General Meeting: Why ASP.NET Develoeprs should consider SharePoint as a Platform

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Daniel Brown - SharePoint MVP

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Daniel is a Senior Application Developer and Senior SharePoint Architect at Hostworks in Adelaide, Australia.   At Hostworks Daniel’s main duties include maintaining their internal SharePoint Farm and developing internal applications as well as client SharePoint implementations.   Previous to being employed at Hostworks, Daniel was e ... Read More

General Meeting: A lap around SharePoint Development

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Paul Turner

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General Meeting: Morngin Tea

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General Meeting: Sharepoint Building Blocks

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Mr van Ruth will provide an overview from a CIO’s perspective of how RAA is using the building blocks of Sharepoint to deliver their intranet, content management and reporting needs.  Key topics to be covered include:
• How RAA uses Sharepoint
• Managing migration from WSS3.0 or Moss2007
• Layout design and standardisation
• Governance and control
• Performance dashboards
• Project reporting
• IS service level reporting via Sharepoint.
• Other general observations of pitfalls and windfalls.

John van Ruth

Session Speaker

Mr John van Ruth is currently Chief Information Officer at the RAA of SA Inc and has held prior roles as CIO for Adelaide Bank and Faulding. In between CIO roles, Mr van Ruth ran his own private IT consulting business. Mr van Ruth joined Faulding after returning from Toronto Canada, where he was the partner in charge of Arthur Andersen's Canadia ... Read More

General Meeting: Geographically Distributed Deployments for SharePoint

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In this session Rai will discuss the motivations, challenges and best practices for Geographically Distributed Deployments for SharePoint.

Rai Umair

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Rai Umair is a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint and is a Principal Consultant within the SharePoint\OBA practice at Stargate Global Consulting. Rai lives, drinks and evangelizes SharePoint by day and is a Masters student majoring in Enterprise Architecture by night. Rai has been working with Microsoft technologies with a keen eye on busin ... Read More

General Meeting: Something About Mary (Sharepoint and Office 2007)

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Come see Adam Cogan explain what works well with SharePoint and Office for Mary and the other knowledge workers.
First you will get an overview of what is great about having SharePoint in your business.
Then see real world examples of:
• Using SharePoint 2007 and Office 2007 together
• Where it fits with other important Microsoft products like CRM 4 and TFS
• Examples of how Word and Excel can be integrated into business processes (separate from SharePoint), and then followed by
• Examples of how Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be combined with SharePoint to improve visibility/searchability/versioning across the company
• Overview of how data can be synchronised between the two (eg using Access and Excel)
• Overview of what 'workflow' (really!) means
• How Office can be incorporated into company workflows with SharePoint
• High level examples of using/integrating Office with other products (eg VSTS integration with Outlook)
• Where VBA and VSTO fit in terms of how solutions can be developed
• Examples of other interesting Office/SharePoint integrations (eg the Atlassian SharePoint Connector and Office Connector)
This is a good chance for you to consider new ways of using Office in your company, along with pitfalls to avoid. Adam gets excited about this session because too often companies limit Office to just an email application, word processor and spreadsheet - completely missing the positive impact it can have on the entire business process.

Adam Cogan - VSTS/.NET MVP MVP

Session Speaker

Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET, SharePoint and Business Intelligence solutions. At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, banking, insurance and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Q ... Read More

General Meeting: SQl Server 2008 R2, Reporting Services and SharePoint

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Rob Farley - SQL MVP

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General Meeting: Lunch

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General Meeting: Underneath the Magnifying Glass

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Adam Clark

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General Meeting: SharePoint personalisation

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James Milne - SharePoint MVP

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With over 15 years of direct IT experience James has spent the last five years working exclusively with enterprise level SharePoint Solutions. Prior to this James spent a number of years working for a leading integration company based in Silicon Valley. While working directly with large customers such as Intel and Siebel, James gained an in-dept ... Read More

General Meeting: Developing Web Parts

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Ishai Sagi - SharePoint MVP

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A SharePoint expert since 2001, Ishai has worked for several consulting companies, and developed many SharePoint solutions and is now working for UniqueWorld Australia as a Solution Architect. He was awarded the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP award from Microsoft for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009. Ishai is the author of the popular SharePo ... Read More

General Meeting: Making more out of SharePoint

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Find out how to position your SharePoint project for success, choose the right partners and deliver high values business outcomes.

Adam Clark

Session Speaker

General Meeting: Building a Bulletproof SharePoint Farm; Disaster Recovery and High Availability for SharePoint

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This session covers best practice design and planning for setting up a highly available and disaster tolerant SharePoint 2007 farm.  The session focuses on real-world guidance for building fault tolerance into a SharePoint environment for organizations of varying sizes.  Cost-effective and easy solutions are presented and compared to more complex global failover options.  Specific topics include SQL Server 2005/2008 Database Mirroring, network load balancing, replication with third-party products, and backup and restore options for the farm.
• Examine how Database Mirroring techniques with SQL Server 2008/2005 can be used with SharePoint content.
• Identify how to eliminate single points of failure from a SharePoint farm.
• Learn some ‘Alternative’ techniques for making SharePoint redundant, such as through replication of content to multiple farms.

Michael Noel

Session Speaker

Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics.  He has authored several major best-selling industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 ... Read More

General Meeting: Open Forum

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Daniel Brown - SharePoint MVP

Session Speaker

Daniel is a Senior Application Developer and Senior SharePoint Architect at Hostworks in Adelaide, Australia.   At Hostworks Daniel’s main duties include maintaining their internal SharePoint Farm and developing internal applications as well as client SharePoint implementations.   Previous to being employed at Hostworks, Daniel was e ... Read More