SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati - SharePoint 2013 Search Results Customization

 

SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati is almost here! In fact… it's tomorrow. I thought I'd do something a little different this time and put out a little teaser on my topic. To be fair though… there's 19 other cool topics planned for Saturday, just click here to see the schedule.  Register NOW!   http://bit.ly/1DAprtv

 

So a bit about my presentation…

SharePoint 2013 Search Results Customization

Let's start with a problem… Our users can't find a certain kind of document; for example, PowerPoint presentations about our R&D projects. And when they find them, they don't know which ones are highly confidential, and more than once they have shared them with the wrong people.

And then a solution…

• Create Site Columns for consistent metadata and to support Managed Property searches such as"ResearchGroup=aviation".
• Configure the search schema to support friendly property names and the ability to search using "<" and ">" on dates and numbers.
• Create a Content Type to ensure document classification and to collect important metadata.
• Create a Display Template to add useful information to the search results, and display our Governance policies for R&D documents. ("Warning… confidential content. Do not share!")
• Create a Result Type to map the Content Type to the Display Template.
• Create a user friendly and governance friendly search results page.

All in an hour! 

 

See you there!

 

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SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati Oct 11, 2014

 

SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati
Saturday, October 11, 2014

Event details, including speakers and topics have been posted!
Go here for details and registration: http://www.spsevents.org/city/cinci/cinci2014

Like two years ago, we have a theme! "ScarePoint Saturday" Come in costume or as you are…

 

My topic will be "Changes to SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 Security You Must Know"

Track: IT Pro, Developer, End-User, Business

SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 / SharePoint Online change many of the assumptions about managing end user security. It has buttons that break previous best practices and changes permission defaults in ways that can lead to loss of entire lists and libraries. This session will cover things that you need to know about SharePoint 2013 Authorization if you are responsible for SharePoint security or SharePoint governance and is very important for Site Owners and Site Collection Administrators.

 

 

See you there!

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SharePoint Saturday Columbus–this Saturday!

 

Time flies when you are having fun, or working too much. Our next regional SharePoint Saturday is this weekend, 8/23/14, in Columbus. I will be speaking on SharePoint / Office 365 Governance.

See here for schedules and registration: http://www.spsevents.org/city/columbus/columbus2014

And don't forget the Cincinnati and the Louisville SharePoint Saturdays in October!

 

SharePoint Office 365 Governance... Should you do it? Can you do it?

Track: IT Pro, End-User, Business

SharePoint’s greatest strengths – flexibility and ease of use – can also become its greatest weaknesses if you don’t adequately plan for tremendous growth and proliferation of SharePoint sites/usage. Office 365 greatly expands the governance challenges as it is so easy for anyone to create a new 365 subscription.

Topics will include:
• SharePoint Governance – the core issues are the same
• You must have a policy for the cloud, even if it’s just “don’t go there!”
• The unique issues of cloud based SharePoint
• The backup, auditing and security management challenges
• Dealing with external users

My Goals:
• To get you thinking
• To get you concerned
• To convince you to get started on a plan

The takeaways:
• More questions than answers! (homework!)
• A list of things to be concerned about.
• A motivation to have a plan.
• Most of your existing governance still applies.
• Office 365 is a moving target!
• The need to communicate the plan to the users of SharePoint.
• That a plan will never be complete, it will evolve as you integrate SharePoint into your enterprise, and as SharePoint Online evolves.

See you there!

 

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January SharePoint Events in the Cincinnati Area

 

• Cincinnati SharePoint User Group Meeting – Thursday 1/3/2013
• Dayton SharePoint User Group Meeting – Tuesday 1/8/13
• SharePoint Saturday Indy – Saturday 1/12/2013

 

Cincinnati SharePoint User Group Meeting – Thursday 1/3/2013  6:00-8:00

Please register here so we know how much food to get! http://www.meetup.com/TechLife-Cincinnati/events/94158842/

Lisa Gardner will present on SharePoint and SQL Server

SharePoint is a rapidly growing application that relies heavily on SQL Server. In this session, we will discuss what a DBA needs to know to successfully manage instances hosting SharePoint databases. What configuration options are best for a SharePoint workload? What kind of maintenance should be performed? How should databases be provisioned? What the heck are all these databases for anyway? We will also discuss some nomenclature and key components of SharePoint to help DBAs better communicate with SharePoint application teams.

This presentation is aimed at DBAs who have to manage SharePoint databases, but it definitely pertains to SharePoint administrators as well.

