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APAC Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 Conference Agenda
The Microsoft® APAC SharePoint® Conference 2007 is jam-packed with information-rich sessions – all designed to help you develop, customise and integrate powerful IT solutions. The conference has so much to cover, there will even be special sessions running through lunch should you wish to attend.
Different tracks to cater to your needs
When reviewing the agenda, note that the days have been broken up into different tracks, and, within each track there is a choice of five sessions you can attend. When you register, you will be asked to confirm which track you would like to go to.
Day 1 - 15 May 2007
Day 1 - 15 May 2007
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9:00am: KeyNote Address
10.15am: Morning Tea
11.00am: Session One
Essentials 1: Object Models, Web Services, Document I/O, Event and Lists
The first of four sessions on what .NET developers need to know to take advantage of SharePoint Products and Technologies to their fullest. This session covers key object models and related Web services, and focuses on how to add your own Web services, event handlers, and other custom code modules to SharePoint sites. Querying SharePoint list data using CAML XML queries are covered, as is how to adapt your own custom document editor to read from/write to SharePoint document libraries.
Designing, Deploying and Managing Workflow in SharePoint Sites
This session discusses the integration of Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation into Windows SharePoint Services (version 3), how workflows are designed, stored and used, and which capabilities are enhanced by taking advantage of client and server technology in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Different authoring tools and techniques are explained, including how to create no-code workflows using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
Securing SharePoint Technology
This session describes the end-to-end security system in SharePoint, including Windows authentication, pluggable forms and Web SSO authentication, SharePoint groups, system-wide and fine-grained authorization control, developer control over identity and permissions, administrative security options, and upgrade considerations.
SharePoint Designer 2007: Building No-Code SharePoint Solutions
This session covers the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, a design and development environment for creating/customizing/managing SharePoint sites. Specifically, the session provides coverage of how to quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting sites, its use as a design tool for developers, and its use as a solution building tool for designers and power users.
How much can MOSS replace your Enterprise Architecture?
This session covers how much can Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) replace your current Enterprise Architecture – MOSS 2007 appears to be the solution for most Information Worker business scenarios. This session would discuss which areas of an enterprise should be migrated over to MOSS and which should stay in place. 12.00pm: Lunch
12.15pm: Extending MOSS 2007 community features for online websites featuring
Hothouse and Mytalk.com.au
Upsize Microsoft Access to SharePoint
12.45pm: SharePoint Mobile
How to setup alternate membership/role providers (SqlMembershipProvider)
1.20pm: Session Two
Essentials 2: ASP.NET Web Parts, Master Pages, and Data Rendering
The second of four sessions on what .NET developers need to know to take advantage of SharePoint Products and Technologies to their fullest. This session covers how to write Web Parts that know about SharePoint site content and navigation, and further covers how to take advantage of Office SharePoint Server advanced features like slicing, audience targeting, single sign-on, etc. It also shows you how to add new ASP.NET pages to SharePoint sites, how to work with master pages, how to manipulate CAML list views, add menu items, and how to create SharePoint forms and custom field types.
Business Data Catalogue: Integrating LOB Data and Applications
The Business Data Catalog (BDC) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) will allow portal administrators to register Web services and data sources from a variety of systems to allow for immediate integration benefits. BDC-registered metadata can be used to auto-provision Web Parts, to import/export data into/out of editable lists, to import user profile information, and to index structured business data for use in enterprise search queries. This session explains how the BDC works, how to connect it to Web services and data, and how to make use of the resulting cataloged business resources.
Installing and Configuring SharePoint Technology
This session covers the logical and physical administration, design and architecture for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007).
Building and Branding SharePoint Sites Using new Web Content Management Capabilities
All about how Web Content Management works in Office Server 2007, both for extending portals and for designing and customizing any kind of Web site. This session demonstrates the technologies and features that will help you keep your site looking consistent. It also covers the design of the page rendering model using master pages, page layouts, and content pages, as well as some more advanced features like variations (used to simplify creating sites for multiple languages or device formats).
