Discussing the ins and outs of developing for SharePoint and the Microsoft platform

Here is a list of presentations I have made, including links to video’s that you can watch if you didn’t get to see them.

Creating Site Definitions

Presented at:

• Canberra SharePoint User Group (August 2008)
• Office DevCon (November 2008)

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.

Creating Site Definitions.wmv

Creating an end-to-end solution based on the office platform

Presented at Office DevCon (November 2008)

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.

End to end office solution.wmv

Federated Search in MOSS

Presented at Canberra SharePoint User Group (November 2008)

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.

Federated Search.wmv

UserProofing SharePoint

Presented at Canberra SharePoint User Group (April 2009)

“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.

UserProofing SharePoint.wmv