Feb 2011

SharePoint 2010 is rich in features and functionality, but how does an organization create a business solution with them? In this session we will explore cost-effective means for solving real business challenges and creating meaningful solutions with the raw materials in SharePoint 2010. Real-world examples will be shown.

For years, the business and political landscape has seen incredible change with regard to the rules and regulations governing the stewardship of electronically stored and processed information. A flurry of new regulatory and statutory initiatives – prompted by several, high-profile corporate and government scandals – has made it imperative for organizations to develop and implement robust compliance strategies for their information management systems and IT infrastructure. Though Microsoft SharePoint has empowered organizations to realize unprecedented levels of productivity and efficiency, its adoption also presents distinct compliance-related challenges. This presentation will first briefly review the general principles underlying today’s regulatory and legal environment, then identify best practices and available solutions for translating these principles into robust, efficient, and cost-effective SharePoint compliance strategies.

SharePoint 2010 has taken the mystery out of building taxonomies! You will explore the taxonomy functionality in SP by defining terms, term stores and site collections and will build an actual taxonomy (and a folksonomy!) using term stores. Diving into the world of content management, we will create terms and tag them for sweat-free searchability within your site. This session will give you an overview of the Term Store Management Tool while you learn the differences between managed terms and enterprise keywords. Need help with managing your metadata? We’ll look at the Managed Metadata Service, illustrating the importance of managed metadata in the taxonomy realm. Taxonomies are not just for biologists any more!

Measuring the ROI or the financial impact of a SharePoint project is notoriously hard and provides great ammo to the detractors. This session will focus on identifying common pitfalls and techniques in defining and measuring the ROI of SharePoint projects. Audience will learn how to translate SharePoint business goals into measureable KPIs, define a value-statement and calculate an ROI or impact of the project. Presenters will focus on identifying tools and techniques that can be used to measure the direct and indirect benefits and converting them into an ROI statement.  

What is Office 365? Demo of Office 365 Administrator interface. Why you should consider hosting your SharePoint 2010 with Microsoft. What are the Limitations of Office 365 SharePoint 2010 vs. premise based SharePoint. Feature comparison of Office 365 vs. SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Cost of Office 365 SharePoint. Migration options from SharePoint premised based SharePoint 2003, 2007, 2010 and file shares. Sign up for beta access for Office 365 at www.office365.com

The market share for SharePoint has grown in leaps and bounds over the last few years, leading to many developers being told that they are now SharePoint developers. Developing for SharePoint is a strange new world; we will cover what’s new, what’s the same, the top things that every SharePoint developer should know, and a few things to make every new developer’s life easier.

This end-to-end solution based session will demonstrate how to leverage Visual Studio 2010 to generate site columns, content types, list definitions, and list instances. The site columns and content types will be incorporated into Search which will be customized for Advanced Search demonstrations.

This session will cover the architecture, benefits of usage , and walkthrough of building Pluggable Workflow Services - the new feature in SP 2010 Workflow.

JQuery is now a part of Visual Studio 2010 and is the single most powerful cross-browser tool for client-side scripting for SharePoint 2010 applications. With the decline of the document object model (DOM) in SharePoint 2010, this discussion will provide invaluable insight as of how to incorporate JQuery into SharePoint 2010 to increase dynamic content display and add interface enhancements as well as new functionality without access to the server. This session will show client-side script development improvements over MOSS 2007, using JQuery and the new ECMA scripting on SharePoint 2010. This session is targeted to SharePoint developers who seek to increase their skill set in the least amount of time.

SharePoint 2010, VS 2010 & TFS 2010 ALM tools help developers to improve code quality and metrics. ALM stands for Application Lifecycle Management - It is management & co-ordination of all software development lifecycle activities like requirements gathering, requirements modeling, code development, build process, testing activities and implementation events. Developers now can use all the ALM features of TFS & VS to develop quality SharePoint solutions . ALM is no longer just confined to .NET developers but to the SharePoint development as well. This session will demo TFS integration with SharePoint & Visual Studio and how developers can utilize ALM tools to deliver better quality conscious products to customers.

Pivot is a recently released technology for visually exploring the contents of an image based library. Pivot makes a rich front end to a digital asset library using taxonomy to classify its contents. This session will walk through Pivot, and how to apply Pivot as a viewer to a Digital Asset Library.

Discussion and demonstration of configuring SharePoint 2010 for user authentication via ADFS.  Also a discussion of claims issuance and using claims for authorization within SharePoint.

