MSC30: Advanced Web Part Development in SharePoint 2010
Jan Tielens
Building custom Web Parts is a great developer opportunity in SharePoint. This session will focus on the enhancements for Web Part developers such as Visual Web Parts, the Web Part Page Services, AJAX Web Part connections, etc. Advanced topics such as cross-site scripting safeguards, persistent properties and Web Parts on wiki pages will be discussed as well.

MSC22: Backup and Restore for SharePoint 2010: 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) 2010 product can be used to provide for SharePoint-specific backup and item-level restore. In addition, specifics on how to integrate DPM with a SharePoint 2010 farm are provided and best practice architectural examples for DPM, snapshot guidelines, and deployment tips and tricks from the field are covered.

• Explore the new built-in backup processes and tools in SharePoint 2010 and what should be backed up.
• Examine item-level recovery capabilities for SharePoint included in System Center Data Protection Manager
• Learn best practice tips and tricks for deployment of DPM in a SharePoint environment
• Understand SharePoint disaster recovery options and architectural considerations when using DPM

MSC14: Building Solutions with Business Connectivity Services Using Visual Studio 2010
Steve Fox
Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 enables integration with Line of Business applications and other enterprise and Web 2.0 data sources. It was known in SharePoint 2007 as the Business Data Catalog (BDC) and has been significantly improved in SharePoint 2010. This sessionwill show building BCS External Content Types with both the Visual Studio 2010 designer and with SharePoint Designer 2010. This provides multiple ways to expose Line of Business data, from a variety of sources, as SharePoint 2010 External Lists.

MSC27: Claims-Based Identity in SharePoint 2010
Spencer Harbar
You will learn about the major investments in claims-based identity in SharePoint 2010. You will understand how to use SharePoint in an heterogeneous identity environment for both sign-in and services (SOA). We will discuss the new identity architecture, learn about all the components and how to manage and operate them. In addition, we will go over the design decisions you will need to make as you plan the interop between SharePoint and external systems/Web services.

MSC06: Client-Side Technologies in SharePoint 2010
Jan Tielens
One of the enhancements in SharePoint 2010 is the introduction of a set of client-side object models. These object models will allow developers to easily connect to SharePoint 2010 and consume the data in their applications. This session will focus on the three of the Client Object Model flavors (the .NET, Silverlight and Javascript object models) and show you how you can use them in your applications, both hosted in SharePoint 2010 and outside SharePoint 2010.

MSC20: Creating Data-Centric Composite Applications Using SharePoint Designer 2010
Asif Rehmani
SharePoint Designer 2010 can be used to integrate data from a variety of sources into a single SharePoint composite solution. This session will demonstrate how the Data View Web Part in SharePoint Designer can be used for the task of retrieving data from SharePoint Lists. You will learn about how to conditionally format data. Then you will also see how data in multiple lists can be connected to produce a unified view of related information. That's not all, you will also see how you can make this view editable to commit any data changes back to the data source… All without a single line of code!

MSC32: Designing a Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan for Your SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure
Richard Taylor
What infrastructure plan would be complete without understanding how to recover from a catastrophic occurrence? Come to this session to understand how to design your SharePoint infrastructure to become as redundant and resistant to failure as possible.

MSC01: ECM for the Masses—How SharePoint 2010 Delivers on the Promise
Erica Toelle
Tired of hearing statistics about the high rate of failure for ECM initiatives? In this session, you will learn about the new features in SharePoint 2010 and discover how Microsoft is changing the game in ECM by bridging the worlds of traditional content management, social computing and search; all delivered seamlessly through Office, web browsers and mobile devices.

MSC09: FAST Search for SharePoint: Capabilities Deep Dive
Sam Hassani
The new FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 provides new capabilities for building rich “conversational” user experiences. This session will drill into these unique capabilities, including:
* Customizable content processing
* Automatic entity extraction
* Configurable relevance ranking
* User context and more

MSC25: Growing SharePoint from Small Libraries to Large Scale Repositories and Massive Archives
Mirjam van Olst
SharePoint allows you to store many documents in an environment and end users will want to store, find and retrieve documents and information quickly and easily. In this session, a lot of new SharePoint 2010 features will be demonstrated that will help them do just that. Expect to see enterprise content types, the term store, managed metadata, in-place records management, faceted search, remote blob storage and lots more!

MSC34: Implementing Multi-Lingual Solutions on SharePoint 2010
Spencer Harbar
This session will discuss key success strategies for building multilingual Internet, extranet or intranet sites leveraging Variations and the new Multi-lingual User Interface. Key topics covered include: 1. Core technical concepts 2. Planning considerations 3. Information architecture and site structure 4. Hierarchy creation 5. Variations logic 6. Navigation and Web Parts 7. Multi-lingual user interface benefits.

