The document summarizes key topics from sessions attended by Ridwan Sassman at Tech.ed 2010, including:
- A session on FAST Search Server 2010 for Internet Sites which included an overview of the UI toolkit and how it can be used to create dynamic search powered web applications.
- A session on upgrading from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 which covered planning, tools, supported upgrade methods including in-place and database attach upgrades.
- A session on PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010 which provided an introduction and overview of the product's architecture, workflow and features like the PowerPivot gallery.
Overview: Creating Workflows with Visio, InfoPath and SharePoint Designer 2010ridwansassman
This document provides an overview of creating workflows in SharePoint 2010 using Visio, InfoPath and SharePoint Designer. It discusses the prerequisites and tools needed to build SharePoint workflows. Some example workflow scenarios are described such as purchase order processing, asset tracking, and document approval processes. The presentation demonstrates how to create workflows visually using Visio and transfer them to SharePoint Designer. It also shows how to edit InfoPath forms and add business logic using SharePoint Designer and InfoPath.
Extending SharePoint 2010 To Line of Business Integration Aridwansassman
This document discusses using Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 to integrate line of business (LOB) systems and data. BCS allows external data to be brought into SharePoint and Office in a centralized, managed way. It provides advantages like extending the reach of enterprise data by enabling users to access, reuse, and gain insight into external data from LOB systems in SharePoint and Office. The document demonstrates accessing customer and product data from external systems in SharePoint and creating a sales quote document connected to that external data in Word.
Workflow allow you to automate your business processes
SharePoint Workflow
A Real Example of Workflow
SP Designer VS Visual Studio
SharePoint Designer 2013
Develop Workflow using SharePoint Designer
Demo: Developing SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow
Create Workflow using Visual Studio 2012
This document discusses using Visio and workflows in SharePoint 2010. It provides an overview of workflows and their benefits, describes the workflow authoring tools of SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio, discusses workflow security, and how Visio can be used to create workflow diagrams that can be imported into SharePoint Designer. It also outlines the requirements and provides an agenda for a demo of creating a basic Visio workflow and deploying it.
Workflows in SharePoint 2013: Architecture#spsbeSpikes NV
This document discusses the architecture and features of workflows in SharePoint 2013. The key points are:
- Workflows were moved to a separate workflow service to improve scalability and reliability. Workflows are now fully declarative using XAML.
- New workflow activities were introduced, including stages, loops, parallel blocks, and calling web services. Dynamic values can also now be used.
- Workflows can be deployed to the app web and published to the host web using CSOM. This allows workflows to be used across add-ins.
- Some 2010 workflow features like InfoPath forms and various activities were removed. Custom workflows and task forms can still be developed.
The document discusses new features of workflows in SharePoint 2013. Key points include:
1) SharePoint 2013 introduces two workflow platforms - the existing SharePoint 2010 platform which continues to support existing workflows, and a new SharePoint 2013 platform which utilizes Workflow Manager and provides enhanced capabilities like scalability and web service integration.
2) The new SharePoint 2013 workflow platform can be accessed through both SharePoint Designer 2013 and Visio and provides new actions, stages, loops, and the ability to call web services.
3) Workflow Manager is configured through Windows PowerShell and provides enterprise-level features like reliability, scalability, and monitoring capabilities.
This document discusses configuring workflows in SharePoint 2010. It provides an overview of out-of-the-box workflows, describes new workflow types like reusable workflows that can be used across multiple lists, and covers new workflow actions and conditions. It also discusses using impersonation steps to run workflow actions as a different user, integrating Visio 2010 for workflow design, and customizing workflow forms using InfoPath 2010.
Overview: Creating Workflows with Visio, InfoPath and SharePoint Designer 2010ridwansassman
This document provides an overview of creating workflows in SharePoint 2010 using Visio, InfoPath and SharePoint Designer. It discusses the prerequisites and tools needed to build SharePoint workflows. Some example workflow scenarios are described such as purchase order processing, asset tracking, and document approval processes. The presentation demonstrates how to create workflows visually using Visio and transfer them to SharePoint Designer. It also shows how to edit InfoPath forms and add business logic using SharePoint Designer and InfoPath.
Extending SharePoint 2010 To Line of Business Integration Aridwansassman
This document discusses using Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 to integrate line of business (LOB) systems and data. BCS allows external data to be brought into SharePoint and Office in a centralized, managed way. It provides advantages like extending the reach of enterprise data by enabling users to access, reuse, and gain insight into external data from LOB systems in SharePoint and Office. The document demonstrates accessing customer and product data from external systems in SharePoint and creating a sales quote document connected to that external data in Word.
Workflow allow you to automate your business processes
SharePoint Workflow
A Real Example of Workflow
SP Designer VS Visual Studio
SharePoint Designer 2013
Develop Workflow using SharePoint Designer
Demo: Developing SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow
Create Workflow using Visual Studio 2012
This document discusses using Visio and workflows in SharePoint 2010. It provides an overview of workflows and their benefits, describes the workflow authoring tools of SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio, discusses workflow security, and how Visio can be used to create workflow diagrams that can be imported into SharePoint Designer. It also outlines the requirements and provides an agenda for a demo of creating a basic Visio workflow and deploying it.
Workflows in SharePoint 2013: Architecture#spsbeSpikes NV
This document discusses the architecture and features of workflows in SharePoint 2013. The key points are:
- Workflows were moved to a separate workflow service to improve scalability and reliability. Workflows are now fully declarative using XAML.
