Thursday 12 November 2009

Speaking on SP 2010 at UK user group – ECM Enhancements

I’m excited to be giving the London/SE England SharePoint user group’s first SharePoint 2010 presentation in a couple of weeks, woohoo! It’s great to be able to talk/demo publicly on SP 2010 at last. The topic is a fairly general one - ‘Enterprise Content Management Enhancements in SharePoint 2010’, so I’m hoping there’s something in there for devs, admins, PMs, end-users alike. Here’s the abstract:

Session 2 - ECM Enhancements in SharePoint 2010 - Chris O'Brien

Enterprise Content Management is SharePoint’s bedrock. The 2010 release adds significant new capabilities in all ECM pillars (Document Management, Web Content Management and Records Management), and Microsoft have addressed some of the top ECM pain points reported by clients in SharePoint 2007. This session looks at the improvements in user experience, scalability and taxonomy, with demos showing how to leverage new features such as Enterprise Content Types, the Managed Metadata field and Content Organizer to better manage your documents and/or pages. Specific enhancements in WCM and RM will also be discussed. This session is a great way to kick-start your awareness of SharePoint 2010, and questions on other aspects of the new version are welcome in the Q & A wrap-up at the end (or the pub!)

If there’s time I’ll also show a simple example of extending the new metadata capability with code – it’s a good excuse to show the new SharePoint/Visual Studio 2010 integration and deployment process if nothing else!

Also, if this session isn’t enough there’s another thought-provoking session if you’re interested in accessibility:

Session 1 - Developing an Accessible SharePoint System - Martin Hatch

  • What is accessibility?
  • Presenting “SAS”: our unique SharePoint Accessibility Solution presenting the functionality that is delivered by the platform.
  • Challenges and major hurdles
  • Technical approach
    • AAA XHTML rendering
    • Accessible Content Management
    • Web Part Editing
    • List views, toolbars and menus
    • Back-end administration
  • Roadmap
  • Questions

There are currently already 88 people registered, and we have room for many more. The event is being held on Wednesday 25th November at Microsoft’s Victoria office in London:

Arrive 18:00 – 18:30 as the first session will start at 1830 sharp.

Microsoft London (Cardinal Place)
100 Victoria Street
London SW1E 5JL
Tel: 0844 800 2400

To register, simply leave your name at this thread over on the SUGUK website - http://suguk.org/forums/1/21214/ShowThread.aspx 

P.S. For user group newbies, all our events are always free.