Events and Webcasts
ConferencesConferences

June 10-13, 2008: Orlando, FL
Join 10,000 of your peers as we kick off the event with a keynote address from Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President of Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, on Tuesday, June 10. Don't miss this first-rate educational Microsoft event for IT professionals!

October 6-8, 2008: Seattle, WA
This exciting and informative conference will showcase Microsoft's market-leading business intelligence (BI) products, solution expertise and customer successes. The event is designed to educate customers and partners on every aspect of Microsoft's BI offering. You can also expect even more educational tracks and sessions by Microsoft product and industry experts, customer best practices sessions, the second-annual Microsoft BI Customer Awards presentation, hands-on labs, and much more!

In-Person EventsIn-Person Events

This webpage lists all the upcoming SharePoint Products and Technologies in-person events in the United States, including technical, business, and partner events.

Live and On-Demand WebcastsLive and On-Demand Webcasts

Overview

Join us for this informative webcast and get tips and tricks for how you can get started using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 in your daily work.

This webcast examines some of the features and capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for organizational content management, portal creation, search, business processes management, and business intelligence. We also cover the administrative architecture, physical architecture, and security requirements for enabling the collaborative features of SharePoint Server 2007.

Collaboration

In this webcast, you will get insights and experience of a set of client and server-side supported Application Templates that extend the Windows SharePoint Services platform capabilities as well as facilitate adoption and target deployments in the context of business processes.

Portals

Download this series of videos from Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006 to view breakout sessions about building custom portal interfaces, providing personalized views, and aggregating connections to line-of-business data.

Enterprise Search

Join this webcast to learn how Microsoft manages enterprise search services within the corporate intranet. We explore how the Microsoft IT team manages the search service day to day as a shared service in three regions. We also cover the operational process, service definitions, and lessons learned from managing search in a large-scale enterprise deployment scenario.

In this session, we review the new search features available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We look at the challenges IT professionals face when trying to support disparate information repositories, and we explain how SharePoint Server 2007 can help you address these issues.

In this webcast, we look at the challenges IT professionals face when trying to support searches across both user desktops and disparate information repositories within their enterprise. Find out how Windows Desktop Search (WDS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help you address these issues.

In this webcast, we provide an overview of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 architecture and discuss topics relevant to deploying search, including topology, server roles, network conditions, and security. Learn about the three-tier administration model and how its components - central administration, shared services, and site settings - are commonly used.

In this webcast, we provide a brief overview of the search features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and show you how to enable basic search across the breadth of disparate data repositories within your enterprise.

In this webcast, we show you how the Business Data Catalog (BDC), a new feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, enables you to index and present business data securely from a variety of sources and applications throughout your organization, without the need for complex coding.

Enterprise Content Management

In this webcast, we describe how migration of the Microsoft Human Resources Web content platform to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 enables faster future development, reduction of 50% custom code, lower sustenance cost, essential capabilities for future state architecture, and alignment with the Microsoft IT global vision for simplification.

Watch this IT Showcase video to learn how the LCA Corporate Records Management team at Microsoft used Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office InfoPath 2007 to create an efficient inventory tracking solution.

Business Process and Forms

In this session, we discuss the integration of Windows Workflow Foundation into Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0; how workflows are designed, stored, and used; and which capabilities are enhanced by taking advantage of client and server technology. We explain different authoring tools and techniques, including how to create no-code workflows using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and provide guidance on deployment and management in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment.

Windows SharePoint Services provides excellent facilities for working with business processes. In this "webcast by request," we review the workflow development processes associated with Windows SharePoint Services. We look at the included workflows, modifying workflows in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, and creating and modifying workflows in the Microsoft Visual Studio development system.

Business Intelligence

Review how the Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) model can help enhance business insight by improving your organization's reporting, analysis, and performance management capabilities.

In this webcast, we discuss business intelligence (BI) (advanced reporting) integration with your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site. We demonstrate configuration of Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007, key performance indicators (KPIs), and more. We use the Report Center template and show you how you can easily integrate line-of-business (LOB) data into your site.

Watch more Business Intelligence on-demand webcasts.

PodcastsPodcasts

Join us and learn how Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help your organization increase productivity by providing a platform for sharing information and working together in teams, communities, and people-driven processes.

Join this podcast to learn more about Office SharePoint Server 2007, the Microsoft Enterprise Search solution that helps organizations reduce information overload by providing employees, partners, and customers with the ability to find relevant content in a wide range of repositories and formats.

Learn how Office SharePoint Server 2007 empowers people in your organization to manage the entire life cycle of unstructured content, from creation to expiration, on a single unified platform.

Further ResourcesFurther Resources

Watch more SharePoint Server 2007 on-demand webcasts.

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Highlighted Resources from Past Events

SharePoint Conference 2008
Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman

Bill Gates

During this keynote presentation, Bill Gates discusses the industry trends and SharePoint Server's unique position to address the issues facing organizations today.

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Tech Ed 2007
Thomas Rizzo, Director, SharePoint, Microsoft Corporation

Thomas Rizzo

Watch this SharePoint overview session (Level 200)that covers technical fundamentals, feature overviews, new sets of server functionality and implications for developers and IT professionals alike.

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Derek Burney, Microsoft's General Manager of SharePoint tools and platforms

Derek burney

Watch this keynote presentation of Derek Burney on how Enterprise 2.0 technologies can amplify the impact of your people.

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Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference
Jeff Raikes, President, Microsoft Business Division

Jeff Raikes

Watch the Live streaming Keynote address by Jeff Raikes to hear the latest exciting announcements from Microsoft Business Intelligence.

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