Architecture: Introduction to SharePoint Workspace 2010

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SharePoint Workspace 2010 (nee Groove) is a collaboration platform that integrates with SharePoint servers. SPW 2010 is viewed as an "offline/mobile client" extension of SharePoint. 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 the .NET API/SDK.  Some knowledge in .NET development and using SharePoint is presumed

Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee

Session Speaker

Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee is an Architect/Tech-Lead based in Hartford CT. He has over 20 years experience in IT and has worked at various 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- ... Read More

Administration: Best Practices for Architecting, Deploying, and Optimizing SharePoint 2010

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SharePoint 2010 is poised to revolutionize how organizations connect their people, processes, and information.  It will mark SharePoint’s evolution from a server application to a full-fledged platform…the world’s first “enterprise eco-system.”  In this session we will discuss how the changes coming in SharePoint 2010 will affect your platform deployment, administration, and performance optimization strategies.  We will outline approaches for efficient management of both application lifecycles and multi-farm, geographically-dispersed environments, review best practices for optimizing storage resources, and conclude with an evaluation of options for consolidating and exposing your legacy content in the SharePoint 2010 platform

Tony Lanni

Session Speaker

Tony is the Vice President of Corporate Development and Marketing 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 deploym ... Read More

Architecture: BLOBs...Rid your SharePoint 2010 Content Databases of these Toxic Assets

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Everybody knows that SharePoint natively stores content (i.e. Office documents, PDFs, etc.) in SQL Server.  Everybody also knows that SQL Server databases typically reside on some of the most expensive disk in an organization’s storage infrastructure.  These realities, along with planning and manageability challenges, prevent a majority of companies from storing large volumes of content in SharePoint, in turn preventing them from realizing the full value of their SharePoint investments.  
  • They have to think twice before moving the content from all their file-shares to SharePoint.  
  • That the Lotus Notes-to-SharePoint migration will have to wait.
  • Cannot consider migrating large-volumes of content from their existing content management platform into SharePoint.
This session will explore SharePoint 2010 and SQL approaches/technologies that can be leveraged to move SharePoint content to less expensive storage tiers including Cloud platforms like Windows Azure, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud-FS and others.  Business benefits, cost savings, and ROI will be discussed as well as a live-demonstration of relocating SharePoint content to Cloud platforms.

Rob D’Oria

Session Speaker

With over 20 years of experience within the Information Technology field, Rob has architected, developed, and implemented enterprise content management (ECM) solutions for some of the largest companies in the world. For 7+ years he has leveraged that experience to build solutions on SharePoint. He also designed/architected StoragePoint, which rece ... Read More

End User: SharePoint 2010 Workflow Visio and SharePoint Designer Overview

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SharePoint 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 session you see 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.

Michael Lotter

Session Speaker

Michael Lotter, MCTS, is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for B&R Business Solutions, and travels throughout the United States implementing SharePoint and InfoPath-based solutions. He is an active speaker at East Coast Code Camps and user group meetings, and is a co-author on O’Reilly’s SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide. You can also follo ... Read More

Architecture: The "Humanizing" of 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 J. Swider

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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

Special Interest: At the Movies with PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint

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Peter Serzo

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Peter Serzo (MCSD.Net, MCTS) is a speaker, published author, a founder of the Southeastern SharePoint group, and consults for Trillium Teamologies Inc. as a SharePoint Technical Architect. Peter has been in the IT industry for 20 years, starting with EDS and has owned a consulting business. He has extensive experience with SharePoint implementing ... Read More

Development: What’s New for Developers in SharePoint 2010

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SharePoint 2010 offers developers a unique and well deserved set of tools to aid in the development of SharePoint 2010 solutions. In this session we’ll cover improvements in the UI and the toolsets themselves, from PowerShell as a powerful scripting interface to the API, the Developer Dashboard, the SharePoint Toolkit in Visual Studio 2010, and more.

