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Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint

User Group

March 11th, 2009

Open Panel Discussion

Johnny Harbieh, Wes Preston, Brian Caauwe, Eric Mau and Raymond Mitchell

Meeting # 53

Agenda

• 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

• 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

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Upcoming Schedule

• Next Meeting • April 8th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

• Topic: SharePoint Business Intelligence• Check www.sharepointmn.com for updates!

• Ongoing Schedule• 2nd Wednesday of every month

• 9:00 to 11:30 am

• Microsoft’s Bloomington Office

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Announcements• Adobe FINALLY has a 64-bit PDF IFilter

Adobe download page:http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025Configuration information:http://www.adobe.com/special/acrobat/configuring_pdf_ifilter_for_ms_sharepoint_2007.pdf

• February Uber Updateshttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/03/09/uber-packages-of-february-cumulative-update-are-ready.aspx

• Featured Blogger – Gary LapointeSTSADM extensions guruhttp://stsadm.blogspot.comLatest extension: Synchronizing Quota Settings via STSADM

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Announcements

Raymond has been busy:

• New e-book:Building Dashboards for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using SharePoint Designer 2007

• SharePoint Designer Webcast:Working with the Data Form Web Part and SharePoint Designer with Raymond

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Local Events• TechFuse – March 17, 2009

http://nhmn.com/TechFuse/Default.aspx The Northland Inn, Brooklyn Park, MN

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Conferences2009 SharePoint .Org ConferenceMarch 22-24: Baltimore, MD

SharePoint Connections -- Dev Connections Spring 2009March 22-25, Orlando FL

Montreal SharePoint Summit April 6-8: Montreal, CanadaCentre-Mont-Royal

SharePoint Conference 2009 – October 19-22, 2009http://www.mssharepointconference.comLas Vegas, NV

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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

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Panel Introductions

Panel Introductions

Special Guest – Johnny Harbieh

• Analysts International Corporation

• http://johnnyharbieh.spaces.live.com

Panel Introductions

Panel Introductions

• Wes Preston - http://www.idubbs.com/blog/– SharePoint Governance and Administration– Twitter: @idubbs

• Brian Caauwe - http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/bcaauwe – SharePoint IT Pro, Development, etc…

• Erik Mau - http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/emau – SharePoint Architect

• Raymond Mitchell - http://www.iwkid.com/blog– SharePoint Designer and other stuff– Twitter: @iwkid

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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