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Administration: Managing SharePoint 2010 Farms with PowerShell

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Having you been using STSADM (or worse hand editing processes) to manage your SharePoint 2007 farms?  Are you hearing about needing to learn PowerShell to manage SharePoint 2010 farms?  This session will serve as part introduction to PowerShell and part overview of how you can use PowerShell to more efficiently and effectively manage your SharePoint 2010 farm.  This session is targeted to farm administrators and IT pros and no previous experience with PowerShell is required.

Brian Jackett

Session Speaker

Brian Jackett is a Senior Consultant at Sogeti USA specializing in Microsoft Collaboration and BI technologies, primarily SharePoint development and administration for almost 3 years.  Brian is a steering committee member of the Central Ohio SharePoint User Group and enjoys giving back to the community through giving presentations, volunteeri ... Read More

Administration: SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Drill Down

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Joel Oleson

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Development: Manipulating the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon

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SharePoint 2010, like Office, now sports a context sensitive Ribbon at the top of nearly every page. In this session, Todd will show how developers can interact with the Ribbon, the Notification Area, the Status Area, and the Dialog Framework.

Todd Bleeker

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Architecture: SharePoint ECM/WCM Planning, Implementation and Migration Strategies

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“Have you been tasked with taking ownership on a SharePoint infrastructure that you know nothing about and making it work effectively?”
“Are you considering taking an existing SharePoint environment to the next level and worried about what that entails?”
“Are you faced with a design and planning challenge in overhauling a deployed SharePoint architecture?”
 
If the answer to any of the questions above is a "Yes", then this session is for you. Come learn about the common issues faced by organizations that are either considering SharePoint deployments or have one in place that they would like to re-engineer. The topics covered include analysis of an existing deployment, common pain points in a content migration/transition, planning for a new environment based on content and sizing requirements and other tidbits that will make your job easier!
 
Please note: The session will focus primarily on SharePoint 2007 topics with relevant references to the 2010 platform as applicable

End User: SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence: Bringing it All Together

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With the incorporation of Performance Point into SharePoint 2010, SharePoint is now a major player in the Business Intelligence (BI) market. This session will give an overview of how to setup the required services and then present several demos of how to add SQL Server Reports, Excel charts and scorecards using the new Dashboard Designer to create informative dashboards that will dazzle your business users!

Kathryn Birstein

Session Speaker

Kathryn Birstein is an independent software consultant in the NYC metropolitan area. She has been a SharePoint Architect for the last 3-1/2 years and has worked with Microsoft software in various other capacities for many years before that. She is the founder of the NYC SharePoint Developers User Group (http://meetup.com/nycsdug) and on ... Read More

End User: Performance Management and Dashboard Creation with PerformancePoint Services 2010

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Few tools have more hidden gems than PerformancePoint Services.  Most people are aware of PPS’ abilities to create KPI scorecards – not as many are aware of some of the dashboard capabilities in PPS, such as the ability to create an integrated dashboard that houses Excel Services and Reporting Services content.   
This presentation will show a 7-page PPS dashboard that showcases many of the cool features for building scorecards, “hot-link” reports, decomposition trees, charting, filtering, and interactive drill-down capabilities that many users demand when analyzing information.  

Kevin S. Goff

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Microsoft SQL Server MVP 2010 (Microsoft .NET/C# MVP 2005-2009)  SQL Server/.NET Developer/Author/Speaker/Trainer Trainer and Curriculum author for SetFocus, LLC Automated Business Solutions since 1987 ... Read More

End User: Excel Services, PowerPivot and SharePoint 2010

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Are you curious what PowerPivot can do for you?  Have you seen PowerPivot demos but are not quite sure how they “fit in” with SharePoint?  Are you trying to implement Excel services and keep running into issues?  Are you trying to figure out just what “self-service” BI really means? Or do all these different versions of Excel and their integration with SharePoint just confuse you?  
If so, this session may be for you.  This is a “for Mere Mortals” type of introductory session on the different ways end-users can take advantage of Excel Services and PowerPivot in an environment using Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.  This session assumes basic knowledge of Sharepoint and Excel and databases.

Kevin S. Goff

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Microsoft SQL Server MVP 2010 (Microsoft .NET/C# MVP 2005-2009)  SQL Server/.NET Developer/Author/Speaker/Trainer Trainer and Curriculum author for SetFocus, LLC Automated Business Solutions since 1987 ... Read More

Architecture: Planning Applications/Solutions on SharePoint

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In 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.