• Outline:
• SharePoint Overview
• SharePoint Databases – what they are, best practices, sizing guidance
• SQL Server Configuration, Setup, and Maintenance for hosting SharePoint
• What to look out for – common

Lisa Gardner
Microsoft Premier Field Engineer
SQL Server
US PFE - Central Region

 

Dayton SharePoint User Group Meeting – Tuesday 1/8/2013 6:00-8:00

Info here: http://www.dayspug.org/SitePages/Home.aspx

Session Title: What’s New in SharePoint Server 2013 for IT Pros

Abstract:
​SharePoint Server 2013 can help you achieve new levels of reliability and performance, delivering features and capabilities that simplify administration, protect communications and information, and empower users while meeting their demands for greater business mobility. In this session you will learn more about what's new for IT Professionals in SharePoint Server 2013 and how its features and capabilities can help simply administration, protect communications and information, and empower users. Sign up for a FREE Windows Azure trial before this session at http://aka.ms/AzureCloudLab to prepare for building your own SharePoint Server 2013 lab in the cloud!

Speaker:
Keith Mayer is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft focused on Windows Infrastructure, Data Center Virtualization, Systems Management and Private Cloud.

 

SharePoint Saturday Indy – January 12th, 2013

Register here: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/Indy/default.aspx

SharePoint Saturday is coming back to Indianapolis. SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis will be held January 12th, 2013 on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in the heart of downtown Indianapolis. Our call for speakers is now open, to submit download the submission form at http://sdrv.ms/TpsQHX, fill it out, and submit it to spsindy@outlook.com. If you are interested in sponsoring the event, please send an email to spsindy@outlook.com for more information. Keep an eye on this page for more information about the event as it develops.

 

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SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati 2012–Oct. 27th

 

Are you registered yet?

SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Event details, including speakers and topics have been posted!
Go here for details: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/cincinnati

Register here: http://spscincinnati2012.eventbrite.com/

Twitter: #SPSCincinnati

My topic will be "Exploring and Auditing SharePoint Using PowerShell"

This session shows how to use PowerShell in both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 to find and extract all kinds of information not easily found using built-in features. In this session you will see how to use PowerShell to:

• Find all documents in any site, or the entire farm, that matches a pattern (example: *.avi)
• Find all users who have access to a particular file (or folder, or library or site)
• Find sites with no recent activity
• Find all content a single user has access to
• Find all libraries that use a selected Content Type
• Find all customized (un-ghosted) pages
• Find all pages that use a selected web part
• How to collect the results into reports
• and more…

SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati 2012–Oct. 27th

 

SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Event details, including speakers and topics have been posted!
Go here for details: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/cincinnati

Register here:  http://spscincinnati2012.eventbrite.com/

Twitter: #SPSCincinnati

My topic will be "Exploring and Auditing SharePoint Using PowerShell"

This session shows how to use PowerShell in both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 to find and extract all kinds of information not easily found using built-in features.  In this session you will see how to use PowerShell to:
 
• Find all documents in any site, or the entire farm, that matches a pattern (example: *.avi)
• Find all users who have access to a particular file (or folder, or library or site)
• Find sites with no recent activity
• Find all content a single user has access to
• Find all libraries that use a selected Content Type
• Find all customized (un-ghosted) pages
• Find all pages that use a selected web part
• How to collect the results into reports
• and more…

SharePoint Saturday Dayton 2012 in One Week!

 

It's less than a week to the very first SharePoint Saturday Dayton event. Twenty sessions and twenty speakers means that there's something for everyone… admins, devs, site owners, business owners, and end users. Oh, and don't forget SharePoint Saturday Louisville and SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati coming up in July and October.

It's almost full! Register now or be sorry!

Reasons to attend SharePoint Saturday Dayton:

• It's free
• It's educational
• You can visit with (and thank) the sponsors
• It's free
• There's sessions for everyone
• You can hobnob with the experts (and maybe get some free consulting)
• There's door prizes
• It's air-conditioned
• It's near by
• I'm speaking there! (ok, there are better reasons to attend…)
• Did I mention it's free?

Sessions, speakers, directions and registration can be found here:
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dayton/default.aspx

Stay up with SPS Dayton news by following: @spsdayton

Speakers and Sessions:

Visit the site for full session descriptions

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SharePoint Saturday Dayton 2012 in Three Weeks!

 

It's less than three weeks to the very first SharePoint Saturday Dayton event. Twenty sessions and twenty speakers means that there's something for everyone… admins, devs, site owners, business owners, and end users. Oh, and don't forget SharePoint Saturday Louisville and SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati coming up in July and October.