MSC35: Integrating Workflows into Backend Systems Using External Data Exchange Services
Wouter van Vugt
The key aspect of any workflow is its capability to handle a large variety data. Traditionally SharePoint workflows were mostly focused on handling SharePoint data in the form of list items and documents. However, it is not an uncommon need to deal with back-end systems, issuing tasks that may take days to complete. So what do you do? You put your workflow to sleep and get it to wake up when stuff happened. The only difficulty is that in SharePoint 2007 you can only be notified of changes to SharePoint data. Waking up is not so easy after all! In the real world, this means that you relay communication through hidden lists. In SharePoint 2010 this is going to change in a profound way. You will be able to extend the workflow runtime with custom External Data Exchange Services, allowing you to relay information and communicate with the workflow using standard Workflow Foundation patterns. Learn how to create these EDEs and the rich features they provide such as operation batching. Expect to see lots of code and demos in this technical session.

MSC18: Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010: Top 5 Great Things to Know!
Asif Rehmani
SharePoint Designer 2010, which is a free application, is “The Preferred” tool to design powerful no-code solutions and applications in SharePoint 2010. In this session you will get a broad overview of the capabilities of the tool, from site customizations such as modifying Site Metadata, managing Site Security, or creating Site Content, to building List or Site based Workflows and connecting to a variety of Data Sources. You will also learn about the new ribbon interface of SharePoint Designer 2010 and shows how best to take advantage of this application as you see the new bells and whistles that come with this product.

MSC24: Managing and Sharing Rich Media in SharePoint 2010
Donald Hessing
From centrally managing and maintaining a shared image library for use in authoring Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, to sharing online video, SharePoint 2010 has a number of new features to manage digital assets. This session will cover the new features, as well as different use cases for them within the enterprise.

MSC07: Overview and What's New for SharePoint 2010 IT Pros
Mirjam van Olst
This is an overview session. The session will go through IT Pro-related features in SharePoint 2010. It will cover the new IT Pro experience including deployment and upgrade, management and operation, backup and restore, availability and scalability.

MSC02: Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform
Steve Fox
SharePoint 2010 has many new developer-oriented features. Developers can build collaboration applications on the platform features of SharePoint 2010, the new tools for SharePoint 2010 make developers more productive and new hosting options for SharePoint solutions provide more flexibility in deployment. This session is a lap around SharePoint 2010 for developers providing a brief look and code based demos of the major new features in building user interfaces, building on the data platform and in general programmability.

MSC19: Overview: Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, InfoPath and Visio
Asif Rehmani
Forms and Workflows are important for automating business processes. Companies usually rely on programmers to create the forms and workflows using code. Not anymore! With InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010, you can create powerful data driven form composite 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, building upon the out-of-the-box reusable workflows and even import workflow designs from Visio! In this presentation, you will see how these tools come together to design workflows and route forms across your organization for task assignment and approval, and also how you can reuse your workflows in other lists and libraries on your site.

MSC26: Pex —Unit Testing of SharePoint Services that Rocks!
Peli de Halleux
SharePoint Services are challenging for unit testing because it is not possible to execute the SharePoint Service without being connected to a live SharePoint site. For that reason, most of the unit tests written for SharePoint are actually integration tests as they need a live system to run. In this session, we show how to use Pex, an automated test generation tool for .NET, to test SharePoint Services in isolation. From a parameterized unit test, Pex generates a suite of closed unit tests with high code coverage. Pex also contains a stubbing framework, Moles, that allows to detour any .NET method to user-defined delegates, e.g., replace any call to the SharePoint Object Model by a user-defined delegate.

MSC23: Protecting Your SharePoint 2010 Content with SQL Server 2008 Transparent Database Encryption
Michael Noel
One of the most highly publicized feature of SQL Server 2008 is the ability to transparently encrypt all of your SharePoint content databases at the SQL level, without the need to modify any settings in the SharePoint farm. This type of transparent encryption allows organizations to comply with governmental and industry regulations that require content to be stored in encrypted format, but doesn’t introduce any new complexities to a SharePoint environment, as the application itself is unaware that any encryption is happening. This session focuses on the best practices, tips and tricks, and real-world advice on how to setup and deploy SQL Server 2008 transparent database encryption for a SharePoint 2010 farm.

