Jun 11
TechEd: SharePoint, SharePoint, and Everything SharePoint
Tim Allison
After graduating in 1989 I worked as a consultant, then off to Herman Miller as a Network Admin, and finally landed at C/D/H. So ultimately 21 years! Wow!
I enjoy making life better: at home, at play and at work. Technology happens to be one of those areas. In the same manner helping those around me become better through sharing knowledge only results in a better place for us all.
Family is important to me. I am finding my granddaughter (yes, I have three grandchildren) is always on the top of my “love to spend time with” list.
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TechEd 2008 has complete coverage of SharePoint (both WSS and MOSS).
I attended several SharePoint related sessions today and each one was well worth my time! Customizing the interface, maintaining the environment, choosing several avenues for implementation and even “Power Shelling” MOSS were just some of the topics discussed. There just isn’t enough TechEd time!
Heather Solomon, the queen of SharePoint Branding, discussed the ins and outs of SharePoint’s imaging customizations. Master pages, page layouts, content pages and themes are all elements that must be understood to take your OOB (out of the box) SharePoint implementation and make it your own. And even though storing each of these elements within your MOSS environment is important, she left that up to each of us to decide (it seems clear to me that each of these should be centrally stored to provide a nice recovery scenario). After the session, I was left with the overwhelming desire to learn CSS (cascading style sheets). Learning this will provide me a significant leg-up and I can start working with these elements to take them from OOB to WOW (wow). AJ, it’s your turn now! (wink)
I also completed a hands-on lab for advanced SharePoint administration today. The SharePoint development team has engineered everything you need in the Central Administration tool, but understanding how each of the selections impacts your SharePoint site is not trivial. One example is the ability to add content databases to your web application. You can allow it to grow, in a controlled fashion, while balancing the need for reasonably timed content database backups. Microsoft has taken the time to develop these labs and has provided some really excellent material and learning.
I’m sure there will be more to follow; after all, SharePoint is a multi-faceted tool.