Presentations & Training

NWA TechFest 2011 Presentation - SharePoint 2010 Where Are My Documents?

Dennis Bottjer — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:14:00 GMT

NWA TechFest 2011: Real World SharePoint 2010 Installation Lessons

Dennis Bottjer — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:36:00 GMT

Slides from Tulsa TechFest 2010

Dennis Bottjer — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:01:21 GMT

Thanks to all those who attended.

Recent Events

Dennis Bottjer — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:02:20 GMT

Besides surviving countless beatings from my favorite two year old and a two hour crying fit from my 4 month old son I’ve attended several great community events. Thanks wifey :).

May 3rd: Oklahoma City Developers Group: Stop Drowning In Technical Debt! As the INETA Membership Mentor of Oklahoma I set a goal this year to try and encourage more collaboration between the strong communities existing in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. To accomplish this I have presented three times so far in OKC. On May 3rd I presented to a crowd of about 50 for the lunch meeting and 20 for the evening meeting. Both meetings were great.

May 4th: MSDN Events Launch 2010 Highlights – This event was well attend and provided overview demos of Windows 7, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, etc.

May 13th: Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group: SharePoint 2010 Launch Event – For our May meeting we wanted to do something extra special. May 12th was the official launch of SharePoint 2010 and as a result we wanted to organize a Launch Event of our own. We held the event at Dave and Busters thanks to several general sponsors (K2, GDH Consulting, Metalogix, TEKSystems, The Rowland Group,

High Tech Resources). The event exceeded our expectations with about 50 people in attendance. We are also very thankful for Eric Shupps being our special guest speaker.

May 22nd: SQL Saturday 35 (Dallas) – I left Tulsa, OK at 3:30 in the morning to Drive down to Dallas where I met up with some friends including Shawn Weisfeld. I have never presented at a SQL Saturday before but the event is similar to other events such as code camps or SharePoint Saturdays which I regularly present at. I resented “SharePoint, A DBA’s Nightmare!” to a room of about 40 people. The session was very conversational with some great questions. The goal of the presentation was to help the audience understand SharePoint’s architecture a little better and know the pro/cons of certain decisions. We discussed such topics as database naming conventions, performance tips, and database maintenance.

Presenting @ Oklahoma City SharePoint User Group

Dennis Bottjer — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:18:35 GMT

Last month Cory Roth spoke at the first meeting of the Oklahoma City SharePoint User Group. On Monday April 26th I will be presenting at the second meeting.

What:	Oklahoma City SharePoint User Group OKCSUG is excited to host Dennis Bottjer as our April speaker presenting “SharePoint, A DBA’s Nightmare!” For many organizations the question is not if SharePoint but when. SharePoint requires SQL Server to function and stores everything from content to configuration with SQL Server Database. Yes, this means Word, Excel documents, and even images are stored within a SQL Server Database. Perhaps, even more frightening is the way SharePoint often grows like a weed within an organization. A healthy and well-tuned SQL Server Environment is crucial to successful operation of a SharePoint farm. This talk will begin by providing an overview of how exactly SharePoint uses SQL Server. It will then detail SQL Server best practices as pertaining to SharePoint. Finally, the talk will provide performance-tuning tips for SharePoint that will reduce the load placed on the database.
When:	Monday, April 26, 2010 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Where:	okcCoCo 723 N. Hudson Ave Oklahoma City, OK 73102

SharePoint Saturday Kansas City Presentation

Dennis Bottjer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:22:28 GMT

Last Saturday (12/12/2009) was the 2nd Annual Kansas City SharePoint Saturday. Unfortunately, this event was bitter sweet in that Becky Isserman is moving to New Jersey. We wish her well. SPSKC was a great event with over 200 people in attendance. I presented after lunch and the session was well attended. Thank you to all those in attendance and as promised you can download the slides used for the presentation below.

SharePoint 2010 Developer Overview Presentation (Download)

Note: The slide deck is a culmination of slides from a variety of sources including the SPC 2009.

This presentation is similar to the presentation I gave a few days earlier at the T.D. Williamson SharePoint Lunch and Learn.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of events such as SharePoint Saturdays are seeing old friends and making new friends. To name a few it was good catching up with:

Becky Isserman @mosslover

Thanks for a great event and I hope to see you all again next year!

SharePoint 2010 Foundation Where is the Developer Dashboard?

