Session Descriptions

SharePoint 2010 Keynote: Connecting and Empowering Your People
Arpan Shah
SharePoint 2010 is the biggest SharePoint release ever. It delivers a rich set of out-of-the-box functionality and a platform for solutions that enable organizations to connect and empower people. In this keynote, Arpan Shah talks about some of the big investments that make SharePoint 2010 a transformational technology.

Track 1

SharePoint Developer Roadmap
Steve Fox
This talk will provide a fundamental overview of the new features in SharePoint 2010 that developers want to know about. Specific areas of coverage will include introduction to new features, high-level tooling discussion, PowerShell, and much more.

Introduction to SharePoint Developer Tools
Steve Fox
This talk will provide the developer with an introduction to the tools that they should have in their developer toolkit for SharePoint 2010. Specific areas of coverage will include Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010.

Client Object Model
Paul Stubbs
The Client Object Model is a new interface to SharePoint that developers can use from Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, Office or JavaScript. Applications not running on the SharePoint Server can use the new SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model to access SharePoint data and administrative APIs. This talk will demonstrate how to use the Client Object Model using Visual Studio 2010.

SharePoint and Silverlight
Paul Stubbs
The combination of the great presentation and user interface capabilities of Silverlight and the rich collaboration platform of SharePoint create an unbeatable combination for making developers very productive in building rich internet applications. SharePoint 2010 features new tools that make it easier to build with Silverlight, including a new Silverlight object model and REST services.

Track 2

Setting up a SharePoint 2010 lab on Microsoft HyperV
Bob Fox
In this session I will go over the basics of setting up Hyper V on a Server and will then present on how to properly set up a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Lab environment. This will be beneficial at showing both Developers and ITPros the basics of setting up a lab and pass on some tips and tricks I have gained in my working with this technology.

Introducing the New Service Infrastructure in SharePoint 2010
Andrew Connell
In this session you will learn about the dramatic changes to the service infrastructure Microsoft implemented in SharePoint 2010, replacing the previous Shared Service Provider (SSP) architecture. These changes enable you to better leverage services and to create service oriented farms with more control over the scale, deployment, performance and utilization of these services.

A Lap around the new Security Features in SharePoint 2010
Spencer Harbar
This session provides a tour of the new security features in SharePoint 2010 from an administration perspective. Learn about the new capabilities to deploy a highly secure SharePoint 2010 Environment for your customers. Please note that this session does not cover the new Authentication mechanisms.

Upgrading options and consideration for SharePoint 2010
Shane Young
In this session we will take a brief but intense look at SharePoint 2010 upgrade options. We will discuss the methods available, the pros and cons of the methods, and things you can do to prepare today. Lot of excitement!

Track 3

Top 10 Enhancements for SharePoint 2010 Development
Ted Pattison
This session introduces the ten most significant enhancements to the SharePoint development platform with the release of SharePoint Server 2010. You will learn how to build out a SharePoint 2010 development workstation using Windows 7 and the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools. The session will then explain and position other new SharePoint 2010 features such as new event handling support, list relationships, LINQ to SharePoint, the Client Object Model and improvements to the SharePoint workflow infrastructure. You also learn why the new service application architecture as well as the new support for claims-based security in SharePoint 2010 opens exciting and new opportunities to SharePoint developers around the world.

Developing Sandboxed Solutions
Wouter Van Vugt
The administrative perspective of allowing third party solutions is simple. Customizations, especially those with code, have a negative impact on the stability of the farm. Like in normal, less advanced, ASP.NET applications it is hard to monitor specific solutions and to determine exactly what code is allowed to do.

In this session you will learn about the new preferred approach to deploying SharePoint customizations. The new solutions catalog allows site collection administrators to install, upgrade and remove solutions that can even contain custom code. Learn how this new deployment model allows for greater flexibility and how it improves the ability of IT departments to monitor resource usage and determine what code is allowed to do inside the farm. You will see how to use Visual Studio 2010 to create a sandboxed solution. You will learn how custom solution validators can be used to increase administrative control and how IT and developers work together to determine what code is allowed to do.

