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Successful SharePoint 2007 Deployment and Administration – Truly Centralizing Your SharePoint Back-End Management
11/27/2007

Controlling the deployment of operations and applications across enterprise SharePoint environments and creating a well governed administration strategy is critical for successful management of SharePoint environments. This webcast will show you how to take control of your enterprise-wide SharePoint environments, from a single farm to hundreds of farms, and truly centralizing its management. We will take a look at the sample administration scenarios and address critical considerations for security and global control, such as permissions deployment, usage and storage monitoring.

Presenter:

Andrew Yeung, Director of Product Management, AvePoint
SharePoint Pro Live Event on Oct. 17
10/17/2007
 Get hands-on, practical solutions using Windows SharePoint Services in this premier virtual conference on Oct. 17, 2007. Join experts Andrew Connell, Melissa Fraser, Dan Holme and Daniel Larson in this free, all-day interactive conference that addresses the benefits of SharePoint collaboration software and explores ways to justify the cost within your organization.
SharePoint® 2007 MOSS 2007 Backup Pros and Cons, Evaluation Standards & Strategies
10/5/2007
 Though improved, the native SharePoint 2007 backup tools still have major issues with recovery granularity, performance, fidelity, and usability. This webcast discusses MOSS 2007 backup pros and cons, and recommends new evaluation standards and practices for SharePoint backup.
SharePoint – from Portals to Offline Knowledge Management – a Crowe Chizek Case Study
10/2/2007
 Attend this practical webinar to learn how Crowe Chizek and Company LLC, one of the top 10 U.S. accounting firms, has deployed SharePoint® for multiple business applications, while providing their mobile professionals with a consistent user experience both online and offline. The firm started with portals, but is today using SharePoint for project management, client extranets, knowledge management, team sites, and more.
MOSS Search 2007 - Crossing the chasm to user adoption.
6/28/2007
 A recent study from Accenture revealed the stark reality that Enterprise Search initiatives fail the majority of time. In this Webcast we’ll present data that explains why this is the case, and what you can do to prevent it.

This Webcast will focus on why user adoption rather than deployment should be the key metric of a successful MOSS Search deployment.….Relevance and usability drive user adoption, but typically take a back seat to a list of features that users rarely use.

Learn how to avoid the common missteps companies make when deploying MOSS Search, and how usability and relevance can be greatly improved by extending SharePoint Search through Microsoft partner add-ons. xxxx
Insuring Your SharePoint Enterprise with Enterprise Recovery
6/27/2007
 As more critical information is hosted using SharePoint, organizations require effective backup and recovery plans with tools that allow for adherence to in-place service level agreements around recovery of sensitive data. During our presentation, we will outline some of the challenges related to backup and recovery in SharePoint 2003 and 2007, and explain how Quest’s Recovery Manager for SharePoint is an essential component of any serious Enterprise recovery process.
Make all your enterprise applications collaborative with SharePoint -- without programming
6/19/2007
 This webinar discusses requirements and solutions for using SharePoint (WSS, MOSS, or SPS v2) as a single collaborative environment for all enterprise applications, including LOB, ERP, CRM, ECM, DBMS, Lotus Notes/Domino, Exchange public folders, and file systems. Presented solutions require no programming, no Web Parts, and no XML.
10 Things to Consider when Integrating Outlook & SharePoint
5/31/2007
 SharePoint - Outlook Integration 101 – Attend this practical, hands-on session to discover new strategies for improving email and document management in your organization by integrating Microsoft Outlook® and SharePoint®. Bob Mixon, of ShareSquared, and a Microsoft SharePoint MVP for Office SharePoint Server, will discuss-
How to take advantage of SharePoint for managing email Client-side requirements for ensuring user adoption-
Tips for using content types for classification & retention-
Ins & outs of email metadata extraction & customization Caching SharePoint content for offline access. You’ll learn how SharePoint, Outlook and, a new Outlook Add-in from Colligo can work together to enhance email and document management through practical use case scenarios. You’ll discover best practices that can support your organization’s specific requirements. If you are responsible for effective enterprise content and/or email management in your organization, you won’t want to miss this webinar – register today!
SharePoint® 2007 Backup Pros and Cons, Evaluation Standards & Strategies
5/22/2007
 With SharePoint quickly becoming the preferred platform for team collaboration, protecting it against data loss and damages is a key concern for today’s administrators. Can you distinguish various types of data based on its importance? Can you backup critical, frequently changing sites and documents to separate storage tiers? Though improved, the native SharePoint 2007 backup tools still have major issues with recovery granularity, performance, fidelity, and usability. This webinar discusses MOSS 2007 backup Pros and Cons, and recommends new evaluation standards and practices for SharePoint backup.





