While Microsoft SharePoint has rapidly become the preferred platform for team collaboration, day to day administrative activities remain complex and time consuming. SharePoint administrators are often burdened with managing complex operations and configurations, affecting their productivity and ability to more effectively meet the demands of their businesses. Among some of the frustrations and most challenging tasks include:
- IT’s lack of visibility into rogue SharePoint environments sprawling across an enterprise, limiting the ability to monitor system health and server topology
- A decentralized settings administration interface, resulting in extensive configuration management tasks that are often prone to error
- Difficulty in managing users, securities, and access permissions
This session discusses the importance of controlling the deployment of operations and application across a sprawling environment. Join us for an engaging and informative session, and learn about key considerations for security and global control, such as permissions deployment, usage and storage monitoring, and the need for successful management and truly centralized administration of SharePoint. Ryan TracySession Speaker With ten years of experience developing and deploying digital-asset protection and management solutions, Ryan brings a broad knowledge of IT infrastructure management to his work helping organizations optimize their SharePoint management, protection, and governance strategies. Ryan has worked with SharePoint since the platform’s debut in 200
... Read MoreIn this session, I will cover the importance of planning before you begin designing your SharePoint site. I will cover the basics of SharePoint branding. I will also cover some Best Practices and Design Gotchas that I have experienced. The session will only have brief looks at the code of a custom theme and a custom master page.
Cathy DewSession Speaker Cathy Dew is a graphic designer and SharePoint Consultant for CTS in Birmingham, Alabama. Cathy comes from an Advertising Agency and Graphic Design background, so her focus is on User Interface Design and User Experience with sites. She has worked on many SharePoint installations to brand SharePoint and make it look “Not like SharePoint”. Sh
... Read MoreTruthfully there is much more to development with the SharePoint platform than the raw aspects of the technology. While I have been building enterprise-level applications on the top of this great platform for years, I have discovered that there are some common challenges that SharePoint architects and developers often face when building such applications.
In this session we will explore some of the toughest architectural decisions you may face during the development life cycle of a SharePoint project, how to deal with common real-life hurdles and how to utilize existing best practices, patterns and practices, tools and ideas to ensure that your SharePoint applications successfully transition from development to release. Reza Alirezaei - MVPSession Speaker Reza Alirezaei is a an independent consultant and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP with a focus on developing custom solutions with SharePoint, Office, Reporting Services and .Net platform. As a technical leader with over 10 years of experience in software, he has helped many development teams architect and build large-scale, mission-critica
... Read MoreTime is money and finding the required document at the right time is more and more important. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server offers an enterprise search engine that will help your users to find the right information. In this session you will learn tips and tricks on configuring your search server to improve the search experience of your end users.
Serge Tremblay - MVPSession Speaker Serge Tremblay is a SharePoint MVP and has been working with the SharePoint Technologies since 2001. He is a senior consultant with Victrix since July 2007. He is also helping out to run the SharePoint Québec usergroup in Montréal.
... Read MoreThis session will dive into the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) and its applications in the real world. We will first cover the out of the box features of the web part. The session will then show how to build useful applications by customizing the CQWP. Some sample applications that will be developed will be a project management site and an employee directory.
Hasan ShahidSession Speaker Hasan Shahid, MCP, MCTS (MOSS & WSS) is a SharePoint Architect with over 8 years of SharePoint experience. He is a managing director at SharePoint Delivery, a consulting firm with offices in New York and Toronto. He is an active member of the NYC SharePoint User Group and currently serves on the Sponsorship Committee. He has also delivered p
... Read MoreIn my presentation I will show several delegate controls that exist in SharePoint OOB (WCM and WSS master pages) in SharePoint designer, and speak shortly on the possible uses of these controls. I will also show where SharePoint uses this trick to change the search box in a WSS site once you connect it to a search center. I will share (presentation only) the code of an existing product we have that shows: 1. How to develop a new search control 2. Code of the feature that registers it to replace the SharePoint search box 3. Activating the feature replaces the SharePoint search box
Shai PetelSession Speaker Shai Petel has vast experience in software development, consulting and training for organizations. Since 2004, Shai has been training developers in maximizing the SharePoint platform utilizing a unique curriculum he created in collaboration with KWizCom experts. Shai's curriculum is used in several Microsoft official training centers worldwide.Sha
... Read MoreSharePoint is a technology that is difficult to manage, control, and implement. As a result it can be a project manager, or a project team’s nightmare.
In this session I will be going over techniques for generating and maintaining buy in, the important of measurement, a bit of talk on governance, discussions on how to successfully communicate and approach development, and how to encourage and manage user adoption.
