Conference Day 3 - May 16, 2012

Mike will present SharePoint 2010 from the point of view of a typical end user of SharePoint going through a day of communication, collaboration and "finding stuff". Our SharePoint user is a member of a team spread across multiple locations and time zones and works for a rapidly changing company. They are using an un-customized install of SharePoint and have implemented a simple but effective governance plan.

This presentation will show:

• How SharePoint can pull teams together and make diverse information discoverable
• How the majority of what you need can be done without custom development
• How teams can build dashboards using out-of-the-box SharePoint features
• How a little planning and governance can make your users productive SharePoint users

AUDIENCE: Business Managers - IT Professionals - Project Managers

TOPICS: Business Solutions

Whether you're starting from the beginning or refreshing the look of an existing site, you can make your SharePoint 2010 site as easy to interact with and user-friendly as you desire. SharePoint comes with a variety of tools that will help you develop scalable and visually compelling sites quickly and reliably. In this session, we’ll start with basic do’s and don’ts and finish with a key practical demonstration that will help you create your very own custom designed site.

AUDIENCE: Developers

TOPICS: Development

Come take a look behind the scenes at a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise application implementation. It involves a hosted SharePoint 2010 Retailer Extranet integrating with on premise enterprise databases and a phased migration from a proprietary legacy Extranet. See how ASP.NET MVC applications and WCF services are used to integrated on-premise enterprise data with the hosted SharePoint application, and how custom .NET membership providers enabled distributed authentication involving the live migration of user accounts from a legacy database onto Active Directory.

AUDIENCE: Developers

TOPICS: Development - Architecture - Case Studies

In this presentation you will learn how to configure and use Visio Services to build workflows, applications and dashboards. By the end of this session you will say "I did not know I could do this with Visio".

AUDIENCE: Business Managers

TOPICS: Business Solutions

SharePoint 2010 contains its own version of the Microsoft Office Fluent UI, which was designed to make it easier for users to use and find features within a product. The new Ribbon interface is fully extensible, using SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio 2010. When you build solutions, extending the Ribbon should be included in your design. This session will walk you through how to use both these tools, highlighting the pros and cons of each tool.

AUDIENCE: Business Managers - Project Managers

TOPICS: Development - Business Solutions

There are many instances within business processes where it is helpful to capture thoughts and ideas from a customer or project team about documents. This session will discuss how to use workflow, markup, visualization, document capture and conversation tools to capture such input as part of a structured workflow. The session will provide a demonstration of the technology implemented using Case Management and Product Management examples.

Areas Covered:

• Capturing customer and team input
• Marking up a document and requesting input
• How to have an interactive input session within a workflow
• Integrating document viewing with workflow forms
• Calling an input gathering session from a structured workflow
• Keeping an audit trial for compliance purposes
• Utilizing third party tools to create a complete solution

This session is for you whether you have an existing public facing site that you want to replace or you are new to the world of .com. We’ll also discuss how to configure public facing sites, what security needs to be place and what features to leverage. We will also focus on the needs of your visitors and how to ensure a consistent experience. After this session, you'll have the knowledge to tackle the following key areas:

• Performance optimization
• SEO
• Branding guidelines
• Technical Architecture

AUDIENCE: Business Managers - IT Professionals - Information Architects

TOPICS: Development - Administration - Information Architecture - Business Solutions - Best Practices - Case Studies

Effective governance planning is one of the most important and critical factors for the ongoing success of SharePoint solutions – as important, if not more, than technology. A good Governance Plan is “necessary but not sufficient” to ensure success. You still have to ensure that the Governance Plan is applied. Successful SharePoint 2010 solutions are designed and developed with governance in mind so all SharePoint solution architects should understand governance concepts and best practices. This example-filled presentation provides detailed, practical recommendations for your SharePoint 2010 Governance Plan. Attendees will take away specific ideas that they can apply to create a sustainable governance plan for their SharePoint 2010 solutions.

• Ten steps to developing a successful governance plan
• Best practice examples of governance approaches that work
• Suggested approaches for making governance plans “consumable” by users

AUDIENCE: Business Managers - Information Architects - Project Managers

TOPICS: Development - Administration - Information Architecture - Business Solutions - Best Practices - Case Studies

Forget diamonds and dogs, PowerShell is the SharePoint 2010 administrator’s best friend. In this session we will show you how to accomplish many common administrator tasks with PowerShell. We will cover some installation techniques, object creation, and troubleshooting. By the end of this session the PowerShell console prompt will no longer feel cold and uncaring. Now PowerShell will feel warm and inviting, awaiting your commands. Experience with PowerShell is necessary to follow along in this session.

AUDIENCE: IT Professionals

TOPICS: Administration

Learn how to build hybrid solutions which bring local, on-premise data into the SharePoint Online (Office 365) cloud using Azure and other techniques.

AUDIENCE: Developers - IT Professionals

TOPICS: Development - Architecture - Business Solutions

This is a 200-level session intended for the IT managers and senior IT professionals responsible for the governance and long term management of SharePoint. This session discusses what governance means to organizations with SharePoint, examines the key elements of an effective governance strategy, and provides a roadmap of practical steps for anyone unsure of where to start or whether they have the right governance strategy in place.

