Tech Ed 2008 - IT Professionals 06/12/08 Recap
Another day, a whole lot of additional information gained from being here at Tech Ed. I stared out the day with an interactive session with some individuals from Microsoft IT who showed us all the various uses of the Content Query Web Part. An extremely useful tool, once you get passed some of the configuration hurdles.
The most exicting session of the day was the PACKED Interactive Theatre with the "Ask the experts" SharePoint panel. The moderators of the session where Shane Young [MVP] and Joel Oleson [MVP], but there were MANY others involved including Andrew Connell [MVP] the lonely SharePoint developer on the panel. Last week, of course all the fun stuff happens for the developers, he released his book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 which he also did a book signing for.
The other session that I attended was focused on SharePoint Extranet Collaboration Toolkit, which focuses on setting up a Forms Based Authentication (FBA) environment and pointing it to an ADAM's instance where all your external users live. There are MANY different modules of this toolkit that I'm looking forward to investigating in the near future.
The last group I attended was the Birds of a Feather (BOF) session about deploying SharePoint in a global enterprise. I was able to learn a few different methods, and share a few as well, on what issues come up when trying to collaborate over long distances and some things you can do to help lessen the impact of those issues on your end users.
Finally, I decided to take the plunge and take my last SharePoint exam for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development (70-541) which I was able to pass. This now means I have all four SharePoint certifications, much like my co-worker Raymond Mitchell, which we like to unofficially call being SharePoint Quad Certified.
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