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 LotterSession 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" My session will provide an overview of the typical online SharePoint environment and how to successfully navigate the service provided, what types of customizations are generally allowed, managing expectations, and Service Level Agreements you should know before your organization moves to a “cloud”-based service.
The session will also outline some of the pros and cons of adopting a “Services + Software” strategy and we will review some of the differences that exist in the current Microsoft Online Services offering versus how a typical IT department would provide the same service. We will review security and other concerns that typically are addressed prior to adopting a hosted-service for large enterprises and federal/military organizations.
Finally, I will provide insights to some published cases studies related to Enterprise and Federal /Military deployments and direct feedback about the process from my first-hand experience."
Ken PriceSession Speaker Ken Price is a Senior SharePoint Consultant for RDA Corporation’s Charlotte SharePoint Delivery team, which builds custom Collaboration and Information Worker solutions for some of largest and well-known companies in the US. Ken has been employed by Fortune 50, large enterprises, Federal, State and Military organizations and has over 13 years of w
... Read MoreAn overview and walk through of the personalization features in SharePoint 2010 including the MySites, User Profiles, Wall, Notes, Tagging and the Newsfeed. Using these features will make it easier to find relevant information and increase team collaboration.
Mike Oryszak Session Speaker Mike Oryszak is a SharePoint Server MVP and Principal Consultant with Intellinet in the Portals and Collaboration practice specializing in SharePoint Architecture and Development. Mike has been living in the Raleigh-Durham, NC area since 1998 and has held a number of development and consulting positions servicing clients from a range of indu
... Read More"MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010’s Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is extremely powerful and enables the ability to create custom views of data queried from many sources that present data in one place. The CWQP is often an underrated and overlooked feature despite its powerful query and content refinement options. CQWP is such a powerful approach for managing and displaying content in SharePoint portals.
This session will demonstrate how to leverage SharePoint’s web content management (WCM) features to help empower non-IT staff to manage content along with aggregating content using the CQWP. The demonstration for this session will show both MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010."
Christina WheelerSession Speaker Based in Philadelphia, PA, Christina (MCTS: SharePoint) is a Senior Consultant for Summit 7 Systems and founder of CM Portal Solutions, LLC. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, Christina has a background in graphic design, web development, custom development, and has been working with SharePoint since May 2005. She helps Summit 7 cli
... Read MoreSharePoint Search is often one of the easiest areas to see immediate ROI from SharePoint. Although it works well out of the box, the key to unlocking the potential of SharePoint search starts with understanding how it works. In this session we’ll discuss the different factors that determine relevancy in SharePoint and how to use them to make sure users are finding the content they are looking for. This session is designed for all users who want to get a better understanding about SharePoint search and learn techniques that don’t require any code to create a better search strategy for their organization
John RossSession Speaker John has more than eight years of experience implementing solutions for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies as well as government organizations. He has worked with all project phases from analysis to implementation and has been involved with a wide range of SharePoint solutions that include public facing Internet s
... Read MoreMany companies, whether considering further investment in their SharePoint 2007 deployments or planning upgrades to SharePoint 2010, are reviewing their social media strategies. Many users are chomping at the bit to deploy and use the new, natively supported social media features in SharePoint 2010. But most administrators do not fully understand the taxonomy and data governance issues within SharePoint that are associated with these kinds of solutions. The intent of this presentation is to walk participants through the taxonomy and governance (and Intellectual Property) implications of the new social media capabilities within SharePoint 2007 and 2010, providing guidance, best practices, and working examples on how to track metadata, align these tools with their broader corporate content management strategies, and to maintain manageability of their SharePoint environment. I will demo both 2007 and 2010 environments, showing some light-weight integrations (IM conversations), capture the metadata, and show it within portal search results.
Christian BuckleySession Speaker Christian Buckley is a SharePoint Evangelist and Senior Product Manager for echoTechnology where he helps drive product strategy and marketing. Christian previously worked at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform (now part of BPOS), and led an engineering and PM team in advertising operations. Prior to
... Read MoreLearn about the advanced integration points between InfoPath and SharePoint including accessing user profiles, auto numbering file names and custom file attachment solutions.
