KEYNOTE: SharePoint 2010 as a First-Class Development Platform
Steve Fox
SharePoint has evolved significantly in the 2010 release; this is especially true for the developer. This keynote will highlight some of the great new additions to the SharePoint 2010 business productivity platform that make it very attractive for developers. Key highlights will focus on the new tooling for SharePoint, key feature and programmability advancements, and new services support in SharePoint 2010. You won’t want to miss this exciting opportunity to get a first look at SharePoint 2010 for the developer!

KEYNOTE: The Next Windows… Lucky Seven?
Mark Minasi
Two years sooner than originally planned, Microsoft intends to ship the next Windows – the sequels to Vista and Server 2008 – in under two years in the mid-2010 time frame. Additionally, Redmond will, for the first time in ten years, ship both the desktop version and server version of Windows (generically known as “Windows Seven”) at the same time.

Will Windows Seven capture buyer interest in a way that Vista could not? Well, there’s some neat stuff in there, including tons of new application compatibility, niftier virtualization features (including a VMotion competitor), even more improvements in their deployment tools, tons of PowerShell-ability, security features that actually make getting to company resources easier than before, and of course there are the inevitable changes to the user interface. But will it be good enough to make you move from XP and 2003? Get the skinny so you can get ready for Windows Seven from independent industry watcher and Windows watcher Mark Minasi!

EXCHKEY1: Users, Excellence, and Innovation – Stuff that Matters
Rajesh Jha
In the midst of launching the latest version of the world’s leading platform for messaging and collaboration, Rajesh Jha will talk to you about what makes his team tick and what his magnetic north is through the development of Microsoft Exchange. As the Corporate Vice-President of the Exchange Product Group, Rajesh leads all engineering teams responsible for the design and development of Exchange Server and Exchange Online and he’ll share with you his thinking about the importance of user experiences and the significance of the move to Software + Software as a Service. Rajesh will talk to you about some of his favorite features of Exchange Server 2010 and talk about how excellence in engineering process and a focus on architectural fundamentals have made Exchange the product it is today and will serve to maintain its stature as the most innovative, cost-effective, and flexible solution for messaging and collaboration. You’ll hear from other members of the Exchange engineering team and see demos of some of the best of what Exchange Server 2010 has to offer.

KEYNOTE: Visual Studio 2010: New Challenges, New Solutions
Dave Mendlen
Every year you face new challenges in delivering value to your customers and partners. Join Dave Mendlen, Senior Director, Developer Marketing as he talks about the impending release of Visual Studio 2010 and related new announcements. With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft is bringing new tooling, platform and community offerings to help you take your ideas and turn them into impactful solutions. In this keynote, Dave will talk about how the upcoming platform release provides you with a great base upon which to deliver your ideas and will make some announcements on the future of Visual Studio. Dave will show how Visual Studio 2010 brings new innovation to the developer tool space and how the community and Microsoft partners can provide key benefits to ensure your success in creating high quality solutions.

VENDOR SESSION

VENDOR01: Be Productive with MVC: Open Source Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC
Todd Anglin
The introduction of ASP.NET MVC offers ASP.NET developers solutions to many of the weaknesses found in ASP.NET Web Forms. ASP.NET MVC is more testable, it provides maximum developer control over rendered HTML, and it doesn't add large, unsightly hidden fields to the page. But it also forces ASP.NET developers to give up some of the productivity enjoyed in Web Forms, especially at the presentation layer. Take back the productivity of Web Forms without sacrificing MVC principles with the open source Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. In this session, you'll learn how Telerik is helping the community define the UI extension model for ASP.NET MVC. You'll see one of the first previews of the Telerik Extensions in action and learn how easy it is to get started working with the first purpose-built reusable UI components for ASP.NET MVC. Two attendees of this session will win a Telerik Premium Collection for .NET with retail value of 1,299 USD. Must be present to win.