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007: Office Integration and Collaboration Scenarios
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 is tightly integrated with the Microsoft Office system. This session presents a collaboration scenario with client and browser forms hosted on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In this session, you will learn how to import Microsoft Office Word and Excel forms in InfoPath and the lifecycle of InfoPath e-mail forms and integration with Outlook and discover how to deploy forms to document libraries, how to use form specific content types and property promotion and demotion. It shows filling out forms in the browser on different platforms and on mobile devices. 2.25pm: Session Three
Essentials 3: Content Types and Metadata
The third of four sessions on what .NET developers need to know to take advantage of SharePoint Products and Technologies to their fullest. This session starts out covering list and library metadata, then moves on to one of the most sweeping advancement to SharePoint technology: content types, the means by which metadata can be shared across lists, libraries, sites, and site collections. Content types can contain specific metadata specifications, field definitions, event handlers, and other associated application resources, and are central to the enterprise content management functionality present in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Business Intelligence with Excel Services and Reporting Services
Looking to build Business Intelligence and reporting portals and dashboards? Come learn how to build your solutions on the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services platforms to provide live visual dashboards and portal sites optimized for all reporting needs. Topics include setting up and customizing a Report Center in a SharePoint Portal building on the new portal features, using Excel and Report Builder to publish spreadsheets and reports to the portal, and more.
Capacity and Performance Planning
This session covers techniques to determine your capacity and performance needs, and how to plan your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 architecture to meet those needs.
Extending SharePoint Sites to Disconnected Workspaces with Microsoft Office Groove 2007
In this session we cover the architecture and design of Microsoft Office Groove 2007 applications and how they can be connected to applications built on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. We touch on several integrated solution scenarios and show how to use Office Groove 2007 to extend the reach of Windows SharePoint Services applications.
SharePoint Collaboration and Community Tools: Tracking, Blogs, Wikis, and More
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a technology in Windows Server that provides a powerful set of collaboration capabilities. Beginning in version 2.0, and enhanced in version 3.0, Windows SharePoint Services delivers a set of extensible templates that can be used as the basis for a variety of collaboration applications. Learn how to use the built-in functionality in Windows SharePoint Services to create your own applications. See how blog and wiki tools can help you build an interactive, online community, and learn why RSS plays a role in empowering its participants. 3.25pm: Afternoon Tea
4.10pm: Session Four
Essentials 4: Templates, Definitions, and Solution Deployment
The fourth of four sessions on what .NET developers need to know to take advantage of SharePoint Products and Technologies to their fullest. One of the biggest strengths of SharePoint site development is being able to create types of sites that users can provision on demand, sites that come ready to use with all the tools necessary for specific kinds of business needs. This session starts with how to create and customize site definitions, then moves on to the new Windows SharePoint Services (version 3.0) feature definitions, capabilities (usually comprised of lists, Web Parts, event handlers, content types, etc.) that can be added to any site as needed. It ends with coverage of how to deploy components, features, and site definitions onto Web farms and how to handle maintenance updates to them.
Web Content Management Overview
This session provides an overview of the new Web Content Management features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Understand the Web page model and how it takes advantage of common SharePoint features to deliver rich Web pages. Learn how authors can create Web pages in-context and using applications such as Microsoft Office Word that stay in synch with your Web site's look and feel. Also, see how site managers can control what content gets published, using features like workflow and scheduling.
Disaster Recovery for SharePoint Technologies
Learn best practices for your organization's data protection. This session will cover the pros and cons of SharePoint Backup/Restore, SQL-only backup/restore, SQL log-shipping, and the new VSS writer. Also, learn how to take advantage of our new content recovery features, including the recycle bin, versioning, events, and fine-grained content migration.
Tools and Object Models for Server-Side Office Document Development
The new OpenXML file format used by Office 2007 applications opens the door to elaborate server-side access to document content. When taken together with managed classes for document access present in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System, a number of new possibilities present themselves. This session will show you what's available and how to use it.
Using Microsoft Operations Manager to Monitor and Maintain Your Farm
This session discusses how to use Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) to monitor your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 server farm. Learn how MOM can assist you in diagnosing problems with your farm. Learn how multiple MOM Management Packs can be used together to provide full-range monitoring capabilities. 5.10pm: Close
6.00pm: Pre-dinner cocktails
7.30pm: Conference dinner and entertainment Day 2 - 16 May 2007
Day 2 - 16 May 2007
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9.15am: Session One
Multilingual Portal and Public-Facing Web Applications
This session will drill into the capabilities provided by 2007 SharePoint Products and Technologies to design, build and support various multi-lingual solutions. Learn guidance on features provided out of the box involved in these scenarios.
