Thursday, April 22, 2010

Microsoft Access and SharePoint 2010 Sessions at TechEd North America 2010

Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2010 offers three Microsoft Access and 53 SharePoint 2010 sessions as of 4/22/2010.


Here are the details of the two interactive sessions and one hands-on lab that are specific to Access 2010. The breakout sessions are SharePoint-only; there are no Access-specific breakout sessions:

  • OSP01-INT | Microsoft Access Services: Under the Hood
  • Session Type: Interactive Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Kerry Westphal
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

Access Services introduces a new toolset to develop Microsoft SharePoint-connected applications. Learn how Access Services works with SharePoint to deliver a new user experience. We discuss the data caching model that Access Services uses to optimize queries with larger sets of data. We also look at the internal workings of the Access Services Query Processor to show you what it can do.

  • OSP05-INT | Microsoft Access 2010 and IT: The War Is Over
  • Session Type: Interactive Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Russell Sinclair
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

Access enables end-users in business units to develop applications quickly at low cost. This agility is valued by large organizations around the world. However, some of these same organizations struggle with managing the myriad of Access databases in use. This session covers the new tools and techniques now available to keep IT firmly in control. The best of both worlds is possible: you can satisfy the need for agile development from your business units and still rest assured that the data is secured, backed up, and managed appropriately.

Note: I don’t think the war is or will be over.

  • OSP01-HOL | Building Solutions with Microsoft Access 2010
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

This lab acquaints you with the new developer related features of Access 2010 with a keen emphasis on understanding the differences between developing database objects that will work in a Web database versus objects that work only in a client database. This lab helps you understand the benefits of starting from templates, learning basic data design modification for Web databases, developing an understanding of Web form modification and creation, learning how to use navigation forms and learning how to use the new data macro editing environment.


Following are the SharePoint sessions returned by using the keyword Azure:

  • OSP306 | Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Solutions with Claims Authentication
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Paul Schaeflein
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

SharePoint has built-in user authorization so that a site owner can specify what access particular users have to resources. Authentication is the identification of who the user is and this is provided by other software external to SharePoint such as Active Directory. There are many authorization and authentication requirements in custom solutions and this session helps to explain the technology landscape for developers. Topics include Authorization by Claims Authentication, Anonymous Access and Blog Commenting, ASP.NET Membership Provider, and Live ID Authentication.

  • OSP309 | Developing with REST and LINQ in Microsoft SharePoint 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Todd Bleeker
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

SharePoint 2010 has new and improved ways to work with data. LINQ to SharePoint lets a developer work with data from SharePoint lists in a strongly typed way that preserves relationships between lists. Integration of ADO.NET Data Services provides a way to get data from SharePoint remotely using REST-style Web services. The new Client APIs provide a programming model for SharePoint lists that doesn’t have to run on the server. This session demonstrates how to write code that uses each of these new data-oriented features and shows some new SharePoint platform data-oriented features along the way. We also explain how to choose which data access technology is best for different custom development scenarios.

  • OSP311 | From N to Z: Authentication and Authorization in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Richard Taylor
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

Perhaps the most important considerations when planning a SharePoint deployment are: how do I authenticate my users and how do I ensure they have access to the content they need? This session describes the investments made in SharePoint 2010 as related to Authentication and Authorization, where one method merits consideration over another, and why.

  • OSP312 | Help! My Users Are Everywhere: Designing (Developing) for a Global SharePoint Audience
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Joel Oleson
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

As Microsoft SharePoint secures its position in the Enterprise, it has never been more important to ensure its global reach to drive information worker adoption and productivity. Today’s global workforce requires access to information fast to rapidly respond to ever-changing business conditions, poor performance and perception can mean the difference between success and failure.


Following are the breakout sessions returned with SharePoint as the keyword:

  • OSP202 | Business Connectivity Services in Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Overview
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Juan Balmori
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

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. This is all done within the browser with full Create/Read/Update/Delete (CRUD) operation support, tighter integration with Office client applications, and better tools for modeling business entities. Learn about the major BCS improvements and see a detailed demo of how to build a declarative solution using SharePoint Designer, InfoPath Designer and the SharePoint SDK -- without using a developer, or requiring you to write any code. The solution we demo for you connects to back-end systems to both present data and to allow interaction with this data from within SharePoint and Office applications (such as SharePoint Workspace, Outlook, and Word).

