Upgrade My SharePoint!"

August 11th Meeting Description:
You have SharePoint 2007. You want SharePoint 2010. What are you going to do? You should come to the August 11th meeting of the Austin SP User Group and learn all of the in-depth details. Shane Young, SharePoint MVP, is going to take you on a dive through the upgrade process and the key considerations along the way. This session will be mostly demo focused and topics will include:

• The different upgrade methods, including a hybrid method
• Downtime mitigation ideas
• Demo
• Database attach test and upgrade
• Visual upgrade with the UI
• Visual upgrade with PowerShell
• Core upgrade improvements

Meeting Details:

Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm (Dinner included)
Location: Microsoft’s NEW location

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Join us for the May 12th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group!

"PlanviewPRISMS.com – Adding Value through Customizing SharePoint 2007"

May 12th Meeting Description:

Planview, Inc. has just recently deployed a new interactive website called PlanviewPRISMS.com, which is based on the MOSS 2007 platform.  In this session, Michael Donahoo, Planview SharePoint Administrator will discuss the following:

• Business needs and requirements gathering
• MOSS 2007 customizations
• Lessons learned
• Future enhancements

Michael Donahoo has been developing custom SharePoint solutions since 2005.  His expertise ranges from developing and managing student web portals, to creating entire web-based applications deployed at State and Federal levels. He has a wide range of experience in customizing many aspects of SharePoint 2007.

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Meeting Details:

Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm (Dinner included)

Location: Microsoft: 9606 N. Mopac Expressway, Suite 200

This session will take an in-depth look into the Business Data Catalog (BDC) with Microsoft SQL Server. It will include an overview of the Business Data Catalog, an introduction to configuring  the BDC, and a demonstration of integrating the BDC with list forms.

During this meeting we will also share firsthand information and experience around the value of the Microsoft Certified Master program. These programs offer the top tier technical training and certifications available from Microsoft and will highlight the program in three areas including training, certification and networking.

Session presented by Tom Resing. Tom is a current Microsoft Certified Master in SharePoint Candidate. He is passionate about online collaboration technologies and loves being active in the SharePoint Community. Tom has been blogging about SharePoint for the last 2 ½ years after certifying on the 2007 platform.

Tom’s Blog: http://blogs.microlinkllc.com/tresing

Come early, stay late! We’ll answer your questions if we can.

Sid Atkinson, Sr. Lead Consultant, Catapult Systems, will provide an overview of the great new Business Intelligence features of SharePoint 2010.

This session will cover the Insights Business Intelligence platform in SharePoint 2010.  Microsoft made a significant investment in BI and has made available a broad range of tools and applications to service reporting and analytical needs.  In this session we will cover enhancements to Reporting Services and its integration with SharePoint, Report Builder, Excel Services, PowerPivot and PerformancePoint Services.  Time permitting, we will also briefly cover Access and Visio Services and its impact on the BI space within the context of SharePoint 2010.

Come early, stay late! We’ll answer your questions if we can.

August Program Description:

Are you confused with how to change the user interface in SharePoint? Do you have concerns about how to go about making those changes? If so, then come to the August 12th meeting where Heather Solomon will be answering any SharePoint branding questions you have and discuss common issues you may have encountered.

Heather Solomon is the Director of Creative Services at SharePoint Experts, Inc. and author/trainer of the SharePoint Branding Bootcamp. She will highlight a diagram, demo and pros/cons of a SharePoint branding method. She will also share with the members ‘real life’ experiences and discuss the best methods to implement for your site.

Key topics will include SharePoint master pages, content pages, page layouts, themes and SharePoint CSS. Heather brings her experience with WCM and will discuss how to make your publishing sites great resources for your end users. This will be an interactive session with Heather to discuss all your SharePoint branding questions! So don’t forget to bring your questions to the meeting!

As always, a delicious dinner will be served!

Location

9606 N Mo Pac Expy, Austin, TX 78759

Web Site

Central Texas SharePoint Users Group

Registration

Web Registration

Join us for the June 10th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group!

June Program Description:

The Nielsen Norman Group Report: Intranet Design Annual 2009: Year’s Ten Best Intranets was awarded to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a developer of computer and graphics processors, for their intranet. This intranet, based on SharePoint, was designed for enterprise organization with large amounts of documents and mission-critical applications. Come join the team responsible for this incredible intranet and walk away with lessons learned from this award winning design you can apply to your organization as well.

Andrea Werzner, a Sr. Program Manager with the Employee Culture & Communications Team at AMD, will speak to the business value delivered by the design of the intranet.

Robert Nellis, a Senior Consultant at Catapult Systems, will talk about some of the technical challenges the team faced during the implementation.

Also, remember that we will be doing “Stump the Panel” for 30 minutes at the beginning of the session, so bring your toughest questions!

Join us for the March 11th meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group!

Stump the Panel!

March Program Description:

This month we’re going "Back to Basics" with a Stump the Panel Session. SharePoint experts Matt McDermott, Brad Freels, Coan Dillahunty, Bruce Weatherford, and Janet Taylor will be answering your toughest questions!

We will be giving out $10 Starbucks gift cards to the first 10 people who ask questions and if you actually stump the panel, you will be rewarded with a $25 Barnes and Nobles gift card! So, bring your toughest questions and get ready to stump our experts.

In addition, we will be looking for the group’s feedback on topics and conversations the group can support during future meetings, so bring your ideas!

Thanks again to my hosts at the San Antonio SharePoint User Group. I had a great time. You can download my deck and the samples that I demonstrated from my SharePoint Conference post. I have not added the information on image search that I presented last night. I am working on a three part post that will pull all of the necessary information together.

Thanks again to Rackspace, our gracious host, you guys take recycling to a whole new level!

I’ll be presenting my Social Networking talk at the Austin SharePoint User Group meeting June 11^th, 2008 from 6 to 8 pm.

Social Networking and User Profiles for Business

SharePoint offers many features that facilitate personalization in the corporate environment. Organizations are often eager to adopt the features yet spend little time exploring the extent to which personalization and profiles can enhance the user experience. This session will explore the options available to the enterprise for:

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Topic: Show and Tell: A Guided Tour of a Successful SharePoint Installation

Please join us for the third meeting on Wednesday, December 12th, for a Show and Tell: a guided tour of a successful SharePoint installation (whose installation to be disclosed at the meeting, but it is a place you’ve heard of if you live in Texas!).

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