Building PerformancePoint 2007 solutions
Overview of the PerformancePoint Server 2007 product with a drill down into building Monitoring and Analytics solutions.
Developing Visual Studio Workflows and Activities for SharePoint Site
The session focuses on how to build custom workflow solutions with Visual Studio 2005. Learn how to integrate those workflows into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and how to build workflow forms with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007. This session focuses on the power and developer productivity of workflow solutions built on Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). WF is a powerful technology and this session delves into the tips and tricks, positives and negatives when designing and building workflow solutions with WF. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), a platform component and part of the Windows plumbing included with the WinFX Runtime Components. WF has an extensible programming model and runtime components to make powerful workflow solutions. Couple it with the latest version of Office SharePoint Server 2007 infrastructure and Office InfoPath forms backed by managed code and you have quite a powerful set of tools, plumbing and infrastructure to build powerful and scalable workflow solutions with ease.
Secure MOSS 2007 deployment using Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint - how it works and how to get the best from your deployment
Companies use SharePoint 2007 to improve collaboration and information sharing in the workplace. But this introduces new vectors for threat propagation and sharing inappropriate content. Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint offers server-level antivirus, document-filtering, and policy management needed for SharePoint document libraries. With multiple scan engines and content-filtering options, it proactively detects and cleans infected files, making it easier to enforce corporate policy to provide comprehensive collaboration security. This session will explain the technical features and functions provided by Forefront Security for SharePoint that make it a compelling customer choice, the Forefront multi-engine competitive advantage, and strategies for achieving the right balance between security and server performance.
A Guided Tour Through SharePoint HTML, CSS, and Master Page Resources
This session covers how to quickly customize the default styles, themes, and layouts for SharePoint Sites to achieve highly branded outcomes across team collaboration workspaces, corporate portals, and all sites in between. Both Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server sites are covered, with a focus on where and how to customize so that it is easy to maintain and broadly apply. This session is appropriate for Web developers and designers who are familiar with ASP.NET master pages, CSS, and HTML. 10.15am: Morning Tea
11.00am: Session Two
Planning, Upgrading and Migrating to New SharePoint Products and Technologies
This session drills into migration of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)/Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) version 2 sites to Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn about the various approaches to WSS and SPS migration for SharePoint Server 2007, and understand which approach to apply to specific customer scenarios.
BI Dashboards, KPIs and Reports
This session will cover the improvements in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) for Business Intelligence. We will cover the new features such as Excel Calculation Server which extends Excel onto the server providing a calculation, rendering and application layer. We will also cover the addition of Key Performance Indicators which can be easily configured to visual data from many different sources including SQL 2005 Analysis Services. All of these BI capabilities need to be aggregated, organised and managed - the Report Center allows users to group reports/KPIs/Excel files from different sources and centrally secure and filter them.
SharePoint Search Deployment
This session covers the various deployment scenarios in search, search architecture and configuration options as well as administrative concepts.
Extending MOSS 2007 WCM with custom components for Authoring, Rendering, Navigation, Caching, and Operations
The Web Content Management facilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) provide a great deal of functionality out of the box, but many areas were meant to be extended with your custom code. This session highlights the potential of custom field controls, components for rendering specific document formats as HTML, and much more.
Templates & role based MySite
The templates facilitate user adoption and foster target deployments in context of their processes. They allow you to start conversations on usage and deployment with end users, while still giving room for your own solutions to be extended on top of templates. The templates for My Sites will be pre-configured to display, in a common environment, role-relevant data from sources such as LOB systems, desktop tools and portals. They will use MOSS capabilities such as audience targeting, KPIs, workflows, Excel services, Business Data Catalog, and others. 12.00pm: Lunch
12.15pm: The SharePoint Experience - End User Perspective
Integrating MOSS 2007 and Commerce Server 2007
12.45pm: Silverlight, Live.com and SharePoint Technologies
Integrating multifunction devices (copies/scanners) with SharePoint
1.20pm: Session Three
Developing Custom Line of Business Solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Dynamics
The Microsoft Dynamics products (ERP and CRM) provide developers with a rich business application platform in which to build vertical solutions. In this session, David Lemphers, Dynamics Platform Evangelist for Microsoft, will demonstrate how to build custom line of business solutions upon Microsoft Dynamics using SharePoint 2007 and Visual Studio 2005. In particular, how to leverage features such as Workflow and Web Services to integrate and extend SharePoint’s capabilities.
