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

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

7. Announcements
MS Support for Pre-SP1 versions ending soon More details available at:
Adobe FINALLY has a 64-bit PDF IFilter Adobe download page: Configuration information:

8. 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:

9. 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

10. 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

11. Panel Introductions
Panel Introductions

12. 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

13. Panel Introductions Wes Preston - http://www.idubbs.com/blog/
SharePoint Governance and Administration
Keith Dahlby -
SharePoint Development
Lori Neff -
SharePoint Branding and Silverlight
Raymond Mitchell -
SharePoint Designer and other stuff
Panel Introductions

14. Open Discussion
Open Discussion

15. Break
5 – 10 minutes

16. More Discussion
More Discussion

17. Drawings

18. Thanks for coming!