End User: Mind Mapping for the Information Architect

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How 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 Gotz

Session 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). Working as a Business Analyst and Information Architect, Ruven is able ... Read More

SP2010: Best Practices for Architecting, Deploying, and Optimizing SharePoint 2010

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SharePoint 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.     

 

Tony Lanni

Session Speaker

Tony Lanni, AvePoint’s Vice President of Marketing, performs research and analysis on Microsoft SharePoint landscape and evaluates industry trends that impact the course of business. Tony co-develops strategies for new product design and works on enterprise-level data protection and management software deployments for Microsoft SharePoint Technolo ... Read More

Designer: Branding SharePoint for your needs

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Understanding how to brand SharePoint for your needs. Where the pieces need to reside and the intricacies of how it interacts with your instance. Knowing what you will need including the tools you can use and the pieces you should not be without. I will also cover pitfalls that come with changing the css file that SharePoint uses.

Paul Telkamp

Session Speaker

I have been working with SharePoint in many different versions over the last few years. Having SharePoint as a content management system for my own personal sites I have wanted to step away from the basic look of SP without sacrificing the capabilities of its strength. ... Read More

End User: Starting your Proposal Resource Center in SharePoint

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Are you currently using SharePoint for proposal management processes or knowledge bases? Do you want to or have plans to use SharePoint to support your proposal processes? Join i3solutions Linc Williams, as he reviews the concept of a Proposal Resource Center. Gain insight into the features and concepts that can make your PRC a POWERHOUSE of knowledge management allowing your people to work effectively and efficiently. Attendees will learn practical tips and techniques, such as:
• How to get started building your PRC on SharePoint
• How to capture data about your documents to make them easier to find again
• How to look at data and make it informational and meaningful
• How to measure important key metrics, such as Win/Loss, Effort versus Value
• A future vision of where your PRC can go
Attendees will walk away with a PRC SharePoint Template that can be applied to their SharePoint systems.

Linc Williams

Session Speaker

Linc Williams is the Vice President of Delivery Services for i3solutions with over a decade of experience in the areas of Software Development, Infrastructure Design, Business Intelligence and Project Management.  Mr. Williams has been responsible for the successful completion of several major solution implementations for clients such as the ... Read More

End User: Easy Tab Interface

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Mark Miller, Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com, has worked with Christophe Humbert of Path to SharePoint fame, to create a stunning example of the power of jQuery and the Content Editor Web Part. Mark will present business solutions created exclusively for SharePoint Saturday, Philly.
The Easy Tabs Interfaces is a simple, plug and play solution embedded within a Content Editor Web Part. SharePoint 2007 comes with tabs that build up the top navigation. In this presentation, Mark demonstrates another kind of tabs, those that help structure and prioritize information at the page level.
Easy Tabs Interface draws content from existing web parts on the page and then exposes the content of those web parts through tabs, while hiding the original web parts. There is no need for deployment and no server code needed to implement the solution. Management of the display of the information is done client-side with no page refreshes when new data is displayed.
The material for this session comes from the “Easy Tabs Interface”, live online workshop hosted by Christophe Humbert and Mark Miller.  Through real world business examples, Mark will explore how the Easy Tabs Interface increases the flexibility and readability of complex information displayed in SharePoint.

Mark Miller

Session Speaker

Mark Miller is founder and editor of EndUserSharePoint.com, one of the world’s most popular sites for SharePoint End Users. He coordinates a group of a dozen contributing authors, managing the day-to-day aspects of editing and publishing content for the site. Under Mark’s leadership EndUserSharePoint.com receives up to 23,000 unique page views a d ... Read More

Architect: Nintex Workflows

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Nintex workflows offer the power of SharePoint workflows without using SharePoint designer.  Not just a great “web 2.0” application, this tool can be a game-changer for many SharePoint environments.  Nintex empowers end-users to build robust workflows, automating their business processes without consuming expensive IT development resources.
This presentation, not sponsored by the vendor, will demonstrate how the product works and build a sample workflow.  We will then have an open discussion on what a product like this can do for an organization using SharePoint.

Greg Postlewait

Session Speaker

Greg would much rather spend his time kayaking, sailing, cruising, and cycling at tropical locations.  In order to pay for these activities he has spent the last 15 years as an IT professional, filling the title of independent consultant, development manager, and most recently, SharePoint guy.  He has developed rescued, maintained, archi ... Read More

End User: Customizing the SharePoint 2007 Search

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides the ability to deliver custom search user interfaces using the out of the box web parts.  See how you can quickly to deliver a dynamic search experience for your end users. In this demonstration , I'll quickly discuss the options available for building the user interface. At the end, there is a walkthrough showing how to execute a search via Web Parts that can be dropped on your SharePoint sites.

