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An Exclusive Webcast Series with AvePoint's own Microsoft MVPs

As more organizations implement SharePoint 2010 with the intention of satisfying their unique, ever-evolving business goals, it is essential they receive the proper guidance to truly solve the challenges they face with their SharePoint environments today – without vendor plugs or product pitches.

AvePoint is proud to offer you a fantastic opportunity to learn how to unleash SharePoint Server 2010's full potential from renowned SharePoint Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) with SharePoint Uncensored: An Exclusive Webcast Series with AvePoint’s own Microsoft MVPs.

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Office 365: Does It Work
in a Leap Year?

Office 365: Does It Work in a Leap Year?

SharePoint MVPs Jeremy Thake and Randy Williams lead a candid and holistic discussion about Office 365 and the cloud. This session examines the principles, benefits, and limitations of the cloud, and of Microsoft's Office 365 offering, making sense of the realities, the noise, and the nonsense. Jeremy and Randy examine a variety of cloud strategies so that you can select and implement the approach that makes sense for your enterprise, in addition to pulling out their crystal ball to reveal what lies ahead in the future of the cloud for Microsoft, and for you.

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To BLOB or Not to BLOB? Storage Optimization Demystified

To BLOB or Not to BLOB? Storage Optimization Demystified

SharePoint and SQL Server offer several methods with which you can externalize the BLOBs—the files that are stored in libraries and as attachments—to reduce the size of your content databases. BLOB externalization offers benefits beyond reduced storage cost—benefits that may surprise you! But there's a lot of hype and misunderstanding about BLOB externalization, which is neither a silver bullet nor evil incarnate. Join SharePoint MVPs Dan Holme and Randy Williams for a balanced, intelligent, detailed examination of the technologies and issues surrounding BLOB externalization. Dive deep into the performance impact, scalability implications, and critical considerations for backup and restore, high availability, and disaster recovery. To BLOB or not to BLOB? There are no easy answers, but after this session you will have what it takes to maximize the potential of BLOB externalization in your storage architecture.

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Without Boundaries: Building SharePoint for Real Global Collaboration

Without Boundaries: Building SharePoint for Real Global Collaboration

Collaboration undoubtedly is one of SharePoint's strengths, but what happens when collaboration needs transcend borders and time zones? Will bandwidth be sufficient for data-hungry client applications? And how does your information architecture design change with multiple farms? SharePoint MVPs Jeremy Thake and Dan Holme reveal answers to these daunting questions and also examine how to deal with geo-replication, workflow, authentication and authorization challenges.

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Application Lifecycle Management: A Cautionary Tale

Application Lifecycle Management: A Cautionary Tale

Jeremy Thake and Randy Williams—two of AvePoint's SharePoint MVPs—present a holistic, practical, and detailed view of Application Lifecycle Management. Learn how to manage customizations from development through to test, QA, and production, as well as retirement and removal. Explore the capabilities and limitations of SharePoint's out-of-box feature set, and available tools to facilitate ALM. Attendees will leave this session with a thorough understanding of the options and best practices for successful ALM.

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The Truth Behind SharePoint Recovery and Availability: Meeting your SLAs

The Truth Behind SharePoint Recovery and Availability: Meeting your SLAs

In many organizations, SharePoint is a disruptive technology: It's no longer business-as-usual for users, for developers, for IT, or for the enterprise. SharePoint shines a spotlight on everything that's good and bad about your information management policies, business processes, project management, change management, and IT service delivery. SharePoint MVP Dan Holme shares the lessons learned and common themes from thousands of IT professionals, managers, developers, end users and CIOs around the globe. This comprehensive discussion will highlight the business, cultural, and technical impact of SharePoint on an organization, and the steps you can take to plan for and implement SharePoint as a platform that will support a dynamic enterprise. You will take away a framework within which to understand and communicate the role of SharePoint in your organization, a punch list of issues to consider in your architecture and governance design, and an understanding of the technical, cultural and procedural components of a successful SharePoint implementation.

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Tales from the Field: Business Drivers and Checklist for Successful SharePoint Governance.

