Sessions

Building the Perfect SharePoint Farm: A Walkthrough of Best Practices from the Field

Learn the best practices encompassing the most commonly asked questions regarding SharePoint infrastructure and design. You will also discover a broad range of critical but often overlooked items to consider when architecting a SharePoint environment.

So They Gave Me This SharePoint Site, Now What Do I Do? 

SharePoint is becoming a very popular item for deployment in most companies, which means that many people have had SharePoint sites "dumped" on them, often with very little training in how to manage the site. This session is specifically for Site Administrators and what information they need to deal with managing and administering a SharePoint site. Best practices, tips and tricks, and real world advice on how to handle common challenges are included in this information-packed session, including streamlining site security, optimizing document control and workflow, controlling navigation elements, and managing look and feel of the site.

Architecting a Highly Redundant SharePoint 2007 Farm

Creating a SharePoint farm is a very important, but very tricky part of deploying SharePoint. You will discover the best practice design and planning for setting up a highly redundant Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment including technologies such as Network Load Balancing of SharePoint web front ends and Application servers. Advice for the deployment of redundancy in a SharePoint environment will also be covered.

How to Make Your Documents Dance: Best Practice ECM for SharePoint

You have SharePoint but how can you use it to its full potential? What kind of tools are out there that can make things even easier? Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has been around for a while, but many organizations are still working in the "dark ages" of document management, relying on ad hoc document collaboration through email attachments, file server dumps, and other inefficient techniques. SharePoint offers excellent tools to improve ECM, such as advanced workflow support, document metadata, and check in/check-out capabilities. Learn about the tools available with SharePoint for document management, and how other organizations are making their internal document processes more efficient using the tools and capabilities within a SharePoint site.