Development: Upgrading your custom developed solution from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

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In my session I will share my personal experience in upgrading a SharePoint 2007 component to SharePoint 2010. During that process I gained a lot of valuable knowledge on creating components for sp2010 using visual studio 2010 extensions for SharePoint, and several tips on what to do (and not to do) today to be prepared for 2010 and to have an easy migration of customized solutions to 2010. We will cover an overview of vs2010, integrating with the new ribbon control, upgrading an existing components and finally - the importance of packaging and version management.
My unique insight as an isv delivers a different point of view that most developers benefit from.

Kevin Vieira

Session Speaker

Kevin has working with SharePoint since 2003, mostly developing custom applications.  In 2007 he released his first SharePoint 2007 public facing internet site in January 2007 for the Microsoft Flight Simulator Community team in Redmond while working at Microsoft. Since then, he has deployed several custom SharePoint solutions, with a focus o ... Read More

End User: SharePoint 101

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This is truly a beginner level introduction to SharePoint 2010 – it is not for developers.  There will be discussion around how to set up SharePoint 2010 as a single farm on Windows 7 and what advantages SharePoint Designer 2010 provides for creating sites, lists and permissions.  We will touch on out-of-the box work flow and publishing content.

Alphonso Scarborough

Session Speaker

Al Scarborough is a results oriented IT practitioner and manager with 18+ years of experience, 8 of which have been working on various SharePoint projects encompassing Windows SharePoint Services through the latest release of SharePoint Server 2010. ... Read More

Development: Developing solutions for SP2010 using the Client Object Model

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SharePoint 2010's Client Object Model is a very cool feature that provides an object-oriented system for interoperating with SharePoint data from a remote computer.
It includes 3  new client APIs enabling developers to write the  applications for interacting with SharePoint sites from NET Managed application, Silverlight application,
and ECMAScript. 
This session will cover how to use new client APIs to call SharePoint data from a client machine.
It will demonstrate in brief how to call REST services in SharePoint 2010 using ADO.NET Data Services.

Lyudmila Zharova

Session Speaker

Lyudmila is a Microsoft technology specialist and Microsoft Certified developer with over ten years IT experience. She is a co-founder of the New York SharePointDevelopers User Group. Lyudmila’s core skills are focused around software development, predominantly utilizing .Net, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server.Lyudmila currently works as a SharePo ... Read More

Development: Memory Management in SharePoint 2007 Development

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Some of the tips and tricks around SharePoint 2007 development for preventing memory leaks as well as spotting them and addressing them.

Matt Vignau

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Matt Vignau is a senior developer with Liquid Hub, Inc specializing in SharePoint.  He has worked with SharePoint 2007 for the last 5 years, specializing in the development of features and the packaging of solutions. ... Read More

Development: Developing and Deploying Custom Solutions in SharePoint 2007

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This session introduces the concept of Share Point solutions and features, what they consist of, how they can be developed and deployed (tools and commands), and moves to the demo that demonstrates how to provision files and features to the 12 hive and use them in Share Point user interface.

Max Ryvkov

Session Speaker

Over 10 years of IT experience. Worked for both corporate and consulting firms in the past utilizing client - server, web, and windows applications. Currently concentrating on Share Point technologies and Business Intelligence. Microsoft SharePoint Certified, MCT; WSS 3.0, MOSS2007; Pace University Graduate of 2001 in NYC, Bachelors in Computer Sc ... Read More

Development: SharePoint 2010 Feature and Solution Development With Visual Studio 2010

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Visual Studio 2010, when installed in the same environment as SharePoint 2010, provides a broad set of project type templates for creating SharePoint assets (sites, site elements, etc.), more so than SharePoint 2007.  Upon creation of a SharePoint Project, Visual Studio 2010 automatically creates the necessary Feature and Package nodes, facilitating the creation of a SharePoint Feature and Solution Package.  Today's discussion (and walkthrough) will show a few different scenarios of creating a SharePoint 2010 Project containing some site elements, and how Visual Studio 2010 has made Feature and Package creation a much more simpler process.