VENDOR02: Exchange 2010: Bigger Mailboxes, Bigger Challenges, Bigger Headaches
Danny Milrad
Exchange 2010 delivers on the promise of bigger mailboxes and greater scalability allowing you to communicate and collaborate better at work. But at what cost? Bigger mailboxes without optimization means bigger challenges for storage management, data protection and higher storage and server costs causing bigger headaches. And what about the rest of the Microsoft ecosystem…SharePoint, file servers, etc? Attend this session and hear the industry leader in Exchange backup and archiving provide practical advice on how unified information management can help you streamline Exchange upgrades, drive down costs, accelerate recovery and be proactive about e-discovery to reduce cost, risks…and headaches. One lucky attendee will win a Microsoft Xbox 360 (Must be present to win). Beer, wine & snacks will be served.

SHAREPOINT ADMINISTRATION

HIT305: Backup and Restore for SharePoint: Protecting Mission Critical SharePoint Data with New Tools and Technologies
Michael Noel
As more and more organizations use SharePoint to store documents and other critical data, it becomes imperative to provide for backup and restore specific for SharePoint. While some integrated tools exist to provide for disaster recovery, document-level restore capabilities are often needed in a SharePoint environment. This session covers some of those technologies, and focuses specifically on how the new Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 product can be used to provide for SharePoint-specific backup and item-level restore. In addition, specifics on how to integrate DPM with a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services farm are provided and best practice architectural examples for DPM, snapshot guidelines, and deployment tips and tricks from the field are covered.

HIT301: Best Practices for SharePoint Governance and Design
Dan Holme
You've read the white papers, you've Googled governance, but how, exactly, do you design a SharePoint implementation that will support governance and your information architecture? Join SharePoint MVP and consultant Dan Holme for a practical, nuts-and-bolts look at the close relationship between your information architecture and SharePoint's manageability controls, and the demands that relationship places on your design and infrastructure. Learn how to align your governance requirements with SharePoint farms, web applications, and site collections. Gain a deeper understanding of the intricacies and challenges of designing the logical structure of SharePoint, and take away practical, blueprint-like guidance to what a governed SharePoint implementation might look like in your enterprise.

HIT302: Building Document Content Type Solutions for SharePoint
Anup Kafle
Content types are a core concept used in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and are a means to manage content and ease reuse within sites. This session leverages material from the book Building Content Type Solutions in SharePoint 2007 and examines ways to get the most out of your document content type solutions.

HIT309: End Excel Hell: Migrate Excel Files to SharePoint and Getting Started with Business Intelligence
Ty Anderson
There is no doubt that valuable company information resides in a plethora of Excel files. Financial models, customer lists, hedge fund stock projects, serial numbers...you name it and it is probably tracked in an Excel spreadsheet somewhere. Useful Excel files typically are shared with other users via e-mail, file shares, or SharePoint. That's fine, but SharePoint is a Business Intelligence platform that offers a method for migrating (or maturing) Excel files and integrating them as part of a Business Intelligence solution.
This session will show how to build a BI solution that begins with a set of Excel files and ends with a BI Dashboard that integrates data from Excel files and other data sources.

HIT310: Implement SharePoint and Search for FREE!
Wendy Henry
Don’t let budget constraints stop you from implementing the collaborative solution your users and management demand! For no purchase cost, you can implement a SharePoint environment with cross-site and cross-platform enterprise search capabilities using WSSv3 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express. Join this session’s live virtual machine demonstrations on installing and customizing Search Server 2008 Express in a WSSv3 environment to witness how these two powerful tools from Microsoft complement each other. Come see that free can be valuable indeed!

HIT202: Improving Your SharePoint Designer Workflows
Anup Kafle
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 allows you to write codeless workflows with conditional logic, but there are some limitations that come with this application. This session identifies some of the shortcomings of SharePoint Designer workflows and provides workarounds that will help improve your automated business processes.

HIT201: Knowledge and Social Networking in the Enterprise: Big Wins and Best Practices
Dan Holme
Discover why SharePoint MVP Dan Holme thinks "social networking" is a bad word, and why we’ll all have to "get over" it if we want to remain competitive in the coming decade. This session will explore the extraordinary value found where human activities and information intersect, how you can unleash that value within your organization.

