A high profile team from Stargate recently presented at this year's Tech.Ed 2009 focusing on:

• how organisations can benefit from utilising BizTalk and SharePoint in a collaborative environment
• the challenges organisations face with migrating or deploying Office 2007
• Visio and data visualisation
• SharePoint secrets, the video interview is now available on-line

Details of the sessions are explained in further detail below.

If you are interested in any of the topics presented, please contact us using the Contact form on our site. We would be pleased to discuss your specific needs or requirements.

BizTalk 2009 & MOSS 2007 as your Integration Solution
Presenters: Bill Chesnut, Ed Richard

Traditionally and for most business users, integration solutions have been hidden in the back office: a case of out of mind, out of sight. Let us show you that is not the case. By leveraging the front office features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the back office integration features of BizTalk 2009, you can expose your integration solution to the whole business. This will give you greater visibility and control of your integration solutions. As a platform for storing, managing and organising large numbers of documents, SharePoint delivers departmental applications with rich functionality in addition to the ASP.Net Web Part framework. SharePoint provides authentication, role based security trimming and personalisation. This is combined with the powerful search capabilities it offers. Many end users are already familiar with how SharePoint looks and feels as they have experienced it as their Intranet platform. BizTalk can be partnered with SharePoint in several ways. We will focus on two areas: solutions to enhance the visibility of your BizTalk integration solution; and, extend your SharePoint based solution to leverage the line of business adapters, EDI/AS2 and BizTalk accelerators. This approach will allow you to reach deeper into your infrastructure or interact closer with your customers. We will demonstrate surfacing your auditing, logging and exception management from BizTalk in SharePoint. We will also show how and when to use BizTalk to extend your SharePoint solutions.

BizTalk 2009 - Automated Build and Deployment Experiences
Presenter: Bill Chesnut

Booting Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 from VHD
Presenter: Bill Chesnut

Bill will show how easy it is to setup Windows 7 & Windows 2008 R2 to boot from a VHD file. This will allow machines to boot natively from Windows 7 & Windows 2008 R2 while maintaining the flexiblity of having the OS contained in a VHD file on the local hard disk.

Introduction to BizTalk ESB 2.0 Exception Framework
Presenter: Bill Chesnut

This will be a quick introduction to the Exception Management Framework and portal that are part of the new BizTalk ESB 2.0 Toolkit. Even for those that are not looking at implementing ESB, the Exception Management Framework and Portal can help consolitate your BizTalk Exception Management and Alerting.

Office Considerations for IT Pros
Presenter: Ben Walters

Many people extend Office to meet specific business needs, sometimes with the help of IT, sometimes without. However, these customisations, macros and add-ins can cause a headache when it comes time to upgrade Office. In this session you will gain an understanding of security enhancements, key changes between Office versions and service packs and common challenges when upgrading Office. In addition, this session will equip you with the tools, resources and guidance to efficiently manage the Office upgrade process and streamline future upgrades.

Visio - The Office Swiss Army Knife
Presenter: Ed Richard

Visio 2007 is the leading solution for creating enterprise diagrams in the market today. As a result of its broad adoption across the IT community, Gartner consistently includes Visio 2007 in its list of Top 10 Tools for IT Professionals. Learn about the productivity improvements that come with Visio 2007 and see some best practices for creating diagrams. In particular we will be demonstrating how to connect Visio diagrams to data-sources to create diagrams that change to reflect the underlying data. Finally, come and see a glimpse of the future as we give you a sneak preview of Visio 2010.

SharePoint Secrets from the Master
Presenter: Rai Umair

APACs first Microsoft Certified SharePoint Master debunks SharePoint myths and share's SharePoint secrets.

Watch this interview on-line now

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from international and local SharePoint experts at this special no-cost event hosted by Quest Software.

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Please note: Agenda differs slightly for each event. 

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Plus, you can learn tips and best practices to help you overcome your most difficult SharePoint challenges during a panel discussion with SharePoint experts and bloggers. 

Space is limited so reserve your seat now!

* Please feel free to forward this invitation to a colleague or friend.

Expert Spotlight: Joel Oleson -- SharePoint Expert, Quest Software

Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect and he maintains a popular blog. Prior to Quest, Joel worked at Microsoft and was a part of the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure Joel helped various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade and achieve scale with SharePoint 2007. He would later design the extranet and hosted SharePoint deployments. http://www.sharepointjoel.com

For more information, feel free to contact anzevents@quest.com.

A unique opportunity to learn from the best.

Craig Carpenter brings over ten years of experience in SharePoint consulting and training to the training room in Richmond.

This 5-day course is designed to give SharePoint administrators basic and intermediate information and skills they need to design, deploy, and manage a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard Edition implementation. Sounds interesting? better act quick as we only have a few seats left for the training that start on the 16th of February.

To read more details, download a full outline or book a spot click here.

Craig Carpenter

Instructor

As one of the founders of Combined Knowledge, Craig Carpenter (MCSA, MCSE, MCT) has over ten years experience of training and consulting on Microsoft platforms. Craig started his IT career within the education arena, a start that provided an exceptional breadth of knowledge for, as Craig says, "in education you are expected to do everything". From there, Craig moved into industry working for several companies both large and small, before becoming a Microsoft trainer for 4 years.

Over the past two years, Craig has been concentrating on SharePoint, being on the TAP program for MOSS 2007, and contributing to the Mindsharp courseware.

Stargate has partnered with Combined-Knowledge to deliver a broad range of the best available courses for SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services.

The material is based on the Mindsharp course materials and considered best in the industry. Combined Knowledge has been delivering SharePoint classes for over 6 years around the world and boasts some of the best SharePoint Trainers with the industry's highest qualifications such as MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer).

Through this partnership our portfolio of SharePoint courses are everything a company needs to successfully deliver a SharePoint implementation over the lifespan of the project.

We schedule training course around Australia but courses can also be delivered on-site and even licensed for enterprise use.

Stargate partners with technology company ZAP Technologies to deliver packaged business analytics solutions and extensions for Dynamics CRM, NAVand AXthat allow business users to create their own web-based dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, reports and analysis.