Michael Mukalian

Session Speaker

Michael Mukalian is a SharePoint Services MVP, Director and Architect for LiquidHub, Inc. (www.liquidhub.com) an information technology consultancy based in the Philadelphia area serving clients worldwide. With over 20 years of IT experience and certifications in VB.NET and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Michael has architected and devel ... Read More

Administration: Information Management in 2010, what’s new and improved that will make your job easier.

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Information 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 Geier

Session 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.  Currently Chris is the a product manager for Metalogix on the StoragePoint product.  Chris is a participant in, and advocate for, the SharePoint communit ... Read More

Development: SharePoint 2010 Best Practices – Sandbox solutions Code

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In this session we will cover the farm solutions vs. sandbox solutions, the architecture design for sandbox solutions underlying processes, Limitation with Sandbox solutions, deploying and managing Sandbox solutions, and how to manage sandbox solutions resources. how to extend sandbox solutions by running your code with full permissions in your sandbox solution. session is full of demos and code driven.

Mostafa Elzhogbi

Session Speaker

Mostafa Elzoghbi is a Microsoft C# MVP since 2006, A technology advocate likes to share his knowledge and experience with Microsoft communities through online and offline events. Working with SharePoint for the last 4 years and heavily involved in designing and developing SharePoint solutions. Working for MetroStar Systems as a Sr. Software Engine ... Read More

Architecture: Playing Tag - Managed Metadata and Taxonomies in SharePoint 2010

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Information architecture is never as easy as it seems.  For example, do you have a hard time deciding if you should group your documents by department or by project? This session is a practical, hands on review of the new managed metadata  services for managing taxonomies, folksonomies, tags, metadata and content types in SharePoint 2010.  Users will learn not only why these tools are helpful but how to use them for content management, taxonomy, social networking and navigation.
 

Christopher F. McNulty

Session Speaker

Chris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience in financial services technology at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife.  He is currently SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner, where he leads engagements using SharePoint, SQL Server, Project Server, and .NET.   Chris also holds an M ... Read More

Development: Silverlight Development in SharPoint 2010

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In this session Neil will demonstrate how Silverlight has become an integral part of the SharePoint 2010 experience. Then he will walk through current and future Silverlight Development techniques using Visual Studio, Expression Blend, Web Services and the new Client Object Model.

Neil Barkhina

Session Speaker

Neil Barkhina is an MCAD Certified professional with nearly 5 years of experience working with .NET technologies. He specializes in web development and SharePoint technologies and has worked on numerous projects including Leading Development on a SharePoint Intranet site for the largest real estate firm in New York. He has also worked in the video ... Read More

Architecture: Build effective Web Content Management Solutions with SharePoint 2010

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SharePoint 2010 provides rich features to make it ideal platform for Web Content Management Solution. Companies are moving towards a unified platform approach for all applications and SharePoint is ideal platform and solution for this.  This session will cover many of these features including high level review of Silverlight, implementation best practices for development, architecture and infrastructure. It will also cover Global Deployments, multi lingual sites and security best practices.

Parth Patel

Session Speaker

Parth Patel is Founder and Chief Solutions Architect at SharePoint Engine, a NJ based Microsoft Gold Partner focused on Enterprise Content Management, Business Process Management and Business Intelligence solutions based on SharePoint Platform. Parth Patel has over 8 years of experience in content management industry. He concentrates his efforts o ... Read More

End User: SharePoint Designer 2010 - What's New?

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This session provides an introduction and overview to the new features and functions that are part of SharePoint Designer 2010. Get a tour of the newly designed interface, administrative capabilities and workflow enhancements that Microsoft has baked into this latest version of the SharePoint customization tool.

Daniel A. Galant

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End User: Introduction to Infopath 2010

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Paul Galvin

Session Speaker

Paul Galvin has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years in a number of roles including software development, consulting and most recently SharePoint solutions design. Paul works with clients to create top-notch business solutions using the SharePoint platform. He contributes to the SharePoint community through MSDN forums, blogging (both as ho ... Read More

Architecture: Building Social Applications using SharePoint 2010

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SharePoint 2010 provides a sophisticated infrastructure for building social, networked applications. . SharePoint Server is the information store for people, community and data used for social application. The new profile store, synchronization service and other SharePoint application services provide a vast toolset for quickly building people aware applications. In this session we cover the concepts of working with social technologies and how we can leverage them for enterprise application.