HIT207: Optimize SQL Server for SharePoint
Wendy Henry
With so many best practices, white papers and technical documents out there regarding SQL Server administration for SharePoint, it’s hard to know where to turn. Attend this session and we will quickly weed through the surplus of information available to focus on the top strategies for optimizing the performance of your SharePoint databases! Helpful worksheets and tracking guides will be illustrated for not only implementing optimization solutions but monitoring ongoing database performance in SQL Server 2005/2008 as your SharePoint environment grows and changes. Don’t miss this opportunity to garner the tools you need to keep your SharePoint enterprise operating at peak performance!

HIT303: Rating and Commenting Without Coding
Anup Kafle
The forces of Social computing are upon us! These days, features like rating and commenting in portal solutions are almost as ubiquitous as a Twitting teenager. However, SharePoint provides little out of the box in terms of providing rating and commenting on custom lists. There are certainly a number of third-party tools designed to do just this (including 3Sharp’s Podcasting Kit for SharePoint), but they all require some kind of server modification such as a custom databases or managed code assemblies. Why bother with such complexities when you can go lean and green by using SharePoint’s organic set of tools – SharePoint Designer, JavaScript, XSLT – to achieve the same end? This session will show you how. Granted, some coding is required, but it’s all lightweight and declarative only.

HIT306: Security for SharePoint in an Insecure World: Examining Methods and Technologies to Mitigate Threats to SharePoint
Michael Noel
The collaboration and document management capabilities within SharePoint products and technologies are robust and can greatly improve functionality. The nature of the modern workplace in many cases requires anytime connectivity to the SharePoint platform, not only from within the confines of a traditional office, but also on the road or in the home office. Many organizations are subsequently finding it extremely valuable to expose their SharePoint environment to the Internet, but are being faced with a myriad of security challenges to keep their vital organizational information from being hacked and exposed. This session focuses outlining the risks of exposing SharePoint to the Internet and explaining which technologies have been proven to mitigate those risks. From secured web publishing using Microsoft’s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server or the Internet Access Gateway (IAG) product line, to rights management protection, to antivirus with ForeFront Security for SharePoint, this session covers a range of security concerns and how they can be addressed.

HIT304: SharePoint Administration with STSAdm...Not. Let’s Try It with PowerShell Instead!
Kevin Israel
Meet the newer kid on the block, PowerShell. Its only job in life is to make our lives easier. This session not only covers the fundamentals of PowerShell but will demonstrate how to make just about anything you need to do with SharePoint easier. This session will be geared towards developers and architects. Want to see STSADM on steroids? Come to this session!

HIT311: SharePoint Data Entry on a Budget
Wendy Henry
Imagine: a WSSv3 environment with no budget for MOSS 2007, Forms Services 2007, or InfoPath 2007 on every desktop. Sound familiar? Then don’t miss this session on using WSSv3 tools such as custom lists, custom views, and automated workflows to help information workers build form-like data entry solutions in SharePoint. MS Word forms stored in a document library are too easily overwritten and non-IT personnel require extensive training before they can build Data View Web Parts in SharePoint Designer 2007. Experts and novices alike will walk away from this session with the skills to implement a quick and easy data entry solution for any department, from Human Resources to Shipping/Receiving, as soon as you get home!

HIT203: SharePoint SEO Tips and Tricks
Kevin Israel
We will cover tips and tricks that can be accomplished with OOB features that SharePoint provides including but not limited to: custom content types, managed properties, scopes, and advanced search, just name a few. We will also cover some best practices related to SharePoint search. The goal of this session is for you to take away a “bag of tricks” that will help SharePoint deliver better search results by implementing good “front end” strategies that will help maximize the SharePoint Indexing and Search engine.

HIT312: SharePoint’s Cheap and Easy Aggregation Tools Save Time and Money
Wendy Henry
Storing enterprise data across distributed SharePoint sites and other resources doesn’t have to mean investing in an expensive utility to ease user navigation. Don’t miss this session on using the inherent tools of SharePoint, both WSS and MOSS, that enhance navigation without causing redundant storage and added resource costs. Live demonstrations of Content Query, Site Aggregation, Site Summary Links and Links Web Parts along with scenario-based illustrations of practical content type and Send To use will give even experienced SharePoint administrators solutions for improving user productivity without breaking the bank.

