Full-Day Workshops
Monday, June 22
8:30 am – 5:00 pm

W1 Share and Ye Shall Find: Delivering Content That Users Need
Bob Mixon
“Findability” describes the way information is made available to those who require it. 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.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

 

Half-Day Workshops
MORNING SESSIONS
8:30 am – 12:00 pm

W4-AM Executing Briefing: Empowering Your Organization With SharePoint
Dux Raymond Sy
SharePoint can be leveraged in many different ways within your enterprise to increase productivity and efficiency, facilitate collaboration, and more. This comprehensive, non-technical overview is designed to help business executives and IT managers assess how SharePoint technologies can have a positive effect on your company’s productivity and competitiveness.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC

W5-AM Social Networking With Forms-Based Authentication
John Stover
Some call it Social Networking, some say Professional Networking, some Web 2.0, and yet others call it Social Computing. This class will show administrators, architects and business users how to leverage SharePoint 2007 as a platform for building your Social Media solution—especially for users outside your Active Directory. SharePoint comes with Blogs, Wikis, Discussion Boards, User Profiles, Presence Information and People Search right out of the box. Learn how to extend these features into a robust solution that has the functionality of the top social sites on the Web, and see a real-world case study where we enhanced colleagues, blogs, groups, discussions, and added taxonomy and ratings—all with Forms-Based Authentication!
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC/INTERMEDIATE

 

AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

W-5-PM Creating a Working Enterprise Content Management Strategy With SharePoint
Mark Miller and Paul Grenier
Creating an ECM strategy is an ongoing process of defining the business practices, stakeholders and measurable results necessary for successful projects in your environment. This course, geared for executives, line-of-business managers, project managers and enterprise architects, will focus on creating an ECM strategy that will foster communication, enhance your project management processes and leverage technology towards measurable ROI results. Among the topics discussed are the 10 segments of a functional enterprise content management strategy and how to design and apply them to a changing business environment; how to build a solid ECM team, including proposed industry-standard job descriptions for the content management space; and some best-practice suggestions for departmental collaboration and communication exercises to conduct while engaged in the strategy process.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC

W7-PM Become Your Company’sSharePoint Superstar!
Mark Miller and Paul Grenier

SharePoint power users and site administratorshave the ability to develop powerful, yet simplesolutions for enhancing the SharePoint interface.The first half of this workshop demonstrates var-ious ways to set up and implement jQuery—thelightweight JavaScript library that can be usedto sortthrough documents—within SharePoint.The session will also provide tips for implement-ing jQuery-based solutions in a hosted environ-ment. Included in the discussion will be bestpractices and recommendations on tools tofacilitate exploration of the SharePoint userinterface and how to safely change it.

The second half of the session is a lightning-paced walkthrough, showing SharePoint inter-face solutions implemented
through jQuery withadive into the code that creates each solution.

Here are a few things you will see during th epresentation:
•Control the Quick Launch display… tweak, col-lapse and hide
•Expand and contract all groups in a list
•Create a preview pane to display metadata onamouseover
•Fix the Gantt view so that it's actually usable
•Setup mouseovers in a calendar to exposeevent information
•Display deep metadata in a list or library withasimple mouseover
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC/INTERMEDIATE

 

Technical Classes
TUESDAY, JUNE 23
100 SERIES
9:45 am – 11:00 am

101 Success With SharePoint, From Start to Finish
Errin O’Connor and Rafael Perez
You’ve heard the saying, “Fail to plan, plan to fail”; it never holds more true than with SharePoint. This soup-to-nuts session 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 take a deep dive into a real-world Project Plan for a successful SharePoint implementation, and demonstrate how establishing best practices on planning, requirements gathering, and creating the proper architecture can help you get your project right the first time. We’ll show you how to gather functional requirements and business requirements, and simultaneously increase user buy-in, all with a simple and easy-to-customize approach that you can use time and time again no matter the size of your project.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC/INTERMEDIATE

105 Planning Your SharePoint Intranet Solution Around Your Business
Matt Passannante
In this non-technical session, business executives and administrators will learn the roles and relationships required to effectively plan an intranet solution. You will be guided though a step-by-step approach to planning and requirements gathering. You’ll gain insight into real-world experience, identify common roadblocks, and get answers to common questions. All of this will guarantee the time, effort and resources you spend on deploying MOSS 2007 within your organization are focused on critical business needs and will return the maximum investment for your business. What better reason to deploy SharePoint into your organization than to solve critical business problems?
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC

 

TUESDAY, JUNE 23
200 SERIES
11:15 am – 12:30 pm

202 Making the Most Of Out-of-the-Box Web Parts
Laura Rogers
Out-of-the-Box Web parts are extremely flexible. This session will provide business users and project managers with a detailed look at the Filter, KPI, Excel Web Access, Outlook Web Access and Business Data Catalog Web parts. Some Web part connection tricks will be shared, and customizations using SharePoint Designer will be demonstrated. Developers starting to work with SharePoint also could benefit from knowing its out-of-the-box functionality before they delve into custom coding.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC

