Pre-Conference: SharePoint Designer UIWhen: Sunday, April 18, 2010 @ 9:30 AM Where: Latrobe Speakers: Kyle Schaeffer Learn about the new and improved features in Microsoft’s premier SharePoint branding and customization software, SharePoint Designer 2010. From simple customizations and themes to full-blown master page development and brand implementation, SharePoint Designer veteran brings experience, best practices, and time-saving tips to light in an exclusive insight into the SharePoint branding and design process. The pre-conference seminar highlights include:
- Getting Started with SharePoint Designer 2010
- Overview of new interface and features
- Microsoft’s new “V4” master page
- Modal dialogs and interface style
- Crafting your new 2010 design
- Best practices for accessibility and SEO
Don’t miss out on this exclusive opportunity to interact with SharePoint Designer 2010 in an intimate classroom setting. Space is extremely limited; register early to guarantee your spot in the pre-conference seminar.
Attendees will be provided a pre-configured workstation for this workshop. Moving into the Cloud: Considering Cloud ComputingWhen: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 9:00 AM Where: Key Ballroom Speakers: David Linthicum Like most enterprise applications, SharePoint has moved into the cloud. However, the path to cloud computing is not as clear as you may think. Security, privacy, performance, and compliance should be considered with core business and technology requirements. Indeed, this is an architectural exercise that requires a lot more planning and testing than most enterprises realize.
So, what’s your path to the cloud? In this keynote presentation I’ll take you through the core steps involved in moving existing systems to the cloud, as well as the steps to create new systems in the cloud. We’ll look at best practices and approaches, as well as review a proven process that will make you successful the very first time with your cloud computing migration or development.
Collaboration in SharePoint 2010 - What's New?When: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 10:45 AM Where: Key Ballroom 6 Speakers: Sean Bordner 100 million licenses and 4,000 partners – you can bet the next version of SharePoint has plenty of exciting new collaboration capabilities (like simultaneous document editing). Empowering the organization more than ever before, SharePoint 2010’s greatest benefit is how it makes the lives of business users easier and lets them do more without the need for IT assistance.
Learn how SharePoint 2010 becomes less about the technology capabilities (i.e. content management, collaboration, search, business intelligence) and more about how these technologies support the user or the organization.
Take a journey through “What’s New Land” and see for yourself the new capabilities such as simultaneous document editing, UI Improvements, Multi-Browser Support, Ribbon Dialogs, Live Preview & Themes, Silverlight, Visio Integration, SharePoint Designer, Business Connectivity Services, SharePoint Workspace, Search and more.
Learn about the new Enterprise Content Management 2.0 components such as Large Lists and Libraries, Enterprise Metadata, Web Publishing including Digital Asset Management, Governance and Records Management. You will also learn all about the below list of “Top 10 new ECM 2.0” features:
- Greater scalability & distributed architecture.
- Richer authoring and content creation tools.
- Improved User Interface and Site Definitions.
- Enterprise-wide Content Types.
- Managed Metadata Service & Metadata Navigation Settings.
- Office Client Integration and Office Web Apps.
- Document Sets & Content Organizer.
- In-place Records Management.
- Distributed Record Centers.
- Enterprise Search (Fast Search for SharePoint).
