SharePoint Saturday Sacramento is on June 18th, 2011 at the Folsom Lake Community College Regional Performing Arts Center from 8:30 to 5:30 pm.

There will be 5 primary content tracks:

  • SharePoint 101
  • Business User
  • Developer/Architect
  • Administrator
  • PM/Analyst

Session Slides are now available!

Click on the Presentation Titles to view slides from our speakers.

Time Presentation Title Presenter Category
8:30 - 9:10   WELCOME / Keynote
9:15 - 10:25 Building the Perfect SharePoint 2010 Farm: Real World Best Practices from the Field
Michael Noel Developer/Architect
Architecting Records Management in SharePoint 2010
Zlatan Dzinic Business User
SharePoint Fundamentals
Greg Frick Sharepoint 101
SQL Reporting Services and SharePoint, the Rght Way Maarten Sundman Administrator
Managing for Results: Applying Performance Management Practices and Technologies to Deliver Better Outcomes for Citizens Dave Healey PM/Analyst
10:40 - 11:50 Web Parts and SP Metal (LINQ to SharePoint)
Robert Freeman Developer/Architect
SharePoint 2010 Workflows Roy Higgs Business User
What is SharePoint and What Does It Mean to You? Nedra Allmond Sharepoint 101
Effective SharePoint Scalability and Management: to Blob or Not to Blob, That’s the Question Garth Luke Administrator
Project Management Using SharePoint 2010 Greg Kiefer PM/Analyst
12:50 - 2:00 Customizing My Sites Michael Doyle Developer/Architect
SharePoint’s next Billion Dollar Market – Understanding How SharePoint and Paper Work Together  Jeff Shuey Business User
SharePoint Basics Talia Israel Sharepoint 101
Be a Better Person with Powershell Driven Installs Chris Schwab Administrator
Mastering SharePoint Migration Planning Christian Buckley PM/Analyst
2:15 - 3:25 SharePoint Development and the Cloud Tzvika Zitzman Developer/Architect
Presenting Business Intelligence for SharePoint 2010 Ivan Sanders Business User
Which SharePoint Search is Right for You? Miles Kehoe Sharepoint 101
Fitting SharePoint into an IT Operations Model Mayank Malik Administrator
SharePoint Street Smart- Delivering Content to Mobile Devices and Tablets Kenneth Lo PM/Analyst
3:40 - 4:50 Embracing Citizen 2.0: Social Media, Self-service Enablement and Policy Compliance Andy Hopkins Developer/Architect
Metadata: Simple to Sublime Andy Coyle Business User
Visualizing Data with Visio Services John Palmer Sharepoint 101
Customizing Search Refiners in SharePoint 2010 Josh Noble Administrator
SharePoint Natural Disasters “Notes from the Field” AdamWoodruff PM/Analyst

Developer/Architect: Building the Perfect SharePoint 2010 Farm: Real World Best Practices from the Field

Comments: 1053
SharePoint 2010 has many new features such as FAST Search capabilities which can have a significant effect on how an environment is architected and the popularity of server virtualization have created new design options for administrators. Here we provide for physical & virtual arch guidelines & configuration settings for 2010 farms. View deployment models for environments of multiple size. Access specific design criteria for sizing a farm and providing for high availability for all components. Learn how to build the "perfect" high performance and scalable 2010 environment that will stand the test of time.

Michael Noel

Session Speaker

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

Business User: Architecting Records Management in SharePoint 2010

Comments: 5
Different implementations, organizational business processes, legacy systems and logical architectures dictate different methods in Records Management processes in SharePoint 2010. Can anything be declared as a record and what constitutes a record? This session will cover most common cases as well as best practices in addressing your current organizational architectural scenarios.

