Tuesday, January 27
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
W-1: GETTING UP TO SPEED AS A SHAREPOINT ADMINISTRATOR
By Todd Klindt and Shane Young
Are you new to SharePoint administration and ready to jump-start your skills? In this fast-paced workshop, we’ll start at the very beginning, with planning and deployment, and then will quickly escalate to more advanced topics, such as performance tuning and admin tricks and shortcuts.
Topics will include:
- How to properly install and provision new accounts
- Account troubleshooting and servicing
- When to use Kerberos and other authentication models
- Leveraging the power of SQL Server in SharePoint administration—with some cow jokes thrown in, just for laughs.
W-2: SUCCESS WITH SHAREPOINT, FROM START TO FINISH
By Errin O'Connor, Michael Goodloe, Ben Stegink and Alex Obraztsov, Rafael Perez
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.
W-3: MASTERING THE ART OF CUSTOMIZING THE SHAREPOINT USER EXPERIENCE
By Bjørn Furuknap
This workshop will teach you and your fellow developers the seldom-taught art of user experience customization, utilizing the entire spectrum of SharePoint customization options—down to the gritty details of field-rendering customization, custom listforms for lists and content types, writing your own fields, and other deep technical issues. You will learn how the default SharePoint user experience works and then study the options available for enhancing that experience.
W-4: SHARE AND YE SHALL FIND: DELIVERING CONTENT THAT USERS NEED
By Bob Mixon
"Findability" describes the way information is made available to those who require it. Since business users’ needs can vary tremendously, providing agility regarding the scope and context of information can be a monumental task. In this workshop, you will discover various ways of working with users to determine their specific needs and learn how to fulfill those needs using SharePoint. It's all about agile information aggregation, dissemination and search—come see how to make it work.
Half-Day Workshops
Tuesday, January 27 | Morning Session
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
W-5: CREATING AN INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
By Mark Ferraz
SharePoint creates an information architecture in which organizations can arrange and manage their data. This half-day workshop will identify opportunities for creating these architectures to generate value within your organizations. It will offer lots of tips and best practices for setting up data stores through which users can easily navigate to find the data they need. We’ll present key architectural concepts and then look at more-complex setups.
W-6: GETTING STARTED WITH SHAREPOINT DEVELOPMENT
By Jennifer Mason and John Ross
Too often, IT professionals know what they are trying to do with SharePoint but need some direction on how to get started. This workshop will help SharePoint Project Managers and technical leads gain an understanding of how to ramp up a team to start working on SharePoint projects, giving them a better understanding of the skill sets needed for specific types of SharePoint solution development, the tools available to help their organization gain the expertise needed, and direction on how to leverage the tools those tools to achieve their goals.
Tuesday, January 27 | Afternoon Session
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
W-7: LEVERAGING SHAREPOINT FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT
By Dux Raymond Sy
Inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor document management practices and undefined project collaboration standards can compromise project success. Previous attempts to address these problems using Microsoft Project Server and similar tools have proved to be quite complex and costly, and have met with limited success.
Never fear: SharePoint provides a framework that can empower organizations to create a standards-based project management information system (IS) with formal project management methodology. In this workshop, you’ll learn how SharePoint can be used to build a SharePoint-based IS, create and customize a SharePoint site for effective project collaboration, and monitor and analyze the project schedule and milestones in a SharePoint site.
W-8: LEVERAGING SHAREPOINT IN A SOA-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE
By Larry Reimann
SharePoint as Web service consumer and front-end application framework can play a vital part in a service-oriented architecture, with built-in functionality for user management, secure communication, business-process support and consistent user experience that can be leveraged for cost-effective, transparent and reusable solutions. When deploying SharePoint as an integrated part of a larger environment, there are challenges—some strategic, some practical—that have to be overcome. This class will show you what those are and how to deal with them.
Technical Classes
Wednesday, January 28 — 100 Series
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
101: TEAMING UP TO DELIVER COMPLEX SHAREPOINT APPLICATIONS
By Mark Ferraz
Executing design requirements using a team of developers can prove daunting with any technology. Creating the right team development environment and using the right tools are integral success factors when executing complex and/or lengthy iterative SharePoint development projects. In this class, developers and managers will gain an understanding of how the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) teaming model and appropriate tools, such as Visual Studio Team System, provide the solid foundation upon which effective team development practices and procedures can flourish.
