Internet Architect by day, environmentalist by night: Jim Schwartz @ imason.
On Saturday, January 24th, four of us from imason will be presenting at the 2009 Toronto SharePoint Camp at the Manulife Corporate Headquarters @ 200 Bloor St. East. If you’d like to come out to see our sessions, register here. There will be lots of free giveaways and prizes. Here are some details about our sessions:
Upgrading your SharePoint platform from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007
Bob Brown Time: 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM Room: Holmes B With SharePoint 2007 taking on widespread adoption, many enterprises are starting to take advantage of the new and improved features of the new platform; but what about administrators and developers that are still supporting a growing business critical SharePoint 2003 environment and have been assigned the daunting task of upgrading? There seems to be an endless list of things to take into account before taking the plunge and upgrading. In this session, I will walk through how to assess your system to make an educated migration path decision, draw up the high level upgrade steps, and then dig in on some specific snags you'll likely encounter (including custom web parts, FrontPage and unghosted pages, broken permissions, site themes, and legacy templates)
Bob Brown
Time: 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM Room: Holmes B
With SharePoint 2007 taking on widespread adoption, many enterprises are starting to take advantage of the new and improved features of the new platform; but what about administrators and developers that are still supporting a growing business critical SharePoint 2003 environment and have been assigned the daunting task of upgrading? There seems to be an endless list of things to take into account before taking the plunge and upgrading.
In this session, I will walk through how to assess your system to make an educated migration path decision, draw up the high level upgrade steps, and then dig in on some specific snags you'll likely encounter (including custom web parts, FrontPage and unghosted pages, broken permissions, site themes, and legacy templates)
Advanced InfoPath development with SharePoint
Jim Schwartz & Boyan Tsolov
Time: 2:30 PM to 3:45 PM Room: International B&C
InfoPath 2007 has many limitations and doesn’t scale very well with complex forms. Using a custom solution built on SharePoint, we’ve extended InfoPath to support very complicated form functionality. In this session, we will describe to you how we overcame several InfoPath limitations, including multilingual support, pre-populating form data, field validation, and support a flow between several forms.
Effective Deployment of SharePoint Publishing Sites
Ivan Neganov Time: 4:00 PM to 5:15 PM Room: Holmes B SharePoint implementation presents many challenges to development teams with deployment often viewed as an area of the primary complexity and importance. Over time we have accumulated a rich set of utilities which allow deploying SharePoint sites in a fully unattended fashion or close to it, by using custom logic interacting with SharePoint API. Efficiency of deployment has a dramatic impact on practical aspects of agile and team development using SharePoint, which makes us invest in building comprehensive tools for SharePoint deployment.
Ivan Neganov
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:15 PM Room: Holmes B
SharePoint implementation presents many challenges to development teams with deployment often viewed as an area of the primary complexity and importance.
Over time we have accumulated a rich set of utilities which allow deploying SharePoint sites in a fully unattended fashion or close to it, by using custom logic interacting with SharePoint API.
Efficiency of deployment has a dramatic impact on practical aspects of agile and team development using SharePoint, which makes us invest in building comprehensive tools for SharePoint deployment.