THURSDAY, FEB. 11 • 100 SERIES
9:30 am – 10:45 am

101: Building Custom Business Process Solutions
Phillip Wicklund
Visual Studio workflows are a powerful tool to help you automate your business processes within SharePoint, and this presentation will walk you through 10 easy steps to workflows, as well as some advanced techniques for workflow development.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers

102: Best Practices in Gathering Requirements for SharePoint
Dux Raymond Sy
The key to a successful SharePoint implementation is properly developing requirements. A lot of people know this; however, only a handful of folks truly understand what it takes to do this right. In this session, you will learn key techniques in effectively eliciting, analyzing, prioritizing, validating and documenting requirements for SharePoint projects. In addition, you will be able to identify key components of the requirements gathering process; why requirements traceability is paramount in defining ROI in SharePoint projects; and why having a well-defined business case is necessary to effectively initiate requirements gathering.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Business users, project managers, architects

103: Welcome to PerformancePoint for SharePoint
Peter Serzo
PerformancePoint is Microsoft's business intelligence delivery tool that now is merged into SharePoint Server. PerformancePoint contains scorecards, dashboards and analytic capabilities that give users unprecedented power to create rich views of data. This session will provide an understanding of the features of PerformancePoint Services and how it integrates with SharePoint, as well as insight into what users can do "out of the box."
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Business users, project managers

104: Putability: Organizing Information in SharePoint
Bill English
In this session, you'll learn about the tools and best practices for organizing information in SharePoint Server 2010. This session will focus on the Managed Metadata Service and the business-layer processes that will need to be implemented in order to improve the organization of information in SharePoint. In addition, notes from the field on how to create URL structures and navigation aids will also be discussed as methods of organizing information in SharePoint. This session is intended for those who are responsible for information compliance and management, such as taxonomists, librarians and any other position whose focus is on ensuring that users can find information quickly and easily within SharePoint. This session will prepare you for session 404 (Findability: Delivering Content to Users Quickly and Easily).
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: IT administrators, architects, power users, project managers

105: Making the Most of Out-of-the-Box Web Parts
Laura Rogers
This session will demonstrate just how flexible and useful the out-of-the-box Web parts are in MOSS 2007, and will include a detailed look at the Filter, KPI, Excel Web Access, Outlook Web Access and Business Data Catalog Web Parts. Attendees will be given a demonstration on customizing some of these Web Parts using SharePoint Designer.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Business users, project managers, developers

106: Rearchitecting Your SharePoint 2007 Farm into a SharePoint 2010 Farm
Michael Noel
Significant architectural changes have been made between SharePoint 2007 and 2019, including the removal of the infamous Shares Services Provider and the ability to have redundant indexing functionality in a farm. In addition, the number of databases in a single farm has increased significantly, and Microsoft has overhauled the authentication model used by SharePoint. This session focuses on outlining how the changes in SharePoint 2010 architecture allow for new design scenarios, and how you can prepare to rearchitect an existing SharePoint 2007 farm into a SharePoint 2010 farm.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: Administrators

107: Preparing to Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Today, Part I
Joel Oleson
Don't wait around for SharePoint 2010 to ship. There's so much you can be doing now to prepare for the new software, from using assessment tools, to fixing and addressing problems identified with tools shipping in the latest updates. This session will explore various strategies and upgrade considerations for planning and preparing today.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: IT administrators, developers, business users, architects

108: The New Pillars of SharePoint 2010
Paul Swider
Many of the terms formerly describing SharePoint have been changed. In this session get an overview of the new pillars and how they can be positioned while discussing the platform with your peers, employer or clients. At the end of the session you will be able to describe what features are included in each of the new pillars - site, communities, content, search, insights and composites.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Business users, architects

THURSDAY, FEB. 11 • 200 SERIES
11:30 am – 12:45 pm 

201: Under My Thumb: Five Tips for Making SharePoint Behave
Jason Dearinger
In a report entitled "The Growing Importance of Microsoft SharePoint", Osterman Research found that labor is a huge cost of managing SharePoint, on average $45 per user per month. One of the factors contributing to this situation is complexity. Keeping SharePoint available and operating at peak performance requires the proper setup, configuration, and maintenance of SharePoint Server, as well as Internet Information Server (IIS), SQL Server, and related storage and network infrastructure. This session will present the five tips that make SharePoint easier to control and manage.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: IT administrators