Russ Basiura

Session Speaker

Russ Basiura Jr. is the President and Chief SharePoint Architect of RJB Technical Consulting, Incorporated, an information technology company established in 1995 to provide business collaboration services. He is a published author and his books include “Professional Asp.Net Web Services” through Wrox Press, Inc. and is “.Net Security”. Additional ... Read More

End User: VBCPS1

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Suzie Boyce

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End User: VPCPS 2

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Michelle Miller

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SP2010: Business Connectivity Services – From the Wading Pool to the Deep End

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Go Deep with Business Connectivity Services (formerly named the Business Data Catalog) in this session we will start out with a overview of BCS, take a stroll into End User and Power User space of BCS, then go in-depth with the Object Model, demonstrate connectivity to multiple LOB systems and surface multiple data in a variety of User Interfaces, web and Fat Client. 

Fabian G. Williams

Session Speaker

Fabian Williams is a Technical Lead and SharePoint Architect for CDW Advanced Technology Services SharePoint Practice. He is based out of Herndon Virginia. Mr. Williams has a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems from Strayer University, Washington, D.C. and is 9 Credits and a Capstone away from Masters in CIS at Johns Hopkins Universit ... Read More

Architect: Legacy Document Management Systems Migration to Microsoft SharePoint: How and Why you should do it

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Enterprise Content Management is an important part of many businesses, due to process efficiencies, regulations and compliancy.  If you have the need for ECM but are tired of the costs, you need to look at SharePoint.  SharePoint can typically provide comparable functionality at a third of the cost, but it is important to understand the Pros and Cons of migrating to this platform.   If you are already using SharePoint in one form or fashion, this is an easy next step to consolidate some of your systems.   We are going to look at how to plan and determine if MOSS will work for as a platform to replace existing document management systems.   

Martin Boggess

Session Speaker

Managed a top Microsoft SI that implemented SharePoint starting with 2001 version.  Managed customers migrating from Stellent, hummingbird, livelink, fileshares, Documentum, FileNet to MOSS.  Worked with multiple ISV software solutions built on MOSS (K2, Captaris, Nintex, Wisdom, KnowledgeLake, Bentley, Next Docs etc).  ... Read More

Developer: Design and Manage large scale SharePoint Development

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SharePoint Developers and Architects are not always quite sure how best to design and manage the packaging and deployment of code, content, and configuration that make up their SharePoint solutions. Learn the tools and techniques from an Architect and Lead Developer from one of the world's largest SharePoint deployments

Steven Fowler

Session Speaker

Steven Fowler is an author, speaker, trainer, and consultant possessing a mix of advanced technology and strategic business acumen derived from 14 years of progressive project management, architecture and engineering experience. Steven is a founder and principal consultant at SharePointPS.com where he focuses in delivering SharePoint training, con ... Read More

End User: Killer Calendars in SharePoint

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When it comes to calendar views, End Users are often frustrated with SharePoint's limited customization options. In this presentation, participants will learn that with little effort calendar views can be tweaked to their liking.
The techniques in this presentation/workshop have been refined by Christophe Humbert, author of Path to SharePoint.  The solutions can be implemented in WSS or MOSS without access to the SharePoint server.
Techniques presented in include:
• Add color coding to different types of events
• Resize a month or week view
• Display weekdays only
• Embed a calendar from another site or site collection
Mark Miller, Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com, will walk through how each of the segments of the calendar were created. He will also review some traps to avoid when dealing with SharePoint calendars in general.
This presentation is aimed at Power Users and Site Administrators who are responsible for managing calendars on their SharePoint site. It was originally delivered to a SRO house at SharePoint Saturday Philly in November 2009. The solutions are a good alternative to third party, SharePoint calendars web parts for those on a limited budget.

