1. http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group October 13 th, 2010 Panel Discussion Guests: Virgil Carroll, Eric Kraus Meeting 68

2. http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 Agenda Introductions Panel Discussion / Q&A Break Panel Discussion / Q&A http://www.sharepointmn.com

3. Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 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. http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Inetium (www.inetium.com)www.inetium.com Changing name to Avtex on 1/1/11 Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint Benchmark Learning (www.benchmarklearning.com)www.benchmarklearning.com Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Training on many technologies Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)www.microsoft.com http://www.sharepointmn.com

5. Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 www.sharepointmn.com Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations info@sharepointmn.com www.sharepointmn.com http://www.sharepointmn.com

6. Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 Social Networking Linked In group – The most interactive… includes job postings… – http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792 http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1878792 Facebook group – http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=27333305456 http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=27333305456 Twitter: @MNSPUG and #MNSPUG http://www.sharepointmn.com

7. Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting September 8 th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Microsoft’s Bloomington Office Topic: [SharePoint and Business Intelligence] 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

8. Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 http://www.sharepointmn.com Local Events SharePoint No-code Application Seminar – October 20, 2010 9:00 AM http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Resources/Events.aspx Benchmark Learning – Edina http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Resources/Events.aspx SharePoint 2010 Deep Dive: Business Process, Workflows, Forms and Composites October 21, 2010 1:00 PM http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Resources/Events.aspx Benchmark Learning - Edina http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Resources/Events.aspx SharePoint 2010 Deep Dive: Search – November 5, 2010 9:00 AM http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Resources/Events.aspx Benchmark Learning - Edina http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Resources/Events.aspx SharePoint Saturday – Spring, 2011 http://www.sharepointsaturdaymn.com http://www.sharepointsaturdaymn.com http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/twincities/default.aspx http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/twincities/default.aspx TBD

9. http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 http://www.sharepointmn.com Conferences SPTechCon – SharePoint Technology Conference – October 20-22, 2010 http://www.sptechcon.com/ http://www.sptechcon.com/ Boston, MA Best Practices Conference – Week of March 7th, 2010 http://www.bestpracticesconference.com/ http://www.bestpracticesconference.com/ La Jolla, CA Next Microsoft SharePoint Conference … October 3-6, 2011 http://www.mssharepointconference.com Anaheim, CA

10. http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 Announcements SharePoint MCM Reading List – http://www.dynamicevents.com/upload/MCM- MCA/MCM/SharePoint/MCMSharePointPre-Reads.pdf http://www.dynamicevents.com/upload/MCM- MCA/MCM/SharePoint/MCMSharePointPre-Reads.pdf SharePoint in Pictures – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointpictures/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointpictures/ SharePoint eMagazine (DIWUG) – http://information-worker.org/FreeMagazine.aspx http://information-worker.org/FreeMagazine.aspx SharePoint Patches and Updates – 10/12 Releases – http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=392 http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=392 http://www.sharepointmn.com

11. Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 The Panel http://www.sharepointmn.com

12. Meeting # 70 Quick Intro Erik Kraus – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ekraus/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ekraus/ – Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS)

13. http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 70 Quick Intro Virgil Carroll – http://bananablog.highmonkey.com/default.aspx http://bananablog.highmonkey.com/default.aspx – High Monkey Consulting – http://www.highmonkey.com/ http://www.highmonkey.com/ Virgil Carroll is the founding President and Chief Technology Architect of High Monkey Consulting. As High Monkey’s Chief Architect, Mr. Carroll is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design/Development. Mr. Carroll has over 10 years of experience with Microsoft technologies and is currently pursuing a 2 nd Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interactions. He is an MCT and MCTS in SharePoint and speaks all around the world on collaboration topics. As both a Technology Architect and business owner, Mr. Carroll provides an invaluable perspective of both the technical and business sides of things. Bringing a level of enthusiasm that will infect any audience; he uses his sense of humor and storytelling ability to engage any audience while his wealth of knowledge will provide them with practical advice and best practices.

14. http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 70 Quick Intro Raymond Mitchell http://www.iwkid.com/blog http://www.iwkid.com/blog – SharePoint Consultant at Inetium – MCTS WSS and MOSS Configuration WSS and MOSS Development – Author:

15. http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 70 Quick Intro Wes Preston – http://www.idubbs.com/blog http://www.idubbs.com/blog – SharePoint Senior Consultant – Inetium/Avtex - Microsoft Gold Partner – MVP – SharePoint Server – MCTS - WSS 3.0 and MOSS Configuration – MCTS - SharePoint 2010, Configuration – MCITP – SharePoint Administrator 2010

16. http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 Q&A http://www.sharepointmn.com

17. Meeting # 70 http://www.sharepointmn.com Meeting # 68 Thanks for coming! http://www.sharepointmn.com