Keynote Presentation, SharePoint and the Cloud
Steve Fox

As IT moves to the cloud, there are many positive implications for SharePoint. In this keynote, we'll explore this mass migration to the cloud and talk about how key technologies such as Windows Azure, Bing Services, and Windows Phone 7 can not only integrate with SharePoint, but also augment the experience—both from the on-premises SharePoint and SharePoint Online perspectives.

Making My Sites Work
Michael Doyle

SharePoint 2010 introduces an array of new social components tied to My Sites. Learn how to customize and use My Sites to bring the power of social networking to your enterprise. My Sites require a wide variety of skills and knowledge to customize but the major hurdles tend to be political. Session will cover central administration aspects, branding, and coding concerns.

Attend and learn:

1. How to apply branding to My Sites
2. How to use the User Profile Service
3. How to manage tags and notes
4. Best Practices for UI

The Steps to Effective SharePoint Governance
Richard Harbridge

If you are struggling with (or know someone struggling with):

1. SharePoint Site and Content Sprawl
2. Frustrated Users Claiming SharePoint Sucks
3. Conflicting Priorities and Not Enough SharePoint Resources
4. A Failing SharePoint Implementation

Then SharePoint Governance is exactly what you need.

Having effective SharePoint Governance is about a lot more than just creating and maintaining a "Governance Plan". In this session we will explore how to practically approach SharePoint Governance in just 5 steps with clear explanations and real world examples. When we are finished you will be able to effectively explain why you need SharePoint Governance, how you can approach SharePoint Governance and how you can manage SharePoint Governance effectively.

Top 3 SharePoint Search and FAST Search Implementation Mistakes
Martin Muldoon

In this webcast, BA Insight discusses 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.

To BLOB or Not to BLOB? Storage Optimization Demystified
Dan Holme and Randy Williams

SharePoint and SQL Server offer several methods with which you can externalize the BLOBs—the files that are stored in libraries and as attachments—to reduce the size of your content databases. BLOB externalization offers benefits beyond reduced storage cost—benefits that may surprise you! But there's a lot of hype and misunderstanding about BLOB externalization, which is neither a silver bullet nor evil incarnate. Join SharePoint MVP Dan Holme for a balanced, intelligent, detailed understanding of the technologies and issues surrounding BLOB externalization. Dive deep into the performance impact, scalability implications, and critical considerations for backup and restore, high availability, and disaster recovery. To BLOB or not to BLOB? There are no easy answers, but after this session you will have what it takes to maximize the potential of BLOB externalization in your storage architecture.

Developing and Managing SharePoint Solutions with Visual Studio 2010
Saaid Khan

In this demo heavy session we will explore Visual Studio 2010's tightly integrated support for SharePoint development. You will see Visual Studio's built in support for creating the most common customizations including custom web parts, event receivers, Workflows and more. We will also see how Visual Studio's ALM capabilities available in Visual Studio Ultimate and Team Foundation Server can be applied when working with SharePoint. We will finish the session with an early look at some of the new SharePoint 2010 support coming in the next version of Visual Studio.

Architecting SharePoint Governance: Enforcing Information and Service Management Requirements
Dan Holme

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? This session focuses on creating a logical and physical SharePoint architecture that effectively supports your information and service management requirements and governance plan—this is the "technical" side of governance. You will learn how to align your governance requirements with SharePoint farms, Web applications, site collections, and other components. Gain a deeper understanding of the intricacies and challenges of designing the logical and physical structure of SharePoint, and take away practical, blueprint-like guidance to what a governable SharePoint architecture might look like in your enterprise.

Dedicated Expo Time

On-Demand Sessions

ON-DEMAND SESSION: Data Visualization Made Easier in SharePoint 2010
Michelle Salazar

In this talk we'll explore 2 of the newest avenues for data visualization within SharePoint: Visio Services and Excel utilizing PowerPivot. Visio Services allows you to take the traditional boxes and arrows modeling of Visio and apply real-time business data against the model and making it readily accessible within SharePoint while PowerPivot harnesses the number-crunching power of Excel 2010 and allows for the easy deployment of rich reporting and dashboards into SharePoint.

ON-DEMAND SESSION: The Latest Advancements for SharePoint and Outlook Integration
Kevin Docherty

Join Workshare for a comprehensive webinar event to see how Workshare's new Microsoft SharePoint solution enables business professionals like you to retrieve and file content to SharePoint without leaving Microsoft Office.

SharePoint 2010 is a scalable document repository that blends traditional content management, social computing and search, but users find it difficult to locate the documents and email messages they need.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

• Access SharePoint files while remaining in Office and Outlook
• Enhance your email and document management
• Drive SharePoint adoption

ON-DEMAND SESSION: Enterprise Search Vendors: Evaluation their Approaches and Technologies
Martin Muldoon

There are dozens of enterprise search vendors out there, and understanding their differences can be quite a challenge. Join Martin Muldoon in this live webinar to clear some of the confusion by reviewing the two general approaches taken by the great majority of enterprise search technologies on the market: Linguistic vs. Statistical Analysis. To assist in the discussion, he will evaluate two of today's most popular enterprise search vendors, Microsoft and Autonomy, and discuss the pros and cons of their approaches.

ON-DEMAND SESSION: Unleashing SharePoint 2010 for Records Management, Governance, and Compliance
Ryan Duguid

As governance and compliance play increasingly essential roles in records management (RM) strategy, organizations worldwide are replacing their legacy systems with SharePoint. What is driving this change?

Join Ryan Duguid, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft, for an inside look at the extensive RM capabilities of SharePoint 2010, including:

• Leveraging SharePoint 2010's RM capabilities
• Utilizing the Records Center and in-place records management
• Deploying the Content Organizer and enterprise-managed metadata
• Integrating Outlook and SharePoint for email management

ON-DEMAND SESSION: Presenting Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating Business Solutions with Enhanced Tools and Improved Collaboration
Jeff DeVerter

Part 1 of this series focuses on new, out-of-the-box features that can help businesses increase efficiency, facilitate greater collaboration, and make everyday SharePoint workloads easier to manage.

ON-DEMAND SESSION: Developers and IT Pros — Living Together
Dan Holme and Randy Williams

Business needs occasionally mandate custom development for SharePoint, but customizing SharePoint can introduce security, performance and stability problems. This developer and IT-pro friendly session covers ways of relieving the friction between Developers and IT professionals, ensuring the best SharePoint experience for all. SharePoint MVPs Randy Williams (in the role of the Developer) and Dan Holme (in the role of the IT Pro) will inform, illuminate, and entertain as they explore the deployment and management of customizations, upgradeability, disaster recovery, and other key topics.

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