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SharePoint Connections Amsterdam Nov 22 to 23, 2011

Oct 07

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SharePoint Connections conference is coming back to Amsterdam once again. Register before Oct 14 to save 100 Euros. Also, there is a special 50% discount offered for students.

http://www.nccomms-events.com/sharepointconnections

I’m honored to be presenting the following sessions at the conference:

Using SharePoint Designer 2010 in the ‘Real World’

SharePoint Designer is an Awesome product. However, do you know how to use it to the best of its capability? I’ll be happy to show it to you in this session.

Create SharePoint Library Forms Using InfoPath 2010

The Form Library in SharePoint is there to host InfoPath forms much like the Document Library holds regular documents. Using InfoPath forms, you can create amazingly powerful forms with logic and data connections to various sources. That’s going to be the main focus of this session.

Office 365: Customize SharePoint Online with SharePoint Designer 2010

Want to know what you can (and cannot) do in SharePoint Online? Especially regarding SharePoint Designer. Can you use it fully to customize SharePoint Online? Come to this session to find out.

Create Reusable and Transportable Workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010

Workflows in SharePoint Designer are one of the most powerful feature. Reusable workflows can be published globally or even transported between environments. I’ll show you how to make it possible and what to watch out for.

SharePoint-Videos.com presence at SharePoint Conference 2011

Sep 29

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SharePoint turns 10 years old. Are you coming to celebrate at the SharePoint Conference?

SharePoint Conference (SPC) has been taking place every couple of years. This year’s conference officially kicks off on October 3rd. Are you going to be there?

At SPC 2009, I remember hearing that about 8,000 attendees were present (not counting the vendors and staff). This year’s show seems to be garnering similar type of attention and they’re looking forward to a Huge turnout again! [or maybe it's partially because of the proximity to Disneyland ]. Aside from the abundance of knowledge transfer that undoubtedly will take place during the breakout sessions at the conference, there are some really nice activities planned for the attendees.

SharePoint-Videos.com (SPVideos) is planning to have a good presence at the conference including the following:

• Every conference attendee will find an informational flyer with our information and offering in their conference bags
• We’ll be bringing 500 video tutorial DVDs (shown below) to be passed out at the conference. The videos cover several topics covered on the video tutorial DVDs we have on the site. If you would like a copy, we’ll have them available at the Wrox Publishing booth. I will also be personally passing out many of them during my sessions at SPC .
• I’ll be available at either of the following booths: Critical Path Training, Microsoft Composites, Microsoft SharePoint Online. Come on by for a chat if you have time.

DVD we are passing out at SPC -

Front cover	Back cover

Hope to see you there!

My sessions at the SharePoint Conference

Sep 29

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Looking forward to the upcoming Microsoft SharePoint Conference next week! I’ll be presenting the following sessions there:

SPC239 – InfoPath + SharePoint Designer + Office 365 = Forms in the Cloud!

Forms are used everywhere in SharePoint Online: Form Libraries, Document Libraries, Lists, Workflows and more. You can use these forms to create great looking layouts, implement conditional formatting and retrieve data from a variety of sources. Come see this session to learn the best ways to use InfoPath generated forms in the cloud. This session will demonstrate the similarities and differences between  InfoPath forms within SharePoint Online as compared to SharePoint on-premises. .

Start time: 10/4/2011  9:00:00 AM

SPC272  – SharePoint Designer 2010- A Tool for End Users?

"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.

Start time: 10/5/2011  9:00:00 AM

Make your data come alive: 3 creative ways to visualize your data

A short 20 minutes session discussing 3 different ways to make your data come alive:

1. Make Chart web part your friend and chart List, Library, BCS and other types of data using just the browser
2. Use Excel Services to publish your existing Charts and Graphs from your Excel spreadsheets
3. Conditionally format your data using List and Data View web parts – using SharePoint Designer 2010

Start Time: 10/5/2011  12:00:00 PM

Critical Path Training @ SharePoint Conference 2011

Sep 27

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Repost from AC’s blog: Next week brings the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 in CA. The instructors at Critical Path Training will be in full force as we’re presenting over 14 sessions all week.

We are also giving away over 120 SharePoint books at our booth with hourly book drawings and eight book signings throughout the week!!!

But wait, that’s not all… we’re also giving away over $25,000 in SharePoint training to lucky winners throughout the week.

Where can you get more info? Check out our October community page on our website: http://www.criticalpathtraining.com/Community/Pages/October.aspx

Looking forward to seeing everyone… make sure you come to the ESPNZone on Wednesday night for SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night!

Recording of Webinar and Q&A Panel by SharePoint Experts now available

Sep 01

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On August 25, 2011, we conducted a no-cost webinar and Q&A panel with SharePoint Experts from SharePoint-Videos.com:

Richard Wixom
Russell Wright
Eric Eaton
Asif Rehmani

Watch the recording for this event in its entirety.

In this webinar, demonstrations and discussions were conducted by the panelists based on the questions submitted by the attendees. Some of the topics talked about in the panel:

• SharePoint Calendar sharing
• SharePoint Designer in Production
• Data View web part
• Using PowerShell to list all SharePoint sites and subsites
• Printing of SharePoint list data
• Downloading more than one file at a time without a 3rd party add-on
• Checking permissions for a user
• InfoPath 2010 resources
• And more…

Pass this email on to anyone who you feel can benefit from this information.

