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 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 January 14th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Topic: TBD 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 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-3-0-systems-without-service-pack-1-will-end-soon.aspx 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 http://www.sharepointmn.com

Local Events Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group Tuesday, January 27th 5:30 PM United Properties Learning Center – see website for details: http://www.sharepointmn.com/MODIG 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 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 http://www.sharepointmn.com

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 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 – Todd Bleeker SharePoint MVP for SharePoint Services 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 co-authored 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 Wes Preston - http://www.idubbs.com/blog/ SharePoint Governance and Administration Keith Dahlby - http://solutionizing.net/ SharePoint Development Lori Neff - http://www.brandingsharepoint.com SharePoint Branding and Silverlight 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 http://www.sharepointmn.com

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