20 Challenges to Success

..or

so many great sessions what

should I go to?

Andrew Woodward

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.

20 Challenges to Success

Business

IT Pro

Development

20 topics

2 minutes per topic

Learn something

Highlight deeper dives

Meet someone new

AdoptionChallenges

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scared of heights!

Skydive to support children with cancer

For every £1 I raise Zurich will match it!

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/AndrewWoody

Thank you for attending!

Andrew Woodward