Wednesday, February 5, 2014

SPC14 - MS SharePoint Conference 2014

I am attending the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas.  I will update my session notes here.  If you'd like to meet up with me during the conference, please comment here or contact me via LinkedIn or VoteMatrix.  Also, I set up a Sacramento SharePoint Community page on Facebook if you'd like to share your experiences and meet up with other Sacramento SharePoint professionals at the event.

Itinerary and Session Notes

Sunday - 3/2

  • Flight in
  • Blue Man Group

Monday - 3/3

Keynote

  • Bill Clinton
    • No real info
    • Compared Ukraine policy to the inclusiveness embraced in the gay rights movement
    • Stressed technology for solving inequalit
  • Jared Spatero
    • Intr
  • Jeff Teper
  • Transformation of Office
    • Cloud
      • Accelerating Office 365 updates
    • Personalized Insights
      • Office Graph
      • Oslo Hero Experience
    • Next Gen Porta
  • Julia White - Office 365
    • Groups
      • Yammer included on top navbar
      • Available in Outlook Online
        • Meetings
          • Can import into your calendar
        • Conversations
          • Integrated into Office Web Apps Online
    • Oslo - SharePoint Graph
      • Metro interface
      • Metrics
        • Modified by me
        • Presented to me
        • Liked by me
        • Trending around me
        • Shared with me
    • OneDrive for Business
      • Demoed on ipad
      • demoed mobile website
    • PowerBI
      • Q&A
        • Freetext pivots
          • EX: "Average annual income per person vs population"
      • PowerMap
        • Map visualization of pivot dat
  • Jeff Teper
    • Contextual Apps
    • Robust APIs
    • Services
    • Tools
      • MS Access
  • Arpan Shah - Dev
    • Demo
      • Compose App Feature
        • Outlook Online (Office 365) App
      • Android API app demoed for approval and notification
  • Jeff Teper (IT Pro)
    • Cloud Platform
      • 250000 req per secs
      • 400000 cores
      • 400 PBs storage
      • 99.98% uptime
      • Datacenter acquisitions
      • Privacy
      • Monitoring
      • 1TB site collections
      • Compliance - HIPAA, etc
    • Trust
      • E-discovery
    • Controls
  • Michal Gideon Demos
    • Compliance in Office 365
      • eDiscovery
        • Search query tool allowing policies to be configured
      • Log viewer component
    • Multi-factor auth in Office 365
  • Jeff Teper
    • Cloud onramp
    • 2013 SP1
      • Hybrid switch
    • OneDrive for Business
      • 25GB
  • Jared Spatero
    • File sync and share

Dev Keynote (Rob Lefferts - Director of PM, Brian Jones – GPM)

  • App Model Redux - Principles
    • Open and flexible
    • Consistent platform
    • Multiple Devices

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  • Contextual Apps
  • Office 365 Apps

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  • Tools
  • Demos
    • Outlook (OWA) Apps integration
      • Works in rich client as well
    • Site provisioning CSOM API
    • Excel App API
      • Bing map sample app
    • DocuSign Outlook integration component demo
    • PollEverywhere poll shows File extension handler is most popular at this event
  • GitHub
    • OfficeDev O365 API open source solution
  • SAP
  • Access Web Apps
  • API Updates

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Anyone can build a SharePoint app with MS Access (Jeff Conrad and Chris Usher)

  • MS Access web apps
  • Uses SQL Server for the table back end
    • SQL Azure in Office 365
    • SQL connection info available in Access Client
  • Consuming Lists
    • Link to or import
  • Cascading combo box feature
  • MS using internally
    • Being used to reorganize MS Office and Windows divisions
    • Attorney tracking
    • Training feedback
    • TAPs

Advanced Performance Analysis (Ryan Campbell)

  • Intro
  • Caching
    • BLOB cache too low
    • Page cache too low
  • App pool recycles caused issues
  • Load time and user count per site path request

Tuesday - 3/4

Wednesday - 3/5

Thursday - 3/6

  • Flight out

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