Corey Roth [MVP] : Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group, SharePoint

Slides from my SharePoint Search talk at Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

CoreyRoth — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:44:55 GMT

In spite of the weather, I still had some people show up to my updated SharePoint Search talk, Getting the most out of SharePoint Search. This talk relates closely to my recent blog post Are you getting the most out of SharePoint Search. The talk focused on understanding the basics of search and how you can improve the search experience for your users. I reiterated the theme that Search is only as good as the information you provide it. I also gave the attendees of a choice of seeing the demo with Search Server Express, SharePoint Server, or FAST Search for SharePoint. They ended up choosing FAST and I spent a good amount of time showing off the new features. This is the first time I have dared giving a demo using a FAST VM and it worked fairly well. I only had queries time out and fail on me twice. :) I also showed some of the basics of using FAST Query Language (FQL) with a code demo showing how you can dynamically affect ranking. I hope everyone enjoyed the talk. For those that didn’t attend because of the snow you really missed out. We didn’t even have any snow accumulation the entire night. :) You can find my slides from the talk on SlideShare.

Getting the most out of SharePoint Search

Speaking about PowerShell tonight at Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

CoreyRoth — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:44:07 GMT

I’m filling in tonight and excited to be speaking about PowerShell. Kyle and I did this talk in Houston at SharePoint Saturday and it was a lot of fun. In this talk you’ll learn just enough to be dangerous when using PowerShell with SharePoint 2010. Come on out and see all the new ways you can mess up your SharePoint server from the command line. We’re at a new location tonight, Tulsa Tech Riverside Campus, room A-144. See you around 6:00 pm.

Slides from my talk on the SharePoint 2010 BCS at Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

CoreyRoth — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:45:04 GMT

We had a great turnout last night for my talk on How the SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services will change your life. The talk went quite well despite the long wait times in SharePoint Designer 2010. :-) I really enjoyed giving this talk because it truly wows a lot of people. When they see how you can bring data in from a backend system, edit it in SharePoint and then sync it with SharePoint Workspace or edit it directly from Microsoft Outlook, they are truly impressed. I can’t wait to give this talk again on a release build. If you want to see my awesome slide deck, I’ve posted it on SlideShare. Thanks for coming.

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Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group – How the SharePoint 2010 BCS will change your life

CoreyRoth — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:51:49 GMT

I’m excited to bring a SharePoint 2010 talk to the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group this Monday (4/12). Here is a brief summary.

How many hours have your wasted building simple ASP.NET applications to do nothing more than simple CRUD operations against a database? Many tools have made this easier, but now it's so easy, you'll be up and running in minutes. This session will show you hot easy it is to get started integrating external data from your line of business systems in SharePoint 2010. You will learn how to register an external content type using SharePoint Designer based upon a database table or web service and then build an external list. With external lists, you will see how you can perform CRUD operations on your line of business directly from SharePoint without ever having to do manual configuration in XML files. Finally, we will walk through how to create custom edit forms for your list using InfoPath 2010.

For more information or to register, click here.

Also, Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group is now on twitter @TulsaSPIG.

Speaking about How Business Connectivity Services (BCS) may change your life in SharePoint 2010 at Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group on 4/12

CoreyRoth — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:09 GMT

Ok, so the title may be overly dramatic, but the BCS is really freaking cool now. With SharePoint 2010 just around the corner, now is the time to start learning how you can leverage it. I’ll be talking about the Business Connectivity Services at the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group on 4/12. If you’re not familiar with everything yet, here is what has changed. The Business Data Catalog from MOSS 2007 had morphed into the new Business Connectivity Services also known as the BCS. To add to the confusion, there are places where you will still see term BDC lying around such as the case of the BDC entity model (although maybe the name has changed by now). With 2010, we get the ability to easily and quickly create new application definitions using SharePoint Designer 2010. On top of that the data we have abstracted through the BCS can be manipulated in something new called the external list. It’s so cool that in fact you can edit and do all CRUD operations on that external list and the changes get persisted to the backend database (or web service, etc). If you’re not familiar with the BCS yet, this is a must-see session.

If you are going to make it to the event, please RSVP. Thanks.

New Year and New Officers at the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

CoreyRoth — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:38:43 GMT

I am excited to be serving as Vice President this year for the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group. This looks to be a great year as we hope to grow the group and make it better than ever. We don’t have all the plans laid out yet, but we do hope to be able to communicate more with the members and be more a part of your day to day SharePoint lives. :) Here are the officers and roles for this year.

David McCollough – President

Corey Roth – Vice President

Chris McLean – Treasurer

Dennis Bottjer – Director of Member Services

Mohamed Yasuf – Director of Technology