This seminar, led by world renowned author and public speaker, Rand Morimoto, shares tips, tricks, best practices, and lessons learned on the latest in Microsoft’s solutions for collaboration and communications in the SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint Services technologies.

Based on over 2-1/2 years of early adopter beta implementations of SharePoint 2007, and the basis of the upcoming book “SharePoint 2007 Unleashed” written by Convergent Computing consultants, this seminar highlighted, demonstrated, and shared tips, tricks, best practices, and lessons learned on the planning, implementation, customization, and support of a SharePoint 2007 environment.

Rand covers in this session, SharePoint 2007:

• as an Intranet (including forms routing, approval processes, shared information, policy depositories, search, content management)

• as a Collaboration tool (including workflow, document depositories, shared workspaces, check-in and check-out procedures)

• as an Extranet (including secured access using two-factor authentication tokens, encrypted content, audited logging and tracking, rights managed content store)

• as a Search tool (including workgroup search, enterprise search, portal search, site search, and global search)

• as a Communications tool (including wikis, blogs, discussion workspaces, instant messaging presence, and Outlook integration)

• as a Business Enabler (including workforce automation storehouse, business intelligent, mobile access, reporting tool, line of business integration)

• as a Public Folder replacement tool (replacing Exchange Public Folders with SharePoint 2007 workspaces)

You should download and print the slide deck that will be used throughout this session.  Other content mentioned in the seminar:

• Comparison Spreadsheet (in XLS format) on the differences between MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, along with the other SharePoint server products (Internet, Search, etc)
• Comparison Graphic (in JPG format) that shows the differences between all of the various versions of 2007 Office (ie: Home, Pro, Professional, Ultimate, etc)
• Command-line syntax for administering SharePoint (PDF doc)

(note: Videos will be posted on or around Jan 24, 2007)

Video #1 (?-hr ??-min): SharePoint 2007 Roadmap, Background, Collaboration, and as an Intranet

Video #2 (?-hr ??-min): SharePoint 2007 as an Extranet, Search Tool, Business Enabler, and Public Folder replacement

Convergent Computing is a technology consulting firm headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area that helps organizations plan, implement, and support their networking environments. If your organization can use assistance implementing, supporting, or just getting better use of your Windows Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, or other network or application technologies, please contact our organization for assistance mailto:sales@cco.com