202: Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Branding
Randy Drisgill and John Ross
This session will introduce the topic of branding as it relates to SharePoint 2010. It will begin with creating a simple branded website using the new SharePoint 2010 themes engine, and then the session will transition into creating a more advanced branded site using master pages and page layouts. Throughout the session, we will discuss technologies that have changed in SharePoint 2010, including W3C-compliant HTML design and new controls such as the SharePoint Ribbon. By the end of the session, attendees will have a basic understanding of how to make their SharePoint 2010 website look more like their existing corporate Web design.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers

203: Creating a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center
Mark Miller and Christophe Humbert
One of the problems with implementing client-side solutions in the SharePoint interface is the duplication of scripting resources throughout various locations of a site, site collection or farm. In this session, Mark Miller, Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com, will be working with Christophe Humbert to walk through the creation of a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center, a central respository for all scripts and resources used within a SharePoint implementation for clientside interface enhancements. Christophe will be logging in live from Shanghai to demo many of the solutions that have made his site, Path to SharePoint, one of the most popular SharePoint jQuery scripting resources in the world. He will give first-hand experience on best practices for creating and maintaining resources so that they are available to any site manager that would like to implement a client-side solution in their SharePoint environment.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: IT administrators

204: Getting Started With SharePoint Workflows
Jennifer Mason
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 will not only walk you through the built-in workflows including in SharePoint Server, including SharePoint 2010, but will also teach you how to create your own custom workflows using SharePoint Designer so that your business can work smarter, not harder.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic/Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Business users, architects, developers

205: Building a Solid Information Architecture With SharePoint 2010
Mauro Cardarelli
Whether you are new to SharePoint or a seasoned MOSS veteran, the definition of your information architecture for your SharePoint 2010 deployment involves lots of planning and design work. This session is geared specifically to that task. You will be walked through the process of assessing your current environment, interacting with business users to collect key stakeholder requirements and putting it all together into an action plan. This highly interactive presentation is not a showcase of new features but rather a working session on how to develop a solid process around the development of your SharePoint 2010 information architecture. Discussion points will include site collection(s) determination, security model requirements, site navigation definition and putting it all together into an information architecture roadmap document.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: Architects, IT administrators, developers

206: Administering SharePoint 2010 With PowerShell
Todd Klindt and Shane Young
Just when we SharePoint Admins got comfortable with STSADM, Microsoft put this PowerShell thing in SharePoint 2010. In this session, we'll cover some PowerShell basics and basically get people warmed up to the idea of these crazy things called Objects and Properties and Methods. Then we'll cover how some common SharePoint 2010 administrative tasks would be performed with PowerShell. We'll finish up with some advanced PowerShell scripts we've used.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: IT administrators

207: Upgrading to SharePoint 2010, Part II
Joel Oleson
Upgrade, in SharePoint 2010, has two methods, but don't dismiss upgrade as a simple task. This session will look at the upgrade methods, from the new features in the "in place upgrade" to the strategies of "database attach," and analyze the question, ‘Is gradual upgrade really dead?' Attendees will come away with strategies, best practices and tips and tricks for your upgrade to SharePoint 2010.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: IT administrators, developers, business users, architects

208: Driving End-User Adoption
Scott Jamison
Do you believe in SharePoint, but feel your hard work is not understood or appreciated?  Do you see the value SharePoint can deliver, but feel your investment is wasted?  If so, join this session to learn real-world strategies and best practices for driving end user understanding, appreciation, and adoption.  This session will walk you through common end-user adoption situations.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Business users, IT administrators, developers, architects

THURSDAY, FEB. 11 • 300 SERIES
1:45 PM – 3:00 pm

301: Simplifying Web Part Development
Mike Frizzell
ASP.NET developers have always had two options for building controls for applications: user controls and server controls. Although server controls have their benefits, developers tend to gravitate toward user controls because of the designer support for building out the UI. SharePoint web part developers are restricted to the server control realm, which offers no UI designer support and often requires a great deal of code to define the UI directly in the control itself. Even simple UI changes require sifting through web part code to determine where to make the change, and then the web part needs to be recompiled and redeployed before the change takes effect. This session illustrates the use of templated web parts, an architectural technique that separates web part logic into the server control and the UI into one or more user controls. Developers are then free to use the designer tools in Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer to build out the UI for Web parts, and can make UI changes without the need to recompile or redeploy their Web parts. Templated wed parts also promote code reuse because project-specific UI elements are maintained separately from the core Web part logic. As an added bonus, it also contains built-in support for AJAX.NET components.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: Developers

