http://www.sharepointfest.com/DC/

• The technical classes and seminars at SharePoint Fest are focused on practical techniques and practices you can put to work today!
• Our expanded three-day SharePoint conference allows for more topics and additional expert speakers from the community!
• Get answers to your questions in the classroom, or as you mingle with speakers and peers at coffee breaks or at the evening cocktail reception!
• Bring a group of developers, IT pros and business teams to improve your whole organization's skills – and get a discount to boot! Contact us for group registration discounts!
• Attend the SharePoint sessions that work best for you. With more than 80 classes and workshops to choose from, you can make SharePoint Fest your own custom SharePoint training event.
• See how the Microsoft SharePoint ecosystem is growing and evolving by speaking with technical experts from the local Microsoft field and diverse channels within the Microsoft Partner Network all in our exhibit hall!
• Learn from the brightest minds in the SharePoint universe! Many of our speakers are either Microsoft engineers or have achieved Microsoft MVP or MCM status based on their in-depth knowledge of SharePoint.

Choose From over 60 Sessions in Multiple Tracks!

Attend SharePoint Fest - D.C., where you’ll be able to attend technical classes and seminars – taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft engineers and Microsoft MVPs – covering Enterprise Content Management, Social SharePoint, Business Value, Infrastructure/Administration, Composites (Workflow), Search, Business Intelligence, & Development. Choose one complete learning track or mix & match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs!

At SharePoint Fest - D.C. there are sessions created for SharePoint administrators, software developers, information architects and knowledge workers which will ensure that you and your team walk away with as much knowledge as you desire to truly leverage SharePoint in your current environment!

Find out more about SharePoint Fest DC

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No.

Course Title

SATV?

Date

10264

Developing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Yes

Jun 3-7

10297

SharePoint 2010 Admin Bootcamp Hotel Package

Yes

Jun 3-8

10298

SharePoint 2010 Admin Bootcamp

Yes

Jun 3-8

20342

Advanced Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

Yes

Jun 3-7

20465

Designing Database Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Yes

Jun 3-7

6235

Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services

Yes

Jun 3-5

CXA-301-1

Citrix XenApp 6.5 Advanced Administration

Jun 3-7

FIREWALL

Deploying Cisco ASA Firewall Solutions v1.0

Jun 3-7

ITIL SO

ITIL Intermediate - Service Operations

Jun 3-7

RH199

RHCSA Rapid Track Course

Jun 3-6

RH200

RHCSA Rapid Track Course w/Exam

Jun 3-7

SWITCH

Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks (SWITCH)

Jun 3-7

6971

Microsoft Excel 2010 Level 1

Jun 6

RH-EX200

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Exam (EX200)

Jun 7

10775

Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases

Yes

Jun 10-14

20331

Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

Yes

Jun 10-14

20417

Upgrading your Skills to MCSA Windows Server 2012

Yes

Jun 10-14

50352

SharePoint 2010 for End Users and Site Owners

Jun 10-12

CMB-207-1

Citrix Desktop Virtualization Fast Track

Jun 10-14

ICND1v2

Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices Part 1 v2

Jun 10-14

ITIL F2011

ITIL Foundation 2011 - Includes Certification Exam

Jun 10-12

IUWNE

Implementing Cisco Unified Wireless Networking Essentials (IUWNE)

Jun 10-14

RH299

RHCE Rapid Track Course

Jun 10-13

RH300

RHCE Rapid Track Course with RHCSA and RHCE Exams

Jun 10-14

6993

Microsoft Office Access 2010 Level 3

Jun 11

6972

Microsoft Excel 2010 Level 2

Jun 13

RH-EX200

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Exam (EX200)

Jun 14

RH-EX300

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Exam

Jun 14

10296

SharePoint 2010 Developer Bootcamp Hotel Package

Yes

Jun 17-22

10299

SharePoint 2010 Developer Bootcamp

Yes

Jun 17-22

10778

Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Yes

Jun 17-21

10958

Programming Fundamentals of Web Applications

Yes

Jun 17-21

20411

Administering Windows Server 2012

Yes

Jun 17-21

8507

A+ Certification: A Comprehensive Approach

Jun 17-21

CCNAX

Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Accelerated v2

Jun 17-21

CIPT 1

Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager Part 1

Jun 17-21

CXA-206-1

Citrix XenApp 6.5 Administration

Jun 17-21

CXS-203-1

Citrix XenServer 6 Administration

Jun 17-21

RH436

Red Hat Enterprise Clustering & Storage Management

Jun 17-20

RH437

Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management (w/Exam)

Jun 17-21

RH442VT

Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning Virtual Training

Jun 17-21

VPN

Deploying Cisco ASA VPN Solutions v1.0

Jun 17-21

6973

Microsoft Excel 2010 Level 3

Jun 20

RH-EX436

Red Hat Enterprise Clustering & Storage Management Expertise Exam

Jun 21

10747

Administering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

Yes

Jun 24-28

10774

Querying Microsoft SQL Server

Yes

Jun 24-28

20412

Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services

Yes

Jun 24-28

8511

SharePoint 2010 Designer

Jun 24-26

DCUFI

Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric v4.0

Jun 24-28

ICOMM

Introducing Cisco Voice and Unified Communications Administration v8.0 (ICOMM)

Jun 24-28

RH124

Red Hat System Administration I

Jun 24-28

6994

Microsoft Project 2010 - Level 1

Jun 27

6995

Microsoft Project 2010 Level 2

Jun 28

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Microsoft Speakers: 

Arpan Shah, Senior Director of Technical Product Management for Office 365/SharePoint Online at Microsoft (key100)

Arpan Shah is the Senior Director of Technical Product Management for Microsoft Office 365 based in Redmond, WA, and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft & industry events. Before his current role, Arpan led the Product Management team for Microsoft Project and led the SharePoint Technical Product Management for the SharePoint 2010 and 2007 releases. Before Microsoft, Arpan spent several years in the Internet Business industry in a variety of Product Management roles. Arpan holds Bachelors & Masters degrees from MIT.

@arpanshah

Ira Fuchs, SharePoint Technical Specialist at Microsoft and Author (wf103 bi204)

Ira Fuchs is a Microsoft SharePoint Technical Specialist working out of the New York Metropolitan District. He has assisted some of Microsoft's largest financial services organizations deploy and exploit the full set of features and capabilities of the SharePoint platform. He has written numerous white papers on BizTalk Server, InfoPath and SharePoint and is the author of the book "Enterprise Application Development in SharePoint 2010 – Creating an End-to-End Application without Code".

Invited SharePoint Community Speakers: 

Dux Raymond Sy, MVP PMP (ws101 spt105 key200)

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, a Microsoft Gold Partner focused on leading, inspiring and being the catalyst of organizational transformation that enables clients to achieve tangible business result. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is the author of "SharePoint for Project Management" published by O'Reilly Media. A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. He regularly blogs on topics related to project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.

@meetdux

Christian Buckley, MVP (bv103 bv203)

Christian Buckley is a SharePoint MVP, internationally recognized author and speaker, and is a Top 25 SharePoint Influencer. As Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, he drives product awareness and partner and community development. At Microsoft, he was part of the team that launched SharePoint Online (now part of Office365). Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm in the San Francisco East Bay, started and sold two technology startups, and worked with some of the world's largest hi-tech and manufacturing companies to build and deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions. He is co-author of "Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects" (MSPress), three books on software configuration management and defect tracking, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com.

@buckleyplanet

Dan Holme, MVP (ws102 ecm104 bv202)

Dan Holme's 18 years of experience and impact on hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and business decision makers have earned him a reputation as one of the world's most respected consultants, authors, and experts on Microsoft technologies. Dan, a native of Colorado, resident of Maui, and graduate of Yale, has been recognized as an MVP for six years, and one of the top ten partner MVPs in the world. Dan has penned hundreds of articles for SharePoint Pro Magazine and numerous best-selling books for Microsoft Press. This summer, Dan served as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics during the broadcast of the 2012 Olympics in London, a role he also played in Torino, Beijing, and Vancouver. Dan's viewpoint on SharePoint blog.

@danholme

Mark Miller (soc102 soc204)

"I help companies create strategic plans to gain global visibility for their products and services through the use of social media tools , online community building and relationship development." – Mark Miller, Senior Storyteller.

Mark Miller, Senior Storyteller, is recognized internationally for weaving engaging tales to simplify the explanation of complex, technological solutions. He is a serial community builder, participating in the creation of global online communities such as NothingButSharePoint, EndUserSharePoint and NothingButBranding.

Mark travels internationally from his home in New York City, speaking on the building of community, methods for using social media to engage an online audience, the uses of SharePoint for enterprise level collaboration, and the future of productivity. His most recent excursion with the "Sharing the Point" team found him in Africa, stopping in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi , Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

@eusp

Naomi Moneypenny (soc103 bv201)

Naomi Moneypenny is CTO at Synxi (a ManyWorlds brand) where she leads the development team for the adaptive recommendations & learning engine for SharePoint and other social business systems such as Yammer and Tibbr. Previously, Naomi was a business and IT strategist at Shell working on technology forecasting and collaboration. She has a Masters degree in Astrophysics as well as graduating in executive programs in strategy and M&A from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. She holds 15 patents in the area of adaptive systems.

