1. Vendor Demonstrations
Welcome to the
Minnesota SharePoint
User Group
January 9th, 2008
Vendor Demonstrations
CommVault, Barracuda

2. Agenda Introductions Demo: CommVault Break
Demo: Barracuda – DeliverPoint
Q & A

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
February 13th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Microsoft’s Bloomington Office
Topic: Extending SharePoint – Development Overview
Ongoing Schedule
2nd Wednesday of every month
9:00 to 11:30 am

7. Other Events
SharePoint Server 2007: Search Deep Dive Wednesday, January 16th 8:30 AM to Noon At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details)
SharePoint Server 2007: Digital Forms/Workflow Deep Dive Thursday, January 17th 8:30 AM to Noon At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details)
SharePoint Server 2007: SharePoint 101 Tuesday, February 5th 8:30 AM to Noon At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details)
Windows 2008 Sneak Peek Tuesday, February 12 – Microsoft Bloomington Office
High Monkey Consulting - Virgil

8. New Event – Attention Developers!!
First Meeting
February 21st - TBD (evening)
Microsoft’s Bloomington Office
Topic: SharePoint Development
Ongoing Schedule
TBD (evenings)

9. Other Events
High Monkey Consulting - Making your MOSS Grow (class) January Las Vegas, NV Looking to implement collaboration in your organization via SharePoint?  Check out our new course ‘Making your MOSS grow’.  An interactive class designed to assist you and your organization in figuring out how collaboration can really help your business.  Our next class is coming up on January 28-31, 2008 in Las Vegas.  For more information, please call us at or visit us on the web at
High Monkey Consulting - Virgil

10. Other Events
Twin Cities MPA Free Lunch ‘n’ Learn January 18th 12:00 – 2:00 PM – Microsoft Bloomington Office Information on MS Project 2007 Certifications & Get your MS Project Questions Answered (Bring your questions for Open Discussion on MS Project)
The Official Industry Association for Microsoft Office Project
High Monkey Consulting - Virgil

11. Conferences
SharePoint Information Worker Conference 2008 – Feb 4-6, 2008 Nashville, TN
Microsoft Office System - Developer Conference 2008 – Feb 10-13, 2008 San Jose, CA
Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 – March 2-6, 2008 Seattle, WA
Tech Ed – Developers – June 3-6, 2008 Tech Ed – IT Professionals – June 10-13, Orlando, Fl

12. Blog Posts / News: SharePoint Team Blog:
MS Filter Pack Released
Form Based Authentication in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and WSS 3.0 ‘authoritative’ technical articles published
Other Posts
More information on SP1
More information on the Fab 40 templates

13. References CommVault http://www.commvault.com/
Barracuda – DeliverPoint
Inetium Blogs

14. Q & A

15. Thanks for coming!