I just finished up my "Wild West" Optimus Actiones ad colloquium hic, præsentatione regiminis SharePoint rogatus eram ut tegerem iaculis dictum mi ut meus blog, hic itaque est: http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SharePoint/Paul 20Galvin%%% 20Wild 20West.zip
(Paenitet enim violam ioco!)
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Ego potest offerens in Neo-Eboracensis SharePoint Maecenas et ipsum coetus coetus 6th Novi Eboraci in Microsoft officia Ave die martis, 01/27 ad 6:00 PM (iustus a septimana nunc supra!).
Suus 'iens futurus a technica præsentationem ubi ambula per processus of partum quod actio potest consuetudo workflow, et installed in packaged SharePoint environment et adsueta SharePoint Designer creare declarativum workflow solutiones.
Hoc existimas: http://www.codeplex.com/spdactivities
Faciam ut pergam paulo evangelizandi, making the case that developers should really think hard about the benefits of this kind of effort. it goes something like this: Da diem hunc piscem manducet, et aedificabo ei consuetudinem workflow actio potest peragendam consilium, et negotium suum pro processu, invenire pisces (aut ullum aliud alimentum!) et relinquam in tincidunt vestibulum id solus facere gravis officium complexu tincidunt optima facere.
Donec elit accumsan ut patet sessionem, but I do encourage curious end users and admins to show up. Even though the specific process of creating a custom action is targeted directly at developers, non est sermo de meta.
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I’ll be doing two presentations at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference this February in San Diego.
Hoc fieri non satis est ut per DEFESSUS, ita omnibus conferentia visitem est, ingenue, terribilis. Autem, I do think this conference is special. There is zero marketing focus and the whole thing is about offering real-world practical advice on how to untangle some of the thorniest issues we face dealing with SharePoint. It’s not gigantic, so all of the speakers are very accessible (at least when they are not putting out fires back home). This means that in addition to the great formal presentations, you can have some great conversations and debates with virtually every speaker at almost any time, starting with communal breakfast up to late night imbibing at the hotel bar.
Beyond the speakers, you’ll have great opportunities to build and cement networks of other SharePoint users in the community. By the end of the last session and conference wrap-up, you’ll be energized and full of good ideas to bring back to work to help improve your SharePoint environment.
It’s well worth the investment.
The web site is top notch. Check it out for dates, registration, topics and speakers.
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Bob Fox lets us know that Dave Mann, SharePoint workflow genio, Loquitur in concilio NJ SharePoint user coetus die mercurii vesperum, 11/19/08. Don’t miss it. (Miserabile, seniori meo corporatum fuerit scheduled magna coetus conventus Wed nocte et ego deesset eam).
Click here to register adepto magis details.
Hic es nonnullus sessionem details:
Session Title “Deploying Workflows in a Large Scale SharePoint Environment"
Workflow in SharePoint is an exciting new capability. Autem, it is a capability that is often misunderstood when it comes to the impact it has on your environment. For small environments, the out-of-the-box settings, configurations and architectural approach are probably sufficient. But what about an environment that will be processing thousands of documents per day? How can you make sure that those environments will not falter under the load, but still meet SLA’s for performance and responsiveness? This session will explore why focusing on your workflow subsystem is important, and cover the needs of a large scale workflow environment from the farm level down to individual workflow design specifications. Learn why all workflows need to be looked at in light of performance and scalability as well as how to build workflows that scale in an environment that scales, monitor workflow processing and overcome common obstacles. This session will cover architectural guidance for your SharePoint environment as well as specific coding practices to ensure you get the most out of your SharePoint workflows.
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Ive uploaded PowerPoint est enim unus de meo sessionibus, "Get Great Business Requirements," hic jus (http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Paul 20Galvin%%% 20Great 20Requirements.pptx).
Aside ex serie egregie punctis, potenter fecit, the deck includes extensive notes which supplement and enhance the afore-mentioned brilliant talking points.
Illi vestrum ut desiderari Optimus Actiones colloquio, I was lucky enough to present and discuss a process that works very well when trying to discover accurate end user business requirements for SharePoint projects. The PowerPoint plus notes describe this in pretty good detail. It supplements one of my earliest blog postings here: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!146.entry
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Nocte, 08/20/08, SharePoint Connecticuttensis in user coetus conventus a molestie lacus est webcast pro contione mensis huius physicae.