@nmoneypenny

Jeremy Thake, MVP (dev102 dev202)

Jeremy Thake utilizes more than 10 years of software development industry experience and expertise in Microsoft technologies to assist global enterprises in building solutions that will set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms. As a SharePoint MVP, Jeremy's proven expertise has earned him multiple speaking engagements at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups worldwide. Jeremy is a co-founder of NothingButSharePoint.com, a SharePoint community portal focusing on the Developer Channel, and built the platform on top of SharePoint 2010.

@jthake

Robert Bogue, MVP (ecm101 wf202)

Robert Bogue is a thought leader on all things SharePoint and an engaging speaker who speaks at events around the world on SharePoint. Rob has been awarded the Microsoft MVP designation nine times, and earned recognition as a Microsoft Patterns and Practices Champion. Rob holds certifications from Microsoft: MCPD, MCITP, MCTS, MCSA: Security, MCSE as well as CompTia: A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+. Rob also served as a team member for the SharePoint Guidance. He is the author of 22 books including, "The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users-2010" which is also available in a Wiki version as The SharePoint Tutor. Robert is committed to "making the complicated, simple." Find out more about SharePoint made simple at, http://www.SharePointShepherd.com or follow Rob's blog at http://www.ThorProjects.com/blog/. You can also email Rob at Rob.Bogue@ThorProjects.com

@robbogue

Asif Rehmani, MVP (pwr102 pwr204)

Asif has been training and consulting on primarily SharePoint technologies since 2004. He is a SharePoint Server MVP and MCT. Asif runs a SharePoint Videos website (http://www.sharepoint-videos.com) which provides SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath Video Tutorials. His videos have been published at Microsoft's TechNet, Channel 9 and Office.com site. Asif also provides in-person and online SharePoint training publicly and in private workshops through Critical Path Training (http://www.criticalpathtraining.com). Asif has been a speaker at conferences since 2006 on SharePoint topics at several conferences around the world (USA, Germany, Amsterdam, Den Haag, New Zealand etc) including Microsoft's TechEd, SharePoint Conference, SPTechCon, SharePoint Connections, Best Practices Conference, SharePoint Saturdays, SharePoint Roadshows and more. He is the co-author of the books "Professional SharePoint Designer 2007", "Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010" and "Real World SharePoint 2010" by Wrox publications. Asif was the co-founder and is currently one of the active leaders of the Chicago SharePoint User Group (http://www.cspug.org) For a more detailed bio, please visit http://www.sharepoint-videos.com. You can reach Asif at: asif@sharepointelearning.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

@asifrehmani

Sarah Haase (spt103 spt202)

Sarah Haase is an information architect and corporate librarian with more than 15 years of knowledge management, technical writing, and business process re-engineering experience. From building wikis and other online knowledge-bases to supporting content management system implementations, Sarah has focused on using technology to enable efficient information storage/retrieval. In her current role as a Collaboration & Search Engineer, Sarah relies on SharePoint to drive online collaboration and optimize business processes. To date, these efforts have netted more than $750,000 in annual cost savings. Sarah's Blog: http://sarahlhaase.wordpress.com

@sarahhaase

Jeff Willinger, Social Computing Strategist (spt201)

Jeff Willinger is the Director of Social Computing at Rightpoint. Jeff specializes in advising clients on social computing strategies, social intranets and portals and increasing employee engagement. With experience spanning more than two decades, Jeff possesses specific expertise in social computing inside an organization's four walls and social media outside their four walls. He is a frequent speaker throughout the world specializing in exploiting new business models, highlighting the opportunities of Web2.0 and social media and advising on new technology. A character with character, as he is known, is the President and Founder of the Social Media Club of Chicago.

@jwillie

Brian Culver, MCM (spt102 wf204)

Brian Culver is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions in Houston, Texas. Brian is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in SharePoint 2007 and a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD). He has worked in the Information Technology industry for since 1998 and he has been working with SharePoint since 2005. His deep expertise includes SharePoint, ASP.Net, SQL Server and Project Server. He has been involved in many large SharePoint implementations including Internet and Intranet sites, Partner Portals, Enterprise Content Management and Governance, and much custom application integration and development.

@spbrianculver

Benjamin Niaulin, MVP MCT (sia101 pwr202)

Benjamin Niaulin works as a SharePoint Specialist at GSoft, a Montreal-based software development firm specialized in Microsoft technologies. Passionate about SharePoint, Benjamin has been helping people around the globe reaching their goals by simplifying SharePoint solutions. With his Microsoft Certified Trainer certification and over 5 years of Training and Speaking experience, he has acquired the skills needed to help everyone understand and use SharePoint.

@bniaulin

Susan Hanley, Author (sia103)

Susan Hanley is a recognized expert in knowledge management and the design, development and implementation of successful portal solutions, with a specialization in Microsoft SharePoint. Her areas of expertise include information architecture, user adoption, governance and business value metrics. Sue's client list includes many of the Fortune 500 along with some of the world's leading academic, professional services, and not-for-profit organizations. Immediately prior to establishing her own firm, Sue led the Portal practice for Dell Professional Services. Sue is the co-author of "Essential SharePoint 2007", "Essential SharePoint 2010" and "Essential SharePoint 2013". She writes the Essential SharePoint blog for NetworkWorld.com.

@susanhanley

Sean McDonough, Author (dev104 dev204)

Sean is the "Lead Bitsmith" and owner of Bitstream Foundry, a software and custom development company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sean has been developing software and crafting solutions for over two decades, and he has focused on Microsoft's SharePoint platform since 2004. Sean possesses a somewhat eclectic set of SharePoint skills that come from time spent in a diverse set of roles, including consultant, product manager, solution architect, team lead, administrator, and platform evangelist. Sean is an author, blogger, and frequent speaker/instructor at SharePoint conferences, user groups, and similar events all over North America. He can be reached through his blog (http://SharePointInterface.com) or Twitter (@spmcdonough).

@spmcdonough

Eric Riz, Author (soc105 ecm203)

Eric is the Executive Vice President of Concatenate, Inc. a software firm focused on maximizing SharePoint through product innovation and systems integration based in Toronto, Canada. He has worked with many Fortune 500 companies on their business adoption, change management and deployment strategies to ensure they maximize the benefits of Microsoft technologies and successfully implement SharePoint-based solutions. A thought-leader in the SharePoint business space, Eric is a sought after speaker, strategist and author of SharePoint for Decision Makers. He has developed and facilitated management and technology sessions through-out North America and addressed conferences around the world. You can follow Eric on Twitter @rizinsights and read his latest articles on www.ericriz.com.

@rizinsights

Eric Overfield, Branding Expert (dev201)

Eric Overfield is a leading expert in SharePoint Branding and User Interface design. Mr. Overfield, President and co-founder of PixelMill, has over 13 years experience with web design best practices and techniques, and over 8 years experience with SharePoint branding. Besides his in-depth knowledge of SharePoint's branding capabilities, he has expertise includes general SharePoint technology, design and architecture along with custom coded web parts, solutions, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. An active speaker at User Groups and SharePoint events as well as an active blogger (blog.pixelmill.com/ericoverfield), he discusses all things SharePoint Branding and UI Design. He resides in Davis, California.

@ericoverfield

Rob Windsor, MVP Author (dev105 dev203)

Rob Windsor is a Lead SharePoint Consultant with Portal Solutions - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in DC and Boston. He has twenty years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint. Rob is a regular speaker at conferences, code camps, and user groups across North America and Europe. He regularly contributes articles and videos to MSDN, TechNet, and the Pluralsight On-Demand library and is the co-author of "Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4" for Wrox. Rob is the founder and past-president of the North Toronto .NET User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community.

@robwindsor

Wes Preston, MVP Author (pwr104 pwr201)

Wes is an independent consultant based in Minneapolis, MN and works primarily as a SharePoint platform evangelist, product specialist and solution designer. Wes assists organizations through roadmap development, planning and governance, and alignment of business needs with out of the box SharePoint platform capabilities. Wes has been a developer, IT Pro, consultant, and technology evangelist for over 15 yrs. He was an organizer and frequent speaker at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MNSPUG) for over 4 yrs and is now a board member for SharePoint Saturday - Twin Cities events. Wes has been a contributing author to two books: - "Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects (Microsoft Press, 2012)" - "SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One (Wrox, 2011)". Wes maintains a blog at http://www.idubbs.com/blog.

@idubbs

Patrick Tucker, MCT (ecm101 pwr203)

Patrick is a SharePoint architect, developer, consultant and trainer with more than 13 years of experience developing applications with Microsoft technologies, and training others to do the same. His certifications in SharePoint, .NET and SQL Server include MCPD, MCITP, MCSD, MCTS, and MCT. He has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2000. SharePoint captured his attention and imagination in 2005 and he has never looked back. Patrick is President and Chief Architect of White Owl Tech LLC, based in the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati. Patrick blogs at: www.tuckersnet.com

@tuckersnet

Jason Himmelstein, Author (sia102 spt203)

Jason Himmelstein, MCTS, MCITP, is the SharePoint Practice Director for Sentri, Inc. and has been working with Microsoft Server technologies since 1998 when he was supporting Motorola in Austin, TX. He went to work for the University of Texas for 5 years where he developed expertise in Active Directory and Exchange. He left UT to go on the road doing work for Dell in a partnership with Microsoft doing architecture, design and implementation of Active Directory and Exchange. He started working with SharePoint in 2007 as an Enterprise Architect for Raytheon Company. Today he leads a team of dynamic SharePoint Consultants for Sentri, a four-time Microsoft Partner of the Year. Jason is the co-author of the upcoming O'Reilly book "Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint". Outside of this crazy working world he is a happily married father of 2 boys and a die-hard Texas Longhorns and San Antonio Spurs fan.

