20 challenges to success, tips and some session spotlights from SPEvo 2015

1. 20 Challenges to Success
..or
so many great sessions what
should I go to?
Andrew Woodward

2.  Andrew Woodward
 Zurich Insurance
 www.zurich.com
 Andrew.woodward@zurich.com
 Enterprise Architect at Zurich Insurance,
previously SharePoint MVP 2007-14, focused on
everything from development, deployment and
business change.

3. 20 Challenges to Success
 Business
 IT Pro
 Development
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2 minutes per topic
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5. Adoption
Challenges
 What problem are you
solving?
 Top down or Bottom up?
 Resistance to change?
Tips to Success
 Align to Strategy / Exec
 Build community
 Understand people and
your organisation
 Find a killer app
 Measure
 Mon 1:45-2:45 – Why OneDrive for Business is the best way to get started – Matt Bremer
 Tues 9:00-10:00 - 10 Real Steps to SharePoint Adoption – Eric Riz
 Tue 3:15-4:15 - Getting SharePoint Used: Understanding your people – Virgil Caroll
 Tues 10:15-11:15 – These are a few of my Favourite things – Rob Pratt & Chris Casingena
 Tues 4:15:5:15 – Measuring SharePoint Success – Mirjam van Olst
 Wed 11:45-12:45 – How to fire people using SharePoint – Sandra Mahan
 Wed 2:00-3:00 – Stop working for SharePoint and make it work for you – Asif Rehmani
 Wed 4:15-5:15 – Leadership, culture and vision 3 steps to success – Symon Garfield

6. Governance
Challenges
 What is governance?
 What are you governing?
Tips to Success
 Understand existing
corporate structures
 Goal Alignment is key
 Focus on core topics,
delivery well and expand
 Mon 1:45-2:45 – Achieving Governance through Transformative Migration – Bradley T Smith
 Tue 2:00-3:00 - The SharePoint Information Governance Mismatch – Ant Clay
 Wed 11:45-12:45 – The flavours of Governance: on-prem, cloud and Office365 – Bradley T Smith
 Tues 4:15:5:15 – Goal Alignment in Hybrid SharePoint Estate – John Timney

7. Search
Challenges
 People want Google
 Its not just an IT project
 Not just about searching
Tips to Success
 Make it strategic
 Learn all aspects / options
 Teach people power of
Content by Search WP
 Measure and adapt
 Mon 1:45-2:45 – SharePoint 2013 Search: Display Templates and Query Rules – Matt McDermot
 Mon 4:15-5:15 – Planning your Enterprise SharePoint Search Strategy – Joel Oleson
 Tues 11:45-12:45 – SharePoint Online Search in the Cloud – Matt McDermott
 Tues 4:15:5:15 – Building rich search experiences – Waldek Mastykarz & Wictor Wilén
 Tues 4:15:5:15 – Search Quality Management – Agnes Molnar
 Wed 11:45-12:45 – Delving into Delve – Paul Grimley
 Wed 2:00-3:00 – Performance and scale out of Enterprise Search – Scott Stewart
 Wed 3:15-4:15 – Making sense of the Information Jungle Ahead – Agnes Molnar & Dan Holme

8. Social
Challenges
 Too many options
 People don’t do social at
work
Tips to Success
 Build network
 Work out loud
 Focus on Yellow dots
 Tues 3:15:4:15 – Integrating Yammer with SharePoint On Premises – Michael Noel
 Wed 11:45-12:45 – A business and power users guide to cultivating a Yammer Network – Rob Foster
 Wed 2:00-3:00 – SharePoint Social for the Individual – Rob Pratt
 Wed 4:15-5:15 – Deloitte Australia Enterprise Social Network – Rebecca Tambs

9. Intranets
Challenges
 More of the same
 Keeping it up to date
 In the cloud?
Tips to Success
 A clear purpose
 The social aspects
 Mon 3:00-4:00 – Maintaining Intranet Content: why we fail at it again and again – Chandima Kulathilake
 Tues 10:15-11:15 – How to plan and build a dynamic intranet on SP Online – Chandima Kulathilake
 Wed 3:15-4:15 – Migrating your Intranet & Managing Documents on SharePoint – Randy Perkins-Smart
 Wed 4:15-5:15 – Building a search driven site – understanding cross site publishing – Benjamin Niaulin