  • OSP203 | Designing Governance: How Information Management and Security Must Drive Your Design
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Richard Taylor
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

You’ve read the white papers, you’ve “Binged” governance, but how, exactly, do you design a SharePoint implementation that will support governance, security, and information management? Join SharePoint MVP and consultant Dan Holme for a practical, nuts-and-bolts look at the close relationship between your information management requirements and SharePoint’s manageability controls, and the demands that relationship places on your design and infrastructure. This session is focused on architecting a logical design of SharePoint that effectively supports your information management requirements and governance plan—the “technical” side of governance. Learn how to align your governance requirements with SharePoint farms, Web applications, and site collections. Discover why some third-party applications are a “design poison pill” and what Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 offers to greatly improve the deployment of a governable design. Gain a deeper understanding of the intricacies and challenges of designing the logical structure of SharePoint, and take away practical, blueprint-like guidance to what a governed SharePoint implementation might look like in your enterprise.

  • OSP204 | Developing for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Online: Understanding the Boundaries
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Chris Mayo
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

SharePoint Online is quickly becoming a great cost-effective way to manage SharePoint in the 'cloud' that can complement the way you architect and deploy your on-premises instance of SharePoint 2010. This session focuses on defining what the developer can and can't do with SharePoint Online to help you understand where the boundaries lie.

  • OSP205 | ECM for the Masses: How Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Delivers on the Promise
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Richard Riley
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

Tired of hearing statistics about the high rate of failure for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) initiatives? In this session, learn about the new features in SharePoint 2010 and discover how Microsoft is changing the game in ECM by bridging the worlds of traditional content management, social computing and search; all delivered seamlessly through Microsoft Office, Web browsers, and mobile devices.

  • OSP206 | Getting to know FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Erik Schwartz
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

Search connects people to the information they need to get their jobs done. General productivity search solutions connect a broad set of people to a broad set of information. High-value search applications drive measurable ROI by helping a specific set of people make the most of a specific set of information. High-value search applications share the following characteristics: They address a specific business problem and drive measurable ROI; they are designed for use by a well-defined set of people; and they “add structure to unstructured information” and enrich the target data set through advanced content processing. In this session, learn how FAST Search for SharePoint delivers the best general productivity search on the market AND makes it easy and economical to build high-value search applications.

  • OSP207 | Integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft SharePoint 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Girish Raja
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

As SharePoint adoption grows, many companies want to increase their integration of CRM data into their SharePoint assets. This session provides an overview of how you can integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM data and processes with SharePoint 2010 using Microsoft Silverlight and some of the new SharePoint APIs. If you're interested in seeing a demo-heavy session that walks you through the development of this integration, then you can't miss this session.

  • OSP209 | Microsoft Project and Project Server 2010 Overview 
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Christophe Fiessinger, Jan Kalis
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

This session provides an overview of the key investment areas and capabilities of Project Server 2010 and Project Professional 2010, including demand management, portfolio analysis, time tracking, business intelligence/reporting, and other better together capabilities, by being built of top of SharePoint 2010 Enterprise features.

  • OSP210 | Microsoft Visio 2010: The IT Pro Love Story Continues
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Chris Hopkins, Kapil Tandon
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

Learn how Visio 2010 will revolutionize the way IT pros work; how it will save valuable time and money with the enhancements made to the product. The is the best Visio release in 10 years. Learn how it will impact infrastructure specialists, application developers, and IT managers. Learn how it works together with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

  • OSP211 | Overview of Social Computing in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): David Pae
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

Technology innovations keep getting better and better, so what’s new in SharePoint 2010 for social computing? Find out what is new, improved, and the business value of social computing in this session. As the tools are tied closer to communication, content management, business insights, and search capabilities, social computing in SharePoint 2010 will allow end users be more productive and efficient.

OSP212 | Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform

  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Paul Andrew
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

SharePoint 2010 has many new developer oriented features. Developers can build collaboration applications on the platform features of SharePoint 2010, the new tools for SharePoint 2010 make developers more productive and new hosting options for SharePoint solutions provide more flexibility in deployment. This talk is a lap around SharePoint 2010 for developers providing a brief look and code-based demos of the major new features in building user interfaces, building on the data platform and in general programmability.