Need Quick and Effective Remote Consulting on-demand by SharePoint Experts?

We provide hourly on-demand remote consulting and training to help you with your needs when You need it! You can read up on our services here:
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/remote-consulting/

Ask us about how your company can buy a block of hours to be used as needed on a retainer basis.

Simply reply to this email or contact us through the form on our site to let us know how we can help.

Free Webinar and Q&A Panel with SharePoint experts – Come and get your SharePoint questions answered (or just listen in)!

Aug 19

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Register for this Free Q&A panel with SharePoint experts from SharePoint-Videos.com being held on Thursday, Aug 25, 2011 from 11:30am to 12:30pm Eastern time.

The focus of this Question and Answer session is to help You! Ever wish you could query a panel of SharePoint experts? Well, now is your chance! Submit an initial SharePoint question with registration and bring the balance of your questions to query our SharePoint experts at SharePoint-Videos.com. We’ll answer your questions and get you moving in the right direction. Just want to listen in? Not a problem. That’s perfectly alright as well.

When signing up for this session/webinar, we recommend that you use the ‘Questions and Comments’ field in the form below to provide us your question(s) in advance of the webinar.

The SharePoint panel is comprised of the following experts who encompass a wide range of SharePoint skills:

Richard Wixom
Eric Eaton
Russell Wright
Asif Rehmani

Read up on their background and expertise here:
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/about/

Title:  Q&A Panel with SharePoint Experts
Date:  Thursday, August 25, 2011
Time:  11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT

Audience: SharePoint End Users Power Users, Site Owners, Server Admins, Developers, Small Business Owners

Pre-requisites: None

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/442560409

Need Quick and Effective Remote Consulting by SharePoint Experts?

We provide hourly remote consulting to help you with your needs when You need it! You can read up on our services here:
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/remote-consulting/

Contact Us to get started.

My Presentations at SharePoint Conference 2011

Aug 04

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I’ll be presenting two sessions at SharePoint Conference 2011. Looking forward to seeing lots of old friends and acquaintances and making some new ones there . Here are my sessions:

Title

InfoPath + SharePoint Designer + Office 365 = Forms in the Cloud!

Abstract

Forms are used everywhere in SharePoint Online (Office 365) – Form Libraries, Document Libraries, Lists, Workflows and more. You can use these forms to create great looking layouts, implement conditional formatting and retrieve data from a variety of sources. Come see this session to learn the best ways to use InfoPath generated forms in the cloud. This session will demonstrate the similarities and differences between InfoPath forms within SharePoint Online as compared to SharePoint on-premises. We offer a comprehensive InfoPath training 2010 instructional video curriculum on this topic.

Title

SharePoint Designer 2010- A Tool for End Users?

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.

Webinar on SharePoint Branding: Make your SharePoint Sites look Beautiful! – Thursday (8/4/2011) at 1pm Eastern

Aug 01

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Presenter:
Yaroslav Pentsarskyy – SharePoint Branding Expert – http://www.sharemuch.com

Compelling and user friendly interface of your SharePoint solution is one of the key factors in successful adoption of your intranet or internet site. This webinar will give you a solid understanding of how you can improve user interface and brand your site with visual elements you have seen online or have been provided by a professional design team.

This webinar is sponsored by SharePoint-Videos.com. We’ll use this webinar to demonstrate the branding opportunities in SharePoint 2010. Then we’ll take your questions and try to answer them to the best of our ability.

Audience: Designers, SharePoint Site Owners, Developers, Power Users

Title:  SharePoint Branding and Design – Enhancing the User Interface
Date:  Thursday, August 4, 2011
Time:  1:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT

There is no cost to attend this webinar. 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/416252057

Webinar on Office 365 (7/7/2011)–What you need to know!

Jun 29

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Presenters:
Mark Kashman – PM at Microsoft focused on Office 365 – http://www.office365.com
Asif Rehmani – http://www.sharepoint-videos.com

Office 365 is the way to provide messaging, collaboration, web conferencing, document sharing and more to your organization – large and small. Simply put, it’s SharePoint 2010 in the cloud. Office 365 went Live on June 28th.

This webinar is sponsored by SharePoint-Videos and will be focused on providing you information you need (as are all of our webinars) and not a sales pitch. We’ll use this webinar to display the functionality and the administrative capabilities of Office 365. Then discuss the customization opportunities on top of it.

This webinar will show live demos of the functionality and we’ll take your questions along the way to make this a truly interactive experience.

Audience: Developers, Power Users, SharePoint Site Owners, Small Business Owners
Title:     Office 365: What you need to know and how it can help you!
Date:     Thursday, July 7, 2011
Time:     1:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT

Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/772152905

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

SharePoint MVP Chat-6/22 at 9am PDT

Jun 17

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Reposted from SharePoint Team Blog-
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=982

“Do you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you’re seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals?  The SharePoint MVPs are the same people you see in the technical community as authors, speakers, user group leaders and answerers in the MSDN and TechNet forums.

By popular demand, we have brought these experts together as a collective group to answer your questions live.  So please join us and bring on the questions! This chat will cover WSS 3.0, MOSS, SharePoint Foundation 2010 and the SharePoint Server 2010. Topics include setup and administration, design, development and general question.

Please join us on Wednesday June 22nd at 9am PDT to chat with MVPs from around the world. Learn more and add these chats to your calendar by visiting the MSDN event page

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/aa497438.aspx”