102: PLANNING FOR A SUCCESSFUL SHAREPOINT PROJECT
By John Ross
Many companies forget the adage, "Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Planning properly for your SharePoint project can mean the difference between success and failure. This class will help business managers explore the mysteries of building a business case for SharePoint, setting expectations across the organization and avoiding common problems that SharePoint projects face.
103: To Be Announced
104: SHAREPOINT BEST PRACTICES: DOING IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME
By Errin O'Connor, Michael Goodloe, Ben Stegink and Alex Obraztsov, Rafael Perez
Implementing one SharePoint project is manageable. But try putting multiple solutions in place, then provisioning them, scaling for growth, doing antivirus planning and keeping content up to date and relevant. This class will show how establishing best practices for planning and requirements gathering, and for creating the proper architecture, can help you get your project right the first time.
105: MOVING TO SHAREPOINT: “WON’T EVERYONE NEED TRAINING?”
By Neville Attkins
SharePoint is a rich tool set that replaces company intranets and file shares, and augments e-mail, while providing new interfaces to preexisting applications. How to maximize ROI for this tool without blowing the budget on training must be a key deliverable for the larger organization. This class will help business managers identify users’ working styles and then create formal and informal support networks.
106: SHAREPOINT PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE
Microsoft instructor and details to be announced.
107: WORKING WITH SHAREPOINT APIs
Microsoft instructor and details to be announced.
Wednesday, January 28 — 200 Series
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
201: To Be Announced
202: BUILDING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PORTALS
By Darrin Bishop
Data is used everywhere and stored in every form, from rowsets to cubes to text, XML and HTML. Business applications need data, but business users need information. SharePoint provides a key framework for creating, securing, searching and displaying information. In addition, SharePoint provides the framework to display PerformancePoint dashboards, which provide the heavy lifting for advanced business intelligence. This class will examine how SharePoint portals and PerfomancePoint are used to provide business intelligence to business users.
203: SHAREPOINT SEARCH CONFIGURATION AND ADMINISTRATION
By Shane Young
Everyone knows that SharePoint Search is super cool, but to get the most out of it you have to set it up correctly. This class will cover how to configure search properly, with considerations for companies ranging from the super large to the super small. All of the hidden powers of search and how to use them will be revealed.
204: GETTING STARTED WITH SHAREPOINT WORKFLOWS
By Nicola Young
SharePoint Workflows sound like a great idea, but how do you get started? Custom workflows can streamline your business processes by automating them! This class not only will walk you through the built-in workflows included with SharePoint Server, but will also teach you how to create your own, custom workflows using SharePoint Designer so that your business can work smarter, not harder.
205: ADMINISTERING SHAREPOINT FROM THE COMMAND LINE WITH STSADM.EXE
By Todd Klindt
Sometimes, a SharePoint administrator needs the raw power of a command-line tool to get the job done. That's where STSADM comes to the rescue. STSADM is a command-line administration tool included with Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. In this class, you will learn about many tasks that can be performed using STSADM. See examples of scripts that can be created for leveraging STSADM to allow the efficient administrator to automate common tasks. Whether you have a single server or multiple farms, there is something in this class for you. We also cover some operations that can only be done with STSADM.
206: OFFICE AND SHAREPOINT: BETTER TOGETHER
Microsoft instructor and details to be announced.
207: WORKING WITH SHAREPOINT DESIGNER
Microsoft Instructor and details to be announced.
Wednesday, January 28 — 300 Series
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
301: TO CODE OR NOT TO CODE: SHAREPOINT CUSTOMIZATION VS. DEVELOPMENT
By John Ross
There are two primary options for creating functionality in SharePoint to meet your organization’s business needs: customization (no code) and development (code). This class will discuss the benefits of each approach and show you how to leverage them effectively to create a SharePoint implementation that provides maximum value.
302: SHAREPOINT SECURITY MANAGEMENT FOR THE BUSINESS USER
By Michael Lotter
The new site collection and subsite security capabilities in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services v3 are astonishing, but there are so many new options available that it’s hard to understand what is possible and how to manage security. This technical class goes into detail on how to use those options effectively, giving business users a dive into list-, library-, folder-, item- and document-level security.