Business Connectivity Services
Scot Hillier
In this session, attendees will learn the fundamentals of BCS by using the SharePoint Designer. External content types will be created within SPD. External lists and forms will be created based on the external content types. Finally, the external lists will be taken off line with the SharePoint Workspace.

Introduction to Enterprise Content Management
Andrew Connell
Microsoft's first foray into Enterprise Content Management (ECM) was in Office SharePoint Server 2007. In this session we'll dive into the new capabilities Microsoft has added to SharePoint Server 2010 that will get more people in your organization in ECM solutions as well as make it easier for records managers to manage and control these solutions.

Track 4

Architecting a Robust Global SharePoint Infrastructure
Han Wang
When deploying SharePoint as a business-critical collaboration platform and digital-asset repository, ensuring data access, availability, and protection, are absolutely critical. Though SharePoint and SQL Server offer some scalability and data protection natively, these may prove inadequate for most competitive organizations.

In this session, we will discuss the key components of any successful SharePoint global deployment. This will include architecture configurations for efficient data access across geographies and networks, considerations for high availability of data and SharePoint sites, and robust design including backup & recovery planning. After analyzing SharePoint's native capabilities, we will identify best practices, available free tools, and other best-of-breed solutions for ensuring a fully distributed and protected SharePoint platform.

Finally, we will discuss SharePoint archiving, and review how intelligent archiving procedures, when coupled with successful replication and data protection plans, can improve platform performance and reliability, and lower storage and management costs.

SQL and Storage Considerations for SharePoint Server 2010
Mike Watson
SharePoint Server 2010 is packed full of new functionality, but have you considered how these new capabilities affect underlying technologies such as SQL and storage? Poorly tuned SQL and badly designed storage can quickly manifest into SharePoint health and performance problems. Come learn what's new in SharePoint and how to design and optimize SQL and storage for it.

Mimosa NearPoint for SharePoint: Next Generation SharePoint Archiving & Recovery
Martin Tuip
Learn more about Mimosa's NearPoint™ for SharePoint at this interactive webinar. Using real-life case examples, you will see first-hand how NearPoint eliminates your most critical SharePoint pains with a simple, effective solution that delivers next generation SharePoint data protection, recovery and archiving, storage optimization, legal discovery, and regulatory compliance. In the words of one NearPoint user, "Mimosa NearPoint will quickly become the SharePoint administrator's best friend."

On-Demand Sessions

ON-DEMAND SESSION: Top 10 Legal Mistakes a SharePoint Administrator Needs to Avoid
Martin Tuip
Organizations everywhere are implementing SharePoint, but with the benefits of SharePoint also comes a new list of concerns. Many SharePoint administrators are unaware of the legal and management impacts SharePoint brings to an organization. Benefit from the mistakes of others and learn what you need to do - and what not to do.

ON-DEMAND SESSION: Effective Backup and Restore Strategies for Your SharePoint Service
Joel Oleson
Chaos in SharePoint backup and recovery arises when you're not sure where your data is or when to back it up. When this occurs, users have to wait weeks for IT to retrieve their lost data.

Join SharePoint expert Joel Oleson to learn how following a consistent backup and recovery governance plan can streamline processes, help you meet SLAs, and keep users productive. He and other special guests review goals for developing the plan, provide you with prescriptive guidance to achieve them, and describe native and third-party tools that can help along the way.

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This FREE event requires no travel, no conference fees and no time away from work. You and your team can listen to the industry's most respected speakers on topics you must know, and solutions that make it all happen. You can also network directly one-on-one through the Virtual Expo Hall.

SharePoint 2010 Live's revolutionary Virtual Expo Hall gives you the full-fidelity experience of a real conference, without all the travel. Interact directly with real people in each virtual expo booth. Learn about their products, ask questions, and get the answers you need. Along with our live presentations, our Virtual Expo hall puts the "Live" in SharePoint 2010 Live.