HIT307: SharePoint’s Virtual Reality; Best Practice Virtualization Options for a SharePoint Farm
Michael Noel
Server virtualization technologies have taken front stage recently and many organizations have begun to seriously contemplate replacing physical servers, including SharePoint servers, with virtualization technologies. This session focuses on real-world architecture and best-practice recommendations for incorporating SharePoint architecture into virtualized environments running with either Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005, Microsoft’s Windows 2008 Hyper-V Virtualization, EMC’s VMware Server, and Citrix XenApp products. In addition, special focus is placed on virtualization management and provisioning using tools such as System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). The session also focuses on outlining which specific components of SharePoint operate well in a virtualized environment versus which ones are not necessarily good candidates. In addition, this session gives an in-depth look at real-world designs for SharePoint using both major virtualization products and outlining the strengths and weaknesses of each product in relation to SharePoint functionality and supportability.

HIT308: The Ultimate SharePoint Best Practices Session: Lessons Learned from Years of SharePoint Deployments
Michael Noel
SharePoint 2007 has proven to be a technology that is remarkably easy to get running out of the box. On the flipside, however, some of the advanced configuration options with SharePoint are notoriously difficult to setup and configure, and a great deal of confusion exists regarding SharePoint best practice design, deployment, disaster recovery, and maintenance. This session covers best practices developed from years of SharePoint deployments, encompassing the most commonly asked questions regarding SharePoint infrastructure and design, and includes a broad range of critical but often overlooked items to consider when architecting or optimizing a new or existing SharePoint environment. In short, all of the specifics required to turn a SharePoint environment into the "perfect" farm are outlined.

MICROSOFT DAY - SHAREPOINT

HMS05: Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2010
Jay Schmelzer
Business intelligence lies at the heart of any business decision, and SharePoint provides a number of ways for you to create rich business intelligence solutions that range from dashboards to more complex pivots and reporting services. Come check out the new business intelligence features of SharePoint 2010 to see how you can apply SharePoint 2010 to your everyday business-decision making.

HMS08: Enhancing the SharePoint 2010 User Experience through Silverlight
Paul Stubbs
Silverlight is a great way to build a sophisticated and dynamic user experience. Coupled with SharePoint, you can create and integrate advanced multimedia experiences, dynamic navigability, and line-of-business solutions within SharePoint. Come learn how you can integrate Silverlight in different ways to enhance the SharePoint user experience.

HMS03: Introduction to SharePoint Development with Visual Studio 2010
Jay Schmelzer
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 has evolved into a great developer platform with new tools, services and APIs. Come learn about the top SharePoint 2010 features that every developer will want to know about.

HMS06: Overview of Enterprise Content Management in SharePoint 2010
Paul Stubbs
SharePoint 2010 has made great strides in the area of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) for both IT Professionals and for developers. This session will provide an overview of the top new ECM features such as metadata tagging, document management, document sets, and much, much more.

HMS04: Overview of Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010
Dave Pae
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 introduces a variety of choices with and enhancements to the search experience, such as profile searching, search scoping, line-of-business data indexing through Business Connectivity Services, search customization, and FAST. Come learn about the essential search enhancements in SharePoint 2010 that you’ll want to apply in your day-to-day search needs.

HMS09: Overview of How to Integrate Custom Office Solutions with SharePoint 2010
Steve Fox
Customizing Microsoft Office is becoming more popular with developers and Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is an exciting new way to integrate line-of-business (LOB) data into SharePoint and the Office client. BCS creates a symmetrical experience for developers and makes integrating external systems into SharePoint a much more manageable experience. Come learn how you can integrate LOB data into SharePoint and extend that into the client to create rich business apps that extend from the server to the client.

HMS01: Overview of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for the Developer
Steve Fox
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 has evolved into a great developer platform with new tools, services and APIs. Come learn about the top SharePoint 2010 features that every developer will want to know about.

HMS02: Overview of SharePoint 2010 for the IT Professional
Dave Pae
SharePoint 2010 has a ton of new features for the IT Professional, ranging from simple web-based development features to administrative features that help manage the day-to-day operations of your SharePoint site. This session will provide a whirlwind tour of the top new features in SharePoint 2010 for the IT Professional.