303: HOW TO BUILD A CHANGE CONTROL SYSTEM IN A SHAREPOINT PMIS
By Dux Raymond Sy
In any project, it is critical to establish a change control process for tracking changes. This class will show how beneficial SharePoint can be for automating this process. You will learn how to leverage the benefits of a change control system, automate change requests and approvals utilizing SharePoint Workflows, and create a basic change control system out of the box.
304: BUILDING THE PLATFORM AS A SERVICE
By Errin O'Connor, Michael Goodloe, Ben Stegink and Alex Obraztsov, Rafael Perez
You’ve heard of software as a service (SaaS); now it’s time to think about SharePoint as a service (SPaaS). Is your organization’s SharePoint deployment an intranet solution, enterprise content management system, knowledge management solution, collaboration solution, business process automation platform or hybrid of the above? Your SharePoint platform should be built as a service to meet the business and functional requirements of your organization.
305: MAINTAINING DATA INTEGRITY
By Mike Watson
More business data than ever resides in SharePoint. To maintain business operations, you must ensure you can efficiently recover your critical data quickly and easily. It’s important to understand that backup and recovery are two separate processes with a singular goal and specific requirements. This session will cover the things you need to know about SharePoint backup and recovery. We will discuss where SharePoint data and configuration reside, the most efficient ways to backup SharePoint using the infrastructure that you already have in place, and what you need to know about your SharePoint environment for efficient recovery. We will also cover the limitations of native recovery tools, what to expect in a recovery situation and best practices in SharePoint recovery.
306: SOCIAL NETWORKING AND USER PROFILES FOR BUSINESS
Microsoft instructor and details to be announced.
307: SCALING WITH SHAREPOINT
Microsoft instructor and details to be announced.
Wednesday, January 28 — 400 Series
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
401: CUSTOMIZING THE SHAREPOINT USER EXPERIENCE, REVISITED
By Bjørn Furuknap
Did you miss the Tuesday workshop? Did you attend the workshop but crave more? In this class, we will explore how the SharePoint default interface is built, discuss lists and listforms, and show you how to modify built-in fields. If you’ve ever wondered how or why there is a toolbar above the new item forms, how the site actions menu is built or how the title field is rendered, then you’ll want to attend this class.
402: To Be Announced
403: SHAREPOINT ADMINISTRATORS: THE RELUCTANT SQL SERVER DBAs
By Todd Klindt
Are you a SharePoint administrator who has been thrust into the role of SQL Server administrator as well? In this class, we will go over some basic SQL Server features and configurations. We will cover why you should consider 64-bit SQL Server. We’ll explain what those pesky transaction logs are and what you can do to get them under control. Finally, we’ll go over some maintenance steps you should take to keep both SQL Sever and SharePoint happy. By the end of this class, you'll have a good understanding of SQL Server and how to make it cooperate with SharePoint.
404: HOW TO BALANCE WEB APPLICATIONS, APPLICATION POOLS AND SITE COLLECTIONS FOR OPTIMAL USE
By Bob Mixon
Understand various ways of balancing the use of these critical elements in your SharePoint solution. Discover techniques for gathering requirements specific to your business needs, and learn how to apply them in such a way as to build scalable infrastructure and configuration for your future.
405: CREATE AN ELECTRONIC FORM SOLUTION USING INFOPATH AND SHAREPOINT
By Nicola Young
Paper, paper, everywhere. There are so many forms in an office to keep track of that the task can overwhelm both the people who create the forms and those who fill them out. This class will show you how to ensure everyone is using the correct version of the form and create dynamic forms using InfoPath 2007 and the Forms Server capabilities built into SharePoint Server Enterprise.
406: SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTING NEW SOLUTIONS
By Jennifer Mason
Here's a beginning look at ways to encourage and gain excitement about new SharePoint solutions. This class focuses on implementing new solutions in the organization, including how to support them, how to communicate the changes, and how to generate end-user enthusiasm. You will learn what to look out for during implementation, including the pitfalls to avoid, how SharePoint-based solutions are different from other solutions, and the importance of learning from today's implementations to plan for tomorrow’s.
407: A DEEP DIVE: RICH CLIENTS AND SHAREPOINT WEB SERVICES
By John Milan
Just about everything a developer can do to manipulate data and lists on SharePoint Server can also be done with SharePoint Web services on the client. This class will explore how a rich client can use these capabilities to move data bidirectionally between desktop applications such as Microsoft Project and simple SharePoint task lists. Get ready for a few tips and tricks so that your solutions can scale beyond the sandbox to actual deployment.