Tales from the Field: Business Drivers and Checklist for Successful SharePoint Governance.

So you've heard about "Governance" from all angles in the SharePoint community – the fact that you need "People" to define "Policies", but what "Processes" are actually required to bring this to fruition? This session will introduce the three P's and the business requirements that drive governance. The session will cover common issues found in the field today by Microsoft and AvePoint's customers, so that you can watch out for these and mitigate them in the future. We will also give a sneak peek into upcoming products that can help to address these challenges and enforce the Policies defined by automating the process.

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ABOUT JEREMY

Jeremy Thake is a SharePoint MVP, and is a co-founder of popular community portal NothingButSharePoint.com. As AvePoint's Enterprise Architect, Jeremy uses his 10-plus years of software development experience to create solutions setting the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms.As AvePoint's Enterprise Architect, Jeremy utilizes his 10-plus years of experience in the software development industry and his expertise in Microsoft technologies to educate the global SharePoint community, as well as work directly with enterprise customers and AvePoint's research & development team to develop solutions that will set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms. Living in Australia for 7 years, Jeremy is one of only eight Microsoft MVPs in Australia recognized by the SharePoint Product Team, in July 2010, for his extensive contributions to the global SharePoint community. Jeremy founded www.sharepointdevwiki.com to encourage the SharePoint community to collaborate and share best practices for SharePoint development, and was one of the co-founders of the popular community portal, NothingButSharePoint.com. Jeremy has also played an instrumental role in organizing the Perth SharePoint User Group whilst he lived in Perth. Prior to relocating to New York to join AvePoint, Jeremy worked closely with numerous global enterprises to tailor their Enterprise Content Management and Portal Technologies to meet their business challenges at Fujitsu Consulting UK, Alphawest, Pretzel Logic, Readify, and CSG. His blog, www.made4the.net, is referenced by various well respected SharePoint people in the community worldwide.

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ABOUT DAN

Dan Holme is a Top 10 Global SharePoint MVP as voted by Redmond Magazine. As AvePoint's Chief SharePoint Evangelist, Dan utilizes his expertise in Microsoft technologies and 17 years of experience solving customers' IT challenges to educate the global SharePoint community.In addition to earning the prestigious title of Microsoft MVP (Windows Server Directory Services, 2007, and SharePoint Server, 2008-2011), Dan is a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Pro magazines as well as the community lead of SharePointProMag.com. Dan's two most recent Microsoft books—the Windows Administration Resource Kit and the training kit for the 70-640 MCTS exam—are regular bestsellers in their category. He also contributed to the Microsoft Official Curriculum for SharePoint 2010, and penned the SharePoint 2010 Training Kit for Microsoft Press.
Prior to joining AvePoint, Dan founded Intelliem, a boutique consulting and training firm with a Fortune-caliber clientele and deep expertise and experience in Windows, Active Directory, and SharePoint. He was also a founding partner of Aptillon, a consulting and development firm created by seven of the world's top SharePoint MVPs. He also played an instrumental role as Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010), Beijing (2008), and Torino (2006)—a role he plans to play again for the broadcast of the 2012 Summer Olympics from London.

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ABOUT RANDY

Randy Williams is a SharePoint MVP and a frequent contributor to SharePointPro and Windows IT Pro magazines. As AvePoint's Enterprise Trainer and Evangelist, Randy takes his 20 years of IT experience to help deliver and implement solutions that help organizations realize SharePoint's full business potential.As AvePoint Enterprise Trainer and Evangelist, Randy works directly with enterprise customers to deliver and implement solutions that will help unleash SharePoint's full business potential, as well as share proven practices with the SharePoint community through speaking engagements and appearances at global conferences.
Randy has 20 years of IT experience and his focus for the last 14 is architecting and developing Microsoft-based web and database solutions. Randy writes for SharePointPro and Windows IT Pro magazines and has his latest book SharePoint 2010 Administration Instant Reference coming out in June 2011. He has a master's degree in Information Systems along with a number of Microsoft certifications. From 2009-2011, he has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in SharePoint. Randy is a frequent speaker at global conferences and currently lives in San Diego.