Scoring with SharePoint UK EVENT
Delivering Business Agility & Collaborative Solutions with SharePoint
SharePoint products and technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way your enterprise works, but the path to SharePoint is not an easy one. Hype and spin cloud the picture. New technologies take time to master, and to align with your business requirements. And how do you decide where to start to maximize the value of SharePoint? In this intensive, one-day event, you’ll learn how to make the most of SharePoint, out-of-the-box, to deliver collaborative solutions that solve real-world business challenges and ensure a successful end-user adoption of this powerful technology. The event brings you together with other SharePoint IT Pros and one of the world’s SharePoint gurus, Dan Holme, for deep dives into several of SharePoint’s most important capabilities. And who says you need to spend tonnes of money on SharePoint to get tremendous business value out of it? No! This event covers core functionality and technology of SharePoint that is part of Windows SharePoint Services (the “free” version), so whether you’re using WSS or MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server), you’ll come away equipped to shine like a SharePoint Pop Star.
Covers Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
KEYNOTE: Business Agility and Solutions Powered by SharePoint
In this valuable keynote address, Dan Holme shares real-world examples and independent expertise, and explores the key benefits and features of SharePoint. You’ll discover how the technologies can be applied to meet the strategic and tactical needs of your enterprise. Leverage Dan’s independent “spin free” insight into the product’s real-world value proposition, what works, what doesn’t, and the future of SharePoint in your enterprise.
SharePoint Administration, Security and Governance - An Intranet Jump Start
Whether you're planning your SharePoint implementation or knee (or neck) deep in it already, you know there’s a lot to learn about this complex technology platform. In this session, Dan will share some of the most important best practices related to administration, security, and governance, all while building a sample intranet farm. You will learn how to:
- Secure SharePoint resources and manage user and group accounts in an intranet environment
- Identify the SharePoint components that provide manageability controls that can implement your governance objectives
- Analyze your organization's information architecture and align SharePoint controls to support it
- Back up your SharePoint farm
- Utilize STSADM
- Leverage Microsoft’s Application Templates
- Enable users to take contact, task, calendar, and discussion forum lists offline with Outlook 2007
21st Century File Sharing: Configuring & Managing Document Libraries
Many organizations are replacing traditional file shares with SharePoint document libraries, which provide advanced collaborative features. The creation of a document library is simple enough--what comes after that, though, is more nuanced. Join SharePoint MVP Dan Holme for an in-depth examination of document library functionality and configuration. Learn what it takes to make the most of document libraries for 21st century collaboration. This session goes beyond the basics to uncover solutions including:
- The management of end-user shortcuts to frequently used libraries
- Publishing custom templates for new documents in a library
- Configuring and managing document metadata (columns)
- Exposing and inserting SharePoint metadata within Office documents
- Delegating the Override Check Out permission.
- Views versus folders
- Tips for effective email alerts
Building Code-Free SharePoint Applications and Business Intelligence Lite
SharePoint lists enable you to move kludgy, heavy-labor business processes online and to relocate flat and even relational databases to a multi-user, web-based platform. This session will share several approaches that can be used to make the most of SharePoint as a database and application platform without ever cracking open Visual Studio. The goal is to jumpstart your ability to identify and solve business problems using standard Windows SharePoint Services and Office clients, and to share practical, real world examples of how to achieve incredible value out of SharePoint lists. You'll learn to:
- Move important, shared, or multi-user databases from their 20th century home in Excel worksheets and Access databases to SharePoint
- Create rich, code-free "business intelligence lite" SharePoint solutions that leverage Excel as an analysis and presentation tool
- Develop sophisticated, intelligent relational database applications with gorgeous forms and reports using Access as a SharePoint front-end
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