• Learn how to setup SQL Server 2008 for transparent encryption of content databases.
• Examine limitations, best practices, and deployment tips for implementing this new capability.
• Take an in-depth look at the security precautions and advice for the encryption methods that can be used and what makes sense for SharePoint.

MSC12: Scaling SharePoint 2010 Topologies for Your Organization
Spencer Harbar
Now that you learned about the new SharePoint Service architecture, come learn about how you architect Services for your organization. We will talk about various Canonical SharePoint deployment types (Internet Presence, Partner Collaboration via Extranets, distributed/consolidated data centers, medium sized organization etc.) and describe how you architect the Services logical topology. In addition to the logical topology, we will drill into how you scale-up/scale-out the physical topology to meet the scale expectations for your organization. Regardless of the nature and scale of your organization, SharePoint 2010 now offers a topology for you!

MSC08: Server Free Solutions: Sandboxed and Client-Only Solutions with SharePoint
Daniel McPherson
Want a customised SharePoint experience but not the custom code headaches? Have a hosted SharePoint environment but need a custom solution to meet a specific business requirement? This session will explore a variety of ways to create a customised SharePoint experience without touching your server.

MSC28: SharePoint 2010 Overview and What's New for End Users
Matthijs Hoekstra
This session provides an overview of SharePoint 2010 covering end user features in different workloads from Sites to Composites. Expect to see a lot of demos of some of the new features that SharePoint 2010 has to offer!

MSC11: SharePoint 2010 Search
Richard Taylor
Search is much more than just finding something; concepts such as Information Architecture, Information Organization, and Findability are very important when implementing SharePoint. Come to this session to see how SharePoint 2010’s enhanced Search capability (such as the Managed Metadata Service) can address these concepts and help make your Search implementation much more effective.

MSC15: SharePoint 2010-Based Document Assembly and Manipulation Using Word Automation Services and Open XML
Wouter van Vugt
The Open XML Formats are the new default file formats for Word, Excel and PowerPoint (docx, xlsx, pptx). With the Open XML SDK, which provides a set of .NET APIs that allows developers to create and manipulate documents in the Open XML Formats, and the Office services available on SharePoint 2010 (Word Automation Services, which performs high-performance bulk document conversions, and Excel Services, which provides server-side support for spreadsheet calculation), developers can now build solutions for server environments without the need of the Office clients. With just a few lines of code you will be able to create rich solutions, like document assembly.

MSC16: SharePoint BI Overview
Mike Fitzmaurice
In this session, you will get an overview of the Business Intelligence or Insights part of SharePoint 2010. We talk about the new functionality and about the improved features. Topics discussed or demoed are; Performance Point Services, Excel Services, Visio Services, Web analytics, PowerPivot, SQL Server integration and the Chart Web Part.

MSC31: SharePoint UI Customisation
Marianne van Wanrooij
SharePoint 2010 has new improvements for customizing the SharePoint user interface. The new Ribbon interface is fully extensible, allowing you to add or remove pieces to easily customize the experience. Also, new user interface controls such as the dialog framework and the status and notification area allow you to inform or interact with the user without taking them out of the context of their task or the look and feel of SharePoint. This talk will show you how to use and interact with these new user interface controls, using Visual Studio 2010.

MSC05: Silverlight and SharePoint 2010: Better Together
Jan Tielens
In SharePoint 2010 we’ve got out-of-the-box support for hosting Silverlight Applications in the Silverlight Web Part. This session will discuss this out-of-the-box functionality and dive into the details about building Silverlight Applications. Silverlight will be used to build RIAs to visualize SharePoint data in an attractive way, both inside the existing SharePoint UI as running as an application out-of-the-browser.

MSC03: Social Computing Overview
Daniel McPherson
Robin Meure
Mark van Lunenburg
In this session, you will learn all about the new social computing capabilities of SharePoint 2010. Social bookmarking, tagging and ranking, blogs and wikis and social search for people.

MSC33: Understanding the Service Application Architecture of SharePoint 2010
Richard Taylor
The architecture for SharePoint has changed considerably. Come to this session to see what the changes are and how to design your SharePoint environment to take advantage of the new services provided by SharePoint 2010.

MSC10: Upgrade Your SharePoint 2007 Environment to SharePoint 2010
Sam Hassani
You’re anxious to use SharePoint 2010, but what about all that content you have in SharePoint 2007 farms? In this session, we’ll go into depth on the new capabilities and improvements made to the upgrade system and tools. We’ll also go over some detail about planning for upgrades and a walkthrough demonstration of the upgrade system.