Maximize your Migration to SharePoint 2007 Today; Unlock Your Innovation Potential Tomorrow
5/8/2007
 Learn what it really takes to upgrade existing SharePoint 2003 sites to SharePoint 2007. Find out how to save valuable IT resources today and into the future. The process of exposing SharePoint 2007 functionality while preserving design features and custom web parts from SharePoint 2003 can be easy and programmatic, if you have the right tools. Making the right decisions when you migrate today will let you unlock the innovation potential within your new SharePoint 2007 environment going forward. Deploying new designs, web parts and navigation across your site collection can be a snap, with the right approaches.
Enterprise Content Management with SharePoint Server 2007
4/26/2007
 The new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a robust server platform with core Enterprise Content Management features such as records management, workflow, and content archiving. Join this webinar to learn about the ECM capabilities of SharePoint, and how to extend the SharePoint platform for production document capture and imaging.
The power to visually create Microsoft SharePoint based process driven solutions that span lists, libraries, sites, and systems
4/24/2007
 Dennis Parker, President of K2, will discuss the future of Business Process Applications and demonstrate how K2 “BlackPearl” provides anyone the power to visually create Microsoft SharePoint based process driven solutions that span lists, libraries, sites, and systems
SharePoint Search 2007 – Avoiding three mistakes that lead to project failure
3/27/2007
 Approaching a search initiative like any other IT infrastructure initiative such as email, is a classic mistake that companies make when deploying enterprise search in their organization. This webcast will explain why enterprise search initiatives are different and why a “one size fits all” approach to deployment is the path to poor user adoption.
Full-fidelity Granular Migration of Content from a SharePoint 2003 to a SharePoint 2007 Environment
3/8/2007
 This webinar will show you how to easily move content— from single items to entire sites—from SharePoint 2003 into MOSS 2007, while maintaining all properties, securities, and metadata.
Rational Application Design For SharePoint
3/6/2007
 We will present design strategies and site architectures for developing SharePoint applications that provide better user experience, with fewer sites, and lower maintenance. With the release of SharePoint 2007 people are getting serious about developing applications in SharePoint, but they have a lot of questions: What kind of application belongs in SharePoint? What are the design approaches? How can I build for performance? What makes applications easier to maintain? In this session we will address those questions and more to give you what you need for rational design.
SharePoint Search 2007 – Deliver Business Intelligence in a search result
2/13/2007
 Enterprise Search is moving beyond simple keyword searches to delivering Business Intelligence in a search result. With the help of the Business Data Catalog in SharePoint 2007, SharePoint can now index databases from custom applications, CRM, and ERP data sources. Learn why search enabled BI is the “killer application” of 2007, and how the Business Data Catalog can be extended to provide this functionality.
Accelerate Remote Access to your Microsoft Office and SharePoint Applications
2/6/2007
 Join us on Tuesday February 6, 2007 and see how to turbo charge your Microsoft Office and SharePoint Applications. Discover how Application Intelligent Networking from Certeon can overcome the limitations of a WAN in order to accelerate the delivery of application services to remote branches by 1000%. Optimize application performance, maximize application scalability, and enhance data security across the WAN. Test drive Certeon’s Office and SharePoint 2007 acceleration in your own environment.
Windows PowerShell: Better, Faster, More - Simplified!
12/21/2006
