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When deploying SharePoint as a business-critical collaboration tool and digital-asset repository, implementing intelligent strategies for data protection, platform management, and accessibility is absolutely essential. Though SharePoint natively provides some data protection and administration capabilities, they prove inadequate for most competitive organisations. In this session we will discuss the key attributes of all successful SharePoint data protection , archiving and administration initatives, and review how to develope strategies for your specific organisational needs. After analyzing SharePoint's native backup and recovery, administration, archiving and data-access capabilities, we will identify best practices, available free tools, and other best of breed solutions for ensuring a fully protected, effciently managed, and highly performant and accessible SharePoint platform.

Many organisations are unaware of all the wonderful customisations that are available in MOSS when it comes to searching content and displaying the results. In this session participants will learn how to index their data properly, scope their results and customise the search interface for their users - This session targets Solution Architects and Enterprise Architects as well as Senior Developers and Business Analysts

Wicked problems  are a particular class of problems – that often defy traditional thinking, tools, and methods that are useful only for simpler (“tame”) problems. Most projects today have a significant wicked component and SharePoint is especially susceptible to falling victim. SharePoint project failure more often than not a result of problem wickedness. In fact, wicked problems are so commonplace that the chaos and futility that usually attend them are accepted as inevitable. Failing to recognize the “wicked dynamics” in problems, we persist in applying inappropriate methods and tools to them. This session introduces the concept of wicked vs tame problems, why SharePoint projects often fall foul of them, and offers insights into how wickedness can be managed or tamed to make your SharePoint investment a success

The core fundamentals of administration have changed since the release of SharePoint Server 2007.  Come hear a simplified approach to administration and architecture.  Great for new deployments and experienced technical folks. 10 Steps to Planning Successful SharePoint Deployments Chaos and lack of governance are plaguing SharePoint deployments.  Project Managers and Admins don't know where to start.  They keys to successful deployment focus on adoption and address cultural challenges with scope and vision.  These steps will help you determine if you are on the right path or if you need to make serious changes in your approach.

This session explores real life examples of how SharePoint is being used for Document Management, along with two particular 3rd Party products that help address issues around business classification and email uploads.

 SharePartXXL Taxonomy Extension is a business classification and taxonomy tool that allows documents to be grouped cross-site. This tool also eliminates the need for some metadata fields and helps enforce standards across an organisation around classification of documents, while still allowing users an easy and seamless way to file and find documents.

 OnePlaceMail allows emails and their attachments to be uploaded from Outlook directly into a SharePoint document library. This tool connects to multiple document libraries and allows you select a content type and enter metadata values at the time of uploading an email.

 

Are you a SQL administrator who has been reluctantly thrust into the role of SharePoint administrator as well? In this session we cover SharePoint and why it relies on SQL Server. The session will also cover some maintenance steps you should take to keep both SQL Server and SharePoint working together. By the end of this session you'll have a good understanding of SharePoint and why it needs SQL Server for database services

Combining Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers a powerful solution for both structured and unstructured data within organisations. This session will explore how Tertiary Education Commission leverage the strengths of both products within their business processes, and how integration is achived between these two products to add value to the business.

Microsoft has just launched their Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) and SharePoint central to it.  If you have been thinking about deploying SharePoint then you need to know about Microsoft’s online SharePoint offering as it should be an option for many New Zealand businesses.  BPOS provides a suite of technologies including Exchange 2007, SharePoint 2007, Office Communication Server and Live Meeting which are hosted and managed by Microsoft with a 99.9% uptime commitment.  In this session you will see how simple it is to go from nothing to a collaboration portal, with no code needed.  In addition to the deployment & build process we will talk about ongoing support and upgrades.

 

Look at evoulution and development of SharePoint in the Office System: what's happened since release, and what's coming.

Enabling Anonymous Access in SharePoint isn’t just a matter of flipping a switch in IIS manager.  Anonymous Access must be enabled in IIS and then configured in SharePoint.  But there are also situations where this basic configuration isn't sufficient.  In this talk we’ll review how to enable and configure anonymous access for SharePoint web sites, lists, and libraries.  Then we'll turn our attention to strategies that can be used overcome specific problems with SharePoint anonymous access.  We'll demonstrate solutions and workarounds for questions like:

 1) How do you require authentication for some items while maintaining anonymous access for the rest?

 2) What content from a personal MySite can be accessed via anonymous access?

 3) How do you enable anonymous responses to a discussion list?

 4) Can BLOGS and Wiki sites be used in an anonymous access site collection?

The numbers and types of tools on offer with a solution like SharePoint does not warrant a fly by the seat of your pants implementation. The temptation to throw myriad tools at your customers is very high. This must be tempered with some proper analysis techniques and a view on how website usage culture might have to change to ensure an accepted implementation.

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 bascis knowledge.

K2 blackpoint™ is for SharePoint users who want visual tools to build workflows and process-driven applications quickly — without code, without complexity.K2 blackpoint has a powerful Office-style designer (K2 Studio) and a Silverlight-based K2 Web Designer that provides profound simplicity. Non-developers and business users can use K2 blackpoint to create new SharePoint workflows that span libraries, sites, InfoPath forms, server farms and organizations; manage approvals; and route documents and list items. With K2 blackpoint, everything is visual and wizard-driven, everything can be built without code, and users can assemble new applications from information that already exists.

SharePoint projects usually involve some kind of organizational change related to culture, process, or structure.  The change process is something that must be carefully managed, approached methodically and tailored to your organization’s culture.

 In this session you will learn how to ensure your SharePoint project’s success by using frameworks to manage the change process, resulting in higher user adoption of the end solution.  This is done by gaining leadership and stakeholder commitment, creating a strategic communication plan and planning a learning strategy.  You will walk away with templates and checklists to help you with your SharePoint project.

Simple business processes such as filing expense claims and getting them approved can be solved with little effort using the right tools and SharePoint as a platform. In this session participants will see how to publish an InfoPath expense claim form to SharePointm, create a custom approval workflow in SharePoint designer and interact with the form and workflow.

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is the New Zealand Government’s national economic development agency.  In March this year we replaced several older, fragmented websites with a single customer focused website based on MOSS.  The project was made more exciting by spreading the work across two vendors and three different internal teams in four locations in two cities.  How did we do it and what did we learn?  This talk will cover both NZTE’s perspective of the project, and Intergen’s perspective of the build itself.