MSC17: Upgrading Your 2007 Solutions to 2010
Serge van den Oever
Mirjam van Olst
With SharePoint 2010 a lot will change for developers, but of course you will still want to keep using some of the cool solutions that you built for SharePoint 2007. This session will explain how you can best upgrade the custom code that you wrote using Visual Studio 2008 for SharePoint 2007 to work with Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010. The session will demonstrate the project upgrade tools, show you the APIs that are involved in migrating and what new APIs you should consider using, and will tell you when you will be bound to have to upgrade your code manually.

MSC37: Virtualization of SharePoint 2010 Farm Architecture
Michael Noel
Server virtualization technologies have taken front stage recently and many organizations have begun to replace physical servers, including SharePoint servers, with virtualized machines. Virtualization of the 2007 wave of SharePoint Products and Technologies has been supported for some time, and many 2007 farms have been successfully virtualized over the years. With a new version of SharePoint, however, comes new best practices and new techniques for virtualization of SharePoint. This session focuses specifically on SharePoint Server 2010 farm virtualization, and how components of a SharePoint 2010 environment can be successfully virtualized. Included in the discussion are new virtualization High Availability options such as Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration of SharePoint guest sessions as well as time-tested design architecture examples using integrated SharePoint failover techniques.

MSC13: Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Development Tools Overview
Steve Fox
This session will provide you with an overview of SharePoint development with Visual Studio 2010. Specific topics covered will include an overview of the project and item templates, a walkthrough of the designers included, areas of extensibility within Visual Studio 2010 that can enhance SharePoint development, and a number of demonstrations.

MSC36: Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools Extensibility
Wouter van Vugt
One of the key factors determining adoption of developer tools is whether you can make the tool do what you want. When picking the right tool for the job you should at least consider three things. First of all, the tool should generally follow development best practices, making it easy for you to ‘get things right’ without thinking about it. Next, since you are unique (and yes, beautiful too, that’s another story though) a tool should be configurable to a high enough degree so that you can adjust the tool to the work and not the other way around. Finally, you should be wary of tools that only cover a small percentage of your needs. Otherwise you’ll require multiple tools, which will most likely overlap and not integrate all that well.

One key ingredient to achieving great tooling is tool extensibility. For the SharePoint tools found in Visual Studio 2010, this has been a clear message. All the awesome functionality delivered to SharePoint developers through this popular IDE is built upon an extensibility model that is also available for you to customize and extend. For SharePoint this is especially important given the large number of complex things you can do with the product and the wide variety of needs resulting from these rich capabilities. In this session, you will learn about this extensibility model and how you can make use of it to adapt the tools to your specific needs. Come and take a look at how you can create new SharePoint Project Item templates, how to extend existing items, and how to integrate with the SharePoint Explorer. Find out how to customize the F5 experience with custom build steps and deployment configurations. All in all a vital skill to have to achieve maximum SharePoint developer productivity, and we all know we could use a bit of that!

MSC04: Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010
Donald Hessing
Come and learn about the new and improved Web Content Management features for building public facing websites and intranets. This session will discuss the new publishing infrastructure, the improved Content Query Web Part and how to take advantage of the Managed Metadata Service Application for defining and managing taxonomies. Not only can SharePoint websites be XHTML compliant, but they also have the ability to show rich media like streaming.

MSC21: What's New in Office 2010?
Bart Wessels
In this session, we will introduce you to the new functionalities of Office 2010 and what functionalities makes working with SharePoint 2010 in combination with Office 2010 a blast. This demo-filled session shows the new Office 2010 upload center, integration with SharePoint 2010, offline use of SharePoint 2010 and more.

KEYNOTE SESSION

KEYNOTE: The Evolution of SharePoint from Two Pet Projects to a Multi-Company Ecosystem
Mike Fitzmaurice
How did SharePoint start and how did it become the centre of the universe in under a decade? Mike Fitzmaurice was there at the beginning, has worked on every product with the word “SharePoint” in it, and continues to work on SharePoint technology today, now as Vice President of Product Technology for Nintex, a SharePoint partner ISV. Fitz will share with you the motivations behind SharePoint’s creation and evolution, the realities behind how the products ship, why SharePoint caught on so completely, and how SharePoint has grown beyond Microsoft itself.

SHAREPOINT SOLUTION SESSIONS

MSOL04: Effective Management and Optimisation of SharePoint Storage
Tony Lanni
The key to a high performance SharePoint environment is efficient management of SQL storage resources. This requires an intelligent strategy for handling different types of data that SharePoint stewards, including dormant, unstructured, and very large content. As well as content that resides off the SQL database itself. In this session, we will review how to develop a comprehensive SharePoint storage and data access strategy that leverages your existing storage investments, maintains full and transparent data access and searchability, and ensures optimal platform performance.

