1. http://www.sharepointmn.com 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

2. Agenda Introductions Panel Introductions Open Discussion Break More Discussion Drawings !! http://www.sharepointmn.com

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 http://www.sharepointmn.com

4. Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Inetium (www.inetium.com)www.inetium.com Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint New Horizons – Minnesota (www.newhorizonsmn.com)www.newhorizonsmn.com Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Training on many technologies Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)www.microsoft.com http://www.sharepointmn.com

5. 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

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

7. 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 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.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 http://www.adobe.com/special/acrobat/configuring_pdf_ifilter_for_ms_sharepoint_2007.pdf http://www.sharepointmn.com

8. 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 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.aspxhttp://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.ilmservice.com/silverlight http://www.sharepointmn.com

9. 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

10. 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.comwww.mindsharp.com for more information.

11. 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. Wes Preston - http://www.idubbs.com/blog/http://www.idubbs.com/blog/ – SharePoint Governance and Administration Keith Dahlby - http://solutionizing.net/http://solutionizing.net/ – SharePoint Development Lori Neff - http://www.brandingsharepoint.comhttp://www.brandingsharepoint.com – SharePoint Branding and Silverlight Raymond Mitchell - http://www.iwkid.com/bloghttp://www.iwkid.com/blog – SharePoint Designer and other stuff Panel Introductions

14. Open Discussion

15. Break 5 – 10 minutes

16. More Discussion

17. Drawings http://www.sharepointmn.com

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