@sharepointlhorn

Chris McNulty, Author (ws103 sia105 sia201)

Chris McNulty oversees SharePoint Solutions at Quest Software, now part of Dell. He's a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and a member of the Microsoft Solutions Advocate and MVTSP programs. A frequent speaker at events around the globe, Chris is the author of the "SharePoint 2013 Consultant's Handbook" and other books. He also blogs at http://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog and http://www.sharepointforall.com. Prior to Quest, Chris led the SharePoint consulting practice at KMA, a Boston based Microsoft Gold Partner. He holds an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in Investment Management and has over twenty years' experience in financial services technology with John Hancock, State Street, GMO and Santander. He lives with his wife Hayley, and his family in Milton, Massachusetts, USA. Chris' blog at Quest.

@cmcnulty2000

Javier Barrera, Author (src101 sia202)

Javier Barrera is a SharePoint Engineer at Rackspace (USA), a premier service leader focusing on business class audience. He is the Senior Lead Engineer who is an architect, and administrator, to hundreds of enterprise-level SharePoint farms. Javier delivered over 30 presentations at SharePoint focused events, authored numerous blogs and articles. He is a contributing author to forth coming "Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration", and "Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Inside Out", books. In addition he is a technical editor for, "Beginning SharePoint 2013: Building Business Solutions with SharePoint". Javier his beautiful wife Roxane, and three children live in San Antonio, Texas.

@jtbarrera

Paul Stork, MVP MCM (sia104 ecm201)

Based in Ohio, Paul Stork is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and MCM who works as a Principal Architect at Blue Chip Consulting. He has an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management and holds myriad of Microsoft certifications including being a SharePoint 2013 Solutions Expert, Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, Developer, Database Admin, IT Professional and Professional Developer. He recently completed work on his Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM) certification. He is an author and/or contributor on several SharePoint books including:

· Pro SharePoint 2010 Development for Office 365
· MCTS Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Configuration Study Guide
· Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices
· Developer's Guide to the Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform
· Windows 2000: Essential Reference

Paul has worked with SharePoint in many roles from Chief Architect to Solution Developer to Trainer and is a well-known contributor to the SharePoint community.

@pstork

Adam Preston (spt100)

Adam Preston is the Manager of SharePoint Services for The Computer Solution Company (TCSC), a Microsoft Gold Partner based out of Richmond, VA. Adam specializes in aligning technology solutions with business needs through the use of SharePoint. Adam's experience as a consultant has offered the ability to analyze, architect and implement SharePoint in a variety of industries from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Adam is active throughout the SharePoint community and is currently the President of the Richmond SharePoint User Group.

@_apreston

Suzanne George, Author (pwr103)

Suzanne is an expert in Microsoft SharePoint and .Net technologies. Susanne is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Web Applications and SharePoint Application Developer who presents at various SharePoint conferences and has participated in Microsoft's "Born to Learn" blog and is a contributing author of SharePoint 2010 books and an avid speaker at Technology conferences. Suzanne has been in internet technologies since 1994 and has been working on SharePoint for 10 years. She has led and participated on teams doing analysis, design, development, implementations, and enhancements and testing of applications in these areas: Microsoft SharePoint, ESRI ArcServer, and custom developed Internet web sites.

@spgenie

Peter Carson, MVP (src104 ecm202)

Peter is President of Envision IT, a Microsoft SharePoint MVP, and Virtual Technical Specialist with Microsoft Canada. Leading his team at Envision IT in the use and deep customization of SharePoint since 2001, he is also the VP of the Toronto SharePoint Users Group and Past President of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners – Canadian Chapter. He is well recognized as an evangelist in the SharePoint community, speaking regularly at SharePoint user group meetings, conferences, Microsoft events such as SharePoint Conference, Tech Days, Convergence, and local universities.

@carsonpeter

Therelee Washington II (spt104)

Therelee Washington, CEO of AgiliShare Solutions Group and Microsoft SharePoint Technology Specialist, is a unique individual who thrives to enlighten and broaden ones view from information emphasis rather than a technologies spectrum that changes rapidly. His approach to information technology solution requirements, rest purely upon the simplicity that information drives technology solutions. With a solid background in Business and System analysis, his skills as a SharePoint Solution Architect excelled with Enterprise Content Management and Collaborations forefront stance. Therelee is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, with a keen sense on Microsoft SharePoint's logical and system architecture. He has envisioned and implemented key strategies and approaches that have proven effective in his organization. His leadership and management style engages and motivates others. He continues to train and coach many IT professionals that seek to receive an unorthodox out-of-the-box way of thinking towards Information Technologies Collaborative, Information Management and intelligence solutions.

Find out more about SharePoint Fest DC Speakers

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Course 50513: SharePoint 2013 End User and Site Owner Training

What is SharePoint 2013?

o    Water Cooler talk

o    Evolution

o    How SharePoint enables team collaboration

§  Empowering Site Owners

§  Training: Learning Curve

o    Business case for SharePoint

o    Adoption

o    Governance

o    Office integration

§  What’s new

§  Overview

§  SharePoint Workspace, InfoPath

o    Overview of What’s New in SharePoint 2013 for End Users, Site Owners, and Content Managers

SharePoint Structure

o    Roles

• ·         SharePoint Roles
• ·         Site Owner responsibilities

o    Web Applications

o    Site Collections

o    Sites

• ·         Site components: Subsites, Apps

o    Workspaces

o    Ribbons

SharePoint Security

o    Security and Governance overview

o    Users, groups, permissions, permission levels

o    Site sharing

o    SharePoint access and Active Directory Integration

o    Inheritance

o    Best practices

Navigation

o    A tour of SharePoint 2013

o    Top Link Bar editing

o    Quick Launch editing

o    Using URL’s

Sites

o    Creating Sites

o    Site Templates – Team, Community, Project

o    Site Settings / feature

o    Sharing Sites

o    Customizing your Site

MySites and SharePoint Social Networking

o    What’s new

o    User profiles

o    Using MySite, My Newsfeed/Activity Feeds, Tags, Notes, Ratings

o    Tag Cloud, Social Bookmarking

o    Finding people and expertise

o    Tailoring the look and feel

SharePoint Communities

o    What are Communities and how do they benefit the organization

o    Creating and managing communities

• ·         Starting a Community
• ·         Managing Membership
• ·         Managing the Community

Enterprise Content Management

o    “Putability/Findability”

o    Galleries and availability of content

o    Content types

o    Site columns

o    Managed Metadata – Enterprise taxonomy and folksonomy

o    Content Syndication

SharePoint Lists

o    What’s new with SharePoint 2013 lists

o    List Apps

o    List components

o    Metadata

o    Creating lists

o    Importing existing data to create new lists

o    Managing list permissions

o    Adding/deleting/managing list items

o    Using basic sort and filter

o    View Formats

o    Reports and displaying of data using Views

o    List settings

o    Alerts

SharePoint Libraries

o    What’s new with SharePoint 2013 Libraries

o    Library Apps

o    Library components

o    Folders vs. metadata

o    Document Management

§  Adding content to the library

§  Check In/Out

§  Version management

o    Reports and displaying of data using Views

o    Library Settings

§  Advanced Settings

§  Validation Settings

§  Deleting a library

§  Saving as a template

o    Alerts

o    Document Sets

§  What are Document Sets

§  Use cases – Emergency Preparedness, RFP Process

§  Creating Document Sets

§  Using Document Sets in Libraries

Working with pages and web parts

o    Types of pages

§  Wiki pages

§  Web Part pages

§  Publishing pages

o    What are web parts

§  OOTB web parts

o    Working with web parts on a page

Workflows

o    Overview of Workflows

o    What’s new with Workflows in SharePoint 2013

o    OOTB Workflows

o    Creating Workflows

o    Workflow Settings

o    Administration of the Workflow

Focus on Collaboration features

o    Surveys

o    Wiki Libraries

o    Blogs

o    Using Discussion Boards

Business Intelligence and Dashboards

o    Creating and using Key Performance Indicators

o    Excel Services and Excel Service Web Parts

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Format 5-day instructor led training

vSphere Version Covers VMware vSphere 5.1 including ESXi 5.1 and vCenter

Delivery Remote access to dedicated rack of servers with one enterprise class PC Server per student, an iSCSI SAN, etc.

Requirements      Course can be run from any location that has a reliable Internet connection. Each attendee needs a PC that supports Microsoft Terminal Services

Lab Time 40+% of class time is devoted to hands-on labs

Certification         Prepares attendees to challenge the ESXLab Certified Virtualization Specialist exam
One exam voucher included with this class

Overview

This powerful 5-day class is an intense introduction to virtualization using VMware’s vSphere™ 5.1 including VMware ESX™ 5.1 and vCenter™. Assuming no prior virtualization experience, this class starts with the basics and rapidly progresses to more advanced topics. More than 40% of class time is devoted to labs so concepts, skills and best practices are developed and reinforced.

Initial labs focus on installation and configuration of stand-alone ESXi servers. As the class progresses, shared storage, networking and centralized management are introduced. The class continues on to more advanced topics including resource balancing, high availability, back up and recovery, troubleshooting and more. Disaster recovery, rapid deployment, hot migration and workload consolidation are also covered.

