Sessions - SharePoint - Behind the Curtain

Session Schedule

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Time

Title

Speaker

Room

11:00 AM
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12:00 PM

Manage your External Data using Business Connectivity Services—without Code!

Asif Rehmani

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The Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is an evolution of the concept of the Business Data Catalog (BDC) that was introduced in SharePoint 2007 to get access to your line of business data. In addition to consuming your data, BCS lets you also write back data to your external systems. SharePoint Designer 2010 is used to define your connection properties by creating External Content Types (ECT) without the need for programming! In this session, you see how you can surface this data using external lists, metadata in SharePoint lists and also your Outlook application to create robust business solutions.
12:00 PM
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12:15 PM

NETWORKING BREAK

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12:15 PM
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1:15 PM

Automating Business Processes using InfoPath 2010 Forms with integrated SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows

Asif Rehmani

1

Forms and Workflows are essential to business processes. Companies usually rely on programmers to create the forms and workflows using code. Not any more! If you have access to Microsoft InfoPath 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, you can create powerful data driven form solutions on your SharePoint sites. InfoPath gives you the ability to pull data from databases and lists, and create forms with data validation and conditional formatting. SharePoint Designer's workflows let you then design powerful multi-step workflows centered around the form collected data. In this presentation, you see how to design a robust form using InfoPath and then design a workflow using SharePoint Designer to route this form appropriately.
1:15 PM
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1:30 PM

NETWORKING BREAK

1
1:30 PM
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2:30 PM

Encouraging SharePoint Adoption by Increasing User Confidence: How to Deploy a Scalable, Reliable Infrastructure

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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is quickly enabling organizations to use the platform for more than just a central document repository, including advanced initiatives such as enterprise content management. However, as SharePoint’s usage evolves and grows, major challenges must be addressed regarding the platform’s scalability, reliability, and access the platform provides in order to ensure end-user adoption. In this session, we will discuss the typical progression of SharePoint usage, native features available to encourage platform adoption, and available solutions and strategies for ensuring the SharePoint deployment is scalable, reliable, and ripe for organization-wide adoption.

Sponsored by:
1:30 PM
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2:30 PM
SharePoint & FAST Search Relevancy Optimization

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Please join Martin Muldoon (Director Product Marketing, BA-Insight) as he addresses the following topic areas:

The importance of good search in the Enterprise as quantified by renowned IDC analyst, Sue Feldman

Going beyond “noisy” click –through usage monitoring.

Define KPI’s to determine search effectiveness in your organization

Learn how to improve the two components of Relevance; Precision and Recall.

Learn how to connect SharePoint / FAST Search to line of business systems while honoring non Active Directory based security models.
Sponsored by:
2:30 PM
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3:30 PM

Best Practices for Least-Privilege Installation, Administration, and Security of SharePoint 2010

Dan Holme

1

It’s one thing to install and administer SharePoint with all of the defaults, perhaps even running as a Domain Admin. It’s another to make it work with a nod to least privilege, manageability, and auditability. In this highly practical session, SharePoint MVP Dan Holme discusses everything you ever wanted to know about user accounts and SharePoint, across a variety of SharePoint scenarios. You’ll learn exactly what service accounts are necessary to create a least-privilege installation of SharePoint, and how they must be configured. You’ll learn how to manage service accounts and their passwords to ensure compliance with your IT security policies. You’ll explore the pros and cons of multiple app pools and identities. You’ll examine approaches to user and group management to identify the best practices for different parts of your intranet. And you’ll learn how to delegate administrators the ability to use PowerShell to administer SharePoint. You’ll be surprised by some of the very important, underdocumented guidance you’ll take away, and you’ll be equipped to succeed.

Sponsored by:
3:30 PM
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3:45 PM

NETWORKING BREAK

1
3:45 PM
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4:45 PM

Designing Governance: How Information Management and Security Must Drive Your Design

Dan Holme

1

You’ve read the white papers, you’ve “Binged” governance, but how, exactly, do you design a SharePoint implementation that will support governance, security, and information management? Join SharePoint MVP and consultant Dan Holme for a practical, nuts-and-bolts look at the close relationship between your information management requirements and SharePoint’s manageability controls, and the demands that relationship places on your design and infrastructure. This session is focused on architecting a logical design of SharePoint that effectively supports your information management requirements and governance plan—the “technical” side of governance. You will learn how to align your governance requirements with SharePoint farms, Web applications, and site collections. You’ll discover why some third-party applications are a “design poison pill” and what SharePoint 2010 offers to greatly improve the deployment of a governable design. Gain a deeper understanding of the intricacies and challenges of designing the logical structure of SharePoint, and take away practical, blueprint-like guidance to what a governed SharePoint implementation might look like in your enterprise.
5:00 PM
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5:00 PM

Event Adjourns

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