IT Pro: The Ultimate SharePoint Infrastructure Best Practices Session

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There are a myriad number of approaches to design and architecture of SharePoint servers, not all of which are ideal, however. Since the design of a SharePoint environment is subsequently critical to its performance and functionality, it is critical to understand what are the best practices around SharePoint infrastructure design. SharePoint architects need to be aware of the various installation options, how and when to virtualize SharePoint, ways to optimize the SQL Database tier of SharePoint, and how the newest version of SharePoint changes some of these best practices. This session goes right to the heart of the matter, providing for physical and virtual architecture guidelines and specific configuration settings that can immediately be used to construct best practice SharePoint 2010 environments that are well positioned for a future transition to SharePoint 2013. Real world advice obtained from the presenter’s experience designing hundreds of production SharePoint farms is provided, and the installation options are discussed frankly.

Michael Noel

Session Speaker

Michael Noel (Twitter: @MichaelTNoel) is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored several major industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide. Significant titles include SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, Exchange Serve ... Read More

IT Pro: SharePoint 2013 REAL-time Upgrade

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The latest and greatest is out and available, and more than likely the first thing you will be asking yourself is what is the method of upgrade. As well as what elements are upgradable and how do I go about doing that.

In this session aside from discussion on all these types of questions we will be doing a SharePoint 2010 to 2013 upgrade in real time. We’ll show you what to expect and how to adjust to the changes in methodology. Very few slides, right to the “point”.

Eric Harlan

Session Speaker

In between searching the planet high and low for the best skiing conditions, deepest powder and crazy ‘steeps’, Eric Harlan spends most of his time in the technology field. Eric has been in the I.T. industry for eleven years, and heavily involved with SharePoint for eight years. Starting from a developer role, Eric has moved on to a more architect ... Read More

IT Pro: Practical Approach to SharePoint Governance

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The session will focus on how to successfully plan and implement SharePoint governance for your corporate. It will discuss how to design governance models, and technically enforce it. It will define chaos, and steps to avoid it. Most of the lessons learnt are drawn from large corporate case study in USA.

Bramley Maetsa

Session Speaker

Bramley Maetsa, is a trained Electrical engineer and a Lead SharePoint Consultant by practice. He has been developing Microsoft based solutions for 8 years. Bramley has been involved in the Microsoft SharePoint consulting and development industry since the release SharePoint 2003, working for both Microsoft Gold Partners and enterprise corporat ... Read More

IT Pro: Using SharePoint for Document Management

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How to set up Document Libraries. I’ll show simple ways to customize the look and feel of SharePoint document libraries, create views with custom columns, create views with filters, and create views with grouping in standard SharePoint.

Andrew Mutua

Session Speaker

Mutua Andrew, MCP, MCSA is an IT Professional with more than 8 years of overall industry experience. Andrew also boost of 5 years of experience in implementing and deploying SharePoint Solutions for public and private organization. Andrew is also well versed with maintaining and administering SharePoint Portals. ... Read More

IT Pro: Re-Experience SharePoint: Ripping the Face Off the Default SharePoint 2010 Interface

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At the KMWorld Conference last year, Peter Morville said something in the keynote that rang as true as the Liberty Bell: "When competing for grants, the prettiest pictures win the funding." This was an epiphany for me. We all know it's true, but are we taking advantage of it? Are we using all of the resources at our disposal to create an intuitive interface that will encourage participation and user buy-in of our sites?

In this session, we'll examine a default team site created in SharePoint 2010. We'll rip apart the presentation layer, piece by piece, exposing the underlying structure and CSS to see what can be done to create a more intuitive and aesthetically pleasing site.

At the conclusion of the session, you will have an understanding of how the presentation layer of SharePoint pages is structured and what you can do to make your site stand out from the basic SharePoint sites you see every day. To paraphrase Moreville, "When it comes to End User buy-in, the interface wins the funding." Let's work together to get you that funding.

Mark Miller

Session Speaker

Mark is recognized internationally as a Senior Storyteller, weaving engaging tales to simplify the explanation of complex, technological solutions. He is the founder of two of the largest online SharePoint communities in the world: NothingButSharePoint.com and EnduserSharePoint.com and is currently working on a new community project at NothingButB ... Read More

IT Pro: Document Lifecycle Management

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SharePoint provides organisations with the capability of managing the lifecycle of content created within business. This session covers the following:

  • What document management in SharePoint caters for
  • How policies are applied to documents
  • How retention and disposal schedules manage and route documents within libraries
  • How physical documents can be managed within a repository

Companies continue to not know when to destroy documents and it is with this in mind that SharePoint provides Information managers with a concise view of the creation to destruction of content within the organisation.

