SharePoint APAC Session - Templates & role based MySites

The session I will be presenting at APAC is titled Templates & role based MySites. It is aimed at an architect audience.


Here's a quick summary of what it will cover:
The templates facilitate user adoption and foster target deployments in context of their processes. They allow you to start conversations on usage and deployment with end users, while still giving room for your own solutions to be extended on top of templates. The templates for My Sites will be pre-configured to display, in a common environment, role-relevant data from sources such as LOB systems, desktop tools and portals. They will use MOSS capabilities such as audience targeting, KPIs, workflows, Excel services, Business Data Catalog, and others.


If you have any specific items you would like to see covered within the above scope let me know and I'll see what I can do. Also don't forget to register to attend here : http://www.microsoftsharepoint.com/

UDDATE: I'm Passed both MCTS Exams !!

My results on the Pearson site just got updated with a pass for the Sharepoint 2007 : Application Dev exam as well and both exams has even made it through to my official MCP transcript.

Now I can officially use the logos :)

I'm really pleased I passed them both especially as I sat them both on the same day which totalled about 6.5 hours of exam time (could of been up to 7.5 hours !) and resulted in me seriously straining my brain.
Now I just have to get studying for the rest of those .Net 2.0 exams :)

I'm passed MCTS: WSS App Dev I think ?

Way back in Feb I sat some beta exams and I have been eagerly awaiting the results hoping I at least passed the WSS one. Well looks like I did :).
A few days ago the status on the exam site was updated to passed, only glitch is I've yet to get an official email from Microsoft to confirm. Now just have to wait and see how I went on the other one !

I learnt a lot studying for these exams, also realised a few topics I needed to know more about while sitting the exams. One of them was programming against excel services. Luckily I'm now doing just that , spent today hooking up InfoPath forms to call referential data and calculations stored in a spreadsheet accessed through the excel services web service.

It's a quite nice solution where business users can edit data in excel spreadsheets and have it appear on the forms. This makes it a nice easy step to help get departments using online tools, without having to go to the expense and effort of custom developing pages or databases.
Particularly good for a first phase of a project, the data and calculations can then be moved to a full blown database later when/if needed.
Had to bend a few things to get it going, but once you know a few tricks it's not to hard to achieve.