ZlatanDzinic

Session Speaker

Zlatan's roles range from Senior Manager, Divisional Manager, Chief Architect/Lead Developer and an Enterprise Content Management/Enterprise Architecture Consultant, he also comes from an extensive Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Intelligence product background, working, providing solutions and managing projects for the Public Sec ... Read More

SharePoint 101: SharePoint Fundamentals

Comments: 39
In this fast paced and fun session Greg presents and demonstrates and demystifies the fundamental concepts of SharePoint lists and libraries that are required for using SharePoint effectively. If you are just getting started with SharePoint, this is the session for you.

Greg Frick

Session Speaker

Gregory Frick, MCT, MCITP, is a Principal Instructor at Quickstart-SQLSoft+ in Bellevue, WA. Over the last few years Greg has delivered over 3200 hours of SharePoint instruction to hundreds of students from hundreds of organizations. Greg has developed courseware for Quickstart-SQLSoft+ and customized courseware to meet specific client requirem ... Read More

Administrator: SQL Reporting Services and SharePoint, the Rght Way

Comments: 49
A dive into the plusses and minuses of SharePoint Integrated mode when using SSRS. Giving alternative methods of implementing SSRS with SharePoint that both cost less, and have lower server requirements vs. SharePoint Integrated mode.

Maarten Sundman

Session Speaker

Maarten has been bending SharePoint to his will since the beta of SharePoint 2007. Currently he helps clients to realize the potential latent in the platform. ... Read More

PM/Analyst: Managing for Results: Applying Performance Management Practices and Technologies to Deliver Better Outcomes for Citizens

Comments: 39
Government agencies are under intense budget and performance pressures and must ensure the optimal impact of all available resources. To be effective you must align program investments; measure outcomes; share best practices and engage with citizens to gather feedback. Learn how to apply results based management methods utilizing SharePoint and related Microsoft technologies to improve the performance of government, facilitate accountability and transparency and better engage with citizens.

Dave Healey

Session Speaker

Dave Healey is an innovative solution designer with a vision for technology in the enterprise. Twenty years delivering Enterprise Information Management solutions in large and complex organizations has informed his approach to design and implementation as an opportunity to drive change, foster innovation and strive for social impact. Dave is a pa ... Read More

PM/Analyst: Project Management Using SharePoint 2010

Comments: 10
Greg will provide attendees with a set of best practices to increase the probability of success of SharePoint implementation. He will also provide an overview of numerous SharePoint project sites used by his firm for client engagements. Finally, he will offer recommendations on how to ensure the implementation is not only a technical success, but also an organizational victory.

Greg Kiefer

Session Speaker

Greg Kiefer is a leading expert in application development and system integration. He has published numerous articles on application design, software development techniques, and project management. For over 20 years, he has directed a highly respected consulting firm that develops software applications and provides innovative solutions to meet t ... Read More

Administrator: Effective SharePoint Scalability and Management: to Blob or Not to Blob, That’s the Question

Comments: 29
In this session, we discuss challenges that remain when attempting to scale only using SharePoint’s native functionality. Afterward, we’ll share vital strategies and available solutions for ensuring seamless, centralized enterprise-wide management and efficient externalization of Binary Large Objects in order to free up valuable SQL Server space and subsequently improve SharePoint performance.

Garth Luke

Session Speaker

Garth Luke is AvePoint’s Vice President of Sales of and North American Alliances. With over 10 years experience in the technology sector, Garth has extensive knowledge of SQL programming, web development, and I.T. infrastructure management. Garth has helped accelerate delivery of AvePoint’s infrastructure management solutions to market and promot ... Read More

Business User: SharePoint 2010 Workflows

Comments: 325
See what’s new in SharePoint 2010 and workflow. In this session, you will receive an overview of workflow and Business Process Management and what this means with the new design tools for workflow in SharePoint 2010. See a how a workflow can be created with Visio 2010 and SharePoint designers from end to end.

Roy Higgs

Session Speaker

Roy is a Technical Specialist at K2 where his duties include conducting product demonstrations, leading Strategy Briefings, and the creation and display of Proof of Concepts. He resides in northern California and serves the West and Southwest regions. Roy has been in the IT industry for over 15 years. As a Solution Architect for ten years at a glo ... Read More

SharePoint 101: What is SharePoint and What Does It Mean to You?