Paul Swider

Session Speaker

Paul J. Swider is both founder and the Enterprise SharePoint Strategist for OnClick Solutions. In addition he is president of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and an accomplished entrepreneur. Straight from a barrier Island near Charleston, SC Paul chases the tides and winds as an avid boater and sailor. Paul is grateful he is able escape the ... Read More

Architecture: SharePoint 2010 Service Applications - The Sitcom

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Peter Serzo

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Peter Serzo (MCSD .Net, MCP, MCTS) is a published author, a founder of the SouthEastern SharePoint group, a speaker at conferences, and works for Trillium Teamologies as a SharePoint Architect. Peter has been in the IT industry for 20 years.  He has extensive experience with SharePoint implementing solutions for several enterprise organizatio ... Read More

Search: Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

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With the new release of SharePoint comes a plethora of new features: linear scalability, support for more languages, better relevancy, and support for 100 million documents in total per farm just to name a few. Yet, Microsoft’s acquisition of Fast Search and Transfer in 2007 has changed where SharePoint enterprise search is going. After a brief overview of SharePoint 2010 we will look at Fast Search Server 2010, what its feature set looks like and the reasons for using it over SharePoint search.

Carlos Valcarcel

Session Speaker

Carlos has been in software development since the mid-80's working in financial services, insurance and technology. He has worked with C, C++, Java, J2EE, Spring, Eclipse and Python in various locations around the United States and Australia. During his time as an independent consultant he presented sessions on software development and distributed ... Read More

Development: Mobile Computing and SharePoint 2010

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With the pending release of window phone 7 and the fantastic capabilities of SharePoint 2010 the line between working from your desk and working from the metro has blurred significantly and is finally reaching a point of convergence.  This session will show how a developer can harness the power of SharePoint and  Windows Phone 7 to create a seamless, business application whether your sitting at the desktop or on the move.

Damon T. Erickson

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Search: Social Search in SharePoint 2010 and Scaling you Search Deployment

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This session is broken into two parts: Social Search in SharePoint 2010 that will cover how social features introduced in SharePoint create the social search experience and support and strengthen social communities within the enterprises.
The second part will cover in depth the scaling options for SharePoint Search 2010 as well as FAST Search for SharePoint 2010
Learn from the co-author of the book Professional Microsoft FAST Search: Customizing, Designing, and Deploying Search for SharePoint 2010 and Internet Servers.

Natalya Voskrensenskaya

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Natalya Voskresenskaya, had been working in the field of Information Technology for over 10 years. With experience in design, architecture, development and deployment of Web based applications, since early days of 2000 her main area of concentration had been development of portal solutions. Natalya delivers enterprise Portal applications and busin ... Read More

End User: SharePoint Designer 2007/2010 Workflow

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Now SharePoint designer is free, it’s the perfect time to utilize MOSS’s workflow functionality with SharePoint Designer.  
Make this an opportunity to build an RIO for SharePoint in 2010
 
- Workflow – Why do it with SharePoint
- Note: There is no such thing is a simple workflow
- Things you really should know before you start a SharePoint Designer Workflow
- Ideal workflows In SharePoint designer
- 5 challenges of SharePoint Designer based workflows.  What it can and cannot  do….believe it or not
- How to squeeze the juice out of Designer workflows
- SharePoint workflow alternatives
-SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010- Compare and contrast
 
This workshop is intended for the serious heavy metal SharePoint Designer person.

Peter Ward

Session Speaker

Peter Ward is the Business Collaboration Manager for InterDynAKA.  In this position, Ward is responsible for the continued success of implementing Microsoft’s Information Worker product suite which includes SharePoint, InfoPath, and Office. Ward draws on 18 years of industry experience in consulting and project management capacity and has a p ... Read More

Special Interest: The Seven Most Important (Non-Technical) SharePoint Success Factors

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When implementing SharePoint Solutions and SharePoint as an Enterprise platform there are a considerable number of non-technical (people focused) factors that influence whether it is successful or a failure.  
What you can expect to see/get from this session:
    * Tips and Tricks relating to the non-technical challenges of SharePoint implementations that you can use tomorrow
    * How to select and evaluate the Right Technology
    * How to achieve strong Buy In and Set Expectations
    * How to measure and evaluate ROI and Priorities
    * How to achieve effective Governance
    * How to Approach SharePoint Projects
    * How to Effectively Support your SharePoint Environment (Non-technical support)
    * How to achieve successful User Adoption
    * How to handle and plan for New Work and Growth
    * An Entertaining Stories and an Energetic Speaker