302: SharePoint's Federated Search and Social Networking
Eric Harlan
With so much focus on SharePoint 2010 and some of the new search aspects related to the new release, it's important to understand some of the features that got us to this point. This session will include a very quick overview on upgrading SharePoint to Server Pack 1 and upgrading with the infrastructure update. Then, the focus will shift to incorporating the Web parts and pulling structured data into SharePoint search results from various internal and external sources. Taking it a step further, you will learn how to use those incoming data sources from social networking and Web 2.0 sites to  integrate data into SharePoint.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE
AUDIENCE: IT administrators, power users, architects

303: Building Solutions using the Business Data Catalog in MOSS 2007
Brett Lonsdale
This session will show you how to use the BDC in SharePoint 2007 to build data-orientated dashboards and display KPI's on line-of-business data, build custom web parts to present business data, and use business data throughout your Office applications using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: Developers

304: Enforcing Consistency Across SharePoint Servers with DCM
Michael Noel
SharePoint administrators with multiple servers in a farm can find it challenging to keep server configuration consistent. Variations between the configuration of Web role servers can lead to errors when rendering content or using Web parts, and can create an inconsistent look and feel for users. Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 product contains a little-known component called Desired Configuration Management that allows administrators to be able to enforce consistency across multiple servers. This session focuses on using DCM in a SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010 environment and discusses how it can be used to improve the overall management of a SharePoint farm.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: Administrators

305: Migrating Custom Branding From MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010
Heather Solomon
In this session, you will learn how to compare your old CSS and master page designs to the new look and feel provided by SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010, gain insight into the branding code changes and learn what you need to include in your branding files as you migrate to the newest version of SharePoint. Be ready to hit the ground running with the new code, new CSS and new possibilities with SharePoint 2010 branding.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: Developers, administrators, power users

306: Planning for the New Services Application Architecture
Matt Passannante
This session will introduce participants to the new Services Application Architecture within SharePoint 2010.  You will begin by reviewing the history of service deployment within SharePoint.  Next, you'll examine the existing set of Service Applications offered within SharePoint 2010.  You will then obtain insight into the proper configuration and deployment of Service Applications, and learn from real-world experience as to how these concepts must be evaluated and applied in order to plan and deploy a proper site architecture and information taxonomy for your SharePoint 2010 implementation.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE:IT administrators, architects, business users

307: SharePoint 2010 Governance
Errin O'Connor
In this session, Errin O'Connor will discuss real-world SharePoint 2010 governance strategies that he and his team at EPC Group have already implemented at large organizations throughout the United States. SharePoint 2010 has three times the functionality of SharePoint 2007, which makes governance of this powerful platform even more important that it was in previous version of SharePoint. Errin will also focus on "Real Time Operational Governance." This session will not only show how SharePoint's functionality should be governed but how to "drive the SharePoint ship", "maintain the SharePoint ship", and "dock the SharePoint ship." Operation Governance is a major piece that a large number of organizations fail to take into consideration when implementing the solution and this session is geared toward opening your eyes to what you really should be looking at when you think of "SharePoint Governance."
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: administrators, architects, business users

308: Improving the SharePoint Search Experience
John Ross
Search within SharePoint is extremely powerful, right out of the box. This session will show you how to get even more out of the search functionality – without writing any code! We'll discuss the search components and how they work together. You'll see how to create advanced searches that give users specific results, how you can customize the search results, and how you can create custom search solutions that deliver content to your users in fewer clicks.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE
AUDIENCE: IT administrators, architects

THURSDAY, FEB. 11 • 400 SERIES
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM

401: SharePoint, jQuery and the Content Editor Web Part
Peter Serzo
jQuery is the newly supported compact, opensource JavaScript framework in the Microsoft ecosystem. It can be utilized by SharePoint sites to do branding, and it can be used to add new Web 2.0 functionality without creating Web parts that must be compiled and live on the server. This session is an introduction to the jQuery framework, including a review of how to integrate the Content Editor Web Part with jQuery.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers

402: Best Practices in SharePoint User Management
Dux Raymond Sy
SharePoint's empowering capability to create collaborative sites allows site owners to define membership and user permissions easily. However, it can be a double-edged sword, especially if these permissions aren't well-managed. In this presentation, you will learn the fundamentals of SharePoint membership and permissions; effective techniques in identifying user communication and information needs; how to map a communications plan to SharePoint site membership; and best practices in managing SharePoint user permissions.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Project managers, business users, power users, IT administrators

403: Creating an Electronic Form Solution Using InfoPath and SharePoint
Laura Rogers
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.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic/Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Business users, power users, architects

