​This course is ideal for those who are new to SharePoint and about to embark on customizing SharePoint 2010 sites and/or using SharePoint Designer 2010 for a number of other functions.

The tour will cover all the main features of SharePoint Designer. You'll learn all about how create great looking SharePoint 2010 sites. We will cover master pages, CSS and themes, including how to effectively work and deploy themes throughout both SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 sites and site collections.   

Overview of the main functionality of SharePoint - get to explore as an end user what can be done, learn the basics and see a demonstration of full end to end capabilities

Are you interested in building custom applications on top of SharePoint? Or maybe you need more advanced customizations that are not possible with SharePoint Designer?

This hands-on workshop will provide you with an overview of the technology and tools to help you understand how to build applications on top of SharePoint 2010.

Topics will include:

Visual Studio Support for SharePoint Projects
Developing Web Parts
Overview of SharePoint's Client and Server Object Models

Attendees should have familiarity with Visual Studio and ASP.NET technologies.  Experience developing with SharePoint is not required.

Pre-requisites: Fundamental knowledge and experience of Project Management and familiarity with Windows, Microsoft Office and SharePoint is assumed.

Abstract: Have you ever wished you could sit down with a leading SharePoint industry expert to discuss solutions for your unique SharePoint implementation challenges?

Now’s your opportunity! Sign up for this Get to the Point workshop and you will be mentored by leading SharePoint project management expert and thought leader, Dux Raymond Sy, managing partner of Innovative-e and author of SharePoint for Project Management. To help you reach your organizational goals, this unique workshop is:

Practical
Learn practical techniques that you can apply immediately to your SharePoint projects. You will also receive artifacts and templates, including project schedules, checklists, requirements documents, design documents, and business case documents.

Hands-On and Interactive
Interact and network with fellow decision makers, project managers, business analysts, consultants and those responsible for the implementation of SharePoint at their organization through breakout group activities. The workshop also includes hands-on, real-world SharePoint group project implementation challenges to give you the experience and training you need to address your organization’s unique challenges.

By attending this workshop, you will be able to:

Identify why SharePoint projects fail
Initiate executive excitement
Promote organizational buy-in and foster user adoption
Develop an effective project management process
Apply relevant strategies in mapping business processes to identify SharePoint-based solutions
Identify necessary resources to plan, deploy, maintain, and support a SharePoint implementation
Minimize uncertainty and risk by applying practical scope management techniques

Are you interested in building custom applications on top of SharePoint? Or maybe you need more advanced customizations that are not possible with SharePoint Designer?

Part two in this hands-on workshop will provide you with an deeper understanding of the technology

Topics will include:

Developing SharePoint Features
Packaging and deploying your code
Sandbox Solutions

Attendees should have familiarity with Visual Studio and ASP.NET technologies. 

Deploying SharePoint is about alignment, adaption and adoption, and there is much more than getting your IT department to install it on a server. SharePoint 2007 was compelling yet hard to master, and the 2010 edition is a richer and even more powerful product that more crosses organisational boundaries than ever before. Of course, with that power and that feature list, comes considerable technical complexity. Therefore the geeks have their work cut out to ensure the platform is stable, fast and responsive. Current SharePoint governance documentation abounds about how to do this but just because your system is rock solid, stable, well documented and governed through good process, there is absolutely no guarantee of success. In fact, the secret sauce to a successful SharePoint project is an area that the governance documentation barely touches.