"SharePoint Saturday" Scheduled for February in Leawood, Kansas

by dboynton 1/14/2009 11:40:00 AM

SPSaturdayKC My friend and colleague Clint Edmonson is working with community leaders to put on a great learning event called SharePoint Saturday on February 7th at Centriq in Leawood, Kansas, just outside of Kansas City. This event, targeted primarily at SharePoint developers and architects, will cover a wide variety of topics and will be presented by a great assembly of SharePoint luminaries, professionals and Microsoft MVPs.

Here is the current lineup for the day:

Session Level Session Type Speaker Name Session Title Session Abstract
100 Development Corey Roth Deploying Code in SharePoint This talk walks new SharePoint developers through the process of deploying web parts and user controls in SharePoint.   In this talk, you will learn how to build features and wsp solution packages as well as an introduction to code access security.
100 Special Interest Cara Miller Redesigning the Sharepoint Interface This session will show you how to effectively modify the sharepoint interface to serve the unique needs of your organization and it’s brand.
200 Administration Tony Lanni SharePoint Backup & Recovery and Governance With SharePoint quickly becoming the preferred platform for team collaboration, protection from unexpected data loss is a vital concern for today’s administrators. Otherwise, organizations will be left grappling with crippling data loss and system downtime while dealing with the risk of lost intellectual property and wasted employee productivity. How can you ensure that your SharePoint backup policies are governed appropriately by your organization’s business processes to promote intelligent, automated, and independent system protection?
Whether your organization already has an existing SharePoint implementation in place, or you are pursuing a new implementation, the overall strategy of a successful SharePoint 2007 deployment needs to be approached in a very unique manner. SharePoint can become so popular within an organization so fast that without the proper governance model you can have numerous sites with sprawling content, no standard metadata, no content management policies, and inadequate security policies. Can you reel SharePoint back in after you get to this point? That is why enforcing governance within your organization is so critical and the sooner this is done the better. Effective SharePoint governance encompasses numerous different topics, and this session will focus on a number of key areas aimed at delivering the return that you would expect from your enterprise-wide collaboration and portal platform.
200 Development
Todd Kitta Business Data Catalog Development This session will cover development options for the Business Data Catalog. This will include the BDC APIs as well as discussions around BDC custom actions which can facilitate backend data manipulation.
200 Development
Becky Bertram Introduction to SharePoint Web Content Management Development Becky will explain how the Web Content Management (WCM) features of SharePoint can be used to create a public-facing Internet site, and demonstrate how to create a basic page template using SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio.
200
Special Interest Matt Bremer Aggregating Site Content Across Site Collections without Code There are a number of reasons to use Site Collections in SharePoint 2007. A side effect from this decision, however, is that it is difficult to aggregate content across them. In this session you will learn how to use the Data View Web Part connected to the SharePoint search web service to aggregate content across site collections without code and still respect your list and site security.
200 Administration Todd Ingersoll & Mike Henthorn Navigating the Migration waters, what types of migration option are available for me? In this session we will present the various SharePoint Migration methodologies.  We will focus on comparing the various migration apps available including discussing particular migrations from other apps including SharePoint ‘03, CMS, File Shares, Lotus Notes and Stellent.  A few live demos will be given during the presentation.
200 Administration Ram Gopinathan Securing SharePoint Deployments This session will cover topics on MOSS Security, you will walk away from this session with some guidelines and strategies that could be applied to secure your MOSS deployments
    * Overview of Farm topologies,
    * Server Hardening,
    * Configuring Farm in Least Privilege Mode
    * ForeFront Security For SharePoint
    * RMS integration to sharepoint to protect portal content
    * Securing Server to Server Communications
    * Securing Client to Server communications
200 Development Mike Knowles Developing Custom Editors for SharePoint Web Parts Mike will discuss options for developing the presentation, storage, and retrieval of Web Part properties within the SharePoint Web Part Tool Pane. Code examples will show how to add simple properties to the existing panels, and how to develop a custom Editor Part to display your editor within its own panel. Use of the Publishing AssetUrlSelector within a Web Part Editor Part will also be demonstrated.  
All source code will be available online after the event at:
http://mikeknowles.com/
200 Development
Daniel Larson Programming Dynamic AJAX Applications using the SharePoint Platform AJAX is a powerful programming model that lets users interact with your software in realtime, enabling productive communication and collaboration without the need for postbacks. In this session, Dan will show you how to Microsoft’s AJAX Library to develop rich internet applications using standard browser technologies. We’ll also look at the SharePoint AJAX Toolkit, which will make AJAX programming in SharePoint a breeze.  The SharePoint AJAX Toolkit is a professional open-source framework developed by Daniel Larson to abstract the hard parts of AJAX into a reusable library. It’s also the core foundation of commercial products he develops at NewsGator. This session is designed for experienced ASP.NET programmers who want to bridge the power of ASP.NET AJAX with the Windows SharePoint Services platform. We’ll look at the SharePoint AJAX Toolkit, example applications, and supported techniques for developing AJAX applications on WSS and MOSS.
300 Special Interest
Errin O’Connor
Building Your SharePoint Platform as a Service You’ve heard of software as a service (SaaS); now it’s time to think about SharePoint as a service (SPaaS). Is your organization’s SharePoint deployment an intranet solution, enterprise content management system, knowledge management solution, collaboration solution, business process automation platform or hybrid of the above? Your SharePoint platform should be built as a service to meet the business and functional requirements of your organization.
300 Special Interest
Michael Lotter
Building a framework for your InfoPath 2007 Web Based Rorms With the maturity of the new versions of SharePoint and InfoPath brought web based InfoPath forms and the reality of deploying an electronic form based solution in the enterprise.  If anybody has gone down this path you quickly realize that having the forms browser based really is the tip of the ice berg.  In this session we go into the details about building WCF framework to allow InfoPath forms to reach out and communicate with other applications and how you could read the content of your InfoPath forms and message bodies when being processed by WF workflow.
300
Architecture Karthik Venkataraman Architecting an Internet Facing Site with Web Content Management (WCM) in MOSS 2007 This session explores the challenges commonly faced implementing an internet facing site in MOSS with WCM capabilities. The key concepts covered include team-based development with source control integration, configuration of three-tier development architecture, customized deployment actions for different environments and securing a production environment. Other topics that will be briefly touched upon include WF integration, best practices, and important considerations while designing a WCM system.
300 Special Interest David McCollough & Dennis Bottjer Enabling Variations on a Multilingual Publishing Portal A “what-we-learned” deep dive from recent project experience where Variations were enabled to support the multilingual requirements of an Internet Portal.  We will discuss configuration, patches, replication issues, performance, custom code, and testing.  The majority of our material will be from real world experience and the school of hard knocks!
300 End User John Stover
Data and Views and Forms – Oh My!  Building robust applications for MOSS and WSS using the Data View Web Part in SharePoint Designer.

