The existence of a governance plan is one of the single biggest success factors when companies deploy SharePoint. If you do not have a governance plan or know how to create one, then this session is critical for you to attend. If you already have a governance plan, this session will help reinforce your plan as well as give you new ideas on how to govern SharePoint. Either way, you will learn what a governance plan is, what needs to be in it and how to keep it up to date.
Audience: All
Level: 100 Brad FreelsSession Speaker Brad is an 11 year veteran of Microsoft covering Enterprise accounts in Texas. During his time at Microsoft, he has helped customers with database solutions, development solutions and business process automation solutions. Over the last 6 years, he has primarily helped customers with collaboration solutions leveraging SharePoint and Of
... Read MoreThe newest SharePoint is designed to help everyone in your organization share content and ideas, organize teams and projects, and discover connections to get work done. Come see the latest and greatest improvements and what it can do for you! Brad FreelsSession SpeakerBrad is an 11 year veteran of Microsoft covering Enterprise accounts in Texas. During his time at Microsoft, he has helped customers with database solutions, development solutions and business process automation solutions. Over the last 6 years, he has primarily helped customers with collaboration solutions leveraging SharePoint and Of
... Read MoreIn this session we will discuss the overview of BCS and dive into the topics surrounding the connectivity to external data sources using SharePoint Designer 2010. We will see a Demo that explains how to build custom solutions using the out-of-the-box Business Data WebParts for the External Data.
Audience: ITPro, Development
Level: 200 Gopi KondamedaSession Speaker Gopi Kondameda is a SharePoint Architect, developer and trainer with more than fifteen years of experience implementing solutions for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, as well as governmental organizations. He has been involved in a wide range of SharePoint Implementations and Migrations. Currently he is working as a
... Read MoreIn this session we will dive into the internal process in place at Rackspace that has been followed for their own implementation. We will discuss everything from project goals to end user adoption and training, of course throwing in a little governance along the way. You wont want to miss out on hearing first hand how Rackspace drank their own beer and implemented SharePoint for internal use.
Audience: Business Stakeholders
Level: 100 Jennifer MasonSession Speaker Jennifer Mason has dedicated the last seven years to working with SharePoint. She started out as an intern focused on SharePoint and eventually began working as a full-time SharePoint consultant. She is currently working as a Senior SharePoint Consultant with the team at SharePoint 911. Her focus has been on strategy, project planning, proje
... Read MoreIn this session, I discuss and demonstrate how you can use SharePoint 2010 Web Templates and PowerShell scripts to give your team-based SharePoint development process a much needed productivity boost. Using these techniques, you enable your team to quickly test and review their custom components against your complete SharePoint solution while simultaneously eliminating inconsistencies often created by manual configurations.
By the end of this session, you will have learned:
• How SharePoint web templates can be used to provision customized SharePoint sites
• How to leverage PowerShell scripts to automate your custom site build and feature deployments
• The key benefits of this approach for team-based SharePoint development
So stop wasting time and come see how you can help make your SharePoint team development better, faster, and stronger!
Audience: SharePoint solutions architects, technical team leads, and lead developers
Level: 300 Richard CalderonSession Speaker Richard Calderon is a Principal Consultant and SharePoint Solutions Architect with Catapult Systems and has developed web applications with SharePoint products and technologies since 2003. Richard currently specializes in designing and implementing solutions for secure intranet and extranet portals as well as large-scale public-facing internet sit
... Read MoreThe Content Search web part is a long awaited piece of functionality that is available right out of the box in SharePoint 2013. Leveraging this web part you can accomplish cross site queries and not run into the constraints found in previous approaches, plus you can use jQuery and HTML to style the results. Learn how you can start to look at the ways that this will be a great fit and where this may not be a fit based on requirements.
Audience: IT Pro, Development
Level: 200
Kyle DavisSession Speaker Kyle Davis is a Solutions Architect for Catapult Systems, a National Systems Integrator, Gold Partner, and winner of numerous Microsoft Worldwide and National Partner awards. Kyle has been involved in the architectural design, development, and management of many enterprise SharePoint Intranet, Extranet, and Internet implementations. Kyle also hold
... Read MoreHave you decided to move SharePoint into the cloud? We take a look at the mechanics not the sales speak of why having SharePoint in the cloud. We will take a look at what the cloud means to you. Address common questions about the using SharePoint in the cloud and any pitfalls. This gives you a good base of information about your decision and implementing SharePoint into the cloud.
