I thought today would be a
nice easy day to update everyone on the 2009 SharePoint conferences that I will
be speaking at next year. Jan-March are going to be very busy months for
me between 3 conferences and the MVP summit it should be a great start for next
year.
January 13, 2009 Philly Office Geeks
For all the folks not
attending the SP Tech Conference in San Francisco you guys will be lucky enough
to get pretty much the same session for free in Philly! This will be my
first time presenting at the philly group and look forward to meeting a bunch of
new SharePoint office geeks. For a summary of my presentation check it out
below.
January 27-29, 2009 SP Tech Conference
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Airport Burlingame, CA
I am really excited about
this new session that Chris and I put together. A lot of our customers are
Microsoft shops and already have a license to use this but usually don't know it
because it is relatively a new product. Yes there are third party products
that offer integrations into SharePoint for backup and recovery but if you are
already paying for a license under lets say an Enterprise agreement why spend
money on another license. This breakout session will cover setting up DPM
to protect critical SharePoint data which is very simple and quite intuitive.
SharePoint and DPM work seamlessly together and this session will prove that!
This conference should be
another great one. I had the opportunity to work in San Francisco for
about 6 months and know first hand just how popular of a product WSS/MOSS is in
this area. Should be a great turnout with a bunch of great speakers too!
604: PROTECT AND DEFEND
YOUR DATA
By Jason Medero and
Christopher Regan
With most SharePoint implementations storing critical business data, it is
crucial that this data be protected and quickly restorable in the event of a
disaster. Learn how utilizing Data Protection Manager 2007 as your
backup/restore/disaster recovery solution provides a full-fidelity solution with
granular control. We will walk you through the initial configuration of DPM as
well as setting up a recovery farm.
February
2-4, 2009 SharePoint Best Practices Conference
10950 North Torrey Pines
Road, La Jolla, California, United States 92037
I attended the last Best
Practices conference in Washington, D.C and was very intrigued at the direction
of the conference. This conference was not a "how to" it was more of a
why/when and whats best. I think that this provides attendees with much
more value to take back to their organization. Because lets face it are
you really going to remember or get a chance to write down each step that the
presenter may be going through….no probably not unless you are super fast and
even then how much do you really digest when you are busy writing until the
presentation is over.
I really believe that
attendees will be able to digest more information because of this approach and
more importantly be armed with some solid knowledge of lessons learned.
And with the great lineup of speakers and sessions this is going to be another
great SharePoint conference. I highly suggest you check out the website
but the sessions that I will be speaking on are:
ITP308, Site Templates
versus Site Definitions: The Great Debate
-
Jason Medero
When do we use site
templates and when do we use site definitions? This is a question that many
SharePoint implementations will face. This session will cover common scenarios
that organizations we have seen and answer the questions of when and why do I
develop a site definition over a site template. In addition, the session will
include an introduction to site templates and site definitions including how
SharePoint can utilize these two approaches to benefit any implementation.
IW265, Sub-site or Site
Collection ? Best Practice Approaches, Considerations, and Lessons Learned –
Gary Lapointe, Jason Medero
One of the more difficult
tasks planners face when designing a WSS or MOSS environment is whether to use
sub-sites or site collections and in what combination. This is
a critical process to get right from the beginning as it could have extreme
ramifications on the overall success of the implementation. This session
will cover the pros and cons of using site collections and the best practices
that affect the decisions to use them. We will look at the various ways in
which a logical, hierarchical, taxonomy can be met using site collections and
how to keep various assets synchronized between related site collections.
Also, because sometimes even the best laid plans can't account for the
unforeseen we will delve into the various approaches available to change the
site collection architecture post implementation (how and why you might need to
convert sub-sites to site collections and site collections to sub-sites).
I will be co-presenting on
this topic with the STSADM extensions king himself Gary Lapointe! Between
the both of us I am quite sure that by the time this session is over your head
will be spinning with extremely valuable information!
This conference is great
because its in my own back yard (well close enough)! The main man behind
this code camp/one day SharePoint event is Michael Lotter. They have
recently began accepting presentation abstracts and I am not yet quite sure what
topic I am going to submit. If you are interested in coming to this free
event (yes free as in beer). Now you can't beat that with a stick,
presentations by some of the best SharePoint experts in the field today for
free!
So as you can see the next
couple of months are going to be pretty busy but I am excited. My favorite
part of these events is the networking that occurs and putting a real live face
to the twitter picture
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