Cool new event - check it out:
SharePoint Deployment in Financial Services - Alleviating the burden of compliance and TCF Friday 2nd May 2008, Microsoft Offices - Victoria, London SWORD's SharePoint Consultancy is chairing this forthcoming event in association with Contrast Training. This free morning event, hosted by Microsoft, will address how Microsoft's SharePoint enables organisations to create, distribute and manage policies, procedures, rules, regulations and the Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) infrastructure using SharePoint. Guest speakers include Roger Cotterill from Endsleigh Insurance and Gerry Morgan of City Capital Consulting. Delegates will learn how, with SharePoint, they are able to improve compliance procedures, reduce the burden of compliance on senior managers and assist with managing the TCF infrastructure.
SharePoint Deployment in Financial Services - Alleviating the burden of compliance and TCF
Friday 2nd May 2008, Microsoft Offices - Victoria, London
SWORD's SharePoint Consultancy is chairing this forthcoming event in association with Contrast Training.
This free morning event, hosted by Microsoft, will address how Microsoft's SharePoint enables organisations to create, distribute and manage policies, procedures, rules, regulations and the Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) infrastructure using SharePoint.
Guest speakers include Roger Cotterill from Endsleigh Insurance and Gerry Morgan of City Capital Consulting.
Delegates will learn how, with SharePoint, they are able to improve compliance procedures, reduce the burden of compliance on senior managers and assist with managing the TCF infrastructure.
Great to see some of our new partners getting out there and making some noise!
Oh Yes it doesn't get much better than this - 18 hours of free training on MOSS 2007 all online so you can peruse it at your pleasure courtesy of 'english-tiger' training!
Technical Backgounder Before you learn from the online version of the deep three-day class (below), ensure you are up to speed by viewing the technical backgrounder on Enterprise Search Architecture. » Enterprise Search Architecture Full three-day training class! Module 1 - Introduction This module introduces the full three-day class. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 2 - Enterprise Search Overview This module provides some astounding figures as to why organizations require Enterprise Search Solutions! We recommend that you do not skip this module. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 3 - SharePoint Search Walkthrough This module is more than an overview. It cuts through the marketing hype in an informed, intelligent manner! We recommend that you do not skip this module. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 4 - Search Architecture and Deployment This module provides essential insights, discussions, and very deep technical information on architecture and server layouts. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 5 - Crawl and Query Processes This module provides the 'under-the-hood' story about what happens at crawl and indexing time, and follows up with essential information about the query-time processes. This is how Search in SharePoint actually works, regardless of what you see in the user interfaces. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 6 - Relevance Ranking If relevance ranking is perceived to be inaccurate by your users, they will simply stop using your solutions. This module explains in detail how you can tune the relevance ranking subsystem. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 7 - Customizing the End-User Experience This module shows you ALL that can be achieved by customizing Search Center in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, without requiring additional development effort. It is the definitive guide to customizing Search Center. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 8 - Developing Search Solutions Where Search Center cannot be customized sufficiently to suit your needs, you might need to develop your own solutions. This module shows you how! Developer topics include the KeywordQuery syntax, the FullTextSQLQuery syntax, the Search object model, the Search Web service, and the Search Administration object module. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 9 - Business Data Catalog Search This module shows you how to set up BDC search from scratch. It also highlights some common pitfalls. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 10 - Extensibility and Integration for Search This module provides more information about the crawl and indexing process by focusing on iFilters and Protocol Handlers. It also discusses full and incremental crawls, as well as providing guidance around 32-bit/64-bit architecture. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 11 - Search Administration This module provides a comprehensive discussion of search administration. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 12 - Security for Search This module covers a variety of topics from search accounts, through Information Rights Management, to crawling Forms-based authenticated sites. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 13 - Performance, Scalability, and Capacity Planning This module provides invaluable discussions of indexer requirements, query server requirements, and other scalability approaches. Most importantly, it discusses how you can plan disk space requirements for indexing large corpuses. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K Module 14 - Search Operations This module concludes the class by discussing operations and management tasks for enterprise search solutions. » Streaming @ 300K » Streaming @ 500K
Technical Backgounder
Before you learn from the online version of the deep three-day class (below), ensure you are up to speed by viewing the technical backgrounder on Enterprise Search Architecture.