Audience: IT Pro
Level: 200 Javier BarreraSession Speaker Javier Barrera is a 10-year IT veteran. He is now a SharePoint Engineer for Rackspace Hosting Company, where he designs, implements, and troubleshoots SharePoint services for intranet or extranet environments. His primary focus is the infrastructure of numerous SharePoint SharePoint farms ranging in size from single-server to multi-farm multi-serv
... Read MoreSit in on a condensed version of the Train-the-Trainer course Tiffany delivers to her clients. We'll talk about how to define training objectives and audiences by business process, how much content to include in a training course and the importance of scripting the presenter and setting up a practice session before going live with the content. Learn how to make SharePoint seem easy and relevant to your audience and leave them excited about the technology and ready to learn more about what SharePoint can do to enhance their business processes. We'll talk about how long it takes to produce different types of training content, how long courses should be, and what questions to ask on your evaluation to get the metrics you need to report success to your boss.
By the end of the session, you will know how to analyze your audience, design a training plan, and develop scenario-based training modules that meet the needs of your users. Move away from out of the box curriculum that doesn’t focus on corporate or departmental deliverables and into process-driven learning that demonstrates how the tools in SharePoint can improve the way people work. The result is shorter class times, higher retention rates, and immediate adoption of SharePoint. This is a great intro for Project Managers to understand why it's so important for training to be developed in parallel with custom development.
Audience: Information Worker
Level: 100 Tiffany SongvilaySession Speaker A former stand-up comedian, Tiffany has spent the past 10 years as a business analyst and solutions architect (8 of those specific to SharePoint). She does everything in the custom development lifecycle except the development. Her current passions include gamifying governance, designing audience-targeted training plans that include intuitive produ
... Read MoreThinking about upgrading to SharePoint 2013 and have a bunch of Workflows that will be coming into the environment? Come to this session to learn about what’s changing and how that affects what you have now.
This will be a well-rounded session as we’ll discuss architectural changes as well as development. We’ll look at what it takes to install and configure as well as the changes to development with some examples. So, regardless of your role, this will be an informative session to add to your SharePoint 2013 knowledge base!
Audience: Development
Level: 200 Sam LarkoSession Speaker Sam Larko has been working with SharePoint for six years and across the last three versions. While his experience is primarily in development, Sam has become more involved in administration and architecture over the last three years. In addition to SharePoint, he has a strong desire to become involved in mobile development, especially Android and
... Read MoreWhen 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.
Audience: IT Pro
Level: 300 Clint RichardsonSession 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 MoreLessons for the accidental SharePoint administrator. In many environments, there's one lucky winner that becomes the SharePoint Administrator or keeper of the system (or even a site collection). This session provides some good advice for beginning Administrators seeking to gain a better understanding on how to effectively implement SharePoint in their environment.
Audience: IT Pro, Information Worker, Administrator
Level: 100 Victor ChataboonSession Speaker A SharePoint MCTS with over 15 years of IT Enterprise experience with backgrounds in support, training, administration and architecture in various business industries. IT industry experiences include end user, support, training, administration and infrastructure architecture and implementation. One of the longest tenures was working at a large reg
... Read MoreSuccessful branding projects start out with a detailed plan to determine the user needs from a content perspective and the branding needs. By learning what can be created for branding SharePoint Server 2010, and evaluating the components (master pages, CSS, page layouts, themes) you can create a project map. In this session I will also cover what the initial considerations needed to allow for a phased approach to implementation and leave room for future growth.
Audience: Special Topic
Level: 200 Cathy DewSession Speaker Cathy Dew (MCTS) is a Senior Engineer at Planet Technologies, Graphic Designer and SharePoint MVP based out of Huntsville, Alabama. She focuses primarily on branding and user experience and how it relates to the SharePoint platform. However she also works with SharePoint from a general End User and Business Analyst perspective as well, defin
... Read MoreMore and more companies are looking to SharePoint as their solution for managing their electronic records. Justin Ong will talk about one company in particular that was able to save $1.9 million on a single discovery case, just three months after the solution went live.
This session will include:
*an introduction to key records management concepts and terms
*a discussion of a SharePoint RM design methodology
*a look at how this company was able to deliver a solution that both facilitated user adoption and reduced their legal liability
*a sneak peak at new records management features in SharePoint 2013
Audience: Information Worker/Special Topic
Level: 100 Justin OngSession Speaker Justin Ong is a Senior Lead Consultant and a SharePoint Practice Lead at Catapult Systems in Austin, TX. Justin has extensive experience in designing and implementing records management solutions in SharePoint and has presented on this topic at many other events, including SharePoint Saturday Austin, the InnoTech Conference, and the Association of
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Audience: Special Topic
Level: 100 Philip E. HelselSession Speaker Philip Helsel has a passion for learning and teaching. He works at Microsoft Learning as a Senior Courseware and Product Planner focusing on Windows Server 2012, Windows Virtualization solutions, and Windows 8. Before his role as a Planner he taught courses on FAST Search for SharePoint, SharePoint Search, Fast Search for Internet Sites, and
... Read MoreWith the new version of Project Server, the integration between SharePoint and Project Server has grown even tighter both on premises and in the cloud-based solution. Attend this session to get an introduction to both the benefits – and the challenges – of deploying and using the next version of Microsoft Project Server.
