Brett Lonsdale from Lightning Tools demonstrates Lightning Forms and how it can be used to customize SharePoint lists and library forms within both SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises.
Brett Lonsdale from Lightning Tools demonstrates DeliverPoint in SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises. Learn how you can overcome pain points such as The Share Button, External User Sharing, AD Security Group Enumeration, and bulk permissions management.
You can download a free trial of DeliverPoint from the linkbelow:
DeiliverPoint for SharePoint On-premises and Office 365 SharePoint Online
Brett Lonsdale from Lightning Tools demonstrates the Lightning Conductor Web Part in SharePoint Online. We aggregate Tasks, and Documents demonstrating how the Lightning Conductor can be used to display content from across site collections with easy to build views that don’t require code.
You can download a free trial of the Lightning Conductor from the links on the product pages:
Lightning Conductor Add-in for Office 365 | Lightning Conductor On-premises
Andrew Connell (Founder of Voitanos and Microsoft MVP) presents a webinar for Lightning Tools on the Microsoft Ignite 2017 Announcements regarding the SharePoint Framework SPFx. Watch this webinar to learn what’s coming VERY soon for Microsoft SharePoint developers.
Brett Lonsdale (co-founder and CEO of Lightning Tools) and Khoder Elzein (Senior SAP consultant from Theobald) present connecting to SAP using Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint On-Premises and SharePoint Online. The Data is then Visualized using the Lightning Tools Data Viewer and SharePoint Chart components.
Brett Lonsdale (co-founder and CEO of Lightning Tools) presents DeliverPoint to report, manage and audit SharePoint Permissions in both SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises. DeliverPoint caters for both the IT Farm Administrators so that they can govern SharePoint Security more effectively, but also caters for the business user as a Site Collection Administrator or Site Owner so that your business user is able to report and manage permissions more effectively.
Understanding the Office 365 Security Landscape
Ben Curry 10 x SharePoint MVP Presents: The average secure score for an Office 365 tenant is less than 40. For most tenants, that number should be well over 200!! We find that for most organizations, it’s simply a lack of knowledge about what security controls are available. As Office 365 security has rapidly evolved over the past year, many IT professionals are unsure about all the features, products, and licenses offered by Microsoft. This webinar will provide a high level, yet all-inclusive, overview of security in Office 365. Topics will include areas such as Azure Intune, tenant security, ODB security, External Sharing, Advanced Threat Analytics, data governance, Azure Information Protection, and threat analysis and scoring.
Automating your work with Microsoft Flow
Laura Rogers (Microsoft SharePoint MVP and Founder of IW Mentor) presents this webinar on ‘Automating your work with Microsoft Flow’. Laura introduces Microsoft Flow along with a few excellent demonstrations when integrating Microsoft Flow with SharePoint.
Brett Lonsdale from Lightning Tools demonstrates how you can connect to External Data from both SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises using Business Connectivity Services. Brett goes on to demonstrate BCS Meta Man to build External Content Types for multiple data sources, and how to visualize the data using the Data Viewer and Chart by Lightning Tools.
Microsoft announced a new development model, the SharePoint Framework, to respond to emerging web technologies & address customer requests for better extensibility options at their Future of SharePoint event in May of 2016. In this webinar join SharePoint MVP Andrew Connell to find out what this new development model is all about. We will first cover what you need to do to configure and setup your developer environment so you can hit the ground running to then get up to speed on the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and learn how to create custom client side web parts for SharePoint Online in Office 365. Regardless if you are a developer new to SharePoint development or a seasoned SharePoint developer, this webinar is for you!
Agnes Molnar (SharePoint MVP) and one of the top 25 SharePoint & Office 365 influencers both in Europe and Globally presented on SharePoint Search demonstrating how to connect search to External Content. The configuration included Business Connectivity Services as well as Custom Search Connectors. Warning! Don’t watch it if you are hungry!
Live webinar recording on the Lightning Conductor Add-In for SharePoint Online to rollup SharePoint lists across multiple site collections.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
27th October 2016
Building Discussion Forums with Social Squared
Live webinar recording on Social Squared, Building SharePoint based discussion forums and the benefits that they bring to the organization.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
15th September 2016
Live webinar recording on Business Connectivity Services, BCS Meta Man, Data Viewer Web Part and the SharePoint Chart Web Part by Lightning Tools.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
8th September 2016
Live webinar recording on making permissions management easy for Site Owners, Site Collection Administrators, and Farm Administrators. Permission Reports, Bulk Permissions Management, Permissions Auditing.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
01st September 2016
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
25th August 2016
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
25th August 2016
Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools presented this live webinar on SharePoint List Rollup across multiple site collections in SharePoint Online.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools presented this live webinar on Social Squared Enterprise Discussion Forums for SharePoint On-Premises and SharePoint Online.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools presented this live webinar on SharePoint List Rollup using the Lightning Conductor for SharePoint On-Premises and Office 365 SharePoint Online.
