Robert Stewart, Intergen's Solution Specialist presented his highlights from the SharePoint Conference 2011 to the Wellington SharePoint User Group session on 27 October 2011.

1. SharePoint Conference 2011
Anaheim, CA
Robert Stewart
Solution Specialist, Intergen
27th October 2011

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Agenda
 SharePoint Conference 2011 – Anaheim, CA
 Keynote
 Office 365 + Azure
 Adaptive websites - SharePoint + FAST Search
 SharePoint + Commerce Server 2009
 Final thoughts + questions
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SharePoint Conference 2011 – Anaheim, CA
 Over 7500 Attendees
 175 Product Specialists from MS
 240+ Sessions
 All about SharePoint 2010
 Disneyland
 Parties
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4. Keynote
Jared Spataro
Sr Director, Product Management
SharePoint

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Keynote
 “BCS” in SharePoint Online
 Guiding Principles of SharePoint
 Redefine collaboration
 Unleash the ecosystem
 Build a world class platform
 Extending collaboration outside the firewall – Internet, Extranet
 ‘hockey stick’ growth of SharePoint for Internet Sites (FIS)
 80% of Fortune 500 use SP for Intranet
 Now 25% of Fortune 500 use SP for Internet
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Keynote - Demos
 Scale, performance, high availability
 400TB storage space, 14TB content
 VM host - 1TB memory, 80 cores
 15server farm, 6 WFE, 5 Index & Search, 4 App servers
 7500 concurrent users - > 150,000 user base
 SQL Server Denali CTP3 “always on”– full farm redundancy
 Live failover of 14TB of data in less than 60 seconds
 Net Hope – http://give.mssharepointconference.com
 SharePoint Online – storage and reporting
 Azure MVC – front end website
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7. Out of the Sandbox and into
the Cloud: Build your Next
SharePoint App on Azure
Andrew Connell

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Office 365 + Azure
 Sandbox Solutions
 Overview
 Advantages
 Challenges
 Addressing Limitations
 Building Apps with SharePoint Solutions
 Integrating SharePoint & Windows Azure
 Exploring a scenario: AC's Cichlids Inc.
 Easy, Moderate, Complex

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Sandbox solutions overview
Enables developers to deploy solutions without IT action
Enables IT to maintain health of SharePoint servers
Isolates custom code from running in SharePoint process
Quicker time-to-market solutions for site owners

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Advantages of Sandbox over Farm solutions
Work directly with the customer (site collection owner)
Predictable limitations defined by SharePoint [SharePoint Online]
Speed to market – no need to involve administrator in deployment
Errors won’t affect the hosting SharePoint site

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Challenges with Sandbox
 Can only access subset of SharePoint 2010 server API
 Blocked from making remote calls
 Web service requests
 ATOM feed requests
 Custom database calls
 Blocked from connecting to on-premise LOB systems
 Limited to working in current site collection only
 Blocked from accessing the Page object
 Subject to resource monitoring & automatic throttling

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Addressing challenges with the Sandbox
Sandbox Solutions • Resource libraries that register specific actions
can Utilize • Deployed as farm trust solution
“Full-Trust” • Sandboxed solutions can call these deployed
Proxies actions
• Client-side Web Part – JavaScript / jQuery /
Move Business etc
Logic off Server • Silverlight Web Part

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Integrating SharePoint and Azure
 Consume Windows Azure-based solution in SharePoint
 Content Editor Web Part
 Sandboxed Web Part
 Business Connectivity Services / External Content Type
 Search
 Enable Windows Azure-based solution to interact with SharePoint
 SharePoint Client Object Model (CSOM)
 REST / OData feeds

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Easy Integration

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Moderate Integration

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Complex Integration

17. SharePoint Internet Sites that
Integrate FAST Search
Runar Olsen
Cem Aykan

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SharePoint + FAST Search
 Create an “Adaptive” website
 A website that is different for every customer
 “Learns” about users interaction
 “Remembers” your behavioural patterns
 Search driven
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Search solutions

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Architecture
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SQL Server StreamInsight

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FAST APIs
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Signals
 Who is the (anonymous) visitor? What is the intent of the
sessions?
 Collect known attributes
 Who (Atlas/LiveID, FaceBook, Site User Profile)
 Where (IP, Atlas)
 Previous history, interests, purchases, etc
 Current session
 Is the intent changing from known profile?
 Segment users in real time
 Use information to target content

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26. Integrating Commerce Server
with a SharePoint Internet Site
William Cornwil
Shyam Narayan

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SharePoint + Commerce Server 2009
 Commerce Server 2009 R2
 SharePoint Commerce Services
 Large number of configurable webparts
 Nice SharePoint + Commerce Server integration
 No next version details for Commerce Server
 SharePoint 15 ??

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Utilising the Microsoft stack
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SharePoint + Commerce Server 2009
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SharePoint Commerce Services
 Abstract Commerce Server into SharePoint

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SharePoint Commerce Services
 30+ webparts including
 Add To Cart
 Product Details
 Order History
 Checkout
 Credit Card
…

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The shopping experience
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It’s all about you
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38. Final thoughts

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40. Questions

41. Thank You