Nocte scriptor locus: "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Extranei instruere methodologies"
Microsoft’s own Chris Lavista will lead the discussion. I’ve worked with Chris before and he really knows his stuff. If you have any interest in this subject, reprehendo eam. Here are the details:
User SharePoint Group Webcast: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=130299
Topic: Microsoft Muneris SharePoint Server 2007 – Extranei instruere methodologies
Dicentis: Chris Lavista Microsoft
Date: Veneránda 20th Tempus suscipiat: 6:15 PM Tempus: 6:30 PM -8:00PM
Descriptio: Permittit enim plures optiones SharePoint instruere. Fiet sermo, quemadmodum tuto posita extranei in suggestu SharePoint posset explicuit. Discutere et mores optimos quibus missiones integrationem vitae frontem, Isaiah Server 2006 et IAG 2007. Optionally, signum in usum casibus loqui unius sustinetur.
De Chris: Chris Lavista is a Technical Architect at recently opened Microsoft Technology Center in New York. His focus is on SharePoint, Collaborationem, adunauit Communicationibus. Quam operatus est in oeconomus officia industria, (Fugent, Citigroup) prius jungens pro Microsoft 8 annis. He started at Microsoft in 2000 sicut pars consulens officia quadrigis in usu prius jungens MTC diluculo 2006.
Registration & More Info: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=130299
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In duo septimanas, Ego ministrabant in New Jersey SharePoint user coetus et novo novos Eboracensis SharePoint Tincidunt user coetus (Morbi convallis felis SharePoint magis contra instituta).
In New Jersey, the good people of NewsGator presented their product and covered a lot of very interesting social computing concepts. If you’re looking to incorporate social computing into your organization in a system-assisted way and can’t get out-of-the-box SharePoint to do it for you, graviter reprehendo ex NewsGator. It’s very good stuff. A lot of great social computing functionality and (in a demo environment saltem) bene factum.
I’m personally convinced that companies that begin to adopt social computing attitudes and systems will outperform those that do not. It’s too useful to ignore or, ad hoc puto, to even delay. It can make a tremendous difference in day-to-day operations if done correctly. I’ll write some more about this later.
In New York nocte, the NY SharePoint Developers group kicked off its inaugural meeting at the MSFT office on 52nd and 6th. John Bender presented on how to create a custom stsadm extension. I’ve read about it, sed videntes "vivere" clarifies things. It’s much easier than I realized. No need for features/solutions, just an XML file and a DLL. He walked through a process for recursively finding and displaying security settings for sites and lists in a site collection. He took it farther to describe how this could be part of an auditing process. This group focuses purely on development and so doesn’t come into conflict with larger more established SharePoint user group which is frequently talking at a higher level.
Sunt coetus omnes trans mundi. Check them out.
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Ego dicendi in SharePoint Optimus Actiones colloquium in November.
It’s sort of a funny story. I was in Virginia presenting at the SUGDC colloquium and that Friday was the deadline to submit speaking proposals for the BP conference. The organizers described how they would use a "blind selection" Expositio et ratio eligendi operam fieret ex pretio, etc. To maximize my chances of getting selected, I submitted two proposals. The selection committee picked both.
Collega (Natalya Voskresenskaya) and I will discuss a real-world governance model that we and our client put together for a substantial SharePoint rollout project last summer. The objective here is to describe the details of the governance plan and why we believe it represents best practices in the context of Sharepoint, Regimen et similis turmas.
Secundo, I will present a process for obtaining great business requirements from End Users. This goes back to one of my very early blog posts, indecenter titulus "MUSCUS: Efficax introductio ad Organizatio".
Colloquium ipsum et plenum magnis INSANE videtur esse altus suadeo discerpens te a a opus tribus diebus, iunctura in in haec visa et networking cum tam colloquium attendees et loquentium. It will be time and money well spent.
Hope to see you there 🙂
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My colleague (Natalya Voskresenskaya) and I will be speaking at the Fairfield/Westchester SharePoint User Group meeting at 6:00 In PM 07/16 (Wednesday). We are talking about the content query web part. This is the same (sed melius quod habetur in Maio Lugduni dedit).
Register hic pre-: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=129626&wa=wsignin1.0
Et utinam non videre Natalya!
Here’s the email Richard Martzelle just sent out on the subject:
Topic: Using Content Query Web Part to Create Business Solutions
Speakers: Paulus Galvin & Natalya Voskresenskaya
Date: July 16th Tempus suscipiat: (Eat & Network): 6:00PM Tempus: 6:30 PM -8:00PM
Meeting Description
MOSS 2007’s Content Query Web Part (CQWP) users possit creare consuetudinem sententiae a multis notitia queried, et nunc ipsum quod in uno. Quamquam hereditas eius potens query & contentus bene polito, CQWP saepius underrated et despiciens pluma. CQWP is both a "data extraction engine" (reperio usquam documentis vel album items in a collection site) et quoque in primo genere evidenter præsentationem tool quod users ad moderari contentus est quomodo sistuntur per HTML involvens et splendor format styles ut paene quolibet modo.
