Session Title

Track

Level

Type

Speaker

Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Office Excel 2007

 In this session, see an important part of the overall Microsoft BI platform in action from end to end. Learn how to integrate SQL Server 2008 with SharePoint Server 2007 to enable users throughout your organization to access powerful reporting capabilities. See how you can use Excel 2007 to analyze multidimensional data from SQL Server analysis services; we also demo the SQL Server Data Mining Add-In for Excel 2007, a set of easy-to-use capabilities that enable predictive analysis on every desktop. In addition, utilize Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to get the thin Excel experience in Excel Services by creating Excel Web parts, dashboards, and to collaborate across the organization.

Business Intelligence 

300 

BRK 

Pej Javaheri 

Microsoft Office Excel Solutions: Migrating from My Desktop to Team Solution

 Microsoft Office Excel is used on personal desktops every day to create solutions and analyze data that can lead to better business decisions. These solutions and analyses often become core tools for more than just the creator of the spreadsheet; teams, and even entire organizations make decisions based on the analyses. This session walks through the creation of a personal solution that becomes critical to a business and the path that solution takes as it is migrated from a single spreadsheet to a centralized portal of information for the entire team. We look at the evolution of the spreadsheet as it moves from the desktop to Excel Services (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007), as well as the changes that are made to the data sources underlying the report in order to support the increased workload/analysis requirements.

Business Intelligence 

300 

BRK 

Gabhan Berry 

Secure Document Collaboration between Organizations Using SharePoint, Active Directory Rights Management Services, and Active Directory Federation Services

 A common challenge in today's world of ever more connected business is how to securely and efficiently collaborate on documents between two organizations. More often than not, painful compromises need to be made between cost, security, and efficiency, and at the expense of end users and the business. In this session learn how to use SharePoint 2007, Rights Management Services, and Active Directory Federation Services to enable seamless document collaboration between business partners. Learn how to configure the components to enable single sign-on, eliminate the need to manage accounts for partner users, encrypt documents so that only users in the two organizations can open them, and control what end users can do with the documents they receive.

Identity and Access 

300 

BRK 

Donovan Follette

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Scorecarding with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

 In this session, see how you can create CIO scorecards in SharePoint 2007 for Operations Manager 2007 using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and other technologies such as Dundas (soon to be featured in SQL Server 2008) to create an Executive view of your Operational Environment. The session looks at why these types of views are important to many companies, what impact this can have on your business, and what simple steps you can take to achieve very effective, high-level executive views of everything from performance and availability of your key LOB services and applications, whether important KPIs are being achieved and whether your IT department is meeting the day-to-day needs of your business. The key demos in this session take you through the steps you need to implement effective business scorecarding in SharePoint 2007 using key metrics collected in the Operations Manager 2007 Datawarehouse based on "real-world" experiences gained from the field. After attending this presentation you will have a good insight into how CIO Scorecards can help you add real value to their Operations Manager deployments, helping them to show real value to their executives.

Management 

300 

BRK 

Gordon McKenna 

Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007 Overview

 This session presents an overview and demonstration of System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) with a focus on Exchange 2007 as well as SharePoint scenarios, including Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. See how SCCP can be used to quickly plan new deployments of these applications and model changes to an existing deployment. SCCP helps validate both the load on servers and the end user responsiveness of a chosen configuration.

Management 

300 

BRK 

Beckett Thomsen 

Introduction to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: An Overview

 New to SharePoint technologies? Come learn what the SharePoint buzz is all about. This overview session includes a high-level overview of the product and the latest updates on releases, service packs, and other solutions. It includes a lot of demos, so you'll walk out understanding what SharePoint is and what it provides.

Office and SharePoint 

200 

BRK 

Tom Rizzo 

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies: Branding Concepts and Component Relationships

 With buzzwords like master pages, themes, page layouts, and CSS, the world of SharePoint branding can quickly become confusing and overwhelming. Instead you need a clear idea of what is involved with SharePoint branding so you can make decisions about what technologies your site needs to utilize and what skills your team needs to learn. In this session, we show a composite view of SharePoint branding components and their interworking relationships. We look at the differences between master pages, themes, content pages, and page layouts, and cover the basic starting points for kicking off your SharePoint branding effort.

Office and SharePoint 

200 

BRK 

Heather Solomon 

Introduction to Records Management in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

 Records management is a critical element of document control and legal compliance in every large organization. In this session, learn about the out-of-the-box features across Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that support records management. Discover the ways that you can extend the SharePoint platform in records management and learn about the add-on pack that Microsoft has created to acheive DoD 5015.2 certification.

