TBD

Session Speaker:

TBD

Session Tract:

Architect

Session Level:

TBD

Session Time:

10:00 A.M

Session Description:

TBD

 

Session Info: Building Successful Solutions on SharePoint

Session Speaker:

Chris Kaveney

Session Tract:

Architect

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

11:00 A.M.

Session Description:

SharePoint is a great platform on which to build and deliver solutions.  The question, however, quickly becomes what to build, how to build it, and most importantly, how to ensure that what I build is successful.  In this presentation, we discuss the SharePoint “Solution Quadrant,” which addresses the many types of solutions you can build on SharePoint.  We explore how to build your solution, keeping in mind the concepts of modularity and reusability. And finally, we address end user adoption challenges and how to overcome these by providing the information people need right to their fingertips.  In short, how to get the most value out of your SharePoint investment!

 

Session Info: Overview of Business Connectivity Services for Developers

Session Speaker:

Kirk Evans

Session Tract:

Architect

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

12:30 P.M.

Session Description:

SharePoint 2010 introduces an important set of enhancements called Business Connectivity Services.  Formerly Business Data Catalog, BCS introduces new tooling and APIs to make it easy to work with external data.  This session will show developers how to get started with BCS.

 

Session Info: Taxonomy Management, Automatic Metadata Tagging & Auto Classification in SharePoint®

Session Speaker

Juan Celaya

Session Tract:

Architect

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

1:30 P.M.

Session Description:

The session reviews the solution that Microsoft is supporting to address the issues that exist in SharePoint® around Data Transparency, Security, Search and Privacy. The presentation is divided into Background, Problem, Solution and Approach and uses the work currently being done at the Army Records Management and Declassification Agency, and the US Air Force Medical Services as references. The method and technology used will be discussed from a SharePoint® perspective as well as its applicability outside of SharePoint®.

 

Session Info: Incorporating Information Management practices into your sites

Session Speaker

Dave Frette

Session Tract:

Architect

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

2:30 P.M.

Session Description:

Information Management is usually an afterthought to building out a SharePoint Farm. We’ll discuss some key IM principles, how they apply to SharePoint, and how your users will benefit from IM considerations before deploying your sites.

 

Session Info: Leveraging Visio Graphics Services within SharePoint 2010

Session Speaker:

Phil Wicklund

Session Tract:

Developer

Session Level:

300

Session Time:

10:00 A.M.

Session Description:

Come learn how to leverage Visio Graphics Services in your SharePoint 2010 sites! We’ll cover how to bring you Visio 2010 diagram to life, by tying them into backend data. Also, we’ll cover how to leverage a Visio diagram in your SharePoint designer workflows to present a compelling  workflow status. With that, we’ll create a new Visio 2010 workflow from scratch, and import that workflow into Designer.

 

Session Info: WCF REST for SharePoint Now and the Future

Session Speaker:

Rich Olivieri

Session Type:

Developer

Session Level:

300

Session Time:

11:00 A.M.

Session Description:

An overview and demo of a real world WCF REST service integrated with SharePoint followed with a walkthrough of the new REST API and Service Applications in SharePoint 2010.

 

Session Info: InfoPath Tips & Tricks

Session Speaker:

David Loomis

Session Type:

Developer

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

12:30 P.M.

Session Description:

A look at some useful tips that will make life with InfoPath and Forms Services easier.  From a developer who uses InfoPath in many different types of projects.  Audience participation will not only be encouraged, but required!

 

Session Info: Develop Custom Field Types in SharePoint

Session Speaker:

Travis Lingenfelder

Session Type:

Developer

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

1:30 P.M.

Session Description:

As you store your business information in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) you may encounter instances where important business data doesn’t conform to the field types included in WSS or situations where you want to further customize those general field types. Windows SharePoint Services enables you to enhance the capabilities of your list columns through the creation of custom field types including custom data validation, rendering and data-entry automation.

 

In this session learn how to develop custom field types that may better serve your application. We will cover ways to customize how an instance of a field can be configured through properties, controlling the rendering of the data stored in the field, creating a field to store custom data structures, implementing column level security, and using a custom asset picker dialog.

 

Session Info: Search Composites

Session Speaker:

Eric Russell

Session Type:

Developer

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

2:30 P.M.

Session Description:

This session will discuss how Microsoft is going to support no-code solutions called Composites through SharePoint Designer 2010.  The session will demonstrate how to create an external content type using Business Connectivity Services and then surface those results in Search without using code.  For those who like code, the session will also highlight the developer improvements that will make SharePoint development easier. 

 

TBD

Session Speaker:

TBD

Session Type:

End User/Designer

Session Level:

TBD

Session Time:

10:00 A.M.

Session Description:

TBD

 

Session Info: Project Team User Adoption

Session Speaker:

Tiffany Songvilay

Session Type:

End User/Designer

Session Level:

100

Session Time:

11:00 A.M.

Session Description:

An overview for IT people on the change management of people. This session does NOT cover ITIL or systems change but dives into user adoption concepts that developers, architects and project managers need to consider as they design and deploy SharePoint. We’ll compare rational, social and fear-based strategies and give you tips on preparing your team to respond to user backlash. You’ll learn how to infuse a few key public relations skills into your technical team that will make a big difference in how users perceive the tool. You’ll leave this session with the framework of a communications plan that you can take back and implement in your organization. Whether you are in the planning phase or have already deployed SharePoint, this session will give you the business perspective you need to help you focus on user adoption.