- New workflow activities were introduced, including stages, loops, parallel blocks, and calling web services. Dynamic values can also now be used.
- Workflows can be deployed to the app web and published to the host web using CSOM. This allows workflows to be used across add-ins.
- Some 2010 workflow features like InfoPath forms and various activities were removed. Custom workflows and task forms can still be developed.
The document discusses new features of workflows in SharePoint 2013. Key points include:
1) SharePoint 2013 introduces two workflow platforms - the existing SharePoint 2010 platform which continues to support existing workflows, and a new SharePoint 2013 platform which utilizes Workflow Manager and provides enhanced capabilities like scalability and web service integration.
2) The new SharePoint 2013 workflow platform can be accessed through both SharePoint Designer 2013 and Visio and provides new actions, stages, loops, and the ability to call web services.
3) Workflow Manager is configured through Windows PowerShell and provides enterprise-level features like reliability, scalability, and monitoring capabilities.
This document discusses configuring workflows in SharePoint 2010. It provides an overview of out-of-the-box workflows, describes new workflow types like reusable workflows that can be used across multiple lists, and covers new workflow actions and conditions. It also discusses using impersonation steps to run workflow actions as a different user, integrating Visio 2010 for workflow design, and customizing workflow forms using InfoPath 2010.
Op de BIWUG van 17 november, dit maal gehost en georganiseerd door Tobania, nam onze eigenste Peter Plessers deel als gastspreker omtrent het onderwerp Office Add-in Development. In deze sessie bood Peter het talrijke publiek een overzicht van de mogelijkheden en aangebrachte verbeteringen van Office 2016 aan de hand van een aantal verhelderende demo’s en ervaringen uit recent gebruik ervan.
Building Scalable SharePoint 2013 Workflows - WF101 - SPFestDCBrian Culver
SharePoint 2013 now supports two workflow platforms. We will walk through using the two workflow platforms and how they are different. We will configure the SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager and build a workflow that can run locally and in the Azure cloud seamlessly.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understanding both of the SharePoint 2013 Workflow architectures.
2. Learn to setup and configure the SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager.
3. Learn to build staged workflows and run them in the local or the Microsoft Azure cloud
5.4swiss_sharepoint_club_mvp_track4_workflows-sharepoint_2013_serge_luca_shar...Swiss SharePoint Club
This document provides an overview of the SharePoint 2013 workflow platform presented by Serge Luca, a SharePoint MVP. It compares the 2010 and 2013 workflow platforms, discusses the different workflow topologies, and demonstrates creating workflows using SharePoint Designer 2013 and Visual Studio 2013. Key points include that 2013 workflows are decoupled and run outside of SharePoint, there are different workflow topologies like co-located, federated and distributed, and Visual Studio is better for debugging while SharePoint Designer is better for power users.
This document appears to be a presentation about SharePoint Online. It includes sections on development approaches, governance needs, configuration levels of effort, and thanks sponsors. The presentation provides an overview of SharePoint Online, including development tools, design options, and configuration methods at different levels of involvement. It also lists recommended resources for learning more.
In this demo rich session, Penny will demonstrate will introduce some of the new workflow features of SPD 2013: concentrating on loops, the new dictionary variable and calling web services, as well as the new SharePoint 2013 Promoted Links list app.
Slide Deck of the session "Getting Started with SharePoint 2013 Workflows"
Date : 25 October 2014
Event : SPSEvents Washington DC Reston
Place : Microsoft Technology Center, 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston , Virginia USA 20190
Twitter Handle: #SPSDC
SharePoint Saturday Madrid 2016 - SharePoint Upgrade or Migration, or is it b...Chirag Patel
Chirag Patel presented on SharePoint upgrade and migration options at the SharePoint Saturday event in Madrid. The presentation covered business objectives to consider for an upgrade or migration, the differences between an upgrade and a migration, assessing readiness through content inventory and analyzing customizations, and the technical processes for performing an in-place upgrade to SharePoint 2016. The presentation also provided an overview of hybrid migration pathways between on-premises and Office 365 environments.
What’s new with Workflow in SharePoint 2013 by Andew Connell - SPTechConSPTechCon
This document discusses new features of workflows in SharePoint 2013. Workflow processing is now handled by Workflow Manager for improved stability and scalability. SharePoint 2013 workflows support calling web services and a fully declarative model. Tools like Visio 2013, SharePoint Designer 2013, and Visual Studio 2012 can be used to create custom workflows visually or with code. Web services allow moving custom workflow logic out of the workflow. Advanced debugging of workflows is possible using Fiddler.
Speakers: Saša Tomičić, Ivan Popek;
This session will introduce an interesting set of new features and capabilities of the SharePoint Server 2013 workflow engine powered by .NET Framework 4.5. We will show which platforms you can use to develop your workflows and show the SharePoint Designer workflow enhancements. Beside that you will see new Windows Azure Workflow capabilities and, last but not least, a few Windows PowerShell cmdlets that manage workflow.
This document summarizes new features in SharePoint 2010 workflows. It discusses out-of-the-box workflows, new capabilities in SharePoint Designer workflows like parallel steps and new actions. Visio workflows published to SharePoint are introduced. The document also compares sequential and state machine workflows, and the strengths of building workflows with SharePoint Designer, Visio and Visual Studio. It concludes with demonstrations of a Visio workflow published to SharePoint and sequential/state machine workflows in Visual Studio.
