Session Conducted by Jon Jonasson & Pam Misialek

1. Excel Reports
* Access from Outlook
* Connect a Reports Library within MOSS by going to Actions -> Connect to Outlook.
* Requires MOSS for this connectivity functionality.

2. Dundas Dashboards
* Graphical display
* Dundas graphics are available for download (“Gadgets”).
* Embed them in WebPart placeholders for “dashboard-y”/KPI interfaces.
* Dundas was purchased by Microsoft and the components are available as a separate download.

3. Analysis Cubes
* Easy access from SharePoint
* Use Analysis Cubes that are being rendered by Excel Server 2007.

4. Forecaster
* Budget versus actual
* ???

5. Document Management and Workflow
* Document Controls
* “Document Libraries are a Network Share on steroids”
* Dynamics Business Portal is the branded version of a MOSS Enterprise CAL

6. SharePoint Blog
* Sharing information and ideas

7. My Sites
* Time-saving collaboration

8. InfoPath form integrating to GP
* Easy data entry
* Create form-based/web-based applications that can integrate directly with GP
* Example: Employee Expense Form

9. Adding Web Parts
* Ad hoc data access

10. Importing Data from Excel
* Automating Integrations

Editorial Comment: Where were the “cool things” that were done between these products? This was not the session I was hoping for by any means. It was just an overview of SharePoint and “what’s cool” in the product. Nothing about the integration, etc.

I really need to look into how to get onto the presenters list… :)

### The Dashboard Top 3
* Page viewer Web Part is your friend
* Send as a short-cut
* Folder Home Page

### Other Ideas
* Link specific dashboard webpages (coming from SharePoint) directly from Outlook
* Right-Click on a folder within Outlook and go to Properties -> Home Page to set URL
* Marketing Activities (Marketing Campaigns, Responses, etc)
* Customer Service (Activities, Goals, etc)
* Sales Manager (Team Quota, Roll-Ups, Drill-Thrus)
* 300 – 450 pixels wide is a good start for “wide” webparts in SharePoint
* “Connect to Outlook” Action Item in Outlook is a good way of taking documents offline

For those not sure, Dynamics is Microsoft’s ERP Suite that is comprised of the following products:
* Dynamics GP (previously known as Great Plains)
* Dynamics SL (previously known as Solomon)
* Dynamics NAV (previously known as Navision)
* Dynamics AX (previously known as Axapta)
* Dynamics CRM (previously known as Microsoft CRM) :)

It’s an interesting opportunity for me as I haven’t completely embedded (or should I say “dabbled”) with the whole Microsoft Dynamics side of things other than CRM & a little GP.

I’m going to try and post a bit around here just to help share with my co-workers and/or anyone else that stumbles upon my site/these posts.

Sorry to those not interested in this kind of stuff. I’ll be going back to my regular non-blogging self at the end of the week… :)

###MOSSCamp – 2007.11.09

####SharePoint Group Discussion
* Hybrid authentication for client access. using SQL and AD authentication (SQL for clients)
* No one is using RSS within SharePoint :)
* Social Networking (Likes/Dislikes)

####SharePoint Team Development
#####Session led by Christopher Kadel
* SharePoint Development Assets
* Assembly Based
* Artifact Based
* “Some items are artifact and some are assembly based – the tool you’re choosing defines which is which”
* Building a Development Scheme
* Don’t Develop on Production
* Develop with Version Control
* Integrate code before Production
* Sample Dev Environment
* Developer WorkStation (Windows Server 2003, WSS/MOSS, VS2005, Team Explorer, WSS Extensions for VS)
* Integration (Windows Server 2003, MOSS)
* Production (Windows Server 2003, MOSS)
* Sample Development Environment
* Leverages Content Management Features
* Shared Content Development Environment
* Push to Production

####Branding SharePoint
#####Session led by Anthony Handley
* Site Customization
* Two Types of building blocks
* Site Definitions – XML and ASPX files stored on front-end web server
* Custom Site Templates – Stored in the db and are created by using an existing site as a model
* Custom Templates: Pros and Cons
* Pros
* Custom templates are easy to create
* Almost anything that can be done in the UI can be preserved by the template
* Custom templates can be modified without affecting existing sites that have been created from the templates
* Custom templates are easy to deploy
* Cons
* Custom templates are not created in a dev env (?)
* Custom templates are less efficient in large-scale environments
* If the site definition is based upon does not exist on the front-end server(s), the custom template does not work

####Extending MOSS Using Event Handlers
#####Session led by George Duran
* Capture events raised by:
* Items in a list
* Lists in a web
* Webs in a site collection
* Events ending in “ed” are Ansynchronous and “ing” are Synchronous

####Custom Authentication Providers
#####Session led by Matt Morse
* Went out to get a cookie so didnt’ catch the first part of the presentation :)
* Central Administrator – Application Management – Authentication Providers to change provider

####Delivering Customizations Into SharePoint Sites
#####Marc Gusmano
* “Simply by installing a feature, you can pretty much make a SharePoint site do anything”
* Scope = Site means Site Collection Feature
* Scope = SPWeb means Site Feature
* STSADM to install Features