| | | No | General | | | | | December 15, 2010 | No | Available | Available | 8/27/2010 1:17 PM | Victor Chataboon | | | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | Technical | | Critical Path Training | Deep dive into SharePoint 2010 and Claims-based Security | SharePoint 2010 introduces a new claims-based security model that will impact the way the companies design, implement and enforce security with their SharePoint sites. This session explains the fundamentals concepts of a claims-based model and shows how the new claim-based model makes it possible to use new types of security principals such as Active Directory distribution lists and MOSS Audiences as first class security objects which can be used to securely configure access to securable objects such as sites, lists, items and documents. The session will walk through developing a custom claims-provider with Visual Studio 2010 which will effectively demonstrates the flexibility of how we define the people and groups from whom you need to configure access.
| November 10, 2010 | No | Available | Available | 8/25/2010 8:50 AM | Victor Chataboon | | | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | | | | November 10, 2010 | No | Available | Available | 8/25/2010 8:50 AM | Victor Chataboon | | | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | | | | October 20, 2010 | No | Available | Dynamic WorldWide Training Consultants | 9/2/2010 4:28 PM | Victor Chataboon | | | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | Technical | | Neudesic | | | October 20, 2010 | No | Available | Dynamic WorldWide Training Consultants | 9/2/2010 4:28 PM | Victor Chataboon | | | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | | | Due to construction at the Microsoft offices, there will not be a General Presentation. Please see the registration information when it becomes available for the meeting location details. | September 15, 2010 | Yes | Hitachi Consulting | CTREC Hilton IT Academy | 9/8/2010 3:10 PM | Victor Chataboon | | | | 0.0% | |
| | | Yes | Technical | | Hitachi Consulting | Developing Rich User Interfaces for SharePoint |
Please see the registration information when it becomes available for the meeting location details. | September 15, 2010 | Yes | Hitachi Consulting | CTREC Hilton IT Academy | 9/7/2010 3:17 PM | Victor Chataboon | Register - Technical | | | 0.0% | |
| |  | No | General | | GUIO | Starting Small, Growing Large | There are a number of books and articles that talk about sizing proper implementations of SharePoint based on your current business need – How do you plan for a SharePoint implementation if your business is on the “grow”?
The purpose of this session is to show how an environment can be built inexpensively with an eye towards iterative, large scale growth.
The major topics that will be covered are:
- Planning
- Deciding Where to Start (and Deciding Where to Stop)
- 10 Steps to Assure a Healthy Growth Pattern
- Iterative Growth Planning
| August 18, 2010 | Yes | Gimmal Group | Infusion | 9/7/2010 3:07 PM | HSPUG_Pres | Register - General | | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | Technical | | | | Please note: Due to construction at the Microsoft offices, there may not be a technical session this month.
As a reminder, if there is a topic you wish to see presented, please let us know at speakers@h-spug.com. | August 18, 2010 | Yes | Gimmal Group | Infusion | 9/7/2010 3:13 PM | HSPUG_Pres | | | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | AvePoint | Best Practices for Content Lifecycle Management with Microsoft SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint is the industry’s most versatile and powerful enterprise-class collaboration system. But in order to leverage SharePoint as a true enterprise content management platform, an intelligent, well governed content lifecycle strategy is required. Such a strategy must define the platform’s information and systems architecture, and diligently govern the process of content authorship, storage, delivery, auditing, and dispensation, without overburdening system or staff resources. During this session, we will discuss best practices for designing a well governed and scalable content lifecycle strategy that ensures diligent content management, efficiently integrates legacy content and storage systems, and delivers both the transparency and accountability required of an enterprise-class content management system. | July 21, 2010 | Yes | CommVault | Rackspace | 8/2/2010 11:09 PM | HSPUG_Pres | Register - General | 40 | 63 | 157.5% | |
| | | No | Technical | | eXcellence in IS Solutions, Inc. (X-ISS) | Using SharePoint as a front-end to Windows HPC Server 2008 | Windows HPC Server 2008 is a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster solution from Microsoft. In this session I will show you what you need to configure SharePoint as a front end to submit and manage jobs on an HPC08 cluster. A demonstration will be performed showing the integrated solution and a few example jobs. I will also discuss the benefits that integrating SharePoint with HPC08 will have for workspaces, workflows, and team collaboration. | July 21, 2010 | Yes | CommVault | Rackspace | 8/2/2010 11:15 PM | HSPUG_Pres | Register - Technical | 14 | 8 | 57.1% | |
| | | No | General | | Logica, Facilitek, Strategic Careers, Sogeti, Gimmal Group | Working to promote yourself | This presentation will feature a panel of recruiters and experts on how to best promote yourself in getting the job that you seek.
