Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group December 10 th, 2008 Open Panel Discussion Todd Bleeker, Wes Preston, Lori Neff, Keith Dahlby and Raymond Mitchell Meeting # 46

Agenda Introductions Panel Introductions Open Discussion Break More Discussion Drawings !!

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

Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Inetium ( Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint New Horizons – Minnesota ( Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Training on many technologies Microsoft (

Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations

Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting January 14 th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Topic: TBD Check for updates! Ongoing Schedule 2 nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft’s Bloomington Office

Announcements MS Support for Pre-SP1 versions ending soon More details available at: systems-without-service-pack-1-will-end-soon.aspx systems-without-service-pack-1-will-end-soon.aspx Adobe FINALLY has a 64-bit PDF IFilter Adobe download page: Configuration information:

Local Events Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group Tuesday, January 27th 5:30 PM United Properties Learning Center – see website for details: MSDN Developer Conference - Minneapolis PDC Content Delivered Locally Tuesday, January 13th 7:00am – 4:45pm Registration required (currently $99) – see website for details: 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:

Conferences SharePoint Technology Conference SharePoint Technology Conference January 27–29, 2009: Burlingame, CA SharePoint Best Practices Conference SharePoint Best Practices Conference February 2–4, 2009: San Diego, CA 2009 SharePoint.Org Conference March 22-24: Baltimore, MD SharePoint Connections -- Dev ConnectionsSharePoint Connections -- Dev Connections Spring 2009 March 22-25, Orlando FL Montreal SharePoint SummitMontreal SharePoint Summit April 6-8: Montreal, Canada Centre-Mont-Royal

Mindsharp Training Designer / Power End User – Jan – Minneapolis Administrator / Developer – Jan – Minneapolis – Admin / Developer / Designer / Power User - Jan Las Vegas Admin / Developer / Designer / Power User – Jan Chicago for more information.

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

Wes Preston - – SharePoint Governance and Administration Keith Dahlby - – SharePoint Development Lori Neff - – SharePoint Branding and Silverlight Raymond Mitchell - – SharePoint Designer and other stuff Panel Introductions

Open Discussion

Break 5 – 10 minutes

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Thanks for coming!