We conduct webinars every few weeks on a variety of topics. The recordings of these webinars are available to subscribers of the site.
2010 Products and Technologies
- Webinar - User Interfaces of SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 ships with a variety of functionality waiting to be discovered. You can easily build your collaboration based solutions directly on top of this platform without the need for any programming. You need just the browser to create your robust solutions with lists, libraries and other site components. But how do you know where to get started? This session shows the user interfaces of SharePoint 2010 and explains how easy it is to get started.
- Webinar - Make the Best Use of SharePoint Designer 2010
Webinar originally conducted on 5/13/2010. Presenter: Asif Rehmani. This webinar starts with an explanation of why you would want to use SharePoint Designer 2010 instead of the browser to create your site components. Then the presentation digs deeper into showing how you can create powerful workflows. Subsequently, the last thing demonstrated is how easy it is to fetch data from a database and show on a SharePoint page. Along the way, there were many good questions that attendees asked and the attempt was made to answer as many as possible in the allotted time.
- Webinar - Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 Team Sites - Best Practices
So you got your SharePoint 2010 Team Site… now what? How should you proceed to set it up? What should be the things to look out for and to not do? This session explores best practices on how to start up with your team site. Setting up your quick launch, top link bar, company/department logo, creating and setting up lists and libraries and more are discussed here. In addition, the last 20 minutes cover Q&A from attendees.
- Webinar - Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, Visio 2010 and InfoPath 2010
Forms and Workflows are important for automating business processes. Companies usually rely on programmers to create the forms and workflows using code. Not anymore! With InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010, you can create powerful data driven form composite solutions on your SharePoint sites. InfoPath gives you the ability to pull data from databases and lists, and create forms with data validation and conditional formatting. SharePoint Designer's workflows let you then design powerful multi-step workflows centered around the form collected data, building upon the out-of-the-box reusable workflows and even import workflow designs from Visio! In this presentation, you will see how these tools come together to design workflows and route forms across your organization for task assignment and approval.
- Webinar - Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010
SharePoint Designer 2010, which is a free application, is “The Preferred” tool to design powerful no-code solutions and applications in SharePoint 2010. In this video, you will get a broad overview of the capabilities of the tool, from site customizations such as modifying Site Metadata, managing Site Security, or creating Site Content, to building List or Site based Workflows and connecting to a variety of Data Sources. You will also learn about the new user experience components such as the Ribbon and Summary Pages in SharePoint Designer 2010.
- Webinar - How and where to deploy InfoPath 2010 forms
Webinar originally conducted on 6/3/2010. Presenter: Asif Rehmani Microsoft InfoPath 2010 and Forms Server 2010 come together to provide a powerful platform for electronic form generation. It's crucial to your business to know how to use InfoPath most effectively. InfoPath forms can exist independently or they can be hosted on a server platform - like SharePoint. This session focuses on the various deployment options for the forms and provides guidance to help decide on the best deployment option for Your need!
2007 Products and Technologies
- Webinar - Smart Storage for SharePoint
Webinar originally conducted on 9/18 /2009. Presenter: Wendy Henry (Author of Storage Considerations for Microsoft SharePoint) Host: Asif Rehmani Today's business users demand better, faster collaboration networks and Microsoft SharePoint is poised to fit their needs. But many SharePoint implementations disappoint over time due to inefficient storage and insufficient data availability. Don't let this happen! This webinar shows you the secrets of choosing and growing an appropriate storage platform for your SharePoint environment to gain the most return on your investment. We examine SharePoint's unique storage requirements and discuss how to scale your disk hardware to reduce contention, throttle bandwidth usage, improve data availability and establish redundant data for archiving or disaster recovery.
- Webinar - SharePoint Designer Data Views
Webinar originally conducted on 10/1/2009. Presenter: Asif Rehmani SharePoint Designer 2007 can be used to integrate data from a variety of sources into a single integrated solution. This session demonstrates how the Data View web part in SharePoint Designer can be used for the task of retrieving data from SharePoint Lists. Also shown is how data in multiple lists can be connected to produce a unified view of related information. That's not all, also demonstrated is how you can make this view editable to commit any data changes back to the data source… All without a single line of code!