HMS12: Overview of SharePoint 2010 Online
Paul Stubbs
SharePoint Online is a viable alternative for many companies seeking the alternative to managing their own on-premises instance of SharePoint 2010. With new features such as sandboxed solutions and Silverlight integration, developers have much more control over what they can build and deploy to SharePoint Online. Come learn how you can get started today with developing for SharePoint Online.

HMS10: SharePoint Development Application Lifecycle Management
Jay Schmelzer
With the introduction of SharePoint development tools in Visual Studio 2010, developers now have a set of features to help with their application lifecycle management (ALM) needs. Come learn how you can leverage Visual Studio 2010 for source code control, change management, testing, debugging, and release management to improve the structure and management of your development efforts.

HMS11: Social Computing Enhancements in SharePoint 2010
Dave Pae
Social computing in SharePoint 2010 has made some significant advancements, such as enhanced tagging, profile searchability, and multimedia support. In this session, you'll learn how SharePoint 2010 has invested in the areas of social computing to understand how your company can leverage these features in your day-to-day communication and collaboration.

HMS07: Web Content Management Improvements in SharePoint 2010
Steve Fox
Microsoft SharePoint is not just about the intranet; you can also develop and deploy custom, externally-facing web sites. This session will focus on the web content management (WCM) features of SharePoint 2010 and demonstrate how you can get started on building, managing and deploying SharePoint sites to the web.

SHAREPOINT DEVELOPMENT

HDV304: Automate Business Processes Using InfoPath Forms with Integrated SharePoint Designer Workflows… All Without Coding!
Asif Rehmani
Forms and Workflows are essential to business processes. Companies usually rely on programmers to create the forms and workflows using code. Not any more! If you have access to Microsoft Office InfoPath and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, you can create powerful data-driven form solutions on your SharePoint sites. InfoPath gives you the ability to pull data from databases and lists, and create forms with data validation and conditional formatting. SharePoint Designer's workflows let you then design powerful multi-step workflows centered around the form collected data. In this session, you will see how to design a robust form using InfoPath and then design a workflow using SharePoint Designer to route this form appropriately.

HDV309: Build Better Records Management Solutions Using Dynamic File Plans
John Holliday
At the heart of any records management system is the File Plan, which describes where each type of record should be stored, how long it should be kept and the manner and conditions under which it will be archived or destroyed. Professional records managers and compliance officers are accustomed to creating file planning worksheets and then using them to manually configure records center sites in SharePoint.
This session will go beyond the manual model offered by static file plans toward a more automated approach, where dynamic file plans are used to drive the process of adding the required elements into a records repository. An automated approach fits well with the day-to-day operations of a typical records center by enabling compliance officers and content managers to deal more effectively with constantly changing requirements and regulations.
During the session, I will create a SharePoint feature that adds a FilePlan gallery to a record center site that holds a collection of dynamic File Plan documents represented as XML files created using InfoPath 2007. The feature will also deploy a custom application page that enables a plan administrator to "execute" the file plan, automatically creating all of the necessary routing types and other components needed to manage the documents described in the plan.

HDV310: Building Custom Routers for SharePoint Records Management
John Holliday
This session discusses developer aspects of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Custom routers are an important extensibility point for records management and this session details the requirements for building these components. It provides a demo of building several different routers and deploying them into a SharePoint Server environment.
During the session, I will create three different types of custom routers and use a custom SharePoint feature to deploy them. I'll create a filtering router to screen incoming records, a tracking router to monitor incoming records, and a redirecting router that determines the proper location for incoming records based on document properties and other metadata associated with the submitted file. In the process, I will highlight core features of the SharePoint record routing architecture, including the management of document properties, audit entries and content types.

HDV311: Building Information Policy Features in SharePoint Server 2007
John Holliday
SharePoint Information Policy lets you define explicit rules that govern the creation, use and disposition of list items, and is implemented as a tightly-coupled collection of components that together provide an extensible framework for managing enterprise content. This session explains the information management policy architecture in detail and steps through the process of designing and building custom policy features and policy resources. An end-to-end solution is presented that illustrates how information policy definitions can be extended to work in tandem with code running in Office client applications.

