Agenda

How to attract and retain the best staff is a number one imperative for most companies today, including Microsoft. Employees are transitioning between and within orgnisations at a faster pace than ever before and have come to expect self-service capabilities at work just as they do in the consumer world. Balancing corporate compliance through required training at the same time as reducing the 'time to talent' for employees is crucial to success. This session explores how Sharepoint is being used internally at Microsoft to address some of these challenges, particularly within HR & Training.

The concept of social networking has recently experienced a great deal of visibility and success with the public sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Linked in. The ultimate goal of social networking within an organization is to enhance communication and collaboration, and bring about productivity increases in the day-to-day challenges of a mobile workforce and a globally dispersed company. The challenges the Enterprise faces for adopting Social Networking tools has been an increasingly difficult task—learn how successfully deployed Collaboration and Social Networking in the Enterprise with the deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the out-of-the-box features.

Every organisation has a need to create and manage forms.  If you had to create a form and process for an internal or external form, do you have a fast and consistent way of getting that form up and running?  Find out how SharePoint and InfoPath can provide a common approach for you to manage all of the electronic forms and processes for your organisation.  You will also learn how SharePoint and InfoPath has been used in real life examples and organistations for automating form based processes.

When covering Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), it's common to focus on the inherent machine-to-machine nature of the technology, but some of the most striking business value breakthroughs from standards-based computing take place when people are factored into the equation. This presentation will explore the business value in exposing SOA to the end users, along with design considerations necessary when doing so. It will further drill into Office Business Application (OBA) techniques for doing so, particularly those available with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

A fundamental change to the user experience of Office and SharePoint has occured. This can have a profound impact on staff productivity and the delivery of IT services. In this session Alistair and Andrew will explain the evolution of Office as a comprehensive application platform. Learn how Office acts as the SharePoint front end that your people are already familiar with and see how organisations are taking advantage of this.

In this session, we’ll examine how Silverlight can be used to create ‘next generation’ MOSS user experiences.   Come along for a journey that describes what Silverlight is (and why you’d bother using it), before moving onto discussion of the newly released Silverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint.  Using these tools and guidance, we hope to show you how easy it is to build richer and more compelling user experiences on the MOSS development platform..

Learn from mistakes, and avoid the pitfalls. Find out what comes out of the box and what you'll need to create a successful deployment. In addition to architecture, we explore the roles, responsibilities, and what you need for a successful deployment, and consolidated managed deployment.

"SharePoint has been widely adopted by organisations across all Australia. This has led to a sharp increase in the number of corporate records that are stored in SharePoint and a corresponding demand for records management solutions that can enforce corporate retention and disposition policies and help ensure regulatory compliance against Australian standards. With the 2007 release of SharePoint, all of the required capabilities are available to effectively manage records. With the built in ability to index, link, store, search, access and manage records stored in SharePoint over the complete lifecycle, and dispose of them in a timely manner, thus enabling compliance with regulatory requirements and corporate retention and disposition policies. This presentation will: -Discuss the core capabilities built into the SharePoint 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 platforms -Discuss solution strategies using Microsoft software partners (ISVs) or services partners (SIs) -Highlight successes with local case studies"

This session will cover practical insights into effectively implementing a SharePoint Intranet into your organisation from a Change Management perspective. The focus will be on the end-user experience, and ways in which you can ensure your new Intranet gets used! Insights from a Federal Government viewpoint will be shared.

Search refers to the ability to locate electronic information; most commonly on public web sites on the Internet. Enterprise Search involves finding structured and unstructured information within an organization – whether in file shares, documents repositories or business systems like databases and line-of-business applications. It also includes finding and connecting with expertise in the organization. Enterprise Search from Microsoft empowers people to find and act on the information and expertise anywhere in an organization. It balances the needs of information workers with IT demands to successfully manage, extend, and secure their search deployment as part of their infrastructure. So if you would like to know what Microsoft offers in this space and what we can do for your organisation then this is the session for you.