Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group March 11th, 2009 Open Panel Discussion Johnny Harbieh, Wes Preston, Brian Caauwe, Eric Mau and Raymond Mitchell http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 53

Agenda Introductions Panel Introductions Open Discussion Break More Discussion Drawings !! http://www.sharepointmn.com

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 http://www.sharepointmn.com

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) Training on many technologies Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) http://www.sharepointmn.com

www.sharepointmn.com 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 Next Meeting Ongoing Schedule 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 http://www.sharepointmn.com

Announcements 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 February Uber Updates http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/03/09/uber-packages-of-february-cumulative-update-are-ready.aspx Featured Blogger – Gary Lapointe STSADM extensions guru http://stsadm.blogspot.com Latest extension: Synchronizing Quota Settings via STSADM http://www.sharepointmn.com

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 http://www.sharepointmn.com

Local Events TechFuse – March 17, 2009 http://nhmn.com/TechFuse/Default.aspx The Northland Inn, Brooklyn Park, MN http://www.sharepointmn.com

Conferences 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 SharePoint Conference 2009 – October 19-22, 2009 http://www.mssharepointconference.com Las Vegas, NV Bill English at the Montreal SharePoint Summit 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. Bill English at the Montreal SharePoint Summit http://www.sharepointmn.com

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 http://www.sharepointmn.com

Thanks for coming! http://www.sharepointmn.com