Presentations

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.

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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

SharePoint Performance Talk At MOSS Camp

Dennis Bottjer — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:29:41 GMT

MOSS Camp 2009 Presentation | 12 Tips for Improving SharePoint Performance

I’m speaking this afternoon at the St. Louis MOSS Camp 2009. I’ll be giving my SharePoint Performance presentation “From Knee Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions - 12 Tips for Improving SharePoint Performance.” If you’re in the area please join us. There is a great group of speakers presenting today including fellow Tulsan David Walker and KC Office Geeks Leader Becky Isserman.

Hope To See you at MOSS Camp!

For More on MOSS Camp follow me on Twitter @dbottjer

Download Available:

From Knee Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions | A Dozen Tips for Improved SharePoint Performance (Presentation Slides)

How To Enable IIS Compression for SharePoint

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,St. Louis MOSS CAMP,Presentation

Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group Meeting | One Night Three Presentations!

Dennis Bottjer — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:57:07 GMT

Date: Monday April 13, 2009

Time: 6:00 pm

Speakers: Sheri Alexander, Eric Gesinski, Dennis Bottjer

Topics:

1) Shari - Geek Speak: How Geeks Can Communicate with the Rest of the Business World

2) Eric - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for SharePoint.

3) Dennis - Avoiding Common SharePoint Mistakes

Location:

TCC (Tulsa Community College) Northeast Campus

3727 East Apache

Tulsa, OK 74115

Note: The Tulsa SharePoint interest Group will meet on April 13th in the NEC Board Room. This room is in the main Administration Building on the south side of the building (enter and turn right instead of left).

Cost: Free

Geek Speak: How Geeks Can Communicate with the Rest of the Business World

Business Presentation Strategist Shari' Alexander is going to share with use the secrets behind successful presentations. She will help you become more persuasive and influential in your communications and, more importantly, show you how to create a technical presentation that doesn't make your listeners' heads hurt. Come and learn the speaking skills that will help you make a positive impression on your clients and supervisors.

Shari's Biography:

Shari Alexander is the founder and president of Presenting Matters, LLC, a business presentation consulting firm. She

has works with executives, international speakers, along with other organizations and individuals that want results-driven

business presentations.

Shari started out as an actress at a young age. She carried her passion to college, where she was a theatre major. She later gained

extra training at the University of London and studied under directors from the Globe Theatre. She then ventured into an

actor's life. It was then that she soon realized the term "starving actor" was meant to be taken literally.

Shari founded Presenting Matters when she discovered her unique ability to combine her theatrical background with a marketing

perspective and influential communications. This is how she has helped so many organizations increase revenues, productivity, and

employee morale. She is now a professional speaker, corporate communications consultant, and speech and presentation coach.

Shari has been named the 2007 Emerging High Impact Professional Speaker by the National Speakers Association-OK and

one of the 2008 Tulsa Top 40 Under 40. Her articles on effective presentations and communication have been published

internationally. Her clients have included an front-line sales associates and entrepreneurs to Emmy Award Winning executive

and an ESPN announcer.

Topic: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for SharePoint

The popularity of SharePoint is increasing by leaps and bounds. SharePoint is no longer thought of as a fancy file share buy a viable Web Content Management Platform. As such, public facing SharePoint sites must rank well within popular search engines such as Google. This presentation explores some concepts and strategies for making SharePoint sites more attractive to Search Engines.

Eric's Biography:

Eric Gesinski began his information technology education by learning how to program in Basic at age 8. His first job was doing programming for a technical programming services company, at age 16. He progressed from there by earning a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Tulsa. Eric has over 10 years of IT experience. While doing IT work as a full-time job, Eric began studying internet marketing, making money online using SEO skills as well as his pay per click expertise.

Eric now runs Tulsa Marketing Online, a Tulsa-based internet business, helping local companies take their offline businesses online and moving them upward with SEO, PPC, and other internet marketing strategies.

Topic: Avoiding Common SharePoint Mistakes

The longer one works in a discipline one learns certain tricks of the trade. This presentation explores common mistakes that are made or forgotten during installation, design, development, and deployment. The information shared in this presentation applies to an audience of both SharePoint Administrators and Developers. Attendees should leave the presentation with simple solutions to common real world issues.