Comments: 36
We hear a lot about SharePoint in the press, online, and possibly from our coworkers. However, quite often we do not know or understand SharePoint. This session will answer your questions whether you are new to SharePoint, are currently using SharePoint as an end-user, or may be thinking about using SharePoint in your business. The theme of the session is “what does SharePoint mean to me and my organization?” This session will go beyond the Microsoft formal definition of SharePoint and explain why this powerful platform may be useful to you.

Nedra Allmond

Session Speaker

Nedra Allmond has been working with SharePoint since 2006.  She is a MCTS whose background includes working with the Department of Defense, the aerospace and biotech industry, as well as non-profit organizations.  She has been described as a User Advocate.  Nedra presently is the SharePoint administrator at Deluxe Entertainment Serv ... Read More

Developer/Architect: Web Parts and SP Metal (LINQ to SharePoint)

Comments: 389
Learn the methods for developing web parts in visual studio 2010. We will go through web parts, visual web parts, linq to sharepoint (spmetal), modules, and deployment options.

Robert Freeman

Session Speaker

Robert Freeman is the Chief Technology Office for Kiefer Consulting. He has five years of experience as a SharePoint 2007-2010 Solutions Architect and Certified Configuration and Development Specialist. Robert has been developing Object Oriented, N-Tiered Enterprise Applications using VS.Net 2002 - 2010; ASP.Net; VB.Net; C#; and MS SQL Server for ... Read More

Developer/Architect: Customizing My Sites

Comments: 6
SharePoint 2010 introduces an array of new social components tied to My Sites. Learn how to customize and use My Sites to bring the power of social networking to your enterprise. My Sites require a wide variety of skills and knowledge to customize but the major hurdles tend to be political. Session will cover central administration aspects, branding, and coding concerns.

Michael Doyle

Session Speaker

Michael Doyle, MCTS, MCSD, MCSE Currently Michael is working as the SharePoint Architect for Waggener Edstrom, one of the leading PR companies with offices around the world. Michael has been working almost exclusively with SharePoint for the last seven years. He has been in the software arena professionally for the last 20 years and has worked for ... Read More

SharePoint 101: SharePoint Basics

Comments: 87
Basic rules and best bets of SharePoint applied to sites built by end users with minimal to no training. Learning a little about SharePoint will help you a lot in your plans for SharePoint as well as your everyday use of the tool. Make SharePoint work for you.

Talia Israel

Session Speaker

Talia works on projects for Kiefer and was instrumental in bringing The Collaboration Experience to Sacramento State University and Chico State University ... Read More

Business User: SharePoint’s next Billion Dollar Market – Understanding How SharePoint and Paper Work Together

Comments: 0
Helping Customers and Partners to have one version of the truth by managing paper based assets. Every company needs to deal with paper on some level – even those that claim to be paperless. The companies that handle their paper based assets the most effectively find that they can reduce their costs, improve their productivity and maintain their compliance efforts. Gartner says that 80% of all companies have SharePoint. Most don’t know SharePoint can handle paper very effectively. This session will explain how customers and partners can get the most out of their investments in SharePoint.

Jeff Shuey

Session Speaker

Jeff Shuey is a veteran in the Enterprise Content Management industry. Over the past 20 years he has worked with customers and partners to design, develop and deploy solutions around the world. Jeff is currently the Director of Business Development for the Kodak Document Imaging division. He has worked for Microsoft, FileNet, K2, Captaris, Open Te ... Read More

Administrator: Be a Better Person with Powershell Driven Installs

Comments: 1
Walk through setting up the SharePoint farm, managed accounts, web application, site collection, and many other tweaks along the way.

