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.
*All sessions will be presented in English.
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
Best Practices for Building a Community in SharePoint 2010
Speaker: Mark Miller
What does it take to build a globally recognized, online community from the privacy of your cube? In this session, Mark Miller discusses the techniques and resources he used for making EndUserSharePoint.com one of the largest SharePoint Community sites in the world in less than two years. He’ll share why he built the site, how the community developed, how he attracted world class authors, and what you can do to develop your own community of internal SharePoint users. Many people can tell you how to use SharePoint, but do you have a game plan for building a community on your site? Building an online community is not magic, but there are specific practices to following when setting up the content and context of the site.
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.
Enhancing the SharePoint Interface with jQuery Solutions
Speaker: Mark Miller
jQuery is an extremely powerful scripting library for any serious client-side developer of SharePoint. Within the past year, it has become the de facto standard for many SharePoint interface developers because of its ability to apply non-destructive solutions to SharePoint pages. Client-side developers such as Christophe Humbert, Paul Grenier, Peter Allen and Jan Tielens have provided the community with numerous jQuery solutions to common interface enhancements that would normally have to be done through access to the server.In this presentation, Enhancing the SharePoint Interface with jQuery Solutions, Mark Miller will examine free cut-and-paste jQuery scripts from the various jQuery solutions provided by the authors of EndUserSharePoint.com. He will cover how to create a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center and the advantage of having scripting resources reside within SharePoint. The jQuery solutions presented will include web parts that: Manage a calendar interface to take advantage of the entire browser window;Expose information across multiple site collections through LyteBox;Display deep metadata of objects exposed in a web part without drilling into a list or library;Dynamically read list data to expose charts, graphs and colored analysis dashboards;This presentation will give you ideas and methods for creating interfaces in SharePoint 2007 and 2010 that not only look good, but provide key functionality enhancements for your site’s End Users.
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.
Information Architecture and Managed Metadata Service
Speaker: Dan Holme
Join SharePoint MVP Dan Holme for a down-and-dirty, deep examination of the configuration and management of the Managed Metadata Service, and what the MMS does to support your enterprise information architecture. You’ll explore every nook and cranny of this powerful service application, and how to provide both centrally managed taxonomy and user-driven folksonomy for enterprise tags. You’ll also explore content type syndication and best-practice guidance for topologies to support your information architecture.
Powershell Quick-start for SharePoint 2010
Speaker: Dan Holme
Windows PowerShell has arrived, and if you have been waiting to learn PowerShell, you can wait no longer. SharePoint MVP Dan Holme will get you started in this practical, effective session. While you learn PowerShell fundamentals, you’ll learn how to perform daily operations tasks including the management of Web applications, site collections, and Web sites, content databases, managed accounts, and service applications.
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 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.
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 Mashups
Speaker: Daniel Wessels
Forms Services, Business Connectivity Services, Excel Services and many more are the building blocks of SharePoint. Each on its own provides rich functionality. But used together and combined with public internet service will unleash their real powers. See how to combine these blocks and how to create your own ones to build the enterprise applications you need.
