & SQL2012 on Windows 8 Server. The session includes demos of building integrated data-driven spreadsheets, scorecards, and dashboards using SharePoint 2010. In addition, this session will cover topics such as the performance improvements when your next project deploys SharePoint 2010 & SQL2012 on Windows 8 Server. Along with an overview of SharePoint 2010’s Business Intelligence features including PowerPivot, PowerView, PerformancePoint Services, Reporting Services, Excel Services, KPIs, and much more...

Ivan Sanders

Session Speaker

Ivan Sanders is a SharePoint MVP and independent consultant with more than 15 years of broad-based hands-on experience with the design and development of mission-critical applications and innovative information management strategies in the enterprise deployment of Microsoft products, and delivering nothing but Microsoft SharePoint solutions since ... Read More

General Meeting: Managed Metadata A to Z – Plan, Implement, Make it a Success!

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Despite the hype, there is still a lot of confusion and misunderstanding surrounding metadata in SharePoint Server 2010. We cover Managed Metadata starting with the planning phase through implementation, and provide tips on how to make it successful in your organization.

Stephanie Donahue

Session Speaker

Stephanie Donahue (MCITP) is a SharePoint Solution Architect out of Cincinnati, OH providing consulting services with a focus on SharePoint as an end to end solution. Previously, Stephanie consulted with Microsoft Gold Partner PCMS for 6 years and was actively engaged in SharePoint 2010 upgrades, deployments, and working with clients to build sec ... Read More

General Meeting: Building Out of the Box Solutions

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Sometimes living in the box can be sexy too. SharePoint 2010 offers a powerful and flexible platform that can be quickly adopted to automate business processes without the need to write code. In this presentation TekDog’s own Jason Keller will walk through a client business problem and how TekDog solved the problem using native SharePoint functionality. This presentation will walk through the business problem and how to develop a quick solution in SharePoint using List, Libraries and Views.

Jason Keller

Session Speaker

Jason Keller is the president of TekDog Inc., of Columbus, Ohio. Jason has over 14 years of experience in IT and has been working with Microsoft SharePoint technologies since 2001. Jason’s SharePoint experience includes roles as a Technical Instructor, Business Analyst, SharePoint Consultant, Project Manager and Solutions Architect. Jason also spe ... Read More

General Meeting: Good vs. Evil; Customizing your site without going to …. Well, you get the point!

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There has always been a struggle between the good admin and the bad developer. Or maybe it’s the good developer and the bad admin?! Depends on who you ask…right? At every level there is give and take and the battle has been lengthy. As the demands of a new site build and change from simple logo and theme updates into the coveted ‘rounded corners’ and data view web parts, there is much to consider. Branding and customization sounds great and normally looks great, but at what cost? In this session I will be discussing the difference between branding and design, and the effects it can have on the functionality and effectiveness of a site. More importantly there will be an overview of Basic Customizations (OOTB) vs. Advanced Customizations and how to avoid the rabbit hole of non-stop customization requests and tweaks. To ensure you get the most out of your SharePoint site, we will discuss best practices and governance, planning, and testing based on real word scenarios.

Stacy Deere

Session Speaker

Stacy Deere is an MCITP and owner of Focal Point Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati, OH based company that provides SharePoint Solutions for the Enterprise in the mid-to-large market. Previously, Stacy lead PCMS’ rapidly growing SharePoint practice where she engages in a wide range of consulting projects across various industries. With nearly 17 years ... Read More

General Meeting: User Centric Design – How to Leverage Use Cases and User Scenarios to Design SharePoint Functionality

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What content do users need to perform their tasks? How can that content be optimally organized? There are many choices that can be made when designing SharePoint environments – given multiple ways to organize information, what is the correct option? Design can be optimized through user scenarios and use cases. This session will discuss methods to design SharePoint applications that provide content in the context of user tasks based on audience analysis, use cases, content alignment and iterative testing and validation. We’ll walk through key information architecture approaches and research/validation/testing techniques (heuristics, affinity modeling, bulletin board focus groups, audience/task/content mapping) to ensuring maximum usability of SharePoint.

