1. 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

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

3. 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

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

5. www.sharepointmn.com Website for user group
SharePoint resource documents
SharePoint resource links
RSS Feeds
Meeting Schedule
Past User Group Presentations

6. Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting Ongoing Schedule
April 8th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Topic: SharePoint Business Intelligence
Check for updates!
Ongoing Schedule
2nd Wednesday of every month
9:00 to 11:30 am
Microsoft’s Bloomington Office

7. Announcements
Adobe FINALLY has a 64-bit PDF IFilter Adobe download page: Configuration information:
February Uber Updates
Featured Blogger – Gary Lapointe STSADM extensions guru
Latest extension: Synchronizing Quota Settings via STSADM

8. 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

9. Local Events
TechFuse – March 17, The Northland Inn, Brooklyn Park, MN

10. 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, Las Vegas, NV
Bill English at the Montreal SharePoint Summit

11. Mindsharp Training Designer / Power End User – Jan 12-15 – Minneapolis
Administrator / Developer – Jan – Minneapolis
Admin / Developer / Designer / Power User - Jan Las Vegas
Admin / Developer / Designer / Power User – Jan Chicago
for more information.
Bill English at the Montreal SharePoint Summit

12. Panel Introductions
Panel Introductions

13. Special Guest – Johnny Harbieh
Analysts International Corporation
Panel Introductions

14. Panel Introductions Wes Preston - http://www.idubbs.com/blog/
SharePoint Governance and Administration
Brian Caauwe -
SharePoint IT Pro, Development, etc…
Erik Mau -
SharePoint Architect
Raymond Mitchell -
SharePoint Designer and other stuff
Panel Introductions

15. Open Discussion
Open Discussion

16. Break
5 – 10 minutes

17. More Discussion
More Discussion

18. Drawings

19. Thanks for coming!