This class is unique in its approach; which is to identify common IT pain points and then clearly explain and demonstrate how virtualization delivers clear, tangible benefits (e.g.: reduced costs, greater consistency, responsiveness, reduced administration, server consolidation, etc.). Each topic is presented from the perspective of delivering key business value; not just the technical or mechanical aspects of the software.

By the end of the class, attendees will have learned the benefits, skills, and best practices of virtualization. Attendees will be able to design, implement, deploy, configure, monitor, manage and troubleshoot VMware vSphere 5.1.

Objective

At the end of the course, attendees will be able to:

• Explain the many significant benefits of virtualization
• Install ESXi Server according to best practices
• Configure and manage local storage
• Create virtual, distributed virtual, and virtual to physical LAN segments
• Understand and use shared SAN storage including Fibre SAN, iSCSI SAN
• Define and use file share (NAS) datastores
• Install, configure Single Sign On services
• Install, configure and administer VMware vCenter
• Create virtual machines, install operating systems and applications
• Rapidly deployment of VMs using golden-master templates
• Create clones - one-time copies of virtual machine
• Perform VM cold migrations, hot migrations and Storage VMotion
• Configure, manage, monitor and secure users and groups
• Understand the benefits and trade offs of network, SAN,
• Deploy and use VMware Data Recovery to back up and recover VMs
• Create and manage load balanced clusters
• Understand, create and manage high availability clusters to protect against VM service loss caused by ESXi server failures
• Monitor and tune both ESXi and virtual machine performance
• Patch and update ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager
• Understand how VMware and third party products, including operating systems, are impacted by virtualization
• Troubleshoot common problems

Who Should Attend

This class is suitable for anyone who want to learn how to extract the maximum benefit from their investment in Virtual Infrastructure, including:

• System architects or others who need to design virtual infrastructure
• Security specialists responsible for monitor, managing, securing and administering Virtual Infrastructure
• Operators responsible for day-to-day operation of Virtual Infrastructure
• Performance and capacity analysts who need to understand, provision, monitor and performance tune Virtual Infrastructure
• Backup Administrators who need to understand the impact of existing and new back up strategies in a virtual environment
• Business Continuity specialists responsible for disaster recovery and high availability
• Storage administrators who need to understand how VMware ESX uses Fibre SAN and iSCSI SAN volumes and NAS datastores
• Managers who need an unbiased understanding of virtualization before committing their organization to a virtual infrastructure deployment.

Prerequisites

Attendees should have user, operator or administrator experience on common operating systems such as Microsoft Windows®, Linux™, UNIX™, etc. Experience installing, configuring and managing operating systems, storage systems and or networks is useful but not required. We assume that all attendees have a basic familiarity with PC server hardware, disk partitioning, IP addressing, O/S installation, networking, etc.

Chapter List

Our class consists of the following 22 chapters:

1. Virtualization Infrastructure Overview
2. How to Install, Configure ESXi 5.1 Installable(HoL¹)
3. Virtual and Physical Networking(HoL)
4. NAS Shared Storage(HoL)
5. Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines(HoL)
6. Configuring Identity Sources with Single Sign On (HoL)
7. vCenter(HoL)
8. VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones(HoL)
9. ESXi and vCenter Permission Model(HoL)
10. Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage(HoL)
11. VMFS – The VMware Cluster File System(HoL)
12. Resource Management and Resource Pools(HoL)
13. ESX and vCenter Alarms(HoL)
14. Host Profiles(HoL)
15. Consolidation with vCenter Converter Standalone(HoL)
16. Back Up, Recovery with VMware Data Recovery(HoL)
17. VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion(HoL)
18. Load Balancing w. Distributed Resource Scheduler(HoL)
19. Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters(HoL)
20. Patch Management with VMware Update Manager(HoL)
21. Managing Scalability and Performance(HoL)
22. Final Thoughts

1 HoL – Every attendee perform a Hands on Lab at the end of the chapter

Hands On Labs

Attendees will complete the following hands on labs during the class:

• Install of ESXi 5.1 and perform post-install configurations
• Create and update network Standard Virtual Switches
• Define, connect to and browse NFS file shares
• Create a Virtual Machine and install a guest OS into the VM. Install VMware Tools into the VM. Add 3^rd party tools and utilities to the VM
• Install and configure Single Sign On (SSO). Configure identity sources including Active Directory
• Install and configure vCenter on Windows 2003. Install vCenter Modules
• Configure vCenter's inventory views to organize inventory objects
• Install and configure the VMware Next Generation Web Client
• Work with Clones and Templates. Convert a VM into a template. Rapidly deploy new VMs from template. Copy VMs using cloning. Use guest OS customization to easily change the identity of a VM. Create, update and deploy VMs using Guest OS Customization Specifications
• Work with virtual disks. Hot add a secondary virtual disk. Grow a non-system volume. Grow a Windows system disk and increase it's partitions without the need for 3^rd party tools
• Work with vCenter permissions. Use and customize Roles
• Create, update and work with Network Standard vSwitches. Create NIC Teams for added performance and redundancy
• iSCSI, Fibre Storage Area Networks. Connecting to shared storage
• VMware VMFS – VMware's proprietary cluster file system. How to create, tune and grow VMFS volumes
• Resource management. Work with resource tuning settings. Create, manage and monitor Resource Pools
• VM migration including Cold Migration, Storage Migration and VMotion
• Automated VM resource load balancing with DRS clusters
• Use HA clusters to minimize VM down time due to server failures
• Back up and restore VMs using VMware Data Recovery
• Using Converter Enterprise to migrate physical machines to VMs
• vCenter alarms for monitoring key infrastructure objects. Send SNMP traps to a trap receiver on high VM resource consumption
• Set up VMware Update Manager to patch/update ESXi hosts
• Performance analysis and benchmarking storage and networking

Certification

Attendees have the option to earn ESXLab Certified Virtualization Specialist (ECVS) by challenging a certification exam a the end of the course.

Detailed Chapter List

Chapter 1 - Virtualization Infrastructure Overview

• Virtualization explained
• How VMware virtualization compares to traditional PC deployments
• Common pain points in PC Server management
• How virtualization effectively addresses common IT issues
• VMware vSphere software products

Chapter 2 – How to Install, Configure ESXi 5.1 Installable

• Understanding ESXi
• Selecting, validating and preparing your server
• Storage controllers, disks and partitions
• Software installation and best practices
• Joining ESXi to a Domain
• First look at the VMware vSphere Client

Chapter 3 – Virtual and Physical Networking

• vNetwork standard and distributed virtual Switches
• Virtual Switches, Ports and Port Groups
• Creating VMkernel ports
• Creating, sizing and customizing Virtual Switches

Chapter 4 – NAS Shared Storage

• Benefits Shared Storage offer to Virtual Infrastructure
• Shared Storage options
• NFS Overview
• Configuring ESX to use NFS Shares
• Troubleshooting NFS connections

Chapter 5 – Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines

• VM virtual hardware, options and limits
• Sizing and creating a new VM
• Assigning, modifying and removing Virtual Hardware
• Working with a VM’s BIOS
• VMware remote console applications
• Installing an OS into a VM
• Driver installation and customization

Chapter 6 – vCenter Server and the Next Generation Client

• The need for Identity Source management
• Installing and configuring Single Sign On (SSO)
• Connecting to Active Directory and other identity sources
• vCenter feature overview and components
• VMware Licensing
• Registering vCenter with SSO
• Organizing vCenter's inventory views
• Importing ESX hosts into vCenter management
• Installing and Using the vSphere Next Generation vSphere Client (NGC)

Chapter 7 – VM Rapid Deployment using Templates, Clones

• Templates - Virtual Machine Golden Master images
• Creating, modifying, updating and working with Templates
• Patching, and refreshing Templates
• Cloning, one time copies of VMs
• Best practices for cloning and templating
• Adding and resizing virtual disks

Chapter 8 – ESXi and vCenter Permission Model

• VMware Security model
• Configuring local users and groups
• Managing local permissions
• vCenter security model
• Local, Domain and Active Directory users and groups
• How permissions are applied

Chapter 9 – Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage

• Fibre SAN overview
• Identifying and using Fibre Host Bus Adapters
• Scanning and Rescanning Fibre SANs
• iSCSI overview
• Virtual and physical iSCSI adapters
• Connecting to iSCSI storage
• Scanning and rescanning iSCSI SANS
• Performance and redundancy considerations and best practices

Chapter 10 – VMware File System (VMFS)

• Unique file system properties of VMFS
• Managing shared Volumes
• Creating new VMFS partitions
• Managing VMFS capacity with LUN spanning and LUN expansion
• Native and 3^rd party Multipathing with Fibre and iSCSI SANs
• VMFS performance considerations

Chapter 11 – Resource Management and Resource Pools

• How ESX delivers resources to VMs
• Shares, Reservations and Limits
• CPU resource scheduling
• Memory resource scheduling
• Resource Pools

Chapter 12 – ESX and vCenter Alarms

• Alarm categories and definitions
• Creating custom alarms and actions
• Reviewing alarms and acknowledging them

Chapter 13 – Host Profiles

• Using Host Profiles to capture an ESXi host configuration
• Perform configuration compliance scans
• Remediating out of compliance configuration issues
• Rapid ESXi host deployment/configuration with Host Profiles

Chapter 14 – Consolidation with vCenter Converter Standalone

• vCenter Converter overview
• Converting physical machines, virtual machines and OS Images
• Cold migrations of physical machines to virtual machines
• Hot migrations of physical machines to virtual machines

