Sessions

To the Point: Business Agility and Solutions Powered by SharePoint
The new versions of SharePoint, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 introduce many new features and benefits, and offer extensive improvements over their predecessors. In this session, we introduce some of the key benefits and features of SharePoint and show you how the technologies can be applied for real business value. Join our independent experts for “spin free” real-world insight into the product’s value proposition, and for a look into the future of SharePoint in your enterprise.

Windows SharePoint Services v3: Zero to 60 in 60 minutes
Learn how to install, configure, and build sites with Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0. In this practical, "how to" session you will uncover the ins and outs, the tricks and the traps for creating an intranet home page, departmental and project sites, and collaborative workspaces. You will also leverage the new capabilities of WSSv3, such as item-level security, wikis, blogs, and RSS. With this accelerated immersion into WSS, you'll be ready to begin planning and implementing SharePoint in your enterprise.

The File Share is Dead: 21st Century Collaboration with Windows SharePoint Services Document Libraries
After a short life of barely a decade, the Windows Server shared folder is dead, or at least on life support. Why? Because the features that we've all been missing -- version control, version history, extensibility, and workflow -- are now achievable using Windows SharePoint Services document libraries. Learn how to move forward into a new era of document management in this practical application of SharePoint.

Unleash the Productivity: Microsoft Office Applications as SharePoint Clients
You've got Microsoft Office. You've got Windows SharePoint Services. This session, appropriate for IT professionals, end users, and managers, will highlight some of the exciting ways you can integrate Office apps and SharePoint, including document libraries, Excel and Access integration, slide libraries, and taking files offline with Outlook. You'll also learn what to expect from different versions of Microsoft Office clients, and of SharePoint. And you'll take away lots of practical, ready-to-implement guidance to ensure your SharePoint service maximizes your enterprise's productivity.

Enterprise Search with SharePoint Server
Have you ever wondered what makes SharePoint Search tick? Have you struggled to understand how to make search really work in your organization? This session covers a broad overview of MOSS 2007 and what it can do for your organization. Come learn how search works, why enterprise search is different than Internet search, and some of the features that you'll want to turn on in order to make search as relevant as possible.

Better Saved than Sorry: SharePoint Backup and Restore
SharePoint offers a variety of tools for backing up and restoring at the portal, site, and item level. This session will ensure you have a fundamental understanding of how to back up, and restore, a SharePoint implementation. You'll discover the nuances of backing up MOSS versus WSS. And you'll gain confidence in the tasks and procedures you put in place to ensure the recoverability of your SharePoint servers and sites.

Get with the Workflow: SharePoint Code-Free Workflows
Collaborating by email is so "old school." It's broken, and it's painful. Workflows allow you to align and support your business processes with SharePoint. This session will look at SharePoint's out-of-box workflows and declarative workflows developed using a rules-based, code-free workflow editor such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. You'll learn how to specify conditional rules and the actions to take based on those conditions. See how easy it is to add intelligent serial and parallel workflows to documents and other SharePoint content, without writing a single line of code.