404: Findability: Delivering Content Users Need
Bill English
Building on session 104, this presentation will discuss how to pull information out of a SharePoint environment quickly and easily. This session will focus on how to use the Search technologies effectively, as well as the business-layer processes that will need to be implemented in order to improve the organization's use of Search technologies. We will discuss Findability topics such as Relevance, Recall and Precision along with the thorny issues of e-Discovery and Data Breaches. This session is intended for those who are responsible for information compliance and management, such as Taxonomists, Librarians, Power Users, Administrators, Project Managers and any other position whose focus is on ensuring that users can find information quickly and easily within SharePoint. This session will build on Session 104 (Putability: Organizing Information in SharePoint Server 2010).
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: IT administrators, power users, project managers

405: Backup and Recovery With SharePoint 2010
Todd Klindt and Shane Young
Now that you've got this shiny new SharePoint 2010 farm stood up, how are you going to protect the data in it? In this session we'll cover the backup and recovery options in SharePoint 2010. We'll cover how the options you're used to in SharePoint 2007 have changed, and the new options you'll have available to you. I don't want to spoil the ending
but we're going to demonstrate "unattached restores" and other amazing feats of strength.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: IT administrators

406: SharePoint 2010 Workflow Improvements
Mike Fitzmaurice
Workflow in SharePoint 2010 has been revamped with a new designer for building both reusable workflows and list-based workflows. Come and learn about the new possibilities for building workflows in SharePoint 2010 and integrating it with Visio and InfoPath. This talk will describe the new workflow features and demonstrate how SharePoint 2010 can be used to create rich end-to-end workflows, and how to prototype workflows in SharePoint Designer for further development in Visual Studio 2010.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Architects, IT administrators, developers

407: Working Offline with SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Workspaces
Joshua Haebets
SharePoint Workspaces is the client for SharePoint 2010. Groove gave us the ability to take SharePoint 2007 content offline, SharePoint Team Workspaces takes that to the next level. This session will begin with a walk through the components that make up SharePoint Workspace and the administration considerations. We will then take you through the workspace experience, working with documents and lists and managing versions and document editing. We will then dive into taking line-of-business data offline using BCS, InfoPath and SharePoint Workspaces and how you can build offline applications.  Real business scenarios will be shown in this session to give you and your business some ideas as to how Workspaces can help your mobile and disconnected workforce communicate and collaborate with those in the office.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic/Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Business users

408: Case Study: Rebuilding SharePoint 911 on SharePoint 2010
John Ross and Randy Drisgill
This session will discuss steps that were taken to convert both SharePoint911's public-facing Internet site as well as its internal team intranet site to work with SharePoint 2010. Some of the topics that will be discussed are: evaluating new SharePoint 2010 features, necessary server requirements and software upgrades, migrating our existing SharePoint 2007 website content, and converting our corporate branding to work with SharePoint 2010. Along the way we will look at how some of the new features impact us, including working with the new SharePoint functionality such as the themes engine and wiki functionality, W3C compliance options, and using the SharePoint 2010 ribbon. By the end of the session, attendees should have a good understanding of what it takes to migrate existing SharePoint 2007 sites to SharePoint Server 2010.
TECHNICAL LEVEL:Intermediate
AUDIENCE: IT adminstrator, developer, architect, business user

FRIDAY, FEB. 12 • 500 SERIES
8:15 AM — 9:30 AM

501: List Mashups Using SharePoint Designer
Eric Harlan
Mashups can cover just about any combination of data or design elements within SharePoint. In this session, we will go over how to mash up DHTML, XSLT and SharePoint lists into clean news rotation Web parts. This method will allow users to make simple changes in a list view that they are already comfortable with to make a news rotation change. This session will also focus on the infamous DataView Web part and some of the cool data presentation and integration tips used to show your users different editable views of list data.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: Developers, administrators, power users

502: SharePoint 2010: Out-of-the-Box Web Parts
Laura Rogers
In this session, you will get an introduction to the out-of-box web parts that are new in SharePoint 2010! You will not only see how the new web part user interface is different, but will get a demonstration of some new ones, like the Chart Web Part. The Tag Cloud Web Part will be demonstrated, along with how tagging works, and so will the new Data View Web Part in SharePoint Designer 2010. As always, it is important to get a feel for what you can do with SharePoint already, before starting with custom code.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Business users, project managers, developers

503: A Deep Dive Into Business Connectivity Services
Fabian Williams
Go Deep with Business Connectivity Services (formerly named the Business Data Catalog), with an in-depth look at the Object Model. We will demonstrate connectivity to multiple LOB systems and surface multiple data in a variety of user Interfaces, web and Fat Client.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: ADVANCED
AUDIENCE: DEVELOPER