» Enterprise Search Architecture
This module introduces the full three-day class.
» Streaming @ 300K
» Streaming @ 500K
This module provides some astounding figures as to why organizations require Enterprise Search Solutions! We recommend that you do not skip this module.
This module is more than an overview. It cuts through the marketing hype in an informed, intelligent manner! We recommend that you do not skip this module.
This module provides essential insights, discussions, and very deep technical information on architecture and server layouts.
This module provides the 'under-the-hood' story about what happens at crawl and indexing time, and follows up with essential information about the query-time processes. This is how Search in SharePoint actually works, regardless of what you see in the user interfaces.
If relevance ranking is perceived to be inaccurate by your users, they will simply stop using your solutions. This module explains in detail how you can tune the relevance ranking subsystem.
This module shows you ALL that can be achieved by customizing Search Center in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, without requiring additional development effort. It is the definitive guide to customizing Search Center.
Where Search Center cannot be customized sufficiently to suit your needs, you might need to develop your own solutions. This module shows you how! Developer topics include the KeywordQuery syntax, the FullTextSQLQuery syntax, the Search object model, the Search Web service, and the Search Administration object module.
This module shows you how to set up BDC search from scratch. It also highlights some common pitfalls.
This module provides more information about the crawl and indexing process by focusing on iFilters and Protocol Handlers. It also discusses full and incremental crawls, as well as providing guidance around 32-bit/64-bit architecture.
This module provides a comprehensive discussion of search administration.
This module covers a variety of topics from search accounts, through Information Rights Management, to crawling Forms-based authenticated sites.
This module provides invaluable discussions of indexer requirements, query server requirements, and other scalability approaches. Most importantly, it discusses how you can plan disk space requirements for indexing large corpuses.
This module concludes the class by discussing operations and management tasks for enterprise search solutions.
Enjoy!
So those not accustomed to how Microsoft do acquisitions it kind of goes like this:
1. Offer made 2. Accounts and business reviewed in detail, final price agreed and purchase completed - regulatory approvals etc 3. Business is run as a subsidiary of Microsoft 4. Products go through the security development lifecycle so it is ensured they meet the standard Microsoft security policies and procedures 5. The Microsoft brand is then given to the business and the product appears on our price lists so our usual channels can access the tools and sell the product in the usual fashion
1. Offer made
2. Accounts and business reviewed in detail, final price agreed and purchase completed - regulatory approvals etc
3. Business is run as a subsidiary of Microsoft
4. Products go through the security development lifecycle so it is ensured they meet the standard Microsoft security policies and procedures
5. The Microsoft brand is then given to the business and the product appears on our price lists so our usual channels can access the tools and sell the product in the usual fashion
We are at step 3 with FAST. The customer FAQ is here, and there is a handy email address if you have any questions: fastq@microsoft.com
Our very own marathon running Partner Technical Specialist Jeremy Palmer has kicked off some monthly LiveMeetings for everyone who wants a simple way to stay in touch with the UK SharePoint Team. Links for registering for the May and June ones are here:
Title May 2008 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server - Monthly Partner Live Meeting Description This Live Meeting aims to update Microsoft Certified and Gold Certified Partners holding the Information Worker competency with the latest news about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Registration Link: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/microsoft1/Registration.aspx?pageName=c91ln9k48dsrkhj8 June 2008 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server - Monthly Partner Live Meeting Registration Link: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/microsoft1/Registration.aspx?pageName=q8rqwcq6fndmtq05
Title
May 2008 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server - Monthly Partner Live Meeting
Description
This Live Meeting aims to update Microsoft Certified and Gold Certified Partners holding the Information Worker competency with the latest news about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Registration Link: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/microsoft1/Registration.aspx?pageName=c91ln9k48dsrkhj8
Registration Link: https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/microsoft1/Registration.aspx?pageName=q8rqwcq6fndmtq05
Look forward to speaking to you!
I really want a UK partner to win the Enterprise Search Partner of the Year Award!!!!
Come on make sure you get what you deserve and submit yourself for an award at out annual Partner Conference in Houston Texas - YeeHah!
You only have two days to go - so get your creative writing hats on!