Richard Harbridge

Session Speaker

Over the past 6 years I have had the pleasure of working extensively with SharePoint as an end user, developer, administrator, architect, business analyst, and consultant. In this time I defined, architected, developed, and implemented well over a hundred SharePoint solutions from small implementations of WSS on a single server, to 80,000+ user im ... Read More

Development: SharePoint for ASP.NET Developers

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SharePoint is an awesome tool. It allows you to build web sites, manage lists of data, collaborate on documents, and so much more – all done through a simple, easy to use, web interface. When you need to go beyond the built in capabilities of the product, SharePoint also provides a rich set of APIs to code against. This is designed to introduce you to the foundational topics required to build customizations on the SharePoint platform. Specifically we will cover: Features, the solutions framework, the server object model, the client object model, and building simple Web parts. This session will be valuable for those working with SharePoint 2007 or 2010.

Rob Windsor

Session Speaker

Rob Windsor is a developer, trainer, writer and Senior Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. He has over fifteen years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint. Rob is a member ... Read More

Development: Creating SharePoint Custom Field Types

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This session investigates Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) custom field types and the business cases for their use. We walk through the steps needed to implement and deploy a custom field type, and a code demo for creating our own custom field type.

Eugene Rosenfeld

Session Speaker

Eugene Rosenfeld is the CTO of Black Blade Associates, and 2-time Microsoft MVP awardee. He started his IT career as a database programmer and soon moved into enterprise application integration (EAI) and portal systems. Eugene holds a strong belief that all systems should have the innate ability to intelligently communicate with one another. Most ... Read More

Development: SharePoint Workspace 2010 In Action

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SharePoint Workspace 2010 along with Groove provides an application platform that integrates with SharePoint servers and extends it with an "offline/mobile client". This session will explore the integration architectures of SPW 2010 and SharePoint servers and how applications are built on the platform including the use of SPW 2010 Groove API.

SB Chaterjee

Session Speaker

Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee is an Architect/Tech-lead based in Hartford CT. He has over 20 years IT experience and has worked at companies like Aetna, IBM, UNICEF and State of Connecticut. He holds graduate degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics. He was thrice awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for Groove. He moderat ... Read More

Special Interest: Responsible for the Share Point training rollout, but you're not a trainer? The best practices and pain points of implementing training.

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This session will teach you how to avoid the common unforeseen mistakes that occur during training rollouts. The full training implementation will be examined including; needs analysis, instructional design, e-learning, helpdesk’s role, pilot training, rollout logistics, communications and sustainment plans.

Scott Lavoie

Session Speaker

Scott Lavoie has been implementing software training rollouts for 12 years.  He has worked in healthcare, energy, corporate governance, finance and telecommunications in both the private and public sectors.  He spent five years in the ECM industry, where he travelled extensively to the U.S. to implement training solutions. He currently i ... Read More

Development: Getting to know Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Using Visual Studio 2010

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Crack open Visual Studio and get immersed into all that can be done with the new templates for Business Connectivity Services (BCS). In this session we will cover the Entity Classes, LINQ to SQL for the Database Connectivity, and expose an Aggregated LOB System made  up of disparate origins. This is the answer to “Why cant I just do all I need in BCS in SharePoint Designer?”

Fabian Williams

Session Speaker

Fabian is a Technical Lead and SharePoint Architect for CDW Advanced Technology Services SharePoint Practice. He is based out of Herndon, Va. Prior to CDW, Fabian was the CTO for WING, Inc. Recently, he was the Chief Internet Developer for the Department of Defense's Global Emerging Infections System and a Sales Engineer at Citrix Incorporated. Ca ... Read More

Administration: Saving SharePoint

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In this session, we will be discussing disaster recovery concepts and strategies, explaining terms such as recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives.  We will also cover the capabilities and limitations of the Microsoft tools that can used for backing up, restoring, and making SharePoint highly available for disaster recovery purposes.  Some of the changes that are coming with SharePoint Server 2010, and how they affect DR planning and implementation, will also be covered.

