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1. Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group April 14th, 2010 Business Processes with Digital Forms and Workflow Phil Jirsa • Meeting #64 http://www.sharepointmn.com

2. Session Agenda • Typical Business Scenarios • Review SharePoint 2007 • New and Improved SharePoint 2010 • InfoPath and Web Forms • Break – 10 mins • Out of the Box Workflows • SPD Workflows + Visio 2010 • Visual Studio Workflows • 3rd Party Options http://www.sharepointmn.com

3. User Group Goal / Objectives Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies Transfer knowledge within the community Communicate best practices Introduce new products / solutions http://www.sharepointmn.com

4. Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Inetium (www.inetium.com) Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint Benchmark Learning (www.benchmarklearning.com) Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Training on many technologies Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) http://www.sharepointmn.com

5. www.sharepointmn.com Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations info@sharepointmn.com www.sharepointmn.com http://www.sharepointmn.com

6. Social Networking Linked In group – The most interactive… includes job postings… http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792 Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=27333305456 Twitter tags - @MNSPUG and #MNSPUG http://www.sharepointmn.com

7. Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting May 12th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Microsoft’s Bloomington Office Topic: SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 Launch Event Check www.sharepointmn.com for updates! Ongoing Schedule 2nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft’s Bloomington Office http://www.sharepointmn.com

8. Local Events SharePoint 2010 Deep Dive on Business Process – April 20, 2010 *FREE*http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=BESP2010WorkProBenchmark Learning – Edina, MN SharePoint 2010 A Walk Around the new ‘Wheel’ – April 22, 2010 *FREE*http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NHSP2010-101SemBenchmark Learning – Edina, MN [Next] SharePoint Saturday – October 2, 2010 *FREE*http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/twincities/default.aspxUniversity of Minnesota – East Bank, Twin Cities Campus Online Events Microsoft SharePoint MVP Expert Chat – TBD (End of April) *FREE*http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspxFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=336965717244 http://www.sharepointmn.com

9. Conferences • TechFuse – May 6, 2010http://www.benchmarklearning.com/techfuse.aspxMinneapolis http://www.sharepointmn.com

10. Announcements SharePoint 2010 RTM and Launch announced! Announcement here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx Launch event: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx#fbid=2rTi4OD1abM May 12th – same day as MNSPUG Update Center http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx Good, Better, Best Document for SharePoint 2010 available http://download.microsoft.com/DOWNLOAD/2/A/A/2AA0D302-86A6-4AA2-A0A4-4F15FA7DBF5C/BUSINESS%20PRODUCTIVITY%20AT%20ITS%20BEST_WHITEPAPER.PDF http://www.sharepointmn.com

11. Quick Intro • Phil Jirsa • SharePoint Consultant • MCTS – WSS and MOSS Development

12. Typical Business Scenarios SharePoint Overview

14. What’s Available in 2007 SharePoint Overview

21. Start Workflow Manually or Automatically • Visibility into Running Workflows • Collection of Historical Workflow Data • Status of approval, errors,… • Stop (or Terminate) a Running Workflow • Tight Integration with Office

22. Association • When a workflow is associated with a list • Data can be associated with the workflow • Initiation • When the workflow is first started on a list item • Data can be associated with the instance of the workflow • Running • Status page reflects state of the workflow • User primarily interacts via Tasks • Termination • End an instance of a workflow • Remove Association

23. What’s New in 2010 SharePoint Overview

24. SharePoint Server 2010 Ribbon UI SharePoint Workspace SharePoint Mobile Office Client Office Web App Integration Standards Support Business Connectivity Services InfoPath Form Services External Lists Workflow SharePoint Designer Visual Studio API Enhancements REST/ATOM/RSS Sites Composites Communities Tagging, Tag Cloud, Ratings Social Bookmarking Blogs and Wikis My Sites Activity Feeds Profiles and Expertise Org Browser PerformancePoint Services Excel Services Chart Web Part Visio Services Web Analytics SQL Server Integration PowerPivot Insights Content Enterprise Content Types Metadata and Navigation Document Sets Multi-stage Disposition Audio and Video Content Types Remote Blob Storage List Enhancements Search Social Relevance Phonetic Search Navigation FAST Integration Enhanced Pipeline http://www.sharepointmn.com

28. InfoPath and Web Forms DEMO SharePoint Overview

29. Break Break

33. OOB Workflows DEMO SharePoint Overview

36. SPD + Visio 2010 DEMO SharePoint Overview

37. Bring in the Reinforcements! • You are here because: • Missing Specific Feature • SharePoint Designer Missing Action • Custom Data or Actions Needed • Existing Windows Workflow Investment • State Machine Workflow Requirement • Expose the Full Power of .NET • Word of Warning – There is a steep learning curve

38. Windows Workflow Foundation • Its not just a SharePoint Platform • Built into .NET 3.0

39. Workflow Now a Core .NET Feature • Workflow can be ‘hosted’ anywhere • SharePoint was Microsoft’s first host (CRM 4 uses it now too) • Custom applications can host it as well • Standardized Format • XML based file format (XOML) • Widespread Availability

40. Visual Studio DEMO SharePoint Overview

41. Nintex • K2 • Skelta • Codeplex

42. Q & A Questions & Answers

43. References • Paul Andrew - http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/ • SharePoint 2010 - http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com • SharePoint MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx

44. Thanks for attending! http://www.sharepointmn.com