OSP213 | SharePoint and Azure: How Do They Play Together?

  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Steve Fox
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

There is immense opportunity for you to build and deploy cloud-centric solutions using the new Windows Azure platform. However, what does that opportunity look like vis-à-vis Microsoft SharePoint? In this session, see the different ways in which you can integrate Azure services with SharePoint to extend your SharePoint solutions into the cloud.

  • OSP214 | SharePoint Security: Permissions, Identities, and Objects
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Dan Holme
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

The SharePoint security model can be confusing, with its deep hierarchy of securable objects, granular permissions and policies, and clunky user and group management interfaces. This session demystifies SharePoint security by dissecting each of these components and presenting best practices for implementing and managing security. Learn when and why it makes sense to leverage Active Directory groups or use SharePoint groups, and take away options for new permission levels and settings that address common business requirements.

  • OSP215 | Think Big! Topologies for Enterprise Environments, Planning, and Preparation
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Joel Oleson
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

Communities, Composites, Content, Insights, Search, and Social are the tenents of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. The product has been designed to provide capabilities not seen in previous versions and extends its reach to solve even the most complex of business requirements. As Enterprises become more dependent on SharePoint as a mission critical application, its footprint will undoubtly grow.

  • OSP217 | What’s New in Enterprise Search in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Erik Schwartz
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

Search connects people to the information they need to get their jobs done. General productivity search solutions connect a broad set of people to a broad set of information. They deliver a great search experience out of the box and are designed to be easy to set up and maintain. Most general productivity search solutions allow some amount of customization and extensibility, but they don’t provide many “information management capabilities.” In this session you learn about the new enterprise search capabilities in SharePoint 2010 and how to support general productivity applications.

  • OSP218 | Customizing Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Jeff Fried
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

FAST is Microsoft's super-charged enterprise search and will be integrated into the SharePoint 2010 experience. This session explores the different ways in which you can customize FAST to optimize the end-user experience around FAST.

  • OSP301 | Building Rich Internet Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Bob German
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

The combination of the great presentation and user interface capabilities of Silverlight and the rich collaboration platform of SharePoint create an unbeatable combination for making developers very productive in building rich internet applications. SharePoint 2010 features new tools that make it easier to build with Silverlight, including a new Silverlight object model and REST services. In this session we show how to combine the capabilities of SharePoint and Silverlight together to create Internet magic. We start with a few basic warm-up scenarios, and move to more full-feature line-of-business and social applications that leverage the best of these platforms.

  • OSP302 | Building Solutions with Business Connectivity Services
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Scot Hillier
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

Business Connectivity Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 enables integration with line-of-business applications and other enterprise and Web 2.0 data sources. It was known in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as the Business Data Catalog (BDC) and has been significantly improved in SharePoint 2010. This session shows building BCS External Content Types with both the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 designer and with Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010. This provides multiple ways to expose line-of-business data, from a variety of sources, as SharePoint 2010 External Lists.

  • OSP303 | Deploying and Upgrading to Microsoft Project Server 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Christophe Fiessinger, Rolly Perreaux
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

This session provides an overview on how to deploy a Project Server 2010 Farm. Specific topics discussed includes upgrading and migrating from prior version (2007 and 2003), how to architect and configure Project Server within the context of a SharePoint Server 2010 Farm, capacity planning, and more.

  • OSP304 | Developing and Branding with the New User Interface Features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Paul Stubbs
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

SharePoint 2010 has new improvements for customizing the SharePoint user interface. The new Ribbon interface is fully extensible, allowing you to add or remove pieces to easily customize the experience. Also, new user interface controls such as the dialog framework and the status and notification area allow you to inform or interact with the user without taking them out of the context of their task or the look and feel of SharePoint. This session shows you how to use EcmaScript to interact with these new user interface controls, using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. It also describes the options for branding a SharePoint site including CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) and Master Pages support.

  • OSP305 | Developing Document Sets in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Andrew Connell
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

In this session, learn about a new capability in SharePoint Server 2010 that allows users to create a single work product that is comprised of many components: Document Sets. This session begins with an introduction of the out-of-the-box capabilities of document sets and then moves into how developers can customize and extend document sets for unique solutions.