MSOL10: Extending Social Features in SharePoint 2010
Andries den Haan
Jan Brücher
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and SharePoint 2010? This session offers an overview of ways to extend the social features in SharePoint 2010. How to connect to public social networks? How to benefit from the social database to support knowledge sharing & expertise building? Seeing is believing.

MSOL05: How to Create a Successful Social Collaboration Platform with SharePoint 2010
Patrick Savalle
One of the main new topics of SharePoint 2010 is delivering the power of social computing in the context of a complete collaboration solution. In this session, you will learn how to create a successful Social Collaboration Platform in your organization. You will see via the Teampark method (http://blog.teampark.org/) the do and don’t of implementing a social organization next to your functional organization. During this session, you will see demonstrated the social features to SharePoint 2010 and Newsgator, like social bookmarking, tagging and ranking, blogs and wikis and social search for people. Next to this, you will see a number of scenarios that show how you can migrate from a current collaboration platform to a new social collaboration platform with SharePoint 2010.

MSOL03: K2: SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010—Building Enterprise Business Process Solutions
Jonathan King
The K2 platform is for delivering process-driven applications that improve business efficiency. Visual tools make it easy for anyone to assemble reusable objects into applications that use workflow and line-of-business information. See how K2, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 can be used together to build enterprise workflow and business process applications that span multiple line-of-business systems to make life easier for your employees. See how K2 and SharePoint together provide the perfect platform for delivering case management solutions into your business.

MSOL02: Metadata-driven Applications in SharePoint 2010 with MatchPoint
Patrick Püntener
MatchPoint addresses the upcoming business challenges enterprises will face with metadata management and SharePoint 2010. It changes the way SharePoint applications can be built. Metadata is a crucial ingredient to intelligent collaboration and search solutions. It is the glue that ties together the huge number of objects managed in SharePoint 2010 and transforms data into meaningful information. MatchPoint refines SharePoint data with metadata through a set of automatic classification methods and thus guarantees the high level of metadata standardization and quality needed to build truly metadata-driven applications. With MatchPoint, the different types of metadata SharePoint 2010 (including FAST) provides are managed and made available through one unified model. MatchPoint includes a number of readymade tools for fast solution development, including tag-based navigation, mashups, process-based collaboration, content-driven intranets and search-based views, extending the out-of-the-box possibilities of SharePoint 2010 and cutting development costs dramatically.

MSOL09: Metalogix, Inc: Preparing for Migration and Upgrade to SharePoint 2010
Danny Burlage
This session will provide an overview of the available SharePoint 2010 upgrade options and advanced migration scenarios. The presenters will address upgrade scenarios from WSSv2/WSSv3/SPS2003/MOSS2007 to SharePoint 2010 including granular and partial migrations, re-structuring of list, library and site content during migration and how Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager can enable organizations to take advantage of new site templates in SharePoint 2010. Metalogix will also demonstrate how Website Migration Manager can enable organizations to migrate content from existing web content management solutions, wikis and blogs to the SharePoint 2010 publishing platform.

MSOL06: Nintex Workflow 2010: Extending 2010-Era SharePoint Workflow to End User and Enterprise Needs Alike
Mike Fitzmaurice
Nintex Workflow 2010 makes native SharePoint workflows more powerful than before. Moreover, it does so by building on the extensive enhancements made to the workflow infrastructure in SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Services.
This session will focus on the types of work you can get done with 2010 features and functionality. The majority of the session will be live demos.

MSOL08: SharePoint 2010 for the Web: The Migration of Amsterdam RAI.nl
Danny Burlage
During this session, a technical drilldown will be done showing how the Amsterdam RAI website was migrated to SharePoint 2010. The session discusses the migration and implementation process, technical choices which have been made, and will have an overview of the implementation process. All the new Web Content Management features of public facing websites will be discussed. Next to this, the usage of Managed Metadata, Rich Media and the new Content Query Web Part on a public facing website is outlined.

MSOL07: Successful SharePoint Project Management: Delivering Added Value to Your Business
Michiel Hazen
What makes SharePoint projects different? As it turns out, managing SharePoint projects is not like managing any ordinary development or software implementation project. How can you make sure your SharePoint projects succeed? And how can you make sure a successful project delivers added value to your business? Learn about best practices for achieving true stakeholder involvement & commitment and what improvements are introduced in SharePoint 2010 to help you deliver successful SharePoint projects.