23/02/2009
Wow! What a great turn out! First of all I have to thank Gerard, Shane and co for organising the event which had a great turn out. Apologies for this late post but the last few days has been very hectic. And thanks for all the feedback. We will definitely try and get more sessions and speakers to visit Napier in the near future. Check out the New Zealand SharePoint user groups web site for updates. We are planning to do a nation wide user group Tour in April and we'll keep you updated on what will be part of the tour topics.
As I promised here are some of the links to the resources that I mentioned during the presentation. I've listed them according to the audience.
End Users and Business Users
Collaboration Selection Guide
Collaborating with SharePoint Server 2007 Overview
SharePoint Server 2007 Sites and Workspaces Selection Guide
SharePoint Server 2007 Document Collaboration Get Started
SharePoint Server 2007 Team Sites Get Started
Customizing a SharePoint Server 2007 Site Get Started
SharePoint Server 2007 Web Parts Learn More
SharePoint Server 2007 Meeting Workspaces Get Started
SharePoint Server 2007 My Sites Get Started
SharePoint Server 2007 Site Access and Storage Learn More
SharePoint Server 2007 Surveys Get Started
Outlook 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Overview
Outlook 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Get Started
Using InfoPath 2007 Forms on a SharePoint Server 2007 Site Get Started
Introductions to concepts of SharePoint (Beginner Level and more end user focused)
Introduction to content types
Introduction to information management policies
Introduction to libraries
Introduction to lists
Introduction to work flows
Default site templates
Advanced Concepts and Planning (Developers and IT Professionals)
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Developer Portal on MSDN
Information about planning, coding, building, deploying, and migrating solutions for Office SharePoint Server.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Developer Map
Downloadable poster that shows the architecture of Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Developer Center on MSDN
Technical articles, SDK information, screencasts, and community resources for SharePoint developers.
2007 Microsoft Office system Learning Portal
Training, e-learning, books, and skills assessments for 2007 Microsoft Office system products, including Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Also check out my Blog for content that I have posted previously under the following categories.
17/11/2008
Session Topic: Unleashing the Power of Data Views using SharePoint Designer 2007
This month we have Alex Dean giving you the ins and outs of mastering SharePoint Designer and how easily it can beused to create rich applications in SharePoint. Alex plans to demonstrate the following.
- Introduction to using List Views in SharePoint
- Demonstration on how to create a custom view on a SharePoint list and apply conditional formatting
- Demonstration on using Data Views to show SQL driven data in SharePoint
- Demonstration on using Data Views to show XML data in SharePoint.
- Demonstration on how to effectively use Data Views with relational data
- Questions and Answers
Presented by Alex Dean (MCT)
Alex Dean is a recent addition to the NZ workforce, originally from Germany with British background. After studying Business Information Technology in London he spent the next ten years developing and architecting information systems in London, Spain and Switzerland and got heavily involved with MOSS 2007 while it was still in its infant beta stages. New Zealand did not only bring a change of scenery but a change of career when he decided to join ACE Training in Wellington as a staff trainer and became Microsoft Certified Trainer where he has enjoyed giving developer, database and SharePoint courses.
Date: 26th November 2008 (Wednesday)
Venue: ACE Training Limited, 1st Floor, Novell Building, 89 The Terrace. If you are coming to the Terrace via Lambton Quay, Come up Woodward street and turn right.
RSVP to: wlgspug@sharepointservices.net.nz
Late arrivals please txt/call 021 775172
Join the SharePoint User Group > http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz
13/11/2008Matt from Christchurch SPUG invited me to come and talk at the November SharePoint UG in Christchurch. Matt has done an awesome job promoting the use and adoption of SharePoint for the local developer community. So I am off to Christchurch on 25th November to talk about SharePoint Planning and Governance. SharePoint Planning and Governance Practical steps for ensuring that you get the most out of your deployment SharePoint just installed as a product adds little or no value. And once installed and configured it is essential for organisations to understand the planning, roles, responsibilities and ongoing review required to leverage the initial investment in SharePoint. Governance for SharePoint is applied both from a systems and process point of view by using built in tools and adopting a flexible business enabling framework. In this session Chandima will share with you essential Governance planning steps for SharePoint deployments of any size. You will learn how to avoid some of the most common mistakes of SharePoint and how to approach your overall solution architecture and deployment in a modular framework that can scale from small to enterprise. Intended Audience: Managers, business analysts, architects, information workers, project managers, IT professionals, and developers with in an interest in planning/architecture will all gain insight from this non-technical event. Presented by: Chandima Kulathilake, Knowledge Cue How to get there (By Rocket Ship, By Air Plane, Car, Ship, Bicycle) depending where you are and how far you'd want to travel to see me speak. :-) Date: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 Time: Snacks + Refreshments from 5:30PM, Talk from 6:00PM to 7:00PM Location: Canterbury Innovation Incubator (CII), 200 Armagh Street. The CII is diagonally opposite the Centennial Leisure Centre, and parks are usually available along Armagh Street or Oxford Terrace. If the roller door at the venue is down, please enter through the small “hobbit” door within the roller door itself. Contact Matt on 027-466-4444 if you have trouble accessing the venue. I am also planning to catch up with Michael Sampson while I am there. Michael's book "Seamless Collaboration" is available on Amazon.com. Great work Michael. 21/09/2008
Mark Orange (SharePoint MVP) will be presenting on Thursday 25th September at the Wellington SharePoint User Group.