504: Lessons Learned from Years of SharePoint Deployments
Michael Noel
SharePoint 2007 has proven to be a technology that is remarkably easy to get running out of the box. On the flipside, however, is that some of the advanced configuration options with SharePoint are notoriously difficult to set up, and a great deal of confusion exists regarding the best way to design, deploy, maintain and recover SharePoint installations. This session will offer techniques learned during the course of years of SharePoint deployments, encompassing the most commonly asked questions regarding SharePoint infrastructure and design, and includes a broad range of critical but overlooked items to consider when architecting or optimizing a SharePoint environment.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic/Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Administrators, architects, developers

505: SharePoint 2010 and RMS – Protecting Your Content Beyond SharePoint
Dan Lewis
Information Security is a paramount concern of any business and an obstacle for Information Technology groups.  This session will review the benefits and features of leveraging Active Directory Rights Management Server integrated with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Learn how these server tools can extend SharePoint document permissions to the users' desktops, and see how they are configured to work seamlessly together.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Architects, IT administrators

506: Working With Lists and Libraries in SharePoint 2010
Jennifer Mason
Do you know all of the different things you can do using SharePoint lists and libraries?  In this session we will take a look at the different out of the box list features and how they can be combined to build powerful no-code business solutions.  We will look at the new features available in SharePoint 2010 and how they can be used to increase productivity.  Some of the new features include working with lookup columns, new list settings, new view settings, inline editing, and custom form creation.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic/Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Business users

507: Building Sandbox Solutions in SharePoint
Scott Jamison
Are you looking to customize SharePoint? Do you want to understand what a "sandbox solution" is? A new feature in SharePoint 2010 called sandboxed solutions offers a way to build custom SharePoint Web Parts and to deploy them to a site without needing a SharePoint central administrator. Learn why this is now the preferred way of building and deploying custom code in SharePoint 2010.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers, development managers, architects

508: WSS 2010 and Search Server Express 2010
Joshua Haebets
The amount of data being stored by organizations is growing day by day. Being able to find the right file or record is getting harder and harder. Search Server is an extension to SharePoint Foundation that allows you to search across SharePoint, Web and line-of-business data. This session will guide you through creating a tailored search experience for your users. This includes search security considerations, building search scopes, connecting to LOB systems and customising your search results. Once the search framework is in place you need to make it accessible, see how you can provide an interface through the desktop client, SharePoint Workspaces and within the Microsoft Office client applications.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Business users, IT administrators, developers

FRIDAY, FEB. 12 • 600 SERIES
9:45 am – 11:00 am

601: How to Best Design and Manage Large-Scale Development Projects
Steven Fowler
SharePoint brings unique challenges in managing large-scale multi-staged environments. Even seasoned .NET developers and architects are confused with how to best manage the promotion of code, content and configuration that make up SharePoint solutions. Learn the tools and techniques from an Architect and Development Lead that participated in one of the world's largest SharePoint deployments for the DoD. In this session, we will review typical SharePoint solutions; discuss available tools and techniques to develop, package, deploy and manage these solutions; identify common issues with multi-staged, multideveloper environments; and provide recommendations that you can implement today.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers, architects

602: Easy Tabs Interface: Simple Navigation for Complex Information
Mark Miller
SharePoint 2007 comes with tabs that build up the top navigation. In this presentation, we'll explore another type of tabs, those that help structure and prioritize information within a single page. The Easy Tabs Interface is a simple, drag-and-drop solution embedded within a Content Editor Web Part. It draws content from existing web parts on the page and then exposes the content of those web parts through tabs, while hiding the original web parts. It can be used at the site manager level for quick and easy access to complex information. There is no need for deployment and no server code needed to implement the solution. Through business examples -- company information, reporting, and the like -- we'll explain how tabs increase the flexibility and readability of your SharePoint pages. We'll also demonstrate how to customize the default Easy Tabs Web Part to fit your specific needs: change the look of the tabs to match your Web site design; spread the tabs across two rows; exclude some Web Parts from the tabbed interface.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Business users