 

Session Info: Branding in SharePoint 2010

Session Speaker:

Heather Solomon (MVP)

Session Type:

End User/Designer

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

12:30 P.M.

Session Description:

SharePoint 2010 ushers many aspects of SharePoint into today's hip new trends. In this session Heather Solomon will cover the key changes with SharePoint 2010 master pages, themes, CSS and overall site design.   Several out of the box master pages will be demoed as well as a complete sample customization... yes you can still make SharePoint look anything like SharePoint in 2010!

 

Session Info: SharePoint Designer 2010 – I didn’t know you could do that!

Session Speaker:

Dustin Miller (MVP)

Session Type:

End User/Designer

Session Level:

300

Session Time:

1:30 P.M.

Session Description:

SharePoint Designer 2010, come see some exciting new features, and all the great improvements to the number one SharePoint tool.

 

Session Info: SharePoint Deployment Planning: Information Architecture & User Adoption

Session Speaker:

Matt Passannante

Session Type:

End User/Designer

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

2:30 P.M.

Session Description:

In this non-technical session, you will learn how to maximize user adoption through proper information architecture planning.  Building the right SharePoint solution is important, but getting users to adopt the solution into their daily routine is critical to an implementation’s success. Real-world experience preaches that the practice of user adoption is often overlooked as a critical success factor in most SharePoint implementations. Proper adoption cannot be implied simply because a solution exists. This session will guide you through a step-by-step approach to accurately plan for departmental and team sites; allowing you to ensure maximum user adoption throughout your implementation.

 

Session Info: Best Practices Architecting, Deploying & Optimizing SharePoint 2010

Session Speaker:

Tom Lin

Session Type:

IT Professional

Session Level:

100

Session Time:

10:00 A.M.

Session Description:

Best Practices Architecting, Deploying & Optimizing SharePoint 2010

 

Session Info: SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

Session Speaker:

Jeff DeVerter

Session Type:

IT Professional

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

11:00 A.M.

Session Description:

Migration and upgrade options and best practices.

 

Session Info: What can I do with PowerShell?

Session Speaker:

Dave Cooper

Session Type:

IT Professional

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

12:30 P.M.

Session Description:

Windows PowerShell is built around the Microsoft .NET Framework and is the future of administration and automation for the Microsoft foundation.

This session is designed to help in understanding fundamentals of PowerShell and, the role it will play in the administration and automation of SharePoint for the administrator. With more than 500 proposed CmdLets, you should find what is needed to complete the task, if there is not a CmdLet for what you need; you can access the SharePoint API right from PowerShell.

 

Session Info: Understanding Service Applications

Session Speaker:

Rick Taylor

Session Type:

IT Professional

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

1:30 P.M.

Session Description:

The architecture for SharePoint has changed considerably.  Come to this session to see what the changes are and how to design your SharePoint environment to take advantage of the new services provided by SharePoint 2010

 

Session Info: I need a SharePoint Guy!

Session Speaker:

Phillip Wheat

Session Type:

IT Professional

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

2:30 P.M.

Session Description:

So you’re about to implement SharePoint.  Or upgrade SharePoint.  Or enable your latest competitive advantage on SharePoint.  So where do you start?  We all know about Software Requirements documents, project planning, acceptance testing, but what skills are you going to need?  Now many people?  Of what type?  In this session I’ll talk about the types of projects I’ve seen and the project team makes that have worked (and some that haven’t.) 

 

Session Info: SharePoint 2010 Overview

Session Speaker:

Brad Freels

Session Type:

Management/Social

Session Level:

100

Session Time:

10:00 A.M.

Session Description:

A comprehensive overview of all the new and exciting features and technical underlying changes in SharePoint 2010

 

Session Info: Global MySites

Session Speaker:

Michael Doyle

Session Type:

Management/Social

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

11:00 A.M.

Session Description:

This session will cover how to deploy My Sites globally and have them stay in synch. It will cover all the little details needed for your company to have a seamless people search without tying your local users to a my site on the other side of the world.

 

Session Info: Developing Social Applications for SharePoint 2010

Session Speaker:

Matt McDermott (MVP)

Session Type:

Management/Social

Session Level:

400

Session Time:

12:30 P.M.

Session Description:

This lecture focuses on the developer interfaces for the Social Computing API and Web services for SharePoint 2010. Social Computing with SharePoint involves creating people aware applications that take advantage of User Profiles, Social Data, and Personalization built into SharePoint. This session will demonstrate development techniques for:

·         Using SharePoint 2010 User Profiles

·         Working with the SharePoint User Profile and Social Data Web Services

·         Taking action on User Profile Changes 

·         Using Social Data in Custom Applications outside the firewall

 

Session Info: Taxonomy and Information Architecture

Session Speaker:

Fabian Williams

Session Type:

Management/Social

Session Level:

100

Session Time:

1:30 P.M.

Session Description:

Taxonomy represents the foundation upon which information architecture stands, we will investigate approaches and scenarios for a well-rounded Taxonomy and information architecture. 

 

Session Info: SharePoint 2010 and Records Compliance

Session Speaker:

Alex Holcombe

Session Type:

Management/Social

Session Level:

200

Session Time:

2:30 P.M.

Session Description:

In this session we will look at the new and updated features that allow for compliance across the SharePoint platform, including auditing, eDiscovery, record declaration, and content retention.