Chris Schwab

Session Speaker

If you’re ever faced with a particularly challenging SharePoint query, this is the man to turn to. Truly a SharePoint sponge, Chris spends most of his time soaking up the latest in the SharePoint community, tinkering around on his hosted SharePoint 2010 site and composing PowerShell scripts. A fan of Joel McHale and the lore of Marvel Comics, this ... Read More

PM/Analyst: Mastering SharePoint Migration Planning

Comments: 1620
We will walk through a five-phase migration methodology that supplements existing project management processes with best practices. We’ll examine tactical steps within the Envisioning, Discovery, Planning, Migration, and Optimization phases and guide you through this holistic approach. You will leave with a clear picture of the gaps within current planning efforts, and actionable steps to get back on track.

Christian Buckley

Session Speaker

Christian Buckley is Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, where he drives partner and community development. Christian previously worked at Microsoft as part of the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of BPOS), and led an engineering team in advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a re ... Read More

PM/Analyst: SharePoint Street Smart- Delivering Content to Mobile Devices and Tablets

Comments: 1054
With the new mobile features of SharePoint 2010, the line between working from your desk and working remotely has blurred significantly and is reaching a point of convergence. We will discuss the mega industry trends and viable SharePoint mobility strategies and will showcase features like Collaboration, Business Intelligence, and Business Process Mgmt, on mobile devices (smart phones & tablets).

Kenneth Lo

Session Speaker

Kenneth Lo (PMP, MCSD, MCTS) is a SharePoint Evangelist and entrepreneur with over 14 years of management consulting experience in all facets of systems development. His expertise includes SharePoint, Project Server, Business Process Management (BPM), and social media. Being a risk-averse person at heart, Kenneth spends his leisure time mountain b ... Read More

Administrator: Fitting SharePoint into an IT Operations Model

Comments: 222
In many organizations, IT’s role in SharePoint is primarily reactive. SharePoint farm is installed and just handed over to users without any operating model, governance and/or proper training. SharePoint being SharePoint, grows organically and takes deep roots within the Organization. Eventually, IT management realizes how essential SharePoint has become for their organization. Everyone agrees that they need to invest more in SharePoint infrastructure, services and support. But, where should we start? Should we just hire more people? Should we train our existing staff? How do we manage operating costs? What’s the chargeback model?

Mayank Malik

Session Speaker

Mayank Malik (MCITP) is a SharePoint Architect and Evangelist with over 10 years of experience in software development. His expertise includes SharePoint technology, products, design and architecture along with ASP.NET, IIS, SQL Server, Windows Server, and other core technologies upon which SharePoint server depends. ... Read More

Business User: Presenting Business Intelligence for SharePoint 2010

Comments: 76
Several new and enhanced features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 allow you to share, control, and reuse business information. This presentation provides an overview of the new and enhanced features, describes how to sue the features together to create Scorecards and Dashboards, using demos of each feature and includes extras that will help make you deployment easier to improve the development experience familiar for ASP.NET developers like easy deployment and debugging of your SharePoint applications and designers for building different types of SharePoint customizations

Ivan Sanders

Session Speaker

Ivan Sanders is an independent consultant with more than 15 years of broad-based hands-on experience with the design and development of mission-critical applications and innovative information management strategies in the enterprise deployment of Microsoft products, while delivering nothing but Microsoft SharePoint solutions since 2004. Ivan is ac ... Read More

SharePoint 101: Which SharePoint Search is Right for You?

Comments: 25
What repositories hold your data? Is there a security infrastructure? Do you have good metadata, or will you need to extract it from your documents? How skilled are your users? How will you know if it is working? In this session we’ll answer these questions and more, and provide some real-world scenarios that can help you and your customers make sense of the options to identify the kinds of environments where each of these engines makes the most sense.

