On Dec 8th, I’ll be presenting a session at the Power Up with SharePoint online conference. It’s a free conference. You can check it out and register here.

My session will be on Reporting on Lists, Libraries, and SQL data using Data Views in SharePoint Designer 2007. After the session, I’ll be available for a Q & A session. Also, my co-contributor on the sharepoint-videos.com site, Wendy Henry will be presenting the keynote for this conference. In addition, SharePoint gurus Michael Noel and Colin Spence are performing sessions as well.

So come on by if you have time and join us.

We’re back again with another free webinar. A few weeks ago at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, I presented a session on SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows which have been vastly improved in this release of SharePoint. In addition to talking about SPD Workflows, I will show the integration points with Visio and InfoPath. I’ll be presenting this session in a webinar format to be held this Thursday, Dec 3rd.

For this webinar, fundamental SharePoint (2007 or 2010) knowledge is assumed. Webinar will be held on Dec 3rd at 12:00pm Eastern time. You can get more information and register for this webinar here:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/333716056

Asif Rehmani presented this session at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 during the week of Oct 19, 2009.

SharePoint Designer 2010, a free application, is “The Preferred” tool to design powerful no-code solutions and applications in SharePoint 2010. In this session you will get a broad overview of the capabilities of the tool, from site customizations such as modifying Site Metadata, managing Site Security, or creating Site Content, to building List or Site based Workflows and connecting to a variety of Data Sources. You will also learn about the new ribbon interface of SharePoint Designer 2010 and shows how best to take advantage of this application by showing the new bells and whistles that come with this product.

Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/994486001

We are back once again with another free webinar. This one is going to be all about using Data Views in SharePoint Designer to get to… well Data of course . This presentation will focus on how you can get access to SharePoint List data and then manipulate it as needed. However, keep in mind that Data Views can be used to get to any type of external data as well (web services, databases, xml files, rss feeds and more..).

The webinar is scheduled for 10/1 at 1pm Eastern. Come join us if you got time: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/983842921

We are back with another free webinar. Wendy Henry from SharePoint-Videos.com will be presenting this webinar along with host Asif Rehmani. The webinar will expose the secrets of choosing and growing an appropriate storage platform for your SharePoint environment.  

This webinar is scheduled for 11am Eastern time on 9/18/09. Seats are limited so please register soon if you will be attending.

To get more information and to register, visit the following page:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/775306281

Thanks to all 240+ people who attended the webinar last Friday. Sorry for the last minute notice. This time I’m providing a 24 hours + notice so hopefully I won’t receive as much “feedback” as last time .

The free InfoPath 2007 webinar is going to be held on 8/26/2009 at 10am CDT. The webinar is titled: Create Powerful Electronic Forms using InfoPath 2007… No Code Required!

More information on the webinar is available here:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/242447105

Going to SharePoint Conference this year? If you are ‘into SharePoint’ then I really hope so! The content will be focused on the upcoming version of SharePoint 2010 and also best practices for the current SharePoint 2007. Here’s more info and where you can register: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx.

My friend and fellow MVP Dave Mann has put the preliminary list of SharePoint session topics on his blog. Of course, this is just a small starting list of topics. Lots more will be presented at the conference. Copying and pasting the info here as well for my blog readers:

• SharePoint 2010 Overview and What’s New
  
• Upgrading to SharePoint 2010
  
• SharePoint 2010 Capacity and Performance Planning
  
• SharePoint 2010 Security and Identity Management: What’s New
  
• Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Development
  
• SharePoint 2010 Ribbon, ECMAScript and Dialog Framework Development
  
• Developing with REST and LINQ in SharePoint 2010
  
• Upgrading SharePoint Server 2007 Code to SharePoint 2010
  
• Building Composite Applications with the Microsoft Application Platform
  
• What’s New in Business Connectivity Services (The Business Data Catalog Evolves!)
  
• FAST Search for SharePoint – Capabilities Deep Dive
  
• Advanced Dashboard Creation with Performance Point Services for SharePoint 2010
  
• Overview of Visio and Visio Services for SharePoint 2010
  
• SharePoint 2010 Web Content Management Deep-Dive
  
• If You Build It, They Will Come – Driving End User Adoption
  

My good friend Andrew Connell is coming to present at the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN). Andrew is a very dynamic speaker. It’s always fun and very informative listening to him speak. If you can make it to this event, it is sure to be very beneficial. Check out the details of this event in Rob’s blog post here: https://www.thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2009/07/03/andrew-connell-indianapolis-august-26th-building-high-performance-features-and-solutions-on-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx.

The registration url is: http://spinaug.eventbrite.com/. 

Here’s a quick abstract of the session that AC will be conducting:

Performance should be one of the top areas of focus on everyone’s mind when embarking on a Internet facing Microsoft Office Server 2007 site. In this session we’ll look at the built-in caching capabilities in the SharePoint platform, including disk-based and page output caching. In addition we’ll take a look at various hot-button issues developers should be aware of when developing components for a public site built on MOSS 2007. Topics include object model techniques, how to properly manage memory in order to avoid the dreaded OutOfMemory exception, key sizing numbers to keep in mind when architecting your implementation and minimizing the page payload to speed up those page load times. After this session, you’ll be armed with the power to create high performance and scalable solutions in MOSS 2007!

I have been honored with the opportunity to give the keynote address at SharePoint Saturday Chicago.

Navigate to the website to check out the sessions and speakers list. It’s sure to be an information packed event. Looking forward to it!

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