  • OSP306 | Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Solutions with Claims Authentication
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Paul Schaeflein
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

SharePoint has built-in user authorization so that a site owner can specify what access particular users have to resources. Authentication is the identification of who the user is and this is provided by other software external to SharePoint such as Active Directory. There are many authorization and authentication requirements in custom solutions and this session helps to explain the technology landscape for developers. Topics include Authorization by Claims Authentication, Anonymous Access and Blog Commenting, ASP.NET Membership Provider, and Live ID Authentication.

  • OSP307 | Developing Office Business Applications with Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Michael Kiselman, Steve Fox
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

Office Business Applications (OBAs) have evolved and with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 there are new platform services to make these productivity solutions more powerful and connected to more data. This session shows what an OBA is and what the fundamental architecture of an OBA looks like. Learn best practices for building OBAs and how to use new features in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

  • OSP308 | Developing with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Sandboxed Solutions
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Scot Hillier
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

SharePoint 2010 adds a new deployment model for SharePoint called Sandboxed Solutions. It is a controlled solution packaging format that offers SharePoint Server Farm owners a way to easily mitigate risk that custom code will cause issues for them. It does this by restricting the APIs that can be called and governing resources that can be used. Because of this, Sandboxed Solutions provide a solution package that can be easily deployed to a shared server environment. This session describes what Sandboxed Solutions are, it demonstrates how to create them with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and how to deploy and monitor them on SharePoint farms.

  • OSP309 | Developing with REST and LINQ in Microsoft SharePoint 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Todd Bleeker
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

SharePoint 2010 has new and improved ways to work with data. LINQ to SharePoint lets a developer work with data from SharePoint lists in a strongly typed way that preserves relationships between lists. Integration of ADO.NET Data Services provides a way to get data from SharePoint remotely using REST-style Web services. The new Client APIs provide a programming model for SharePoint lists that doesn’t have to run on the server. This session demonstrates how to write code that uses each of these new data-oriented features and shows some new SharePoint platform data-oriented features along the way. We also explain how to choose which data access technology is best for different custom development scenarios.

  • OSP310 | Fine Tuning Your Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Environment
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Mike Watson, Shannon Bray
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

Tuning your SharePoint environment is an important step in optimizing its performance and enabling an efficient deployment that reduces overutilization in resources and in turn provides the best possible user experience. In this session, Mike Watson will demonstrate techniques to improve the capacity of your SharePoint 2010 environment and discuss ideas and solutions to include software boundaries, caching options, and remote BLOB storage.

  • OSP311 | From N to Z: Authentication and Authorization in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Richard Taylor
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

Perhaps the most important considerations when planning a SharePoint deployment are: how do I authenticate my users and how do I ensure they have access to the content they need? This session describes the investments made in SharePoint 2010 as related to Authentication and Authorization, where one method merits consideration over another, and why.

  • OSP312 | Help! My Users Are Everywhere: Designing (Developing) for a Global SharePoint Audience
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Joel Oleson
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

As Microsoft SharePoint secures its position in the Enterprise, it has never been more important to ensure its global reach to drive information worker adoption and productivity. Today’s global workforce requires access to information fast to rapidly respond to ever-changing business conditions, poor performance and perception can mean the difference between success and failure.

  • OSP313 | Microsoft Office 2010: Developing the Next Wave of Productivity Solutions
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Jill Maguire, John Durant
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

Microsoft Office 2010 expands your productivity solution options by offering improved development options and tools, simplified solution design, richer programmability for Office data and formats, and deeper integration with SharePoint platform services. Learn how to use Microsoft Office and related products to address a wide variety of scenarios with custom solutions.

  • OSP315 | Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 As a Social Computing Platform
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Ted Pattison
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

This lecture focuses on the developer interfaces for the Social Computing API and Web services for SharePoint 2010. Social Computing with SharePoint involves creating people-aware applications that take advantage of User Profiles, Social Data, and Personalization built into SharePoint.

  • OSP316 | Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for the Microsoft ASP.NET Developer
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Eric Shupps
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

SharePoint is the development platform that many developers with ASP.NET background are moving to. Because SharePoint is entirely built on ASP.NET it is a natural way to get access to higher level features. This session outlines the areas that an ASP.NET developer needs to learn to get used to developing for SharePoint. During the talk, see various ways that existing ASP.NET code can be migrated to SharePoint, and demos focused on migrating commonly used ASP.NET project templates.