HDV307: Building SharePoint Applications for Outlook and Exchange
Eric Legault
VSTO and other third-party development tools provide a powerful canvas to create highly professional SharePoint applications that integrate with Outlook and/or Exchange. This session will highlight the design capabilities of VSTO, Add-In Express and Redemption for creating Outlook COM Add-Ins or Windows Service applications and review development strategies for consuming/writing SharePoint/Outlook/Exchange data. Outlook examples will illustrate creating Task Panes, advanced form regions and custom property pages for building your presentation layer to consume SharePoint Web Services. Server-side examples include building solutions to work with Outlook/Exchange data without requiring Outlook or Exchange to be installed, such as synchronizing Public Folder e-mails with a Document Library.
· Design professional looking SharePoint applications that work inside Outlook
· Build service style solutions to automate working with SharePoint, Outlook and Exchange data

HDV315: Client-Side Programming in SharePoint Server 2010
Scot Hillier
One of the top requests from customers for SharePoint 2010 was that it include more web service access to the API. Microsoft responded by providing a client-side object model that makes client programming as seamless as server-side programming. In this session, we will cover the fundamentals of the three different client object models: .NET, Silverlight, and Javascript. Attendees will learn to use the client object models to create solutions that can run within SharePoint or stand-alone. Attendees will exit the session with a strong understanding of the new client object model and how to utilize it in their programming tasks.

HDV316: Creating RESTful Web Services for SharePoint
Scot Hillier
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) supports REST style services, which is an architecture for building resource-oriented services using standard HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE) that can be located through a URI. In this sesion, we will learn to create RESTful Web services for SharePoint that access list items. The session will start with a brief overview of REST and how it is implemented in WCF services. Next, the session will present the steps necessary to create a RESTful Web service that accesses list items in SharePoint. Finally, the session will go through the steps necessary to deploy a RESTful WCF service into Office SharePoint Server.

HDV308: Enhancing Connected SharePoint Lists in Outlook 2007
Eric Legault
It's really easy to link an Events, Contacts or Tasks list in WSS to Outlook 2007. But what if you had custom list fields or list views? These elements are not supported! But by using Visual Studio Tools for Office to build an Outlook COM Add-In consuming SharePoint Web Services, you can easily design a custom Form Region to display these custom fields and provide options for importing list views into the linked Outlook folder.
· Easily create an Outlook COM Add-In
· Use SharePoint Web Services to access WSS List data
· Import custom fields and List views from SharePoint into Outlook

HDV301: Exploring Improvements to Enterprise Content Management in SharePoint Server 2010
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.

HDV302: Exploring SharePoint as a Service with Improvements in SharePoint Server 2010
Andrew Connell
In this session, we'll take a look at how you can use SharePoint Server 2010 as a service hub for your organization using the improvements in SharePoint Server 2010. We'll also explore how you can extend SharePoint Server 2010 for your service architecture.

HDV317: External Data Access and SharePoint Server 2010
Scot Hillier
Business Connectivity Services (BCS) can be thought of as the next evolution of the Business Data Catalog (BDC) that provides a read-write capability to external data. In this session, we will cover the fundamental concepts and tools necessary to use BCS in SharePoint solutions. The session will begin by presenting the concept of an external content type (ECT) and showing how to create them in the SharePoint Designer. The ECTs will then be used to create external lists that act as a front end for a data source. Finally, attendees will learn to create a .NET Assembly Connector, which allows the creation of custom solutions for accessing external data within the BCS framework. Attendees will exit the session with a strong understanding of the BCS architecture, tools, and development practices.

HDV303: Improvements to the SharePoint Developer Story with Visual Studio 2010
Andrew Connell
Microsoft has invested a considerable amount of effort in improving the developer story for SharePoint Server 2010 with the release of Visual Studio 2010. In this session, we'll explore the new tools available to developers as well as how you can customize them for your own experience.

HDV305: Manage Your Business Data in Your Databases using Data View Web Part… No Code Needed!
Asif Rehmani
Managing content in the enterprise is one of the most crucial needs of a business. Until now, if you wanted to edit your data in the database through a web front end, it usually meant developing a solution using some sort of programming language. Things have changed! Now if you are a power user who has access to Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can tap into your data by implementing the Data View Web part. Using this functionality, you can tap into any of your backend databases and manage your data. This session will focus on how a knowledge worker can be empowered to create data management solutions using the Data View Web part.