Rollup List Items Across Site Collections With The Lightning Conductor
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools presented this live webinar on SharePoint List Rollup using the Lightning Conductor for SharePoint On-Premises and Office 365 SharePoint Online.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools presented this live webinar on SharePoint 2013 Permissions Best Practices. Covering Permission Inheritance, Permission Reporting, Groups, Granting Permissions, Share and a small demo of DeliverPoint Permissions Management Tool.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools presented this live webinar on SharePoint Online Permissions Best Practices. Covering Permission Inheritance, Permission Reporting, Groups, Granting Permissions, Share and a small demo of DeliverPoint Add-In.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools will be presenting the Lightning Conductor in both SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 SharePoint Online.
REGISTER TO ATTEND:
Choose from Thursday 11th February 2016 (4pm EST) or Thursday 18th February 2016 (4pm EST)
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/8215964671117754114
Business Connectivity Services (BCS), BCS Meta Man, Chart and Data Viewer Webinar
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools presents Business Connectivity Services (BCS) and shows how BCS Meta Man, Data Viewer and Chart can be used to connect to multiple external data sources.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools presents DeliverPoint to Report and Manage on permissions within a SharePoint On-Premises and Office 365 SharePoint Online environment.
Lightning Conductor Web Part and Lightning Conductor Add-In
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools presents the Lightning Conductor to rollup SharePoint content from across multiple site collections. There are two products demonstrated; The Lightning Conductor Web Part for SharePoint 2013 on Premise and the Lightning Conductor Add-In for Office 365.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale Brett Lonsdale (CEO) of Lightning Tools presents how to best manage permissions for Site Owners and Site Collection Administrators. Including Assigning Permissions, Active Directory Groups versus SharePoint Groups, Permission Inheritance etc. 
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale During this webinar, Brett Lonsdale will demonstrate the latest release of DeliverPoint. DeliverPoint is an in-context permissions management tool which offers permission reporting, permission auditing, permission alerts and permissions management. The tool is available for SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online. There are two dates available: Register: Download a free 14 day trial of DeliverPoint
Cross Site Collection Rollup with the Lightning Conductor Web Part
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale Brett shows how to configure the Lightning Conductor Web Part and Lightning Conductor App for Office 365 SharePoint Online to rollup SharePoint Content from Multiple Site Collections. Download the Lightning Conductor for SharePoint On-Premises Download the Lightning Conductor for Office 365 SharePoint Online
Learn the Lightning Tools Business Connectivity Services Suite
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale Use BCS Meta Man, and the ERP Connector to build no code External Content Types to SAP, Salesforce.com, Oracle, MySQL, SQL and more. Build powerful dashboards using the Data Viewer App and Powerful Charts using the Lightning Tools Charting tool Download the BCS Meta Man Download ERP Connect for SAP Download the Chart Web Part Download the Data Viewer App
Enterprise Discussion Forums using Social Squared
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale Using Social Squared, learn how to build powerful Discussion Forums within your SharePoint online or SharePoint On-Premises environment. Download Social Squared
Cross Site Collection Rollup with the Lightning Conductor Web Part
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale Brett shows how to configure the Lightning Conductor Web Part and Lightning Conductor App for Office 365 SharePoint Online to rollup SharePoint Content from Multiple Site Collections. 
Presenter: Patrick Theobald and Brett Lonsdale Patrick Theobald from Theobald Software and Brett Lonsdale from Lightning Tools jointly demonstrate how to fully utilize SAP data within Microsoft SharePoint 2013. We demonstrate the BCS Connector, and out-of-the-box functionality such as External Lists, Business Data Web Parts, Search and more. 
Presenter: Penny Coventry (SharePoint MVP) and Brett Lonsdale Penny Coventry and Brett Lonsdale together demonstrate the out-of-the-box functionality of Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2013 and discuss the BCS options in Office 365. Brett and Penny demonstrate the server side services such as External Lists, Business Data Web Parts, External Data Column, Search configuration, External Content Type creation and Microsoft Office BCS integration. 
Using Meta Man 2013 and the Data Viewer Web Part to display conditionally formatted external data.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale Date/Time: Thursday 19th September 2013 – 5pm BST (12 noon EST) Brett Lonsdale (Lightning Tools co-founder) will present Meta Man 2013 and the Data Viewer Web Part Brett will demonstrate how you can use Meta Man 2013 and the Data Viewer Web Part 2013 to connect easily to external data sources without writing code. Once connected, Brett will demonstrate how to display and format the external data using the Data Viewer Web Part. This will include conditional formatting, aggregation functions, and filtering. 