Wednesday, January 28 — 500 Series
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
501: BUILDING COMPOSITE OFFICE BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
By Guy Cox
Many businesses are faced with the problems of versioning, inconsistency and maintaining evidentiary control of the data used to run their businesses. In this class, you’ll learn how to use documents as data and SharePoint as a single, authoritative source of business decision-making information, thereby greatly reducing reliance on inconsistent data for business decisions.
502: To Be Announced
503: SHAREPOINT: THE ULTIMATE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT LIBRARY
By Bud Porter-Roth
Information management is concerned with ensuring that company records and documents can be found when needed, destroyed when not needed, and held for legal and tax purposes. One of the single largest problems facing industry today is the almost total lack of control over day-to-day business documents. Many electronic document management systems exist today, but because of they are costly, complex, and difficult to use they are not fully integrated into our business environments. SharePoint offers users a "user managed environment" in which the user, with guidance, can create libraries and organize information according to his or her needs. This session will review some of the basic information management principles and how SharePoint libraries can be built and organized to meet information management needs.
504: DAZZLING SHAREPOINT WITH SILVERLIGHT
By Becky Isserman
Silverlight is a new tool created to enrich the user experience in Web applications. SharePoint is an enterprise collaboration platform that fulfills a host of responsibilities, such as content management and collaboration. When combined, the two technologies can complement one another through a rich user interface experience. In this session, we will cover how to create Silverlight Controls in Expression Blend 2.0 to enhance the SharePoint user experience. We will also discuss how to use these controls in SharePoint with very minimal efforts.
505: OPTIMIZING INFORMATION SECURITY IN SHAREPOINT
By Mark Ferraz
Information security is an important consideration when you decide to deploy any technology solution, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is certainly no exception. Protecting information and information systems from unauthorized use, modification, disruption and destruction is fundamental to the success of your implementation. This class explores key information security concepts and practical application of best practices for securing SharePoint.
506: SHAREPOINT WORKFLOWS – FROM OUT-OF-THE-BOX TO OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD
By Derek Neiding
The options for creating simple to complex workflows in SharePoint -- where no programming is needed – will be explored. The capabilities of the out-of-the-box workflows, and their pros and cons, will be examined. Then the focus will turn to the workflow capabilities of SharePoint Designer and we will summarize its strengths and weaknesses. Finally, we will look at third-party add-ons to SharePoint that allow for out-of-this-world workflows with no programming.
507: To Be Announced
Thursday, January 29 — 600 Series
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
601: FAST TRACK TO SHAREPOINT FEATURE GENERATION
By Bjørn Furuknap
Writing features can be a tedious task. Writing site definitions and list templates from scratch can be a nightmare—and that is long before we get into content type definitions. There must be an easier way! This class will teach you some tricks and tools that will greatly decrease the time needed to create features for SharePoint. Starting with a blank solution in Visual Studio, we will generate a complete SharePoint solution, including custom site definitions, list templates and content types. CAUTION: You should know ASP.NET and at least have a cursory knowledge of XML. Oh, and read up on the contents of the Template folder in the 12-hive. If you don't know what that means, this deep-dive class probably isn't for you.
602: INTO THE WILD: THE CHALLENGES OF CUSTOMIZED SHAREPOINT APPS IN RELEASE
By Andreas Grabner
This class will examine the real-world challenges of customized SharePoint applications when they are released “into the wild.” We will consider why such applications almost always work on the developer's machine—and why they often fail in production. Web parts and lists are the main focus in this advanced class.
603: SHAREPOINT DIRECTORY MANAGEMENT
By Michael Lotter
One of the new capabilities in SharePoint Server 2007 is SharePoint Directory Management Service, on the Incoming e-mail page in Central Administration. This class will cover the purpose, capabilities and technical details of SharePoint Directory Management Service.
604: PROTECT AND DEFEND YOUR DATA
By Jason Medero and Christopher Regan
With most SharePoint implementations storing critical business data, it is crucial that this data be protected and quickly restorable in the event of a disaster. Learn how utilizing Data Protection Manager 2007 as your backup/restore/disaster recovery solution provides a full-fidelity solution with granular control. We will walk you through the initial configuration of DPM as well as setting up a recovery farm.