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Architects, Project Managers, Administrators, Business Users What you need to know to plan and execute a succesful SharePoint ProjectWhen: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 10:45 am Where: Key Ballroom 9 Speakers: Dave Coriale Many a SharePoint project has gone awry due to poor planning at the outset. Find out what you need to know and do to ensure your project is a success. Thisi session includes a real-life case study from an organization that has implemented a complex SharePoint project. Hear about Best Practices, Lessons Learned and how to avoid the potential pitfalls in your own implementation. SharePoint 2010 Development OverviewWhen: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 10:45am Where: Key Ballroom 7 Speakers: Becky Isserman In SharePoint 2010 Microsoft has created a better development environment using Visual Studio 2010 utilizing better debugging tools, sandbox solutions, the client object model, and visual webpart interfaces. In this session we will discuss the changes in the 2010 development environment over the 2007 development environment. We will create some quick sample applications utilizing the new tools.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers, IT Directors, IT Managers
Is SharePoint REALLY a Web Content Management System?When: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 1:15 pm Where: Key Ballroom 6 Speakers: John Stover
This fast paced session will start with an overview all of the new Web Content Management (WCM) features in SharePoint 2010. We will review basic content publishing before diving into the hottest new additions to the SharePoint 2010 WCM capabilities. We’ll discuss Managed Metadata and Taxonomy, XHTML and browser support, integrating Social Media capabilities, Rich Media (like video streaming), publishing infrastructure overview, workflow, and much more. The session will then cover exactly what you need to know to migrate your existing site from previous versions of SharePoint or ANY OTHER CMS platform into SharePoint 2010. The session will provide many best practices in a rapid fire format:
-
How to define Content and Structure using Page Layouts
-
Upgrading from previous versions of SharePoint
-
Content Migration from various other CMS systems
-
Training: How to best train your staff to manage your new environment
-
End User Adoption: Now that you’ve built a powerful new
-
SharePoint site you need to get people using it
-
SharePoint 2010 Tools: SharePoint Designer 2010 and your browser
This session will provide you with the knowledge you need to effectively plan an efficient upgrade and ensure long term success on the powerful new SharePoint 2010 platform.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: All It's new, it's fast and it's free - SharePoint Designer 2010When: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 1:15 pm Where: Key Ballroom 9 Speakers: Kyle Schaeffer With a new interface and some really cool new features, SharePoint Designer 2010 is destined to become to go to app for anyone who wants to master SharePoint. Find out what you need to know and how it can help you become a SharePoint master. The Principals of SharePoint 2010 Administration: Central Admin, Powershell and moreWhen: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 1:15 pm Where: Key Ballroom 7 Speakers: Liam Cleary Having the ability to Administer, Manage and Support SharePoint is paramount in any deployment. SharePoint has many parts and facets that integrate into a core infrastructure. Using the newly written User Interface for Central Administration, Administrators are now able to quickly find the tools they need to support and manage the system. However as with many administrators the “command line” approach still works the best. To this end Microsoft have now extended not only the STSADM commands that we have come to love but also enabled us to user Powershell commands to manage every aspect of the SharePoint farm.
In this session we will look at the new features available in Central Administration as well as what Powershell brings to the table for administration.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic, Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Architects, Developers, Administrators Best Practices for Architecting, Deploying, and Optimizing SharePoint 2010When: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 1:15 PM Where: Key Ballroom 10 Speakers: Tom Lin Sponsors: AvePoint 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. SharePoint as a Social Networking ApplicationWhen: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 2:45 pm Where: Key Ballroom 6 Speakers: Sean Bordner With Social Networking being a primary focus of the new SharePoint 2010 platform, learn how your organization can leverage these powerful new features. One of the core spokes on the SharePoint 2010 wheel is communities. SharePoint has added tons of new features including richer member profiles, tagging and rating, comments, activity feeds, people search, workspaces and more.
You will also learn proven techniques for building and sustaining a SUCCESSFUL community which will provide measurable results for your organization. Learn the importance of a carefully planned Social Media strategy and which strategy is right for your organization. Understand how these new features work and fit into your overall strategy, and how each will map to a specific measurable objective.
This high level session is intended for anyone interested in understanding how SharePoint 2010 weighs in as a Social Networking Application. You will see firsthand the new Social Networking capabilities and enhancements such as: Tags and Feedback, Activity Feeds, People Search, Knowledge Transfer, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Audio and Video improvements, browser compatibility, mobile compatibility, and more.
The timely addition of Social Networking capabilities to the SharePoint platform is certainly worth a test drive. Bring your questions, including the list of ideas your organization has been kicking around and learn if SharePoint 2010 can deliver!
Bring your questions, including the list of ideas your organization has been kicking around and learn if SharePoint 2010 can deliver!
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Architects, Project Managers, Administrators, Business Users SharePoint Client Object Model and REST architectureWhen: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 2:45 pm Where: Key Ballroom 7 Speakers: Bill Vencil Access SharePoint data with JavaScript? Yes, you can! See how the Client Object Model can be used to connect Silverlight, WPF, Winform and JavaScript applications to SharePoint 2010. Also learn about the new REST service. Dazzling SharePoint 2010 with SilverlightWhen: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 2:45 pm Where: Key Ballroom 9 Speakers: Becky Isserman 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.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Beginner, Intermediate
AUDIENCE: All
Fundamentals of SharePoint SearchWhen: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 4:15 pm Where: Key Ballroom 9 Speakers: Sean Bordner Findability is more important now than ever before. Whether you’re talking about Office Documents, emails, files, pages, user profiles or any kind of posts, if it cannot be easily found, it might as well not exist. Let’s face it, we are a spoiled people with little patience and we expect the first page of search results to contain exactly what we were looking for, every time.
