Agenda

NOTE: The speaker and session selection process is ongoing.  Please check back for updates as sessions become approved.  If you wish to see the agenda from the last Best Practices SharePoint Conference, please click here   

  

Types of Sessions

  
  • Keynote (all attendees): A session that will set the tone for the conference.
  • Breakout Sessions (125-150 attendees): More formal presentations about SharePoint best practices with opportunities for Q&A near the end of the presentation
  • Sponsor Cabana Session (30-50 attendees): These sessions allow sponsors to demonstrate their solutions in a highly interactive presentation

Monday, February 2, 2009

Time

Breakout 1

Breakout 2

Breakout 3

Breakout 4

Breakout 5

Breakout 6

7:00  - 8:30

Registration

8:30 - 10:00

Keynote

10:20 - 11:30

What the SharePoint Owners Manual Won’t Tell You… Avoiding Failed Deployments and Chaos

Understanding SharePoint Information Governance

Developing High Performance Applications

Best Practices for Creating List and Item Events

SharePoint  Project Management

One site collection or multiple: How do I choose?

10:30 - 3:00

Exhibit hall

11:30 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 2:10

Understanding Change, Power, and Conflict in your SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment

Educated approach for selecting third party products and Vendors 

Enterprise Workflows

Code Access Security

Business Intelligence and Reporting

Branding Best Practices

2:10 - 2:50

Break

2:50 - 4:00

Best Practices for Document Management Deployments

Enterprise Content Management Nirvana

Best Practicews for Using Elevated Privileges and Impersonation

Best Practices for Creating Custom Field Types

Disk Storage Best Practces

Best Practices for Implementing Kerberos: Part 1

4:20 - 5:30

InfoPath Forms Services Best Practices for the IT Pro

Learn why Taxonomies are the Most Important Part of any Document or Information Asset Management System

Features, Solutions and Source Control: Managing the SharePoint Development Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2008 and Team Foundation Server

Real World Governance: "Taming the Wild West "

SharePoint Security Best Practices

Best Practices for Implementing Kerberos: Part 2

5:30 - 8:00

Exhibit Reception

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Time

Breakout 1

Breakout 2

Breakout 3

Breakout 4

Breakout 5

Breakout 6

8:30 - 9:40

Keynote

10:00 - 11:10

The Secrets of Supportability and Custom Coding the Developers Don’t Want You to Know

Best Practices for Developing Web Parts

Best Practices for Web Content Management Development

Excel Services Best Practices

IT Pro Experts Panel

10:30 - 3:00

Exhibit hall

11:10 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 2:10

Best Practices for Data Protection, Recovery, and Availability

Mythbusters - Debunking Server Farm Myths

Developing for SharePoint in a Controlled Environment

Aligning your Information and Findability Architectures using SharePoint Server 2007 technologies

Formula for Success” Training your SharePoint Staff"

Developer Experts Panel

2:10 - 2:50

Break

2:50 - 4:00

Search Center Design Best Practices

Forms Services for the Developer

Automating your test environments for SharePoint development using Hyper-V

Intranet, Extranet, and Internet Creation and Management Best Practices

Mapping SharePoint Functionality to Business Processes: Where the rubber meets the road

IT Pro Experts Panel

4:20 - 5:30

Information Security for the IT Pro

Site templates versus Site Definitions: The great debate

Team Development for Delivering Complex SharePoint Projects

Best Practices for Connecting Web Parts

Developer Experts Panel

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Time

Breakout 1

Breakout 2

Breakout 3

Breakout 4

Breakout 5

Breakout 6

8:30 - 9:40

Creating an Information Architecture

Forms Services for the IT Pro

Lessons Learned: Creating a Public-facing Web Site in SharePoint Server

CIO / Project Management Experts Panel

10:00 - 11:10

Capacity Planning and Performance Part 1 - Concepts Discussion

Publishing Best Practices

Customizing Search UI in SharePoint 2007

Creating Workflows in SharePoint Designer

How to Get Great Business Requirements from your End Users and Increase SharePoint Adoption in the Enterprise

Information Workers Experts Panel

11:10 - 12:30

Lunch

12:30 - 1:40

Capacity Planning and Performance Part 2 - The Tools

Preparing your User Population for SharePoint

2:00 - 3:10