Building Workflows for SharePoint 2010 with SharePoint Designer and VisioElaine Van Bergen
Workflow in SharePoint 2010 has been revamped with a new designer for building both reusable workflows and list-based workflows. Come and learn about the new possibilities for automating business processes in SharePoint 2010 with easy-to-use, no-code tools. This talk will describe the new workflow features and demonstrate how SharePoint 2010 can be used to create rich end-to-end workflows, cheaply and easily.
Practical Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2013 - Helsinki FinalndIvan Sanders
This document provides information about a presentation on practical business intelligence in SharePoint 2013 in Helsinki. It includes contact information for the presenter, Ivan Sanders, who is a SharePoint MVP with over 20 years of experience designing and developing business intelligence dashboards and Microsoft solutions. Requirements and comparisons for SharePoint 2010 and 2013 hardware are listed. Architectures for BI components like Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, and Visio Services are described. Installation best practices and links to demo content are also provided. The document ends with a list of trusted SharePoint experts and thanks sponsors of the event.
This document discusses the new features and capabilities for workflows in SharePoint 2010. It covers designing workflows using SharePoint Designer, including new workflow templates and an improved task designer. Developing workflows with Visual Studio 2010 is also covered, including new events, ASP.NET form templates, and pluggable external data exchange services to integrate with line of business systems. Key improvements include reusable workflows, Visio integration for design, and exporting workflows to the solution package format.
SharePoint Designer Workflows - Nuts, Bolts and ExamplesDrew Madelung
This session will touch on all different aspects of SharePoint Designer workflows. Whether you are just getting started with your first workflow or want to see some cool complex examples, this session is for you!
The key areas this session will cover are:
• Differences between SharePoint 2010 and 2013 workflows
• Getting started with SharePoint Designer workflows
• Great workflow features you might not be using
• My handy tips and tricks
• Real world examples of when you can use workflows
Power Users Guide to Office 365 - Collab365 Summit 2016Chirag Patel
Office 365 is powered by more productive apps than ever before when compared with SharePoint on-premises. In addition to the user interface and evolving collaboration landscape, this session will cover all the Office 365 collaboration tools and technologies such as Delve, Office 365 Groups, Power BI, Access and SharePoint with no-code and browser based configurations. You will gain invaluable insights and how-to determine what tools to use for what business requirements or scenarios.
You Will Learn :
Understand all of the tools and technologies in Office 365
Know how much organisations can save with Office 365 apps
Get to know when to use what power user tool
Tricks and tips of what to do and what to avoid
Suitable For: End User, Power User, Project Management
Track : Productivity and Power User
An accompanying video can be accessed at http://techchir.ag/collab365summit2016
There are three major trends changing media according to the document. First, advertising is shifting from selling products to selling relationships by connecting people on social platforms. Second, networks are controlled by people as hubs who distribute content to their connections, rather than media companies. Third, the concept of a single shared living room for content consumption has disappeared with the rise of mobile and on-demand viewing anywhere. Communications professionals must adapt to this new media landscape centered around empowered individuals.
Op de BIWUG van 17 november, dit maal gehost en georganiseerd door Tobania, nam onze eigenste Peter Plessers deel als gastspreker omtrent het onderwerp Office Add-in Development. In deze sessie bood Peter het talrijke publiek een overzicht van de mogelijkheden en aangebrachte verbeteringen van Office 2016 aan de hand van een aantal verhelderende demo’s en ervaringen uit recent gebruik ervan.
Building Scalable SharePoint 2013 Workflows - WF101 - SPFestDCBrian Culver
SharePoint 2013 now supports two workflow platforms. We will walk through using the two workflow platforms and how they are different. We will configure the SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager and build a workflow that can run locally and in the Azure cloud seamlessly.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Understanding both of the SharePoint 2013 Workflow architectures.
2. Learn to setup and configure the SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager.
3. Learn to build staged workflows and run them in the local or the Microsoft Azure cloud
5.4swiss_sharepoint_club_mvp_track4_workflows-sharepoint_2013_serge_luca_shar...Swiss SharePoint Club
This document provides an overview of the SharePoint 2013 workflow platform presented by Serge Luca, a SharePoint MVP. It compares the 2010 and 2013 workflow platforms, discusses the different workflow topologies, and demonstrates creating workflows using SharePoint Designer 2013 and Visual Studio 2013. Key points include that 2013 workflows are decoupled and run outside of SharePoint, there are different workflow topologies like co-located, federated and distributed, and Visual Studio is better for debugging while SharePoint Designer is better for power users.
This document appears to be a presentation about SharePoint Online. It includes sections on development approaches, governance needs, configuration levels of effort, and thanks sponsors. The presentation provides an overview of SharePoint Online, including development tools, design options, and configuration methods at different levels of involvement. It also lists recommended resources for learning more.
In this demo rich session, Penny will demonstrate will introduce some of the new workflow features of SPD 2013: concentrating on loops, the new dictionary variable and calling web services, as well as the new SharePoint 2013 Promoted Links list app.
Slide Deck of the session "Getting Started with SharePoint 2013 Workflows"
Date : 25 October 2014
Event : SPSEvents Washington DC Reston
Place : Microsoft Technology Center, 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston , Virginia USA 20190
Twitter Handle: #SPSDC
SharePoint Saturday Madrid 2016 - SharePoint Upgrade or Migration, or is it b...Chirag Patel
Chirag Patel presented on SharePoint upgrade and migration options at the SharePoint Saturday event in Madrid. The presentation covered business objectives to consider for an upgrade or migration, the differences between an upgrade and a migration, assessing readiness through content inventory and analyzing customizations, and the technical processes for performing an in-place upgrade to SharePoint 2016. The presentation also provided an overview of hybrid migration pathways between on-premises and Office 365 environments.