605: To Be Announced
606: ADMINISTERING SHAREPOINT USING POWERSHELL
By Darrin Bishop
SharePoint provides many interfaces to manage and administer your SharePoint farm. Many administrators now know about Microsoft PowerShell and how it can greatly improve your command-line administration experiences. This class will give an overview of Microsoft's new object-oriented scripting environment and demonstrate how you can create reusable PowerShell functions and scripts to create powerful, automated SharePoint tasks.
607: SHAREPOINT REPLICATION TIPS – CONSIDERATIONS FOR AN EFFECTIVE INFORMATION SHARING STRATEGY
By Andrew Yeung
Many leading organizations look to Microsoft SharePoint as an essential online collaboration platform and enterprise-wide content repository. In order to provide continuous, reliable information access to geographically dispersed audiences, a high performant content replication strategy must be employed. This webcast will discuss key considerations to ensure a successful SharePoint replication strategy. We will examine issues such as conflict resolution for two-way replication, synchronization of content, configuration and securities, as well as optimizing network bandwidth consumption.
Learn about:
• Changing trends and requirements in the 21st century globally distributed workforce
• Deployment strategies for reliable, global, ubiquitous access to Microsoft SharePoint
• Solutions to address latency, contention, congestion over a wide area network (WAN)
• Comprehensive replication of SharePoint content, securities, and configurations
Join us for an engaging and informative discussion, and learn about key considerations for an efficient and flexible approach for replicating collaborative workspaces, document libraries, and other critical assets across a geographically distributed SharePoint deployment.
Intended Audience: IT Administrators, SharePoint Administrators, Architects
Prerequisites: Experience with SharePoint installation, deployment, and administration
Thursday, January 29 — 700 Series
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
701: SHAREPOINT CONTENT TYPES: KEYS TO MANAGING INFORMATION TAXONOMY
By Bob Mixon
Building an enterprise-class information and metadata mapping for an information asset management system can be a complex task. In this class, learn how to take an enterprise-class information taxonomy and apply it to SharePoint content types, which can then lead you to successful information aggregation and relevant search results.
702: 10 QUICK WINS WITH SHAREPOINT — AND NO CODE!
By Joshua Haebets
Beginners, or even longtime users seeking shortcuts, will learn how to create business excitement and acceptance of SharePoint using no code. This class will offer 10 quick demonstrations of how to create and implement some SharePoint features using only the UI and SharePoint Designer. These will include expense forms, leave forms, interface customization (using CSS and MasterPages), document migration tools and adding icons to Web parts.
703: CUSTOMIZING SHAREPOINT SEARCH
By John Ross
Search within SharePoint is extremely powerful right out of the box. This class will show you how to get the most out of the search functionality—without writing any code! It will discuss the search components and how they work together, and show you how to create advanced searches, customize search results and create custom search solutions that deliver content to your users in fewer clicks.
704: TUNING MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN SHAREPOINT
By Michael Lotter
SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services have more functionality—and more screens and options for performance—than did their predecessors, so tuning memory management has become a necessary action to make the farm run smoothly. This class will get into the details on what can be done to set up efficient farm memory management.
705: SHAREPOINT WITH WINDOWS 2008 AND SQL 2008
By Todd Klindt
Now that Windows 2008 and SQL Server 2008 are out, should you put them into service in your SharePoint farm? Absolutely! In this class, we will show the exciting new features of Windows 2008 and how each of them can be leveraged by the SharePoint administrator. We will also look at some exciting new functionality in SQL Server 2008 and show how it can be used in a SharePoint environment.
706: CASE STUDY: HOW ENERGIZER TRAINED ITS USERS TO CHANGE
By Tiffany Songvilay
Energizer didn’t just want to train its users on how to use SharePoint and Office 2007; it wanted to change the way its users worked, and it wanted to see user adoption of the new tools within six months of deployment. This class will show you the resources you’ll need to see results.
707: To Be Announced
Thursday, January 29 — 800 Series
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
801: BUILDING SCALABLE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE SHAREPOINT APPLICATIONS
By Andreas Grabner
While the development of SharePoint-based services is relatively easy, making them perform and scale can be a real challenge. This class will show you code in the SharePoint Component Model, so you can learn about what the framework is doing under the hood when it is used by a WebPart or an external application. This insight is vital in order to build high-performing and scalable applications based on SharePoint.