How can you deliver such an experience for your end users? Learn how the SharePoint 2007 Search Engine can be tweaked to deliver a top notch end user search experience. Check out the search engine enhancements that ship with SharePoint 2010, and there’s plenty. Learn all about Microsoft’s premium search engine, FAST ESP for SharePoint, and whether or not your organization needs it.
This session will uncover the best practices and techniques used to deliver supreme findability. Learn how to maximize search usage information. From running SharePoint Search Engine driven ad campaigns, to analyzing what your users are looking for, you will leave this session with a new understanding of the extremely powerful capabilities of the SharePoint Search Engine!
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Architects, Project Managers, Administrators, Business Users
What Happened to the BDC? Using SharePoint BCSWhen: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 4:15 pm Where: Key Ballroom 7 Speakers: Liam Cleary In the previous version of SharePoint, the Business Data Catalog was a great tool for exposing backend line of business application data into web solutions such as the intranet, extranet or even public facing web sites. With the powerful web parts and the SharePoint search it became a compelling solution for exposing of business content. However there were limitations of the BDC. Microsoft have now addressed these limitations and now released the new SharePoint Business Connectivity Services. This does exactly what the Business Data Catalog did but takes the usage of this to greater heights. With the ability to consume BCS data through not only SharePoint but the Office Interfaces this is now truly an Enterprise Component.
In this session we will look at what you as a Business User, Administrator or even a Developer can do with Business Connectivity Services. Don’t worry we will stay away from the code for this session, well maybe a little bit.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Architects, Developers, Project Managers, Administrators, Business Users Case Study: SharePoint Intranets & ExtranetsWhen: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 4:15 pm Where: Key Ballroom 6 Two real-life case studies featuring a successful Intranet application and a successful Extranet site. Topics to be covered include planning, design, integration and user adoption. If your organization is planning an internal collaborative Intranet or an external Extranet, don’t miss the opportunity to learn from these two organizations how to make your own project a success. SharePoint in the Cloud: Microsoft BPOSWhen: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 9:00 am Where: Key Ballroom 8,11,12 Speakers: Jim Haigh Sponsors: Microsoft This day-two keynote will include a discussion of the benefits of being able to integrate Microsoft Office deployments on existing client systems with Office implementations in the cloud. This will include a look at how Microsoft’s Office implementation for the cloud includes the ability to integrate with Microsoft’s SharePoint Cloud product as well as other services like Live Meeting and Office Communications Services. Don’t be held hostage by your Developers! Build that custom application yourself without code!When: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 10:10 AM Where: Key Ballroom 7 Speakers: John Stover, Sean Bordner This session has no PowerPoint slides at all! This session is a real world scenario application integrating a CRM/AMS application with SharePoint being built in real time with audience feedback!
You will learn how to unleash the power of the SharePoint 2010 platform – all without writing a single line of code! The session will highlight many capabilities of the SharePoint 2010 platform. We’ll connect to the backend database using Business Connectivity Services using only a wizard in SharePoint Designer. Then we’ll map a SharePoint External List to the backend database.
Using document libraries, managed metadata, connected lists, and data views, we will configure a complete application to combining information and knowledge stored in SharePoint with the data stored in the CRM/AMS backend. Using a real world case study, we will complete a fully functional application used by staff, members, and anonymous users providing immediate results!
See firsthand the power available by configuring SharePoint 2010 using only the web interface and SharePoint Designer 2010.
Technical Level: Intermediate
Audience: All
Design for SharePoint: Breaking the All the RulesWhen: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 10:10 am Where: Key Ballroom 9 Speakers: Kyle Schaeffer One of the big complaints about SharePoint used to be that it looked too much like...well...SharePoint. While designing for SharePoint can be tricky anyone with solid CSS skills can do it. Find out what rules you should follow and which ones where meant to be broken when creating a SharePoint design. You Can Store Records in SharePoint! Are You Sure?When: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 10:10 am Where: Key Ballroom 6 Speakers: Liam Cleary Are you one of those employees who stores every email they ever sent and received just in case? Do you have multiple folders crammed full of files that you worked on over a year ago? Are you more high tech than this and have CDs or even DVDs of stored files? More importantly do you have a requirement to store data whether it be documents, emails or even media files? If you answered “Yes” to some if not all of these questions they this session if for you. Records Management is becoming an important component of any Enterprise Content Management solution. Previous versions of SharePoint have tried to enable the functionality needed but have fell short. SharePoint 2010 goes a long way to making it a reality for you as a business to use SharePoint as you records repository. In this session we will go through what SharePoint 2010 has to offer for records management and how you as a business can build a scalable records platform.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic, Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Architects, Project Managers, Business Users Welcome to PerformancePointWhen: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 11:20 am Where: Key Ballroom 7 Speakers: Peter Serzo PerformancePoint Services is now a component in the SharePoint 2010. No longer a separate product, this is Microsoft’s BI delivery tool that contains scorecards, dashboards, and analytic capabilities within SharePoint. It fulfills Microsoft’s promise of user self-serve.
Giving users unprecedented power to create rich views of data can only be harnessed positively with governance and responsibility. This session demonstrates (through a movie motif) how to set up a scorecard, dashboards, and how to responsibly manage architecture and the self-serve components. After a review of the history of PerformancePoint the session builds your knowledge through pertinent demos. You will emerge from this session with a understanding of the power of this tool and its impact to return value within your organizations. Office 2010: PC, Phone & BrowserWhen: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 11:20 AM Where: Key Ballroom 9 Speakers: Chris Ertz
The workforce is increasingly mobile – it’s not just the sales force who works remotely nowadays. It’s important to keep people just as productive when they are working away from the office, as they are when they are in the office. There are potential cost savings by reducing overhead by empowering people to work remotely more.
With Office 2010, Microsoft is delivering a familiar Office experience across PC, phone browser so that you have the freedom to use Office from more locations and on more devices. Microsoft is introducing Office Web Apps so that you can have a familiar Office experience from more places and on more devices. To understand this, think of the experience you may have with Outlook today. Outlook on the PC is where you have the most features and power to do your best work. And when you need to stay up-to-the-minute with the freedom to move around, you can use Outlook mobile on your mobile phone. But you would never write a novel on your phone! And OWA gives you access to the information you need when you’re away from your primary machine, through any web browser.
The Office Web Apps will allow you this same freedom to access your information from virtually anywhere. Also, Office mobile improvements make your phone is much more than a viewer with Office 2010.
Office Mobile 2010 will include:
- SharePoint Workspace Mobile: New application added
- PowerPoint Mobile: All new version
- Word Mobile: Office 2010 compatibility, Touch gestures
- Excel Mobile: Office 2010 compatibility, Touch gestures
- OneNote Mobile: Office 2010 compatibility
Changes are saved in the whole "round-trip" across these form factors so you can be confident that your changes are saved just as you intended them to appear. Case Study: Public Web Sites & CommunitiesWhen: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 11:20 am Where: Key Ballroom 6 This session features real-life case studies on organizations that are utilizing SharePoint 2007 as a Web Content Management System and Community application. The inclusion of Web CMS and Community features was new with the introduction of MOSS 2007 and promises to be expanded when SharePoint 2010 is released. See how organizations are currently using SharePoint to communicate and collaborate with the outside world. Enterprise Content Types and TaxonomyWhen: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 1:45 pm Where: Key Ballroom 6 Speakers: John Stover SharePoint 2010 introduces a new content type and taxonomy service. See how it can be used to create rich, consistent metadata and shared taxonomies, and integrate with SharePoint’s search and social computing components. Microsoft Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010: What You Need to Know Before UpgradingWhen: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 1:45 pm Where: Key Ballroom 7 Speakers: Sean Bordner 2010 is going to be an exciting year filled with new Microsoft releases. This means new ways to streamline business processes, reduce costs, and provide rich new tools for all. But how will these new product upgrades affect your enterprise? Find out what to expect regarding the new features and functionality of Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010, and learn what you should be doing now to prepare for the road ahead.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Architects, Project Managers, Administrators, Business Users
Post Conference - SharePoint Developer CampWhen: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 9:30am Where: Johnson A This hands-on course will cover: The SharePoint API Custom Web Parts Custom Features Event Receivers Custom Authentication Providers A strong understanding of .NET and C# development is necessary to maximize your experience in this class.
Registrants will be provided a pre-configured workstation for this workshop. |
|