Miles Kehoe

Session Speaker

Miles Kehoe has worked in enterprise search since starting work at Verity in 1989. In 1996, he co-founder New Ide Engineering, with the intent to be the “Switzerland of enterprise search consulting firms” by working with all major search vendors and open source search technologies. An author of Professional Microsoft Search (Wrox, 2010), he is act ... Read More

Developer/Architect: SharePoint Development and the Cloud

Comments: 0
How do you quickly set up a virtual development and test environment in the cloud, ensure secure access to applications, databases, and files, maintain control of your environment, and collaborate with team members and customers? Guillaume Vives will provide an overview of the different cloud models available today, and walk through a step-by-step guide in assessing which cloud is right for SharePoint development, testing, customer demos, and proofs of concept.

Developer/Architect: Embracing Citizen 2.0: Social Media, Self-service Enablement and Policy Compliance

Comments: 3
In this session, you will learn how SharePoint 2010 and related Microsoft technologies provision the online and engaged government. We’ll discuss enabling technologies such as blogs, wikis, activity feeds and investigate key considerations such as policy compliance, governance, security and integration with commercial services.

Andy Hopkins

Session Speaker

Andy Hopkins is a technologist with a passion and drive for learning new technologies and applying them in an innovative way to solve complex business problems for his customers.  As a 20 year veteran in the information management space, he has earned his pedigree working for and with large enterprise customers such as the Microsoft Corporati ... Read More

SharePoint 101: Visualizing Data with Visio Services

Comments: 0
A picture is worth a thousand words. Visio, in combination with SharePoint 2010’s Visio Services, is an extremely powerful tool to visually communicate large amounts of complex information. Using NO code, you will see how can use Visio to connect to your information, display it to non-Visio users, and connect it to other information on the same page.

John Palmer

Session Speaker

John is an IT consultant with over 25 years of industry experience. He first started using SharePoint 9 years ago, and has made it his primary focus for the last four. From his first job programming barcode printers, to his current one, validating SharePoint environments for use in a biotech company, John has been able to extract a wealth of exp ... Read More

Business User: Metadata: Simple to Sublime

Comments: 5
This session will address the “what”, “why” and “how” to use metadata. The following will be covered: • What is Metadata • Meta data in a library • Meta data as a site column • Site columns on a content type • The Term Store • Managed metadata in a Site columns • Putting it all together

Andy Coyle

Session Speaker

Andy Coyle was born in San Francisco the third of seven children. He graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz and landed a job at Electronic Data Systems programming main frame computers for small and large state governments. His career shifted in 1992 when he focused on integration points between smaller computer systems. Based in ... Read More

Administrator: Customizing Search Refiners in SharePoint 2010

Comments: 1101
This session focuses on how to customize the search refinement panel web part in SharePoint 2010. During this session, Josh demonstrates how to set the standard SharePoint 2010 refinement panel to analyze more items, expose numbered refiners, and add a new custom refinement category. The session is presented with Q/A forum approach and questions about designing customized search experiences in any version of SharePoint are highly encouraged.

Josh Noble

Session Speaker

Josh Noble has made a career on the front lines diagnosing business pains and alleviating them with technology. As a consultant with SurfRay Inc., Josh has worked with global clients such as the American Bar Association, Best Buy, Intel, the U.S Coast Guard, and Conoco Phillips to build solutions to business problems through expertly designed sea ... Read More

PM/Analyst: SharePoint Natural Disasters “Notes from the Field”

Comments: 3
From SharePoint 2003 through 2007 and now onto SharePoint 2010 we have observed a number of mistakes and missteps that are creating man made “Natural Disasters” in Administration, Development and Migrations. Learn from the mistakes of others to avoid Volcanic Eruptions, Avalanches and Tornadoes from ruining your environment, your day and possibly career.

AdamWoodruff

Session Speaker

Adam is the Quest Principal SharePoint Architect at Quest Software. His experience includes SharePoint, Directory Services, Messaging and Enterprise Architecture. With more than 15  years of experience creating solutions utilizing Microsoft systems and infrastructure, Adam is an expert resource in Windows, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Se ... Read More

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