Integrate External Data with the Business Connectivity Services
Date: 23th February 2012 - 12 noon EST
Presenter: Tom Resing MCM
Business Connectivity
Services with Microsoft SQL Server including an Overview of the Business
Connectivity Services, an Introduction to Configuring BCS, and
Demonstrations of using External Lists and External Data Columns.
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Exploring the Content Query Web Part in depth: Learn how to use the Content Query Web Part successfully.
Date: 26th January 2012 - 12 noon EST
Presenter: Christina Wheeler MCTS
In MOSS 2007, the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) was a very powerful
control used for aggregating content from a particular list, site, or
site collection. However, even though this web part was pretty awesome
it still had some serious drawbacks.
In SharePoint 2010, the CQWP has
been greatly improved with a facelift, improved features, and cool new
features. New features include the introduction of slots which simplify
working with Item Styles and the Content to Content concept which
provides functionality such as related content.
Some improvements to the
CQWP include dynamic filters and the CommonViewFields. The CQWP in
SharePoint 2010 has also improved the query performance over large
document libraries and lists.
This session will demonstrate the new features of the CQWP.
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Information Architecture: Past, Present, and SharePoint
Date: 17th November 2011
Presenter: Rob Bogue SharePoint MVP
Information architecture is confusing to most folks, and why shouldn’t it be? There’s an information tsunami that’s covering every bit of storage in the corporate network. We’ll review how information management has changed over the years, the emerging trends, and how you can leverage SharePoint to help create breakwaters and barriers to protect your organization.
Robert Bogue is the author of The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users (
http://www.SharePointShepherd.com), the presenter for The Psychology of SharePoint Adoption and Engagement, a globally renowned speaker, and eight time Microsoft MVP. Robert consults for global organizations helping them get the most out of their SharePoint implementations.
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Everything you need to know about managing sharepoint permissions on a hybrid environment
Date: 24th October 2011 - 12 noon EST
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale and Dave Coleman
In this webcast, Brett Lonsdale,
cofounder of Lightning Tools and MVP Dave Coleman will guide attendees
through the secrets involved when managing on-premises and Office 365
SharePoint permissions. You will learn how to successfully protect your
content on both locations, and what you need to be prepared for.
SharePoint permissions can be
centrally managed by SharePoint Farm Administrators but are also often
managed by Site Collection Administrators or even Site Administrators.
No matter who is managing your permissions in your SharePoint
environment, they will be challenged when trying to find out precisely
who has permissions to the content and how they were assigned it.
Learn how combining both MetaVis Security Manager and Lightning Tools
DeliverPoint, you help you view reports and manage permissions more
accurately than with SharePoint Out-of-the-Box.
DeliverPoint and Security Manager
complement each other as DeliverPoint is available within the SharePoint
user interface for on-premise SharePoint environments providing
accessibility to all administrators whereas Security Manager is a rich
Windows Application that can manage permissions for any SharePoint
environment including those hosted with Office 365.
Brett Lonsdale will demonstrate how
DeliverPoint can be used by Site Collection Administrators and Site
Administrators directly in the SharePoint user interface to report on
and manage SharePoint permissions. Unique permissions, compare site
permissions, discover permissions and Dead account reports are just some
of the features that Brett will demonstrate.
Dave Coleman will show the use of
MetaVis Security Manager managing permissions in an Office 365
environment and will also demonstrate how to check permission
inheritance and more importantly how a user permission is applied and
more.
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SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Reality Plus Service Pack 1
Date: 18th August 2011 - 12 noon EST
Presenter: Joel Oleson
Joel Oleson is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic
trainer, evangelist and architect, and he maintains a popular blog www.sharepointjoel.com.
Joel
worked at Microsoft and was involved in the first Microsoft global
deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure, Joel helped
various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade
and achieve scale with SharePoint 2007.
