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TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Plans and Optimizes an Enterprise SharePoint Infrastructure (Level 200)   

In this session, Microsoft IT offers best practices and lessons learned from their experiences in deploying SharePoint products and technologies on the Microsoft corporate intranet. We will examine capacity planning and performance optimization techniques and considerations specific to deploying SharePoint within an enterprise infrastructure.

Presenter: Joel Oleson, IT Technologist, Microsoft Corporation

Joel Oleson is a senior engineering resource for the Microsoft IT Knowledge Worker Services Team and has been involved with SharePoint since its creation. During this time, he has worked on architecture and redesign for Microsoft's central portal and collaboration infrastructure in a partnership with the SharePoint product groups. Joel has more recently focused on revamping the Microsoft Corporate Portal, MSWeb, and regional portal architecture. Prior to his work with SharePoint, he handled systems integration for a large telecom, working on intranets, extranets, internet sites and n-tiered Web applications