Dennis' Biography:

Dennis Bottjer is the solution architect for Microsoft Managed Gold Partner, SpringPoint Technologies LLC, which provides custom software development services across the central southwest region. For three consecutive years, Microsoft Corp. has designated Bottjer as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) -an outstanding member of the technical community who provides third-party feedback to the software giant. Bottjer has worked for FORTUNE 100 Companies before bringing his enterprise experience to SpringPoint. He has over 11 years of experience in the IT industry and holds MCP and MCTS certifications for ASP.NET and SharePoint. Bottjer is proudly serving hit technical community as the President of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group and as the INETA Membership Mentor for Oklahoma.

Blog: www.DennisBottjer.com Twitter: @dbottjer

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SharePoint Saturday Tulsa Reviewed

dbottjer — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:36:26 GMT

Saturday March 28th 2009 was our second annual School of Dev and first ever SharePoint Saturday. We had over 80 people in attendance despite a snow storm. Only one speaker ended up canceling which was truly amazing considering the weather.

For me the day began by dropping off two boxes of books that would later be given away as prizes. I then joined Steve Walker for a Panel QA Discussion Session. We were joined by Cory Roth and Chris Barba. We had some great questions around designing a SharePoint Farm and Site Structure.

My favorite part of the day was attending The SharePoint Cowboy (Eric Shupps') session “Configuring SharePoint 2007 for Optimal Performance. It was during the first 5 minutes of this session that Eric dropped some tips on hardware load balancers that a light went off. I turned to my co-worker Chris Barba and said “That’s the answer to the AJAX issue we’ve been having.” (Sorry can’t go into too much detail to protect the customer.) I was really eager to attend his session to compare and contrast it with my own own performance talk called, “Administration: From Knee Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions | A Dozen Tips for Improved SharePoint Performance.” Eric’s talk focused more on overall SharePoint performance and included several infrastructure tips. My talk focuses more on the Application Layer of SharePoint Performance.

Later The SharePoint Cowboy (Eric Shupps') and I spent about 45 minutes chatting about SharePoint Architecture and swapping consulting biz war stories.

Download Available:

Administration: From Knee Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions | A Dozen Tips for Improved SharePoint Performance

SharePoint Saturday NY (Reviewed)

SharePoint Saturday KC (Reviewed)

Presenting at .NET Developers Association (Tonight)

dbottjer — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:44:00 GMT

Details:

I’m @ the MVP Summit this week in Redmond and was invited by

Budy Djunaedi

Speakers Coordinator

.Net Developers Assoc.

to Speak tonight at 7 PM.

I will be co presenting with fellow MVP Caleb Jenkins.

Acknowledgements:

I would like to thank my MVP lead Suzanna Moran for helping to arrange this opportunity. I would also like to thank my presentation coach Shari Alexander for helping me prepare for this presentation.

Presentation:

From Knee Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions - 12 Tips for Improving SharePoint Performance

Where:

Microsoft Redmond Campus - Building 40 Cafe, Steptoe Room

Technorati Tags: SharePoint Presentation,SharePoint Performance,MOSS 2007

SharePoint Saturday NY Review

Dennis Bottjer — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:00:15 GMT

This weekend I presented at SharePoint Saturday New York which was organized by Michael Lotter. I got to see a great presentation by Joel Oleson and see some friends including Steve Walker and Becky Isserman.

Steve Walker, Debbie (My Cousin), an me in the speaker lounge.

Session Name:

From Frustrating Problems to Proactive Solutions | A Dozen Tips for Improved SharePoint Performance

Session Description:

Over one dozen easy to implement performance tips. Tips will discuss a wide range of topics from adjusting out-of-the-box settings to identifying memory leaks in custom code. This discussion will benefit anyone currently designing a SharePoint implementation! Attendees will leave with several ways to improve the proactively improve the end user experience.

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Download: From Frustrating Problems to Proactive Solutions | A Dozen Tips for Improving SharePoint Performance

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