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Microsoft Southern California
“Jumpstart Your SharePoint Deployment” One-Day Seminar
8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., May 16, 17, 18, 2006
Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego, California

You are invited to attend a FREE 1-day seminar designed to deliver practical, immediately applicable information on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). Attendees will receive a technical overview of SharePoint and WSS, and will learn the basics on installing and customizing SharePoint.  This seminar will be delivered by Microsoft partners Collaboration Experts, K2, Neudesic, Aviva Consulting, and by Microsoft Technology Specialists.  Please see below for a detailed agenda.

 

Audience:
This course is intended for IT managers, staff, and developers who are responsible for deploying and customizing SharePoint, and are in the process of planning their deployment.  Attendees should have a basic knowledge of ASP.NET, the .NET Framework, and C# or VB.NET. 

 

 
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast   
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Building Collaborative Applications with SharePoint
This session will provide a technical overview of SharePoint Portal Server and WSS, and will educate attendees on installing and customizing their SharePoint deployment.  Topics covered include:
Planning and Installation:  WSS Architecture, Portal Architecture, Topology Planning, Portal Installation
Customization:  Customizing with the browser versus Front Page 2003, Creating lists and document libraries, Customizing lists and views, Changing a site’s navigation structure, Creating and applying list templates, Adding Web Part Pages to a document library, Adding Web Parts to a Web Part Page
Microsoft Office Integration:, WSS Integration with Excel, Access and Outlook, Live Communications Server, Document Lifecycle and versioning, Creating and publishing forms with InfoPath, Handling Document Library events
Retrieving and processing InfoPath form data – XSD
Presented by:  Jason Masterman, Collaboration Experts   
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Solution Showcase:  Delivering Solutions with Business Value
Presented by:  Aviva Consulting or Neudesic   
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Optimizing Workflow and Business Process
Learn how to optimize your portal implementation to map to your business processes, and how to align your technology solutions and organization’s workflow.
Presented by:  Glen Bryant, K2   
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Microsoft Office and SharePoint Vision and Futures
This presentation will cover the current Office and SharePoint product families, and a peek into what the upcoming versions, which are part of the 2007 Microsoft® Office system, will deliver.
Presented by:  Todd Rowe or Gretchen Rivas, Microsoft Corp.   
3:00 p.m. Q&A and Conclusion 

 
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Microsoft Corporation, Irvine, CA 
3 Park Plaza, Suite 1800
Irvine, California  92614
949.263.3000
To register:  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032292059&Culture=en-US 
Event ID:  1032292059 

 

8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Microsoft Corporation
Los Angeles, CA
333 South Grand Ave.  Suite 3300
Los Angeles, CA  90071
213-806-7300
To register:  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032292058&Culture=en-US
Event ID:  1032292058 

 

Thursday, May 18, 2006
8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Microsoft Corporation
San Diego, CA 
9225 Towne Center Drive, Suite 400
San Diego, CA  92121
858-909-3800
To register:  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032292060&Culture=en-US
Event ID:  1032292060