 Microsoft's Windows PowerShell promises to make Windows administration easier, Exchange Server administration more effective, and might even be able to do the dishes for you! While you can pack plenty of power into a single-line PowerShell command, writing short PowerShell script blocks lets you create long-term reusable tools of incredible power and flexibility. In this webinar, Don Jones introduces you to the PowerShell environment, and shares tips and tricks for making PowerShell script development faster, easier, and - dare we say it? -- more fun!
Reporting in SharePoint 2007 - Get the Facts
12/14/2006
 With the advent of SharePoint 2007 as a stronger platform to build collaborative applications, more and more information will find itself stored in SharePoint with an obvious growing need for reporting. This webcast will explain and show the out-of-box reporting capabilities that come native with SharePoint 2007. The webcase will also explain what reporting capabilities are not available in SharePoint 2007 and will present BrightWork Reporter capabilities that can fill these gaps, i.e. support for cross-site and cross-list reporting, pre-built reports, flexible report building, easy report sharing via scheduled email, dynamic reporting links with Excel, and rich data analysis with Excel and SQL Server Reporting Services.
MOSS 2007 Search – Features, Limitations, and Solutions
12/5/2006
 This webinar will focus on the key search features delivered in MOSS 2007. The first half of the webinar will focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the new search ranking algorithm, and how it compares to other best-of-breed enterprise search algorithms. Topics will include how click distance, anchor text, and URL depth influence relevance. You will also learn how explicit feedback from end-users is the key to personalizing and boosting relevance. The second half of the webinar will focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the Business Data Catalog (BDC). Topics will include how to index ERP data using the BDC and enhancing this functionality to enable search driven business intelligence via Microsoft partner add-ons.
Maximize Office and SharePoint WAN Access
11/14/2006
 Xtreme Makeover – SharePoint Edition provides a practical guide to application intelligent networking and demonstrates how overcoming the limitations of a WAN can accelerate the delivery of application services to remote branches by 1000%. Discover how to optimize Microsoft Office and SharePoint application performance, maximize application scalability, and enhance data security across the WAN.
BI Search for SharePoint 2007 - access your ERP data via a search interface
11/7/2006
 This webinar will focus on the strengths and weaknesses of Microsoft's forthcoming Business Data Catalog (BDC) capabilities to search data sources such as ERP, CRM, and other databases. It will compare these capabilities to the Google Enteprise OneBox. Finally, BA-Insight’s will present Longitude for BI, an extension of MOSS 2007 which delivers business intelligence from your ERP and CRM systems out-of-the-box.
Consolidate your Exchange Public Folders to one efficient SharePoint environment
10/31/2006
 What is your company's collaboration strategy? Do you plan on moving to SharePoint? Many IT teams are being tasked with migrating the public folder data in Exchange to SharePoint to provide a simplified information platform for employees. Getting to one place for business-critical information removes the risk of future obsolescence and provides a more efficient infrastructure for administrative teams. Join Doug Davis, Product Director for SharePoint solutions at Quest Software, to learn some best practices for a successful migration from the planning phases of the migration to the ongoing management after the migration. Doug will walk through common approaches to planning and reducing the risk of such a migration. He will outline how the migration itself is performed through to a comprehensive management regime post-migration that will ensure the environment stays well managed after the migration. These steps are the pillars of a successful migration and any migration will benefit from their implementation.
Want to Build Serious Applications Using SharePoint Server 2007?
10/26/2006
 There are many advances in each of the products in the 2007 Microsoft Office system that make it an awesome platform on which to build applications and products.