HDV312: Office Document Assembly Made Easy with OpenXML and XSLT
John Holliday
The beauty of the OpenXML format is its ability to support multiple markup dialects like WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML and PresentationML while still providing a consistent and reliable packaging structure. But this power often comes at the expense of application developers who need to produce complex documents in all three formats without spending inordinate amounts of time developing custom code for each one. XSL transformations (XSLT) offers a convenient mechanism for solution developers to avoid writing procedural code to generate content from data retrieved from SharePoint lists or other data sources.

HDV306: Report on Data from SharePoint Lists, Libraries and SQL Databases Using Data Views in SharePoint Designer
Asif Rehmani
The SharePoint Designer Data View Web part is known as the "Swiss Army Knife" of all Web parts. Data View, which is only available through SharePoint Designer, can pull data from a variety of data sources including SharePoint lists and libraries, SQL databases, Web services, RSS feeds and more. This data can then be presented on any SharePoint page. The formatting of this data can also be manipulated to present a rich view of this data. In this session, you will see how easy it is to present unified views of data that are being fetched from a variety of data sources.

HDV313: SharePoint and JQuery Sitting in a Tree...
Kevin Israel
So you want to really make people happy with SharePoint UI treats combined with business objectives? Well let’s mix in some JQuery and make them very happy. How do you do that you ask? Well come to this session and find out! We will cover configuring JQuery with SharePoint, review JQuery syntax, and show you how to start combining the power of JQuery with SharePoint.

HDV101: Social Networking and Collaboration in Outlook and SharePoint
Eric Legault
This session will review current Social Networking trends and philosophies, how they are being leveraged within SharePoint and Outlook, and how they can be easily extended with various programming tools. Existing social networking tools within SharePoint such as People Search, My Sites, User Profiles and Colleagues will be highlighted. Demonstrations will include building user-aware Web Parts with SharePoint Designer, archiving tweets into SharePoint with a custom Windows Service built with Visual Studio 2008, and extending people data in Outlook via SharePoint User Profiles and Twitter feeds via a custom COM add-in built with Visual Studio 2008.
· Explore social networking features in Outlook and SharePoint
· Build social networking applications using existing various APIs and programming tools

PARTNER TRACK

PARTNER07: Best Practices for Architecting, Deploying, and Optimizing SharePoint 2010
Mary Leigh Mackie
SharePoint 2010 is poised to revolutionize how organizations connect their people, processes, and information. It will mark SharePoint’s evolution from a server application to a full-fledged platform…the world’s first “enterprise eco-system.” In this session, we will discuss how the changes coming in SharePoint 2010 will affect your platform deployment, administration, and performance optimization strategies. We will outline approaches for efficient management of both application lifecycles and multi-farm, geographically-dispersed environments, review best practices for optimizing storage resources, and conclude with an evaluation of options for consolidating and exposing your legacy content in the SharePoint 2010 platform.

PARTNER03: Exchange Disasters–the Mother of All Inventions
Troy Werelius
Exchange 2010 is the newest version of Microsoft's Messaging system and, naturally, it brings with it quite a lot of new features, functions, and capabilities to enhance usability, scalability and availability, but how did we get here? In this session, we will look at how Exchange disasters of the past helped shape and evolve some of the most innovative disaster prevention and recovery features within Microsoft Exchange. Should the unthinkable happen, Microsoft and others have also created some incredibly clever and useful utilities & methodologies for enhanced protection and rapid recovery.

PARTNER05: iPhonify Your Web App: Understanding iPhone Web Development
Chris Bannon
The iPhone has become a common device in the hands of your end users. You’ll learn everything you need to know in order to build Web applications targeted for the iPhone. This session will give you an overview of the iPhone in general including the specs, UI, and behavior. Plus, it takes a look at some popular iPhone sites as well as the tools you may use to build them. After a walk through storyboarding an iPhone Web app as a concept and developing it in ASP.NET, you will be ready to extend your site to the iPhone without ever leaving Visual Studio. One lucky session attendee will win a copy of Studio for iPhone. Retail value $800 USD.