10. Information
Challenges
 Architecture
 Capture
 Store
 Discover
 Dispose
 Control
Tips to Success
 Understanding goals
 Planning
 Managed Metadata
 Search
 Consider OneDrive
 Mon 11:15-12:15 – Content Types, Managed Metadata, and You Part 2 – Lori Gowin
 Tues 10:15-11:15 – Content Type Discovery using Dependency Structure Matrix Analysis – John Holiday
 Wed 9:00-10:00 – What can OneDrive for Business do for my business – Matt Bremer
 Wed 10:15-11:15 – SharePoint Information Management – Paul Turner
 Wed 10:15-11:15 – Managing the content lifecycle in Office365 – John Holliday
 Wed 3:15-4:15 – Migrating your Intranet & Managing Documents on SharePoint – Randy Perkins-Smart

11. Business Intelligence
Challenges
 Big Data, Data Lakes,
Predictive Analytics,
Machine-Generated Data
 Cautious of the doing it
better, quicker
 Are you taken seriously?
Tips to Success
 Align to business
 Don’t try to own it all
 Focus on Data
Visualization, Mobile BI and
Self Service
 Learn Excel, and love it
 Mon 1:45-2:45 – SharePoint Online, Office and Azure better together – Wictor Wilén
 Mon 3:00-4:00 – Working with Business Intelligence in O365 – Christina Wheeler
 Tues 9:00-10:00 – Powerful BI – Quickly and Easily – real world – Ian Woodgate
 Tues 11:45-12:45 – Building BI Solutions with PowerPivot and Power View - Ted Pattison
 Tues 11:45-12:45 – I need to build a report – Which tool should I use? – Marc Macrae
 Tues 3:15:4:15 – Leveraging BI in SharePoint with PowerPivot and Power View – Christina Wheeler
 Wed 3:15-4:15 – Make better decisions with self service BI – Ben Robb

12. On Premises
Challenges
 Consider roadmap and
plans
 Business Agility
Tips to Success
 Script Everything
 Embrace App model
 Build scalable / resilient
farm
 Consider hybrid future
 Mon 11:15-12:15 – Transforming your SharePoint full trust code to SP App Model – Vesa Juvonen
 Mon 3:00-4:00 – Get in Shape: Develop your customisations for On Premises
 Mon 4:15-5:15 – SharePoint Farm Architecture – Using Host Named Site Collections – Thomas Vochten
 Tues 10:15-11:15 – Optimizing SQL Server 2104 for SharePoint 2013 – Brian Alderman
 Wed 2:00-3:00 – Performance and scale out of Enterprise Search – Scott Stewart

13. The App Model
Challenges
 Implications and
Limitations
 Many options
Tips to Success
 Learn to love the app
model
 Skill up your dev’s
 Refresh you dev story
 Your no longer SPDevs!
 Mon 11:15-12:15 – Transforming your SharePoint full trust code to SP App Model – Vesa Juvonen
 Mon 3:00-4:00 – Advanced CSOM Programming in Provider-Hosted Apps – Ted Pattison
 Tues 9:00-10:00 – SharePoint Apps will save us! – Bill Ayers
 Tues 3:15:4:15 – Deep dive safe SharePoint server/Online branding – Jeremy Thake & Vesa Juvonen
 Wed 10:15-11:15 – Using and managing apps on-prem and online – Mark Stokes

14. Building for Office365
Challenges
 Forget how you used to do
SharePoint Development
 Many roadblocks
 Things change, all the time
Tips to Success
 Unlearn the past
 Understand when to break
the rules / or do it the old
way
 Now – Do’s and Don’ts for Office365 Development
 Mon 11:15-12:15 – Transforming your SharePoint full trust code to SP App Model – Vesa Juvonen
 Mon 11:15-12:15 – Building solutions with Office Graph – Waldek Mastykarz & Wictor Wilén
 Tues 4:15:5:15 – Get in the cloud: Shift and Develop for Office365