What’s new with Workflow in SharePoint 2013 by Andew Connell - SPTechConSPTechCon
This document discusses new features of workflows in SharePoint 2013. Workflow processing is now handled by Workflow Manager for improved stability and scalability. SharePoint 2013 workflows support calling web services and a fully declarative model. Tools like Visio 2013, SharePoint Designer 2013, and Visual Studio 2012 can be used to create custom workflows visually or with code. Web services allow moving custom workflow logic out of the workflow. Advanced debugging of workflows is possible using Fiddler.
Speakers: Saša Tomičić, Ivan Popek;
This session will introduce an interesting set of new features and capabilities of the SharePoint Server 2013 workflow engine powered by .NET Framework 4.5. We will show which platforms you can use to develop your workflows and show the SharePoint Designer workflow enhancements. Beside that you will see new Windows Azure Workflow capabilities and, last but not least, a few Windows PowerShell cmdlets that manage workflow.
This document summarizes new features in SharePoint 2010 workflows. It discusses out-of-the-box workflows, new capabilities in SharePoint Designer workflows like parallel steps and new actions. Visio workflows published to SharePoint are introduced. The document also compares sequential and state machine workflows, and the strengths of building workflows with SharePoint Designer, Visio and Visual Studio. It concludes with demonstrations of a Visio workflow published to SharePoint and sequential/state machine workflows in Visual Studio.
Building Workflows for SharePoint 2010 with SharePoint Designer and VisioElaine Van Bergen
Workflow in SharePoint 2010 has been revamped with a new designer for building both reusable workflows and list-based workflows. Come and learn about the new possibilities for automating business processes in SharePoint 2010 with easy-to-use, no-code tools. This talk will describe the new workflow features and demonstrate how SharePoint 2010 can be used to create rich end-to-end workflows, cheaply and easily.
Practical Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2013 - Helsinki FinalndIvan Sanders
This document provides information about a presentation on practical business intelligence in SharePoint 2013 in Helsinki. It includes contact information for the presenter, Ivan Sanders, who is a SharePoint MVP with over 20 years of experience designing and developing business intelligence dashboards and Microsoft solutions. Requirements and comparisons for SharePoint 2010 and 2013 hardware are listed. Architectures for BI components like Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, and Visio Services are described. Installation best practices and links to demo content are also provided. The document ends with a list of trusted SharePoint experts and thanks sponsors of the event.
This document discusses the new features and capabilities for workflows in SharePoint 2010. It covers designing workflows using SharePoint Designer, including new workflow templates and an improved task designer. Developing workflows with Visual Studio 2010 is also covered, including new events, ASP.NET form templates, and pluggable external data exchange services to integrate with line of business systems. Key improvements include reusable workflows, Visio integration for design, and exporting workflows to the solution package format.
SharePoint Designer Workflows - Nuts, Bolts and ExamplesDrew Madelung
This session will touch on all different aspects of SharePoint Designer workflows. Whether you are just getting started with your first workflow or want to see some cool complex examples, this session is for you!
The key areas this session will cover are:
• Differences between SharePoint 2010 and 2013 workflows
• Getting started with SharePoint Designer workflows
• Great workflow features you might not be using
• My handy tips and tricks
• Real world examples of when you can use workflows
Power Users Guide to Office 365 - Collab365 Summit 2016Chirag Patel
Office 365 is powered by more productive apps than ever before when compared with SharePoint on-premises. In addition to the user interface and evolving collaboration landscape, this session will cover all the Office 365 collaboration tools and technologies such as Delve, Office 365 Groups, Power BI, Access and SharePoint with no-code and browser based configurations. You will gain invaluable insights and how-to determine what tools to use for what business requirements or scenarios.
You Will Learn :
Understand all of the tools and technologies in Office 365
Know how much organisations can save with Office 365 apps
Get to know when to use what power user tool
Tricks and tips of what to do and what to avoid
Suitable For: End User, Power User, Project Management
Track : Productivity and Power User
An accompanying video can be accessed at http://techchir.ag/collab365summit2016
There are three major trends changing media according to the document. First, advertising is shifting from selling products to selling relationships by connecting people on social platforms. Second, networks are controlled by people as hubs who distribute content to their connections, rather than media companies. Third, the concept of a single shared living room for content consumption has disappeared with the rise of mobile and on-demand viewing anywhere. Communications professionals must adapt to this new media landscape centered around empowered individuals.
Building Next Generation Applications With BuddyPressDavid Bisset
BuddyPress is a powerful plugin that adds a social network to your site. But as users who haven’t used BuddyPress much or at all, we might not realize it’s power and flexiblity. This talk will introduce you to BuddyPress. Then it will show you how to start seeing the possiblities BuddyPress can offer and how to creatively intergrate it into sites you’re building for agencies, small businesses, enterprise clients, higher-education, and even your own personal projects. When we’re done, your mind will be filled with exciting new ideas of how to build better and cooler websites for your clients and yourself… all thanks to BuddyPress!
Real-time Search 101 - SMX Toronto 2010 - Rob Garner - iCrossingiCrossing
"Real-time Search 101" as presented by Rob Garner (@robgarner), Strategy Director, iCrossing, at the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) in Toronto, Canada on Thursday, April 8, 2010.