Development: Creating Custom Actions in SharePoint 2010

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Custom Actions control features in SharePoint such as the List Item Menu, the Site Actions menu, toolbars, and the links within the Site Settings page, as well as the Ribbon UI in SharePoint 2010. Learn how to leverage Custom Actions to extend the SharePoint User Interface. This session will describe the basics of Custom Actions, demonstrations to build and apply them in SharePoint, as well as provide resources for additional information.

Geoff Varosky

Session Speaker

Geoff Varosky (MCP, MCTS) is a Senior Solutions Developer for Grace-Hunt, LLC (http://www.grace-hunt.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint and Dynamics Solutions based out of Hudson, MA. He has been architecting and developing web based applications for over a decade, and has been working with SharePoint Technologies for the past 6 ... Read More

Special Interest: 7 Habits of Highly Effective SharePoint Professionals

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What are the qualities and intangibles that separate the average professional from the great SharePoint professionals?
In this session, the roadmap towards becoming a top notch SharePoint professional will be revealed and analyzed.
Attendees will gain an in-depth knowledge of the qualities that based on observation of and interaction with the best-of-the best as experienced by Mr. Shadeed Eleazer.
The following areas of focus will be covered in this session:
    * How Highly Effective SharePoint Professionals approach projects
    * How Highly Effective SharePoint Pros prepare for new SharePoint releases
    * Case studies and examples leveraging the top SharePoint professionals in the community
IT professionals transitioning into SharePoint will gain an understanding of what it takes to get started in SharePoint
Experienced SharePoint pros will gain a new viewpoint of their own talents and be equipped with strategies to strengthen key areas in their own growth and development.

Shadeed Eleazer

Session Speaker

My background spans 11 years of supporting the unique demands of Federal and state government sectors. I am a US Navy veteran with extensive background in cloud services support and implementation, configuration management, process development, SharePoint backup and recovery, and SharePoint integration.  My primary projects include supporti ... Read More

Development: LINQ to SharePoint 2010

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SharePoint 2010 has improved ways to work with data. LINQ to SharePoint lets developers work with data from SharePoint lists in a strongly typed way that preserves relationships between lists. This session will demonstrate how to write code that uses LINQ data.

Steven Fowler

Session Speaker

Steven Fowler is an author, speaker, and consultant possessing a mix of advanced technology and strategic business acumen derived from over 15 years of progressive project management, architecture and engineering experience. Steven has worked with SharePoint since version 2003 and recently completed one of the world’s largest SharePoint implementa ... Read More

Administration: SharePoint 2010 Social Computing – Getting the most value from your My Sites / User Profiles Implementation

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Many organizations are planning on deploying SharePoint 2010 Server in order to leverage some of its new social computing functionality. As you may have already learned, one thing is very clear and that is that Microsoft has made some very significant investments into the social computing aspects of SharePoint.  By now you may have already caught a glimpse of some of the new functionality and improvements on SharePoint My Sites and User Profiles. But have you learned what they really mean to your organization? Are you aware of all the design and planning considerations that are necessary for a successful My Sites rollout? Are you maximizing your SharePoint User Profiles within your organization?
In addition to delivering a quick tour of some of the new social computing features found in SharePoint 2010 this presentation will mainly focus on displaying the real business value that a properly designed My Sites & User Profiles implementation can bring to your organization. 

Jaime Velez

Session Speaker

Jaime Velez is an enterprise services consultant with Microsoft and has over 7 years of experience working with SharePoint Products & Technologies. Over the past three years Jaime has worked solely on MOSS 2007 enterprise projects for various commercial and financial services customers across the U.S. and has extensive experience deploying lar ... Read More

Architecture: SharePoint Governance – Key Considerations

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Planful Governance can be a key factor in the success or failure of a sustainable SharePoint implementation.  In this session, Janis and Ricardo will overview some of the key functional and organizational considerations, highlighting proper planning, as well as some of the common pitfalls.  Through an Executive lens, session content will provide insight on broad planning concepts that should be considered in any installation.

Janis Hall and Ricardo Palhano

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Special Interest: Is Outsourcing the Hosting & Management of Our SharePoint Solution the Right Choice for My Organization?

