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  Session Track : Development (10) | | Creating Line of Business Applications with SharePoint | Development | 300 | With the advent of Open XML, it's now possible to create custom-generated Word documents for your organization. Becky will guide you through a business scenario where she'll be generating a composite Word document based on input that users have submitted through Forms Server to an InfoPath Forms library. She'll be reviewing how you can develop your own custom ribbons, as well as utilize SharePoint as a data source for your own custom Open XML documents. | Becky Bertram |  | | Dazzling SharePoint with Silverlight | Development | 200 | Silverlight and SharePoint are two up and coming technologies in the development world. SharePoint developers can create robust applications with a variety of tools, such as web parts, user controls, and workflows. Silverlight Developers can create aesthetically pleasing interfaces by harnassing the power of Expression Blend. In this session we will discuss how to blend together SharePoint and Silverlight. We will create some basic Silverlight Applications and discuss what changes a SharePoint Server needs before a Silverlight Application is viewable in a SharePoint Site Collection. | Becky Isserman |  | | It Doesn't Have to Look That Way | Development | 100 | SharePoint doesn't have to scream SharePoint site.In this session we will take a look at using SharPoint Designer (now free) to customize the look of your Sharepoint sites. We'll examine the use of Master Pages and some simple modifications you make to get started. Next we'll look at page layouts and how you can create your own for use in your SharePoint farms. Design outside the box. | Daniel Galant |  | | Building Business Intelligence Portals with MOSS and PerformancePoint | Development | 100 | Business applications need data, but business users need information. SharePoint provides a key framework for creating, securing, searching and displaying information. PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics Server provides the framework to build and deploy Business Intelligence elopements and dashboards which are displayed in SharePoint. This introductory class will examine how SharePoint portals and PerfomancePoint are used to provide business intelligence to business user | Darrin Bishop |  | | PowerShell and SharePoint - Yes we can. | Development | 100 | PowerShell and SharePoint - Yes we can.
PowerShell is Microsoft's rich object-oriented scripting shell. STSADM is SharePoint's terse command-line utility. MOSS 2007 and WSSv3 did not ship a rich PowerShell experience. But we can still leverage PowerShell to manage and automate MOSS and WSS. This session will overview PowerShell, Microsoft's new object-oriented scripting environment and demonstrate how you can create reusable PowerShell functions and scripts to create powerful automated SharePoint tasks.
| Darrin Bishop | | | Building Powerful WebParts with SharePoint 2007 | Development | 200 | Learn several ways to greatly reduce your SharePoint development and deployment time and avoid the mistakes that were learned the hard way. Discover the various tools that might fit in your development environment that can make your life easier. Being a successful SharePoint developer requires knowledge of a lot of various technologies. Learn how to put them all together and deliver powerful, flexible and reusable results. | David Walker |  | | SharePoint 3.5: Leveraging .NET 3.5 Language Features in SharePoint Development | Development | 300 | The new versions of C# and VB add several tools to a SharePoint developer's toolkit to enable more reliable, readable and efficient Object Model code. This session will review these features and provide some specific examples of how they can help you write better SharePoint code. I will also discuss SPSite and SPWeb disposal, and one strategy to minimize the risk of memory leaks. | Keith Dahlby |  | | Intro to SharePoint - Common admin/architecture/development hurdles | Development | 100 | This session will detail some of the development, architecture, and administration hurdles I’ve encountered since being thrown head first into the SharePoint world a little over a year ago. During that time I’ve created some small applications using only MOSS and SharePoint Designer (no custom code), helped set up an 8 server Production Farm for our organization, as well as make Taxonomical and Architectural decisions that are the basis for our SharePoint environment.
Attendees to this session will be exposed to:
1) SharePoint Designer & Creating no code SharePoint solutions
2) Great tools for quickly creating and deploying Custom Web Parts
3) Forms Based Authentication Limitations
4) Key Taxonomy decisions you should make when setting up your SharePoint environment
5) Quick run through of other SharePoint issues and discussion time
Will touch on:
- Basic Central Admin for creating sites
- Out of the box functionality to get going quickly using SharePoint designer
- Some tips and tricks
- Noting important dev aspects like creating SP dev environement on external HDD.