Office and SharePoint 

200 

BRK 

Ryan Duguid 

Best Practices: Enabling Innovation Process Management Using Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

 In today's fast-paced global economy, innovation is the key to the next big breakthrough in products, services, and processes. However, businesses are often challenged with facilitating innovation due to cultural, strategic, or logistical pitfalls. This session covers the best practices for fostering a culture of innovation by enabling an organization's most valuable assets, its people, to actively and easily participate in the innovation process. A live demonstration shows how anyone can capture, investigate, formulate, and evaluate ideas to conclusion using the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management solution and SharePoint Server 2007.

Office and SharePoint 

200 

BRK 

Christophe Fiessinger, Simon Floyd 

Boldly Go Beyond SharePoint Form Libraries: Advanced Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 Solution Architecture

 As business solutions based on out-of-the-box Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Office InfoPath grow, reaching maximum performance requires careful effort and planning. Large-scale form libraries, complex form views, multiple data sources, and other factors can complicate processes and reduce the performance of your environment. This talk provides the after-market SQL modifications to accelerate the performance of your SharePoint Server and InfoPath solutions. We also include the HUD (heads-up dashboard) mods so you can see the key pivots for the data inside your business process. Need to lock down permissions? No sweat. We offer a hacker-proof cloaking service that dynamically controls permissions based on in-form assignment. To test drive our mods, we walk through a Project Tracking application built entirely on InfoPath 2007 forms connected through Web services to a SQL data store with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services providing data cubes to Office Excel 2007 pivot tables. This is an end-to-end Office solutions bonanza! All attendees receive a free copy of Qdabra Database Accelerator Suite 2.2 with a Project Tracker bundle. Start your SharePoint engines…

Office and SharePoint 

200 

BRK 

Shiraz Cupala

Monitoring Strategies for Microsoft SharePoint Server in the Enterprise

 This session features two new Solution Accelerators providing new Microsoft Operations Manager packs and an inventory tool for scanning SharePoint deplolyment and use. This session includes a demonstration of the actual tools.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Luis Camara Manoel, Todd Klindt 

Simplify External Collaboration with the Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

 Every day, your organization collaborates on key projects with others across the Internet—sharing documents that often contain sensitive or proprietary information. Like most organizations, your project teams may be using methods to collaborate that are not secure, like e-mail and instant messaging. You need a secure way to collaborate and share documents with others across the Internet. And, you need a solution that's easy to set up—one that lets project teams manage collaboration sites on their own. The Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint provides guidance and tools to deploy a pre-built, customizable SharePoint solution that teams can use to collaborate with partners outside the firewall. Join us for this session and learn how you can use this free toolkit to set up a SharePoint-based extranet collaboration site in minutes. We demonstrate how end users can manage collaboration sites on their own, posting sharable documents, inviting external users, and freeing up scarce IT resources from everyday maintenance.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Luis Martinez, David Mowers 

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

 SharePoint Backup and Restore made easy with Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 for SharePoint.  See DPM 2007 in action with live demos.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Jason Buffington 

Creating Portals That Last: Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, Governance and Information Architecture

 SharePoint is easy. Anyone can throw a portal up in an afternoon and then let it grow, but three months later they will have a big mess. In this session we cover how to design a strong taxonomy and structure to increase the user friendliness of the portal. Then we discuss how to setup a governance committee to help manage and grow your portal in a controlled manner.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Shane Young 

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Lifecycle Management Demofest: Methodologies, Tools, and Best Practices

 Having problems with SharePoint lifecycle management? This session provides guidance and information, including helpful methodologies, frameworks, tools, and best practices. We demonstrate a number of new tools addressing SharePoint manageability and governance including SharePoint Asset Inventory, SharePoint Capacity Planning, SharePoint Automated installation and Configuration, SharePoint Cross-site Configurator, and SharePoint Monitoring Management Packs.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Luis Camara Manoel, Satish Mathew, Rick Taylor 

How to Plan for SharePoint Storage Management for Multi-Terabyte Deployment

 This session covers key recommendations and best practices to help administrators of large SharePoint farms to plan and monitor their Microsoft SQL Server storage requirements to support optimal performance and operation of their server farms.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Doron Bar-Caspi, Todd Klindt, Mike Watson 

Deploying Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution 2007 into an Existing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Environment

 Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution 2007 (EPM 2007) is a very unique form of Windows SharePoint Services V3. This sessions provides you with best practices, learned in Performance Labs in Redmond, to keep in mind when you want to deploy EPM 2007 into an existing MOSS farm.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Boris Scholl 