Chapter 15 – Back Up, Recovery with VMware Data Recovery

• Pro’s and Con’s of traditional back up strategies
• Backing up VMs with VMware Data Recovery
• Backing and restoring your ESXi server configuration
• Third party VM back up solutions

Chapter 16 – VM Hot and Cold Migration, Storage VMotion

• Cold Migrations to new ESX hosts, datastores
• Hot Migrations with VMotion
• VMotion requirements and dependencies
• How VMotion works – detailed explanation
• Troubleshooting VMotion
• Storage VMotion for hot VM disk migrations

Chapter 17 – Load Balancing w. Distributed Resource Scheduler

• Delegated resource management with Resource Pools
• Resource balanced clusters with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
• DRS Cluster configuration and tuning
• Per-VM cluster policy overrides

Chapter 18 – Failure Recovery with High Availability Clusters

• High Availability options to minimize unplanned down time
• VMware High Availability clusters
• VMware Fault Tolerance

Chapter 19 – Patch Management with VMware Update Manager

• Configure and enable VMware Update Manager
• Establishing a patch baseline
• Verifying compliance and patching ESXi hosts

Chapter 20 – Managing Scalability and Performance

• VMkernel CPU and memory resource management mechanisms
• Tuning VM storage I/O performance
• Identifying and resolving resource contention
• Monitoring VM and ESX host performance
• Performance and capacity planning strategies

Chapter 21 – Final Thoughts

• Consolidation guidelines for VMs and Storage
• Determining which workloads to consolidate
• Other considerations

For More Information

This class can be customized to meet your unique training and delivery needs, including:

• On-site delivery at your facility
• Custom timetables including 3-day rapid delivery boot-camps
• Content and Lab customization to meed your unique training needs
• Distance training
• Mentoring, implementation planning and assistance

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About this Course

This five-day course examines how to plan, configure, and manage a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 environment. Special areas of focus include implementing high availability, disaster recovery, service application architecture, Business Connectivity Services, social computing features, productivity and collaboration platforms and features, business intelligence solutions, enterprise content management, web content management infrastructure, solutions, and apps. The course also examines how to optimize the Search experience, how to develop and implement a governance plan. and how to perform an upgrade or migration to SharePoint Server 2013.

Audience Profile

The course track is targeted at experienced IT Professionals interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy and manage SharePoint Server 2013 installations in either the data center or cloud. In addition, Business Application Administrators (BAAs) who are engaged in the administering line-of-business (LOB) projects in conjunction with internal business customers would benefit from understanding of managing SharePoint Server 2013.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• ·      Describe the core features of SharePoint 2013
• ·      Plan and design a SharePoint 2013 environment to meet requirements for high availability and disaster recovery
• ·      Plan and implement a service application architecture for a SharePoint 2013 deployment
• ·      Configure and manage Business Connectivity Services features in a SharePoint 2013 deployment
• ·      Plan and configure social computing features
• ·      Plan and configure productivity and collaboration platforms and features
• ·      Plan and configure Business Intelligence solutions
• ·      Optimize the search experience for an enterprise environment
• ·      Plan and configure enterprise content management in a SharePoint 2013 deployment
• ·      Plan and configure a web content management infrastructure to meet business requirements
• ·      Manage solutions in a SharePoint 2013 deployment
• ·      Configure and manage apps in a SharePoint Server 2013 environment
• ·      Develop and implement a governance plan for SharePoint Server 2013
• ·      Perform an upgrade or migration to SharePoint Server 2013

Course Outline

Module 1: Understanding Architecture in SharePoint Server 2013

This module introduces the architectural features that underpin SharePoint Server 2013, both for on-premise and online deployments. This includes an examination of the features that are new in this version, as well as those that have been removed. This module reviews the basic structural elements of a farm deployment, and the different deployment options that are available in SharePoint 2013.

Lessons

• ·      Core Components of the SharePoint 2013 Architecture
• ·      New Features in SharePoint Server 2013
• ·      SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Online Editions

Lab : Reviewing Core SharePoint Concepts

• ·      Reviewing Core SharePoint Concepts
• ·      Reviewing Core SharePoint Concepts

Module 2: Designing for Business Continuity Management

This module examine high availability and disaster recovery in SharePoint 2013. When designing high availability and disaster recovery strategies for a SharePoint farm, it is important to understand the different approaches required by each logical tier in the farm. High availability for the database tier requires understanding of how SQL Server provides high availability and the associated requirements. High availability for the application tier can be straightforward for some service applications, while other applications, such as Search, require additional planning and configuration for high availability. The web front end tier will also require additional planning and configuration for high availability, and architects should consider the new SharePoint 2013 request management feature. SharePoint farm disaster recovery has always required considerable planning and understanding of the necessary components and backup tools available. In this regard SharePoint 2013 is no different, and farm administrators should create a disaster recovery plan that states how content and configurations are backed up, how data can be restored, and what backup schedules are required.

Lessons

• ·      Designing Database Topologies for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• ·      Designing SharePoint Infrastructure for High Availability
• ·      Planning for Disaster Recovery

Lab : Planning and Performing Backups and Restores

• ·      Create a Backup and Restore Plan
• ·      Test the Backup and Restore Process

Module 3: Test the Backup and Restore Process

Service applications were introduced in SharePoint 2010, replacing the Shared Service Provider architecture of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Service applications provide a flexible design for delivering services, such as Managed Metadata or PerformancePoint, to users who need them. There are several deployment topologies available to you when you plan your service application implementation. These range from a simple, single-farm, single-instance service application model to more complex, cross-farm, multiple-instance designs. What remains most important is that you create a design that matches the needs of your organization's users in terms of performance, functionality, and security.

This module reviews the service application architecture, how to map business requirements to design, and the options for enterprise scale, federated service application architectures.

Lessons

• ·      Planning Service Applications
• ·      Designing and Configuring a Service Application Topology
• ·      Configuring Service Application Federation

Lab : Planning a Service Application Architecture

• ·      Planning a Service Application Topology

Lab : Federating Service Applications between SharePoint Server Farms

• ·      Creating a Service Application Instance
• ·      Establishing Trust Relationships between SharePoint Farms
• ·      Publishing and Consuming Service Applications

Module 4: Configuring and Managing Business Connectivity Services

Most organizations store information in a variety of disparate systems. In many cases, these organizations want to be able to view and interact with information from these disparate systems from a single interface. This reduces the need for information workers to constantly switch between systems and creates opportunities for power users or analysts to aggregate data from multiple sources.

In SharePoint 2013, Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is a collection of technologies that enable you to query, view, and interact with data from external systems. In this module, you will learn how to plan and configure various components of BCS.

Lessons

• ·      Planning and Configuring Business Connectivity Services
• ·      Configuring the Secure Store Service
• ·      Managing Business Data Connectivity Models

Lab : Configuring BCS and the Secure Store Service

• ·      Configuring the Business Data Connectivity Service Application
• ·      Configuring the Secure Store Service

Lab : Managing Business Data Connectivity Models

• ·      Configuring a Secure Store Service target application
• ·      Importing and Configuring BDC Models

Module 5: Connecting People

When we talk about connecting people in SharePoint 2013 we are really talking about taking people out of their isolated workspaces and giving them the ability and tools to collaborate with other people in the organization such as their work colleagues, peers and executives. It is about finding people with expertise and identifying shared interests and about creating networks of people that share common goals.

In this module, you will learn about the concepts and ways of connecting people in SharePoint 2013. We will examine user profiles and user profile synchronization, social interaction features and capabilities, and communities and community sites in SharePoint 2013.

Lessons

• ·      Managing User Profiles
• ·      Enabling Social Interaction
• ·      Building Communities

Lab : Configuring Profile Synchronization and My Sites

• ·      Configuring Profile Synchronization
• ·      Configuring My Sites

Lab : Configuring Community Sites

• ·      Creating a Community Site Infrastructure
• ·      Configuring Community Site Participation

Module 6: Enabling Productivity and Collaboration

This module examines how SharePoint 2013 extends the ability of users to work collaboratively and increase productivity through seamless integration with external software platforms, additional SharePoint collaboration features, and the provision of flexible tools, with which users can develop their own solutions to business problems.

Lessons

• ·      Aggregating Tasks
• ·      Planning and Configuring Collaboration Features
• ·      Planning and Configuring Composites

Lab : Configuring Project Sites

• ·      Creating Project Sites
• ·      Configuring Project Sites
• ·      Engaging Project Teams

Lab : Configuring Workflow

• ·      Configure Windows Azure Workflow and SharePoint Workflow Services
• ·      Creating and Testing a Workflow

Module 7: Planning and Configuring Business intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI) continues to be an important area for large enterprise organizations. The key to successful BI is the ability to integrate the components that deliver the right information, to the right people, at the right time. SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise Edition provides a range of integrated solutions that enable both users and administrators across an organization to develop BI solutions to fit their business requirements. These BI tools extend beyond SharePoint to provide consistent information management from personal data analysis environments, which use Office Excel, through to departmental or organizational data repositories, which use SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).

In this module you will see how SharePoint 2013 can deliver BI solutions for your business.

