Dave McMahon MOSS

Dave works as Chief Architect for .NET Development at Ridgian Limited, a privately owned software house based in Central Birmingham. Ridgian are a Microsoft Certified Partner and specialise in Business Intelligence Solutions and Custom Software Solutions. He is very active in the Microsoft community speaking at DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper conferences, and at numerous User Group meetings around the country on such topics as SQL XML, SQL 2005 Security, Regular Expressions and his favourite technology XSLT and XPATH. He has recently published articles on SQL Server 2005 Security in International Developer Magazine and on Vista and Office 2007 in the Microsoft Beta Newsletters.

Session Abstract - MOSS

Over the past 12 months Dave has been working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or MOSS, and in this hour long session he brings "Tales From The Front" with some ideas about how to practically implement production Intranet/Extranet systems using MOSS. Where does the marketing end and the reality begin? Is it really the next Web Development Platform? What actually is a Site Collection and what does it mean in terms of deployment issues? How do you solve these issues? What is a Feature in terms of MOSS? Answers to these and other questions which Dave has encountered in the last 12 months will be covered through the medium of a plethora of demonstrations.

Prerequisites: This session assumes no prior experience using MOSS. Attendees are expected to be familiar with Visual Studio and .NET development.