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Administrative Architecture, Deployment, and Operations Fundamentals (Part 1 of 2)

 This session explores the administration side of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, starting with deployment scenarios and working through key concepts to get you farm setup properly. We also touch on other key servers to be considered in the environment.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Shane Young 

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Administrative Architecture, Deployment, and Operations (Part 2 of 2)

 In part one we layed the foundation, in part two we start to use it. We discuss topics like extranet and Internet scenarios where security and cache are even more important; the challenges of geograpically dispersed SharePoint; and farm best practices. We also cover code access security and using solution packages. All these topics are very important for keeping those developers in line.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK

Joel Oleson, Shane Young 

Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Unlock the Power of SAP

 In this session, learn about the integration picture between SAP and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with a focus on real-world customer implementations. This discussion includes topics like the new Business Data Catalog, Searching SAP, iView WebParts, WSRP, Forms, BI and SAP (using XMLA), and SSO configuration for SAP.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Mike Fitzmaurice 

Assessing and Planning SharePoint Deployments

 This session describes and demonstrates a number of new Solution Accelerators that help with capacity planning, asset inventory, configuration deployment, and monitoring. Starting with the SharePoint Inventory Tool which collects information about unmanaged SharePoint sites in the environment, the new capacity planning tool allows adequate first drafts of new deployments, the new Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) packs allow SharePoint to be managed using the latest SCOM technology.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Luis Camara Manoel, Satish Mathew 

Secure Extranet Deployments with Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint and Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway 2007

 In this globalized and mobile workplace, collaboration is both internal and external to the organization, opening the doors to new security threats. Forefront Security for SharePoint provides anti-virus protection and content filtering for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Server 3.0. Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 and Intelligent Access Gateway 2007 secure the edge by providing user authentication using Active Directory and SSL-based application access to  SharePoint. In this session, we discuss how these Forefront technologies can help secure the extranet deployment and provide secure remote access to SharePoint.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Uri Lichtenfeld, Noelle Méndez-Villamil 

SharePoint Security: Authentication and Authorization Under the Hood in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007

 SharePoint 2007 technologies provide a robust authorization layer for securing SharePoint sites which sits on top of the authentication schemes provided by the underlying platforms (Internet Information Services and ASP.NET). This session discusses how to configure a Zone within a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Web Application by modifying its web.config file to support either Windows Authentication or Forms-Based Authentication (FBA). The session explains how WSS takes the identity established by the underlying authentication provider and wraps in a profile that is cached at the level of site collection. From a programming perspective, the session explains the difference between the Windows security content and the SharePoint security context of an incoming request. See how to write code to elevate privilege and to impersonate a user. The second half of the session explains how authorization within a site collection is managed in terms of groups, permission levels, and securable objects, as well as how to write code to automate the configuration of authorization settings.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Adam Buenz 

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Business, and End-User Productivity: 2007 Microsoft Office System Applications as SharePoint Clients

 While SharePoint offers great functionality through its out-of-the-box Web interface, you really "kick it up a notch" when you add 2007 Office system applications to the mix. This session, appropriate for IT professionals, end users, and managers, highlights some of the exciting ways you can integrate Office apps and SharePoint, including document libraries, Excel and Access integration, slide libraries, and taking files offline with Outlook. Also, learn what to expect from different versions of Microsoft Office clients and of SharePoint. And, discover tricks and traps related to configuring SharePoint, even with forms-based authentication, for client integration.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Dan Holme 

Advanced Search Configuration and Management for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

 Organizations intending to implement a search solution in SharePoint often approach this technical problem by asking, "What do we need to index?" While this approach may yield results, they are usually less than optimal. The approach presented in this session begins with the user and drives to determine what the user needs and wants in their search experience. We discuss: Search Center design and configuration, Search Results XSLT to improve results rendering, Customizations to enhance the SharePoint search experience, and BDC Integration to search structure data. This session will be of interest to Site Designers, Developers, and Farm Administrators.

