TechED NZ is officially kicks off today. This is my Seventh year attending and my fourth year speaking! If you are looking for SharePoint content you will not be disappointed. Here is a list of all the SharePoint Sessions that’s on at TechED! Watch Darryl Burling’s blog for some great news for SharePoint training.
OFC201 SharePoint and Business Intelligence
Presenter: Steve Letford (MSFT NZ)
Mon 9/14 | 12:05-13:20 | Ballroom 2
The front end of Business Intelligence - Office 2007. Excel, Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, SharePoint and accessing SQL data in Office
OFC202 The Value of SharePoint and Office in your Enterprise
Presenter: Ian Morrish (MSFT NZ)
Mon 9/14 | 10:40-11:55 | Ballroom 2
Are you getting the most out of your SharePoint investment? SharePoint products and Technologies is more than just a web server, there is deep integration for the desktop, Office and other applications.
OFC203 Microsoft SharePoint Online - What is it and how to extend it using SharePoint Designer 2007
Presenter: Mark Orange (MVP) Intergen Limited
Tue 9/15 | 10:45-12:00 | Ballroom 2
In March of 2009 Microsoft launched in New Zealand and Australia the new Microsoft Online Services offering that includes Microsoft SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online removes the need for an organisation to deploy, configure, monitor, patch and upgrade a SharePoint platform on premises while still allowing an organisation to take ownership and extend their SharePoint site to meet their business needs. Learn what SharePoint Online is all about, how it can be leveraged by organisations and how it can be easily extended using SharePoint Designer 2007.
OFC205 Planning the People AND the Project
Presenter: Debbie Ireland (MVP) EnvisionIT Limited
Tue 9/15 | 12:10-13:25 | Ballroom 2
SharePoint Projects differ from other IT implementations in lifecycle and approach. The time and effort in changing culture and business practices cannot be underestimated. This session will give you some practical takeaways for what to include in your SharePoint deployment including methodology around planning and execution. It also explores the required governance models around "who manages what" and provides simple techniques and examples to take the governance from theory to practice. We will also look at the People side from Sponsors to continued End User adoption post rollout.
OFC301 Deep Dive into SharePoint Features and Solutions
Presenter: Wayne Ewington (MSFT NZ)
Wed 9/16 | 15:45-17:00 | Ballroom 2
SharePoint Features and Solutions are the recommended way for enabling and deploying customisations. In this talk we will first take a closer look at developing Features, including the available tools, Feature dependencies, and Feature Stapling. We then look at how we can bundle these Features together and deploy them using SharePoint Solutions. We then finish this off by looking at how we can subsequently version and update our Features and Solutions.
OFC302 Spatialise SharePoint
Presenters: Pete Smith, Clive Trott
Mon 9/14 | 14:15-15:30 | Ballroom 2
A data warehouse provides the foundation for an enterprise business intelligence platform. How could integration of spatial data enhance the business benefits BI provides? This session will address this question and present an end to end solution covering data modelling, ETL processing and data query toolsets, all with a spatial flavour. Using a real New Zealand dataset, the session will cover MOSS, Analysis Services, SQL Server 2008, Silverlight and Business Intelligence all brought together in a single 'location intelligence dashboard'
OFC303 Breaking SharePoint. What should you know when developing applications for SharePoint
Presenter: Mat Velloso (MSFT NZ)
Mon 9/14 | 17:15-18:30 | Ballroom 2
This presentation is going to review SharePoint from the application platform point of view, covering some common issues and mistakes that software developers and architects face when creating applications for SharePoint.
OFC305 SharePoint 2007 Themes - A crash course for developers
Presenter: Mark Orange (MVP) Intergen Limited
Wed 9/16 | 10:45-12:00 | Ballroom 2
Themes in SharePoint 2007 provide an easy way for an organisation to take ownership of their SharePoint sites and stamp their identity on the user interface. Come and learn about what a theme is made of and how to construct and deploy them using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
OFC306 Planning for SharePoint 2010 - Upgrade Planning and Guidance
Presenter: Chandima Kulathilake (MVP) Knowledge Cue
Wed 9/16 | 12:10-13:25 | Ballroom 2
This session will cover how to plan for upgrading your SharePoint 2007 server farms to SharePoint 2010. We will cover the tools available today and how you can test your existing SharePoint 2007 deployment for upgrade compatibility. With the release of Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Microsoft has made available an upgrade tool. We will also cover important planning steps for a successful upgrade project and also strategies on how you should ensure that your server farm has been updated to the latest Service Pack.
OFC307 SharePoint Technology and Reporting Services Integration
Presenter: Ian Morrish (MSFT NZ)
Wed 9/16 | 14:20-15:35 | Ballroom 2
Learn how to extend SharePoint (WSS or MOSS) with the power of SQL Server Reporting Services. End Users can view, manage and deliver enterprise reports through a centralized SharePoint user interface and Report Builder 2.0. IT Pro and developers can manage and secure reports as standard SharePoint document library objects.
OFC308 Scaling Out a SharePoint Farm and Configuring Network Load Balancing on two Web Servers
Presenter: Steve Smith (MVP) Combined Knowledge UK/Asia Pacific
Tue 9/15 | 17:10-18:25 | New Zealand Room 3
In this session I will demonstrate how to add Two new servers into a SharePoint single server farm and re-assign server services like Search and Excel. Then I will Network Load Balance the two Web Servers for resilience. Surely this can't be done in an hour I hear you say. You betcha so come and get some back to basics knowledge Infrastructure knowledge.
All in all if you are a SharePoint Developer or an Administrator there is lots of sessions to keep you happy. Come and chat with us we’ll be around the market place area! Follow us on twitter @chandimak @stevesmithck.