Seth Earley

Session Speaker

Seth Earley is a well-known expert in search, content and knowledge management strategies. He has extensive practical knowledge of information architecture and has directed numerous IA engagements for Earley & Associates. Teams under Seth’s direction have worked with many clients to develop enterprise-wide SharePoint information architecture ... Read More

General Meeting: Advanced BDC/BCS Development

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Built in database and WCF options too limiting? Confused by these Assembly Connectors and Custom Connectors? Learn to tame the beast! Start with an overview of BDC model architecture, dig into code for an Assembly Connector, finish by examining code for a Custom Connector

Scott Brickey

Session Speaker

Scott Brickey has 16 years of experience in the IT industry and has been consulting for 8 years. In that time, he has performed solution architecture, administration, and development, and training. He has focused on SharePoint solutions over the past three years, offering SharePoint custom development, specialized training, and embedded expertise ... Read More

General Meeting: Session Name: How to Manage Managing Your Enterprise Content

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An overview of all the ECM features built in to SharePoint 2010, on their own and grouped together in the Document Center and Records Center site templates. The sessions will explain each feature and help you decide the best approach for managing your content.

Patrick Tucker

Session Speaker

Patrick is a SharePoint architect, developer and trainer with over 12 years of experience developing applications with Microsoft technologies and training others to do the same. His certifications in SharePoint, .NET and SQL Server include MCPD, MCITP, MCSD, MCTS, and MCT. He has worked with a variety of companies, non-profits, military and gove ... Read More

General Meeting: See the SharePoint 2010 Administration Tool Kit – SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag 3.0) in Action

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A summary about the SharePoint 2010 Toolkit 2.0 but an in-depth presentation about SharePoint Diagnostic Studio 3.0 tool. View the SharePoint 2010 Diagnostics (SPDiag 3.0) in Action. To go over in-dept to show toolset can assist a SharePoint administrator assess/troubleshoot a SharePoint 2010 enviornment. Also tool set can assist a SharePoint team on understanding the environment by getting reports to gain insight to the SharePoint environment to have a proactive approach to make decisions of improving the system such as tracking Memory, CPU's, Database I/O, etc. There are great 3rd party tools that perform this function very well. However, if you are in an environment that is not budget friendly or your want to troubleshoot a CERT/INT/DEV environment, this tool set works well.

Tony Maddin

Session Speaker

Tony Maddin is a Principal Microsoft SharePoint Solutions Consultant with Software Information Systems in Cincinnati, Ohio. Tony has 15 years of experience as a web developer, web administrator, web applications administrator, and 6 years as a SharePoint administrator. He serves on many local boards such as the University of Dayton MIS Advisory b ... Read More

General Meeting: “Caching-In” for SharePoint Performance

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Caching 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 McDonough

Session Speaker

Sean is the Chief SharePoint Evangelist for Idera, a Microsoft managed 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, and the co-autho ... Read More

General Meeting: Build your SharePoint Internet presence with PowerShell

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Everybody knows PowerShell is powerful, it’s in the name! But did you know that PowerShell can read and understand XML? By leveraging XML among other things, complete builds can be automated – making them efficient and predictable. In this fun, interactive and demo-filled session – I will show you how you can leverage PowerShell to help you build your branded, company website from the ground up using PowerShell and XML. I will also pass along some tips and tricks that will help you become a PowerShell Rockstar!

Ryan Dennis

Session Speaker

Ryan Dennis is a Senior SharePoint Engineer for Information Control Corporation (ICC) in Columbus, Ohio. Ryan is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) and a Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist (vTSP) in SharePoint 2010. An accomplished blogger and speaker, he has worked on SharePoint solutions in the public, non-profit, and private se ... Read More

General Meeting: Office365 – How the Cloud Makes IT Easy and Why That’s Difficult

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One of the common misconceptions about “the cloud” is that it can reduce a company’s IT overhead and expenses. That’s not to say that an organization can’t or won’t save money by going to a cloud service like Office 365, but there are a lot of times when the amount of effort involved in making that move is not immediately apparent. This session will provide attendees with an overview of the most common activities that organizations will find require technical expertise and knowledge when taking their business “to the Cloud!” with Office 365. It will also explore the technical details of those activities, providing IT Pros with an understanding of how they can be executed as well as tips and tricks to help ensure a successful deployment.