המאבק על החיים של מאות אלפי תושבי האזור מתחיל עכשיו. מתקן הגז הנוזלי שמתוכנן מול חופי חדרה הווה
סכנה ברורה ומיידית לכל אחד ואחת מאיתנו. מאות אלפי קוב של גז ומיליוני ליטרים של דלק כבד יוצבו מול
בתינו במידה ומשרד התשתיות יקדם את החלטת המועצה הארצית לתכנון ובנייה להקים מולנו את מתקן הגז
הנוזלי מהגדולים והמסוכנים בעולם.
לאתר המאבק:
http://www.bomb.org.il/
iCrossing UK Client Summit 2011 - Starting at the customeriCrossing
The document discusses starting with the customer experience when designing websites and digital experiences. It provides an example of a user trying to get an insurance quote for their scooter online, but having a poor experience by not being able to easily find if scooters are covered or what the quote process entails. It advocates understanding who customers are, what their goals are, and helping them achieve their goals through user research, personas, scenarios and testing. It also notes the importance of considering the entire digital world customers interact with, not just individual websites.
Building Engaging Customer Experiences Powered by MongoDBrivetlogic
This presentation discusses the challenges many organizations face in providing fine-grained personalization, and how a modern database like MongoDB can be used to help businesses better leverage the data they already have in separate systems by making meaningful connections and creating interactions of value.
This document lists 5 projects: an app for canned tuna company Greenpeace, an annual report for Tourism Australia, a youth brand for Tourism Australia, an identity and website for furniture company Möbelstuck, and an illustrated map and design project for Tourism Australia.
Logic Magic Attribution Modelling with Chuck Sharp November 2010 (iCrossing US)iCrossing
This document discusses attribution measurement in marketing, which allocates credit for conversions across all touchpoints rather than just the last click. It defines attribution measurement as measuring conversion quality, not just quantity. It outlines a three-phase implementation approach starting with periodic analysis and moving to daily attributed results replacing last click. Four best practices are highlighted: using attribution to improve forecasting, maximizing existing technology, researching first, and tight integration between data and creative/media.
This document summarizes a presentation about developing a mobile environmental knowledge network for Lake Erie. It discusses creating a network of community groups to engage the public in environmental issues. The network would utilize advanced technologies like GIS and social media to share information on Lake Erie's history, environment, policies, data, and issues like nutrients, invasive species, and outdated sewage systems. Maps would also show things like watershed boundaries, nutrient loadings in sub-watersheds, and potential gully locations to target high impact areas. The goal is to establish a co-created, long-term system for moving environmental forum participants towards effective Lake Erie Area of Concern implementation.
"Health Impact Assesment in Confirmed Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) Permitting" presented by Ellen Mee, JD, at the Ohio Clean Water Conference 2011.
Enterprise Link Building - Doug Platts - iCrossingiCrossing
Doug Platts (@dougplatts), senior director, SEO, iCrossing, took the stage on Thursday, March 22 at 1 pm EST on the panel, Enterprise Link Building. Platts joined other industry leaders to discuss tools and tips for developing and executing link building strategies for large enterprise sites.
Marketing Asset Center - Enabling Consistency & Productivity Across Sales & M...rivetlogic
The Digital Marketing landscape continues to transform in the form of content marketing, big data, mobile marketing, and social media. All of this equates to an abundance of digital marketing assets – audio, video, images, documents, corporate communications, campaign assets, and more – which need to be effectively managed and distributed to various stakeholders – sales teams, employees, partners, customers, remote offices, and others.
The Marketing Asset Center provides a powerful and easy way for enterprises to manage and distribute all their digital marketing assets, resulting in increased marketing productivity, brand consistency, sales effectiveness, and revenue.
This document provides an overview of ASP.NET MVC from the ground up by Kevin Griffin. It introduces Kevin and his background, outlines the agenda which includes explaining what MVC is, its core components like controllers, views and models, and demonstrates building an MVC application from scratch. The presentation also discusses MVC routing, action results, adding views, HTML helpers and using models to bind data to views.
This document discusses thumbnail sketches, which are quick drawings made to plan out ideas or capture the essence of a subject prior to creating a more detailed work. Thumbnail sketches allow artists to freely explore concepts and compositions in a loose, informal way to determine which ideas are worth pursuing further. They serve as a planning tool to help visualize concepts at a basic level before committing more time to a finished piece.
The much-awaited version of SharePoint, 2016 will be available in Q1 of 2016. What can you expect? What are the major improvements? What is in it for end-users, IT Pros and developers? Eager to see the benefits of SharePoint 2016 and be ready for the next big release?
Datapolis Guest Expert Presentation: Top 15 SharePoint Server Configuration M...Datapolis
The document provides tips and tricks for configuring and optimizing SharePoint Server 2013. It discusses best practices for Windows Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server configuration. It also covers monitoring, patching, and client-side considerations. The key recommendations include using a load balancer for SharePoint farms, tuning Windows Server and SQL Server for performance, separating resource-intensive services like search onto dedicated servers, automating administrative tasks with PowerShell, and applying patches carefully with testing.