See how K2 offers an easier way to build and automate process-driven solutions in SharePoint, plus provides the tools necessary to support the entire life cycle of your business processes, including workflow design and modeling, business data and enterprise system integration, reporting and analysis, and process administration. All without code!

• Learn about key concepts and best practices of Business Process Management
• See how the K2 platform can be used to reduce time and costs through rapid workflow creation and deployment
• Learn how K2 can leverage and enhance your existing Microsoft investments

Thinking of taking advantage of SharePoint’s rich platform features? Considering using it for document management, project management, a full Intranet solution, or perhaps a collaboration platform? Whether you’re a Business User or Project Manager, this session is for you. Come and learn how Fortune 500 companies are using SharePoint as a successful part of their business strategy. We will describe the reasons these organizations implemented SharePoint solutions, their strategy/vision, challenges faced, and key wins along the implementation path.

Key concepts addressed as part of our case studies include globalization, customization, centralization, and collaboration to name a few. You’ll even hear some real world-results!

Oh….and enter to WIN an iPod Touch that we will be giving away at the end of our presentation.

JQuery is the currently seen as an effortless and direct way to solve SharePoint problems. Most people jump into JQuery without really weighing the options and knowing what JQuery is all about. What is the real story with JQuery and SharePoint? Should you implement it?

In this session attendees will learn:

1. .Best practices for deploying JQuery
2. What can be done quickly in JQuery
3. Making use of third party libraries.
4. When should you not use it.

AUDIENCE:Developers

TOPICS:Development

With Windows 8 in the horizon, you should immediately start thinking about the applications that surface data from SharePoint and create a compelling user experience. Learn about the tools and techniques for surfacing SharePoint data in Metro style applications on Windows 8.

AUDIENCE: Developers - IT Professionals - Information Architects

TOPICS: Development - Architecture - Best Practices

This is a level 200-300 presentation, covering information for developers and IT pros to understand how SharePoint works, what different types of cache are available in SharePoint and how to configure and use them in order to enhance SharePoint performance in OOB features as well as custom developed ones.

We will cover:

• Caching
• Query throttling
• Code do's and don'ts
• Design do's and don'ts

* This is a new session I just did for the first time in SPSTC and got great reviews on content.

AUDIENCE: Developers - IT Professionals

TOPICS: Development - Administration

Session will focus on:

• How SharePoint online can help organizations of all sizes reduce costs (infrastructure), free up IT resources to focus on higher priorities and increase business agility (faster application deployment)
• What sharePoint workloads work well in the cloud vs workloads customers keep on prem and hybrid scenarios,while keeping a consistent end user experience.

AUDIENCE: Business Managers - IT Management - IT Professionals - Information Architects

TOPICS: Architecture - Information Architecture - Business Solutions

Lara will discuss the CIO Insomnia Project, a Robert Half Technology research initiative that examines the top challenges facing IT leaders and provides advice for addressing these issues, as well as employment trends within the IT field.

This is an introductory level session where we will be going through many of the trends seen in modern Intranets that are built on top of the SharePoint platform. The session will focus on everything from small custom or 3rd party web parts that are quick and easily to deploy and that effectively address common Intranet needs, to custom complex Intranet solutions that some Enterprises have chosen to deploy.

AUDIENCE: Business Managers - Information Architects

TOPICS: Information Architecture - Business Solutions - Case Studies

The session will provide you with a model to understand access management in SharePoint. Learn how users get the rights to view, change or delete content in SharePoint and how to map business requirements to SharePoint users and groups.

AUDIENCE: Developers - IT Management - IT Professionals - Information Architects

TOPICS: Development - Architecture - Information Architecture - Business Solutions

Like it or not, manually setting up a SharePoint Records Center site to process incoming documents requires a lot of steps. In addition, there are lots of ways to slice and dice your file plan to get the configuration just right. In this session, we'll explore the ins and outs of Records Center configuration, using a variety of tools (including PowerShell, Microsoft Excel and InfoPath) to setup your content types, retention formulas and routing rules correctly.

AUDIENCE: Developers - IT Professionals - Information Architects

TOPICS: Development - Administration - Information Architecture - Best Practices

The Activity Feed in SharePoint 2010 My Sites is great for tracking what your colleagues are up to – within SharePoint. But corporate employees still have many other siloed sources of internal and external notifications – CRM, timesheets, RSS, email alerts, system alerts, external social feeds. Rather than writing a unique connector between each of these systems and SharePoint, this hands-on session takes a step back and looks at how to use the SharePoint Social API to design an extensible "activity hub", so that everything a corporate employee needs to keep on top of is in one feed.

AUDIENCE: Developers - IT Professionals

TOPICS: Development - Architecture

Quickly build a real world workflow leveraging all the available technologies in the toolbox. We start with the basic design in Visio and then import into SharePoint Designer leveraging SharePoint lists and Business Connectivity Services content from external sources in order to create a end user customizable workflow.

AUDIENCE: Developers - IT Professionals

TOPICS: Development - Business Solutions

Do you have more than one SharePoint farm? This session will address a variety of use cases in which you may need to have more than one. Extranet’s, disaster recovery sites and geographically disperse sites, are examples that we will be discussing and showing different real world case studies. Metalogix offers solutions in SharePoint data moving from enterprise-class replication to simple migration tools.