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Speaker |
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Session |
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Outline |
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Aaron Saikovski |
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Groove, your enterprise and SharePoint |
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This session introduces Groove and provides an overview
on how it can be used within your organisation. This
talk is squarely aimed at the Information Worker/IT pro
and also illustrates how it can be integrated with
SharePoint and how teams within your organisation can
use this great technology and really enhance team
productivity. |
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Aaron Saikovski |
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WSS/MOSS Developer tools, tips and tricks |
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This topic is aimed solely at the SharePoint developer.
In this talk i go through what tools you will need to
enable you to start developing on SharePoint today and
how to get started. I also cover off some neat tips and
tricks and where to find the information that you need. |
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Adam Cogan |
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My favourite 3rd party Office utilities |
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Microsoft's tools don't have all the answers. Let
someone else's hard work save you time. Adam reviews
some of the best Office tools on the market. |
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Adam Cogan |
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Moving from Access Reports to Reporting Services |
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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is a new
web-based reporting solution from Microsoft. It solves
many of the issues with existing reporting solutions,
such as deployment, scalability and availability.
In this session, you will learn about all the important
differences between Access Reports and Reporting
Services, and equip yourself with the knowledge to make
a decision on whether or not to move your reports into
Reporting Services. You will also be taken through a
real demo of an Access to Reporting Services migration |
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Adam Cogan |
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Using Office 2007 and Sharepoint 2007 together |
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SharePoint 2007 and Office (especially Access) have had
an enormous amount of work done in this version, and
they work together beautifully. To many, SharePoint 2007
is a web version of Access. Come see Adam Cogan show you
how you have a lot of options, including:
. using SharePoint data in your Access solution
. using Access to report on your SharePoint data
. upsizing your Access data to SharePoint and then
continue with Access as your frontend
. upsizing your entire Access solution to SharePoint and
then finish using Access as your platform
In addition, we will look at using SharePoint data in
other Office applications. |
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Alistair Speirs |
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Collaboration Without Borders: Office Enterprise |
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The 2007 Microsoft Office System has rich collaboration
functionality. In this session you will see firsthand
how Microsoft Office Groove and OneNote are used to
extend the collaboration capabilities of any
organisation with minimal impact to the IT Department.
Learn how you can improve your collaboration scenario,
whether you have existing collaboration technologies
today or if you have none. |
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Andrew Coates |
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Deploying Office Solutions with VSTO v3 |
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Visual Studio Tools for Office is a powerful addition to
the Office Developer’s arsenal. Until now, however,
deployment of solutions developed with VSTO has been one
of the most challenging aspects of its use. All this
changes in VSTO v3 with the introduction of true
ClickOnce deployment and a complete revision of the
security mechanism. This session will outline the new
deployment methodology and will include examples of
using it both inside and outside the corporate firewall. |
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Andrew Coates |
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Introduction to OpenXML |
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Microsoft Office 2007 has a new default file format
based on open standards and which has itself been
ratified by ECMA. This session introduces the structure
of the new formats including the Open Packaging
Convention and the structure of Word Processing,
Spreadsheet and Presentation documents. |
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Armen Stein |
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Access Tips-n-Tricks - Navigation |
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There are many techniques you can use to develop
professional, easy-to-use Access applications. Armen
will show you some of these, including form visibility,
navigation, dates, etc. Example code will be available
for attendees. |
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Armen Stein |
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Access Tips-n-Tricks - User interface |
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Armen Stein |
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Acess/SQL Server Optimisation - Basics |
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Are you ready to make the move to SQL Server? Armen will
discuss some guidelines to help you decide when to use
SQL Server instead of Access for your back-end database,
and will show techniques to use an Access MDB as a
client-server front-end application. |
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Armen Stein |
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Acess/SQL Server Optimisation - Advanced Techniques |
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Armen Stein |
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Managiing Database Consulting Projects |
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There's a saying that the database developer must tell
their customer: "I don't know exactly what we are going
to do, or how long it will take, or how much it will
cost. So let's get started!" While there is some truth
to this, Armen will present some techniques to help you
manage your database projects so that both you and your
customers stay happy. Most of the presentation applies
both to consultants and internal developers. |
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Chris Armstrong
/ Adam Clark |
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Integration of Desktop and Live.com search results in
MOSS |
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This topic will cover off a complete integration of the
search mechanism from the vista desktop, MOSS enterprise
search through to the Live Search. We will do this using
some live examples and develop them through the
presentation.
We will cover why you would do this and how you’d do
this.
The goal of the presentation is to demonstrate a unified
search outcome regardless of the client app used. |
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Chris Armstrong
/ Adam Clark |
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Custom Site Definitions and Building Features |
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This topic will cover what site def & features, how they
will make your life easier and we will develop one in
the presentation. We will then have several different
site definitions and show how easy it is to change a
site look and feel with them.
On the features part of the presentation we will develop
a feature and demonstrate it, we will also make
enhancements to it and demonstrate the versioning
features of features and how to upgrade. |
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Ed Ferrero |
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Advanced Excel Charting |
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Covers five advanced techniques for building charts in
Excel.
1) Using Excel chart types in unusual ways
2) Using chart backgrounds
3) Using special point markers
4) Combining charts
5) Building Speedometers (shows what to do when Excel
charts fail) |
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Ed Ferrero |
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Building search forms in Access |
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Building efficient search forms. Methodology for rapid
deployment of search capabilities in an Access database. |
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Ed Richard |
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Generating Office Documents from Line of Business
Systems |
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Finally now that Office 2007 System has arrived it is
possible to generate open standard documents without the
hassle of having to manage an Office installation on the
server or using Office Automation. This makes industry
strength, robust solutions a reality, yet the are
several options to choose from. There’s XML and XSLT,
there is the set of new content controls, there is the
option to embed XML data islands in Documents and there
is the packaging API and Open XML documents. |
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Ed Richard |
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How Office Business Applications can make a difference.
Enhancing people’s productivity by writing Office
Add-ins that talk to legacy systems and/or databases. An
architectural overview of why and how to design and
implement OBA’s that give your company a quick ROI. |
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VSTO 2005 and SE (for Office 2007 support) provides a
powerful platform for developing real-time integration
with LOB-back end databases and /or systems (for example
using Web Services). In many organisation employees
spend way to much time searching in different systems
and gathering the information they need for doing their
job, this could be providing and Business Intelligence,
generating correspondence or customer support to name
just a few. |
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Gayan Peiris |
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SharePoint’s best friend: Microsoft Office SharePoint
Designer 2007 |
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What is SharePoint designer? How its work with
SharePoint technology? Want to learn more? Join this
session to learn how developers can create web parts
without single line of code with Data View/Data Form Web
Part, the usage analysis reports and backup and recovery
support. SharePoint Designer has become a powerful
weapon in every SharePoint designer and developer's
arsenal. |
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Graham Seach |
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Human-computer interaction (HCI) and
Access database applications
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This session will explain how to
increase the usability of your Access applications by
following the principles of HCI. You will see many
design patterns, including form designs and code
examples, that will allow you to significantly enhance
the user experience. |
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Ivan Wilson |
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We are all searching for something these days. With
SharePoint 2007, Microsoft have provided some
interesting updates to their corporate search
technology. Come along to Ivan’s session to discover
how you can harness the SharePoint Search engine in
ways that you might not have considered. The session
will include a brief introduction to the components
in SharePoint search and then delve into the inner
workings to discover some hidden treasures.
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John McGhie |
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Major Document Assembly |
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This session is aimed at consultants and documentation
managers producing documents exceeding 1,000 pages in
length. Microsoft Word has displaced Adobe FrameMaker
as the preferred tool for mega-scale documentation;
however some very special techniques are required. Word
will handle a single document up to 5,500 A4 pages.
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John McGhie |
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How to produce a random result |
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Reading that headline, many documentation managers will
be pinching themselves and hoping it was all a nasty
nightmare. The cynical amongst us may be thinking their
staff has no trouble achieving such a result, and need
no extra coaching.
However, there is one situation where you not only need
a random result, you must be able to guarantee it is
statistically valid: Exam Preparation!
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John McGhie |
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Conditional text in Microsoft Word |
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In large-scale corporate documentation, we often need to
vary parts of the text based upon a variable of some
kind, to produce documents customised for multiple
products or customers from the same source text.
Adobe FrameMaker offers “Conditional Text”, a built-in
ability to have parts of a document vary dependant on
some condition.
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John McGhie |
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Books to Websites |
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This session explains why Microsoft Word is one of the
best web editors you will ever buy!
After you have mopped up the coffee you just spilled
when you read that, ask yourself “How many web editors
do I know that can enable my staff to publish my
corporate manuals to my intranet at rates exceeding 800
pages an hour?”
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Judy Gleeson/Kieran Block |
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A Day in the Life of an Outlook Power User |
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Outlook's a whole lot more than a reactive way to deal
with massive amounts of email. In this session, Judy
will describe the day in the life of a power user;
someone who knows how to use the hidden power of Outlook
to manage their work, how to deal with a myriad of
conflicting priorities, and how to deal with too many
incoming emails.
You'll be surprised what's lurking beneath Outlook's
calm exterior!
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Mick Badran |
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Where’s my Excel? Free yourself with Sharepoint Excel
Services |
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This session will walk you through publishing your
favourite Workbook to the Portal. It will cover hiding
regions and displaying graphs. Lastly this Session will
demonstrate how the rest of your company can leverage
your published Excel Workbook through Excel Web Services |
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Mick Badran |
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Honey I broke the workflow – Building Workflows in MOSS
2007 |
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This session will cover using some of the out of the box
the workflows – assigning and configuration. The session
will also focus on building simple workflows using
Sharepoint Designer and enabling email capabilities from
Workflows. The session will also show how to interact
with Workflows from the Suite of Microsoft Office
Applications. |
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Shauna Kelly |
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Office Extras |
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Office ships with a pack of extra tools. Many people
don’t even know about them. In this session, learn how
to use the Language tool to get the spell checker to
recognize words like Parramatta and Maribyrnong and
Toowoomba. Learn how your users can re-size images and
do basic image editing—without the need for expensive
photo editing software. See how to organize images with
the picture manager, to use the scanning tools and more. |
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Shauna Kelly |
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Is your corporate logo slipping? How to control images
in Word |
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Ever had images slide around a Word document like an
ice‑skater on day 1? This session looks at how to
control images using the Word object model. We’ll look
at how to create a document that prints with the company
logo on plain paper, and without it on printed
letterhead. And, find the best way to insert scanned
signatures, Excel graphs, Visio diagrams and other
images into a Word document so they stay put. |
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Shauna Kelly |
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Development for corporate documents in Word |
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This session looks at the basic elements of a corporate
document: numbered headings, page numbers, tables of
contents, cross‑references. Learn how to control these
elements using the Word object model. We’ll look at how
styles affect corporate documents, how to manipulate
styles in code, problems in applying bullets and
numbering in code, and how to create one table of
contents for a large number of documents. |