Best Practices to SharePoint Architecture Fundamentals NZ & AUSguest7c2e070
This document provides an overview of SharePoint architecture best practices presented by Joel Oleson, an 8-year veteran of SharePoint. It discusses SharePoint logical and physical architecture fundamentals, common mistakes to avoid, and differences between Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007. Key concepts covered include web applications, site collections, sites, servers having specific roles, and topology planning based on usage and requirements. The presentation aims to help admins properly plan their SharePoint implementations.
This document provides an overview of Microsoft SharePoint, including its history, core functionality, applications, architecture, requirements and advantages/disadvantages. SharePoint originated from projects called Office Server and Tahoe and has evolved through several versions since 2001. It can be used for intranet portals, document management, and more. SharePoint uses a n-tier service-oriented architecture and can scale from a single machine to hundreds of machines.
SharePoint Saturday Toronto 2015 - Inside the mind of a SharePoint ArchitectNoorez Khamis
This document contains the speaker bio and presentation for Noorez Khamis on the topic of SharePoint architecture best practices. The speaker is a SharePoint architect with over 14 years of experience designing and implementing SharePoint solutions. The presentation covers a wide range of architectural topics for SharePoint including hardware requirements, deployment models, scaling, security, services, and tools like PowerShell. It provides guidance on choosing the right approach for various scenarios.
Prepare for SharePoint 2016 - IT Pro best practices for managing your SharePo...Toni Frankola
This document provides an overview of best practices for preparing to upgrade to SharePoint 2016. It discusses upgrading farm roles and services, hardware requirements, database best practices, security considerations, and lifecycle management strategies. Key points include updating all servers to the latest versions, using SQL aliases instead of server names, enabling BLOB caching, and converting web applications to claims-based authentication before upgrading. The document aims to help IT administrators successfully upgrade their SharePoint infrastructure to the new version while maintaining performance and security.
A Deep Dive into SharePoint 2016 architecture and deploymentSPC Adriatics
This document provides an overview of SharePoint 2016 architecture and deployment. It discusses the new MinRole architecture which defines server roles like web front end, application, and search. It also covers hardware requirements, software boundaries, installing and configuring SharePoint 2016, zero downtime patching, high availability options, and optimizing performance through SQL Server and Distributed Cache configuration.
The document provides information about Allyis, a technology consulting firm with expertise in SharePoint, including their capabilities, engagement models, and case studies. It summarizes three case studies: implementing external user account management for client collaboration, using Remote Blob Storage for large file storage, and accessing external data using Business Connectivity Services. The document is intended to demonstrate Allyis's services and solutions for SharePoint projects.
Joel Oleson is an experienced SharePoint architect who provides recommendations for preparing a SharePoint environment for an upgrade. He recommends using tools like PreUpgradeCheck to identify issues, cleaning up unused objects and data, and testing the upgrade process on a copy of the production environment before performing the actual upgrade. Proper planning, testing custom solutions, and addressing any issues found are important to a successful upgrade.
SharePoint 2016 Beta 2 What's new (End users and IT Pros) Microsoft Innovat...serge luca
This document summarizes information presented by Serge Luca about SharePoint 2016. It discusses improvements to the user interface to make it more like Office 365, a more cloud-inspired infrastructure with features like OneDrive redirection. It also covers new compliance and reporting features like deletion policies and data loss prevention. The document outlines what is deprecated in SharePoint 2016 like Forefront Identity Manager and supported features. It provides information on hardware/software requirements, boundaries, and the new minimum role topology. Finally, it discusses upgrading to SharePoint 2016 and the roadmap going forward.
2 - What's New With Windows Hosting (34).pptwebhostingguy
The document discusses Microsoft's solution for Windows-based hosting. It provides an overview of the solution and its components, including infrastructure components to streamline management and hosted services components that are revenue-generating applications. The solution aims to help hosting providers succeed with Windows-based hosting by reducing complexity, costs, and improving manageability, efficiency, and the ability to attract customers. Case studies show how providers leveraged the solution to significantly reduce server build times and improve other operations.
Practical Guidance for SharePoint 2010 UpgradeJoel Oleson
SharePoint 2010 upgrade can be a daunting task. This session attempts to simplify while drilling into techniques and approaches and tactics to better execute upgrade and its methods.
Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 - Teched Middle EastJoel Oleson
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3. 3
Agenda
Attended Sessions @ Tech.ed 2010
FAST Search Server 2010 for Internet Sites by Aurielen
Dubot
Upgrading MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 by Ben Curry
DeepDive on Powerpivot and SharePoint 2010 by Donald
Farmer
Attempt to cover 3 hours worth of topic in 20 mins :-P
4. 4
Overview: FAST Search Server 2010 for Internet
Sites
Aka - FSIS
UI toolkit comes with FSIS consists of:
Fast Search Designer
Fast Search Business manager
Use rich web controls OOB
Create dynamic search powered web applications
5. 5
FAST Search for Internet Sites
Aplatform for creating search-driven experiences that …
Adapt
as content, community &
customer interests change
Guide
customers to actions
that drive revenue
7. 7
FSIS vision pillars
Deliver engaging information experiences that drive
revenue
Content fusion
Orchestrate
enriched
experiences
Interactive
application
development and
tuning
Protect existing
investments, show
the future
8. 8
FSIS Overview
FAST Search Designer
for Developers
• Visually develop, debug, and
profile flows
Engine
CTS
Engine
EngineEngine
…
IMS
Engine
EngineEngine
…
ESP 5.3 SP3
Index Content
User Experience
UIToolkit
FAST Search Business Manager
for IT and Business Managers
• Deploy, start/stop, and monitor flows
• Set triggers that govern which IMS flows
to use on different parts of a page
• Integrated A/B testing
15. 15
PowerPivot Workflow
Load and Prepare Data
• Define Calculated Columns with DAX
Design the PowerPivot Report(s)
• Define Measures with DAX
Format the Report(s)
Publish to SharePoint (Optional)
21. 21
Backup the Farm – Critical Success Point!
