Transcript December 2008 - Open Panel Discussion

Welcome to the
Minnesota SharePoint
User Group
December 10th, 2008
Open Panel Discussion
Todd Bleeker, Wes Preston, Lori Neff, Keith Dahlby and Raymond Mitchell
http://www.sharepointmn.com
Meeting # 46
Agenda
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Introductions
Panel Introductions
Open Discussion
Break
More Discussion
Drawings !!
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User Group Goal / Objectives
Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft
SharePoint Technologies
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Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies
Transfer knowledge within the community
Communicate best practices
Introduce new products / solutions
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Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors
Inetium (www.inetium.com)
• Technology consulting company
• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
• Practice area focused on SharePoint
New Horizons – Minnesota (www.newhorizonsmn.com)
• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
• Training on many technologies
Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)
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Website for user group
SharePoint resource documents
SharePoint resource links
RSS Feeds
Meeting Schedule
Past User Group Presentations
www.sharepointmn.com
http://www.sharepointmn.com
Upcoming Schedule
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Next Meeting
• January 14th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
• Topic: TBD
• Check www.sharepointmn.com for updates!
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Ongoing Schedule
• 2nd Wednesday of every month
• 9:00 to 11:30 am
• Microsoft’s Bloomington Office
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Announcements
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MS Support for Pre-SP1 versions ending soon
More details available at:
http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2008/12/04/support-for-moss-2007-and-wss-3-0systems-without-service-pack-1-will-end-soon.aspx
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Adobe FINALLY has a 64-bit PDF IFilter
Adobe download page:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025
Configuration information:
http://www.adobe.com/special/acrobat/configuring_pdf_ifilter_for_ms_sharepoint_2007.pdf
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Local Events
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Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group
Tuesday, January 27th 5:30 PM
United Properties Learning Center – see website for details:
http://www.sharepointmn.com/MODIG
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MSDN Developer Conference - Minneapolis
PDC Content Delivered Locally
Tuesday, January 13th
7:00am – 4:45pm
Registration required (currently $99) – see website for details:
http://www.msdndevcon.com/Pages/Minneapolis.aspx
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Minnesota Silverlight User Group
Expressions Blend and Silverlight 2.0 (Lori Neff)
Tuesday, December 16th
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Microsoft Bloomington – see website for details:
http://www.ilmservice.com/silverlight
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Conferences
SharePoint Technology Conference
January 27–29, 2009: Burlingame, CA
SharePoint Best Practices Conference
February 2–4, 2009: San Diego, CA
2009 SharePoint .Org Conference
March 22-24: Baltimore, MD
SharePoint Connections -- Dev Connections Spring 2009
March 22-25, Orlando FL
Montreal SharePoint Summit April 6-8: Montreal, Canada
Centre-Mont-Royal
http://www.sharepointmn.com
Mindsharp Training
• Designer / Power End User – Jan 12-15 – Minneapolis
• Administrator / Developer – Jan 19-23 – Minneapolis
• Admin / Developer / Designer / Power User - Jan 19-23 - Las Vegas
• Admin / Developer / Designer / Power User – Jan 26 - 30 - Chicago
www.mindsharp.com for more information.
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Panel Introductions
Panel Introductions
Special Guest – Todd Bleeker
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SharePoint MVP for SharePoint Services
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An author, educator, speaker, and master technologist specializing
in SharePoint Products and Technologies, Todd Bleeker is an
industry leader on this amazing product from Microsoft. Todd coauthored the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
Resource Kit with business partner, Bill English, and more recently
co-authored Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step
with Olga Londer. Todd regularly conducts technical training events
for companies of all sizes. Todd is the co-owner of Mindsharp, a
company that offers educational training on leading-edge Microsoft
products. Todd lives in Minnesota with his wife, Kathryn, and six
children, Landis, Lake, Lissa, Logan, Lawson, and Lexa.
Panel Introductions
Panel Introductions
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Wes Preston - http://www.idubbs.com/blog/
– SharePoint Governance and Administration
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Keith Dahlby - http://solutionizing.net/
– SharePoint Development
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Lori Neff - http://www.brandingsharepoint.com
– SharePoint Branding and Silverlight
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Raymond Mitchell - http://www.iwkid.com/blog
– SharePoint Designer and other stuff
Panel Introductions
Open Discussion
Open Discussion
Break
5 – 10 minutes
More Discussion
More Discussion
Drawings
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Thanks for coming!
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