802: INTEGRATING SQL SERVER 2005 REPORTING SERVICES WITH SHAREPOINT
By Christopher Regan
Microsoft provides the aptly titled SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to make the job easier, yet many SharePoint administrators and IT professionals run into many issues during setup. This class is designed to show how to set up the add-in correctly the first time, and how to use its many features. As a bonus, learn how to deploy the reports through Visual Studio—without having to write a line of code!
803: IMPLEMENTING A CUSTOM NAVIGATION SOLUTION FOR SHAREPOINT
By Ben Stegink, Rafael Perez
Does your SharePoint implementation have multiple site collections and no good way to navigate among them, or a “quick launch” with too many items to scroll through? Have you ever wanted to create your own quick-launch navigation using a Web part that can be customized to show links based on criteria you set or filters within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server? This session will cover several options for implementing a custom navigation solution within your SharePoint farm, either by using out-of-the-box SharePoint functionality or by adding third-party Web-part solutions to allow customized navigation in your farm among various site collections, Web applications and even non-SharePoint sites.
804: To Be Announced
805: A SIMPLE, OUT-OF-THE-BOX PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
By John Milan
The SharePoint Server Enterprise package offers a lot of powerful functionality out of the box that can introduce real collaboration between project managers and their teams. This class will show you how to build a simple project plan and use the Web parts that come with SharePoint to run a simple project. Then you will learn how to scale it to run larger projects and report the results.
806: DATA MOVEMENT, STORAGE, ARCHIVING AND RECOVERY
By Randy De Meno
Among the benefits of SharePoint is the ability to archive, restore, recall and protect data, and to provide disaster recovery for SharePoint. CommVault will discuss Windows Centric Data Management for SharePoint and offer demonstrations of these capabilities. The ability to assist and accelerate upgrades to SharePoint 2007 by making SharePoint data “release independent” will be showcased. Key management of SharePoint’s environment (Active Directory, Exchange, Windows) will also be touched upon and demonstrated.
807: To Be Announced
Thursday, January 29 — 900 Series
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
901: To Be Announced
902: EXCEL SERVICES AS A BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTION
By Jeremy Beaumier
The disadvantage of using Microsoft Excel for mission-critical data is that it tends to spread out in the organization with no effective means to tie workbooks into business intelligence tools. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 overcomes this challenge through the implementation of Excel Services, which give you the ability to consolidate workbooks into a common document library and publish the spreadsheets, charts and graphs into a SharePoint site. This class will cover Excel Services components, key performance indicators, and how to use Excel Services in dashboards.
903: ECM, EXTRANETS AND CUSTOMIZATION
By Errin O'Connor, Michael Goodloe, Ben Stegink and Alex Obraztsov
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007’s capabilities out of the box are extremely powerful, but adding advanced and customized solutions will take your SharePoint implementation to a whole new level, ensuring its success within your organization. Learn how to “kick it up a notch” with advanced ECM configurations; implementation of an external security model solution; and customizations such as custom Web parts, workflows, master pages and other third-party solutions.
904: INTEGRATING SHAREPOINT WITH ERP – AND NO HARD-CODING!
By Jeff Singleton
One key to the success of Jeff Singleton's strategy while CTO at global marketer Kaz Inc. was to avoid extending and customizing ERP; instead, leveraging SharePoint solutions to resolve business process, workflow and Webform, issues. Jeff was able to successfully introduce the functionality of SharePoint alongside ERP deliverables in fulfilling Kaz end-user business process improvement requirements. In this class, he'll discuss how he did it.
905: BEST PRACTICES IN SHAREPOINT BACKUP AND RECOVERY
By Andrew Yeung
Protection from unexpected data loss is a vital concern for today’s SharePoint administrators. How can you ensure that your SharePoint backup policies are governed appropriately by your organization’s business processes to promote system protection? Learn how to safeguard your content and maximize application availability, with key considerations specific to your SharePoint environment based on departmental, functional or organizational requirements.
906: SHAREPOINT AND SEARCH SERVER: GETTING THE RIGHT RESULTS EVERY TIME
By Joshua Haebets
SharePoint provides a great platform for enterprise search. Now, with the release of Search Server 2008, you can pull together information from a range of sources. This class will demonstrate how to set up and configure Search Server within your SharePoint environment. Configuration will include creating federated search queries to allow you to query external data sources such as websites, CRM systems and even third-party data sources. The second part will cover presentation of search results to the end user, including customizing XSL, sorting results and creating a search center where end users can find the results they need first time, every time.
907: To Be Announced