SharePoint 2010 Foundation Development / Demonstration Installation Guide

SharePoint Team Announces SharePoint 2010 System Requirements

MSDN Webcast: Knee-Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions: Improved SharePoint Performance

dbottjer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:34:18 GMT

What:	MSDN Webcast: Knee-Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions: Improved SharePoint Performance Attend this webcast to learn one dozen easy-to-implement performance tips for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We discuss a wide range of topics from adjusting out-of-the-box settings to identifying memory leaks in custom code. We also describe several ways to proactively improve the user experience and squeeze more performance out of a SharePoint Server farm. Anyone currently designing a SharePoint Server implementation can benefit from this webcast.
When:	Friday, July 10, 2009 12:00 PM
Where:	MSDN Web Cast Live Meeting

Technorati Tags: Presentation,SharePoint Performance,MSDN Web Cast,ASP.NET MVP

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group May Meeting

dbottjer — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:28:31 GMT

Date and Time:

Monday May 11, 2009 6pm - 8pm

Location:

Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus

3727 East Apache

Tulsa, OK 74115

Topic:

DotNetMafia.com's Corey Roth and Kyle Kelin go head to head debating the best way to provision content in SharePoint: using CAML or using the SharePoint Object Model. This no slides talk will compare and contrast the different ways of provisioning SharePoint sites, providing in depth code examples of each method.This is an informal discussion so please come with lots of questions. They will also be showing how to use the new SPSource tool available on CodePlex.

Speakers:

Kyle Kelin has four years of experience in web development using Microsoft technologies. Kyle has built web applications across multiple industries that include consumer electronics, travel, energy, and investment banking. Kyle is currently employed as a Senior Consultant at Infusion where his primary focus is SharePoint development and architecture. Infusion specializes in the architecture and implementation of enterprise-scale solutions for some of the world's largest banks and government agencies. Kyle a graduate of The Oklahoma State University. When Kyle is not developing he enjoys working out, martial arts, and drinking. Kyle is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint.

Corey Roth is an Enterprise Consultant at Stonebridge specializing in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has ten years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, LINQ, and SilverLight. He also contributed greatly to the beta phases of Visual Studio 2005. For his contributions, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint.

Please click here to RSVP.

Review of Dallas SharePoint Techfest

dbottjer — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:20:12 GMT

Dallas SharePoint TechFest 2009 Presentations Posted

Travis, Kari, Jim and I made it home late last night from the Dallas SharePoint TechFest. Our company SpringPoint was the only Managed Gold Partner from Oklahoma invited to participate and we did so proudly. We were able to attend the pre-event on Tuesday night where Joel Oleson delivered two great presentations. The first was particularly interesting because it explained the business value of www.Twitter.com. On Wednesday Jim (@wowjim) and I (@dbottjer) delivered our presentation “Enabling a Web Content Management Strategy - TDWilliamson.com under the hood.” Later that afternoon I presented again this time on “Simplify Business Processes - 12 Ways to Grow the Bottom Line with SharePoint.”

We had a great time attending and presenting at the first Dallas SharePoint TechFest. We would like to thank all those who attended our sessions. As promised our slide decks are available for download below.

If you liked out presentations please follow me on Twitter @dbottjer

Downloads Available:

Enabling a Web Content Management Strategy - TDWilliamson.com under the hood

Simplify Business Processes - 12 Ways to Grow the Bottom Line with SharePoint

Reference:

www.TDWilliamson.com

www.MySpringPoint.com

STL Moss CAMP 2009 Review

dbottjer — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:44:04 GMT

SharePoint | St. Louis MOSS Camp 2009 Reviewed

After running into Becky Isserman at almost every SharePoint event this year, I finally had the chance to attend her “Dazzling SharePoint with Silverlight” presentation. In her presentation she demonstrated how to use tools such as blend and designer from expression suite.

What I learned:

Install MOSS / WSS SP1 and Infrastructure Rollup before using Silverlight within SharePoint
Recommended resource: www.Silverlight.net
Silverlight cannot reference the SharePoint object model directly
Silverlight only supports basicHttpBinding and services should be called asynchronously

I also attended Tiffany Songvilay session “Case Study: How Energizer Trained Users to Change.” Tiffany is such an energetic speaker and kept the audience engaged the entire time. The presentation offered some great tips for gaining end user buy in for large SharePoint deployments.

Mark Rackley (http://www.twitter.com/mrackley) Live Blogged most of the event and presented.

Special thanks to Matt Bremer and crew for organizing such a great event.

Related Items:

St. Louis MOSS Camp 2009 Pictures

St. Louis MOSS CAMP SharePoint Performance Presentation

Technorati Tags: St. Louis MOSS Camp,SharePoint Silverlight,Becky Isserman,Tiffany Songvilay,Mark Rackley,Matt Bremer