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Date/Time: Friday 14th June 2013 – 5pm BST (12 noon EST)
Brett Lonsdale (Lightning Tools co-founder) will present the new SharePoint 2013 content aggregation features.
Brett will demonstrate the new Content by Search Web Part as well as the Content by Query Web Part. Using the Content by Search Web Part, Brett will demonstrate how to query SharePoint lists and libraries using Search. Brett will also discuss how you can build views using the Content by Search in order to display the rolled up content in a format required by your business. Finally, Brett will end his session with a look at the new SharePoint 2013 Lightning Conductor Web Part.
Compliance Extender – Records Management Product demonstration
Presenter: Hamid Khimani
Hamid Khimani from Bramble CC in London, UK will be presenting a new product that provides records management features within a SharePoint Document Library.
With Compliance Extender, you can export and import full document information out to the file system and back into SharePoint including all of the associated meta data, content type, and auditing information. Document deletions are also recorded only allowing documents to be deleted if a full reason is provided. Hamid will cover the following:
1. Compliance Extender Introduction)
2. Compliance Extender Management Feature (Demo)
3. Export to Archive Feature (Demo)
4. Delete and Destroy Feature (Demo)
5. Retrieve Stub Feature (Demo)
6. Import Archives Feature (Demo)
7. Benefits Quantification
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (co-founder of Lightning Tools, Co-host of “The SharePoint Podshow” and Author of “SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services) will be demonstrating Social Squared and Lightning Chat.
At the Share 2013 conference in Johannesburg, many attendees mentioned that their biggest pain point with SharePoint 2010 was permissions management. Therefore, Lightning Tools (A sponsor of Share 2013) provided this session to discuss some of the known issues and how to overcome them with regards to permissions management.
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (co-founder of Lightning Tools, Co-host of “The SharePoint Podshow” and Author of “SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services) will be demonstrating Social Squared and Lightning Chat.
Lightning Tools provides two web parts that will help you improve communication within your business whilst also cutting down on the endless flow of emails. Rather than keeping vast amounts of useful information locked in individuals inboxes, Social Squared and Lightning Chat encourage users to share discussions and useful information whilst becoming more efficient in their inter-company communication. Brett Lonsdale will be demonstrating the Lightning Tools Social Squared forum web part and the instant messaging tool ‘Lightning Chat’.
Time: 5pm GMT (1AM EST) Date: Tuesday 19th March 2013
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (co-founder of Lightning Tools, Co-host of “The SharePoint Podshow” and Author of “SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services) will be demonstrating SharePoint 2010 Content Aggregation. The demonstration includes the Content Query Web Part, Relevant Documents, Calendar Overlays, Data View Web Part, Core Search Results Web Part, and the Lightning Conductor.
Date: 19th February 2013 5pm UK time (12 noon EST, 9am PST)
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (co-founder of Lightning Tools, Co-host of “The SharePoint Podshow” and Author of “SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services) will be demonstrating Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2013. This includes the new features such as OData support, Deploying as an App, and Exporting to Excel.
Date: 17th January 2013 5pm UK time (12 noon EST, 9am PST)
Presenter: Brett Lonsdale
Brett Lonsdale (co-founder of Lightning Tools, Co-host of “The SharePoint Podshow” and Author of “SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services) will be demonstrating common issues related to SharePoint permissions management and how they can be overcome using Lightning Tools DeliverPoint. The session will last approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes for Q&A. To join, please visit: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/372910734
Integrate External Data with the Business Connectivity Services
Date: 23th February 2012 – 12 noon EST
Presenter: Tom Resing MCM
Business Connectivity Services with Microsoft SQL Server including an Overview of the Business Connectivity Services, an Introduction to Configuring BCS, and Demonstrations of using External Lists and External Data Columns.
Exploring the Content Query Web Part in depth: Learn how to use the Content Query Web Part successfully.
Date: 26th January 2012 – 12 noon EST
Presenter: Christina Wheeler MCTS
In MOSS 2007, the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) was a very powerful control used for aggregating content from a particular list, site, or site collection. However, even though this web part was pretty awesome it still had some serious drawbacks.
In SharePoint 2010, the CQWP has been greatly improved with a facelift, improved features, and cool new features. New features include the introduction of slots which simplify working with Item Styles and the Content to Content concept which provides functionality such as related content.
Some improvements to the CQWP include dynamic filters and the CommonViewFields. The CQWP in SharePoint 2010 has also improved the query performance over large document libraries and lists.
This session will demonstrate the new features of the CQWP.
Date: 17th November 2011
Presenter: Rob Bogue SharePoint MVP
Information architecture is confusing to most folks, and why shouldn’t it be? There’s an information tsunami that’s covering every bit of storage in the corporate network. We’ll review how information management has changed over the years, the emerging trends, and how you can leverage SharePoint to help create breakwaters and barriers to protect your organization.
Robert Bogue is the author of The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users (http://www.SharePointShepherd.com), the presenter for The Psychology of SharePoint Adoption and Engagement, a globally renowned speaker, and eight time Microsoft MVP. Robert consults for global organizations helping them get the most out of their SharePoint implementations.
Date: 18th August 2011 – 12 noon EST
Presenter: Joel Oleson
Joel Oleson is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect, and he maintains a popular blog www.sharepointjoel.com.
Joel worked at Microsoft and was involved in 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.
Now that SP1 is out what how does this impact your upgrade strategies. What does SP1 offer over RTM? The reality of upgrade is in the strategy of how you execute your binary upgrade, but don’t underestimate the strategy around your visual upgrade. In this session I’ll give you recent examples of an enterprise upgrade of 1TB of data with 50 databases and share our lessons learned from custom workflows, site templates, and dealing with the harsh realities of the Fab 40.
Date: 28th July 2011 – 12 noon EST
Presenter: Todd Klindt (SharePoint MVP)
Now that you have your SharePoint farm expertly installed and configured it’s time to loose your users on it. Before you do that, you should have a well thought out authentication strategy designed. SharePoint 2010 has many great authentication options, it’s very flexible. Unfortunately when it comes to software, flexible is often another way of saying “complicated.” In this webcast Todd will cover the basics to authentication and how SharePoint figures into authentication and authorization.
After we get the basics down we’ll cover how you can take advantage of SharePoint 2010’s flexibility by authenticating against user stores that aren’t Active Directory. We’ll walk through settings up Forms Based Authentication (FBA) and talk about how it improves upon the FBA support that SharePoint 2007 had. We will also cover some troubleshooting techniques in case FBA doesn’t want to cooperate with you. After mastering FBA we will take a turn and take a look at Claims authentication. We’ll explain what Claims is and why it’s a good thing for SharePoint 2010.
All PowerPoint and no demos makes for a dull webcast, so there will be a lot of demos. They will help home the information in the slides, and give Todd an opportunity to embarrass himself in front of a large group of people. Should be a lot of fun.
What will the future of productivity look like?
Date: 16th June 2011 – 12 noon EST
Presenter: Mark Miller
Mark Miller is the Chief Community Officer and SharePoint Evangelist for Global 360. He lives in New York City with his wife, two children, one dog, one turtle, one gerbil and 9 goldfish. In his spare time between managing the in-house zoo, he is a founding member and editor of NothingButSharePoint.com.
What will the future of productivity look like? When you are viewing information that is dispersed, stored anywhere in the world, created by an unknown community of people, how will you find, access and consume that information? What will the interfaces look like?
Mark Miller is traveling the globe, looking for futuristic ideas on how to take massive amounts of data and turn it into usable information displays. In this session, we’ll talk with Mark about some of his most recent discoveries and how they might affect the future of productivity
Date: 11th May 2011 – 12 noon EST
Presenter: Laura Rogers SharePoint MVP
In this session, Laura Rogers will demonstrate just how flexible and useful the out-of-the-box Web parts are in SharePoint Server 2010. There will be an overview of many of these web parts, along with demonstrations of several new web parts, and some that have been improved or changed from MOSS 2007.
Best practices and use cases of individual web parts will be discussed. Attendees will also be given a demonstration on customizing data views using the new SharePoint Designer 2010. It helps developers to know what can be done out of box before writing code, and it’s also useful for end users to know the full extent of SharePoint’s web parts.
Date: 28th April 2011 – 12 noon EST
Presenter: Dux Rayond Sy, PMP
SharePoint has shifted the paradigm in enterprise information management and team collaboration. By empowering knowledge workers, SharePoint can increase worker productivity, improve efficiency and streamline business processes.
To achieve this goal, focusing on technology alone is not enough. Effectively identifying business value, gaining stakeholders’ support and efficiently managing SharePoint projects is paramount to success.
In this presentation, you’ll learn key techniques in:
- Gaining executive buy-in for SharePoint projects
- Identifying and prioritizing business benefits SharePoint provides
- Proper planning and appropriately managing expectations
- Engaging the business for better adoption
- Defining organizational SharePoint readiness
The primary audience for this session includes technical and business decision makers whose organizations have adopted SharePoint and who wish to adopt SharePoint.
Mark Miller is the Chief Community Officer and SharePoint Evangelist for Global 360. He lives in New York City with his wife, two children, one dog, one turtle, one gerbil and 9 goldfish. In his spare time between managing the in-house zoo, he is a founding member and editor of NothingButSharePoint.com.
What will the future of productivity look like? When you are viewing information that is dispersed, stored anywhere in the world, created by an unknown community of people, how will you find, access and consume that information? What will the interfaces look like?
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