Audience: Special Topic
Level: 100 Andrew LavinskySession Speaker Andrew Lavinsky is a manager with the UMT Consulting Group. Based in Houston, TX and primarily serving clients in the US South Central District, he focuses on enabling organizational performance improvement.For his contributions to the Microsoft Project community, Andrew was awarded the Microsoft MVP designation in July 2010.
... Read MoreThis session is intended for Business stakeholders and SharePoint administrators.
Do your users complain about the usability of your SharePoint? Do you suffer from site proliferation? Rights management issues? Content inaccuracy and staleness? Can you easily tell who owns the content of a particular site or list? Do you have rogue SharePoint servers in your environment? Is your SharePoint out of control?
Then you might benefit from SharePoint Group Therapy.
At the very least, this discussion-format session will give you a free hour of group therapy, as you will have a chance to vent about your (SharePoint) problems in a roomful of sympathetic listeners.
I’ll play therapist and help move participants past their trauma and regain a sense of control through Governance.
This session is structured as a workshop, with attendees as participants interacting with each other in what should be a lively, opinionated discussion of what SharePoint Governance should be, and how it should work.
Since the goal of therapy is to actually make things better, you should bring your questions about SharePoint Governance and aligning your business objectives with SharePoint, and I’ll try to help you get answers.
What problems are you having in your current environment?
What fears do you have about implementing governance?
What fears do you have about implementing SharePoint?
Participants should be prepared to share personal experiences with SharePoint governance and its absence. We’ll talk about roles and responsibilities, stakeholder involvement, and fitting your organizational culture. We’ll also talk about changing your organizational culture using both carrots and sticks – training, enforcement and business alignment.
Business alignment can be seen as the marriage of IT and business objectives. Every marriage has its rocky moments, and sometimes a therapist is needed to resolve those issues. Perhaps your marriage could benefit from a little SharePoint Group Therapy?
Audience: IT Pro, Information Worker, Business Stakeholders
Level: 200 Jim AdcockSession Speaker Jim Adcock makes a living as a SharePoint Consultant in Austin Texas, and makes a difference as Vice President of Launch Pad Job Club. While he has done a little of everything from the OS to the UI, his favorite part of SharePoint is working with business users to define business processes and create composite applications to automate them.H
... Read MoreAdministering SharePoint is migrating to PowerShell. Are you ready? If you work with SharePoint and you’re not using PowerShell all day every day, follow some of these quick and easy tips to help make that a reality. Each tip is targeted to your style to get you moving quickly on the path to PowerShell mastery.
Audience: IT Pro (admin/config)
Level: 200 Stephan SamuelSession Speaker Stephan Samuel is a SharePoint developer and Senior Consultant with Catapult Systems. He has been a technologist and expert on cross-system integration, working on many platforms for 16 years, before focusing on SharePoint and related Microsoft technologies. In his off time, he is an avid triathlete and chef, as well as an aspiring amateur boxer.
... Read MoreUsing SharePoint master page in HTML5 while creating better structure for your content. And yes, everyone will still be able to access your site! Includes examples for SharePoint 2010 and 2013.
Audience: Development
Level: 200 Dustin MillerSession Speaker Dustin is a geek and isn’t afraid to show it. Want to learn how to hack SharePoint to pieces and make it do things you never thought it could do? Maybe you just want to know how things work under the hood. Either way, Dustin’s the kind of instructor who loves to tinker, and share his experiences with his students. He’s been presenting at SharePoin
... Read MoreAdditional to CMDLets there are several avenues for working with data in SharePoint. This presentation will discuss these avenues and discuss some practical examples of each using PowerShell. The examples will culminate in a demonstration of how the different examples can be used together to create an XML blueprint of an existing SharePoint Farm.
Audience: IT Pro
Level: 200 Corey BurkeSession Speaker Corey has been in the professional IT Industry for more than 15 years working with large scale enterprise network configurations. He has worked with SharePoint for many of those years and has been focused solely on SharePoint for the last 4 years. He is an avid PowerShell fan and promoter.
