The SharePoint Conference 2008 İstanbul will be held between Thursday, April 10, 2008 - Friday, April 11, 2008. In the following days we will be updating our agenda so please visit our site for and updates frequently.

TRACKS
                Deployment, Migration and Administration
Business Applications, Interoperability and Business Process Management Enterprise content management, Search and Collaboration
DAY 1
09:30 - 10:00 REGISTRATION
10:00 - 11:00 Opening Keynote (Munir Kundakci/Bryjnar Skauvik/Onur Görür)
11:10 - 12:00 ADM101 - SharePoint Server 2007 Administration Fundamentals -
Joel Oleson, Senior Product Manager
BPM101 - SharePoint Workflows
Out-of-the Box
- Eray Chou, Microsoft, Sharepoint Designer Program Manager
ECM101 - Enterprise Content Management with MOSS 2007 - Atalay Aktaş, Microsoft, IW Solution Sales Professional
12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH / PARTNER PAVILLION
13:00 - 13:50 ADM102 - SharePoint dministrators, the reluctant DBAs (all you need to know about SQL but were afraid to ask) - Todd Klindt, MVP PRT101 - Partner Session: Advanced SharePoint Workflows using Form
Services and the first glimpse of NGS "ION”
- Erkan Tatlıdil, NGS
ECM102 - Implementing a
multi-lingual internet web site
based on MOSS 2007 Web Content Management
- Onur Görür, Microsoft, Office System Product Manager
13:50 - 14.10 BREAK
14:10 - 15:00 ADM103 - Chaos No More:
SharePoint Governance and
Adoption
- Joel Oleson, Senior Product Manager
BPM102 - Sharepoint as a BI
Platform
- Jerome Thiebaud,
Microsoft, Sharepoint Designer
Product Manager
PRT 102 - Partner Session: EMC
15:10 - 16:00 PRT103 - Partner Session: INNOVA BPM103 - Excel Services Overview
and Deployment
- Tuğbay Aşkın,
Microsoft, Technology Specialist
ECM103 - New Search features in Microsoft Search Server and MOSS - Patrick Beeharry, Microsoft, Office Servers
Product Manager
16:00 - 16:20 BREAK
16:20 - 17:10 ADM104 - Your data is in SharePoint now what? - Taner Ültanır, Microsoft, Partner Technology Specialist BPM104 - Manage the Data in your database using the Data View web part…No code needed - Joseph Khalaf, Microsoft, Global Escalation Manager ECM104 - Design Patterns for Collaborative Applications - Eray Chou, Microsoft, Sharepoint Designer Program Manager
17.30 - 19.00 ASK THE EXPERTS
DAY 2
09:00 - 09:30 REGISTRATION
09:30 - 10:20 ADM201 - SharePoint 2007 Advanced Administration - Joel Oleson, Senior Product Manager BPM201 - Performance management with SharePoint and erformancePoint - Cavit Yantaç, Microsoft, Application Platform Technology Specialist ECM201 - Advanced Search Configuration and Management
- Berkay Meşe, Microsoft, Technology Specialist
10:20 - 10:40 BREAK
10:40 - 11:30 ADM202 - Disaster Recovery for SharePoint Products and Technologies - Taner Ültanır, Microsoft, Partner Technology Specialist BPM202 - Integrating Line-of-Business Data into MOSS 2007 with the Business Data Catalog - Onur Görür, Microsoft, Office System Product Manager ECM202 - SharePoint Tools for Style: How to Start Branding SharePoint - Jerome Thiebaud, Microsoft, Sharepoint Designer Product Manager
11:40 - 12:30 ADM203 - Planning for scale and
capacity
- Atalay Aktaş, Microsoft, IW Solution Sales Professional
BPM203 - Extend Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 with SQL Server Reporting Services - Cavit Yantaç, Microsoft, Application Platform Technology Specialist ECM203 - Office 2003 Client applications vs. the 2007 Office System: Why SharePoint Cares - Joseph Khalaf, Microsoft, Global Escalation Manager
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH / PARTNER PAVILLION
13:30- 14:20 ADM204 - Secure your sharepoint environment and publish it to Internet safely with Microsoft Forefront - Mehmet Üner, Microsoft, Solution Sales Professional BPM204 - Developing Custom BI
Solutions With C# on MOSS 2007
-
Nezih Tınas, MVP
ECM204 - Social Computing in the Enterprise Enable Communities with SharePoint Technologies - Patrick Beeharry, Microsoft, Office Servers Product Manager
14:20 - 14:40 BREAK
14:40 - 15:30 ADM205 - Administering Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 Using STSADM.EXE - Todd Klindt, MVP BPM205 - Light up your SharePoint web site with Sliverlight and AJAX - Mehmet Emre, Microsoft, Developer Evangelist ECM205 - How to enpower your Office users on managing their contents and still gurantee the consistency of your document libraries and contents on MOSS - Tuğbay Aşkın, Microsoft, Technology Specialist
15:30 - 16:20 ADM206 - Manage and Protect your Sharepoint Environment with Microsoft System Center: Operations Manager & Data Protection Manager - Mehmet Üner, Microsoft, Solution Sales Professional BPM206 - Customizing MOSS 2007
with SharePoint Designer 2007
-
Yeşim Sünger, Microsoft,
Technology Specialist
ECM206 - Integration of Microsoft CRM with SharePoint - Berkhan Esmer, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager
       
Deployment, Migration and Administration
ADM101 - SharePoint Server 2007 Administration Fundamentals - Joel Oleson, Senior Product Manager If you’re new to SharePoint you’ll figure out the fundamentals to building a solid SharePoint farm. From farm topologies to logical structures you’ll gain a solid foundation to SharePoint Administration.
ADM102 - SharePoint Administrators, the reluctant DBAs (all you need to know about SQL but were afraid to ask) - Todd Klindt, MVP Are you a SharePoint administrator that has been reluctantly thrust into the role of SQL DBA as well? In this session we'll go over some basic SQL features and configuration and how they pertain to SharePoint. We'll cover why you should consider 64 bit SQL. Finally we'll go over some maintenance steps you should take to keep both SQL and SharePoint happy. By the end of this session you'll have a good understanding of SQL and
ADM103 - Chaos No More: SharePoint Governance and Adoption - Joel Oleson, Senior Product Manager Start your successful SharePoint deployment by building a service. If you’re trying to rein in your collaboration or portal strategies in your company, this is the session for you. Whether you manage the SharePoint infrastructure or are looking to ensure a successful deployment, this is an essential session to a successful deployment.
ADM104 - Your data is in SharePoint now what? - Taner Ültanır, Microsoft, Partner Technology Specialist From Corporate compliance, security policies, information policies, and file plans with content types, this session will walk you through the right way to manage your data and addressing the compliance needs of your company.
ADM201 - SharePoint 2007 Advanced Administration - Joel Oleson, Senior Product Manager Planning to do host SharePoint for your global company or build an extranet? You’ll learn tips and tricks including essentials for deploying SharePoint in advanced configurations.
ADM202 - Disaster Recovery for SharePoint Products and Technologies - Taner Ültanır, Microsoft, Partner Technology Specialist List out all of the components of MOSS 2007 and the options available for disaster recovery. The session would walk through all of the utilities, supportability recommendations, and other MS products available for this item.
ADM203 - Planning for scale and capacity - Atalay Aktaş, Microsoft, IW Solution Sales Professional In some cases, an organization's requirements for availability can result in a server farm size that provides greater capacity or performance than is otherwise required. Also scalability of this farm is critical due to performance considerations. In this session, you will get information about scale and capacity planning for SharePoint Server 2007.
ADM204 - Secure your Sharepoint environment with Microsoft Forefront - Onur Altıntaş, Microsoft, Account Technology Specialist Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading vendors and content controls to help businesses protect their Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments by eliminating documents containing malicious code, confidential information, and inappropriate content. This session covers how Forefront Security for SharePoint leverages the SharePoint 2007 API to scan infected documents, keywords for inappropriate language, and non-compliant file types. Attendees receive an in-depth drilldown on the setting and configurations of the realtime and manual scan jobs.
ADM205 - Administering Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 Using STSADM.EXE - Todd Klindt, MVP Sometimes a SharePoint administrator needs the raw power of a command line tool to get the job done. That's where STSADM.EXE comes to the rescue. STSADM is a command line administration tool included with Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. In this session, we describe many tasks that can be performed using STSADM. See examples of scripts that can be created that leverage STSADM to allow the efficient administrator to automate common tasks. We also cover some operations that can only be done with STSADM.
ADM206 - Manage and Protect your Sharepoint Environment with Microsoft System Center: Operations Manager & Data Protection Manager - Mehmet Üner, Microsoft, Solution Sales Professional Microsoft System Center helps to manage Sharepoint deployments. System Center Operations Manager 2007 monitors Sharepoint environments and helps IT administrators to solve problems proactively. Data Protection Manager backs up and restores Sharepoint Server 2007 and Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 in an efficient and cost effective way. Internet Application Gateway 2007 publishes Sharepoint Server 2007 to the Internet. With a built-in application layer firewall and endpoint compliance properties, your Sharepoint environment can be used by mobile workers, partners and vendors in a secure way.
Business Applications, Interoperability and Business Process Management
BPM101 - SharePoint Workflows Out-of-the Box - Eray Chou, Microsoft, Sharepoint Designer Program Manager SharePoint 2007 provides many pre-built workflow solutions directly out-of-the-box. Learn what you can do with SharePoint and workflow—without being a developer. In this session, explore what options you have if you don't like braces, brackets, and semicolons. MOSS includes workflows that may fit your needs and, even if they don't, you might be able to create your own with SharePoint Designer.
BPM102 - Sharepoint as a BI Platform - Jerome Thiebaud, Microsoft, Sharepoint Designer Product Manager Sharepoint 2007 delivers a number of new capabilities for Business Intelligence including KPI support, Reporting Services integration, Excel Services, Scorecarding, Performance Point, and many other capabitilies. This session will cover the breadth of BI integration abilities, and will provide real world examples and demonstrations.
BPM103 - Excel Services Overview and Deployment - Tuğbay Aşkın, Microsoft, Technology Specialist In this session, we will see how Excel Services extends the capabilities of Excel 2007 by allowing broad sharing of spreadsheets, improved manageability and security, and the ability to reuse spreadsheet models through a scalable server-based calculation service and interactive web-based user interface. Excel Services provides both a web-based user interface for browser-based access and a web services API for programmatic access—both of which have robust options for controlling what data is available to users and applications. As part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Excel Services also takes advantage of the other capabilities of SharePoint, including the enterprise content management features such as check-in/check-out, auditing, and versioning capabilities.
BPM104 - Manage the Data in your database using the Data View web part…No code needed - Joseph Khalaf, Microsoft, Global Escalation Manager Managing content in the enterprise is one of the most crucial needs of a business. Until now, if you wanted to edit your data in the database through a web front end, it usually meant developing a solution using some sort of programming language. Not anymore! Now if you are a power user who has access to Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can tap into your data by implementing the Data View web part. This session focuses on how a knowledge worker can be empowered to create data management solutions using SharePoint Designer and Data View web part.
BPM201 - Performance management with SharePoint and PerformancePoint - Cavit Yantaç, Microsoft, Application Platform Technology Specialist We will explore how Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 deployed through Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help corporations improve their business performance process by integrating monitoring, analysis, and planning capabilities into one application. Join this session to learn about how Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 enables businesses to deliver performance management capabilities broadly by providing an application that is easy to use and less costly to deploy than traditional solutions. More specifically, we talk about the main concepts you need to understand to build, deploy, and manage KPI’s, dashboards, scorecards, forecasts, plans, and budgets.
BPM202 - Integrating Line-of-Business Data into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with the Business Data Catalog - Onur Görür, Microsoft, Office System Product Manager During this session attendees will learn what the Business Data Catalog (BDC) is, why they would want to use it, and how to create applications that leverage the BDC. This session will demonstrate what functionality the out-of-the-box BDC Web Parts provide and show how they can be leveraged to quickly create applications inside SharePoint and integrate business applications to SharePoint without writing a line of code!
BPM203 - Extend Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 with SQL Server Reporting Services - Cavit Yantaç, Microsoft, Application Platform Technology Specialist Deliver enterprise reports to all users through one centralized user interface through deep integration between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SQL Server Reporting. In this session you will learn how to extend the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with the power of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to integrate rich reporting and business intelligence dashboards into your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment providing portal sites optimized for all reporting needs. Topics include configuring Reporting Services for a SharePoint environment, managing reports and models within SharePoint document libraries and integrating with Excel Services and Report Center via the ReportViewer Web Part.
BPM204 - Developing Custom BI Solutions With C# on MOSS 2007 - Nezih Tınas, MVP With the help of development tools integrated into Visual Studio 2005 & 2008, development on MOSS 2007 shortens the development lifecycle on IT projects. In this demonstration, the enterprise data on SQL Server database will be summarized to SharePoint lists with custom developed timer jobs, and KPI’s will be used to create dashboards with summarized data.
BPM205 - Light up your SharePoint web site with Sliverlight and AJAX - Daron Yöndem Learn how to leverage Web 2.0 technologies to build a rich and interactive end-user experiences for SharePoint sites and content using the Microsoft Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint. Topics covered are: building ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 enabled Web Parts; creating and consuming SharePoint Web Services that are AJAX-enabled; Web Parts hosting Silverlight applications; techniques to have the Silverlight applications communicated back and forth with SharePoint content such as items in lists and libraries, user profile information and search results; samples of how publishing portals can be enriched with Silverlight navigation controls and enhanced page layouts; demos on how to build Windows Vista Gadgets that display SharePoint content using traditional UI techniques as well as using Silverlight.
BPM206 - Customizing MOSS 2007 with SharePoint Designer 2007 - Yeşim Sünger, Microsoft, Technology Specialist In this session, you will learn how to create a custom master page, a custom theme, data management solutions with Data View web part and a custom workflow using SharePoint Designer 2007.
Enterprise content management, Search and Collaboration
ECM101 - Enterprise Content Management with MOSS 2007 - Atalay Aktaş, Microsoft, IW Solution Sales Professional Over the last several years, organizations have created a huge volume of unstructured content that includes documents, e-mail messages, videos, instant messages, Web pages, and more. This content often exists in a state of unmanaged chaos that prevents an organization from properly using these valuable assets for better knowledge sharing, improved customer communications, and increased process efficiency. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) from Microsoft is a key component of an organization's infrastructure, that can help companies overcome these challenges. Built on a well-integrated platform, ECM from Microsoft easily extends content management to every information worker in an organization through integration with familiar tools like the Microsoft Office system. In this session you'll have detailed information about ECM solution in MOSS.
ECM102 - Implementing a multi-lingual internet web site based on MOSS 2007 Web Content Management - Onur Görür, Microsoft, Office System Product Manager This session provides an overview of the Web Content Management features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Understand the Web page model and how it takes advantage of common SharePoint features to deliver rich Web pages. See how site managers can control what content gets published, using features like workflow and scheduling. We will also investigate features to develop multi-lingual portals through variations.
ECM103 - New Search features in MSS and MOSS - Patrick Beeharry, Microsoft, Office Servers Product Manager Take a look at the new features available in Microsoft Search Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn about the unified administration dashboard, query and results reporting, crawl rules, secure search federation, and more. In this session the new and existing features of the SharePoint search components are explored and explained. Also, delve into the new ability to easily extend and grow your search solution using federated search connectors, iFilters, and relevance tuning. Learn to wield the power and flexibility of the new search features to build an enterprise-class search infrastructure that gives you the right balance of control and simplicity.
ECM104 - Design Patterns for Collaborative Applications - Eray Chou, Microsoft, Sharepoint Designer Program Manager SharePoint provides powerful collaborative workspaces, but that's only the beginning of what's possible. During this session we review real-world designs for taking collaboration to the next level with collaborative applications that incorporate line-of-business integration, workflow, forms, and dashboards into SharePoint workspaces. The session is targeted at architects and business analysts.
ECM201 - Advanced Search Configuration and Management - Berkay Meşe, Microsoft, Technology Specialist Organizations intending to implement a search solution in SharePoint often approach this “technical problem” by asking “What do we need to index?” While this approach may yield results, they are usually less than optimal. The approach presented in this session begins with the user and drives to determine what the user needs and wants in their search experience. We discuss:
• Search Center design and configuration
• Search Results XSLT to improve results rendering
• Customizations to enhance the SharePoint search experience
• BDC Integration to search structure data
This session will be of interest to Site Designers, Developers, and Farm Administrators

ECM202 - SharePoint Tools for Style: How to Start Branding SharePoint - Jerome Thiebaud, Microsoft, Sharepoint Designer Product Manager You have a site design and your trusty copy of SharePoint Designer, but now what? In this session, we cover SharePoint branding concepts and benefits and show step by step how to create a custom master page using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer.
ECM203 - Office 2003 Client applications vs. the 2007 Office System: Why SharePoint Cares - Joseph Khalaf, Microsoft, Global Escalation Manager A fundamental question customer frequently ask when planning how to take advantage of the new capabilities in SharePoint 2007 is how to encourage users to make the best use of solutions implemented with it. The key to answering this question is a deep understanding of the difference in end-user SharePoint experience when using the 2007 Office system clients versus the Office 2003 clients. The differences are substantial and can make a big difference in user adoption of SharePoint-based solutions. This session highlights and illustrates these profound differences so that you can be fully informed as you plan your SharePoint solutions.
ECM204 - Social Computing in the Enterprise Enable Communities with SharePoint Technologies - Patrick Beeharry, Microsoft, Office Servers Product Manager Web 2.0 has changed the computing landscape with user-generated content and applications and new forces affecting traditional hierarchies. While it may feel like chaos is encroaching on the controlled world of the enterprise, the benefits cannot be ignored. This session provides an overview of the social computing technologies available today in SharePoint.
ECM205 - How to enpower your Office users on managing their contents and still gurantee the consistency of your document libraries and contents on MOSS - Tuğbay Aşkın, Microsoft, Technology Specialist This session will provide you real life examples of how to effectively use SharePoint for document management purposes
ECM206 - Integration of Microsoft CRM with SharePoint - Ömer Erkmen In this session, you will learn about the new features of Microsoft CRM 4.0 and integration with MOSS 2007.
Partner Session
PRT101 - Partner Session: Advanced SharePoint Workflows using Form Services and the first glimpse of NGS "ION” - Erkan Tatlıdil, NGS  
PRT102 - Partner Session: Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and EMC Content Management2 - Karsten Eberding, EMC, Strategic Alliance Manager During this session we will be demostrating InfoPath design, SharePoint Designer Workflow and Custom Lists. We will be developing a sample abcense request. Also we will be talking about our product ION – Forms and Workflows
PRT103 - Partner Session: Innova - Burcu Karadağ, Innova, Business Development Manager  

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