Are you curious about the current marketplace? Do you think you have the knowledge and skills to obtain the job you desire? What do you need to know to prepare yourself for that "dream" job? If you have these kinds of questions, you should attend!
Please bring questions, resumes, business cards to the meeting. | June 16, 2010 | Yes | Logica | Coveo | 7/7/2010 9:00 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register General | 27 | 41 | 151.9% | |
| | | No | Technical | | | Improve User Experience with custom SharePoint Designer actions | Learn how you can create custom SharePoint Designer actions.
Custom Actions expand capabilities of SPD and improve end user experience.
| June 16, 2010 | Yes | Logica | Coveo | 7/7/2010 9:01 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register Technical | 24 | 31 | 129.2% | |
| | | No | General | | Neudesic | Information Architecture Essentials | Proper analyzing and designing of your Information Architecture can be a critical early step in your SharePoint Deployment Planning process, which can make or break the success of your implementation. For starters, it provides the basis for; how the sites will be structured and divided into a set of sub sites, how data will be surfaced and presented to the users, how information will be targeted to specific audiences, and discoverability of content through search. But it will also have a very direct impact on the administrative overhead, and scalability of your SharePoint environment. During this presentation Rafael Perez will discuss the "how" and "why's" of the critical steps, and share successful simplified approach to completing the process. | May 19, 2010 | Yes | HSPUG | AvePoint | 7/7/2010 8:59 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register General | 24 | 22 | 91.7% | |
| | | No | Technical | | Sogeti | Rendering Templates: How to use them for Custom List Form development | A Rendering Template is an ASP.NET user control that renders what’s inside its tags. SharePoint controls including web parts use Rendering Templates. The out of the box List Form web parts (DispForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx, NewForm.aspx) use Rendering Templates. In this session, I will show you what Rendering Templates are and how you can use them. I will give a couple of demos showing how easy they are to use for branding and dive a little deeper to take on more interesting use cases like Field level security. I will compare/contrast this approach and “other” practices of customizing list forms. | May 19, 2010 | Yes | HSPUG | AvePoint | 7/7/2010 9:00 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register Technical | 23 | 18 | 78.3% | |
| | | No | General | | HSPUG | SharePoint Saturday Houston | | May 1, 2010 | Yes | Multiple | Multiple | 5/2/2010 11:24 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register SPSHOU | 430 | 335 | 77.9% | |
| | | No | General | | Woodforest | My SharePoint Present at Woodforest | In most organizations, SharePoint is something that is "given" to someone. Come see how the gift was received, maybe tried to be re-gifted, opened and implemented. Now the people at the playground are huddled around the new toy wanting their turn. | April 21, 2010 | Yes | Logica | CorasWorks | 5/25/2010 9:23 AM | Victor Chataboon | REGISTER GENERAL | 26 | 32 | 123.1% | |
| | | No | Technical | | Moss Delight | Soup-to-nuts: Managed Metadata Service | MOSS 2007 left a gap in enterprise metadata management, between enterprise need and product functionality. SharePoint 2010 has made a significant step forward in filling that gap. In this presentation, David will address the features, limitations, architecture, and administration of MMS. He’ll also dive into C# and PowerShell as he demonstrates how to populate and manage the MMS.
| April 21, 2010 | Yes | Logica | CorasWorks | 5/25/2010 9:24 AM | Victor Chataboon | REGISTER TECHNICAL | 27 | 33 | 122.2% | |
| | | No | General | | Logica | Manual Adoption and Migration Made Easy | Based on a project for a large energy client and many years of working with SharePoint, project team created tools and methodology for successfully completing and saving time for future similar projects.