Mark Miller

Session Speaker

Mark Miller is founder and editor of EndUserSharePoint.com, one of the world’s most popular sites for SharePoint End Users. He coordinates a group of a dozen contributing authors, managing the day-to-day aspects of editing and publishing content for the site. Under Mark’s leadership EndUserSharePoint.com receives up to 23,000 unique page views a d ... Read More

End User: Creating Business Processes in SharePoint

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Many SharePoint professionals are in a unique position in that they deal with not only the people of the Organization but also the processes that make that organization run. This gives them a business perspective that most employees don’t have.
Every operation is comprised of process systems, then individual processes and every process is comprised of a series of tasks or activities.  In order for businesses to deliver a quality product or provide a wanted service, they must utilize a set of effective processes.
Join i3solutions Linc Williams, as he reviews the concepts of a Business Process Analysis and how they can be applied to SharePoint. Gain insight into how collect, review and plan for real world processes in SharePoint allowing your people to work effectively and efficiently. Attendees will learn practical tips and techniques, such as:
• An introduction to Business Processes
• Workflow Vs. Business Processes
• The 4 Steps of Business Process Mapping
• Techniques on transforming Business Process to SharePoint Features and Functions
• Introduction to a system to Map, Analyze and Document your process for use in SharePoint
• Common Pitfalls to Avoid

Linc Williams

Session Speaker

Linc Williams is the Vice President of Delivery Services for i3solutions with over a decade of experience in the areas of Software Development, Infrastructure Design, Business Intelligence and Project Management.  Mr. Williams has been responsible for the successful completion of several major solution implementations for clients such as the ... Read More

SP2010: Deep Dive into SharePoint 2010 MySites and Social Networking

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This session will be a deep dive into the personalization of MySites. It will include a review of the Social Media capabilities and the process for combining and customizing the personalization and social media features of MOSS into a MySite.

Russ Basiura

Session Speaker

Russ Basiura Jr. is the President and Chief SharePoint Architect of RJB Technical Consulting, Incorporated, an information technology company established in 1995 to provide business collaboration services. He is a published author and his books include “Professional Asp.Net Web Services” through Wrox Press, Inc. and is “.Net Security”. Additional ... Read More

End User: Content Types and Site Columns – Working with stakeholders to build the taxonomy.

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When it comes to defining the site columns and content types for a project, the first step is to help your stakeholders understand the concepts of metadata so that they can understand how they are going to organize their documents without using folders. This can be very tricky and is a process that is iterative in nature.

Once this concept is understood (even partially), you can help the client inventory the types of documents that are going to live in SharePoint, and then explain the function of site columns and content types.

In this session, we will discuss some tools and methods (including analogies and Excel based simulations) that have proven to be successful for explaining these concepts and then organizing the taxonomy.

You will see how to use tools that help users to inventory their documents and capture the metadata. You will see how to conduct workshops that help you and your clients to organize this information and then document the taxonomy in a form that can be shared, reviewed and modified.

At the final stages, you will see how the required document libraries begin to emerge as part of this process.
 

Ruven Gotz

Session 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). Working as a Business Analyst and Information Architect, Ruven is able ... Read More

End User: SharePoint 101: Empowering Your Organization with SharePoint

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Microsoft SharePoint technologies provide the empowering platform to enable business collaboration for the enterprise and the web. The ability to properly utilize an effective SharePoint solution for your organization is essential to keep pace with business collaboration needs today. In this workshop, you acquire the fundamental knowledge and critical skills to create, manage and customize a SharePoint site.
In addition, you will learn how to:
• The fundamentals of building a SharePoint site
• Identify relevant site components
• Customize site membership requirements
• Facilitate better collaboration with wikis, discussion boards and surveys
• Synchronize Microsoft Excel and Access with SharePoint
• Generate on-demand dashboard with Web Parts
This session is intended for those new to SharePoint and can come from various professional and technical backgrounds. Ideal for: end-users, managers and individuals who have not used SharePoint before.
Participants will get presentation notes, checklists, and templates.
Pre-requisites:
Fundamental knowledge of organizational processes and familiarity with Windows, Microsoft Office and web browsing is assumed.

Dux Sy

Session 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 More

Architect: There and back again deploying SharePoint to over 50,000 students and teachers at VB Schools.

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We had the privilege of working with Virginia Beach City Schools to deploy a very large SharePoint platform.  This platform had to provide every teacher and every student through the 3rd grade with interconnected SharePoint workspaces.  Then we had to migrate it to MOSS 2007 and new hardware.  We learned a lot and we will share it in this session.
 

