This month we have Eben Illingworth from Nintex presenting an informative session at the Wellington user group. Session Topic: SharePoint Insight for Everyone SharePoint is fast becoming a central repository of corporate knowledge and information throughout organisations globally. This has lead to a high level of content and activity occurring within Microsoft SharePoint team sites and portals, and for many organisations they have no way of monitoring and auditing this. This informative session will specifically address the issues that are important to you, such: SharePoint adoption Providing customers with a broader understanding of SharePoint ROI The need and value of auditing and compliance monitoring Communicating the value of SharePoint to BDMs Eben will be demonstrating Nintex Reporting 2008 which provides unprecedented ...[Read More]

A few days ago Darryl posted on his blog about the Office System Track being finalised. Essentially the SharePoint tracks get slotted under Office. This year we have some great overseas speakers from the US and Australia as well as some of the best SharePoint experts. Among these is my good buddy and prolific SharePoint blogger Joel Oleson. Joel and I will co-present a session about SharePoint planning and governance. The session is titled "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Governance: From Chaos to Success in Ten Steps" Ben Curry from Mindsharp will also be in New Zealand. Ben is very highly regarded in the SharePoint technical community and he has been part of three of the must read SharePoint books on best practice and administration. Ben and I will be doing a session titled "Why Findability Should Be an Organ ...[Read More]

I am presenting a session about SharePoint Planning and Governance at the 8th Annual Strategic Intranet Summit held on 21st and 22nd of August 2008 in Wellington, New Zealand. For details and agenda visit the Summit web site. My session is on the second day 22nd of August 2008. From Chaos to Corporate Governance with SharePoint 2007 Find out what comes out of the box with SharePoint 2007 and what you’ll need to create a successful deployment. In addition to architecture, this session will explore the roles, responsibilities, and what you need for a successful consolidated managed SharePoint deployment in your organisation. The major changes of the 2007 edition How to overcome common deployment issues with this version and the pitfalls to avoid Exploring the potential of SharePoint as an application platform Real world exampl ...[Read More]

The Whitireia Community Polytechnic Faculty of Arts and Communication is hosting a web week for students to hear from speakers about the web industry and how to get started. Already some great presenters have responded to the call and will be presenting various sessions over the "Web Intensive Week" from 30th June to 4th July. I am doing a session titled "Working within Content Management Tools" on 4th of July. This is a free community event. Others who are also presenting include CWA New Media Click Suite - Zef Fugaz Provoke - Matthew Gould Mike Riversdale Expert Developments - Amanda Te Hiko BBS Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa - Lucy Hoffman and Florence Liger Details about the event and time table/schedule are available.   Technorati Tags: Web Intensive,Speaking,Events,NZ,Community ...[Read More]

So this blog post is to inform everyone about me stepping out into the big world of SharePoint with some great talent to back me up in bringing the best of SharePoint to New Zealand. I am now officially working as an independent SharePoint consultant under my own company brand called Knowledge Cue. Let me tell you a bit about why and how I came to this decision. I have been working in the Microsoft solutions space and was fortunate enough to get involved in SharePoint projects back in 2001 and 2002 when the product was at it's infancy and anyone hardly took any notice of it. This was usually a combination of MCMS 2001, 2002 (Microsoft Content Management Server) and then SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and WSS V2. With the early pre-beta launch of Office SharePoint Server 2007 or "MOSS" as many refer to it these days, in 2006 ...[Read More]

Wow! This is ueber cool if you are into space imagery and what not. The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe. Want to see the same images that scientists at NASA use for their research or perform your own research with those images? Or do you want to see the Earth from the same perspective that astronauts see as they descend to Earth? How about taking a 5 minute break and viewing a panorama of a different city? Install WWT and start your explorations. Go get it here: WorldWide Telescope experience. Technorati Tags: WWT, MSFT, Telescope, Space ...[Read More]

Before it's going going gone.. head over to the early bird registrations and get yours today! Darryl has already blogged about this last week that 25% tickets were sold faster than he expected. Now if you look at the site its 84% sold out!!! With a great line up of sessions and content planned it will be a great event. Technorati Tags: TechEdNZ, TechEdNZ08, New Zealand, Events, MSFT, Microsoft Tech Ed ...[Read More]

At the SharePoint Conference Microsoft announced the availability of hosted Exchange and SharePoint service offerings. Currently in Beta you can now sign up for these online via the Online Services web site http://www.microsoft.com/online/default.mspx Video interview with John Betz (Director of Microsoft Information Worker Enterprise Services): http://edge.technet.com/Media/Introducing-Microsoft-Online-Services Basically SharePoint hosted online as Software + Services offer with the capability of integrating your internal AD users as well as web based users. More on this later! Search Server 2008 now available. MSFT also announced the availability of Search Server 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserver/ I just saw a demo of the Search server interface integrated with Silverlight and how these t ...[Read More]