203 Best Practice Enterprise Content Management With SharePoint 2007
Michael Noel
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has considerable document management capabilities and offers some of the best native integration with Office clients. That said, certain architectural hurdles exist for many organizations looking at deploying SharePoint for Enterprise Content Management, particularly for global deployments of SharePoint. This session covers best practices learned from the field in deploying SharePoint 2007 technologies for document management. Topics include content deployment and third-party replication, metadata considerations across multiple document libraries, navigational considerations, and disaster recovery scenarios.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: ADVANCED

204 How Search Services Work And How to Optimize Them
Bob Mixon
Microsoft Enterprise Search Services are very powerful. However, tuning these services to deliver relevant information to your users is a complex science and art. Join Bob in this session and discover configuring scopes, faceted (metadata) filtering, techniques for customizing the user interface, and how the Microsoft Enterprise Search Services work.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

206 First, Do No Harm — A SharePoint Customization Hippocratic Oath
Woodrow Windischman
SharePoint’s dual role as both application and platform has led to a great deal of confusion regarding just how much custom work needs to be done in order to have a functional environment. This session will present a simple model and hierarchy to help you evaluate just how much customization you need to achieve your goals. Starting with knowing the product, and working up through branding, feature integration, and site definition development, you will learn where each level is appropriate, and where it isn’t.
Topics include:
• How to determine whether SharePoint already has the features you need
• Which techniques can bring high value with minimal investment
• Considerations that can help minimize difficulties when upgrading
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC/INTERMEDIATE

207 Mashing Up in SharePoint
Tom Rizzo
Details to follow.

 

TUESDAY, JUNE 23
300 SERIES
1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

302 Creating an Electronic Form Solution Using InfoPath and SharePoint
Larry Riemann
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 that everyone is using the correct versions of the forms and how to create dynamic forms using InfoPath 2007 and the Forms Server capabilities built into SharePoint Server Enterprise.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

307 Shared Services Providers And Their Impact on Your Information Architecture
Matt Passannante
SharePoint administrators will obtain a solid understanding of the MOSS 2007 Shared Services and Shared Services Providers. You will learn how to evaluate various Shared Services Provider models and understand the impacts they have upon common information architecture taxonomies. This session will provide SharePoint administrators with the tools and confidence necessary to appropriately architect the scale of their SharePoint deployment.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED

 

TUESDAY, JUNE 23
400 SERIES
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm

402 Advanced InfoPath Form Creation Using Visual Studio 2008
Larry Riemann
Have you ever wanted to do something in InfoPath, only to find out that it is not possible or not supported? With Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA), almost anything is possible in InfoPath. This session will show you how to extend InfoPath when needed to meet your organization’s needs using Visual Studio 2008
TECHNICAL LEVEL: ADVANCED

404 SharePoint Worst Practices: Five Common Mistakes to Avoid
Dux Raymond Sy
In this presentation for business executives, IT administrators and project managers, you will learn how to effectively manage SharePoint projects and prevent five common mistakes in implementing SharePoint. Participants will get presentation notes, best practices checklists and a SharePoint project plan. In addition, participants will learn to:
• Identify the key components of a successful SharePoint implementation
• Value the significance of properly planning for a SharePoint rollout
• Define the maintenance and support needs of the SharePoint implementation
TECHNICAL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

406 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 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.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC/INTERMEDIATE

407 SharePoint Online
Tom Rizzo
Welcome to the new world of Software + Services!  SharePoint Online is Microsoft's cloud offering of SharePoint that allows IT administrators to extend on-premises deployments with cloud-based solutions. In this session we will look at what SharePoint Online provides, how you administer it, how you develop against it and finally how it integrates into your existing SharePoint deployment.  If you're thinking about moving some of your SharePoint solutions to the cloud, you won't want to miss this session.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

 

Wednesday, JUNE 24
500 SERIES
8:30 am – 9:45 am

502 Building 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 SharePoint projects, how to acquire the skills if they don’t already have them, and how high-performing SharePoint teams function.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC

505   Best Practices for Effective Requirements Gathering With SharePoint
Mauro Cardarelli
SharePoint has revolutionized the way organizations capture and share corporate knowledge by “empowering” and “entrusting” all employees. One of the challenges, however, is setting the proper process for getting new content owners on board. By setting the proper requirements, expectations can be better served and managed.  This session will highlight effective ways for admins to engage business owners and streamline the process of helping them define how they will use SharePoint to meet and exceed their business needs.  Key topics will include:

• SharePoint 101 – How do you explain SharePoint key terms and functionality to a new user in 10 minutes
• Mapping business problems to SharePoint solutions… the magic matrix
• “Hot Zone” exercise – Helping users build their own metadata topology
• Putting all together – the requirements document; what it is and what it isn’t

TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic.