Native Farm Backups
Third Party Backups
SQL Server Backups
Operating System Backups
IIS Backups
Validate Backups
22. 22
Planning : Document Existing Systems
SQL Server
Databases, Maintenance Plans, Data/Log settings
SharePoint Farm
AAMs and Host Headers, Customizations, SSL Certificates,
Assigned IP Addresses
Shared Services Providers
Active Directory
Network, load balancers, firewalls, VLANs
Host Operating Systems
23. 23
Planning: Research and Study
Hardware and Software Prerequisites
Supported Upgrade Methods
Business continuity constraints
Have a rollback plan!!
Communicate with Users and Stakeholders
Down time, changes, training, etc.
Document your current systems
24. 24
Planning : Deploying
Verify your upgrade path is supported
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303420.aspx
Test in a non-production environment
WITH PRODUCTION CONTENT!
Create and Test a ‘roll back’ plan
Keep your 2007 infrastructure intact!
Use AAMs to roll forward and backwards
Clean House!
Remove unneeded content and customizations
25. 25
Hardware Requirements
Web and Application Servers
64-bit with at least 4 Cores
8GB Memory
80GB System Drive
SQL Server(s)
64-bit with 4-8 Cores
8GB Minimum, 16GB Recommended
80GB System Drive
26. 26
Operating System and SQL Requirements
Three supported versions of SQL Server:
SQL Server 2008 R2
SQL Server 2008 with SP1
*CU3 and CU4 not supported, use CU2 or CU5 and later
SQL Server 2005 with SP3 and CU3
Web and Application Servers
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008
* SQL Server 2005 Standard/Enterprise can be on Windows Server
2003/R2
27. 27
Upgrade Methods
Supported Scenarios
In-Place Upgrade
Database Attach Upgrade:
Content Database
Profile Service Database
Project Service Database
Single Click Install - SQL Migration
Windows Internal Database (WID) ->
SQL Express 2008 + File Stream RBS
Unsupported Scenarios
Upgrade from earlier than WSS v3
SP2/MOSS 2007 SP2
Direct upgrade from WSS v2/SPS 2003 or
earlier
Side by side installation
Gradual upgrade
29. 29
Pre-Upgrade Checker
Stsadm.exe –o preupgradecheck
Read-only tool (does not modify farm)
Output to:
%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%Microsoft Sharedweb server
extensions12CONFIGPREUPGRADECHECK
SharePoint Server 2007 SP2
Will open report in Internet Explorer
30. 30
What does it check for?
Shared Services Providers and related database size
Search topology and database sizes
All servers in the farm
Content database sizes
Data Orphans
Total number of site collections
Supported upgrade types
Missing Site Definitions, Features, and Assemblies
31. 31
What does it check for? (cont’d)
Language Packs installed
Installed Features
Alternate Access Mappings
List and Libraries URI and item count
Custom Field types that cannot be upgraded.
32. 32
Test-SPContentDatabase
You should run this cmdlet before attaching the content
database to a SharePoint Server 2010 Web application
Verifies server-side customizations are present
Not required to upgrade
Definitely recommended!
Scans 2007 SP2 and 2010 databases
Web application + content database ‘pairing’
33. 33
In-place Upgrade
Verify all pre-reqs
2008 OS Required
Same upgrade methodology as 2007 Service Packs
One server at a time
First server must get a configDB lock before continuing
Always IISReset after complete!
35. 35
Visual Upgrade Capability
Stay in O12 UI (default) or move to O14 UI
O14 ships O12 Master pages and CSS
UI Preview capability
Farm admin or site admin controlled
Web level setting and OM
Some items not O12 UI compatible:
My site host
PWA site collection
Report Server web parts
In this section, we’ll learn about PowerPivot for SharePoint, including the target audience, its architecture, and the workflow for creating PowerPivot solutions. We’ll conclude this section with a review of developer opportunities.
PowerPivot for Excel was introduced in a separate module. PowerPivot for Excel allows users to create BI solutions for personal use, whereas PowerPivot for SharePoint provides the platform for storage and management of workbooks accessible by multiple users.
PowerPivot for SharePoint provides a more scalable architecture to support multi-user access to workbooks by storing the data in a Vertipaq-mode server instance of Analysis Services, in contrast to the in-process local Vertipaq-mode instance used by the PowerPivot for Excel client. (We’ll review the features of Vertipaq mode during the architecture discussion.)
PowerPivot for Sharepoint is a complementary product, rather than a replacement product, for a traditional implementation of Analysis Services. Typically, Analysis Services databases are dependent on a managed data warehouse for which specific rules exist regarding data sources, data quality, and refresh rates. Furthermore, these databases managed by IT. In contrast, PowerPivot for SharePoint is a platform that is established and monitored by IT, but intended to be managed by business users who need to combine corporate data, personal, or third-party data on a one-time or ongoing basis and to share the insights derived from analysis of these data combinations.
IT can monitor usage of workbooks and server health related to workbook processing. For example, a popular workbook that has long-running queries might be a candidate for a traditional Analysis Services implementation for which the database design can be optimized.
