Learn about the new and improved features in Microsoft’s premier SharePoint branding and customization software, SharePoint Designer 2010.  From simple customizations and themes to full-blown master page development and brand implementation, SharePoint Designer veteran brings experience, best practices, and time-saving tips to light in an exclusive insight into the SharePoint branding and design process.  The pre-conference seminar highlights include:

• Getting Started with SharePoint Designer 2010
• Overview of new interface and features
• Microsoft’s new “V4” master page
• Modal dialogs and interface style
• Crafting your new 2010 design
• Best practices for accessibility and SEO

Don’t miss out on this exclusive opportunity to interact with SharePoint Designer 2010 in an intimate classroom setting.  Space is extremely limited; register early to guarantee your spot in the pre-conference seminar.

NOTE: This event has reached the initial limit of 12.  We have extended the class to accommodate an additional 18 students, however you will need to bring your own laptop, which must have at least 2 GB of RAM, Internet Explorer and the ability to wirelessly connect to a Terminal Services session.

This fast paced session will start with an overview all of the Web Content Management (WCM) features in SharePoint 2007.  We will review basic content publishing before diving into theWCM capabilities of SharePoint.  We’ll discuss Managed Metadata and Taxonomy, XHTML and browser support, integrating Social Media capabilities, Rich Media (like video streaming), publishing infrastructure overview, workflow, and much more.  The session will then end with an overview of the hottest new additions to the SharePoint 2010 WCM capabilities  The session will provide many best practices in a rapid fire format:

• How to define Content and Structure using Page Layouts
• Upgrading from previous versions of SharePoint
• Content Migration from various other CMS systems
• Training: How to best train your staff to manage your new environment
• End User Adoption: Now that you’ve built a powerful new
• SharePoint site you need to get people using it
• SharePoint Tools:  SharePoint Designer and your browser

TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic

AUDIENCE: All

SharePoint 2010 is poised to revolutionize how organizations connect their people, processes, and information.  It will mark SharePoint’s evolution from a server application to a full-fledged platform…the world’s first “enterprise eco-system.”  In this session we will discuss how the changes coming in SharePoint 2010 will affect your platform deployment, administration, and performance optimization strategies.  We will outline approaches for efficient management of both application lifecycles and multi-farm, geographically-dispersed environments,  review best practices for optimizing storage resources, and conclude with an evaluation of options for consolidating and exposing your legacy content in the SharePoint 2010 platform.

Findability is more important now than ever before.  Whether you’re talking about Office Documents, emails, files, pages, user profiles or any kind of posts, if it cannot be easily found, it might as well not exist.  Let’s face it, we are a spoiled people with little patience and we expect the first page of search results to contain exactly what we were looking for, every time.

How can you deliver such an experience for your end users?  Learn how the SharePoint 2007 Search Engine can be tweaked to deliver a top notch end user search experience.  Check out the search engine enhancements that ship with SharePoint 2010, and there’s plenty.  Learn all about Microsoft’s premium search engine, FAST ESP for SharePoint, and whether or not your organization needs it.

This session will uncover the best practices and techniques used to deliver supreme findability.  Learn how to maximize search usage information.  From running SharePoint Search Engine driven ad campaigns, to analyzing what your users are looking for, you will leave this session with a new understanding of the extremely powerful capabilities of the SharePoint Search Engine!

TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic

AUDIENCE: Architects, Project Managers, Administrators, Business Users

Two real-life case studies featuring a successful Intranet application and a successful Extranet site.  Topics to be covered include planning, design, integration and user adoption.  If your organization is planning an internal collaborative Intranet or an external Extranet, don’t miss the opportunity to learn from these two organizations how to make your own project a success.

The panel will be moderated by Gretchen Steenstra, Senior Consultant, Technology Management, at Delcor -- and will include the following panelists:

• Mark Conrad,  Client Engagement Senior Manager, Membership Management Technologies, AARP
• Shani Bagley, Manager of Information and Technology, ACCCE
• Rob Devitis, Vice President, Development Services, The Logic Group

This session has no PowerPoint slides at all!  This session is a real world scenario application integrating a CRM/AMS application with SharePoint being built in real time with audience feedback! 