Did you know that you can write complete applications without writing any actual code? Connect to a web service, a database, or another SharePoint site to get or update data easily using SharePoint Designer 2007.  This session will cover the basics of this little understood and underutilized gem of SharePoint!  See real world solutions, tricks, and see how to create an anonymous registration form that also tracks the ad source - done in SharePoint without writing any code!  While this session is for any power users – developers are encouraged to attend!  Quit working so hard to accomplish tasks that can be done with a few mouse clicks.

As you can see, there will be something for everyone who works with SharePoint. To learn more about SharePoint Saturday, check out the event’s web site. If you’re ready to register for this free event, you can do so here.

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Building Energizer.com on MOSS

by dboynton 7/17/2008 12:13:00 PM

Unfortunately, most people still look at SharePoint as an "intranet in a box" solution for quickly putting up team home pages and managing documents. The truth is that SharePoint Server 2007 has evolved into a rich development platform that can be extended and utilized in your custom software projects. If your project has requirements for search, content management and/or membership, MOSS can save time and money on the project by providing that functionality which can then me implemented as part of your solution.

A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Sundar Swaminathan, a Solutions Architect at Quilogy in St. Charles, Missouri, to talk with him about his experience as lead architect on the project to redesign Energizer.com (the web site that goes on and on and on...sorry, I couldn't resist!) to run on top of MOSS. Fortunately, I had my camera gear with me and we were able to turn it into an ARCast.tv segment.


ARCast.TV - Sundar Swaminathan on MOSS for Public Facing Web Sites

Please feel free to join in the discussion. Leave a comment either on the ARCast,tv site or here on my blog. Enjoy the conversation and thanks for watching!

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Thank You for a Great Launch Event, St. Louis

by dboynton 5/6/2008 4:34:00 PM

HeroesHappenHereI finished up my speaking tour for the Heroes Happen Here product launch of Windows Server, Visual Studio and SQL Server 2008 about 25 minutes ago here in my home town of St. Louis. The audience was great. I hope you enjoyed the talk and thanks to you all for your attention and the great questions. I hope you enjoy the t-shirts!

I'm actually sitting in the front row at the launch as I write this watching Clint Edmonson talk about occasionally connected applications (OCAs) and the synch framework. As promised, you can download the deck that I showed you today here.

Also, just to make things easy, here are the links from my resource slide at the end of my presentation:

As a follow-up to the gentleman who asked me a question about downloading Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) and installing it in Visual Studio 2008, unfortunately, that isn't currently possible. I know everyone who attended the launch received a copy of VS2008 Standard which doesn't support VSTO at this time. Hopefully, you'll have access to the Professional version of VS2008 so you can try out some of the techniques we talked about this afternoon.

Again, please feel free to leave any questions in the comment section below or send me an email!

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Why VSTO Rocks and Where You Can Learn More About It

by dboynton 4/2/2008 4:53:00 PM

StLouisMOSSCampAt both the Kansas City and Minneapolis Windows Server/Visual Studio/SQL Server product launches, I've presented a breakout session called Creating Instantly Recognizable Application with the Microsoft Office System. It has given me a really good opportunity to dig into developing custom applications in the Office client applications as well as customizing SharePoint Server and, ultimately, tying the two systems together to create a true "software plus service" solution. I have to say, this stuff absolutely rocks!

One thing I've learned in the past several weeks is that is has never been easier to develop, test and deploy MOSS applications. There are several reasons for this:

  • Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is integrated into Visual Studio 2008 and offers a very rich set of project types for all the Office products
  • VSTO provides a SharePoint workflow project type -- this is the same as a typical Workflow Foundation project (SharePoint uses WF as its workflow engine) except that it has all the SharePoint specific hooks built in that allows for one-click deployment and debugging
  • For Office 2007 applications, VSTO now provides a visual design tool for ribbon add-in applications
  • The developer experience for building Office Business Applications (OBAs) is exactly the same as building any other WinForm or ASP.NET application in Visual Studio

If you've developed an application in Visual Studio before, you can have an OBA application up and running in virtually no time. If you want to get some hands-on experience from the professionals, I'm glad to let you know that there will be a MOSS Camp in St. Louis this coming Saturday, April 5th. To get all the details, including the topics for the day, check out the announcement post on Clint Edmonson's web site. This is a community driven event being given my the St. Louis SharePoint User Group.

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