Enhancements in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Office SharePoint Portal Server, and Office Project Server in particular have made this a compelling platform

for faster application development. This webcast explains these changes and details how they can be used with examples.
How to Take SharePoint 2007 Offline
10/24/2006
 Offline SharePoint 101 – Attend this practical, hands-on session to walk through the offline solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint® 2007. Learn how offline access keeps getting better.

Dustin Miller, President of SharePoint Experts and a Microsoft MVP for Windows SharePoint Services, will give you an inside look at how Microsoft Office 2007 and Colligo for SharePoint allow users to access SharePoint content without Internet access. You will see how elements of a typical SharePoint site can be taken offline with a variety of applications. You’ll discover which of these solutions will support your organization’s specific requirements:

- Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007
- Microsoft Office Groove® 2007
- Microsoft Office Access® 2007
- Microsoft Office Excel® 2007
- Colligo Reader for SharePoint®
- Colligo Contributor for SharePoint®
Preparing Exchange for New Federal Rules for eDiscovery: Exchange Best Practices Webinar
10/19/2006
 In December of 2006, a new level of compliance will be enforced for e-discovery when Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 34(b) becomes effective. This webinar will discuss how the new rules impact IT and legal departments across all verticals and company size. The presenters will demonstrate how technology solutions and processes will help assure that your organization can meet these new regulations.
SharePoint Search 2003/2007 - Crossing the chasm to user adoption
10/17/2006
 This webcast will focus on the strengths and weaknesses of Microsoft's current and forthcoming enterprise search offering. It will explore why neither Microsoft nor Google have been able to address the key stumbling block to user adoption - Relevance. The webcast will also present Longitude, an extension to SharePoint Search that provides dramatic improvements in search relevance.
How to Seamlessly Archive SharePoint Content and Free Up Valuable SQL Server Resources
10/12/2006
 Inactive SharePoint content occupies VALUABLE SQL server space. AvePoint's SP ARCHIVER, a business rule enabled archiving solution, seamlessly moves content off production servers, keeping it searchable, viewable, and accessible from within SharePoint. Find out how SP ARCHIVER can free up your valuable resources.
A PMO (Project Management Office) using Microsoft SharePoint
9/26/2006
 Learn how to use the SharePoint 2003 and 2007 Products and Technologies environment to deliver a PMO - a Project Management Office. Much project work in organizations is monitored in various scheduling tools - but these tools do not allow for the management of the most common project deliverables such as project plans, phases, roles, specifications, requirements, change requests, etc. SharePoint is, of course, the perfect place to manage these items. This web cast will show the possibilities of the SharePoint 2003 and 2007 Products and Technologies to allow for Project Management of one or a portfolio of multiple different types of projects (e.g. business and IT projects) - and will show organizations can deliver a PMO on SharePoint.
Best Practices for Successful SharePoint Management
9/12/2006
 The astounding growth of SharePoint is an amazing collaboration revolution, but also presents many SharePoint management challenges. In this Webcast, SharePoint admins will learn some best practices for managing their SharePoint infrastructure. We will provide tips for initial configurations, portal installs, site design, managing documents and disk space, as well as outlining the management changes coming in SharePoint 2007.
Integrated Messaging Security for Exchange
8/22/2006
 Tired of using separate products on your Microsoft Exchange server for antivirus, antispam, attachment filtering, disclaimers, content auditing/filtering? Maybe it's time to switch to an easy to manage 'all-in-one' integrated and policy-based messaging security product.

This webcast will address the latest threats to messaging security and spotlight a new and comprehensive messaging security solution that enables system administrators to easily secure their messaging infrastructures and stop threats at the Exchange Server.

