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When deploying SharePoint as a business-critical collaboration platform and digital-asset repository, ensuring data access, availability, and protection, is absolutely critical. Though SharePoint and SQL Server offer some scalability and data protection natively, these may prove inadequate for most competitive organizations.
In this session, we will discuss the key components of any successful SharePoint global deployment. This will include architecture configurations for efficient data access across geographies and networks, considerations for high availability of data and SharePoint sites, and robust design including backup & recovery planning. After analyzing SharePoint's native capabilities, we will identify best practices, available free tools, and other best-of-breed solutions for ensuring a fully distributed and protected SharePoint platform.
Finally, we will discuss SharePoint archiving, and review how intelligent archiving procedures, when coupled with successful replication and data protection plans, can improve platform performance and reliability, and lower storage and management costs.
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| Knowledge and Requirements ManagementSpeaker(s): Bob Dudley
Authority files or thesauri: capturing the lexicon of terms used in an enterprise or business process, identifying which name is the preferred term when a thing is known by several names, determining how terms relate to each other (broader term, narrower term, synonym, near synonym). This is helpful for identifying and naming classes, determining object hierarchiers, determining generalized/specialized user roles, etc.
· Ontologies: They essentially make it possible to identify a document (or object in our case) using a set of “coordinates”, essentially properties with predefined domain value, or by drilling down on any one of several facets to get to the same place. It is a much more object oriented mindset than most programmers and analysts that come from a database perspective with its hierarchical table relationships have.
· Freeform Tagging of database records to capture meaningful associations from a user’s perspective. Use this knowledge to add additional facets for better search or navigation.
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| Loosen Your Domain with Message-Driven ArchitectureSpeaker(s): Chris Patterson
Explore a loosely coupled system built with MassTransit, Castle, and NHibernate and learn how to build distributed applications and workflows using .NET and messaging.
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| Benefits Management: Business Alignment at the Pointy End of the SpearSpeaker(s): Kevin Walsh
As businesses push their IT operations to more closely align with business goals, IT managers struggle with how to translate business drivers into actionable programs they can execute and monitor in their own departments. In this session I’ll talk about how a management tool developed by the Cranfield University School of Management called Benefits Management has been used by Microsoft consultants to help customers identify what is important (and what’s not) and how to define projects with built-in business justification. It may not sound exciting, but managers I’ve worked with absolutely love the results.
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| Effective Information Architecture for the WebSpeaker(s): JP Dubois
We will discuss proven methods of Information Architecture for building websites from conducting workshops with clients, understanding their business goals and user goals to creating documentation that is relevant for clients, designers, and programmers.
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