Reasons to attend SharePoint Saturday Dayton:

• It's free
• It's educational
• You can visit with (and thank) the sponsors
• It's free
• There's sessions for everyone
• You can hobnob with the experts (and maybe get some free consulting)
• There's door prizes
• It's air-conditioned
• It's near by
• I'm speaking there! (ok, there are better reasons to attend…)
• Did I mention it's free?

Sessions, speakers, directions and registration can be found here:
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dayton/default.aspx

Stay up with SPS Dayton news by following: @spsdayton

Speakers and Sessions:

Visit the site for full session descriptions.

• Bateman, Leanne
  Session:  Project Management: The Key to Successful User Adoption on SharePoint Projects
• Bramer, Matt
  Session: The Alphabet Soup of Front-End Development:
  (XML/XSLT/XPath/jQuery/JavaScript/SPServices/CSS/(X)HTML/CAML/ClientOM)
• Brandon, Fred
  Session: SharePoint Lists & Libraries – Basic Necessities for the New Site Owner
• Brook, Douglas J
  Session: Reducing Organizational Risk through the Automatic Application of Metadata & Policies in SharePoint 2010
• Caldwell, Michelle
  Session: Building A Roadmap for SharePoint Success
• Carroll, Virgil
  Session: Putting the User back in SharePoint UI
• Deere, Stacy
  Session: Good vs. Evil; Customizing your site without going to …. Well, you get the point!
• Donahue, Stephanie
  Session: Developers? Who needs em….DIY SharePoint enhancements for Admins
• Earley, Seth
  Session: User Centric Design – How to Leverage Use Cases and User Scenarios to Design SharePoint Functionality
• Ferringer, John
  Session: Everybody Lies: Troubleshooting SharePoint Issues with House M.D.
• Grizzle, James
  Session: Wrangling the User Profile Service
• Hoag, Scott
  Session: Building a SharePoint Platform that Scales
• Keller, Jason
  Session: Building Out of the Box Solutions
• Mast, Jonathan
  Session: Building Rich SharePoint User Experiences with JQuery
• McDonough, Sean
  Session:  Hypermiling with SharePoint Data Protection
• Moneypenny, Naomi
  Session:Communicating SharePoint Up, Down and All Around
• Smith, Mike
  Session: Exploring and Auditing SharePoint Using PowerShell
• Tucker, Patrick
  Session: Reduce ReUse and Recycle with Content Types
• Usher, Dan
  Session: Scott (MCITP, MCPD) is an Infrastructure
• Wing, Arnulfo
  Session: SharePoint Security Testing – Automated

 

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SharePoint Saturdays in Dayton and Cincinnati

 

SharePoint Saturday Dayton

June 30th, 2012

• Call for sponsors! (almost over!)
• Call for speakers! (until May 4th)
• Registration is now open!

http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dayton

Follow on Twitter: @SPSDayton

 

SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati

October 27th, 2012

Follow on Twitter:  #SPSCincinnati

http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/cincinnati

 

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SharePoint Saturday Call for Speakers and Sponsors is Open!

 

Our very first SharePoint Saturday Dayton is in the works! 

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint for the very first "SharePoint Saturday Dayton" event on June 30th.  SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. 

SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

Follow the event on twitter @spsdayton.

Save the date! June 30th, 2012

Sponsors

Looking to support the Dayton area SharePoint community and reach out to SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint? A SharePoint Saturday is one of the most effective way of reaching local SharePoint community!

Click here for sponsor information: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dayton/Pages/sponsors.aspx

 

Speakers

SPS Dayton is an opportunity to share your knowledge and experiences with the SharePoint community. We are seeking sessions that are educational, informative, and practical in nature. Abstracts that are submitted should fall into one of four general categories.

• Development. Sessions that address the SharePoint object model, custom code, interactions with SharePoint via its services, etc.
• IT Pro. Sessions that cover SharePoint administration, configuration, scalability, infrastructure implementation, and related topics
• Information Worker. Sessions that pertain to end-user SharePoint concerns such as site design, information organization, SharePoint Designer topics, user adoption, etc.
• Special Topic. Sessions such as case-studies, cross-disciplinary subjects, and any session that doesn’t fit well in one of the other three categories.

Go here to submit your proposals: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dayton/Pages/speakers.aspx

 

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SharePoint Saturday Dayton! June 30th, 2012

 

 

We’ve had SharePoint Saturdays in Columbus, last year we had our first in Cincinnati, and now we have one coming up in Dayton!

There’s not much to report yet… but save the date!  June 30th, 2012.

