SharePoint Community Saturday Special - March 2017

Update: We've got 4 speakers coming in! Meetup extended

For March, we've got something very special planned:
4 top international speakers will join us for our meeting and share their knowledge with us. Michael Noel, Joel Oleson, Malin De Silva, and Chris Givens will tell us more about the new SharePoint Framework, Teams, Groups, OneDrive, and much more! Lunch will be provided

AGENDA

9:00 Registration

9:15 - 9:30am Introduction

Introduction by the organizers

9:30 - 10.30am Getting Started with SharePoint Framework (Malin de Silva)

SharePoint Framework supports interacting with SharePoint data and related services through a fully client-side development model. The controls are rendered in the normal page DOM. With the support of responsive set of controls and with the ability to develop through any open source IDE, it makes a development framework for everyone. In this session we will discuss on how to start development with SharePoint Framework and the advantages of it.

10.40 - 11.40am Introduction to Microsoft Teams, the New Digital Workspace (Joel Oleson)

In the session I'll discuss team work and productivity tools including Office 365 groups, SharePoint sites, Yammer and Teams for when to use what. ECM has evolved and we will discuss ways to become more agile and make more informed decisions quickly. We will explore the deployment considerations, security and information architecture and governance for Teams.

11.50am - 12.50pm Best Practices when migrating legacy ECM systems (Chris Givens)

Despite what tool you use to migrate your data, you will always need to consider the basic project elements of a migration. This includes thinking about how you will build your business rules, how many iterations you will need to perform, patterns for setup of the Managed Metadata Service, and many more topics. Chris will walk you through all the things you should consider when migrating your data from old systems to new ones such as SharePoint, Office 365 or Azure Storage with Azure Search.

12.50 - 1.20pm Lunch

Lunch will be provided

1.20 - 2.20pm Office 365: A Detailed Analysis (Michael Noel)

This session breaks down the various service offerings of Office 365, providing an easy to understand description of each of the tools provided and how they can be used to improve productivity and reduce costs.

• Understand key features and functionality of each of the service offerings within Office 365, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, Office Groups, Microsoft Teams, and the Office client suite

• Determine what type of license is required for your organization based on the level of functionality required and the type of information workers that will use the platform

• Review key decision points to make when considering an Office 365 deployment such as whether or not to provide Single Sign On to the platform with an internal Active Directory environment, data retention decisions, and migration options

2.30pm onwards - Q&A with the speakers

Any questions you want to ask the speakers? Want to hear their valuable opinion on something? This is your chance to get feedback from them!

About the speakers

Michael Noel
Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored over twenty major industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide. Significant titles include SharePoint 2013 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2013 Unleashed, Windows Server 2012 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael's writings and extensive public speaking experience across every continent leverage his real-world expertise helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure.

Joel Oleson
Blogger, traveller and top social media influencer, Joel has built communities all over the world and travelled to over 140 countries since 2008, including keynotes on all continents. He has worked in the IT industry for over 18 years, including software, non-profit, telecoms and start-ups. He was the first SharePoint administrator ever and spent seven years at Microsoft, including a few years on the SharePoint team. In the past few years, he was awarded top SharePoint blog and recognized as a top online influencer in the community by a Forbes study. Joel is co-founder of many community efforts—SPYam (SharePoint Yammer community with 6000 members strong) and Sharing The Point (a community building and training group designed to help underserved countries around the globe). You can find his popular technical blog at http://www.collabshow.com and his travel blog at http://travelingepic.com. Follow him on Twitter @joeloleson.

Malin De Silva
SharePoint Specialist with experience since SharePoint 2007. Have worked with multiple clients across multiple countries over the past few years. Speaker at many conferences and forums. TechNetWiki judge and an occasional blogger with Hackathon interests.

Chris Givens
Chris Givens is the co-founder and CEO of Architecting Connected Systems (ACS). ACS is a courseware development company that builds SharePoint courseware for Microsoft that is then distributed to training centers around the world. ACS titles include top courses in SharePoint Development and Business Intelligence but also materials that span every aspect of SharePoint. In addition to courseware development, Chris has led, as Sr. Architect, many large upgrades and installations of SharePoint for large companies such as eBay and General Atomics. He is co-founder and President of the San Diego SharePoint User Group (SanSpug.org); originally from Oklahoma; is a Computer Science major from the University of Tulsa; and currently resides in San Diego.