PARTNER08: Is Traditional Tape Backup Dead?
Bob Spurzem
This session will address trends in data management for data protection, storage growth and legal discovery. Beginning with a review of email application growth, followed by Windows file share growth and finally with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), best practices for data protection and the impact of low-cost disk technology will be examined. Issues surrounding data protection will be discussed relative to end user trends and costs of downtime for each application. Issues relating to storage growth, tier-1 storage costs and application recoverability will be discussed. New requirements for records retention and search for legal discovery will be the final pain area that is examined. Can these major pain area be addressed in a unified solution that is storage efficient? New trends in archiving will be exposed and particular attention will be paid to archiving solutions that take a holistic approach to storage management, data protection and data retention. This session is useful for administrators and IT managers who are responsible for technology spending and planning.

PARTNER01: Maximizing ASP.NET Performance with Real AJAX!
Todd Anglin
While all the focus these days is on RIA platforms like Silverlight, there are still tons of new features coming in ASP.NET 4.0 that are going to make it easier than ever to build high-performance, standards-based websites that give RIAs a run for their money. In this session, you'll learn about the new client-side features coming to ASP.NET 4.0, such as client-side templates, client-side controls, and even a client-side data context, that make it possible to build an application that completely cuts-out unnecessary page PostBacks. You’ll also discover why most ASP.NET developers today are not really using AJAX in their websites- they’re using AJAH (Asynchronous JavaScript And HTML)! Using the techniques presented in this session will enable you to build highly optimized web applications that maximize the power of Ajax and deliver unprecedented interactiveness in the browser- no plug-in required!

PARTNER09: Save Money with Email Management in the Cloud
Perry Fritz
David Goldberg
Think adopting a SaaS solution can help save your business time and money? Having a hard time proving it? In this session, learn about some real-world SaaS implementations and how organizations are saving money moving email management to the cloud. Using calculations developed by a leading analyst firm they will explore how companies can prove SaaS can reduce the amount of time and money spent managing Exchange. From small single-site companies to multi-national conglomerates, cloud-based email management can help take the cost out of your messaging infrastructure.

PARTNER02: Start Planning for SharePoint 2010: Formulate Your SharePoint Roadmap
Errin O’Connor
This session will assist you and your organization in assessing your current SharePoint state and assist you in planning for an eventual upgrade to SharePoint 2010. This session will help you take into account SharePoint 2010’s functionality and how your organization can prepare your Information and Systems Architecture to take advantage of this new powerful release once your organization is ready to upgrade. Errin will cover areas such as Site Structure, Site Collections, Customizations, existing WSS 3.0 and MOSS, and even existing SharePoint 2003. Errin will also discuss how you can properly plan your current 2007 initiatives around the upcoming release so you are not wasting time and your development budget on 2007 customizations when the functionality may already existing within SharePoint 2010.

PARTNER06: Stopping PST File Nightmares with Enterprise Vault Email Archiving
Mark Olsen
Using PST files as a traditional means to archive email can have a direct impact on your storage growth, backup challenges and can introduce risks associated with data recovery, retention and e-discovery. Attend this session and learn how the workflow of discovering, collecting and managing PST files using Enterprise Vault can provide access to historic data while reducing these administrative and backup headaches. One lucky session attendee will win a Kindle.

PARTNER04: Windows Centric Data Management to Assist/Accelerate Upgrades of Exchange & SharePoint
Randy De Meno
CommVault will discuss, showcase and demonstrate Simpana and the ability to use Windows as the heterogeneous data management platform. Accelerate upgrades of Exchange and SharePoint Exchange while providing backup, granular recovery, heterogeneous content search, DeDuplication, archiving and Records Management with one Windows centric solution. This exciting session limits PowerPoint use and dedicates time to live demonstrations of:

· Archiving & recall of SharePoint & Exchange
· Storage management featuring seamless deduplication
· Content search & E-discovery via FAST
· “Release Independence” restores/recalls from previous versions of SharePoint & Exchange to newer
· Policy inspired heterogeneous records management via SharePoint’s Records Center