Now that SP1 is out what how does this impact your upgrade
strategies. What does SP1 offer over RTM? The reality of upgrade is
in the strategy of how you execute your binary upgrade, but don’t underestimate
the strategy around your visual upgrade. In this session I’ll give you
recent examples of an enterprise upgrade of 1TB of data with 50 databases and
share our lessons learned from custom workflows, site templates, and dealing
with the harsh realities of the Fab 40.
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SharePoint 2010 Authentication Overview
Date: 28th July 2011 - 12 noon EST
Presenter: Todd Klindt (SharePoint MVP)
Now that you have your SharePoint farm expertly installed and configured it’s time to loose your users on it. Before you do that, you should have a well thought out authentication strategy designed. SharePoint 2010 has many great authentication options, it’s very flexible. Unfortunately when it comes to software, flexible is often another way of saying “complicated.” In this webcast Todd will cover the basics to authentication and how SharePoint figures into authentication and authorization.
After we get the basics down we’ll cover how you can take advantage of SharePoint 2010’s flexibility by authenticating against user stores that aren’t Active Directory. We’ll walk through settings up Forms Based Authentication (FBA) and talk about how it improves upon the FBA support that SharePoint 2007 had. We will also cover some troubleshooting techniques in case FBA doesn’t want to cooperate with you. After mastering FBA we will take a turn and take a look at Claims authentication. We’ll explain what Claims is and why it’s a good thing for SharePoint 2010.
All PowerPoint and no demos makes for a dull webcast, so there will be a lot of demos. They will help home the information in the slides, and give Todd an opportunity to embarrass himself in front of a large group of people. Should be a lot of fun.
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What will the future of productivity look like?
Date: 16th June 2011 - 12 noon EST
Presenter: Mark Miller
Mark
Miller is the Chief Community Officer and SharePoint Evangelist for
Global 360. He lives in New York City with his wife, two children, one
dog, one turtle, one gerbil and 9 goldfish. In his spare time between
managing the in-house zoo, he is a founding member and editor of
NothingButSharePoint.com.
What will the future of productivity look like? When you are viewing
information that is dispersed, stored anywhere in the world, created by
an unknown community of people, how will you find, access and consume
that information? What will the interfaces look like?
Mark
Miller is traveling the globe, looking for futuristic ideas on how to
take massive amounts of data and turn it into usable information
displays. In this session, we'll talk with Mark about some of his most
recent discoveries and how they might affect the future of productivity.
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Exploring the Out of the Box Web Parts for SharePoint 2010.
Date: 11th May 2011 - 12 noon EST
Presenter: Laura Rogers SharePoint MVP
In this session,
Laura Rogers will demonstrate just how flexible and useful the out-of-the-box
Web parts are in SharePoint Server 2010. There will be an overview of many of
these web parts, along with demonstrations of several new web parts, and some
that have been improved or changed from MOSS 2007.
Best practices and use
cases of individual web parts will be discussed. Attendees will also be
given a demonstration on customizing data views using the new SharePoint
Designer 2010. It helps developers to know what can be done out of box
before writing code, and it’s also useful for end users to know the full extent
of SharePoint’s web parts.
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Delivering SharePoint Success:
Key Steps to Reap the Business Benefits
Date: 28th April 2011 - 12 noon EST
Presenter: Dux Rayond Sy, PMP
SharePoint has shifted the paradigm in enterprise information management and team collaboration. By empowering knowledge workers, SharePoint can increase worker productivity, improve efficiency and streamline business processes.
To achieve this goal, focusing on technology alone is not enough. Effectively identifying business value, gaining stakeholders' support and efficiently managing SharePoint projects is paramount to success.
In this presentation, you'll learn key techniques in:
- Gaining executive buy-in for SharePoint projects
- Identifying and prioritizing business benefits SharePoint provides
- Proper planning and appropriately managing expectations
- Engaging the business for better adoption
- Defining organizational SharePoint readiness
The primary audience for this session includes technical and business decision makers whose organizations have adopted SharePoint and who wish to adopt SharePoint.
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