- Maybe a quick demo of retrieving and storing list data using SharePoint's Web Services. | Mark Rackley |  | | Aggregate Content Across Site Collections without Code using Search | Development | 200 | There are a number of reasons to use Site Collections in SharePoint 2007. A side effect from this decision, however, is that it is difficult to aggregate content across them. In this session you will learn how to use the Search Core Results Web Part and the Data View Web Part connected to the SharePoint search web service to aggregate content across site collections without code and still respect your list and site security. | Matt Bremer |  | | Introducing the Data Form Web Part | Development | 200 | A deep dive into using SharePoint Designer and the Data Form Web Part create Composite Applications, Dashboards, and Mashups. | Raymond Mitchell |  | | Session Track : Governance/Business (5) | | SharePoint and Workflow - The Perfect Combination to make your business Recession Proof | Governance/Business | 100 | This session will be about the key values of worklfow in a variety of forms. Much is out there about workflow and it can be confusing and overwhelming. What do you need to know? What can you do? how can SharePoint and workflow in combination be of tremendous value to you and your organization, especially in todays economic climate. | Chris Geier |  | | From Knee Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions - 12 Tips for Improving SharePoint Performance | Governance/Business | 200 | Over one dozen easy to implement performance tips. Tips will discuss a wide range of topics from adjusting out-of-the-box settings to identifying memory leaks in custom code. This discussion will benefit anyone currently designing a SharePoint implementation! Attendees will leave with several ways to improve the proactively improve the end user experience. | Dennis Bottjer |  | | Success with SharePoint, from Start to Finish | Governance/Business | 100 | This soup-to-nuts workshop will show you how to initiate a new project with SharePoint, whether it’s the first use of the technology at your company or the first use within a specific department. We’ll examine functional requirements; business requirements; how to get “buy-in” from staff unaccustomed to SharePoint; and how to train staff to use, administer and customize SharePoint.
Topics will include:
* Typical pain points in a SharePoint implementation
* Governance best practices
* Understanding what your organization wants to accomplish
* The platform’s big picture
* And much more.
| Errin O'Connor |  | | SharePoint Governance | Governance/Business | 100 | Are you having trouble getting folks interested in SharePoint? Is SharePoint out of control in your organization? Have you experienced SharePoint sprawl? In this session you’ll get a framework for governance on SharePoint. You’ll learn how to balance evangelism with economics. You’ll discover how guidance may be more effective at governance for creating a healthy ecosystem. | Robert Bogue |  | | Case Study: How Energizer Trained Users to Change | Governance/Business | 200 | Energizer didn’t just want to train users on how to use SharePoint and Office 2007, the company wanted to change the way users worked and expected user adoption of the new tools within six months of deployment. This session introduces the concept of scenario-based training and gives examples of how to integrate multiple products into hands-off seminars that will delight your users and drive them to hands-on training classes to learn more. Find out why you should host kick-off and train-the-trainer events as well as tips on how to find the perfect presenters within your organization for an in-house solution. | Tiffany Songvilay |  | | Session Track : Infrastructure (5) | | SharePoint Security and Forefront Suite | Infrastructure | 100 | So your organization has adopted SharePoint for its ECM needs. You've set it up properly and user adoption and satisfaction is high. You can even access you documents from any computer with internet access anywhere in the world. The client computer has anti-virus on it, so why should you care?
SharePoint opens up a door to collaboration but also opens up an organization to all the typical threats you'd expect like spyware and viruses.
Unless you are running a tool like ForeFront, you are not protected. Learn why and how ForeFront protects your organization while potentially simplifying end to end protection. Even better, you may already be licensed for using it whether you realize it or not! | Glenn Goldberg |  | | SharePoint Capacity Planning & Governance | Infrastructure | 200 | Capacity planning is one of the most ignored part of SharePoint deployment, after deployment and SharePoint becomes a wild fire administrators find themselves in tough situations. In this session we'll look at SharePoint Capacity planning, site collection usage, when to create and move to a new site collection, governance of your site collections and site. | Leonard Mwangi |  | | Accelerating SharePoint with Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure | Infrastructure | 100 | In cooperative tests with Microsoft, Citrix increased SharePoint file download speed up to 230x for a remote branch office. And the benefits extend beyond impressive speed improvements: customers have experienced 150 to 1 ratios of client-to-server connections and realized significant savings in server deployment costs. | Rick Davis |  | | SaaS - The SharePoint Easy Button | Infrastructure | 100 | Topic Details: Find out how to get on-demand IT infrastructure and expertise without a big capital investment. Forget budgets, steering committees and vendor dog-and-pony shows. Flip the switch and leave IT worries behind, so you can focus on your core business.
This session will highlight the benefits of hosting SharePoint in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment rather than on-premise. Benefits discussed will include significant cost savings, rapid deployment and access to SharePoint expertise. We will also cover what to look for in a SharePoint SaaS provider.
Level: Intro - Nearly anyone should be able to understand and appreciate the concepts discussed.
Take Aways: In this economic downturn, many companies are looking for ways to make their business more efficient with less capital investment. SharePoint SaaS solutions are a mature and viable option. Once you have chosen a trust-worthy SaaS provider, get ready to roll out quickly, save money and utilize SharePoint experts 24/7/365.
Target audience: IT decision makers, CIOs, CTOs, IT managers, IT Consultants and Small Business Owners | Robert LaMear IV |  | | Introduction to BPOS and SharePoint Online | Infrastructure | 200 | In today's competitive global market, businesses need technology that cost-effectively enables flexibility and adds value to their organization. Come see how the new Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) delivers hosted communication and collaboration tools that feature:
- Latest Business Productivity Capabilities
- Ease of Use
- Privacy and Rapid Disaster Recovery
- Greater Flexibility
- Improved Agility
- Business Class Security & Reliability | Todd Kitta |  |
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