Gary BlattSession SpeakerGary has been in the IT industry for over 25 years, working with a variety of platforms and technologies. For the last 14 years he has focused exclusively on the Microsoft suite of tools, executing both small and large scale projects equally. His extensive experience with SharePoint includes architecting, developing and implementing deployme
... Read MoreEnterprise Content Management for SharePoint
This is a developer focused session to demonstrate how to get your custom commands into the new ribbon tab and how to leverage the new modal dialog in either your ribbon controls or custom development. This session includes walking through a demonstration in Visual Studio and building a new ribbon button and associated modal dialog for performing our custom action. We will also look at other examples of how custom ribbon actions or modal dialogs can be implemented in your SharePoint customizations.
Cory PetersSession Speaker Cory Peters is a Solutions Architect at Eastridge Technology, a Microsoft Gold Partner focused on SharePoint. Cory started working with SharePoint by branding SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and has been architecting, developing, designing and branding SharePoint solutions ever since. Cory is based out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is a devel
... Read MoreIn this session we will take a look at some of the new Document Management features in SharePoint 2010 and see how they can help organizations meet some of their business needs. We will look at SharePoint 2010 features such as Managed Metadata, Document Sets and improved Taxonomy / Folksonomy, and of course there will be lots of live demos of SharePoint 2010.
Kajan MoorthySession Speaker As a Senior Consultant for Unbounded Solutions, Kajan Moorthy specializes in the areas of Document and Content Management, Collaboration and Portal solutions. Kajan has worked with many large organizations over the last 5 years designing and implementing the architecture for their enterprise wide portal, collaboration and content management system
... Read More"In this session, I’ll demonstrate how to use jQuery to enhance your site pages and forms, specifically with the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services, which is an open source solution available on Codeplex. We’ll cover how to add the library to your SharePoint site and some of the most popular functions, such as SPCascadeDropdowns and SPDisplayRelatedInfo.
Since I’m writing this well in advance, expect that we’ll cover the latest developments, tips, and tricks which I haven’t even thought of yet."
Marc D AndersonSession Speaker Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in Newton, MA. Sympraxis Consulting focuses on collaboration within the enterprise and how to best enable it through effective use of SharePoint.
... Read MoreThis session will provide an overview of the available SharePoint 2010 upgrade options and advanced migration scenarios. The presenters will address upgrade scenarios from WSSv2/WSSv3/SPS2003/MOSS2007 to SharePoint 2010 including granular and partial migrations, re-structuring of list, library and site content during migration and how Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager can enable organizations to take advantage of new site templates in SharePoint 2010.
Albert Fengan LiuSession Speaker Albert Liu joined Metalogix Software after graduating from Dalhousie University with a Master of Applied Computer Science degree. Albert worked for GE Healthcare Canada as an intern prior to graduation.
... Read MoreHaving challenges with SharePoint user adoption in your organization? In this presentation, Lee will discuss the 5 most common SharePoint Personality Types found within organizations and will outline a battle plan to address each of them. These tips apply both to SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Bring your business cards to enter the drawing for 2 free web parts from Amrein.com at the conclusion of Lee’s presentation.
Lee ReedSession Speaker Lee Reed is a Senior SharePoint Strategy Consultant with Northridge, which has offices in Atlanta and Raleigh. His work at Northridge includes consulting on SharePoint strategy, building impactful SharePoint solutions and creating custom SharePoint Training solutions for large companies throughout the US.
Lee is laser focused
... Read MoreThis session discusses your options with SharePoint 2010 for authenticating users. You will learn how to configure Windows Authentication along with SSL encryption and alternate access mappings. You will also learn about claims-based authentication and how to configure a claims-based Web application using Windows authentication, forms-based authentication and SAML-based tokens.
Ted PattisonSession SpeakerTed Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. Ted has frequently worked with Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group to research and author SharePoint training material for developers early in the product lifecycle
... Read MoreIn 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 VieiraSession SpeakerThere’s nothing that can stop the SharePoint wildfire that’s been spreading throughout the world. Everybody and their cousins anoint themselves as ‘SharePoint Gurus. The challenge is, how can you distinguish yourself as a true expert apart from ‘wannabe’s and posers’?
