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

• Contextual Apps
• Office 365 Apps

• 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

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