Kyle Wilson

Session Speaker

Kyle Wilson has been working with SharePoint for 7 years and currently leads a large team of SharePoint developers, architects, and administrators.  He has worked with more than 50 organizations as they adopt SharePoint.  He is a big fan of John Calvin and the Pittsburgh Steelers! ... Read More

SP2010: SharePoint List Mashup's using SharePoint Designer

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Mashups can cover just about any combination of data or design elements with in SharePoint specifically.  In this session we will go over how to mashup DHTML, XSLT and SharePoint lists into clean news rotation web parts.  This method will allow administrators to make simple changes in a list view that they are already comfortable with to make a news rotation change.  This session will also focus on the infamous DataView web part and some of the cool data presentation and integration tips used to show your users different editable views of list data.

Eric Harlan

Session Speaker

In between searching the planet high and low for the best skiing conditions, deepest powder and crazy ‘steeps’, Eric Harlan spends most of his time in the technology field.Eric Harlan has been in the I.T. industry for ten years, and heavily involved with SharePoint for six years.  Starting from a developer role, Eric has moved on to a more ar ... Read More

Developer: Building Custom Widgets to Fill Gaps in SharePoint

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In this session we will discuss gaps in SharePoint 2007 and look at different pieces of the object model to address some of these gaps.  In the end we will build a quick webpart to address one of these issues. Session Info
 

Becky Isserman

Session Speaker

Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePa ... Read More

End User: The SharePoint Story for Success

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If you are a person, who has, or is thinking about or actually implementing SharePoint you should know everything I will cover in this session. We will go over which technology fits, how to achieve and maintain buy in from different parties, how to implement successful governance, how to approach SharePoint and get successful user adoption and will even cover how to handle new work and growth. I will strive to give examples, techniques and approaches that you can go out and use the next day in planning, coordinating and managing your SharePoint implementation.

Richard Harbridge

Session Speaker

I am from Toronto, Ontario, Canada and have worked as a developer, administrator, architect and every other role in between with SharePoint. I am passionate about many interesting things such as technology, communication, social media, psychology, personal growth/development and business to name a few. ... Read More

End User: jQuery: The 16th Piece of Flair for SharePoint

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This technically oriented presentation will consist of two main parts. First, in order to provide some background, a brief overview of jQuery as well as some techniques for incorporating jQuery into SharePoint sites. The rest of the presentation will consist of examining the client side JavaScript used by the out of the box SharePoint UI and some things that can be done using jQuery and the functional programming aspect of JavaScript to add some flair to the UI. From the demonstration of simple UI enhancements, it should become more evident that there are many ways to take advantage of SharePoint extensibility.
 
This presentation will be beneficial to anyone doing SharePoint development or design, or anyone interested in learning a little about jQuery or even JavaScript.

Chad Schroeder

Session Speaker

I am a software engineer currently employed by MicroLink, LLC. I have been working with SharePoint here and there since its early iterations, but have had the heaviest involvement with SharePoint over the course of the past year. In general though, I am a C# and ASP.NET developer on tour in the SharePoint world. I also like to torture myself by wr ... Read More

Developer: Introduction to the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model

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This session examines the new client object model available in SharePoint 2010 and the differences between the three currently available client APIs.
 
Demonstrations will be given on how to connect to a SharePoint site with each of the three APIs and how the new RESTful architecture of SharePoint 2010 allows standardized access to data residing on remote SharePoint servers.

G. Scott Singleton

Session Speaker

Scott Singleton is a Senior Consultant and the Lead SharePoint Architect and developer at i3solutions and has been working as a software architect and programmer for over 17 years. For the last three years he's been focused on leveraging his design and development skills to solve customer's business challenges in SharePoint as well as managing lar ... Read More

Developer: Planning Applications/Solutions on SharePoint

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In this session you will learn about how to plan and leverage the SharePoint 2010/2007 platform needed to build applications. Application planning will cover data structures (List Design), UI (Site Design), Security, and Governance (Management). This will help you understand when you will need to develop technology, when you will need to integrate external systems, and when you should consider the MOSS/SharePoint Server 2010. We will also cover need to know items for going from 2007 to 2010 when building your applications. With this proper planning you will be able intercept any of the issues that normally would stop projects in their tracks and instead build successful applications.

Adam Macaulay

Session Speaker

Adam Macaulay is responsible for research and development of the technology platform driving the success of CorasWorks products. He has over 14 years of experience, 12 in Microsoft and 8 in SharePoint, developing Internet Applications that have taken internal, cost ineffective solutions and turned them into profitable internet applications that co ... Read More

End User: InfoPath and InfoPath Forms Services tip and tricks

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"InfoPath forms can automate your entire back office. The 80/20 rule certainly applies in the enterprise however.  With these tips and tricks for using and implementing InfoPath in your organization, you can help close that acceptance gap.  From injecting InfoPath forms into web parts on branded pages to compiling totals in repeating fields. These hints will will save you time and headaches!