This session covers the basic concepts of branding your 2010 site for the non-designer. Well go over the basic idea's and concepts as well as perform a demonstration of how to transform your design into a live site. Well also go over the tools needed to get the job done.

Have you ever seen a SharePoint site that integrates reports from SSRS, and wonder how all the pieces fit? If so, this session is for you. I'll cover the necessary integration/configuration steps for integrating SSRS 2008R2 with SharePoint 2010, as well as deploying reports to a SharePoint location. I'll also show how to create custom web pages using SSRS web parts, as well as how to schedule reports for delivery to Sharepoint document libraries.

10 Basic SPD concepts 10 Tips to enhance your business processes 10 things to know below you even start a workflow 10 integration points of SPD 10 Limitations with SPD 10 things Microsoft didn't explain in SharePoint Designer

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

SharePoint 2010  with Performance Point Services provides rich platform for building  dynamic and highly interactive dashboard and score cards, that can then be used to measure and track business data to make well informed and effective business decisions. This session will cover configuration and use of Performance Point Services, Dashboard Designer, Business Intelligence Center Site, creation of rich dashboard and reports with filters using multi dimensional data.

BI is one of the major pillars of SharePoint 2010. It is baked in and not just an add-on capability. With Reporting Services, Excel Services, Visio Services and PerformancePoint Services there is so much there it can be a daunting task to design a coherent solution. This session will provide an overview on how each service is targeted, how they work and how they play together.

In this session, we will explore the new SSP – The Service Application. We will go into what makes this an upgrade from the old 2007 model. We will go into understanding the new architecture, where to find it, how and why would use it and finally scenarios on when to scale out your service applications.

In MOSS 2007, the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) was a very powerful control used for aggregating content from a particular list, site, or site collection. However, even though this web part was pretty awesome it still had some serious drawbacks. In SharePoint 2010, the CQWP has been greatly improved with a facelift, improved features, and cool new features. New features include the introduction of slots which simplify working with Item Styles and the Content to Content concept which provides functionality such as related content. Some improvements to the CQWP include dynamic filters and the CommonViewFields. The CQWP in SharePoint 2010 has also improved the query performance over large document libraries and lists. This session will demonstrate the new features and improvements in the CQWP in SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint 2010 provides many opportunities to render data from business intelligence applications. In this presentation, I'll show examples of building BI content in SharePoint 2010 using PerformancePoint Services, Excel Services, SSRS, and PowerPivot. Because I'm covering many applications, I won't be able to cover any one topic too heavily. But at the end of the presentation, the attendee will see several examples of how BI applications can use SharePoint 2010

This is a beginner level introduction to SharePoint 2010 and Content Deployment – this is not for developers. Discussion around setting up web applications, site collections, Paths and Jobs for a successful deployment will be covered. There will be discussion around how to set up SharePoint 2010 as a single farm within a Windows VPC development environment (virtual on) on a Windows 7 client (laptop).

We will look at SharePoint 2010 and the new social networking features and how they support and impact the concept of "communities" being enabled by SharePoint. This will include both a functional and technical perspective of the social networking features and the new My Site. We will look at an example of features in use, and discuss both application and management of these features. Finally, we'll discuss the value of social networking capabilities.

SharePoint has so many features and options. How do I map this to business needs? What is the best way to store data, enter data, validate entries, customize views, and export information? Do I need regular Search or FAST? Term stores or content types? Standard or Enterprise? Office 2007 or 2010? Should users create their own sites? Should they have MySites? How do I do that social network thing? Do I put my documents in file shares, document libraries, or record centers? Do compliance and eDiscovery work? Can users really do business intelligence and dashboards on their own? Should SharePoint Designer be banned? Do I need C# developers or just Office geeks? So many questions, but we have the answers!

In this session, we will try to bring users up to speed on the new features of Records Management in SharePoint 2010. We will go over the old Records Management in 2007 and try to bridge the gap for our users to understand how best to implement a records management environment for their SharePoint deployments.

Is your organization running MOSS 2007 and is now looking to the future at potentially upgrading to SP 2010 when it releases? Or maybe you are just curious and want to understand what necessities an organization will need to understand before moving to SP 2010. If you meet any of the above criteria then you will have to mark this session as a do not miss! This session will explain and go into detail the hybrid upgrade options when moving to SharePoint 2010. Attendees will be provided with a deep understanding of these approaches and if they are a good fit for their upgrade needs. Additionally this session will talk about some of the tools that should be used throughout the general upgrade process and best practices surrounding how to approach an upgrade.