SharePoint Session Abstracts
Following is a sampling of the sessions that will be offered at The Experts Conference for SharePoint 2010. We will be adding additional sessions and abstracts as speakers are selected.
Keynote Sessions:
SharePoint Server 2010 Best
Practices…So Far
Speaker: Ben Curry
MVP and the author of Microsoft Press SharePoint Best Practices, will present emerging best practices for SharePoint Server 2010 deployments. He’ll share insight into early deployments and farm topologies including a drill down into SharePoint Server 2010 deployment and testing tools.
General Sessions
15 Gotchas when Migrating to SharePoint 2010
Speaker: Paul Swider
In this session we will review the top 15 things every developer should know when migrating to SharePoint 2010. Take a deep dive into the changes made to the object model, SharePoint Services, Business Connectivity Services and user interface enhancements.
Best Practices for Upgrading to SharePoint 2010
Speaker: Joel Oleson
While you may have heard about the upgrade methods of in-place and database attach, you may not have heard much about the visual upgrade decision process and the strength of the hybrid approach to cost and performance. In this session we’ll drill into the decisions and provide guidance and best practices on SharePoint Upgrade. You’ll see how the process is outlined and come away with tips and tricks to help you save time and money. Come hear this and more as we drill into SharePoint 2010 upgrade with Joel Oleson, the author of the SharePoint 2010 Upgrade book.
Building Social Applications on SharePoint 2010
Speaker: Paul Swider
How companies are going to make the shift from 1-to-1 relationships with their partners and clients to a one-to-many relationship can be a daunting challenge. Microsoft’s social computing tools are delivered as part of the collaboration infrastructure and integrated by design with Microsoft SharePoint 2010. In this session we will focus on understanding the widely accepted 10 rules for adopting Social technologies inside the corporate firewall using SharePoint 2010.
Claims Authentication in SharePoint 2010
Speaker: Richard Taylor
Claims Authentication is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 and understanding it will assist administrators in designing and maintaining robust infrastructures and help make implementing other functionality a little easier. Come to this session to understand how Claims Authentication works in SharePoint.
Implementing Multilingual Solutions with SharePoint 2010
Speaker: Spencer Harbar
Multilingual solutions present significant design and implementation challenges for SharePoint practitioners both on the Intranet and the Internet and thankfully SharePoint 2010 delivers some significant improvements in this space. See the new Multilingual User Interface (MUI) feature in action across SharePoint Sites and Metadata. Learn how to approach designing support for content translation within SharePoint Server. The improvements to the core Variations engine and the new end user focused features will be covered along with design guidance and advice for supplementing Variations with custom code. This session will be split 60/40 between demonstrations and lecture.
Managing a SharePoint 2010 Environment Using the System Center Line of Products
Speaker: Michael Noel
Visual Studio workflows and InfoPath Forms Services are a powerful team for your company’s business processes. Three examples of how you can leverage InfoPath within your custom Visual Studio workflows will be demonstrated. 1: how to deploy a workflow enabled form into a form library programmatically. 2: how to programmatically retrieve form data entered by a user. 3: how to leverage an InfoPath form to collect custom workflow initiation data and task edit data.
Rational Guide to implementing User Profile Synchronization
Speaker: Spencer Harbar
Get the real deal on configuring User Profile Synchronization in SharePoint 2010 in this demo and best practices heavy session. This session will cover the architecture of the new User Profile Synchronization capability in SharePoint Server 2010 and provide a walkthrough of the configuration requirements and setup eccentricities. This session will be split 70/30 between demonstrations and lecture.
Records Management Best Practices in SharePoint 2010
Speaker: Zlatan Dzinic
This session will cover best practices for using SharePoint platform in capture, classification, and ongoing management of records throughout their lifecycle. We will also cover the following in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Records Management:
- Setting policies and standards.
- Assigning responsibilities and authorities.
- Establishing and promulgating procedures and guidelines.
- Providing a range of services relating to the management and use of records.
- Designing, implementing and administering specialized systems for managing records.
- Integrating records management into business systems and processes.
SharePoint Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Search
Speaker: Zlatan Dzinic
Creating ECM strategy is an ongoing process of defining the resources, tools and goals for the components of ECM in your environment. It is an important tool for communication and collaboration which gives the authors the ability to create a body of knowledge for the company and a yard stick against which success can be measured. This course will focus designing your ECM strategy around SharePoint and other existing legacy applications that exist in your environment. This session is geared for Line of Business Managers, Project Managers, Administrators and Architects who have already deployed or are considering deploying SharePoint in their environment.
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search and FAST Search Deploying and Configuration
Speaker: Agnes Molnar
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search, especially with the features of the integrated FAST Search is better and more powerful than ever before. In this session, we will drive you through the deploying and configuration steps of both SharePoint 2010 out-of-the-box Search and FAST Search. We’ll also include deep-dive how-to information a lot of best practices for building the Search infrastructure.
SharePoint 2010 Document Management
Speaker: Agnes Molnar
SharePoint 2010 provides a lot of new capabilities in order to make document management much more effective. This session will show how to manage the information architecture behind an effective Document Management Solution, including managed metadata, document search infrastructure, organizing rules by various rules, etc. We will also explain how to manage online and offline access to the documents, what should you consider, what are the best practices and how to build and configure an effective DMS.