  • OSP318 | SharePoint is Down: Solutions for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Bill Baer
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

Data recovery is non-negotiable; you can't buy back lost data. Learn why IT continuity management is important, how to protect your content, and investments in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to get you there.

  • OSP319 | Upgrading and Improving Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 WCM Sites to SharePoint Server 2010 Web Content Management
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Andrew Connell
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

SharePoint Server 2010 delivers a rich new environment for managing and authoring Web content, along with a wide range of platform improvements. In this session we demonstrate a live upgrade of a SharePoint site from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. Along the way, we discuss key upgrade considerations, review the changes required to implement the fluent UI for content authoring and show how to enable new features like video streaming, tagging, ratings, and wikis in a publishing scenario.

  • OSP320 | Workflow Development in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Jon Flanders
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

SharePoint Server 2010 includes new workflow features and there are many improvements in the tools for workflow. SharePoint 2010 now supports workflows that can run without a SharePoint list item. SharePoint Designer 2010 has a new designer for building workflows and these workflows can be exported directly to Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio 2010 also has workflow tools improvements with a new workflow form designer, support for Sandboxed Solution workflow activities and the new Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools packaging designer. This session describes the new workflow features and demonstrates these tools.

  • OSP401 | Upgrading Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Shane Young
  • Level: 400 - Expert

Itching to upgrade your SharePoint Server 2007 farm to SharePoint Server 2010? Then this is the session for you. In this session we cover the upgrade methods that are available, and explain how to determine which one is the best way for you to get your content into your shiny new SharePoint 2010 farm. Finally, we show you the way to reduce the amount of downtime you'll have. Your users will love you for that.

  • OSP402 | Windows PowerShell Made Less Scary for the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Todd Klindt
  • Level: 400 - Expert

PowerShell is the command line admin interface for SharePoint Server 2010. It can be pretty scary for SharePoint admins who haven't used it before. In this session we provide PowerShell basics, then show the amazing things you can do to SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell. By the end of this session you may never open Central Admin again.


Following are the interactive sessions returned with SharePoint as the keyword:

  • OSP01-INT | Microsoft Access Services: Under the Hood
  • Session Type: Interactive Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Kerry Westphal
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

Access Services introduces a new toolset to develop Microsoft SharePoint-connected applications. Learn how Access Services works with SharePoint to deliver a new user experience. We discuss the data caching model that Access Services uses to optimize queries with larger sets of data. We also look at the internal workings of the Access Services Query Processor to show you what it can do.

  • OSP08-INT | Virtualization of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Farm Architecture
  • Session Type: Interactive Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Bill Baer
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

Server virtualization technologies have taken front stage recently and many organizations have begun to replace physical servers, including SharePoint servers, with virtualized machines. Virtualization of the 2007 wave of SharePoint Products and Technologies has been supported for some time, and many 2007 farms have been successfully virtualized over the years. With a new version of SharePoint, however, come new best practices and new techniques for virtualization of SharePoint. This session focuses specifically on SharePoint Server 2010 farm virtualization, and how components of a SharePoint 2010 environment can be successfully virtualized. Included in the discussion are new virtualization High Availability options such as Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration of SharePoint guest sessions as well as time-tested design architecture examples using integrated SharePoint failover techniques.

  • OSP09-INT | Whats New with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2010
  • Session Type: Interactive Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Asif Rehmani
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

SharePoint Designer 2010, which is a free application, is “The Preferred” tool to design powerful no-code solutions and applications in SharePoint 2010. In this session, get a broad overview of the capabilities of the tool, from site customizations such as modifying Site Metadata, managing Site Security, or creating Site Content, to building List- or Site-based Workflows and connecting to a variety of Data Sources. This session also covers the new ribbon interface of SharePoint Designer 2010 and shows how best to take advantage of this application by showing the new bells and whistles that come with this product.

  • OSP10-INT | Integrating SAP with Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010
  • Session Type: Interactive Session
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Speaker(s): Donovan Follette
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

In this interactive session, come learn the different ways for you to integrate SAP with Office and Microsoft SharePoint 2010. We’ll keep the session open for discussion, walk through a couple of demos, and talk to the different ways to integrate the two. Specific areas of coverage include Business Connectivity Services, custom Web Parts, Silverlight, Office ribbon, and Custom Task Panes.


