Planning on branding your SharePoint site?  Tried branding your SharePoint site and haven't fared so well?  Whether you want to make some simple adjustments to colors and graphics or need a total site face lift we'll discuss the tools and skills needed to get the job done. This session will cover the basic ideas and concepts involved in properly planning, executing and deploying custom branding to your SharePoint 2010 site.

Help users find what they are looking for! This session will provide an overview of the core features that make up the SharePoint Search stack along with best practices for configuring and maintaining search in your environment. By following the Keys to Success you will provide users maximum value and increase their productivity. 

Business intelligence dashboards provide a high level overview of a company's information to promote strategic and immediate actions.  By drilling down, clicking through, and investigating the available data, organizations can quickly make decisions and manage their performance.  SharePoint 2010 provides a dashboard solution through PerformancePoint Services, which allows a user to create reports, scorecards, and dashboards.  By pulling data from a variety of locations, business rules can be created to illustrate exactly what is happening in your business.  This session will explain how to walk through these steps and why analytics and visualizations have never been easier to create!

SharePoint does not always require Visual Studio and writing code to produce advanced solutions. In this session we'll  show how you can develop and deploy advanced solutions usin Infopath and SharePoint Designer to develop advanced solutions SharePoint Workflow based solutions. (Final description will be available as we get closer to the meeting date)
 

First introduced in SharePoint 2007 and enhanced in SharePoint 2010 Features provide a modular and reusable mechanism for developing and deploying solutions and elements such as lists, webparts, content types, and workflows just to name a few to SharePoint. Without a solid understanding of Feature development SharePoint development can seem a confusing mess of xml attributes and files. In this session we'll be covering how to develop Feature based solutions for SharePoint and we'll introduce you to some of the new enhancements available to developers in SharePoint 2010.We'll wrap up our discussion on packaging, deploying, and upgrade options for Features and Solution Packages.

A FEW MORE SLOTS HAVE BEEN OPENED - RSVP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS SPECIAL EVENT

Our sponsor Intellinet will be providing a light lunch for this event!

Have you ever wished you could sit down with a leading SharePoint industry expert to discuss solutions for your unique SharePoint implementation challenges?

Now’s your opportunity! Sign up for this special workshop and you will be mentored by leading SharePoint project management expert and thought leader, Dux Raymond Sy, managing partner of Innovative-e and author of SharePoint for Project Management. To help you reach your organizational goals, this unique workshop is:

Practical
Learn practical techniques that you can apply immediately to your SharePoint projects. You will also receive artifacts and templates, including project schedules, checklists, requirements documents, design documents, and business case documents.

Hands-On and Interactive
Interact and network with fellow decision makers, project managers, business analysts, consultants and those responsible for the implementation of SharePoint at their organization through breakout group activities. The workshop also includes hands-on, real-world SharePoint group project implementation challenges to give you the experience and training you need to address your organization’s unique challenges.

By attending this workshop, you will be able to:

- Identify why SharePoint projects fail
- Initiate executive excitement
- Promote organizational buy-in and foster user adoption
- Develop an effective project management process
- Apply relevant strategies in mapping business processes to identify SharePoint-based solutions
- Identify necessary resources to plan, deploy, maintain, and support a SharePoint implementation
- Minimize uncertainty and risk by applying practical scope management techniques

By attending this session you are eligable for 5 PDU points.

Curios to get a sneak at how these sessions work? Check out this short videe http://youtu.be/Um4483ZHbrs

Learn a SharePoint 2010 deployment methodology used in real life to avoid the chaos and pain that comes with so many SharePoint implementations.

Do you have SharePoint questions? Would you like to get some free advice from some of the best SharePoint developers, architects, and IT Pros in the area? Well now is your chance! We'll have several experts on hand including Mike Oryszak, Steve Pietrek, Melissa Coates, Josh Carlisle, and others for your questions on SharePoint architecture, development, search, business intelligence, and just about any SharePoint topic you can think of. The bill rates on these folks combined would be sure to bust any budget and you get their un-divided attention for 2 hours for free!

Interested in learning about the new SharePoint 2010 cloud based solution that is part of the upcoming Office365 suite of tools? This session will cover the different versions that Microsoft offers and discuss the differences in features. We will discuss customization options, branding considerations and deployment scenarios with on-premise SharePoint farms. If you’re thinking about taking your SharePoint environment to the cloud, come to this session and find out if Office 365 is right for you.

Is your organization running MOSS 2007 and is now looking to the future at potentially upgrading to SP 2010 when it releases? Or maybe you are just curious and want to understand what necessities an organization will need to understand before moving to SP 2010. If you meet any of the above criteria then you will have to mark this session as a do not miss! This session will explain and go into detail the hybrid upgrade options when moving to SharePoint 2010. Attendees will be provided with a deep understanding of these approaches and if they are a good fit for their upgrade needs. Additionally this session will talk about some of the tools that should be used throughout the general upgrade process and best practices surrounding how to approach an upgrade.