The Greater Philadelphia Windows Management & Security User Group is pleased to announce our SharePoint 2010 / Office 2010 night. With the release of SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has added a rich array of features to their enterprise collaboration platform. Get a first-hand look at some of the new capabilities along with the new release of Office 2010.
We have several companies that are new to the user group presenting this month including Perficient, AccessHosting.com, and Weidenhammer Systems.
Below are the sessions we have planned. We're asking you to select the sessions you will most likely attend when you register. Feel free to mix and match between tracks. You're not locked in, but it helps us get a quick count for room assignments.
A light meal will be served with beverages.
General Session Keynote: Bill Tsai, Microsoft - SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 Better Together Session Self-service BI with PowerPivot Office 2010 Backup & Recovery of SharePoint Session Access Services in SharePoint Office 2010 Secure Session Office 2010 Operational Monitoring for SharePoint
SharePoint
2010
SharePoint
2010
Office
2010
Management
& Security
#1
Metadata and
Taxonomy
Management
First Look
#2
Business
Connectivity
Services
First Look
Remote Access to SharePoint
#3
PowerShell for
SharePoint
Administrators
Visual Mapping Tool
for SharePoint
First Look
Keynote: SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 Better Together
Bill Tsai, Microsoft
Get an overview of the new features of SharePoint 2010. Learn about SharePoint 2010 collaboration, document management, business intelligence, and other enterprise-class features. Also learn how the new Office 2010 release can improve your experience with SharePoint 2010.
Metadata and Taxonomy Management in SharePoint 2010
Rick Taylor, Perficient
In this demonstration, we will work with metadata and taxonomy, both from the end user's perspective and as the site admin who configured the new Term Store. We will show you how to work with the new Term Store, including importing a Term Set, creating a Term Set manually, creating SharePoint columns based on Term Store data, and, finally, consuming Term Store data in documents and lists.
Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010
Rick Taylor, Perficient
Business Connectivity Services (BCS) – the evolution of the Business Data Catalog – is a key feature of SharePoint 2010. In this session we discuss the new improvements to this functionality for this release. BCS now enables you to bring external data into SharePoint and Office, reuse it, and empower end-users to gain insight into the underlying data in a reusable way.
PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Administrators
Rick Taylor, Perficient
PowerShell is the command line admin interface for SharePoint Server 2010. In this session we will cover PowerShell basics and then show the amazing things you can do to SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell.
Self-service BI with PowerPivot and SharePoint 2010
Duane Shafer, Perficient
PowerPivot is the latest BI delivery tool from Microsoft that gives business users the analytic power of a cube without needing I.T. to build it. We will explore the self-service analysis capabilities available through PowerPivot for Excel; analyze millions of rows of data within Excel from a standard desktop and describe how SharePoint can be used to distribute your analysis to the enterprise.
Access Services in SharePoint 2010
Larry Strange, AccessHosting.com
This session will focus on building codeless web databases in Access 2010 and publishing them out to your SharePoint 2010 server. The 2010 version of Access allows applications to be deployed directly to the browser, eliminating the need for Access on each individual desktop. Access Services provides the security, manageability, and scalability you have come to expect from SharePoint. The complete server architecture will be reviewed in detail along with live demonstrations of the new Access 2010 development environment.
Visual Mapping Tool for SharePoint 2010
Gunars Foldats, Weidenhammer Systems
ESRI's ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint enables you to visualize and analyze your business data through maps in SharePoint. Mapped information reveals patterns and trends easily missed in spreadsheets and tables, providing insight into your business operations and growth opportunities.
Office 2010 First Look
New Horizons Computer Learning Centers
*** This session is being run three times during the evening
Office 2010 maximizes your existing investments by extending server and services capabilities to people’s desktops. The role of Office within organizations has expanded, and today it delivers a wealth of server or services capabilities—including business intelligence, collaboration, and content management—into the hands of users through familiar and intuitive applications. Join us for a first look at the exciting new features.
Backup & Recovery of SharePoint 2010
Scott Stumpf, Software Logic
Learn how System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 can be used to provide comprehensive backup and recovery capabilities for a SharePoint 2010 farm. This session will include live demonstrations of DPM 2010 and walk-throughs on how to create protection groups for SharePoint and perform recovery operations.
Secure Remote Access to SharePoint 2010
Serhan Ulus, Software Logic
Learn how to provide secure remote access to SharePoint 2010 using ForeFront Unified Access Gateway 2010. This session will include live demonstrations of the UAG portal including publishing SharePoint sites. We'll also discuss the option to use Windows 7 direct access with SharePoint 2010.
Operational Monitoring for SharePoint 2010
Doug Henry, Software Logic
The SharePoint 2010 product team recently released a new management pack for SharePoint. Learn how to install and configure this management pack for use with System Center Operations Manager to provide comprehensive monitoring of the health and performance of your SharePoint farm. This session will include live demonstrations of Operations Manager 2007 R2 and the new SharePoint 2010 management pack.