Learn about Sunbelt Messaging Ninja and how its third-generation policy-based framework with best-of-breed messaging security plug-ins can protect your organization and users from spam, viruses, trojans, phishing and other messaging security threats while reducing your total cost of ownership.
'Supercharged Search' for SharePoint
8/8/2006
 Find information. Understand information. Act - much faster. Learn how "supercharged search" for Microsoft SharePoint Portals and WSS sites can increase user adoption of SharePoint and enhance the value for your investment in SharePoint.
Enterprise-level SharePoint Backup, Content Management, Disaster Recovery, Archiving, and Auditing
7/27/2006
 Integrating the best of SharePoint backup, content management, disaster recovery, archiving, and auditing solutions into a single browser-based interface, accessible from ANYWHERE and manage UNLIMITED number of SharePoint environments. Learn how to significantly reduce your SharePoint operational and management costs.
Adding Workflow and BPM to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server
6/29/2006
 Captaris Workflow 6.0 extends Visual Studio 2005 to add workflow and BPM to Microsoft SharePoint. Learn how to add sophisticated workflow and BPM solutions to Microsoft SharePoint using Captaris Workflow 6.0, Visual Studio 2005, SQL 2005, and .NET 2.0 Framework. Learn how KPI, OLAP Data cubes, and reporting services can enhance your workflow deployment and how to use Simulation to optimize processes.
Document Imaging with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007
6/27/2006
 We all know Office SharePoint Server 2007 is only months away. Join us during this web seminar to see how the upcoming platform can be extended to meet most Document Imaging needs.
Best Practices for Optimizing Microsoft® SharePoint® Services Over a WAN
6/20/2006
 Best Practices for Optimizing SharePoint Services Over a WAN provides a practical guide to mitigating the impact of limited WAN bandwidth, excessive packet loss, and high network latency on the delivery of application services to remote branches. Discover how to accelerate SharePoint application performance, maximize application scalability, and enhance data security across the WAN.
IT Project Management with Microsoft® SharePoint® Products and Technologies
5/2/2006
 Learn what you need to add to your SharePoint Products and Technologies environment to enable IT Project Management. Much project work in IT organizations is monitored in various scheduling tools - but these tools do not allow for the management of the most common IT project deliverables such as project plans, phases, roles, specifications, requirements, etc. This web cast will show the features you need to add to SharePoint Products and Technologies to allow for IT Project Management of one or a portfolio of projects.
SharePoint Search - What Every SharePoint Admin Should Know
4/27/2006
 Search is one of the most important components of SharePoint, yet it is the least understood. In this WebCast, SharePoint Admins and Managers are presented with concise information that will empower them to get the most out of SharePoint Search. We cover the business value and ROI of Enterprise Search, the challenge of good Enterprise Search technology with a focus on how Google has set the bar for user expectations, and three ways to optimize your SharePoint Search; 1) Configuring search scopes and advanced search. 2) Optimizing the SharePoint ranking algorithm. 3) Customizing the search page. We conclude with a sneak peek at the search enhancements found in SharePoint 2007.
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 Archiving, Storage Optimization, User Productivity, Cost Reduction
3/28/2006
 Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is rapidly emerging as the corporate choice for managing and sharing unstructured information. As companies continue to store increasing volumes of information on SharePoint Portal Servers, the need to proactively manage the storage of that information will become more acute.
This webinar will discuss how to realize immediate cost savings related to the optimization of the overall volume of storage as we as ongoing productivity improvements in accessing and reviewing corporate information for business purposes, regulatory audits or legal discovery requests by: 1) Archiving files from SharePoint Portal Servers based on centralized policy. 2) Stubbing archived files to provide users with transparent access to archived documents through the SharePoint Portal Server and directly from Microsoft® Office Professional Edition 2003 applications. 3) Indexing and search archived files using the SharePoint Portal Server search engine.
Document Backup & Recovery for Microsoft® SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 while protecting the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies environment
3/21/2006
 SharePoint Products and Technolgies are powerful collaboration and document sharing products. Protecting environments based on SharePoint Products and Technologies requires the simple and fast ability to granularly recover documents and objects while at the same time having database, server and full disaster recover in place. CommVault will discuss the finer point of managing SharePoint Products and Technologies and Microsoft® Windows Server environments where SharePoint Products and Technologies with Microsoft® Active Directory, Microsoft® SQL Server, Microsoft® Visual Studio® development system and Microsoft® Exhange Server 2003 exist. Live demonstrations will be incorporated throughout the presentation.