Eric Harlan

Session Speaker

In between searching the planet high and low for the best skiing conditions, deepest powder and crazy ‘steeps’, Eric Harlan spends most of his time in the technology field.Eric Harlan has been in the I.T. industry for ten years, and heavily involved with SharePoint for six years.  Starting from a developer role, Eric has moved on to a more ar ... Read More

SP2010: Entities & Me, the BCS

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You will be introduced to the BCS and will learn how to leverage technologies such as SharePoint Designer 2010 to create entities and leverage them within the SharePoint 2010 interfaces. You will learn what connection mechanisms you have to the BCS Entity and how to leverage them within Office Clients and other SharePoint containers.  85% of what you experience will not involve Visual Studio while the remaining 15% will.

Adam Macaulay

Session Speaker

Adam Macaulay is responsible for research and development of the technology platform driving the success of CorasWorks products. He has over 14 years of experience, 12 in Microsoft and 8 in SharePoint, developing Internet Applications that have taken internal, cost ineffective solutions and turned them into profitable internet applications that co ... Read More

End User: SharePoint 2010: Enterprise Search Overview

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With SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft has made a major leap forward in new enterprise search options that cover the full spectrum of business needs. This session will provide an overview of the key search capabilities in SharePoint 2010 through demonstrations of new features and example applications.

Coskun Cavusoglu

Session Speaker

Coskun Cavusoglu (pronounced joes-koon) is the Director of Consulting Services and the Chief Solution Architect of Captaré Consulting, LLC- www.captare.com    As a SharePoint Architect he specializes in Governance, WCM and Branding, InfoPath, Workflows, Business Intelligence, Search and Development. He has co-authored the certification ... Read More

SP2010: The new Visual Workflow Process: from Process design to deployment.

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This session examines the new workflow design process that begins in Visio by a Business Process Manager, is implemented by a Designer in SharePoint Designer, and then Visualized inside of the SharePoint 2010 interface.

G. Scott Singleton

Session Speaker

Scott Singleton is a Senior Consultant and the Lead SharePoint Architect and developer at i3solutions and has been working as a software architect and programmer for over 17 years. For the last three years he's been focused on leveraging his design and development skills to solve customer's business challenges in SharePoint as well as managing lar ... Read More

Developer: Dazzling SharePoint with Silverlight version 2010

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SharePoint 2010 now has Silverlight baked into the assemblies making it easier for SharePoint Developers and Designers to create a rich environment.  In this session we will discuss how to blend together SharePoint and Silverlight.  We will create some basic Silverlight Applications and discuss how to get these Silverlight applications to work in SharePoint.  We will go over two possible data binding techniques using WCF Web services and the new Client Object Model.

Becky Isserman

Session Speaker

Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePa ... Read More

End User: Wikis and Blogs

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WSS 3.0 includes built-in support for wikis and blogs to enhance collaboration. End users of WSS 3.0 can have a blog or wiki up and running in minutes. This presentation will demo both and then explore ways to modify the out-of-the-box functionality, including how to set different permissions.

Robin Edwards

Session Speaker

Robin Edwards is a Microsoft Visual Basic MVP. She is leader of the Roanoke Valley .NET User Group in western Virginia and has helped organize multiple Code Camps in Roanoke and Richmond. She’s active in the midAtlantic .NET and SharePoint communities; working alongside the Richmond Code Camp and the Virginia Beach SharePoint Saturday teams. She i ... Read More

Architect: Incorporating Reporting Services into SharePoint

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Do you already have a SharePoint implementation and now you need reporting capabilities?  Attend this session to learn about incorporating SQL Server Reporting Services into your existing SharePoint installation.  We will discuss the reasons why you would want to do this, and how to install, use, and access SSRS reports from SharePoint.

Jessica Moss

Session Speaker

Jessica M. Moss, an architect with Ironworks Consulting and a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, is a well-known practitioner, author, and speaker in Microsoft SQL Server business intelligence.  Jessica has created numerous data warehousing solutions for companies in the retail, internet, health services, finance, and energy industries and authored te ... Read More

End User: Using SharePoint to manage Business Process

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This session will discuss how to leverage InfoPath form libraries with Visual Studio Workflows to help users have a better experience with SharePoint and allow organizations to manage their business workflows and processes through SharePoint

David McWee

Session Speaker

David McWee is a Sr. Software Developer for MicroLink LLC and Technical Lead on HarmonieWeb, a collaboration portal for Government and non-Government agencies to address issues like Humanitarian Disaster Relief and Recovery.  David is the Coordinator for the StsDev2008 and ECTSEx projects on Codeplex which he regularly contributes changes and ... Read More

Designer: See Your Information with SharePoint Designer and Virtual Earth

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This session will discuss how to leverage information stored in SharePoint and display it on a Virtual Earth interface by using SharePoint designer. 

