Morning Educational Sessions

Don’t be held hostage by your Developers! Build that custom application yourself without code!

When: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 10:15 AM

Where: Key Ballroom Complex

Speakers: John Stover, Sean Bordner

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

 

Welcome to PerformancePoint

When: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 11:30 am

Where: Key Ballroom 7

Speakers: Peter Serzo

PerformancePoint Services is now a component in the SharePoint 2010.  No longer a separate product, this is Microsoft’s BI delivery tool that contains scorecards, dashboards, and analytic capabilities within SharePoint.  It fulfills Microsoft’s promise of  user self-serve. 

Giving users unprecedented power to create rich views of data can only be harnessed positively with governance and responsibility.  This session demonstrates (through a movie motif) how to set up a scorecard, dashboards, and how to responsibly manage architecture and the self-serve components.  After a review of the history of PerformancePoint the session builds your knowledge through pertinent demos.  You will emerge from this session with a understanding of the power of this tool and its impact to return value within your organizations.

It's new, it's fast and it's free - SharePoint Designer 2010

When: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 10:15 am

Where: Key Ballroom Complex

Speakers: Kyle Schaeffer

With a new interface and some really cool new features, SharePoint Designer 2010 is destined to become to go to app for anyone who wants to master SharePoint.  Find out what you need to know and how it can help you become a SharePoint master.

You Can Store Records in SharePoint! Are You Sure?

When: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 10:15 am

Where: Key Balltoom Complex

Speakers: Liam Cleary

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

Office 2010: PC, Phone & Browser

When: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 11:30 AM

Where: Key Ballroom Complex

Speakers: Chris Ertz

 

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.

USERS PANEL: Public Web Sites & Communities on SharePoint

When: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 11:320 am

Where: Key Ballroom Complex

This session features real-life case studies on organizations that are utilizing SharePoint 2007 as a Web Content Management System and Community application.  The inclusion of Web CMS and Community features was new with the introduction of MOSS 2007 and promises to be expanded when SharePoint 2010 is released.  See how organizations are currently using SharePoint to communicate and collaborate with the outside world.