Presentations
While I’ve been running around giving presentations on SharePoint and other Microsoft based development, I’ve managed to get recordings of a number of them. Here is a list of the sessions and links to the videos.
SharePoint storage and physical architecture best practices
SharePoint 2010 makes significant improvements to how key architectural components in a farm and implemented and managed, which means appropriate consideration needs to be made when building your environments to get the most out of the new platform. In this session we will discuss some of these change, including what service applications are and how they work and can scale, as well as ways you can optimise the physical architecture of your farm. This will include discussing what remote blob storage is and how it can be implemented, how you can effectively monitor and report on the performance of your environment, and we will discuss how and why these best practices can be applied. If you are in to getting the most out of your infrastructure then this session is a must…
Office 2010 Anywhere, Anytime
Office Web Apps are new to Microsoft Office 2010 and will allow users to work with files from more places and on more devices by providing browser-based viewing and lightweight editing of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files… but we also can’t be online all the time – SharePoint Workspace allows us to take sharepoint content offline and Office Mobile keeps us up to date when we are away from the Office. Learn how to deploy and configure the Web applications within your organization and what the viewing, sharing, creating,and editing documents experience is like. Understand the use cases for SharePoint Workspace and how to configure it for your environment.
Monitoring SharePoint With SCOM
In this session you will be introduced to the options for monitoring SharePoint from SCOM,how it is configured, and how the monitoring can be extended to show diagrams in Visio and even within SharePoint itself. This will be a great session for anyone out there who is using SCOM, or thinking about using SCOM, and was extracted from a very popular session that I presented at Tech.Ed Australia in 2010.
UserProofing SharePoint
“User-proofing” is a concept I came up with that covers protecting your SharePoint sites from your users. This mean protecting the design integrity, as well things like your security model, site structure, and functionality. In this presentation I give practical examples of things that can be applied to SharePoint sites to ensure that it stays looking and running the way it was when it was first deployed. This presentation is aimed at developers and administrators, as well as anyone who is involved in planning MOSS deployments and it runs for about 45 minutes.
Federated Search in MOSS
With the release of the infrastructure update for Office Servers federated search was added as a new feature. This allows MOSS to return search results from remote locations and add more power to search results, which can add value for end users. In this presentation I introduce what federated search is, I give a brief introduction of how to customise it, and demonstrate how it can be used. This presentation is aimed at administrators who are responsible for managing SharePoint who may be deciding whether or not to use federated search, and it goes for about 25 minutes.
Creating an end-to-end solution based on the office platform
In this presentation I walk through a solution for creating a newsletter system for a company. The solution demonstrates how to use several different technologies that fall into the office platform. This includes the open XML file format and how to add custom metadata to it, how to create an add-in for Word and use it to insert content into word documents, how to use a web service to return custom XML data from Office 2007 documents, and how WPF can be used in the word add-in to pretty things up. This presentation is aimed at developers and goes for about 40 minutes.
Creating Site Definitions in SharePoint 2007
In this presentation I discuss how to build custom site definitions. I cover what XML files are used, how to deploy site definitions, and how files in the 12 hive can be updated post deployment. It is aimed at developers and goes for about 1 hour.