Compliance is too often approached from a control and punish focus, adding another layer over an already stretched workforce. Compliance is best achieved when it is the side effect of good business processes and tools, not another burden on end users. MOSS provides many tools and features to support a wide range of compliance issues, and the focus always starts with usability and accessibility to support broad user adoption.
When we talk about compliance within organisations today it is very contextual. What compliance means to the marketing and communications team is different than the legal team, which is different than the operations team and so on. So let’s take a look at some scenarios and see what MOSS brings to the table to support user adoption and ultimately compliance within some of our many business contexts.
Speaker: Mark Orange (MVP - SharePoint)
Date: 25th September 2008 (Thursday)
Venue: Intergen Limited, Level 7, Plunket House, 126 Lambton Quay.
Presentation Starts at 6PM
Late arrivals pls txt 021 775172 for lift access.
Please RSVP to: wlgspug@sharepointservices.net.nz
17/07/2008
Big Kudos to Matt Smith for organising the upcoming SharePoint developer tour in New Zealand by SharePoint developer whiz kid Gavin Barron !
Tour dates and venues
Auckland: Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Time: Drinks + Snacks from 5:15PM, Talk from 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Location: Level 7 Fronde House, 131 Queen Street
Join and RSVP: http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz/Auckland/
Tauranga: Thursday, 24 July 2008
Time: Drinks + Snacks from 5:30PM, Talk from 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Location: EnvisionIT, Level 5 Westpac Building, 2 Devonport Road, Tauranga
Join and RSVP: http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz/BayOfPlenty/
Christchurch: Monday, 28 July 2008
Time: Drinks + Snacks from 5:30PM, Talk from 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Location: Canterbury Innovation Incubator (CII), 200 Armagh Street (opposite Centennial Leisure Centre)
Join and RSVP: http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz/christchurch/
The Show
Collaborative construction of custom SharePoint artifacts
See how business users, business analysts, developers and IT Pros can all come together to create new SharePoint artifacts for your business. In this session Gavin Barron will show how users from differing disciplines can all work together. Ensuring that an emerging business need is addressed quickly while following a number of SharePoint best practices. During this session Gavin will also discuss the development lifecycle as it exists in this context.
Presented by: Gavin Barron, Intergen Wellington
Rock on SharePoint!
17/06/2008
Session Theme: Enterprise 2.0 and SharePoint
This month we have two sessions for you by Mike Riversdale and Brendon Ford.
First session: With a reprise his now legend Webstock 8x5 talk Mike will take you through the fear factor most IT Departments experience when confronted by THAT number ... "2.0"
Presented by: Mike Riversdale
Mike is an advocate and catalyst for organisational change with experience and a passion in "knowledge management" from an on-line perspective. He is also a leading NZ industry speaker, educator and commentator on "sharing information, growing communities and connecting via collaboration".
Mike has over twenty years experience in various organisational sectors operating as a Business Analyst and an Information Architect to enable organisations to embrace technology to achieve tangible business outcomes. He has worked with Australian and New Zealand organisations throughout his professional career.
He is an expert in Knowledge and Information management and focuses on driving key business initiatives within organisations. Mike's knowledge and practice of Agile project and development management complements his key skills.
Mike blogs at: http://work.miramarmike.co.nz/
Second Session: Would social computing concepts and ideas work inside your business? Is it possible to use SharePoint as part of living the enterprise social computing dream? Good question.......... let’s find out together
Presented by: Brendon Ford - CTO - Provoke Solutions
Brendon’s introduction to the IT industry started with a “solid grounding” in Microsoft Access 2, since then he has moved onto bigger and brighter things namely forming Provoke Solutions and building an extremely talented SharePoint practice at Provoke. At Provoke Brendon has a split focus one half is the Provokes SharePoint practice team and the second half is as Provokes CTO. Brendon enjoys nothing more than a good chat around a fully powdered up demo laptop running more VPC’s that is sensible
Brendon blogs at: http://brendon.provoke.co.nz/
Venue: Microsoft Wellington Offices, Level 12 Vodafone on the Park, Lambton Quay
Date: Wednsday 25th June 2008
Start time: 6PM
Please RSVP to: wlgspug@sharepointservices.net.nz
See you there 7/05/2008
I will be presenting at the Wellington SQL Server User Group on 15th May 2008 (Thursday).