506 So THAT’S How! SharePoint and Office 2007 Integration
Laura Rogers
Discover the best ways to tackle your daily work with the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Tips include how to use Instant Search in Outlook to keep all your SharePoint lists and libraries within easy reach, and how to use Excel Services Web parts so people can interact with a worksheet on a Web page. From offline document editing and two-way list synch, to workflows you can only find in Office, this session is packed with tricks you can use to increase your SharePoint productivity. Demo will include Access custom lists, blog publishing and dashboards.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

 

Wednesday, JUNE 24
600 SERIES
10:30 am – 11:45 am

603 HELP! Creating a Community Of Support for SharePoint
Laura Rogers
How do end users obtain SharePoint-related help? In this session, we will go over challenges in helping and supportingSharePoint end users, and how to addressthose challenges. There are many different avail-able avenues when it comes to SharePoint help,and we will cover how to consolidate that infor-mation to a single point of reference for yourend users or customers to turn to. A SharePointHelp site and community for your company willnot only make the users happy and confident, itwill also reduce calls to the help desk.Attendees will learn:•Some user perspectives when it comes toobtaining SharePoint related help, and how tobring together available sources of help•Why it’s important to do research to find outwhat the users need and what they’relookingfor in SharePoint help•Why it’s important to create a single point ofreference for your company’sSharePoint usersto get help with SharePoint, and how to tailorthis site/community to your own company.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC

 

Wednesday, JUNE 24
700 SERIES
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

702 Moving to SharePoint: ‘Won’t Everyone Need Training?’
Neville Attkins
End-user training is costly and hard to target, and SharePoint has a very rich tool set that replaces company intranets and file shares, and augments e-mail. How to optimize your organization’s installation without blowing the budget on training must be a key deliverable. The solution is to use a range of techniques such as scenario-based training, mentoring and a kick-ass communications strategy. Case studies will show how all of these things fit together.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC

706 Building Business Intelligence Portals
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, SharePoint business intelligence features and PerfomancePoint can be used to provide business intelligence to business users.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC/INTERMEDIATE

Wednesday, JUNE 24
800 SERIES
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

801 Five Foundations for Successfully Offshoring SharePoint Projects
Mike Taylor
CANCELLED

802 Association Intelligence: A BI Case Study
John Stover
Contrary to what most people believe, business intelligence (BI) does not have to be expensive to implement. BI should also not be a niche tool limited to a few executives. BI can be used to assist with planning at all levels of the organization. Come see how the Entrepreneurs Organization (EONetwork.org) uses SharePoint to deliver BI solutions globally to Staff, Chapters and Members. These tools not only support the organization’s membership and financial goals, as well as  planning at the global level, but they also specifically provide targeted dashboards and scorecards to the chapters and chapter leaders.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC

805 Getting Just Enough Governance
Robert Bogue
Bureaucracy. Everyone hates it. Governance doesn’t have to be that. It can be a way to draw people into SharePoint—and a way for you to connect with your users. You need to manage the risk associated with SharePoint. You have to let users use it. In this session, you’ll learn how to balance governance with adoption and engagement, as well as learn how to get a governance plan done ... without breaking the bank.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC

806 SharePoint Search Engine Optimization — Tips and Tricks
Sean Bordner
It’s not that Google hates your public-facing website; it just likes several thousand other sites better. More and more organizations are turning to SharePoint as their public-facing site platform, and getting your site ranked high with Internet search engines is vital for your business, not to mention perceived legitimacy. From “Why Your SharePoint site is not being found on the Internet” to “Seven easy steps to winning over the search engines,” this class will show what works and what doesn’t with SharePoint SEO efforts.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC/INTERMEDIATE

807 Seven Ways to Leverage SharePoint for Project Management Success
Dux Raymond Sy
In this presentation, you will acquire the practical knowledge of how
SharePoint can address common project management challenges such as inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor document management practices, and undefined project collaboration standards that can compromise project success. SharePoint provides a framework that can empower project managers to create a standards-based Project Management Information System (PMIS).
TECHNICAL LEVEL: BASIC

 

Wednesday, JUNE 24
900 SERIES
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

902 Social Computing And SharePoint
Paul Swider
CANCELLED

904 Custom Action Items And Application Pages
Rafael Perez
Do you ever wonder how third-party vendors create custom pages for SharePoint and how these are seamlessly integrated into the user experience? During this session we’ll demonstrate how to create your very own custom application page and integrate it into the SharePoint menu system with features, action items, and action item groups. This is an advanced topic that requires knowledge of ASP.NET, XML and some basic SharePoint development experience.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: ADVANCED

907 Make Your Folders Smolder: Taking the Chaos Out of Hierarchy
Neville Attkins
How can you move users from a typically chaotic folder hierarchy to the full benefits of SharePoint? You must do this without scaring the users and going mad in the process. There are tools that can help, which this session will demo, but more than tools are required. It is an attitudinal challenge. The session will offer some case studies, and before it’s all done you too will be burning up those folders.
TECHNICAL LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE