Download the 'Web Analytics with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007' whitepaper (in XPS format)

The freely downloadable 72-page whitepaper has the following major chapters:

• Analytics Objectives and Benefits
• Web Analytics Technologies and Methodologies
• Implementing SharePoint Analytics Solutions
• Processing and Analyzing Web Analytics Data

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Official communication and more information will be posted soon at https://www.microsoft.com/teched/europe.

• Want to see how it looked like? Here are some pictures of TechDays 2009.
• Added 26 March 2009: And here is the TechDays 2009 compilation video.
• Quite some twitters about TechDays: both on the Belgian TechDays as well as all TechDays conferences around the world. Apparently more developers than administrators are twittering. @unexxx and @aralves are hoping connect with more IT pro’s on Twitter.
• Did you know a Microsoft team in Redmond is organizing a “Virtual TechDays around the World” on April 1st during 24 hours? Don’t expect the same experience as attending the local conferences, but they signed up quite some great speakers.
• Katrien posted some info of the Brussels Girl Geek Dinner @ TechDays side event.

Here are a few blog posts from attendees and speakers:

• Martijn Spelt posts in Dutch on the TechNet track
• Danny Zeegers post in Dutch about the SharePoint preconference session
• Unexpected posted several items in Dutch about the TechNet track
• Laurent Bugnion shares some thoughts on TechDays
• Paul Lorena writes about the ASP.NET MVC presentation
• @martius makes fun of the power outage in the entire Metropolis complex in Antwerp. Luckily it didn’t last too long.
• Virtual Ief gives a short overview of things he remembers from the TechNet track
• Alain Hufkens writes about the MSDN keynote at TechDays
• Tommy Carlier would like to see some sessions of TechDays posted Channel9
• Jeroen Budts came to TechDays for the first time. 
• Added 23 March 2009: Gill Cleeren explains “the road to the keynote”

At this point, most of the evaluations are in. We listen to our attendees:

• 95% wrote that their time at TechDays was (very) well spent;
• Attendees were happy with the content delivered – almost all sessions scored above our the required minimum score;
• Also about the food and drinks:
  • Quite some people found the sandwiches too fancy and prefer more simple food;
  • Developers and IT pro’s are hungry after attending sessions – the caterer obviously didn’t expect people were so hungry;
  • We definitely must make all the rest rooms easier to find;
  • Attendees don’t like to get their drinks in a glass instead of the bottles (unfortunately the caterer ran out of bottles and had to give drinks in glasses on Thursday afternoon
  • Last year a lot of people asked for healthy food (fruit) instead of cakes and cookies - apparently people want to have both cookies and fruit.
• Many people like the infrastructure of Metropolis and the location of the venue in Antwerp; some commented that they prefer Ghent as location for TechDays.

As a developer, would you like to learn more about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)? MOSS is based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, which gives developers the opportunity to get more problems solved with less effort. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 takes full advantage of Microsoft ASP.NET and the Microsoft .NET runtime. The new features and added programmability support in MOSS provide a wealth of development opportunities. This second course will immerse you in even more of the developer-centric capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

Level 1: Page Navigation
Did you know that you can integrate your application into SharePoint’s navigation? This topic looks at how SharePoint pages are arranged into web sites. Menus such as the site actions menu, the top navigation bar menu and the edit control block menu are explained. It shows how the menus in SharePoint can be updated so that a web site built on SharePoint can be customized.

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Level 2: Page Branding
Did you know that you can completely brand a SharePoint site to look like your existing web? Web applications need design and SharePoint allows for this using master pages, cascading style sheets and themes. This topic walks through how to apply these artifacts to a SharePoint site and covers the process for modifying them to achieve a web site design in SharePoint.

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Level 3: Web Services
Did you know that SharePoint developers have access to SharePoint list data using built in Web Services? SharePoint allows access using code running on the SharePoint server machine and also access using web services. This topic covers use of some of the simple web services provided by SharePoint and it also shows how to create a new web service on a SharePoint machine.

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Level 4: Custom Content Types
Did you know that SharePoint developers can implement different behaviors for different document types? Content types define what documents or other content types are used in SharePoint document libraries. Content types can have several SharePoint aspects associated with them including custom menus and custom processing. This topic shows how to create a custom content type and how to associate an event handler with the new content type to do data validation.

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Level 5: User Management
Did you know that you don’t have to write code to manage web site users in SharePoint? SharePoint allows for end user site creation and when a user creates a site they can also manage the user permissions on that site. This topic shows how some aspects of user management are handled in SharePoint including how you can audit activities that users do and show different data depending on the role a user belongs to.

This article is the fifth in the "SDL series" – a set of 8 articles investigating the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle. In this series, through extensive interviews and research, the authors pull back the covers on Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle- a development practice upon which millions of users (and billions of dollars) depend.

Summary

Microsoft makes heavy use of tools throughout the Security Development Lifecycle.  In this article, you will see how tools assist in threat modeling, code analysis, and penetration testing.

Included in this document

• The Microsoft SDL
• Threat Modeling Tools
• Compiler and Linker Protections
• Code Analysis Tools
• Manual Code Inspection
• Fuzz Testing
• Benefits and Limitations
• About the Authors

As a developer, would you like to learn more about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)? MOSS is based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, which gives developers the opportunity to get more problems solved with less effort. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 takes full advantage of Microsoft ASP.NET and the Microsoft .NET runtime. The new features and added programmability support in MOSS provide a wealth of development opportunities. This course will immerse you in many of the developer-centric capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

Level 1: Web Parts
Did you know that in SharePoint you can build pages as easy as in ASP.NET – and allow end users to create dashboards? Web parts allow for creating components of Web user interface that can be reused on multiple Web pages. These are introduced in ASP.NET and built on in SharePoint where they can be added to pages by end users and managed by IT Professionals. In this topic you will learn about building simple Web parts for SharePoint and how to connect them back to SharePoint site data.

Level 2: Data Lists
Did you know that SharePoint developers can work with data from lists that users get access to too? Data lists provide data storage for end users in SharePoint. End users can create lists with schema all through the SharePoint user interface and they can create, edit, and view the data. All of this data can be programmatically accessed by developers and this topic is all about that.

Level 3: Event Handlers
Did you know that SharePoint developers can automatically process data that your users upload via a spreadsheet? Event handlers (or event receivers) are custom code that runs on the SharePoint server in response to something that happens on the server. Event handlers can be useful for running business logic in response to data being added to the site. This topic shows how to create simple event handlers and investigates ways that event handlers can be used in SharePoint.

Level 4: Workflow
Did you know that you can write WF workflows in SharePoint without having to worry about storage, persistence, or how to interact with the user? Workflow in SharePoint allows for implementation of processes that require interaction such as email approvals or form completion by people in your organization. This topic shows you how to create simple workflows in SharePoint using Visual Studio that involve approvals from people by email and for meeting room resource bookings with an administrator.

Level 5: Silverlight Web Parts
Did you know that you can build rich Internet applications with SharePoint? Silverlight is a new Web user interface technology from Microsoft that allows for each implementation of animations and videos. This topic shows how a SharePoint user interface can be enhanced by using Silverlight in Web parts as part of a SharePoint site.

You can benefit from an exam voucher with 25% discount and a free retake (“Second Shot”) if you don’t pass the exam at your first try. If you pass your exam at the conference, you also get an extra free eLearning voucher. Plus, the first people to get certified will receive a t-shirt “Certified at TechEd 2008 Barcelona”. To receive your voucher code for pre-registration, please send an email to v-tries@microsoft.com.