Alistair Pugin

Session Speaker

Alistair has worked in various capacities in multiple verticals from retail – manufacturing to government, spanning 50 to 15000 users utilizing all aspects of pure Enterprise Information Management. His current position as a Director of Pragmatic Works Cape Town, South Africa, provides him with a mechanism to assist companies with architecting the ... Read More

IT Pro: Using SharePoint workflows and infopath forms to automate processes

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Automating processes using SharePoint designer workflows and Infopath 2010 forms. No code solutions…kinda.

Denis Ngahu

Session Speaker

Denis is a SharePoint Technology Specialist at Saltech Solutions in Nairobi. working with MS SharePoint 2007 & 2010, Websense 7.5 & 7.6, MS SQL Server 2008 & 2008 R2. ... Read More

Business: Data Visualization with SharePoint and SQL Server 2012

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One key factor driving the self-service BI market is the growing volume and complexity of data. As a result, enterprises will adopt new interactive reporting tools designed to put more data analytics capabilities into the hands of business users. In this session you will learn what self-service reporting tools are available in SharePoint and how they can be used to create business solutions to visualize and navigate data. Learn how to meet your business needs and discover best practices implementing data visualizations.

Paul Swider

Session Speaker

Paul J. Swider is an international speaker, writer and freelance consultant. In addition he is president of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and a contributing author of the new Professional SharePoint 2010 Development book published by Wrox Press. He is an accomplished entrepreneur straight from a barrier Island near Charleston, SC. Paul ... Read More

IT Pro: Getting the SharePoint 2010 Environment Stable

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Basic tools to get you working and surviving in a SharePoint 2010

Anthony Nderu

Session Speaker

Anthony is an expert at planning and implementing new SharePoint 2010 farms and CRM 2011 farms. Since joining CHS 2 years ago, he has taken SharePoint 2010 availability from 80% to 100%, having identified key issues that many administrators and developers seem to ignore. He is currently adding new farms acquired by CHS—one in Israel, one in Brazil ... Read More

IT Pro: Tips on how to successful manage a SharePoint Project

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Deploying SharePoint on any organization has many risks both for vendors and the customer. What systems need to be put in place to ensure that many endless issues do not bog down the project?

Ken Murei

Session Speaker

Ken Murei is an entrepreneur and experienced SharePoint Consultant having been involved in deploying SharePoint solutions for Kenya’s corporate business, non governmental institutions and Government Departments ... Read More

Business: Social Intranets: Social SharePoint and Yammer Evolution

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All the talk these days seem to be about social. The Traditional portals must evolve. SharePoint is recognized as the largest Intranet platform, but it is often setup in traditional ways with less social elements turned on or taken advantage of. In this session we'll look at the recent SharePoint 2013 features and the Microsoft acquisition of Yammer and integration between the two.

Joel Oleson

Session Speaker

Joel was the first dedicated SharePoint Administrator ever. He's been working with SharePoint nearly 12 years. In his 7 years at Microsoft Joel architected Microsoft's own SharePoint global collaboration solutions, Microsoft’s Intranet upgrade to SharePoint, and the first version of SharePoint Online. Later he joined the SharePoint technical produ ... Read More

End User: Extending the DVWP: The Power User’s Guide to Getting More Out of the Data View Web Part

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Based on his popular EndUserSharePoint series and eBook of the same name, Jim Bob will walk through a real-world solution that combines several take-away concepts that you can incorporate into your own SharePoint customization to extend this powerful webpart to meet your needs. Whether HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, CEWP, DVWP, and jQuery look like savory ingredients, or just alphabet soup to you, grab a spoon and come join the feast.

Jim Bob Howard

Session Speaker

Jim Bob Howard is first a husband and a father. For fun, he gets to go to work and play with SharePoint. He has been working with web technologies since 1993, building websites, working with content management tools, and building web applications for companies large and small. Bringing all of that experience SharePoint was a natural transition. ... Read More

Business: BI for the Business User

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BI has been a buzzword for many years - and it’s only gotten more common. But what is it really FOR? And what tools are there to do BI?

This session will take you from the basics of how BI is the foundation for decision making through an overview of the tools available, and finishing with a demo of PowerPivot, PowerView and PerformancePoint.

Mark Stacey

Session Speaker

Mark has been a frequent presenter at SQL and Sharepoint Saturdays, is a co-author of the Sharepoint 2010 BI book from Wiley, has an upcoming Visual Intelligence book on BI in Microsoft, and blogs - erm - occasionally. ... Read More

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