 

Check here for updates:

http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dayton/default.aspx

 

and follow #SPSDAYTON on Twitter.

 

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SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati is ... well this Saturday!

 

Cincinnati’s first SharePoint Saturday is in three days! Are you registered yet? If not, go here now: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/cincinnati/default.aspx

With twenty different presentations you can’t miss!

 

I will be giving two presentations:

  SharePoint Governance... It may not be what you think it is...

and

  SharePoint 2007, 2010 and Office 365 for Site Owners and Power Users

 

 

                                Tweet it! (#SPSCincinnati)

                                     Blog it!

                                         Be there! 

                                             and Learn!

                                                                and remember… it’s FREE!

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Slides and additional info from my SharePoint Saturday Columbus presentation

 

SharePoint 2007 & 2010 (and Office 365!) Customization for Site Owners

 

Here’s the PDF of the slides from my presentation for SharePoint Saturday Columbus (8/20/11): download it

 

More from the book…

 

Much of the background for this presentation is from my book “SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Customization for the Site Owner”. There you can find more on:

• The basics of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery for SharePoint customization
• How to undo SharePoint Designer customizations
• Detailed steps to customize the 2007 site title and the 2010 title and crumb trail
• Convert Quick Launch into a pop-out or accordion menu
• Expanded versions of the blog articles listed below…

 

More from the blog…

Some of the content from the presentation is from past blog articles that include more detail:

• Web part tricks you should know (how to find out if a page is a web part page and how to remove bad web parts: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/08/sharepoint-tricks-for-web-part.html
   
• Customizing web part colors, fonts, borders and backgrounds:
  2007:  http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/sharepoint-2007-use-css-to-add-colors.html
  2010: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/sharepoint-2010-add-colors-borders-and.html
   
• Color coding task lists: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2008/11/sharepoint-color-coding-sharepoint.html
  and color coding past due tasks: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/03/sharepoint-past-due-late-tasks-in-task.html
   
• Replacing the text in empty list web parts: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/08/sharepoint-change-no-items-message-in.html
   
• Replacing the “Add new …” message:
  2007: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharepoint-change-add-new-message-for.html
  2010: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2010/08/sharepoint-2010-change-add-new-item-and.html
   
• Hide empty list web parts: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/11/sharepoint-hide-web-part-with-zero-rows.html
   
• Links lists tricks:
  Open in new window: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharepoint-adding-popups-to-link-lists.html
  Display a “site exit” message: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/12/sharepoint-add-you-are-leaving-this.html
  Convert to a dropdown list: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharepoint-convert-links-list-to.html 

 

See ya at SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati!

 

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SharePoint Saturday Columbus

 

Last chance reminder! SharePoint Saturday Columbus is tomorrow! If you have not signed up already, it may be full. If you aren’t going and you have signed up, give your ticket to someone else! It will be too good to miss… 30 speakers, 30 topics, lots of networking and cool door prizes!

I’ll be speaking on “SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Customization for Site Owners”. This is an updated version of the presentation I did last year in Columbus. I’ll show you how to easily customize SharePoint without using Visual Studio, custom code or server deployments. And… I have a couple copies of my book to give away, one or two in my session and one or two at the big drawing at the end of the day.

 

 

Don’t forget Cincinnati!

SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati - Saturday, October 29th

 

 

 

 

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SharePoint Saturday Columbus 2011!

 

Join me and thirty other speakers for a free day of SharePoint learning on Saturday August 20th, 2011.

 

Go and check out the list of speakers and register!  It’s FREE!

   http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/columbus/default.aspx

Stolen right from their web site:

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with SharePoint 2007 and 2010 for SharePoint Saturday Columbus event.  SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics.  SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

 

I will be speaking on a subject that I’ve always enjoyed (and what much of this blog is about), “SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Customization for Site Owners”.

This session will get you, the SharePoint Site Owner, started in customizing your SharePoint site. It is not a programming session, but does include some JavaScript coding. It is not a graphics design session, but does include some Cascading Style Sheets. It is not a SharePoint Designer session, but it will make use of it. And nothing requires access to the SharePoint servers.

While the session is for the SharePoint Site Owner, it's also for the developer who does not want to "reinvent the wheel". All you need to apply what you learn here are basic SharePoint skills, how to copy and paste and some puzzle solving skills.

And as I have just released a book on the same topic, I’ll be brining a few copies to give away! If you don’t want to wait until August, you can get it at Amazon (with free shipping) or until the end of July, directly from the publisher with a 25% discount (with this code: 77ULP6VH).

 

 

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