Following are the hands-on labs returned with SharePoint as the keyword:

  • OSP02-HOL | Business Connectivity Services: Using External Lists
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) allows you to create Microsoft SharePoint applications that bring external data into SharePoint and Microsoft Office. External Content Types and External Lists are the foundation of these applications, which can then be extended to Office clients. In this lab, create an External List based on a pre-defined External Content Type and connect it to Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint Workspace and Microsoft Word.

  • OSP03-HOL | Developing Reports and Dashboards with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

This Hands On Lab covers how to develop reports and scorecards with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services.

  • OSP04-HOL | Customizing a SharePoint List Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

Microsoft InfoPath 2010 makes it easier than ever to design and publish electronic forms. InfoPath allows you to create powerful, interactive forms without writing any code. With just a few clicks, Microsoft Office users can customize SharePoint list forms, add custom layout elements, add business rules to validate the data, and take the list and associated forms offline in SharePoint Workspace.

  • OSP05-HOL | Deploying Microsoft Office 2010 Add-ins
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

In this lab, use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime to deploy several add-ins. The deployment scenarios used represent real-world scenarios that require secure deployment, including multiple add-ins via SharePoint. The lab exercises include: deploying Office add-ins using ClickOnce deployment, using post deployment actions, creating deployments containing multiple add-ins and creating a WSP file to deploy an Office Document template to SharePoint.

  • OSP07-HOL | Developing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Workflow with Initiation Form in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

This lab walks through building a workflow in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010. Learn how to add an initiation form to the workflow and use an external data exchange activity in the workflow.

  • OSP08-HOL | Developing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 User Interface with Silverlight in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

This lab walks through building Microsoft Silverlight applications for use in SharePoint 2010. Learn how to access SharePoint 2010 data in Silverlight using the Client Object Model.

  • OSP09-HOL | Developing KPI's and Scorecards with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

This Hands On Lab covers how to develop KPI's and Scorecards with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services.

  • OSP10-HOL | Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Developing a Visual Web Part in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

This introductory developer lab introduces the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint development environment. It shows how to build a Visual Web Part using LINQ to SharePoint and it shows how to connect a Web part to another Web part on the page.

  • OSP11-HOL | Lap around Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

In this lab we take a tour through all the new improvements in Enterprise Content Manager in SharePoint Server 2010. This includes Document, Records, and Web content management.

  • OSP12-HOL | Metadata and Taxonomy Management in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

In this lab we look at how to manage Metadata and Taxonomy in SharePoint Server 2010. This includes working with the Term Store, Document Sets, and working with information mangement policies.

  • OSP14-HOL | Records Management in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

In this lab, learn about the new Records Management capabilities in SharePoint Server 2010.

  • OSP15-HOL | Search with Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Query API and Query Languages
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

In this lab, learn about enterprise search in SharePoint 2010 query customizations and developing a methodology for adding these customizations to your applications. There are three topics that are covered: Query API and how it works, Query Language, and FAST Query Language (FQL) Operators and Usage.

  • OSP16-HOL | Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Web Content Management Visual Upgrade
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 300 - Advanced

In this lab, take a content database backup from a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management site and upgrade it to a SharePoint Server 2010 Web Content Management site. This process involves upgrading the SharePoint content database followed by incorporating some new features and capabilities added in SharePoint Server 2010 to the site. Some of these capabilities include adding the new server ribbon, leveraging the content organizer, and adding a content ratings control.

  • OSP17-HOL | Upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

This lab provides an introduction to the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 upgrade infrastructure, and demonstrates some changes and improvements in the upgrade and patching system.

  • OSP19-HOL | What's New in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for IT Professionals
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

SharePoint Server 2010 includes many new features that are designed to assist server farm administrators. These include an enhanced user experience and navigation model, tools to help you manage availability and monitor performance, a more flexible service model, and full support for scripting in Windows PowerShell. This lab provides an introduction to these features.

  • OSP20-HOL | Windows PowerShell in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
  • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
  • Track: Office & SharePoint
  • Level: 200 - Intermediate

The objective of this lab is to introduce you to using Windows PowerShell to administer a SharePoint Server 2010 environment. The lab starts with a beginners introduction to the SharePoint 4.0 Management Console, and then explores how you can use progressively more advanced Windows PowerShell scripting techniques to administer your SharePoint server farm.


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