Session Schedule

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Time
Title
Speaker
Room
  • 11:00 AM
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    12:00 PM
    SharePoint Online—Architectural Considerations
    Dave Chennault
    1
    SharePoint 2010 in Office 365 opens exciting new opportunities to leverage Microsoft’s huge investment in the cloud, but the solution architect will need to master the capabilities and limitations of SharePoint 2010 online. This session will focus on the significance of SharePoint 2010 as an always on, always available platform for solution development and explore architectural considerations when developing solutions for SharePoint in Office 365. Key topics in this session include:
    • The new landscape—The session will start with a discussion on the significance of Office365 and SharePoint Online
    • Differences between the Enterprise and Small Business SKU’s—Design considerations for the small business version of Office 365
      and the enterprise version
    • “SandBoxing”—what it means to solution architecture
    • How to integrate data into SharePoint Online—Leveraging outside web services and external data stores
    • Limits—Hard edges and workarounds
    • Throttling in a multi-tenant world—SharePoint Online throttling and its importance to the SharePoint Architect

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  • 12:00 PM
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    12:15 PM
    NETWORKING BREAK
     
    1
  • 12:15 PM
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    1:15 PM
    SharePoint Online in Office 365: Development
    Sergiy Nesterenko
    1
    Office365 includes SharePoint 2010 online offering a rich platform for developing solutions that are always on and always available. This session will explore how solutions can be developed using Office365 and SharePoint online and give you the deep insights into the possibilities and limitations of developing SharePoint solutions in Office 365. The info-packed session will include the following topics:
    • Building Sandbox solutions—Capabilities, limits, and design considerations
    • The importance of declarative workflows—Why declarative workflows are vital to SharePoint Online
    • InfoPath 2010 for list forms—The importance of InfoPath
    • Client-side Object Model—Exploring the importance Client-Side Object Model in SharePoint 2010
    • Opportunities with Azure and on-premises data stores—Design patterns for Azure, on-premises data stores and integration possibilities
      with SharePoint Online
  • 1:15 PM
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    1:30 PM
    NETWORKING BREAK
     
    1

  • 1:30 PM
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    2:30 PM
    Top 3 SharePoint Search / FAST Search Implementation Mistakes
    Martin Muldoon
    1
    In this session, BA Insight will discuss some of the common mistakes organizations make when deploying search solutions on top of SharePoint Search, or FAST Search for SharePoint and how to avoid them. These include:
    • Providing users with an Internet Search interface to search enterprise content.
    • Assuming the search engine will provide “Google like” relevance without tuning the ranking algorithm.
    • Failing to include Line of Business system data in the scope of the search initiative.
    The session will also include a demonstration BA Insight’s Longitude, a technology that extends the search capabilities of FAST and SharePoint Search.

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  • 1:30 PM
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    2:30 PM
    Office 365: Considerations for a Cloudy Day
    John Peluso
    2
    Are you “all in” for the cloud? Should you be? This session cuts through the hype to bring you some common sense advice to consider when contemplating a move to Office 365. The discussion will review what the cloud is, what it isn’t and what it one day may be so that you can make intelligent decisions about how you will leverage this powerful new capability. Specific topics covered will include security and migration considerations based on AvePoint’s successful track record of on-premises and cloud case studies, as well as guidance on how and when to manage hybrid scenarios where you leverage local and hosted SharePoint environments.

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  • 2:30 PM
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    2:45 PM
    NETWORKING BREAK
     
    1

  • 2:45 PM
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    3:45 PM
    Migration and Deployment Considerations
    Dave Chennault
    1
    Once you’ve architected and developed a solution, you need to deploy it to Office 365. You will often need to migrate data into the solution and then develop governance policies and procedures to protect your organization from unnecessary risks. This session will give all you need to get your solution and data up into Office 365 and keep it running. This session includes the following:
    • Solution Packaging—How to package and move solutions into and within SharePoint Online in Office 365
    • Data Migration on-premises to the cloud—Practical considerations for Data Migration from on-premise to SharePoint in Office 365
    • Migration tools—Survey of available tools for Migration to SharePoint in Office 365
    • Governance Considerations for SharePoint in Office 365--“look before you leap”
  • 3:45 PM
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    4:00 PM
    Event Ends
     
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