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  Jeff will discuss the various considerations that organizations must take into account when determining whether outsourcing SharePoint hosting and management is right for them:
   1. Should we host on-premises or with a provider? (Can we do both?)
   2. Who are the leading providers?
   3. If we make the leap, what do we lose?  What do we gain?
   4. What questions should we be asking potential providers?
   5. How do we select the right provider for our unique needs?
   6. Do we need a dedicated solution, or is multi-tenant going to work for our needs?
   7. How do we make the business case internally?

Jeff Becraft

Session Speaker

Jeff is a ten year veteran of the Managed Application Services and SaaS group at AT&T (formerly USi, the company that pioneered the delivery of Software as a Service way back in 1998), during which time he has been a consultant and team lead on a wide variety of Microsoft-based software and managed hosting solutions.    Jeff n ... Read More

Special Interest: SharePoint 2010 in a Multi‐tenant and Hosted environments

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This session describes the configuration parameters, challenges and opportunities for SharePoint 2010 in a multi‐tenant or hosted environment. Delving into the differences between multi‐tenant and hosted environments, the session describes customization and process and data isolation. Learn what integration points can be added to the multi‐tenant or hosted environments. This session covers technology challenges in the hosted environment include integrating into HMC, upgrading
from WSS 3.0, and Federated AD.

John Burkholder

Session Speaker

John Burkholder is a Senior Project Manager for Digicon Corporation, where he is the primary business manager for SharePoint and specializes in architecting hosted SharePoint environments. He has extensive experience with architecting MOSS, WSS as well as enterprise systems environments in general. John first started working with SharePoint sin ... Read More

Search: Getting Business Value from Search Applications

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Search applications hold great promise for business value that never becomes realized. Enterprise class infrastructure products have many features which go unutilized due to perceived complexity or ignorance as to how to map features with business process efficiency requirements. This session will address leveraging search technology toward effective business solutions with a roadmap-based search infrastructure and will include a view into solutions with SharePoint 2010.

Jose Colon

Session Speaker

Mr. Colon has more than 25 years experience in providing customized technical solutions delivery to private sector clients. Under the employment of industry leading product vendors and in his own private consultation practice, he has built solutions for Fortune 500 companies in the financial, energy, legal, entertainment, manufacturing, and pharma ... Read More

Administration: Best Practices for Content Lifecycle Management with Microsoft SharePoint

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Microsoft SharePoint is the industry’s most versatile and powerful enterprise-class collaboration system.  But in order to leverage SharePoint as a true enterprise content management platform, an intelligent, well governed content lifecycle strategy is required.  Such a strategy must define the platform’s information and systems architecture, and diligently govern the process of content authorship, storage, delivery, auditing, and dispensation, without overburdening system or staff resources.  During this session, we will discuss best practices for designing a well governed and scalable content lifecycle strategy that ensures diligent content management, efficiently integrates legacy content and storage systems, and delivers both the transparency and accountability required of an enterprise-class content management system. 

Tony Lanni

Session Speaker

Tony is the Vice President of Corporate Development at AvePoint, where he is responsible for directing product design and shaping business strategy.  Since SharePoint’s debut, he has helped innovate many pioneering tools and strategies to optimize the platform and streamline its administration.  Tony’s expertise in the areas of deploymen ... Read More

Search: Understanding the Integration of Search & Recommendations

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While Recommendations provides an entirely new economic model both for the media and entertainment industries (one that is just beginning to show its power). Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it in...
This technology is now harnessed for the productivity market as well.  Allowing for enhanced social computing around community of interest and allowing LOB owners to better communicate with their fellow workers.
Demo Included

Tal Peleg

Session Speaker

Tal Paleg, FAST/Microsoft since 2007, focused on NY media accounts .  This support includes the pre-sales briefings, evaluation support, requirements analysis, architectural design and working with implementation services teams.  ... Read More

Special Interest: Getting started with branding for SharePoint 2010

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This session covers the basic concepts of branding your 2010 site for the non-designer. Well go over the basic idea's and concepts as well as perform a demonstration of how to transform your design into a live site.  Well also go over the tools needed to get the job done.

Thomas M Daly

Session Speaker

Thomas Daly  - is a seasoned SharePoint Solutions developer. He specializes in delivering custom developed solutions from both the server side or client side. He is an expert in web technologies and highly proficient in many languages including C#, Javascript, Jquery, T-SQL, CSS, XSLT. His educational background is composed of a Bachelor’s de ... Read More

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