15. Azure, and other cloud options
Challenges
 Security
 Automation
Tips to Success
 Security approval
 Use proven patterns
 Exploit IaaS
 If not production – at least
do dev
 Now – You need to learn Azure AD – Kirk Evans
 Mon – Deploying SharePoint on Windows Azure IaaS – Neil Hodgkinson & Bob Fox

16. JavaScript – it’s here to stay
Challenges
 Getting the dev lifecycle
right
Tips to Success
 Learn to love it
 Bring in non-SharePoint
developers
 Mon 3:00-4:00 - Moving from SOAP to REST – You’ll have to do it sometime – Marc Anderson
 Mon 4:15-5:15 – Advanced list rendering with JSLink and Display Templates – Martin Hatch
 Tues 9:00-10:00 – SharePoint Apps will save us! – Bill Ayers
 Tues 9:00-10:00 – Building SharePoint Solutions with KnockoutJS – Marc Anderson
 Tues 3:15:4:15 – Using TypeScript and O365 with AngularJS Apps –Andrew Connell
 Wed 2:00-3:00 – REST API Deep Dive & simple client-side deployment with BreezeJS – Andrew Connell
 Wed 4:15-5:15 – You don’t know JS about SharePoint, JavaScript for C# devs – Hugh Wood
 Wed 4:15-5:15 – Client-Side Rendering: Practical examples, tips and tricks – Wes Preston

17. To the Cloud
Challenges
 Does business trust the
cloud?
Tips to Success
 Align to strategy
 Pilot and prove
 Have a clear roadmap
 Understand what can /
can’t be done
 Get security right
 Now – Understanding the Service Offerings of Office365 – Michael Noel
 Mon 3:00-4:00 – Going to the cloud: what does a business need to make it successful – Paul Turner
 Tues 10:15-11:15 – Next Generation Stretch Farm – Eric Harlan
 Tues 2:00-3:00 – OneDrive Deployment and Migration – Kimmo Forss

18. Hybrid
Challenges
 Building right mix (hybrid)
 Search, ECM, LoB apps,
navigation
Tips to Success
 Align to strategy
 Pilot and prove
 Have a clear roadmap
 Understand what can /
can’t be done
 Get security right
 Mon 3:00-4:00 – Crawl, Walk Run get the small things right – Neil Hodgkinson & Manas Biswas
 Mon 4:15-5:15 – Is SharePoint Hybrid right for you? – Fabian Williams
 Tues 9:00-10:00 – So, You want a Hybrid SharePoint Environment – Miguel Wood
 Tues 11:45-3:00 – SharePoint and Office365 Hybrid – Neil Hodgkinson & Sam Hassani
 Tues 3:15:4:15 – Real world Hybrid @ Large University– Ben Curry
 Tues 4:15:5:15 – SharePoint Hybrid Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks – Scott Stewart & Manas Biswas

19. Mobility
Challenges
 Build apps or responsive
sites?
 Security Authentication and
Information
 Which platforms?
Tips to Success
 Understand your users
mobility needs
 Focus on business
challenges / quick wins
 Exploit Microsoft apps
(Office, BI etc.)
 Tues 2:00-3:00 – Building Mobile Apps using Azure Mobile Services and Xamarin – Fabian Williams
 Wed 2:00-3:00 – SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Mobile Strategy – Joel Oleson
 Wed 2:00-4:15 – Creating Mobile Enabled Line of Busines Apps on O365 – Todd Baginski
 Wed 4:15-5:15 – Discover Microsoft’s Mobility Suite and how to deploy it – Peter De Tender

