Our next webinar is set to be held on Thursday, July 29th 3-4pm Eastern. Hope you can join us. Registration link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/737138753

Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, InfoPath and Visio
Skill Level – 200 (Intermediate)

Forms and Workflows are important for automating business processes. Companies usually rely on programmers to create the forms and workflows using code. Not anymore! With InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010, you can create powerful data driven form composite solutions on your SharePoint sites. InfoPath gives you the ability to pull data from databases and lists, and create forms with data validation and conditional formatting. SharePoint Designer’s workflows let you then design powerful multi-step workflows centered around the form collected data, building upon the out-of-the-box reusable workflows and even import workflow designs from Visio!  In this presentation, you will see how these tools come together to design workflows and route forms across your organization for task assignment and approval.

Blog repost from: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprogram/archive/2010/07/15/live-chats-to-learn-more-about-sharepoint-with-the-mvp-experts.aspx

“Do you have questions about SharePoint? Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010?  By popular request, SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in a live chat event about SharePoint. These Q&A events are a great opportunity to tap into the vast knowledge of these industry professionals who are regarded as the best in their field.

Please join us on Wednesday July 21st at 9am PDT to chat with MVPs from around the world.”

This webinar will be held on July 15, 2010 at 2 – 3pm Eastern.

Applies to SharePoint Foundation 2010

So you got your SharePoint 2010 Team Site… now what? How should you proceed to set it up? What should be the things to look out for and to not do? Join us in this session to learn some best practices on how to start up with your team site. You will learn the best practices about setting up your quick launch, top link bar, company/department logo, creating and setting up lists and libraries and more (as the time allows).

In addition, we will set aside the last 20 minutes to answer your questions.

If you would like to join us, register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/404190368

On Thursday, June 3rd, we conducted a webinar on How and Where to Deploy InfoPath 2010 forms. In this webinar, it was demonstrated how to use InfoPath in a variety of ways with SharePoint – making list forms, library forms and even rendering it within the InfoPath form web part.

You can watch the recording of the webinar in its entirety by clicking on the Webinar video on this page:

http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/free-sharepoint-sharepoint-designer-and-infopath-2010-videos/

I’ll be presenting the session “What’s new in SharePoint Designer 2010″ today (Tuesday, 6/8) at 1:30pm – sorry for the late notice. The session will be in room 349. The session code is OSP09-INT. In the session, I’m going to be cramming a lot of SPD goodness. The planned topics are Workflows, XSLT List and Data View web parts, External Content Types, Restricting SPD and more if we have time. Since it’s an interactive session, I’m hoping to have a good discussion with the attendees. Also, I’ll be distributing 25 copies of a free SharePoint Videos DVD (first come, first serve). Hope to see you there!

Come stop by the SharePoint / Office TLC (yellow) booth in the exhibit hall at TechEd to pick up a free copy of the SharePoint Videos Demo DVD.

There are limited quantities of the DVDs available. If you don’t see any at the SharePoint 2010 booth, they will be replenished at around 3pm today (Tuesday, 6/8).

Among the multitude of conferences that cover SharePoint, there is one which focuses on the Best Practices in SharePoint. Now that is a definite big plus in my mind since there are so many ways to build solutions the wrong way in SharePoint . Mindsharp and Summit7 systems are the ones putting together this conference in Washington DC, Aug 24 – 27, 2010.

I’m planning on presenting the following subjects at this conference:

How and where do I deploy my InfoPath 2010 forms to get the most bang for the buck?

Creating SharePoint List Forms – When to use InfoPath 2010 or SharePoint Designer 2010

In addition, I’ll be participating in the Ask the Experts session as well. Hope to see You there!

On Thursday, May 13th, we conducted a webinar on Making the Best use of SharePoint Designer 2010. In this webinar, I started with an explanation of why you would want to use SPD 2010 instead of the browser to create your site components. Then I dug deeper into showing how you can create powerful workflows. Then the last thing I demonstrated was how easy it is to fetch data from a database and show on a SharePoint page. Along the way, there were many good questions that attendees asked and I attempted to answer as many as I could in the allotted time.

Due to overwhelming request, we decided to record the webinar and make it available to everyone. You can watch the recording in its entirety here:

http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10-webinar-make-the-best-use-of-sharepoint-designer-2010/

This webinar recording will be available for everyone until May 26th. It will then be moved to the subscribers only area.

I’ll be teaching the SharePoint Designer 2010 course again online next week. It’s a 5 day online course packed with info on SPD 2010. Hope you can join me. Check out this page for more info:

http://www.criticalpathtraining.com/Schedule/Pages/SharePoint2010SharePointDesigner-Webcast;May2010.aspx

Missed the SharePoint and Office 2010 Launch on Wednesday, May 12th? You can watch the recordings for this event here:

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010launch/en-us/Pages/home.aspx