On-demand Business Automation with Microsoft® Office Visio 2003 and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
3/14/2006
 BPM promises an alluring future; where an evolving business support system is easily tuned and optimized to meet the ever-changing needs of the business, making the firm more responsive and agile. In this session, attendees will see how Ascentn AgilePoint serves as the BPM accelerator for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and enables IT to deliver sophisticated functionality to information workers as re-usable components that can be assembled into readily executable workflows or SOA applications in Microsoft Office Visio 2003. Attendees will be guided through one complete walk-through demonstrating all of this.
Integrated Workspaces: Integrating Line of Business Applications in SharePoint
3/9/2006
 Valuable client and business information that is locked away in the silos of line of business applications can be integrated and unleashed through SharePoint and OFfice 2003/IBF. Join Handshake Software, Inc. to review how organizations are delivering integrated client and project-centric collaboration through SharePoint and IBF by quickly and easily integrating their line of business applications. Learn how these solutions have helped organizations of all sizes increase their productivity, improve responsiveness, and reduce business costs.
Implementing and Managing Exchange ActiveSync Across Multiple Mobile Device Platforms
3/7/2006
 In today's global marketplace, research has shown that
corporate mobility will result in significant ROI through increased
productivity and enhanced customer service offerings. As a cost effective
and highly scalable solution, Exchange ActiveSync now extends mobility from
the corner offices to the entire organization. Join DataViz to learn how to
easily implement and manage Exchange ActiveSync in your organization
regardless which mobile devices you choose.
Ensuring Document Integrity in SharePoint Implementations: A Framework for Managing Security, Accuracy and Compliance in Document Exchange
2/28/2006
 Microsoft Windows SharePoint enables users to easily create, manage and build their own collaborative workspaces and make them available throughout and beyond the organization. SharePoint workspaces in general, and Document Libraries specifically, create a great place to share and collaborate over business-critical documents. However, this additional channel of document distribution adds to the growing risks around document security, accuracy and compliance. Organizations must deal with these Document Integrity issues when implementing SharePoint collaboration solutions. Only then can they be confident in implementing high value SharePoint collaboration solutions. This webcast will overview the business, regulatory and technical challenges associated with managing these issues, and suggest a set of capabilities that must be delivered.
Using SharePoint and IBF (Office 2003) to Deliver Integrated Client and Project-Centric Information from Line of Business Systems
2/21/2006
 Valuable client and business information that is locked away in the silos of line of business applications can be integrated and unleashed through SharePoint and OFfice 2003/IBF. Join Handshake Software, Inc. to review how organizations are delivering integrated client and project-centric collaboration through SharePoint and IBF by quickly and easily integrating their line of business applications. Learn how these solutions have helped organizations of all sizes increase their productivity, improve responsiveness, and reduce business costs.
Citrix Web Interface for Microsoft SharePoint
2/7/2006
 This presentation will look at the new developments from Citrix Systems which allow Microsoft SharePoint administrators to use SharePoint as the single user interface for access to business information, processes and remote applications.
Merging, reporting data from multiple SharePoint sites, lists and fields
1/31/2006
 This webcast will explain the business need to report/aggregate data from multiple SharePoint lists and sites and will show samples of cool reports that can be aggregated from SharePoint. The webcast will also walkthrough the structure of the code needed to deliver such reports. A full copy of the code will be made available to webcast attendees.
Transforming Your SharePoint Environment into a Platform for Deploying Integrated Business Solutions
1/24/2006
 Organizations of all sizes can realize significant ROI when they maximize the collaborative benefits of SharePoint. By learning how to deploy integrated business solutions quickly and without the need for costly custom development, your organization can make the transition from islands of information to a truly collaborative organization. Join CorasWorks to review a variety of vertical and horizontal business solutions that can be successfully built and deployed on Microsoft SharePoint. Learn how these solutions have helped organizations of all sizes increase their productivity, improve responsiveness, and reduce business costs.
Turning SharePoint into a Compliance Solution
1/17/2006
 Martin Cuellar, Product Consultant at Meridio, will show you how to manage better scalability and security requirements for unstructured data for the entire enterprise. Learn how to more easily access and manage unstructured data including email, Word documents and instant messages to better deliver on compliance requirements. Learn how to turn your teamsite into an information asset and limit compliance risks. Hear how HIPPA, G L B, Part 11 and Section 17A regulations and practices impact your SharePoint environment, and how their needs can be addressed.