603: SharePoint 2010 Deployment Planning: Information Taxonomy & User Adoption
Matt Passannante
In this non-technical session, you will learn how to maximize user adoption through proper taxonomy and information architecture planning. Building the right SharePoint solution is important, but getting users to adopt the solution into their daily routine is critical to an implementation's success. With SharePoint 2010, it is imperative that a proper information taxonomy exists to support critical business applications and processes. Real-world experience preaches that the practice of user adoption is often overlooked as a critical success factor in most SharePoint implementations. Proper adoption cannot be implied simply because a solution exists. This session will guide you through a step-by-step approach to accurately identify an information taxonomy that mirrors your business, its critical business processes and SharePoint Service Applications that support them.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic/Intermediate
AUDIENCE: IT administrators, architects, business users

604: Optimizing Information Security
Mark Ferraz
Information security is an important consideration when you decide to deploy any technology solution, and SharePoint is no exception. Protecting information and information systems from unauthorized use, modification, disruption and destruction is fundamental to the success of your implementation. This session will provide an overview of key information security concepts and practical applications.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: Administrators, developers, business users

605: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration with SharePoint
Mauro Cardarelli
With the introduction of SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided users with the next wave of tools to share, organize, and refine information that is critical to personal and organizational success. This session will detail how SharePoint users can maximize their investment and deliver the highest level of collaboration amongst all employees, near and far. It will start with best practices and success stories associated with SharePoint 2007, then dive into the new features of SharePoint 2010 and how they will change and improve the model for efficient collaboration. Several examples will be provided and the session will most certainly be highly actionable.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Business users

606: Patching SharePoint 2010
Todd Klindt and Shane Young
Now that you've got SharePoint 2010 installed how will you keep your farm up to date? In this session we'll tell you all about how patching has been improved. We will cover the different methods of patching your servers as well as the options you have when it comes to which patches you apply. We'll also show you how to minimize the downtime your user experience while you're patching your farms.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: IT administrators

607: The ‘Humanizing' of SharePoint
Paul Swider
SharePoint 2010 provides a sophisticated infrastructure for building social, networked applications. SharePoint Server is the information store for people, community and data used for social application. The new profile store, synchronization service and other SharePoint application services provide a vast toolset for quickly building people-aware applications. In this session we cover the concepts of working with social technologies and how we can leverage them for enterprise application.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers, business users

608: Designing Your SharePoint Farm for Performance and Capacity
Ben Curry
There are many tools that can be used to plan and test a SharePoint Server 2010 server farm. In the year 2010, there's just no reason to guess what will happen when you turn on the brand new, shiny server farm! But, understanding how each Web and Application Service functions in the farm, and how those services can impact the end user experience, is critical to user adoption and system success. The real fun of this session will be the demonstration of tools to stress and test a live server farm. Come prepared for a fast-paced session with tons of live demonstrations!
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: IT administrator

FRIDAY, FEB. 12 • 700 SERIES
11:30 am – 12:45 pm

701: Sites with Style: Deep Dive into SharePoint CSS
Heather Solomon
No matter how small or how grand your SharePoint branding effort is, you will undoubtedly deal with Cascading Style Sheets! In this technical session we will review where and how SharePoint uses and accesses CSS and how you can make changes across all of your sites for your unique branding. Come check out CSS based layouts, CSS class changes and CSS3 demos in action! Learn about Heather Solomon’s handy CSS chart for SharePoint 2007 and get a sneak peek at her new SharePoint 2010 chart!  
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: Developers

702: Creating a Media Center in SharePoint
Karuana Gatimu
In this session, learn how to build a one-stop media center for approved PDFs, images, video and art files that can be leveraged across the company. Search center customizations and workflow implementation will also be explored, along with such topics as digital asset management policy, policy suggestions and procedures for content control and categorization. Custom search functions to help in accessing correct information within security profiles will also be demonstrated.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Administrators, developers

703: Implementing Your Information Taxonomy Using the Managed Metadata Service Application
Matt Passannante
This non-technical session will introduce participants to the new Managed Metadata Service Application, the taxonomy term store, document sets and content types. You will begin by reviewing the history of Information Architecture within SharePoint and examining the proper configuration and deployment of the Managed Metadata Service Application. You will conclude this session with real-world experience that will guide you through a step-by-step process to accurately identify, plan and deploy a proper information architecture for your SharePoint 2010 implementation.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: IT administrators, architects, business users

704: Putting Together an Effective SharePoint Team
Jennifer Mason
SharePoint projects start with good teams. This session 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 projects, how to acquire the skills if they don't already have them, and how high-performing SharePoint teams function.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Project managers, business users

705: The New World of SharePoint 2010 Ops and Admin
Joel Oleson
You've heard about some of the new features, but how do they impact your day-to-day adminstration tasks? In this session, we'll explore the new features and demo the big ones that make your life easier. We'll walk through what really has changed and give you a glimpse of the new world of the SharePoint 2010 Admin.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: IT administrators