Office and SharePoint

300 

BRK 

Ryan Duguid 

Planning and Implementing Global Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Deployments

 Global deployments can be complex if you don't know what really matters. This session focuses on network performance, solutions, and partners with information from real global SharePoint Server 2007 deployments.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Doron Bar-Caspi, Mike Watson 

High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

 This session details the components of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the options available for disaster recovery. The session focuses on high availability solutions like SQL Mirroring, log shipping, with gotchas and workarounds.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Mike Watson 

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Governance: From Chaos to Success in Ten Steps

 From Corporate compliance, security policies, information policies, and file plans with content types, this session walks you through the right way to manage your data and address the compliance needs of your company.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Brian Cook, Joel Oleson 

Managing Web Content Management Sites in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

 Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides the content management capabilities to manage a content-centric site. These Web Content Management (WCM) capabilities replace the offering of a previous product Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 to create Publishing sites. Publishing sites facilitate the separation of the content from the presentation of the site and add capabilities to control various aspects of a content heavy site. While Publishing sites are still just SharePoint sites at the core, they present new challenges in managing the permissions, roles, workflows, multi-lingual and other aspects of content sites. In this session, learn the in's and out's of Publishing sites and the various control mechanisms that can be utilized to facilitate a very dynamic, yet current content-centric site.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Andrew Connell 

How to Take SharePoint Administration to The Next Level With Windows 2008 and SQL 2008

 With the launch of Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 there are a lot of people asking, "Why should I upgrade?" Others, who are planning a new SharePoint deployment, are asking the question, "Should I install Windows Server 2003 or 2008?" and "What does it specifically buy me for my SharePoint deployment?" This session addresses these questions and shares the best of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 for SharePoint Admins. This session also includes case study examples from the AMD Developer Outreach deployment team's migration of developer.amd.com, their software developer community resources portal.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

Todd Klindt, Joel Oleson

Microsoft IT: How Microsoft IT Creates and Designs Enterprise Publishing Portals on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

 Learn how Microsoft IT built its own internal enterprise portals, usable strategies and approaches for portal planning and development, and see some of the customizations and lessons learned building flexible, extensible portals across the company. Walk away knowing how to more deeply leverage, customize and extend out of the box Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 functionality to build rich publishing portals.

Office and SharePoint 

300 

BRK 

David Johnson, Sean Squires 

Code Access Security (CAS) for SharePoint Administrators

 Code Access Security (CAS) is something included with the Microsoft .NET Framework that allows developers and administrators to grant specific permissions and rights to managed code. Most people think of CAS as purely a developer topic since it applies to custom assemblies, but this could not be further from the truth. SharePoint administrators should be keenly aware of how CAS works and how to manage it. Without this knowledge, administrators can be at the mercy of developers who may not have as solid a grasp on CAS as they should and thus, a site could be opened up to be much less secure than intended. An astute SharePoint administrator can quickly spot problems in custom code when it comes to CAS. In this session, learn the basics of CAS and how SharePoint utilizes it. Then see the different options developers and administrators have to configure security so custom code will run within SharePoint sites. Armed with this knowledge, an administrator can easily manage a SharePoint farm that not only contains considerable amounts of custom code but is also very secure.

Office and SharePoint

400 

BRK 

Andrew Connell 

Extending Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer with Custom Controls, WebParts, and Workflow Activities

 In this session, we learn how to extend the components available to SharePoint Designer users by creating and installing custom elements to our SharePoint server. We use Microsoft Visual Studio and other tools to develop new ASP.NET Controls and WebParts, make them available in SharePoint Designer, and enable accurate design-time previews and property grids. We also create new Workflow Activities and integrate them into our sentence-based Workflow Designer. Finally, we cover some of the many tools and tips for developing, packaging, managing, and deploying solutions that contain these custom elements.

Office and SharePoint 

400

BRK 

Rob Howard, Jerome Thiebaud 

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint: The Next Generation of Collaboration Security

 This session covers how the next release of Forefront Security for SharePoint integrates with the next version the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to scan for infected documents, block non-compliant file types or keywords, and prevent information leakage. Get an in-depth drilldown on the settings and configurations of the real-time and manual scan jobs to protect your collaborative environments against infection or liability risks. Also, receive an introduction to upcoming features that will prevent the dissemination of corporate confidential data, such as personnel information.

Security 

300 

BRK 

Bill English, Noelle Méndez-Villamil

Enabling Knowledge Workers to Access Mainframe Programs and Data

 Microsoft Office SharePoint Services and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 offer infrastructure technologies for building SOA and integration services to enable knowledge workers on the Windows platform. Yet, many enterprise customers need to derive value from their legacy data stores and mainframe programs. Microsoft host integration technologies allow enterprise organizations to integrate their mission-critical IBM host applications, data sources and security systems with new solutions developed using the Microsoft Windows platform. In this session, we examine how our customers have utilized Microsoft host integration technologies to efficiently deliver new solutions for business intelligence.

SOA and Web Infrastructure 

300 

BRK 

Paul Larsen, Ricardo Mendes