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20% off my upcoming SharePoint Designer courses

Nov 29

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I have written and been teaching the SharePoint Designer 2010 course with Critical Path Training for about 2 years now. The next one is coming up the week of Dec 5th in Dallas. If you are interested in joining me there, please use the code ‘HOLIDAY’ when checking out to save 20% off the price of the course. The week after (Dec 12th week), I’ll be teaching the same class in webcast format. You can use the same code to get 20% off the price for that as well. Hope to see you there!

Slides from SharePoint Conferences

Nov 29

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I usually get asked for my slide decks after my conference presentations so I recently started using the SlideShare service to start sharing the slide decks. The slide decks up there are from the sessions I delivered at SharePoint Connections Amsterdam last week. Hope these are helpful to those of you who can use it.

Also, if you need to access the environment that I use for my demonstrations, I have that hosted at CloudShare. It’s a completely pre-built environment with all the SharePoint and Office software you need to get going plus it has my demonstrations on Workflows, Business Connectivity Services, InfoPath forms and more. You can read more about it on my blog if interested.

SharePoint Connections Amsterdam 2011 presentation slide decks

Nov 28

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All slide decks from my presentations at SharePoint Connections Amsterdam 2011 have now been uploaded to SlideShare here:

http://www.slideshare.net/asifrehmani

Hope they are helpful!

SharePoint Conference 2011 session recordings

Nov 23

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Many of the SharePoint Conference 2011 recordings have been posted to YouTube by Microsoft at their sharepointconference channel. I was very happily surprised to see that.

These recordings are complete sessions (many of them over an hour) and not small snippets of 15 minutes or less like many of the other YouTube videos. In the description of the video, it states the session title, code, speaker name, level of presentations, abstract and even which room it too place in at the conference center. Wow!

Following are my two sessions that I did at the SPC 2011:

Recording of webinar on effectively managing enterprise projects with Project Server 2010

Nov 18

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The recording of the webinar on Project Server 2010 is now available on the site. Also available through that page is the slide deck that our presenter Dux has graciously made available to all.

Many other previous webinar recordings are also available on the site.

Here is the information about this webinar recording –

Presenter:
Dux Raymond Sy – SharePoint MVP, PMP – http://www.meetdux.com

Audience: Project teams, managers, decision makers

Session Abstract:

In today’s project-centric work environment, the ability to coordinate multiple projects with distributed teams, and making high-level strategic decisions based upon consolidated project progress, risk and resource usage information is critical. Microsoft Project Server 2010 is an enterprise-wide project management platform designed to meet these challenges.

In this session, you learn to optimize Project Server to manage enterprise projects. You’ll also learn how to:

• Build an Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution based on Microsoft Project Server
  
• Create a portfolio of projects using new and existing project plans
  
• Manage and optimize project resources across the enterprise
  
• Collaborate with geographically distributed project team members using Project Web Access
  
• Identify and assign responsibility for project risks and issues
  
• Monitor and analyze performance of enterprise projects and portfolios
  
• Leverage SharePoint 2010 collaboration tools
  

This webinar was sponsored by SharePoint-Videos.com.

Pre-requisites:
Fundamental knowledge and experience of Project Management and familiarity with Windows, Microsoft Office and SharePoint is assumed.

Date presented: Monday, November 14, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM EDT

Webinar on 11/14/2011 at 2pm Eastern – Effectively manage enterprise projects with Project Server 2010

Nov 09

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We’re back with another webinar (and of course as always, there is no cost to attend the webinar. All we ask is that you provide feedback at the end that can help us improve).

Presenter:
Dux Raymond Sy – SharePoint MVP, PMP – http://www.meetdux.com

Audience: Project teams, managers, decision makers

Session Abstract:

In today’s project-centric work environment, the ability to coordinate multiple projects with distributed teams, and making high-level strategic decisions based upon consolidated project progress, risk and resource usage information is critical. Microsoft Project Server 2010 is an enterprise-wide project management platform designed to meet these challenges.

In this session, you learn to optimize Project Server to manage enterprise projects. You’ll also learn how to:

• Build an Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution based on Microsoft Project Server
  
• Create a portfolio of projects using new and existing project plans
  
• Manage and optimize project resources across the enterprise
  
• Collaborate with geographically distributed project team members using Project Web Access
  
• Identify and assign responsibility for project risks and issues
  
• Monitor and analyze performance of enterprise projects and portfolios
  
• Leverage SharePoint 2010 collaboration tools
  

This webinar is sponsored by SharePoint-Videos.com. During and after the webinar, we’ll take your questions and try to answer them to the best of our ability.

Pre-requisites:
Fundamental knowledge and experience of Project Management and familiarity with Windows, Microsoft Office and SharePoint is assumed.

Date: Monday, November 14, 2011
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM EDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/709521273

Sessions at SharePoint Connections 2011

Oct 31

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SharePoint Connections Fall 2011 is underway this week in Las Vegas. Lots of great sessions planned for the week. 15 sessions will be presented by Critical Path Training trainers altogether and there is also a couple of book signings planned for Scot H. and I in the evening. Stop by the CPT booth for more information.

Here are the sessions that I’ll be presenting:

HNC01: Make the Best use of SharePoint Designer 2010

HNC03: Create SharePoint Library forms using SharePoint 2010

HOF03: Office 365: Customize SharePoint Online with SharePoint Designer 2010

Short and to the point End User Training Videos (Beta)

Oct 27

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We have been getting a lot of feedback from our current and potential customers that they need short and to the point end user training videos. So we went ahead and made a test batch of them here:

http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sharepoint-2010-training-for-end-users/

(The page might take about a minute to load since there are 19 video thumbnails there. Sorry)

I would Really appreciate it if you can take a few minutes to check some of them out and provide us some feedback. There is a quick anonymous poll on that page you can take and also post some comments after taking the poll. You are also welcome to email me back directly with your thoughts/comments. Thanks in advance!

Recording of webinar on 10/19/2011 – Using SharePoint Designer in the ‘Real World’

Oct 26

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Presenter:
Asif Rehmani – SharePoint Server MVP, MCT – http://www.SharePoint-Videos.com

Level of presentation: 200

Session Abstract:

“My IT department says we are not allowed to use SharePoint Designer.”  This phrase is fairly common when the topic of SharePoint Designer comes up in a training, conference setting or a consulting engagement. IT departments have concerns around deploying SharePoint Designer to end users. This session provides real world use cases and guidance that covers when it is safe to let your site administrators use SharePoint Designer 2010 (and also when it’s not safe). In addition, we will discuss the different level of privileges that should be granted to different groups of people in your organization.

Audience: Designers, Subsite owners, Site Collection Administrators, Developers, IT Professionals and Power Users

You can view the recording here.

SharePoint Branding video tutorials course completely deployed on the site

Oct 18

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I’m happy to report that our SharePoint Branding video tutorials (authored by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy) are now all completely deployed on the site for our online subscribers.

A bunch of other SharePoint 2010 training courses are in development right now to continue our goal of ever expanding the SharePoint education resources on our site.