PowerPivot for Excel is designed for analysts who need to integrate large volumes of data, possibly from different systems. These users can share the resulting workbooks by storing them in a document library on a SharePoint farm. The consumer of these workbooks are SharePoint users who can take advantage of the site and document management features of SharePoint to view PowerPivot workbooks without requiring the client tools on their desktops. They can also reuse the data in these workbooks by creating other workbooks or reports that use the published PowerPivot workbook as a data source. Although users primarily drive the development and usage of PowerPivot solutions, IT can monitor server activity and impose the necessary controls to keep data secure and server health optimized.
As you can see in this slide, the PowerPivot for SharePoint architecture contains many components. Let’s focus on the key components:
To start, a special instance of Analysis Services is installed on a SharePoint Web front end. This instance of Analysis Services is a VertiPaq engine which uses in-memory data storage. The VertiPaq engine scales for multiple users, processes large PowerPivot data sets quickly, and uses data compression and columnar storage like the client version of VertiPaq mode in the PowerPivot for Excel client. You manage this instance of Analysis Services exclusively in SharePoint Central Administration. Analysis Services loads the workbook data into a cube which it holds in memory until it’s no longer required or until resource contention forces it out of memory. (This instance of Analysis Services does not support traditional OLAP processing modes.)
The PowerPivot System Service runs as a service application on SharePoint. It listens for requests for PowerPivot data. When a request is received, it connects to Analysis Services to manage the loading and unloading of PowerPivot data. The PowerPivot system service also manages the content database in SharePoint, monitors server health, and collects usage data.
To help speed up access workbook data, PowerPivot maintains a data cache in the Microsoft SQL Server\MSAS10_50.Powerpivot\OLAP\Backup folder. The service unloads this copy of the workbook from memory if no one accesses the workbook in a 48 hour period since the last access, but keeps a copy in the cache. The cache copy is deleted after an additional 72 hours of inactivity.
SharePoint stores all PowerPivot workbooks in content databases. Analysis Services retrieves workbooks by using the respective SharePoint URL for each workbook.
There is also a PowerPivot Application Database which SharePoint uses to stores configuration settings, connection information, server status, and schedule information for data refresh operations.
The PowerPivot Web Service is a middle-tier connection manager implemented as a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web service that runs on a SharePoint Web front end. It listens on the port assigned to a Web application enabled for PowerPivot, and manages the request-response exchange between client applications and PowerPivot for SharePoint instances in the farm. This is the mechanism at work when you use any XML/A-enabled client application to connect to a PowerPivot workbook.
The PowerPivot Gallery is a Web application that has content types for handling PowerPivot workbooks and includes Silverlight-enabled application pages for document libraries which you can use to view published workbooks.
The PowerPivot Management Dashboard is a page that displays Web parts for monitoring PowerPivot applications and links to management tasks.
Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff628113.aspx
To create a PowerPivot workbook, you follow the a series of steps as shown in this slide. The focus of the current lesson is the activities related to publishing a workbook to SharePoint, including management of the workbook and use of the workbook by other applications.
Typically, SharePoint users access a document by viewing a list of document names in a document library. The PowerPivot Gallery is a special type of document library in a SharePoint site that you use to centrally store PowerPivot workbooks. More specifically, the PowerPivot Gallery is a list of workbooks with visualizations, with skins that can be applied to a document library. For example, you can view a workbook and a thumbnail of the workbook.
The PowerPivot Gallery installs automatically when you install PowerPivot for SharePoint on a new SharePoint farm or when you activate the PowerPivot Integration Site Collection Feature. You can reach this feature from the Site Actions menu of a site collection, in the Site Collection Administration section.
You can publish workbooks to the PowerPivot Gallery directly from Excel using the same procedure that you would publish a non-PowerPivot workbook to Excel Services. Alternatively, you can upload a PowerPivot workbook directly into the gallery. Once you have workbooks added to the PowerPivot Gallery, you can view document thumbnails to locate the desired workbook. The view of the workbook always shows real data.
You can also change the view from the default Gallery view to Theatre or Carousel view.
By publishing workbooks to SharePoint, you can also share the data in other ways by creating a new Excel workbook or creating a new Report Builder report.
Each workbook can be assigned a data refresh schedule, so that users won’t need to download the workbook, refresh it, and then upload the newer version to SharePoint. The data refresh process can use server resources. For example, better bandwidth between servers can be a better refresh option than refreshing a workbook on a user’s computer. Each data source in the workbook can be refreshed separately.
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Validate a successful upgrade by testing all components detailed in your system documentation. Be sure to test any customizations in features and solutions, new features, such as visual upgrade, and get plenty of user feedback.
It’s quite possible your first attempt will not be 100% successful. Always prepare for the worst and hope for the best by having multiple, reliable backups of all systems and databases. Good planning and testing performed in advance will greatly reduce the chance of a failed upgrade.
Important: Custom site definitions will need to be updated by a developer before migration to SharePoint Server 2010.
As you can see from the previous list, many of the planning issues are addressed using the Pre-upgrade check tool. Many times potential issues that might otherwise be missed, such as custom field types, are reported by the tool. Unlike the process of upgrading to SharePoint Server 2007, upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010 does not require the tool to be ran. However, it is always a good idea to run the pre-upgrade check tool before upgrading.
Tip You can also execute the Test-SPContentDatbase cmdlet against a SharePoint Server 2010 content database. It will verify all server-side customizations are present for site collections contained in the database.