... Read MoreSearch is everywhere in SharePoint now so it is important to understand how it has changed. In SharePoint 2013 Preview, Search was essentially rewritten from the ground up. We'll cover how the topology has changed in search as well as new concepts such as result sources, entity extractions, and result types. This demo-packed session will cover everything you need to know about search in SharePoint 2013. We'll also cover new ways that developers can work with search using the new REST API. If you are interested in everything that is new in search for SharePoint 2013 Preview, this session is for you.
Audience: Special Topic
Level: 100 Corey RothSession Speaker Corey Roth is an applications architect at Infusion Development specializing in SharePoint solutions in the Oil & Gas Industry. Corey is a two-time recipient of theMicrosoft MVP award in SharePoint Server. When it comes to SharePoint, he specializes in ECM, Enterprise Search, and Business Connectivity Services. As an active m
... Read MoreIn this session we’ll focus on creating a Single Page Application for SharePoint using JavaScript libraries like Knockout.js. Learn how to create stunning end user experiences and overcome possible deployment challenges or restrictions in your SharePoint environment. We will cover the basics of templating and data access while creating a sample SPA from start to finish.
Audience: Developer
Level: 300-400 Phil JirsaSession Speaker Phil Jirsa is a Senior SharePoint Consultant at Rackspace Hosting. He has been developing web applications since 2001. Phil has been a SharePoint consultant and developer since 2007. In his spare time, Phil is an avid water skier and can be found enjoying the many lakes of Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin.
... Read MoreJonathan MastSession Speaker Jonathan has been working with Microsoft based technologies for over 10 years and has been developing against SharePoint since v2 of the product was released. He especially enjoys exploring the composite nature of the SharePoint platform, asking questions like: “How far can we take the platform without customization and development?” and then foll
... Read MoreYou have SharePoint installed and you have convinced everyone to store everything in it in the company. The problem is that now everyone seems to have trouble finding things. It is almost as bad as the old file shares on the network. This isn’t how SharePoint was supposed to make things better. You have heard that SharePoint has mystical powers to tag content and you have even added columns to some of your document libraries, but there is so much content that you are worried about how to tag it all.
This is where Taxonomy comes to the rescue. The art of classification is used everywhere in our lives, but now you can harness the power of SharePoint to leverage Taxonomy to make your information more findable, and to make your end users much happier. Come and see how to leverage the powers of SharePoint to tag content with pertinent information, use Content Types to organize similar content across multiple locations, use the Managed Metadata features to enhance your tagging with hierarchical data, and then see how it can be tied all together for the end users.
Level: 200 David C. BroussardSession Speaker David Broussard is the Corporate Practice Lead for SharePoint at Catapult Systems. He has been working with SharePoint for over a decade now and focuses primarily on architecting solutions for businesses.
... Read MoreHow will SharePoint 2013 allow organizations to collaborate and share knowledge with clients and partners? SharePoint empowers organization to build extranet sites and partner portals inexpensively and securely. Learn about the Product Catalog site template and how you can to use it. Learn about the new improvements in SharePoint 2013 regarding extranets. Learn how SharePoint 2013 can help your organization open its doors to its clients and partners securely. Brian Culver (MCM)Session Speaker Brian Culver is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions in Houston, Texas. Brian is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in SharePoint 2007 and a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD). He has worked in the Information Technology industry for since 1998 and he has been working with SharePoint since 2005.&nb
... Read MoreReview of SharePoint farms and how to craft the farm architecture that will meet your needs. Review of basic farms along with options for HA, DR, and how to move towards the cloud.
Audience: IT PRO
Level: 200 David C. BroussardSession SpeakerDavid Broussard is the Corporate Practice Lead for SharePoint at Catapult Systems. He has been working with SharePoint for over a decade now and focuses primarily on architecting solutions for businesses.
... Read MoreIn this session we will look at some basic out of the box ways to create powerful dashboards for managing teams and projects. Our dashboards will be created using multiple connected web parts all configured from the browser. This session will give you a good overview of lists, views, web part pages and web part connections. This is a great session for those just getting started with SharePoint who want to push the limits of out of the box configuration.
Audience: Developer
Level: 100 Jennifer MasonSession SpeakerJennifer Mason has dedicated the last seven years to working with SharePoint. She started out as an intern focused on SharePoint and eventually began working as a full-time SharePoint consultant. She is currently working as a Senior SharePoint Consultant with the team at SharePoint 911. Her focus has been on strategy, project planning, proje
... Read MoreJoin SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies for the 3rd ‘SharePoint Saturday’ San Antonio event, to be held on Saturday, October 6th, 2012. SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals, Microsoft Certified Masters & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturday is free, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint! |
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