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).

I was notified today that my profile was highlighted on TechNet as a featured SharePoint MVP:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff400167.aspx

Thanks Microsoft

The InfoPath 2010 Video page is now ready. We now have 13 videos already on the page and more to come in the future. Check it out here:

http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/infopath-2010/

Topics include the following:

• Introduction to InfoPath 2010
• Converting Microsoft Word documents to InfoPath 2010
• Enhance InfoPath 2010 form with Rules (Validation, Formatting and Action Logic)
• Use cascading drop-downs in InfoPath to display parent-child information
• Create a SharePoint List form using InfoPath
• Publish InfoPath form through a site Content Type
• Fetch data from Databases and SharePoint Lists into InfoPath form
• And more…

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

In a previous article regarding Workflow Designer in SharePoint Designer 2010, I had tried to point out as many new things as I could think of at the time regarding the workflow designer environment. However, the fact remains that a video will always be a better way to communicate ideas than an article ever can (at least about a technical subject). So we have made the video on List Workflows using SharePoint Designer 2010 free on the site for a limited amount of time. This video highlights the following areas and more:

• Designing workflows using the workflow designer environment
• Moving actions/conditions up and down within and across workflow steps
• Parallel branching in workflows
• Workflow settings
• Focus on a few activities: Send an email, Set workflow status etc.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts/comments. Thanks.