Lessons

• ·      Planning for Business Intelligence
• ·      Planning, Deploying and Managing Business Intelligence Services
• ·      Planning and Configuring Advanced Analysis Tools

Lab : Configuring Excel Services

• ·      Provisioning Excel Services
• ·      Configuring External Data Access
• ·      Configuring Data Connections

Lab : Configuring PowerPivot and Power View for SharePoint

• ·      Configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint
• ·      Configuring Power View for SharePoint

Module 8: Planning and Configuring Enterprise Search

The Search service remains a cornerstone of the SharePoint platform’s success. In SharePoint 2013 there have been major changes to the components that make up the service, to increase performance and configurability.

The configuration options in SharePoint Search now enable you to provide greater search result effectiveness by fine-tuning the service in various ways. The introduction of new functionality, such as result types and the increased move towards search-driven navigation mean that the role of the Search administrator has become even more important for business success. Search now enables you to delegate more of this management to site collection administrator and site owner levels, improving Search flexibility without increasing the administrative burden on a few Search service application administrators.

To help you in your management of a Search environment, SharePoint 2013 now incorporates Search analytics and reporting into the Search service, rather than in a separate service application, as was the case in SharePoint Server 2010. The reports available will help you to monitor the service and optimize its configuration.

Lessons

• ·      Configuring Search for an Enterprise Environment
• ·      Configuring the Search Experience
• ·      Optimizing Search

Lab : Planning an Enterprise Search Deployment

• ·      Planning a Search Solution

Lab : Managing Search Relevance in SharePoint Server 2013

• ·      Configuring a Thesaurus
• ·      Configuring Entity Extractors and Refiners
• ·      Configuring Query Spelling Correction
• ·      Configuring Company Name Extraction

Module 9: Planning and Configuring Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise content management (ECM) is a set of technologies and features that administrators use to provide some control over sites and content. This could include control over how information is stored, how long information is kept, how information is visible to users while in use, and how information growth is kept under control.

Planning support for your ECM requirements requires a clear understanding of content requirements and how that content supports the organization. This means that, as a best practice, many different organizational roles should have input into the ECM strategy and supporting features.

Lessons

• ·      Planning Content Management
• ·      Planning and Configuring eDiscovery
• ·      Planning Records Management

Lab : Configuring eDiscovery in SharePoint Server 2013

• ·      Creating and Configuring an eDiscovery Center
• ·      Discovering and Preserving Content
• ·      Querying and Exporting Content

Lab : Configuring Records Management in SharePoint Server 2013

• ·      Configuring In-Place Records Management

Module 10: Planning and Configuring Web Content ManagementThe web content management capabilities in SharePoint Server 2013 can help an organization to communicate and integrate more effectively with employees, partners, and customers. SharePoint Server 2013 provides easy-to-use functionality to create, approve, and publish web content. This enables you to get information out quickly to intranet, extranet, and Internet sites and give your content a consistent look and feel. You can use these web content management capabilities to create, publish, manage, and control a large and dynamic collection of content. As part of ECM in SharePoint Server 2013, web content management can help to streamline your process for creating and publishing web sites.Lessons

• ·      Planning and Implementing a Web Content Management Infrastructure
• ·      Configuring Managed Navigation and Catalog Sites
• ·      Supporting Multiple Languages and Locales
• ·      Enabling Design and Customization
• ·      Supporting Mobile Users

Lab : Configuring Managed Navigation and Catalog Sites

• ·      Configuring Product Catalog Sites
• ·      Configuring Cross-Site Publishing
• ·      Configuring Publishing Sites

Lab : Configuring Device Channels

• ·      Configuring Device Channels

Module 11: Managing Solutions in SharePoint Server 2013

As a SharePoint administrator, it is important to understand the features that are available in SharePoint 2013. However, there are often specific functional requirements that may be part of SharePoint’s feature set but are not included in certain site templates. There may also be sites that require repeatable customization of lists or libraries, or custom code deployments that are necessary to add capabilities that are not available out-of-the-box. Developers use features and solutions to add and control these functionality requirements. Administrators, on the other hand, must understand how features and solutions are deployed and managed in order to meet user needs in a SharePoint farm.

Lessons

• ·      Understanding the SharePoint Solution Architecture
• ·      Managing Sandbox Solutions

Lab : Managing Solutions

• ·      Configuring Sandboxed Solution Management at the Farm Level
• ·      Configuring Sandboxed Solution Management at the Site Collection Level
• ·      Deploying Farm Solutions

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• ·     Describe and manage SharePoint features and solutions
• ·     Manage sandboxed solutions in a SharePoint 2013 deployment

Module 12: Managing Apps for SharePoint Server 2013

SharePoint apps are new to SharePoint 2013 and provide an additional capability to provide application functionality within the context of SharePoint. SharePoint apps supplement the capabilities of farm solutions and sandbox solutions, while providing a user experience that offers a measure of self-service customization capabilities without putting the stability or security of the farm at risk.

Lessons

• ·      Understanding the SharePoint App Architecture
• ·      Provisioning and Managing Apps and App Catalogs

Lab : Configuring and Managing SharePoint Apps

• ·      Configuring a SharePoint Farm to Support Apps
• ·      Creating and Configuring a Corporate App Catalog
• ·      Deploying and Monitoring Apps

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• ·     Describe SharePoint apps and the supporting SharePoint infrastructure
• ·     Provision and configure SharePoint apps and app catalogs
• ·     Manage how apps are used within a SharePoint 2013 deployment

Module 13: Developing a Governance Plan

Governance as it relates to SharePoint can be described as a way of controlling a SharePoint environment through the application of people, policies, and processes. Governance is necessary for all IT systems as a whole, and in particular for SharePoint deployments, which often introduce significant change in business processes, available functionality, and day-to-day working practices.

It is important to understand that governance must reflect the needs of the organization and how it should best use SharePoint. Therefore, the IT department cannot be the only body governing SharePoint; input must come from corporate sponsorship across the organization. The IT department must still act as the technical authority for SharePoint; however, this is just a single part of how SharePoint governance must be brought together from different parts of the organization.

Lessons

• ·      Introduction to Governance Planning
• ·      Key Elements of a Governance Plan
• ·      Planning for Governance in SharePoint Server 2013
• ·      Implementing Governance in SharePoint 2013

Lab : Developing a Plan for Governance

• ·      Creating a Governance Plan

Lab : Managing Site Creation and Deletion

• ·      Creating and Publishing Site Policies
• ·      Enabling and Managing Self-Service Site Creation

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• ·     Describe the concepts of governance
• ·     Describe the key elements of a governance plan
• ·     Plan for governance in SharePoint Server 2013

Module 14: Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint Server 2013

Upgrading your SharePoint Server 2010 farm(s) to SharePoint 2013 is a major undertaking, so it is important that you carefully plan the upgrade activities. You need to ensure that your upgrade path—moving from version to version—is supported, that you have reviewed the business impact of your upgrade, and that you test your upgrade strategy to ensure business continuity. As with all such activities, preparation is crucial.

In contrast with earlier version of SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 supports only database-attach upgrades for content, but now supports upgrades for some of the databases associated with service applications. You need to plan for these and ensure that you are prepared for any troubleshooting that may be required.

Another change in SharePoint 2013 is the approach to upgrading site collections. These are upgraded separately from the data and service applications. You can also delegate the upgrade tasks to site collection administrators.

Lessons

• ·      Preparing Upgrade or Migration Environment
• ·      Performing the Upgrade Process
• ·      Managing Site Collection Upgrade

Lab : Performing a Database-Attach Upgrade

• ·      Import the SharePoint 2010 Databases
• ·      Migrating and Upgrading a Service Application
• ·      Migrating and Upgrading a Content Database

Lab : Managing Site Collection Upgrades

• ·      Preparing Site Collections for Upgrade
• ·      Upgrading Site Collections

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About This Course

This 5-day Instructor Lead course will teach you all the new development changes that were made to SharePoint 2013 including .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2012, Mobility, Workflow 4.0, OData, OAuth, Claims Authentication, SharePoint AppStore and the new Service Applications (Machine Translation and PowerPoint Automation).

Audience Profile

Anyone interested in getting an introductory look at the new development features of SharePoint 2013.

Prerequisites

NET Object Oriented programming and understanding of basic development tasks in SharePoint.

At Course Completion

Describe Object Model changes, Mobility Features, OData, OAuth and Translation Services. Work with Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint Templates and build SharePoint 2013 AppStore Apps.

Module 1: Overview

• A simple introduction module.

Lessons

• N/A

Lab 1:

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Understand your course, classroom, classmates, facility and instructor.

Module 2: SharePoint 2013 UI and ASP.NET 4.0

In this module we take a look at the new features introduced in SharePoint 2013 from a UI perspective and explore some of the features of ASP.NET 4.0 that we can now take advantage of.

Lessons

• ASP.NET 4.0
• New SharePoint UI Features

Lab 1: ASPNET 4

• Explore 2013 UI Changes
• ASP.NET 4.0

Lab 2: SharePoint 2013 Features

• Managed Navigation
• Cross Site Publishing
• Image Renditions
• Embedded Code

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the new UI features of SharePoint 2013 including Follow, Drag and Drop, SkyDrive Pro, Composed Looks, Newsfeeds and OneNote
• Understand the differences between ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 4.0
• Understand the differences between the .NET Runtime and Frameworks
• Deploy Managed Navigation
• Work with Cross-Site publishing
• Work with Image-Renditions
• Utilize the new Embedded Code Feature

Module 3: SharePoint 2013 and Visual Studio 2012

In this module we are going to take a look at the new SharePoint 2013 project templates and their many improved features that can be installed with Visual Studio 2012.

