In this session we will take a sneak peek at the new features in Office 2010.

Learn how to use Office Live for Small Business to host website files without using the Microsoft Office Live website templates. You can get a no-cost website and hosting from Microsoft through Office Live, and you can delete the Office Live website templates and then just publish your own.

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This session will introduce Microsoft's BI stack and showcase how it's various components can help you solve common business problems.

Presenter: Ola Ekdahl - Senior Instructor, IT Mentors

Presenter BIO: Ola Ekdahl is one of the top technical trainers for Microsoft and a Senior Instructor with IT Mentors, a high-end, custom training and curriculum and development company.  He participates in the company’s mission which is to help organizations understand and apply Microsoft technology for business advantage. 

This session will cover Microsoft's tools that can be used to support operational decisions, such as Reporting Services and SharePoint.

This session will cover Microsoft's tools that can be used to support tactical decisions, such as Excel Services and PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics.

This session will cover Microsoft’s tools that can be used to support strategic decisions, such as PerformancePoint Planning. We will also discuss different Corporate Performance Management methodologies.

Corporate performance management is a very important component of how to measure overall strategy accomplishment. This session will cover Microsoft's PM vision and tools.

This session introduces Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. It covers the basics of using VSTO along with security and deployment issues. Demonstrations show the use of VSTO with several different Office applications.

This VSTO session covers the use of writing managed code for standard controls such as buttons, text boxes, radio buttons, and others. Demonstrations show how these controls can be added to Office applications to give users easy access to new functionality.

The third session in this series explains the use of specialized controls including actions panes, forms, regions, smart tags, and the ribbon. Demonstrations are provided for each of these.

This video is an introduction to the concept of an Office Solution, including the advantages of choosing an Office Solution, and an example of what an Office Solution can do.

This video shows several ways in which a developer can extend and existing office application to create new functionality.

This video shows how to make changes to the basic Officer user interface element: the fluent ribbon.

This video shows how to work with the "backstage view", which is a new part of the Office 2010user interface. It is concerned with actions that don't directly create or edit content, such as printing or proofing, and it can also be extended by the developer.

This video will show examples of working with the Office 2010 APIs to manipulate document content.