706: Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint
"Chaks" Chandran
For SharePoint developers, Visual Studio 2010 not only provides a provides the development environment and native tools, but also the opportunity to engage in SharePoint development. Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (VSTS) provides a rich developer experience for building SharePoint 2010 applications. Whether you are looking to build a simple web part or advanced SharePoint development, VSTS helps developers to get started right away on solution development. The most interesting part is the ability to extend this  framework. This session will take you through the various features of VSTS, building complex and simple SharePoint applications using VSTS and also extending the framework.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers, development managers

707: What's New in ECM for SharePoint 2010?
Andrew Connell
Microsoft's first foray into Enterprise Content Management came in Office SharePoint Server 2007. In this session, we'll dive into the new capabilities Microsoft has added to SharePoint Server 2010 that will get more people in your organization in ECM solutions as well as make it easier for records managers to manage and control these solutions.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: Developers

708: SQL Reporting Services for SharePoint
Peter Serzo
Whether a pie or bar chart, scatter plot or table, the boss' eyes will light up when presented with a pretty, personalized chart displaying timely corporate data. SQL Reporting Services 2008 is a surprisingly underutilized tool that can give your organization the competitive edge.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers

FRIDAY, FEB. 12 • 800 SERIES
1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

801: Team Development for Delivering Complex SharePoint Projects
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 session we will review why understanding the fundamentals of ALM (Application Life-Cycle Management), the MSF
(Microsoft Solutions Framework) teaming model, and choosing the appropriate tools such as VSTS (Visual Studio Team System) provide the
solid foundation upon which effective team development practices and procedures can flourish.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Expert
AUDIENCE:: Development managers, developers, project managers

802: SharePoint's Virtual Reality: Best Practice Virtualization Options
Michael Noel
This session focuses on real-world architecture and recommendations for incorporating SharePoint architecture into virtualized environments using platforms from Microsoft, EMC's VMware and Citrix. Special focus will be placed on virtualization management and provisioning using tools such as System Center Virtual Machine Manager. In addition, the session will explore real-world SharePoint design, and look at which SharePoint architectural components are either good or bad candidates for virtualization.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: Administrators, developers

803: Know Your Users: Identity Management in SharePoint
Steven Fowler
Attendees will explore common identity management stores such as AD, ADFS, LDAP, SSO and databases; become familiar with the challenges associated with disparate identity management stores; understand the use of Forms-Based Authentication and custom membership/role providers; and explore the implications of site topology on governance models.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers, administrators, architects

804: Help! Creating a Community of Support for SharePoint
Laura Rogers
How do users obtain SharePoint-related help? In this session, we will go over challenges in helping and supporting SharePoint end users, and how to address those challenges. There are many different avenues available when it comes to SharePoint help, and we will cover how to consolidate that information to a single point of reference for your end users or customers, reducing calls to the help desk. Attendees will hear some user perspectives about SharePoint help, and learn why it's important to do research find out what users are looking for in SharePoint help.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Project managers, business users, architects

805: Ten Rules for Building a ‘Social' Revolution Using SharePoint 2010
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.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Architects, developers, IT administrators, business users

806: SQL Configuration Best Practices for SharePoint
Burzin Patel
If you or your customers are implementing a SharePoint solution, then you will not want to miss this session.  You will learn about SQL Server storage configuration best practices for SharePoint, including disk sizing/configuration, database maintenance, externalizing BLOBs, backup/restore, and performance tuning.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced
AUDIENCE: IT administrators

807: What's New for Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010?
Andrew Connell
In this session, attendees will learn what improvements Microsoft made to SharePoint Server 2010 for hosting content-centric sites, including one-click authoring, leveraging metadata, improvements to the Content Query Web Part and even the new Web Analytics service for monitoring the status, health and activity of those sites.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: Developers

808: Why SharePoint Projects Fail
Ben Curry
SharePoint's such a big product -- where do I start? If you are new to SharePoint Server, or have struggled with failed implementations in the past, then session is for you. Come see real-world examples of why implementations fail and what you can do about it. We'll take a look how to design and architect SharePoint Server 2010 to ensure success! Design lifecycles, mapping requirements to the product stack, suggestions on key areas to focus during your design, and metrics for success will be presented. This session is targeted at those who want to know the real deal on why many SharePoint projects fail. You'll leave this session with the basics of building a SharePoint Server 2010 implementation plan.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Project managers, business analysts, architects, developers, IT administrators