Deploying Internet Facing Websites (how to make WCM super scalable)
This session discusses how to build, deploy and manage Internet-facing Web sites using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn how to brand and style your Web site and how to make pages conform to these styles. Understand how to enable caching and anonymous access to make your site support millions of users. Also, learn how to set up content deployment to copy content to your production environment across a firewall.
SharePoint Search Extensibility
All about how developers can take advantage of the improved search facilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This includes how search has improved, how to customize and extend the search user interface, admin object model, integration with the Business Data Catalog, and how to make use of the search engine and APIs within your own code.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Document Management (Taxonomy)
This session covers best practices for creating and deploying a core set of content types across an organization for use in managing document metadata and lifecycle. It discusses recommendations for how the types can be leveraged by site owners, and outlines methods for managing the lifecycle of those types from creation to retirement. 2.25pm: Session Four
Development Tools and Techniques for Creating, Packaging, Deploying, and Maintaining Code
This session will walk you through the under-development Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and will use them to help illustrate recommended best practices for setting up development environments, debugging, packaging code for easy deployment by IT, and much more.
Upgrade Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services Sites and Templates
A highlight of the upgrade toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services Sites and Templates which was developed to empower IT Pros in the important task of planning, upgrading and evaluating their WSS 2.0 STPs and site to a WSS 3.0 environment.
How to Extend PerformancePoint 2007
The PerformancePoint Server Monitoring and Analytics solution may be extended in a number of ways. In this session you will learn how to extend the product through a review of the class library and deployment options.
Coding Compliance Components: Writing Custom Policies for Auditing, Expiration, and More
In addition to workflow and event handling, Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides multiple additional opportunities for developers to extend the server's behavior for managing document and other types of content. This session covers the extensibility points and provides specific code examples for custom policy assemblies, custom actions to take by an expiration policy, and a custom record repository provider.
Programmatically Profiling Users, Personalizing UI, and Targeting Content to Audiences
Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes significant enhancements in the ability to profile users, collect data to profile users, target content to defined audiences, and more. In addition to programmable people information, the facilities available to developing and extending components and templates involving My Sites has also improved considerably. This session covers what has changed and how to take advantage of it within your own code. 3.25pm: Afternoon Tea
4.10pm: Session Five
Panel with local and international speakers
Have you ever wanted to have a discussion with lots of people who know Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technologies? A selection of the local and international speakers will be available for a open panel discussion. This discussion is not to be missed.
Excel Services Applications and Extensions
While Excel Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 will indeed do a great deal of work out of the box, there are multiple areas for custom-developed enhancements. Of particular note are the API for server-side Excel Calculation Services and the ability to write User-Defined Functions (UDFs) with managed code. This session will discuss these topics and more.
Extranets and Internet - Facing Environments in the Real World: Deployment and Management
Extranets are a powerful tool for engaging with business partners and customers. Learn deployment and management best practices of extranets from those that have been there before. This session is based on real-life customer examples, these handy tips will help you get your extranet up and running quickly. Don't leave without hearing about what you'll be able to do with your extranet or Internet facing environment with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Migrating from CMS 2002 to MOSS 2007 Web Content Management
Moving a Web application from Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) requires a combination of software tools, content editing procedures, custom component assessments, and a series of best practice recommendations. This session will cover what can be automated and what can't, as well as which procedures will put you on the best track to move up to Microsoft's premiere Web publishing platform.
Compliance and Records Management
Businesses are increasingly affected by regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley act or GDPdU. The increased risk of litigation has moved ECM from being a nice-to-have system to being a must-have system. The 2007 release of the Microsoft Office system provides new capabilities to facilitate Records Management and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. This session provides an overview of Microsoft's records management strategy for Office and Exchange and covers the following features: Information Management Policies, Records Repositories, Litigation Hold, and E-mail Records Management.
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