Dates / Sessions

Brand It!: SharePoint Branding, from Start to Finish
February 11, 2009 - 1:00 PM - 4:00PM CST

During this session, Heather Solomon will show you how to brand your SharePoint sites, from start to finish.  Combining master pages, page layouts, CSS and content types, you'll see how to take a design comp and basic taxonomy information and apply it to a MOSS 2007 site.

• Critically examine design wireframes to determine if there are any SharePoint "gotchas"
• Create custom master pages from a base master page definition
• Create a custom theme
• Design CSS variations so that your web site's departments/sections can have their own color scheme
• Use publishing workflow features to avoid publishing unfinished pages, and allow non-designers to create new content on your sites

InfoPath and SharePoint: A Primer
February 12, 2009 - 1:00 PM - 4:00PM CST

Let Corné van Dyk be your guide on this all-new three hour tour of Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, and its integration with SharePoint.

• Finally, learn the answer to the question: So, what is InfoPath good for, anyway?
• See how easy it is to create dynamic forms with branching and conditional logic
• Yes, Virginia, you can build "dueling lookups" when you build your form with InfoPath!
• SharePoint and InfoPath are better together - incorporate SharePoint data in your InfoPath forms without a single line of code
• Learn the difference between publishing to a library and as a content type
• See how property promotion makes your form data available to be displayed on your SharePoint sites

SharePoint Planning: The Business Comes First
February 13, 2009 - 1:00 PM - 4:00PM CST

Business analysts and SharePoint administrators alike should attend this session to get a deeper understanding of how various SharePoint features map to common business requirements. Matt Passannante will help you to discover the importance of considering the business first when planning your SharePoint implementation.

Learn how to:

• Perform business stakeholder interviews to objectively determine business needs and requirements
• Plan administrative duties and server topologies based on real business requirements and not just "nice to have" meetings
• Determine the true ROI of a successfully planned SharePoint implementation

ENCORE!
The Data View Web Part: Deep Dive!
February 23, 2009 - 12:00 PM - 4:00PM CST

This three FOUR hour session is jam-packed with never-before-seen demonstrations. Dustin Miller will give you a crash course in the basics of Data View Web Parts, and after that, you'll need to buckle your seatbelt! Thank goodness you'll be able to play back the recorded session after the dust settles!

• See how Data Views can be used to create dynamic mashups between your SharePoint data and external sites (like Google Maps)
• Learn how to use jQuery and jQuery UI to add AJAX functionality with very little code!
• Find out just how easy it can be to integrate web services with the Data View
• Use the Data View to create dynamic, AJAX-ified (let's just say that's a real word) tables with client-side sorting, filtering and grouping.
• Understand how Data View "Form Actions" can make your views even more powerful

RESCHEDULED!
SharePoint Features: What's the Big Deal?
February 24, 2009 - 1:00 PM - 4:00PM CST

Spend three hours with us, and you'll finally understand exactly why Features (that's with a capital "F") are so important and valuable. Plan on seeing lots of real-world examples of using Features in your SharePoint implementations.

• Learn how Features make it easy to deploy custom code and design assets
• See how a Feature can add custom functionality to SharePoint's built-in menus
• Get some great ideas: Use Features to update the navigation of a SharePoint site with the push of a button - want to get rid of that Quick Launch once and for all?
• End the debate once and for all: Don't modify site definitions, use Features!
• Get our real-world recommendations for security and deployment of your Features