FRIDAY, FEB. 12 • 900 SERIES
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm

901: SharePoint Web Services: The ‘Special Sauce' of SharePoint
Mark Rackley
One of the very powerful features of SharePoint is  SharePoint Web Services. With these Web services, .NET developers can quickly and easily integrate their legacy applications with list data from their SharePoint applications or create applications that do not have to reside on a SharePoint farm. Attendees will learn how to use SharePoint Web services to retrieve, update and insert list data from a SharePoint list; use CAML to query SharePoint list data more efficiently; work around the quirks of SharePoint to properly identify field names and field values in the XML returned by SharePoint. Attendees should have a basic understanding of SharePoint Lists.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Developers

902: Preparing for SharePoint 2010: Stories from the Consulting Trenches
Errin O'Connor
Real-world case studies of organizations that have successfully implemented a hybrid SharePoint 2007/2010 solution will be spotlighted. The session will also detail how best to prepare your organization to initially run a mixed 2007 and 2010 (beta) environment to begin to prepare for a full-scale upgrade or implementation of Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Errin will discuss the experiences from 2010 (beta) implementations that he and his team at EPC Group have engaged as well as discuss how best your organization should prepare for the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) that SharePoint 2010 has in its giant arsenal of features and functionality.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Beginner/Intermediate
AUDIENCE: IT administrators, project managers, architects

903: SharePoint Worst Practices: Five Common Mistakes to Avoid
Dux Raymond Sy
This session will cover how to effectively manage SharePoint projects and prevent five common mistakes in implementing SharePoint. Participants will learn to identify the key components of a successful SharePoint implementation, value the significance of properly planning for a SharePoint rollout, and define the maintenance and support needs of the SharePoint implementation.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic
AUDIENCE: Administrators, project managers, business users

904: Business Intelligence and SharePoint: Real-World Examples
Karuana Gatimu
SharePoint has Business Intelligence tools built right in, but knowing how to leverage them to meet customer requirements can be difficult to understand. This session will look at the BI stack from a SharePoint administrator/developer standpoint. Attendees will learn to map business requirements to the Microsoft BI solution stack including SharePoint features, and also how to define business requirements for display of BI information in SharePoint.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: Developers, architects, project managers, business users

905: Integration Strategies for SharePoint and Project Server 2010
Shadeed Eleazer
This session will provide an in-depth look at EPM and SharePoint 2010 integration within intranet and public-facing scenarios. It will cover additions and upgrades to Project Server and how that relates to integrating with SharePoint; a walkthrough of the history of EPM and SharePoint in relation to where integration efforts currently stand; deployment scenarios for adding Project Server to an existing SharePoint farm; and much more.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Administrators, project managers

906: Using Reporting Services and LINQ in SharePoint
Phillip Wicklund
Reporting across data in SharePoint isn't the most straightforward thing to do. This is especially true if you need one report with data joined from multiple SharePoint list sources. In this session we'll leverage Business Intelligence Development Studio to build reports across these sources, and publish those reports back into SharePoint.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Advanced
AUDIENCE: Developers, architects

907: InfoPath: Where We Were, Where We're Going
Eric Harlan
InfoPath is one of those tools that has saved us a ton of time or cost us fistfuls of hair. With the new version coming out we are all wondering what has been fixed and what is there now that will make our lives easier. In this session we will review some of the shortcomings that have remained
constant in Infopath, as well as some new ones to add to the list. It's not all doom and gloom however, the InfoPath team has made great strides in the integration of InfoPath into SharePoint 2010, and has added a bunch of time-saving and eye-candy type features that will make your day and leave
you with a little more hair. In this session we will review some of the new features and new areas to become familiar with as we embrace the new Office 2010 Suite.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: Intermediate
AUDIENCE: Business user, developer, IT adminstrator

908: BLOGGING WITH SHAREPOINT 2010, AND THE COMMUNITY KIT
Dan Lewis
Social Computing and networking have become centric channels for communicating with others, and is becoming critical inside large enterprise organizations. In this session we will show how companies can leverage SharePoint blogs to their benefit for internal and external use. We'll explore the functionality, the strong set of tools, an in-depth examination of how to use it, and tweaks to extend its robustness. Beyond the out-of-the-box functionality, we will also explore the Community Kit for SharePoint and how the Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE) can be deployed to SharePoint blogs, extending their functionality and capabilities. This session will be relevant to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Foundation, and SharePoint Server 2010.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC/INTERMEDIATE
AUDIENCE: Business users, project managers, developers, IT administrators