FULL DAY WORKSHOPS
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20 : 8:30 AM – 5 PM

WM-1: Delivering Microsoft BI Solutions with SharePoint 2010 Insights
Roger Doherty
SharePoint 2010 is the most popular business collaboration platform in the world for organizations of all sizes, and SharePoint 2010 Insights lets everyone access the business information they need to make good decisions. SharePoint 2010 Insights uses well-known applications and interfaces, people are comfortable from the start, and they know how to get the data they need. Excel Services makes it easy for anyone to publish their Excel workbooks in SharePoint 2010, including workbooks that use data from SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services. From there, an entire team can access and analyze the same data from their web browser and rest assured that everyone has the right information. PerformancePoint Services is a new integrated capability in SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition that makes it easy to build flexible, highly interactive scorecards and dashboards using data from SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services. SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot for SharePoint makes it easy to publish analytic models created with SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel to SharePoint 2010 and share them with other users with Excel Services. SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services supports SharePoint 2010 integration, making it easy to publish and access reports using familiar SharePoint paradigms.

This multi-part workshop will focus on three distinct scenarios:

Part I: Performance Management with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services
This material will educate you on how to deliver advanced performance management capabilities, including scorecards and dashboards, to decision makers in your organization with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services using data from SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services.

Part II: Delivering Managed Reporting with SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
This material will educate you on how to deliver managed reporting capabilities in SharePoint 2010 using SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services.

Part II: Delivering Managed Self-Service Analytics with SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot Server
This material will educate you on how to enable managed self-service analytics with SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot

W-1: SharePoint 101: The Developer
Rob Windsor
This session is a day-long overview of development on the SharePoint 2010 platform. It is designed for those new to SharePoint, but will prove interesting to seasoned SharePoint developers looking to find out about the new features in 2010. We will begin with a look at foundational topics like Feature and Solutions Packages, and then see how we can use the developer tooling in Visual Studio 2010 to quickly and effectively build customizations contained in these artifacts. Over the course of the day we will explore the SharePoint developer APIs, how to build custom Web parts, working with SharePoint lists and libraries, and options to access data stored in SharePoint. A solid understanding of ASP.NET or SharePoint development is recommended, as is a familiarity with SharePoint from an end-user perspective.

W-2 SharePoint 101: The Administrator
Mike Watson, with Laura Docherty
SharePoint is excellent software for collaboration and creating websites, among other things. The administrator's role is to hold it all together, through the installation and creation of server farms, and the architecting, configuration and management of the servers. This full-day session will give experienced IT administrators who are new to SharePoint the knowledge they need to take on a SharePoint installation, and to get some rogue implementations under control.

W-3: SharePoint 101: The End User
“A Day’s Walk in SharePoint with the Shepherd”
Robert Bogue
SharePoint can be a wild wilderness filled with hills, valleys, forests and other topography. In this session, the SharePoint Shepherd, Robert Bogue, will take you for a tour of the terrain and show you some of the powerful solutions that contributors, power users and site administrators can use to create solutions that the business needs.
The journey starts with SharePoint basics with a twist. We’ll look at SharePoint lists and how to create some unique views to make it easier to store and retrieve the information you need. We’ll create a calculated column on a date and use that column for grouping in a view. From there, we’ll move on to documents and demonstrate how you can create forms in Word that populate the data up to SharePoint. Everyone has forms in their organization; however, most of those forms are little more than replacements for the old paper forms. We’ll learn how to directly capture information from these forms.
Having this information is fine, but doing something with it is better. We’ll take our Word form and add a workflow to it to facilitate a business process. Whether it’s routing a vacation request form for approval or a research request to get fulfilled, there are business processes in the organization that a SharePoint workflow can solve.

Once you have SharePoint working for you in the office, it’s time to hit the road with Outlook and SharePoint Workspace to create solutions that your mobile workforce can use. Learn how to synchronize data when a user heads offline—what the limitations are, and how to work around them.

We’ll close out our day with a cornucopia of SharePoint Web parts and how you can configure them to deliver information the way that you want it when you’re back in the office.

W-4: Fundamental Skills to SharePoint 2010 Success
Dux Raymond Sy
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 provides the empowering platform to enable business collaboration for the enterprise and the Web. The ability to properly utilize an effective SharePoint solution for your organization is essential to keep pace with business collaboration needs today. In this workshop, you acquire the fundamental knowledge and critical skills to create, manage and customize a SharePoint site.

In addition, you will learn how to:

This workshop is intended for those new to SharePoint 2010; anyone may come from various professional and technical backgrounds. Ideal for end users, managers and individuals who have not used SharePoint before.

W-5: SharePoint 2010 Admin for the Seasoned MOSS 2007 Administrator
Todd Klindt and Shane Young
You’ve spent all these years taming SharePoint 2007 and bending it to your will, and now it’s yesterday’s news. SharePoint 2010 is the new kid in town. What’s a SharePoint 2007 admin to do? In this session, we will cover SharePoint 2010 administration in a way that builds on your existing 2007 skills. We will start our tour with the install. Next, we will cover configuration differences between SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. After SharePoint 2010 is installed, we will show the architectural improvements and how leverage them. We’ll also throw in some tricks with Windows PowerShell and a few bad jokes for good measure. This is an advanced course for SharePoint administrators.

HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20: 8:30 AM – Noon

W-6-AM: Become a SharePoint 2010 Power User
Joshua Haebets
With all the changes in SharePoint 2010, there is a lot to learn. In this session, you will be shown what has changed since SharePoint 2007 and what skills you need to be the power user and SharePoint champion in your organization. The workshop will take you through new and updated Web parts, new site templates, working offline, Business Connectivity Services, SharePoint Search, and power user customizations and SharePoint Designer Workflows.

W7-AM: Everything You Need to Know About the Business Data Catalog
Brett Lonsdale, with Phill Duffy
In this workshop, the challenge of accessing line-of-business data through SharePoint 2007 will be examined. We will introduce the Business Data Catalog and the problems that it solves. Covered in this workshop will be the services of BDC, including Web parts, Search, User Profiles, Business Data Column and the Object Model. A detailed explanation of the Application Definition File will be given along with an introduction to the tools available by Microsoft and other vendors allowing you to connect more easily. In this session, we will also create a custom Web part solution that utilizes the BCS Object Model to present data. Bring a real-world problem that you face within your organization for accessing line-of-business data and have it solved by the experts! Attendees will have some knowledge of SharePoint 2007 and the data source that you wish to connect to.

W8-AM: SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 Integration
Laura Rogers, with Mark Miller
This beginner-level session will help end users, project managers and information workers to discover the best ways to tackle your daily work with the 2010 Microsoft Office system. Tips include how to use Outlook to keep all your SharePoint lists and libraries within easy reach, and how to display library metadata within Word documents. From offline document editing and version comparisons, to reporting on SharePoint library data, this session is packed with tricks you can use to increase your SharePoint productivity. Think about integration from an end user’s perspective and come learn topics, such as how to make it simple to save files directly to SharePoint and work more efficiently. The demonstration will feature a company policy management system, and will feature Access custom lists, content types, and quick parts. Many of the integration points are available in both the 2007 and the 2010 suite of products. Integration improvements in SharePoint and Office 2010 will also be highlighted, such as those in InfoPath Forms Services, Visio Services and Access Services.

HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20: 1:30 PM – 5 PM

W6-PM: PerformancePoint Services—A Service in Three Acts
Peter Serzo
PerformancePoint Services (PPS) comes free with the Enterprise version of SharePoint 2010 and is wholly integrated into the platform through the Service Application infrastructure. Giving users unprecedented power to analyze their data and how it is displayed, PPS is an empowering technology. In this workshop, we will make sense of all the components and debunk the myths. The workshop is broken into three acts. The first act is dedicated to architecting PPS and configuration. The second segment covers data sources, KPIs, scorecards and dashboards using Dashboard Designer. In the third act, we discuss self-service, other business intelligence tools and their relationship with PPS. Attendees will understand how to architect PPS and the process to configure it in the new Service Application infrastructure, gain insight into out-of-the-box scorecarding and dashboarding, and how to integrate other business intelligence components with PPS.

W7-PM: Everything You Need to Know About Business Connectivity Services
Brett Lonsdale
In this workshop, we will begin by introducing the challenge of accessing line-of-business data through SharePoint 2010. We will briefly discuss The Business Data Catalog (BDC) before fully covering the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) and all of the new functionality. Covered in this workshop will be the services of BCS, including External Lists, Web parts, Search, User Profiles, External Data Columns and the Object Models. A detailed walkthrough of connecting to line-of-business systems using Microsoft tools such as SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 will be given. Using Visual Studio 2010, a demonstration of connecting directly to data sources will be provided along with an example of connecting via a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. In this session we will also create a custom Web part solution that utilizes the BCS Object Model to present data. Attendees will have some knowledge of SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio.NET 2005 or above, and a data source such as Oracle or SQL. Bring a real-world problem to the session and have it solved by the experts!

W8-PM: Creating Custom Business Solutions
Laura Rogers
Some of the most commonly asked questions that SharePoint site managers and end users ask are around the need to create custom business solutions without having to be a developer. In this workshop, Laura Rogers will teach you how to use Data View/Data Form Web parts in SharePoint Designer 2010. Not only will this workshop cover Data View Web part fundamentals, but you will also learn specific examples of ways to put these skills into play. It is a best practice to learn what can be done out of the box in SharePoint before delving into custom code. This workshop will be presented using SharePoint 2010, but the topics that will be covered can be accomplished in either 2007 or 2010. Laura will highlight the new user interface in SharePoint Designer 2010 and the new ways to do those old familiar tasks.
What will you learn in this workshop?
- Fundamentals and best practices associated with creating data view Web parts, such as conditional formatting and hyperlinks
- Creating a merged list of multiple document libraries
- Creating a change control system mash-up
- Creating a joined view of two different lists
- Creating a list/library permissions dashboard

This session is designed from power users, project managers, business analysts and developers.