In hoc demo-grave sessionem, CQWP solvere dabunt operam uti eu Vestibulum facilisis mollis neque per ostentationem
• use default CWQP features, possidet Nisl id Aenean Curabitur tellus
• use CWQP as a reporting tool anywhere in a site collection via filter criteria such as "all documents created today"
• change look & sentio of negotium notitia query consequitur ad exaggerandam, notitia ostendere columnis adiectis, notitia ostendere eget format, aliique
• show how CQWP can aid in content type administration (i.e. invenietis omnia documenta particularis potentia ictum mutato content type ut intelligant a definitione CT)
• describe some limitations of CQWP
• provide a list of resources for advanced CQWP techniques, possidet blogs, ECQWP Codeplex project & Documenta MSDN
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I attended my first ever SharePoint conference this past weekend and it was a blast.
Thursday afternoon, I drove down to Virginia, guided by my newly purchased $50 GPS appliance plug-in thing to my phone. The device was flawless. After the five hour drive, I had the energy to do a nice run on the tread mill and then, even more surprisingly, had the energy to head to the lobby for an advertised speaker’s cocktail hour. Conference n00b that I am, it turned out that the cocktail hour was really a ruse to get speakers to show up and help stuff papers and swag into shoulder bags for conference attendees 🙂
Had a hard time sleeping because I was speaking first thing Friday AM. Nervousness, a nagging feeling that I needed to add a slide to my presentation and a very disturbing cat show on Animal Planet kept me up late. Since I went to sleep late, I naturally got up early. I did add a fairly detailed technical architecture slide. It was well worth the effort because the 25 minutes of Q&A would have been very awkward without it. I was lucky to get the first slot in the technical track. Sahil Malik was originally going to speak Friday AM and I was going to speak Saturday but he needed to swap times. This allowed me to do my presentation and then sit back and enjoy everything going forward Friday and Saturday.
The presentation went OK. I definitely have room to improve it. I spoke about how we can access and use web services from a SharePoint Designer workflow using a custom action. Super tempus, I will tie this information into my series over at EUSP.com for End Users trying to get the most use out of that tool. I blew through my slides and demo in 35 minutes, to my dismay at the time. Luckily, Q&A was lively, no doubt helped by the fact that it was early morning before lunch. Q&A is my favorite part of any presentation.
There were many interesting subjects and I hope to blog about them in greater detail this week (time permitting, as always). A fellow from CMS Watch provided a highly critical yet very hopeful review of SharePoint’s position in the market. A different discussion focused on the paucity of SharePoint resources and the difficulty that recruiters have finding good talent that is also "affordable" in this very tight market. The CMS Watch guy referred to the SharePoint human resources pool as being like a "guild." I’m mainly familiar with that term in MMORPG terms and it gave me a little thrill, to be honest 🙂
The highlight of the conference was just meeting and catching up with people I’ve "known" online for a while. The best was sitting at the bar with Becky Isserman (MossLover) nam 3 aut 4 hours (and that, after I had finished drinking for the night). I don’t often get to talk about Farscape aut Babylon 5 with Kansas City residents.
Bob Fox was there and as usual, is a whirlwind of intros, chats and just plain frenetic energy. He invited me to Saturday breakfast with Sahil Malik and that was great.
Saturday (day 2), Mike Lotter dragged himself to the conference to speak about InfoPath and then he joined Becky at the end of the day to do a sort of general Q&A session for about 30 ad 45 minutes mainly focused on InfoPath (Mike) and AJAX (Becky). I wish Becky had been able to go through her full/formal presentation but I’m sure I’ll get a chance to see that one of these days. I have a feeling she’ll be "hitting the circuit" going forward.
I could go on and on. Two last points — the financial purpose of the conference was to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network and it raised $5,000. That was awesome. Tandem, I want to publicly thank Gary Blatt, Gary Vaughn and Bob Fox for alerting me to and allowing me to speak at the conference. Utique, the two Gary’s had a team of people supporting and organizing and all of you were awesome. I had high expectations before I went and it was better than I had hoped for.
Keep on the alert for the next conference scheduled for November 7th and 8th. Aside from some great content, it’s terrific for meeting up with all those online personalities you’ve known through blogs, twitter, forums, etc.
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