SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 7.28.11 - Connecting SharePoint/FAST to Line of Business Systems

SharePoint ShopTalk is a live, dynamic discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers to pressing contemporary SharePoint questions. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

This installment features  BA Insight's Director of Product Marketing, Martin Muldoon and his presentation:

Connecting SharePoint/FAST Search to Line of Business SystemsFor over a decade, search vendors have promised organizations Unified Information Access to all enterprise systems, but without much success. In this session Martin Muldoon will explain why it is only now that this has finally become a possibility.

You will learn:
• What are the benefits of Unified Information Access?
• What are the primary challenges of connecting to enterprise systems?
• What are the capabilities of Microsoft’s new connector framework (BCS)
• BA Insight’s approach to connecting SharePoint / FAST to Business Systems

BA Insight conducts a live a demo of their Exchange connector enabling e-Discovery and Compliance across the enterprise.

Panelist Spotlight - Defining SharePoint Governance

SharePoint ShopTalk is a live, dynamic discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers to pressing contemporary SharePoint questions. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

This installment features the ShopTalk Panelist Spotlight - Tips & Tricks with Senior SharePoint and Microsoft Solutions Architect Nilesh Mehta.

Defining SharePoint Governance
Governance around SharePoint has always been a vague topic and hence many companies shy away from defining SharePoint governance. However, it still remains one of the most important processes that an organization should go through if they successfully want to implement SharePoint.

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Presentation slides are available on Slideshare.net

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 governance v1" is being talked about on LinkedIn more than anything else on SlideShare right now. So we've put it on the homepage of SlideShare.net (in the "Hot on LinkedIn" section).

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Panelist Spotlight - InfoPath & SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

This installment  features the SharePoint ShopTalk Panelist Spotlight - Tips and Tricks with SharePoint MVP Laura Rogers:

In your organization, forms are everywhere.  InfoPath is a program that lets you quickly and easily create forms for business users to fill out and submit.  InfoPath forms and SharePoint Designer workflows can be used in conjunction, in order to create a complete business process. In this session, Laura Rogers will discuss and compare different ways that forms can be submitted and streamlined, so that the life cycle of the form is efficient and logical.  This includes best practices around the form's data connections, buttons, rules, views, and workflow that sends the form through an approval process. All of this is done with no code needed, just making the most of the InfoPath and SharePoint Designer out-of-box functionalities.

See the prerequisite demo: InfoPath Keeping the Approval Process in the Form

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 4.14.11 - OOB API to Send/Store the document in SharePoint from an automated process

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

In this installment Panelist members Ed Musters, Nilesh Mehta, and Paul Olenick discuss whether Client Object Model or SharePoint Web Services would be the best option when answering: "Any out of box API to send/store the document in SharePoint from an automated process?" a question from the MSDN Forums.

 

SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 4.14.11 - SharePoint 2010 Solutions with Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

In this installment new Panelist members Ed Musters and Ivan Sanders answered the question: "In your experience what are the best practices to keep in mind when creating SharePoint 2010 solutions with Visual Studio 2010". Join us on LinkedIn  or follow us on Twitter to receive updates for the next ShopTalk.