You will learn how to unleash the power of the SharePoint 2010 platform – all without writing a single line of code!  The session will highlight many capabilities of the SharePoint 2010 platform.  We’ll connect to the backend database using Business Connectivity Services using only a wizard in SharePoint Designer.  Then we’ll map a SharePoint External List to the backend database. 

Using document libraries, managed metadata, connected lists, and data views, we will configure a complete application to combining information and knowledge stored in SharePoint with the data stored in the CRM/AMS backend.  Using a real world case study, we will complete a fully functional application used by staff, members, and anonymous users providing immediate results! 

See firsthand the power available by configuring SharePoint 2010 using only the web interface and SharePoint Designer 2010.

Technical Level: Intermediate

Audience: All

Are you one of those employees who stores every email they ever sent and received just in case? Do you have multiple folders crammed full of files that you worked on over a year ago? Are you more high tech than this and have CDs or even DVDs of stored files? More importantly do you have a requirement to store data whether it be documents, emails or even media files? If you answered “Yes” to some if not all of these questions they this session if for you. Records Management is becoming an important component of any Enterprise Content Management solution. Previous versions of SharePoint have tried to enable the functionality needed but have fell short. SharePoint 2010 goes a long way to making it a reality for you as a business to use SharePoint as you records repository. In this session we will go through what SharePoint 2010 has to offer for records management and how you as a business can build a scalable records platform.

TECHNICAL LEVEL: Basic, Intermediate

AUDIENCE: Architects, Project Managers, Business Users

The workforce is increasingly mobile – it’s not just the sales force who works remotely nowadays.  It’s important to keep people just as productive when they are working away from the office, as they are when they are in the office.  There are potential cost savings by reducing overhead by empowering people to work remotely more.

With Office 2010, Microsoft is delivering a familiar Office experience across PC, phone browser so that you have the freedom to use Office from more locations and on more devices.  Microsoft is introducing Office Web Apps so that you can have a familiar Office experience from more places and on more devices.  To understand this, think of the experience you may have with Outlook today.  Outlook on the PC is where you have the most features and power to do your best work.  And when you need to stay up-to-the-minute with the freedom to move around, you can use Outlook mobile on your mobile phone.  But you would never write a novel on your phone!  And OWA gives you access to the information you need when you’re away from your primary machine, through any web browser.

The Office Web Apps will allow you this same freedom to access your information from virtually anywhere. Also, Office mobile improvements make your phone is much more than a viewer with Office 2010. 

Office Mobile 2010 will include:

• SharePoint Workspace Mobile: New application added
• PowerPoint Mobile: All new version
• Word Mobile: Office 2010 compatibility, Touch gestures
• Excel Mobile: Office 2010 compatibility, Touch gestures
• OneNote Mobile: Office 2010 compatibility

Changes are saved in the whole "round-trip" across these form factors so you can be confident that your changes are saved just as you intended them to appear.

The session will be a case study of NDIA’s live integrated SharePoint Business Intelligence solution. Representatives from NDIA and SusQtech will walk through the planning , implementation and integration process in detail,  in order to highlight clear decision points, challenges and creative solutions that allowed NDIA to maximize SharePoint and several data sources in order to launch a comprehensive BI solution. Solution designed to include targeted Dashboards for different roles with in the organization.

A before and after storyline will be developed in order to showcase the opportunity ceased by NDIA and the resulting evolution of the organizations SharePoint infrastructure. Real world results from a data perspective will be shared and analyzed. Future planning for continued development will be presented as well.

This hands-on course will cover:

• The SharePoint API
• Custom Web Parts
• Custom Features
• Event Receivers
• Custom Authentication Providers

A strong understanding of .NET and C# development is necessary to maximize your experience in this class.

NOTE: This event has reached the initial limit of 12.  We have extended the class to accommodate an additional 8 students, however you will need to bring your own laptop, which must have at least 2 GB of RAM (although 4 GB RAM is strongly recommended), at least 20 GB available hard drive space, and VPC 2007 installed.