Matthijs Hoekstra

Search-based solutions are applications that use a search page as the primary interface. Solutions such as image searching or travel searching in Bing are good examples of search-based solutions. SharePoint 2010 offers developers new ways to extend search and create search-based solutions. In this…

This is the keynote presentation of SharePoint Connections 2010 in The Hague in the Netherlands. What's our Cloud story, how does SharePoint fit in. How can we connect SharePoint and Azure. This session is presented by Steve Fox. Steve Fox has worked at Microsoft for 10 years across a number…

SharePoint 2010 provides new opportunities to access list-based items from across the network. This session demonstrates development techniques involving the Client Object Model and WCF Data Services. You will see how to access lists using the native support for REST-based Web services in…

Microsoft injected strong support for metadata, taxonomies and folksonomies in SharePoint 2010 with the addition of the Managed Metadata service application and Managed Metadata field type. While there is plenty of support for metadata across the platform out-of-the-box, Microsoft has included a…

SharePoint 2010 introduces a new security architecture based on claims, federation and the Windows Identity Framework (WIF). This session introduces the concepts and architecture of claim-based security in SharePoint 2010 and demonstrates how to create and debug a custom claim provider. This…

This session covers the lessons learnt by early enterprise deployments of SharePoint Server 2010. Focusing on SharePoint 2010 specifics, the session will detail these lessons along with best practices and approaches you can use to accelerate your deployments and avoid common pitfalls of large…

Migrating to SharePoint 2010 from MOSS 2007 involves in depth planning and an understanding of the potential pitfalls. There are a few tools with which ITPros should be familiar in order to be successful. Come to this session to become armed with the knowledge necessary to successfully migrate to…

FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 provides new capabilities for building rich “conversational” user experiences on websites. This session will drill into these unique capabilities, including; customizable content processing, automatic entity extraction, configurable relevance ranking, user context…

SharePoint 2010 provides all the tools you need to create content centric Internet/Extranet/Intranet facing solutions that do not fit the mold of traditional SharePoint collaboration solutions. These capabilities, dubbed Web Content Management (WCM), enable content owners and managers to create…

SharePoint Server 2010 provides a powerful platform for creating Business Intelligence (BI) solutions using PerformancePoint Services (PPS). PPS makes it possible to create a visual front end to Data warehouses and cubes created with SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services. This session shows you to…