John L. Ferringer

Session Speaker

John is a SharePoint IT Professional with over eight years of experience administering and supporting SharePoint technologies and has spent over fyears working in the information technology consulting industry. He has worked with Microsoft Online Services (MSO) since 2008 and is a Microsoft Delta Force Ranger for Office 365. John co-authored the & ... Read More

General Meeting: A Day in the Life of SharePoint - How to explain SharePoint to end-users and management

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Have you ever been asked to do a presentation for end-users or management explaining SharePoint? Its not as easy as it may seem. How do you explain a product as wide and deep as SharePoint to non-technical users? This session will provide insight and ideas on how to provide non-technical audience with an understanding of how SharePoint can help their office by walking through a live demo.

Scott Shearer

Session Speaker

Scott Shearer is a SharePoint evangelist and developer with FlexPoint Technology in Reston, VA. Scott has over 17 years’ experience in the IT industry implementing Microsoft products and technologies. He has held positions ranging from systems administrator to developer to trainer. Currently, he is a SharePoint consultant providing innovative an ... Read More

General Meeting: SharePoint & Windows Azure Integration - Practical Ways to Make Your Project More Agile

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More organizations today are embracing Agile principles when completing their software projects. SharePoint projects can also benefit from an Agile methodology, and when combined with Windows Azure, they can provide value in areas like rapid prototyping, good architectual design, and speed to market. In this session, we'll see the different ways that Windows Azure and SharePoint can be integrated, and we'll demo some specific scenarios to show how effectively a SharePoint/Azure project can be implemented.

Ricardo Wilkins

Session Speaker

Ricardo Wilkins is a SharePoint Consultant and Practice Lead for Improving Enterprises, focusing on the client delivery of quality SharePoint solutions, especially in the area of custom development and application lifecycle management. He’s helped deliver SharePoint solutions in the public, non-profit, and private sector. He has also been heavily ... Read More

General Meeting: Delivering Intelligent SharePoint Governance and Management

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This session covers key considerations when developing, implementing and enforcing SharePoint governance.

Shaun Owens

Session Speaker

Shaun Owens is a Technical Solutions Professional (TSP) Manager in AvePoint's Global Headquarters. With more than 15 years of experience with various Microsoft technologies, Shaun works with enterprises worldwide implementing AvePoint solutions into complex, enterprise-level SharePoint deployments. Shaun is regularly invited to speak at technical ... Read More

General Meeting: SharePoint Business Intelligence (BI) Setup/Administration Open Discussion

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SharePoint has become the primary presentation layer for Microsoft's Business Intelligence (BI) stack and is a very board topic. Just to get those components deployed, setup, running properly, and maintaining them can seem like a large proposition. In this session, we will have discussions driven by the issues you are experiencing. Topics will be voted on by the group to determine the order discussed. Bring your questions related to Reporting Services, PowerPivot, PerformancePoint, PowerView, Kerberos, or other MS BI tools that leverage SharePoint. This session will focus on how to deploy/setup, maintain, understand how it works under the covers, and how to troubleshoot. We will not be focusing on the development of reports, dashboards, etc.

JD Wade

Session Speaker

JD Wade has been providing infrastructure solutions for various Microsoft products in the St. Louis area for over 15 years. J.D.’s expertise is the architecture, design, deployment, and troubleshooting of infrastructure and governance for SharePoint as well as interfacing with the surrounding technologies (directory services, e-mail, load balancer ... Read More

General Meeting: System Reviews: A checkup for SharePoint 2010

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SharePoint sometimes gets a “set it and forget it” reputation in IT departments and now that it is a couple of years old, that lack of attention might be starting to show. Maybe there isn’t the internal knowledge to give it a checkup, maybe it just seems easier to ignore things that don’t quite work correctly. Whatever the cause, this session will provide a specific checklist of things you can look over to make sure that your SharePoint 2010 installation is doing everything it can for you.

Stephen Wilson

Session Speaker

With over 15 years of experience in IT at many levels, Stephen has worked in a number of industries such as retail, financial, and higher education. He has worked with and trained people on Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server all over the country. He also brings a lot of experience with presenting and developing docu ... Read More

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