Lessons

• Visual Studio 2012
• SharePoint 2013 Templates

Lab 1: Visual Studio 2012

• Explore Visual Studio 2012
• Explore SharePoint Project Templates
• Explore Server Explorer
• Packaging and Deployment Tools

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Be familiar with the new Visual Studio 2012 interface
• What SharePoint project templates exists in Visual Studio 2012
• How to utilize the deployment capabilities of the templates
• What new project templates and items are included in SharePoint project templates

Module 4: Object Model Changes

In this module we are going to explore the various changes made to the SharePoint Object Model APIs, the new Distributed Cache Serviceclasses, eDiscovery and SharePoint Education.

Lessons

• Working With Distributed Cache Service
• eDiscovery
• SharePoint Education
• Object Model Changes

Lab 1: Exploring Server Object Model Changes

• Explore new Assemblies, Namespaces, Classes
• Using .NET Reflector with SharePoint

Lab 2: Using the New Developer Dashboard

• Enable & Explore Upgraded Developer Dashboard

Lab 3: Programming eDiscovery

• Learn to use the new eDiscovery APIs
• Create Discovery Center
• Create a Case
• Create Discovery Sets
• Create Queries

Lab 4: SharePoint Education

• Learn to use the new SharePoint Education APIs
• Setup and Configure SharePoint Education Web Application
• Create a SharePoint Education Course Site
• Create and Assign Assignments
• Create Quizzes

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Understand the SharePoint Object Model Changes
• Understand what new assemblies, namespaces and classes are available
• Understand how to configure and work with Distributed Cache Service
• Understand the features of SharePoint Education
• Understand how to work with eDiscovery

Module 5: SharePoint REST

• In this module we are going to take a look at the new Representational State Transfer (REST) features of SharePoint 2013.

Lessons

• REST

Lab 1: REST

• Utilize Old REST Services
• Explore REST Service References
• Utilize New REST Services
• REST List Service Calls (PUT, GET, MERGE)
• REST UserProfile Service
• REST Social Service
• REST Search Service
• REST Excel Service

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the REST Architecture in SharePoint 2013
• Describe and use the available REST EndPoints
• How to build REST-ful queries
• How to program to REST-ful Services

Module 6: Client Object Model

In this module we are going to take a look at the new features of the Client Object Models in SharePoint 2013.

Lessons

• Minimal Download Strategy
• Client Object Model

Lab 1: Client Object Model

• Explore Client Object Model
• Utilize Client Object Model (.NET)
• UserProfiles\Social CSOM
• Taxonomy CSOM
• Publishing CSOM
• Working with Remote Event Receivers

Lab 2: JavaScript Object Model

• Explore JavaScript Object Model
• Working with Workflows

Lab 3: Minimal Download Strategy (MDS)

• Programming Minimal Download Strategy (MDS)

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• How to use the New Client Object Model Features
• How to use the New JavaScript Object Model Features
• How to use the new CSOM endpoints (UserProfile, Taxonomy, Publishing)
• How to implement Remote Event Receivers

Module 7: Mobility

In this module we are going to explore the new Mobility features provided in SharePoint 2013. You will also see how to utilize the new Push notifications as well as the Location and Map APIs.

Lessons

• SharePoint 2013 Mobility Features

Lab 1: Mobility Programming on SharePoint 2013

• Explore Built-In Mobility Features
• Mobility (Android)
• Mobility (Blackberry)
• Creating Mobile Panels

Lab 2: Location and Maps APIs

• Adding a GeoLocation Field
• Configuring Bing Maps
• Install SharePoint Windows Phone SDK
• Building Mobile Location Applications

Lab 3: Mobility Push Notifications

• Use SharePoint Windows Phone Templates
• Develop Apps using Push Notifications (MPNS)
• Configure Push Notifications (SMS)

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Understand SharePoint's Mobility Support
• How to build your own Mobility Applications with Visual Studio 2012
• How to work with Push Notifications
• How to work with Location and Maps

Module 8: Workflow 4.0

In this module we are going to take a look at implementing workflows with the new Visual Studio 2012 templates and with SharePoint Designer 2013. We will also explore the new architecture of cloud based Azure Workflows.

Lessons

• Workflows in SharePoint 2013

Lab 1: Creating Simple 2013 Workflows

• Create a custom workflow using SharePoint Designer 2013
• Configure Windows Azure Workflows
• Work with Stages
• Work with Loops
• Utilize new SharePoint activities

Lab 2: Creating Visio-based Workflows

• Create a workflow using Visio 2013

Lab 3: Creating Azure Workflows

• Create a custom workflow using Visual Studio

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• How to utilize the new Windows Workflow 4.0 in SharePoint 2013
• How to build Windows Azure based Workflows
• Use the new Visual Studio 2012Workflow templates

Module 9: SharePoint Apps

In this module we are going to explore how to develop, publish and deploy SharePoint private and public Applications.

Lessons

• SharePoint 2013 Private Apps
• SharePoint 2013 Public Apps

Lab 1: Creating Private SharePoint Apps

• Configuring App for SharePoint Hosting
• Creating an App for SharePoint (SharePoint hosted)
• Deploying App For SharePoint (Site-Based)
• Deploying App For SharePoint (App Catalog-Based)
• Requesting Apps for SharePoint From SharePoint AppStore

Lab 2: Creating Public SharePoint AppStore Apps

• Creating a Seller Dashboard account
• Create and Publish AppStore SharePoint App

Lab 3: Creating Azure SharePoint Apps

• Create SharePoint Online Account
• Create and Deploy Auto-hosted (Azure) SharePoint App

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• How to deploy SharePoint Apps in various ways
• How to create anAppCatalog
• How to build and publish a SharePoint AppStore Application
• How to download and install a SharePoint AppStore Application

Module 10: OAuth, S2S and Claims

• In this module we are going to take a look at the new support for OAuth 2.0 and look at new features of claims based authentication support in SharePoint 2013.

Lessons

• Working with Claims Authentication
• Working with OAuth 2.0 and S2S

Lab 1: Creating Server-To-Server(S2S) Applications

• Programming with SharePoint 2013 High Trust Apps
• Working with Application Permissions

Lab 2: Creating OAuth Applications

• Programming with SharePoint 2013 OAuth 2.0

Lab 3: Claims Based Auth

• Claims to Windows Identity Service
• Building a Claims Web Part
• Integrating ADFS 2.0 and SharePoint 2013

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• How to work with OAuth 2.0 in SharePoint 2013
• How to work with Claims Based Authentication
• How to build a claims web part
• How to integrate ADFS 2.0 with SharePoint 2013

Module 11: Programming 2013 Service Applications

In this module we are going to take a look at the new Machine Translation and PowerPoint Automation Services then review the not-widely used, but should have been, Word Automation Services.

Lessons

• Working with PowerPoint Automation Services
• Working with Word Automation Services
• Working with Machine Translation Services

Lab 1: Programming Translation Services

• Programming Translation Services (Server Object Model)
• Programming Translation Services (Client Object Model)
• Programming Translation Services (REST)
• Integrating Office Web Apps with Translation Services

Lab 2: Programming PowerPoint Automation

• Programming PowerPoint Automation Services
• Convert PPT to PPTS
• Convert PPT to PDF

Lab 3: Programming Word Automation

• Install Office XML SDK 2.0
• Programming Word Automation Services
• Updating Table of Contents
• Converting to PDF
• Merging Word Documents

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Develop Machine Translation applications
• Develop PowerPoint Automation Applications
• Develop Word Automation Applications
• How to use Office XML SDK 2.0

About this Course

This five-day instructor-led course provides the knowledge and skills to develop web applications by using Microsoft Visual Studio and WebMatrix 2.

The course introduces the Microsoft web stack and shows how to use WebMatrix 2 to develop web applications. The course will help students understand how to start with basic web development concepts, and how to use existing applications from the Application Gallery. The course will describe basic web development, including CSS, plug-ins, scripting, basic data access, and application hosting. The course will also describe how to use Windows Azure for application hosting, and how to move beyond WebMatrix 2 into Visual Studio.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for web developers who are beginners and have some knowledge of HTML. These web developers create sites for a range of different customer and companies, often by observing and re-purposing existing HTML pages, styles, and scripts. They work primarily with static webpages and in-line formatting. They do not often work in a team and use an ISV to host most of their customers’ sites.

• ·         Typically, these web developers:
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Before attending this course, students must have:

• ·         Knowledge of HTML or DHTML, including:
  • o    Tables
  • o    Images
  • o    Forms

   

• ·         Programming experience including the following concepts:

  • o    Declaring variables
  • o    Using loops
  • o    Using conditional statements

At Course Completion

Module 1: Overview of Microsoft Web Technologies

The goal of this module is to provide an overview of web technologies provided by Microsoft for creating and hosting web applications. These web technologies include IIS, Windows Azure, SQL Server, SQL Database, ASP.NET, WebMatrix 2, and Visual Studio. After completing this module, students will have a high-level understanding of each technology and how it fits into the overall web stack, but they may not be able to provide detailed information.

Lessons

• ·         Introduction to Web Fundamentals
• ·         Introduction to the Microsoft Web Stack
• ·         Introduction to the Open Source Application Gallery

Lab : Creating a Website in Windows Azure

• ·         Getting Started with Windows Azure
• ·         Creating a Website Based on an Application from the Gallery

Module 2: Exploring WebMatrix 2

The goal of this module is to encourage students to adopt modern best practices in the way they organize a web application project. For example, they should understand the importance of planning an application in full, before they write any code. In addition, this module describes the high-level features of WebMatrix 2.

