Toronto SharePoint Camp

SharePoint 2010 is poised to revolutionize how organizations connect their people, processes, and information.  It will mark SharePoint’s evolution from a server application to a full-fledged platform…the world’s first “enterprise eco-system.”  In this session we will discuss how the changes coming in SharePoint 2010 will affect your platform deployment, administration, and performance optimization strategies.  We will outline approaches for efficient management of both application lifecycles and multi-farm, geographically-dispersed environments, review best practices for optimizing storage resources, and conclude with an evaluation of options for consolidating and exposing your legacy content in the SharePoint 2010 platform

As number of documents generated in today's enterprises is growing exponentially, expiration policy is commonly used to keep this growth under clontrol. However, expiration doesn't necessarily mean just deleting documents after a while. Many custom actions can be performed in the expiration cycle of a document.
 
In this session, we'll develop a custom expiration policy based on custom formula and actions. We'll also look into additional functionality such as creating expiration warnings, sending warning emails, logging expiration events. Moreover, we'll see how to manage expiration warnings using 'Multiple List Item Selection' feature. In addition, we'll see a custom application page to manage expiration in bulk to take custom actions such as resetting expiration and collecting documents. Finally, we'll deploy this solution using Feature Sets, which is an infrastructure to handle feature activation in logical sets.

When it comes to defining the site columns and content types for a project, the first step is to help your stakeholders understand the concepts of metadata so that they can understand how they are going to organize their documents without using folders. This can be very tricky and is a process that is iterative in nature.

Once this concept is understood (even partially), you can help the client inventory the types of documents that are going to live in SharePoint, and then explain the function of site columns and content types.

In this session, we will discuss some tools and methods (including analogies and Excel based simulations) that have proven to be successful for explaining these concepts and then organizing the taxonomy.

You will see how to use tools that help users to inventory their documents and capture the metadata. You will see how to conduct workshops that help you and your clients to organize this information and then document the taxonomy in a form that can be shared, reviewed and modified.

At the final stages, you will see how the required document libraries begin to emerge as part of this process.

SharePoint Server 2010 includes Business Connectivity Services (BCS), which provides a way to connect sources of external data and content to that housed within SharePoint (previously leveraging the BDC in SharePoint 2007).  The BCS extends on the capabilities of the BDC by allowing developers and business users alike to leverage upon external content types, external lists, other business productivity products, and/or external data sets.

In today’s session we will explore the features the BCS and how to utilize these services to integrate into several different lines of business systems and other office productivity tools such as Word and Excel.

Over the past few years, many organizations have used SharePoint as a Web Content Management tool to build rich websites. Learn how companies can benefit from the new WCM features in SharePoint 2010; experience the ribbon interface, built-in rich media, SilverLight integration, MUI, and term sets of 2010

Performance or ability to provide quick response while sustaining load from multiple users is critical to any successful SharePoint farm deployment. Planning and measuring performance is therefore an important activity conducted throughout the life cycle of a SharePoint application. In this session, applicable to both MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010, we will take a closer look at what constitutes the performance, share best practices of performance and capacity planning, demonstrate load testing techniques for measuring the performance, and discuss performance-related improvements in SharePoint Server 2010.

This session will look into creating custom dashboards using SharePoint Designer, JQuery and a variety of charting components (Visifire, Google Charts, Yahoo Charts).
We will see how to call the SharePoint Web Service for various lists and views with JQuery, parse the data and see how to send it to: a remote charting service (Google), a local service installed on IIS (Yahoo) and a local Silverlight Chart(Visifire) with JavaScript.   We will also look at how to install SmartTools JQuery Loader

Overview of new SharePoint 2010 List features.
Cross List/Master Detail querying with CAML
Data Retrieval with LINQ
Demonstrate creating a master/detail lists from scratch using Visual Studio 2010

You’ve been a good friend STSADM, but it’s time to say goodbye. PowerShell is now the first class scripting citizen in the SharePoint 2010 administration story and in this session we’ll dive into how to utilize out-of-the-box cmdlets, how to create your own cmdlets and provide online resources for further reference.

As is the case with everything else in the real world, it ultimately comes down to striking the right balance! Clearly SharePoint sites are no exception. Navigation that is neither too broad nor too deep. Meaningful search that delivers relevant results without slowing performance. And it all boils down to taxonomy. How do you design an efficient taxonomy that delivers rapid, intuitive navigation coupled with power-packed search? How can navigation structure aid search by narrowing its scope? These are some of the questions that Vijay will address during this engaging session, as he takes you behind the scenes of an actual project, and explains what drives taxonomy design in a live implementation.

In this session we will explore the new social features in SharePoint 2010 such as Activity Feeds and Social Tagging. We will also deep dive into the new Service Applications architecture related to these social features. Come to this session to see where you can take SharePoint 2010 to the next level for Enterprise Social Computing (ESC) solutions

If you are a person, who has, or is thinking about or actually implementing SharePoint you should know everything I will cover in this session. We will go over which technology fits, how to achieve and maintain buy in from different parties, how to implement successful governance, how to approach SharePoint and get successful user adoption and will even cover how to handle new work and growth. I will strive to give examples, techniques and approaches that you can go out and use the next day in planning, coordinating and managing your SharePoint implementation.

Training end users is critical to the success of any SharePoint project and can significantly increase user adoption and return on investment.  Whether its web content management or collaboration, basic or advance users, every SharePoint project should include a training component for end users. 

Learn best practices and available options for delivering training to end users that will increase the success of your SharePoint projects.

This session provides an overview of new and improved aspects of SharePoint that are important for developers. We’ll look at the available tools, packaging and deployment of solutions using Visual Studio 2010, concept of sandbox solutions and client object model