“How to manage your SharePoint databases in your SQL environment”
Are you a SQL administrator who has been reluctantly thrust into the role of SharePoint administrator as well? In this session we cover SharePoint and why it relies on SQL Server. The session will also cover some maintenance steps you should take to keep both SQL Server and SharePoint working together. By the end of this session you'll have a good understanding of SharePoint and why it needs SQL Server for database services.
Presented by Chandima Kulathilake. (MCTS/MVP - SharePoint Server)
Pizza and drinks are being provided with the kind courtesy of Microsoft. Seating is limited to the first 50 registrations.
Date and Venue: 15 May 2008 at 6pm.
Intergen L7 Plunket House 126 Lambton Quay.
(Lifts lock at 5:30pm. If you’re late and there’s nobody around to swipe you up, contact Adrian on 027 435 4050)
Please RSVP to adey11@gmail.com
22/04/2008
The next Wellington SharePoint User Group will be having a session on Wednesday the 30th of April at Microsoft Wellington offices.
Topic: MOSS 2007 Role-Based MySite Templates
To fully utilize the power of MOSS in a corporate environment, concepts such as Excel Services, Analysis Services and Business Data Catalogue are key to success. Courtesy of Microsoft we have seven templates at our fingertips to create My Site portals based around differing organisational roles. Each template explores the information needs out of a slightly different perspective: Administrative Assistant, Financial Controller, Customer Service Manager, HR Manager, IT Manager, Marketing Manager and Sales Account Manager.
In this session Alex Dean will be introducing three roles and show how the different technologies come together to increase productivity within the organisation. The My Site for the admin assistant focuses on collaboration and time keeping, the template for the marketing manager concentrates on business analysis and reporting features while the site for the IT Manager uses business data catalogue features more heavily.
This session is targeted at SharePoint power users and business analysts and end users and will apply to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 specifically.
Presented by Alex Dean (MCT)
Alex Dean is a recent addition to the NZ workforce, originally from Germany with British background. After studying Business Information Technology in London he spent the next ten years developing and architecting information systems in London, Spain and Switzerland and got heavily involved with MOSS 2007 while it was still in its infant beta stages. New Zealand did not only bring a change of scenery but a change of career when he decided to join ACE Training in Wellington as a staff trainer and became Microsoft Certified Trainer where he has enjoyed giving developer, database and SharePoint courses.
Please RSVP to wlgspug@sharepointservices.net.nz
Date: 30th April 2007
Session Start time 6PM
Venue:
Microsoft New Zealand (Wellington)
157, Level 12 Vodafone on The Quay
Lambton Quay
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27/03/2008
Last evening we had our Wellington SharePoint user group session and the topic was "Content Types". Mark (OJ) introduced the concept of Content Types and some guidelines on how to use Content Types in your SharePoint deployments. Here are the resources and links that I promised.
Power Users (Create and Maintain Content Types via the SharePoint Administrative Interface)
If you are new to SharePoint and the concept of SharePoint Content Types the following list of links are very important to follow.
Information Architects
Some Concepts on Document Centralisation from Bob Mixon's Blog for Information Architects and Information Management
Developers (Create and Manage content types programmatically in a distributed SharePoint deployment or across site collections)
If you are a developer there are guides available on MSDN. You can start from:
Tools of Managing your SharePoint Deployment
Content By Type Web Part - Ton Stegeman (Free web part for querying cross sites for Content By Type)
Lightning Conductor Web Part - Allows you to aggregate data from Lists and Libraries throughout the current Site Collection, and across Multiple Site Collections
SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard - Chris O'Brien
Web Content Management Links and Resources - Andrew Connell
SharePoint Cross Site Configurator - MSIT (Solution Accelerator)
Gear Up for SharePoint - Planning for a SharePoint Deployment
SchemaLogic Meta Data Connector - SchemaLogic (Manage Meta Data Centrally)
My Recent Posts on SharePoint Governance for IT Pros
Maintaining your Server Farm
Capacity Planning and Platform Hygiene
26/03/2008
Bit of a late notice, but if you can make it today (26th March 2008) we are having a session on Content Types.
Topic: SharePoint Content Types for the masses
Content types are the backbone of good information management in SharePoint and can be configured by business users through the SharePoint browser interface.
In this session lead by Mark Orange we will explore what content types are and how they work within SharePoint and demonstrate configuring a number of content types into a typical business scenario.
This session is targeted at SharePoint power users and business analysts and end users and will apply to both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Presented by Mark Orange (MVP) and Chandima Kulathilake (MVP)
We will also highlight some of the sessions and international case studies from the recent SharePoint 2008 Conference in Seattle.
Please RSVP via: wlgspug@sharepointservices.net.nz
Date 26th March 2008 (Wednesday)
Venue: Microsoft New Zealand (Wellington)
157, Level 12 Vodafone on The Quay
Lambton Quay
Start Time 6.00pm
For subscribing to the Wellington SharePoint User Group please visit the user group web site at http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz
See you there!
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