Dev conf continued

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Kurt DelBene on now - bit of marketing slideware for a while (sorry I started checking email there)
Mike Fitzmaurice is on now showing some SharePoint Server demos:Shows new webparts to filter data on a backend - very slick BI using IFiltervalues interface.

Kurt back on again

  • "A lot of company applications come down to issue tracking"
  • Tons of templates - eg blogs and wikis part of sharepoint sites now
  • SharePoint project template with option to upscale to project
  • Groove - talks about peer to peer ability
  • SharePoint offline via Outlook, Access and Groove to take content on the road
  • Mobile interface to SharePoint via mobile browser
  • shows Wiki demo (actually its more of an RTC integration demo)
    • presence enabled via RTC integration in context
    • VOIP actions will be included
    • web client version of communicator
    • extensible model for IM for custom apps so easy to build presence into apps
    • AJAX sdk for office communicator out end of this month
  • Productive-yet-compliant solutions for producing, managing, and securing any kind of content
  • possible to build compliance solutions on the platform
  • Content types, publish to SharePoint site so docs know their meta data and the default workflow and policies.
  • make it easy for people to add metadata - so they will bother
  • ECM demo (Ethan Gur-esh)
    • shows setting up a policy for a content type
    • uses document integrity class
    • events are defined (bit hard to read all the code on the live feed)
  • Business Process integration applications built on SharePoint and InfoPath
  • putting infopath front ends onto backends like SAP
  • Enterprise single-sign on to back end systems - v cool
  • Business data integration demo (Kamaljit Bath):
    • government solution using InfoPath forms shown via a browser
    • form is integrating with webservices behind that to respond to data in the form
    • data validation etc all works just like
    • moves form along in the workflow and sends it via email to someone
    • launches full infopath form (intranet), assigned person to form etc, sends it on
    • can develop form within visual studio with all the infopath like tabs, adds code to an event. all the debugging works etc - cool
  • Search: "industry leading relevancy and breadth"
    • using search inside custom apps
    • expertise location via mysites
    • search center - customisable page in SharePoint
    • Business data catalogue - exposed via the search center
    • IFilters and protocol handlers still the architecture for extending search
    • search alerts - via RSS into tools, inc Outlook
    • good architecture slide - must try and get hold of that for presentations
  • Last demo: CRM style demo
    • portal showing hot leads with conditional formating - data view control from SharePoint designer
    • changes one item (status field) so it gets filtered differently
    • creates activity to follow up with account
    • used apps to consume including Access - can also take offline with full reporting and charts etc - v cool