Lessons

• ·         The Project Life Cycle
• ·         Introduction to Microsoft WebMatrix 2

Lab : Exploring WebMatrix 2

• ·         Installing WebMatrix 2
• ·         Editing a Site in WebMatrix

Module 3: Building Simple Websites in WebMatrix 2

The goal of this module is to show the students how to begin creating a simple website in WebMatrix 2 and how to populate it with webpages that use the Razor view engine to render pages.

Lessons

• ·         Building Webpages in WebMatrix 2
• ·         Using Razor Syntax to Build Dynamic Pages

Lab : Building Simple Websites in WebMatrix 2

• ·         Creating a WebMatrix 2 Site
• ·         Adding Razor Views to a Site
• ·         Validating User Input

Module 4: Building Data-Driven Websites in WebMatrix 2

The goal of this module is to introduce the students to the advantages of using a database to persist any data you may want to display on your website. The module introduces simple database concepts such as primary keys and data types. It also teaches how to add databases in WebMatrix 2 by using SQL Compact edition. Following this, the module shows how to add code to a Razor view to display the data that is stored in the SQL Compact database.

Lessons

• ·         Introduction to Databases
• ·         Creating a Database in WebMatrix 2
• ·         Displaying Data

Lab : Building Data-Driven Websites in WebMatrix 2

• ·         Adding a Database and Defining Data
• ·         Creating an Offer Display

Module 5: Adding Rich Content to WebMatrix 2 Websites

The goal of this module is to describe how to build a compelling website by including media content. The students will learn how to display audio, video, and images both by using HTML5 and by using earlier standards. In the lab, images will be retrieved from a database and videos will be retrieved from a website folder.

Lessons

• ·         Adding Media Content
• ·         Using HTML5 in a Website

Lab : Adding Rich Content to WebMatrix 2 Websites

• ·         Adding Graphics to the Offers Display
• ·         Rendering Video Content with HTML5

Module 6: Designing the WebMatrix 2 Website 

The goal of this module is to describe how professional developers apply branding, graphic design, and a consistent layout to a website. This is essential to create a good impression for site visitors and to attract them back for return visits. The module also discusses the importance of a clear navigation structure that enables visitors to locate the page they need rapidly.

Lessons

• ·         Structuring a Website
• ·         Applying Template Views
• ·         Applying Styles to a Website
• ·         Adapting a Site for Mobile Browsers

Lab : Designing the WebMatrix 2 Website

• ·         Creating a Template View
• ·         Adding Navigation Controls
• ·         Adding Styles to a Website
• ·         Adapting to Mobile Browsers

Module 7: Deploying a WebMatrix 2 Web Applications

The goal of this module is to describe how a website is hosted for customer-facing purposes. The module discusses IIS web servers running on client premises and at ISVs and in single and multi-server farms. Windows Azure is also covered as a website host. The location data is stored for a production site is also considered. In this context, SQL Server and SQL Database are discussed. The students are then told about WebMatrix 2 Remote tools, which can ensure synchronization between the development and production versions of a site.

Lessons

• ·         Hosting Web Applications
• ·         Hosting Databases
• ·         Deploying to your Chosen Locations

Lab : Deploying a WebMatrix 2 Web Application

• ·         Creating a Web Application in Windows Azure
• ·         Deploying a Web Application to Windows Azure
• ·         Making Changes to a Published Web Application

Module 8: Troubleshooting WebMatrix 2 Websites

The goal of this module is to equip students with techniques they can use for diagnosis and correction when exceptions and web error messages appear in their site. The tools covered include the developer tools in Internet Explorer and the Error List and Request tools in WebMatrix 2. Students also see how to configure their site to display a custom error page to site visitors, with a friendly, branded message.

Lessons

• ·         Sources of Errors
• ·         Using Internet Explorer Developer Tools
• ·         Troubleshooting Problems

Lab : Troubleshooting WebMatrix 2 Websites

• ·         Diagnosing Incorrect CSS Styles
• ·         Diagnosing Slow Page Load Times
• ·         Configuring Custom Error Messages

Module 9: Consuming Services and Data from the Web 

The goal of this module is to describe the many services available on the web that provide data in different formats, which may be of use to your web application. This module focuses on writing code that calls such services, and not on reusing open source components that call such services. Students will see example web services, data sets from the Windows Azure Marketplace, and oData feeds. They will learn how to reuse such data and assemble it into mash-ups.

Lessons

• ·         Calling Web Services from a Web Application
• ·         Public Data Sources

Lab : Consuming Data and Services from the Web

• ·         Building a Bing Maps Display
• ·         Building a Top Products Display

Module 10: Enriching a WebMatrix 2 Website by Using Open Source Components

The goal of this module is to show the students that many highly functional open source packages are available within WebMatrix 2 through the NuGet tool. Developers can add, adapt, and use these packages in their application to implement advanced functionality without coding it from scratch. This approach can hugely accelerate the development of a web project.

Lessons

• ·         Overview of Open Source Packages in NuGet
• ·         Browsing, Installing, and Using Packages

Lab : Enriching a WebMatrix 2 Website by Using Open Source Components

• ·         Adding Social Media Features
• ·         Controlling the Image Sizes

Module 11: Securing a WebMatrix 2 Website 

The goal of this module is to ensure that students fully understand common techniques an attacker might use to break a website and how to protect sites against such attacks. The module also describes how websites can authenticate a user to determine if they should receive a higher level of access to content. Students will learn how to enable users to manage their own passwords and how to create multiple user roles.

Lessons

• ·         Developing Websites That Resist Attack
• ·         Controlling Access to a Website
• ·         Working with Roles and Memberships

Lab : Securing a WebMatrix 2 Website

• ·         Adding Authentication to the Website
• ·         Restricting Access to Webpages
• ·         Providing Membership Services to Users
• ·         Encrypting Communications for Sensitive Data

Module 12: Building Responsive Webpages

The goal of this module is to introduce the students to coding techniques that execute JavaScript code on the browser. Students will see that client-side code can execute without a full page refresh and so can respond much more quickly to user actions. This results in more compelling web pages. The module discusses about how to use AJAX Helpers to build partial page updates and introduces the jQuery library and its common uses. Finally, the module describes how developers can configure ASP.NET Caches to optimize the performance of their site.

Lessons

• ·         Why Use Client-Side Scripts?
• ·         Using AJAX and Partial Page Updates
• ·         The jQuery Script Libraries
• ·         Optimizing the Caches to Improve Performance

Lab : Building Responsive Pages

• ·         Coding the Partial Page Updates
• ·         Using the jScript Library to Animate a Page

Module 13: Driving Traffic to a WebMatrix 2 Website 

The goal of this module is to equip the students with techniques to increase the number of visitors who access a published site. The module begins by discussing how to analyze and understand who visits your site, when they visit, and what pages interest them. The behavior of search engine web bots is discussed and students learn how to ensure that their site is fully crawled and close to the top of search engine results. Finally, locations at which you can advertise your sites are discussed.

Lessons

• ·         Growing a Website
• ·         Analyzing a WebMatrix 2 Website
• ·         Optimizing a WebMatrix 2 Site for Search Engines
• ·         Marketing a Website

Lab : Driving Traffic to a WebMatrix 2 Website

• ·         Optimizing Search Engine Result Position

Module 14: Customizing an Application from the WebMatrix 2 Gallery 

The goal of this module is to show students that they need not rule out an application from the WebMatrix 2 gallery because it does not satisfy all the requirements a customer specifies. Instead, a developer can use an application as a starting point that meets a majority of customer requirements. Any gaps can be filled by adding extra pages and other custom features to the application.

Lessons

• ·         Exploring the Application Gallery
• ·         Modifying an Existing Application

Lab : Customizing an Application from the WebMatrix 2 Gallery

• ·         Creating a Site Based on an Application from the Gallery
• ·         Integrating a Custom Page with an Application Theming Engine

Module 15: Transitioning from WebMatrix 2 to Visual Studio 

The goal of this module is to describe to the students why professional developers use Visual Studio as their principal Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Students will see the advanced features of the ASP.NET Web Forms programming model, which requires Visual Studio, and also see some details of ASP.NET MVC. Students also see the advanced debugging tools Visual Studio includes and understand how these accelerate code development, testing and troubleshooting. They will see how to add Web Forms pages into existing ASP.NET applications.

Lessons

• ·         Developing Websites in Visual Studio
• ·         Moving Between WebMatrix 2 and Visual Studio

Lab : Transitioning from WebMatrix 2 to Visual Studio

• ·         Editing a WebMatrix 2 Web Application in Visual Studio
• ·         Displaying and Editing Data in a Web Forms Page
• ·         Using the Visual Studio Debugging Tools

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Attend one week and receive 2 certifications!
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 Optional Workshops

August 6 

Conference Day One

August 7 

Conference Day Two

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• ECM
• Social SharePoint
• Power User
• Workflow
• Search
• Business Value
• Infrastructure & Administration
• SharePoint Developer
• SharePoint 2013

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Our sought after speakers are Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters, MVP's, MCT's and PMP's.  They are all passionate about SharePoint and collectively offer a wealth of experience in all aspects of SharePoint Technology.

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At SharePoint Fest - D.C. there are sessions created for SharePoint administrators, software developers, information architects and knowledge workers which will ensure that you and your team walk away with as much knowledge as you desire to truly leverage SharePoint in your current environment!

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