Make sure you don’t miss SharePoint Saturday Tampa’s Keynote address as Dux shares three effective ways to accelerate your SharePoint career. In this 30-minute session, Dux will provide concrete examples, tips and techniques to help you advance your SharePoint expertise and as a result, enhance your career and potentially be recognized as among the SharePoint though leaders
Today. Dux Raymond Sy, PMPSession Speaker 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 MoreWhile it was possible to build Silverlight applications in SharePoint 2007, Microsoft has made it much easier in SharePoint 2010. Many SharePoint developers previously avoided Silverlight for various reasons. This session will help those developers get up to speed on what’s involved in becoming a Silverlight developer, the tools used in building Silverlight applications, introduce some popular Silverlight development patterns such as MVVM, show you how to use the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model to interact with SharePoint 2010 sites and the various deployment options for your Silverlight applications.
Andrew ConnellSession SpeakerAndrew Connell is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training. Andrew is a six-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (2005-2010) for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft SharePoint Server. He has authored and contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years inc
... Read MoreWhen it comes to the look and feel of your SharePoint site, sometimes all you need is a little bit of custom style to move it to the next level. This session will introduce the topic of branding as it relates to SharePoint 2010 in a way that anyone can approach. We will look at some of the technologies involved in creating branding for SharePoint 2010, which will include creating a custom SharePoint 2010 theme using Microsoft Office, as well as making changes to master pages using SharePoint Designer 2010. Throughout the session, we will discuss new features that affect branding in SharePoint 2010, such as the Ribbon and wiki.
Randy DrisgillSession Speaker Randy has more than ten years experience developing, designing, and implementing Internet based software for clients ranging from small business to Fortune 500 companies. He has been working with SharePoint since the beta of SharePoint 2007 and has worked on several large-scale internal and public facing SharePoint implementations. In 2009, Randy
... Read MoreSharePoint 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.
Ryan Van OsdolSession SpeakerRyan works directly with Fortune 500 and other enterprise customers to develop and implement cost-effective SharePoint management, protection, and optimization strategies. Ryan’s experience with SharePoint dates back to the early days of WSS 2.0, when he worked as a technical consultant for product companies dedicated solely to SharePoint solution
... Read MoreBusiness Connectivity Services (BCS) is the SharePoint 2010 name for the Business Data Catalog (BDC). With SharePoint 2007, the BDC introduced functionality to surface content extracted from corporate database systems. Ben will guide us through the new features of the BCS. BCS with SharePoint 2010 builds upon this functionality and introduces three new things - the concept of External Content Types, development capabilities in SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio, and the ability to not only read but also write back to databases.
Ben NadlerSession SpeakerIn late 2002, Ben Nadler sat in a three-day training class on something called SharePoint, repeatedly saying to himself, “this class is useless, and I’m never going to use this stuff.” A month later, he found himself on a project to deliver on SharePoint 2001 for a client. Since then, he’s worked with 100s of clients to facilitate their adoption o
... Read MoreScott SingeltonSession SpeakerIn this session we are not only going to talk the talk but we are going to walk the walk. We will beginning with a quick overview of the methods and improvements for upgrade but that is just to cover the bases. After that is done we will upgrade a 2007 DB to 2010 using the db attach method. Once complete we will look at how Visual Upgrade works and then we will use Windows PowerShell to change the Visual Upgrade status. With that knowledge in hand we will show how to quickly script it all. Too much fun! Shane YoungSession Speaker Shane has over 13 years experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past five years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant and trainer. Shane has been recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint and is among an elit
... Read MoreAs the SharePoint End User Community has matured from beginning level Site Managers into full fledged SharePoint Power Users, a major piece of the puzzle in SharePoint usage has been overlooked: how can business processes be integrated into SharePoint?
It’s fine to be able to setup sites, build a little infrastructure for your team, and maybe throw in some Information Architecture with content types, but how does that relate to Business Processes?
In this presentation, Mark Miller will give a high level overview of the thought processes needed in order to get past basic usage of SharePoint as a storage platform by analyzing internal business processes and incorporating those processes into an automated system within SharePoint.
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 MoreFoundation, Standard, Enterprise, how do I know what I need? What is this thing called Office Web App and how do I get it? Do I already own it? Bryan LetcherSession Speaker Bryan Letcher is an Information Worker solution specialist focusing on SharePoint solutions for CDW. At CDW for 6 years, he works specifically to understand customer requirements and assists them in driving SharePoint adoption. Bryan has been architecting, designing and deploying solutions around SharePoint since SharePoint Portal Serv
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