David McWee

Session Speaker

David McWee is a Sr. Software Developer for MicroLink LLC and Technical Lead on HarmonieWeb, a collaboration portal for Government and non-Government agencies to address issues like Humanitarian Disaster Relief and Recovery.  David is the Coordinator for the StsDev2008 and ECTSEx projects on Codeplex which he regularly contributes changes and ... Read More

SP2010: Workflows in SharePoint 2010 - part 2

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Josh will continue where Michael left off and show how SharePoint 2010 workflows can be customized with Visual Studio 2010.

Josh Carlisle

Session Speaker

Joshua Carlisle is a principal consultant with B&R Business Solutions. He specializes in collaboration solutions based on SharePoint, ASP.NET, and the .Net Framework. He has been developing with Microsoft tools for over 13 years and with SharePoint since 2003. In his current role he works with clients to design and implement enterprise and com ... Read More

End User: Project Transparency

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The term ‘Transparency’ is being thrown around a lot these days largely in part to a push by the federal government to require more visibility into the way taxpayer monies are being spent.  This concept has been around for awhile and cuts across the political spectrum.  The ‘Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006’ was passed under the Bush administration and there is a strong provision for transparency reporting outlined in the 'American Recovery and Reinvestment Act' (ARRA) of 2009 passed under the Obama administration.
Since a significant portion of many organizational budgets are spent on project related initiatives, even incremental improvements in large project/portfolio performance and fiscal disciple can mean millions in annual savings for these entities.   For public organizations this means better usage of taxpayer dollars; for private companies, it means more value creation for shareholders. 
 
The concept of transparency is simple: provide relevant and timely information to key decision makers and stakeholders.  This affords the decision makers the opportunity to take corrective action on wayward initiatives

Mike Taylor

Session Speaker

Mike Taylor, president and CEO of Innovative-e, Inc., is a global entrepreneur, experienced business consultant and certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with more than 20 years of IT experience. Mike specializes in solving business problems through project management, custom application development, infrastructure and consulting service ... Read More

SP2010: Getting to know the New Kid on the Block – v4.master

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In this session we will go over the new default master page in SharePoint 2010. We will go over the differences between default.master and jump right into how to upgrade your MOSS 2007 master pages to SPS2010 master pages.

While doing that we will also see some of the new enhancements to how SharePoint renders the new controls. 

This Branding/Web Developer session is a must see if you have worked on or will work on creating master pages in SharePoint.

Coskun Cavusoglu

Session Speaker

Coskun Cavusoglu (pronounced joes-koon) is the Director of Consulting Services and the Chief Solution Architect of Captaré Consulting, LLC- www.captare.com    As a SharePoint Architect he specializes in Governance, WCM and Branding, InfoPath, Workflows, Business Intelligence, Search and Development. He has co-authored the certification ... Read More

SP2010: SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform

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SharePoint 2010 has many new developer-oriented features. Developers can build collaboration applications on the platform features of SharePoint 2010, the new tools for SharePoint 2010 make developers more productive and new hosting options for SharePoint solutions provide more flexibility in deployment. This session is SharePoint 2010 for developers providing a brief look and some demos of the major new features in building user interfaces, building composite applications on the data platform and in general programmability.
 

Brian Russo

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SP2010: How to Effectively Utilize MS Project 2010 w/ SP 2010

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Microsoft Project is a project management tool widely used by project managers today. Its' ability to support project managers to define a schedule, assign resources to tasks and track project status has been instrumental in contributing to project success. However, it can be a challenge for a project manager to share project information and collaborate with the project team with Microsoft Project alone. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can complement Microsoft Project 2010 and address this gap.
In this interactive presentation, you will learn how to:
Effectively create a Microsoft Project Plan
Create a SharePoint-based Project Management Information System (PMIS)
Integrate Microsoft Project information with SharePoint
Empower a project team to collaboratively share relevant information
Build a project management dashboard in SharePoint

Dux Sy

Session 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 More

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