1. CIM User Group Web Site Update Austin, TX October 23, 2007

2. CIM User Group Sharepoint Site Recent Developments CIMug Site –Old and New –Site Migration Steps New Functionality Example Site Features Work Remaining

3. Old CIM Site http://sharepoint.ucausersgroup.org/CIM

4. New CIM Site http://38.100.244.239/CIMug

5. CIMug is Hosted within UCAIug

6. UCA Structures Site Groups Permission Management –Accounts –Passwords User Management –Mail Lists Site Management –Access to content Sites Can Inherit Permissions - or Not

7. Authority is Delegated to Site Owners Examples: –UCAIug –IEC 61850 –OpenAMI –CIMug –Open Demand Response

8. Sites Hosted by UCA

9. Site Owners Use Groups to Allocate Permissions

10. All Prior Documents Have Been Migrated to the New Site

11. Remaining Migration Steps Site is hosted by UCA International User Group –Kay Clinard is managing the migration Fully implement Bamboo Webparts –Allow site group administrators to create users in SharePoint and Active Directory Services at the same time. –Enable group sign-up by users –Enable list opt-in and opt-out by users –Enable discussion lists with email –Will eliminate need for separate email list manager product Cut new site from 38.100.244.239 over to sharepoint.ucausersgroup.org Provide site group administrator training –First session has been completed –Second is being planned

12. Summary of Sharepoint V3 Improvements User Interface –Tabbed interface similar to Outlook 2007 –Breadcrumb navigation is supported. –UI Personalization Capabilities - users only see what matters to them. –Lists can be easily filtered E-mail –SharePoint lists (Discussion Boards and Calendars) can accept incoming mail. Discussion boards maintain e-mail threading and full html messages. –Site groups can have an associated Distribution List. Alerts –Alerts can be filtered –Richer information about what's changed –Alerts can be customized for certain conditions Outlook Synchronization –True two-way sync between Outlook and Sharepoint - allows one to work with personal and team data in one place, for calendar, tasks, contacts, discussions, and documents

13. User Interface Improvements Tabs and bread-crumb navigation

14. Improved Functionality Better Integration with Office Products

15. User Interface Improvements Better List Filtering

16. User Interface Improvements Additional Information in Alerts

17. Improved Alerts Functionality

18. Functionality Improvements Easy configuration of sub-sites Information required for setting up CIM User Group sub-sites: Title Description URL Name

19. Functionality Improvements Many webparts and site templates are available

20. Sub-Site Example

21. Support for Blogs and Wikis Example from UCA Test Area

22. Work Remaining on New Site

23. Questions? Sites –UCA: http://38.100.244.239http://38.100.244.239 –CIM: http://38.100.244.239/CIMug/http://38.100.244.239/CIMug/ –Will migrated to ucausers.org in the near future Contacts –CIMug Site and Subsites: randy.rhodes@pacificorp.com (Utility Co-Chair) randy.rhodes@pacificorp.com –UCAIug Site and Other Subsites: kay@ucausersgroup.org kay@ucausersgroup.org