20. The future
Challenges
 Pace of change
 People
 New way of consuming
information
Tips to Success
 Understand corporate
appetite
 Pilot, Prove, Iterate
 Agility
 Mon 11:15-12:15 – The Future of Communication and Collaboration – Benn Robb & Mark Stokes
 Mon 11:15-12:15 – Building solutions with Office Graph – Waldek Mastykarz & Wictor Wilén
 Mon 1:45-2:45 – SharePoint Online, Office and Azure better together – Wictor Wilén
 Tues 10:15-11:15 – Leveraging the power of the Microsoft and Office Graph – Jeremy Thake
 Tues 2:00-3:00 – Introducing the App Launcher – Wes Hackett
 Wed 10:15-11:15 – New developer choices with external apps for O365 – Chris O’Brien
 Wed 3:15-4:15 – The API Economy and Why You Care – Kirk Evans

21. Security
Challenges
 Authentication
 Authorization
 Information
 Encryption
 Protection
Tips to Success
 Get platform right
 Good governance
 Make friends with security,
audit and compliance
teams
 Really understand the
technical side
 Mon 1:45-2:45 Subordinate Integrity: Certificates for SharePoint 2013 – Spencer Harbar
 Tue 11:45-12:45 – Identity Delegation leveraging Claims to Windows Token Service – Spencer Harbar
 Tues 2:00-3:00 – Managing Security and Permissions in SharePoint – Alex Pearce
 Tues 4:15:5:15 – SharePoint: Red Team versus Blue Team – Liam Cleary
 Wed 9:00-10:00 – Single Identity - On premises to online – Liam Cleary
 Wed 10:15-11:15 – Deep Dive into the Office365 API for Azure AD – Paul Schaeflein

22. Automation / Powershell
Challenges
 What to automate and
how
Tips to Success
 Always automate
 Focus on least trust
 Get off the servers
 Tues 9:00-10:00 – Using Windows Powershell to great effect with SharePoint On-Prem – Gary Lapointe
 Wed 10:15-11:15 – Creating Custom Powershell Cmdlets for SP On-Prem/Online – Gary Lapointe
 Wed 11:45-12:45 – Site Provisioning with the AppModel – Vesa Juvonen
 Wed 2:00-3:00 – Azure VM Automation for Admins and Developers – Wictor Wilén

23. Migration
Challenges
 Reasons to upgrade IT or
Business?
 Opportunity to take control
of information
 Importance?
 Apps…
Tips to Success
 Clear goals
 Measure and communicate
 Factory approach –
empower business
 Be clear on the WIIFM
 Mon 11:15-12:15 – Transforming your SharePoint full trust code to SP App Model – Vesa Juvonen
 Mon 1:45-2:45 – Large scale Migrations to SharePoint Online – Kimmo Forss
 Wed 9:00-11:15 – Upgrading to SharePoint 2013 – Todd Klindt

24. Operations
Challenges
 Supporting business agility
– DevOps anyone?
 Changes with cloud and
Office365
Tips to Success
 Script everything
 Exploit new capabilities
 Work with / challenge your
IT provider (or yourself)
 Think differently
 Mon 11:15-2:45 - Real world Highly Available Fault Tolerant Farms – Eric Shupps / Miguel Wood
 Tues 9:00-10:00 – Using Windows Powershell to great effect with SharePoint online – Gary Lapointe
 Tues 11:45-12:45 – SharePoint Business Continuity Management with SQL AlwaysOn – Brendan Griffin
 Tues 4:15:5:15 – Microsoft Azure IaaS Governance, Provisioning, Config – Paul Schaeflein
 Wed 11:45-12:45 – Managing Data Recover in SP2013 – Brian Alderman
 Wed 11:45-12:45 – Disaster Recovery for SharePoint 2013 wuth Azure – Eric Harlan
 Wed 11:45-12:45 – From dogfood to public, how Microsoft release in Office365 – Box Fox
 Wed 4:15-5:15 – Making you life easier as a SharePoint Admin – Robert Schifreen

25. Community
Challenges Tips to Success
 Join in
 SUGUK regional events
 Office365 on Yammer
 SharePint
 Make a case for
community at work
 Mon 7:30:Late – SharePint
 Tues 7:30:Late – Conference Party – Café de Paris
 Anytime – grab a speaker, talk to vendors, chat to your neighbours

26. Scared of heights!
 Skydive to support children with cancer
 For every £1 I raise Zurich will match it!
https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/AndrewWoody

27. Thank you for attending!
Andrew Woodward