Geoff Varosky

Session Speaker

Geoff Varosky (MCP, MCTS) is a Senior Solutions Developer for Grace-Hunt, LLC, a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint and Dynamics Solutions based out of Hudson, MA. He has been architecting developing web based applications for over a decade, and has been working with SharePoint since 2004. ... Read More

Special Interest: How To Effectively Utilize MS Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010

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Microsoft Project is a project management tool widely used by project managers today. Its' ability to support project managers to define a schedule, assign resources to tasks and track project status has been instrumental in contributing to project success. However, it can be a challenge for a project manager to share project information and collaborate with the project team with Microsoft Project alone. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can complement Microsoft Project 2010 and address this gap.
In this interactive presentation, you will learn how to:
- Effectively create a Microsoft Project Plan
- Create a SharePoint-based Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- Integrate Microsoft Project information with SharePoint
- Empower a project team to collaboratively share relevant information
- Build a project management dashboard in SharePoint

Dux Raymond Sy

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With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux (you're right, it's pronounced as "ducks") has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief ... Read More

Development: SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions

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With a lot new features included in SharePoint 2010, it has and will become very easy for the developers to design, develop compelling and robust applications and deploy them safely using the new Sandboxed Solutions. The speaker would speak on why we need Sandboxed Solutions; cover Sandbox Solution Building, Deployment, Debugging, Monitoring and various other stages.

Srini Sistla

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Srini is Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist with over 10 years of experience designing and implementing IT solutions on a variety of platforms, including SharePoint Services, SharePoint Server 2007 and now evaluating SharePoint 2010 beta. He works in many areas within SharePoint; however, his area of expertise includes SharePoint Features, ... Read More

End User: Enhancing the SharePoint Interface with jQuery Solutions

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jQuery is an extremely powerful scripting library for any serious client-side developer of SharePoint.  Within the past year, it has become the de facto standard for many SharePoint interface developers because of its ability to apply non-destructive solutions to SharePoint pages. Client-side developers such as Christophe Humbert, Paul Grenier, Peter Allen and Jan Tielens have provided the community with numerous jQuery solutions to common interface enhancements that would normally have to be done through access to the server.
In this presentation, Enhancing the SharePoint Interface with jQuery Solutions, Mark Miller will examine free cut-and-paste jQuery scripts from the various jQuery solutions provided by the authors of EndUserSharePoint.com. He will cover how to create a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center and the advantage of having scripting resources reside within SharePoint. The jQuery solutions presented will include web parts that:

  • Manage a calendar interface to take advantage of the entire browser window
  • Expose information across multiple site collections through LyteBox
  • Display deep metadata of objects exposed in a web part without drilling into a list or library
  • Dynamically read list data to expose charts, graphs and colored analysis dashboards

This presentation will give you ideas and methods for creating interfaces in SharePoint 2007 and 2010 that not only look good, but provide key functionality enhancements for your site’s End Users.

Mark Miller

Session Speaker

Mark Miller is Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com. He is a dedicated evangelist for the Information Workers, Site Managers and Site Collection Administrators of SharePoint. He is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturday events, national conferences and online webcasts. During SharePoint Conference 2009, Mark coordinated 30 live bloggers, ... Read More

Special Interest: SharePoint Designer & Managed MetaData Services

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There has been a bitter sweet relationship with Designers and SharePoint Designer, or how I will always remember it, FrontPage, for some years. But what can you expect from the new version. How do we manage pages, content types, site columns, workflow, data sources, lists, permissions, and sites with the new SP2010? How can administrators control access to it? That’s just designer though, what about the Managed MetaData Application Service and how does it affect me? By learning its strengths and weaknesses you can make the informed decision about when it should or should not be used.

Adam Macaulay

Session 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 More

Administration: Configuring SharePoint 2010 Test Labs with HyperV

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This session with give some high level information needed for the basic understanding of HyperV Lab creations.  This will also include numerous demos where the viewer will be walked through each phase of a lab buildout.

Bob Fox

Session Speaker

Bob Fox has been working as an IT Professional since the mid 90’s. During that time he has spent a great deal of time working as a Systems Administrator with a focus on various Microsoft Technologies. For the past 7 years Bob's primary focus has been Microsoft SharePoint Services. He specializes in Architecture, Deployment, Portal and Site Customi ... Read More

Development: Entities & Me, the BCS

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You will be introduced to the BCS and will learn how to leverage technologies such as SharePoint Designer 2010 to create entities and leverage them within the SharePoint 2010 interfaces. You will learn what connection mechanisms you have to the BCS Entity and how to leverage them within Office Clients and other SharePoint containers.  85% of what you experience will not involve Visual Studio while the remaining 15% will.

Adam Macaulay

Session 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 More

Architecture: Managed Metadata Drill Down

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A discussion of SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata including a look at developing with the new Taxonomy API.

Stephen Cawood

Session Speaker

Stephen Cawood is a former Microsoft Program Manager on the SharePoint and MCMS teams. Stephen has written seven books and is currently working on two about SharePoint 2010. Stephen lives in Halifax, Canada with his wife Christa. ... Read More