Overview
• Generate and Maintain Buy In
o For the CFO/Finance
o For the Executives
o For the CIO, CTO/IT Group
• Basics of Governance
o Importance of Approach
o IT Ownership and Responsibilities
o Help/Support Ownership and Responsibilities
o Things to watch out for…
• Communication/Involvement during Development and QA
• Implementation Strategies
o User Adoption
o Support/Training
o Managing Growth/New Work Richard HarbridgeSession Speaker From inception to implementation I have developed, lead development teams, architected, scoped, tested, used, administered and managed SharePoint over the past 5 years. With all the MCTS certifications, BVPS, and a background in consulting SharePoint services I hope I can share some of my knowledge and experience with the community.
... Read MoreIn this fast-paced session, you’ll see what’s involved in building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts for SharePoint 2007. In addition to covering the fundamentals, we’ll look at customizing the Web Part verbs menu, constructing connected Web Parts, leveraging User Controls to build templated Web Parts, and how to deploy Web Parts using a Feature.
Rob Windsor - MVPSession Speaker Rob Windsor is a Senior Consultant and the Director of Training with ObjectSharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. Rob focuses on the architecture, design and development of custom business applications using leading edge Microsoft technologies. In addition Rob is a top rated instructor - authoring and teaching course
... Read MoreFind out what is involved in designing a records management solution on top of MOSS. Based on the speaker’s experience, you will be shown why a records management solution is more than just a meshing together of technology.
Ken WongSession Speaker Ken is a Principal Consultant with NetDexterity. He has over 10 years experience in consulting, software engineering and solutions design, with emphasis on knowledge management and web applications. Ken is a highly sought-after architect/developer with skills and experience in a multitude of IT tools and programming languages. He is also an
... Read MoreYou now know that SharePoint Branding is not impossible. It's time to look at SharePoint Branding Best Practices. Follow these Branding guidelines to have a successful implementation.
In this intermediary session, we'll look at a few Branding Best Practices as well tips and tricks on master pages and page layouts from the field. Kanwal KhippleSession Speaker Kanwal Khipple is an Independent Consultant working for corporate clients in Canada and America. Kanwal has held various roles within SharePoint projects: architect, developer business analysis and designer. In addition, Kanwal is a respected blogger and founder of SharePointBuzz.com - Your SharePoint Community Portal. Kanwal has
... Read MoreIn this session we create a rich application using SharePoint, Excel Services, and Web forms. This session shows you some of the capabilities you can use today to empower and streamline your business. There is code I this session.
Bill Brockbank - MVPSession Speaker Bill Brockbank (SharePoint Server MVP) with Navantis Inc. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. Bill is a Solution Architect with a background in business process management in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Workflow technologies K2 blackpearl, and Windows Workflow Foundation. Bill is also a conference chair for the 2009 Toronto SharePoint Ca
... Read MoreHow do you work with stakeholders to ensure that you have gathered the information required and then organize that information and communicate it back to the rest of the team? Mind-mapping tools that help with visualization and that are flexible and easy to use can be extremely helpful in this process.
In this session, we will discuss how to use a mind-mapping tool called MindManager for your SharePoint projects. We have discovered ways to use MindManager to gather information, present it back to the stakeholders and document the SharePoint architecture. While MindManager is a flexible tool, there are some places where it is not appropriate, and we explain when alternatives are more suitable.
We cover the use of mind-mapping for:
- Scoping exercises: Customers are sometimes sold on SharePoint as a do-everything, solve-every-problem-now solution. Help them with brainstorming sessions to gather all ideas and pain points and then organize and prioritize the results.
- Document organization: Analyze the types of documents that currently exist and group them for the purposes of creating content types.
- Navigational Architecture: Work interactively with the team to experiment with, and then finalize, the site navigation.
- Site documentation: Show the site hierarchy with all libraries, lists and content types.
In addition to mind-mapping, we will be discussing the wire-framing of screen layouts. Wire framing is a way to give your stakeholders a rough idea of how the SharePoint pages will appear on the screen. In the past, this was a tedious job with diagrams that were painful to update. We will demonstrate a new wire framing tool from Balsamiq that makes this process much faster, simpler and more useful. Its ease of use means it can be used interactively during brainstorming sessions, short-circuiting the design process.
Ruven GotzSession Speaker Ruven Gotz is a senior consultant with Ideaca, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto. For the past five years he has been focused on delivering award-winning SharePoint solutions (most recently, a Microsoft Impact Award for Information Worker Solution of the Year, 2008). Ruven is a great communicator who is able to translate technology c
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