Project scope was to create a new SharePoint site and analyze hundreds of documents from over 25 different sites and 4 different platforms and migrate the core documents to the new site. Client’s current SharePoint experts were not able to provide any tools, templates or methodology for this type of project.
We completed project successfully and created tools and documentation for other similar projects to use. Site design was very clear and easy for user to understand and navigate. Documents were not stored in folders, but used custom meta data to provide clear and consistent organization.
| March 17, 2010 | Yes | BlueThread Technologies | Infusion | 3/29/2010 10:34 AM | Victor Chataboon | REGISTER | 42 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | Technical | | BlueThread Technologies | How to dramatically increase SharePoint Scalability, Performance and Manageability with little effort | Storing SharePoint content (BLOBs) in the SQL database poses many issues:
• Improper use of SQL to store unstructured content
• Overuse of Tier 1 storage
• DR, Indexing, and Maintenance tasks fall outside of operational windows
• Planning, rollout, and on-going maintenance complexity as a resulting from Microsoft guidelines
• Inability to meet regulatory compliance requirements
All of these factors increase risk and cost to your SharePoint environment and projects. We’ll discuss various approaches to moving Content (BLOBs) out of SQL while increasing SharePoint performance and backup timeframes. Business benefits, cost savings, and ROI will be discussed as well as a live‐demonstration of relocating SharePoint content to Cloud platforms. | March 17, 2010 | Yes | BlueThread Technologies | Infusion | 3/29/2010 10:35 AM | Victor Chataboon | REGISTER | 17 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | Hybrid Decisions | Gen2010: SharePoint 2010 - Part 2 | Continuation of November 2009 Event - Special presentation exclusively on SharePoint 2010. Concise coverage of the 2010 spectrum and a gradual drill down into key features that intersect various SharePoint audiences – Users/IW/Dev’s/Arch/IT/Biz – interspersed with as much demos as possible.
About the presenter:
Solution Enabler (Founder & Chief Architect) of Hybrid Decisions Corp. An HP|Microsoft Frontline Partner, Microsoft ISV/SI and Frontrunner in SQL Server2008/Windows7/Windows2008R2/Windows Azure.
Member (President) of the Houston Chapter of IASA – International Associations of Software Architects.
Please note, due to the detail of the presentation, this will cover both General and Technical presentation tracks. | February 17, 2010 | Yes | Double-Take Software | Neudesic | 3/3/2010 8:31 PM | Victor Chataboon | REGISTER | 79 | 75 | 94.9% | |
| | | No | General | | EPCGroup | Proper Use of SharePoint 2010 – Real World (Beta) Case Studies | In this session, Errin will cover the proper use of SharePoint 2010 and discuss case studies of existing SharePoint 2010 (Beta) implementation case studies.
SharePoint 2010 has three times the functionality of SharePoint 2007 and organizations can utilize it to resolve many real-world business problems to increase
ROI and business productivity.
| January 20, 2010 | Yes | CorasWorks | K2 | 1/25/2010 8:27 PM | Victor Chataboon | REGISTER | 48 | 36 | 75.0% | CorasWorks-Chris Kaveney, K2-Joe Bocardo |
| | | No | Technical | | Catapult Systems | SharePoint 2010 - Upgrade Overview and Motivators | There are many things to consider when it comes to upgrading to SharePoint 2010; user adoption of new features, hardware infrastructure, third party / custom components, and which upgrade path to take. During this presentation Rafael Perez will provide an overview of the SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Upgrade Cycle, discuss Pros and Cons of the various Upgrade Paths, and cover some of the intricacies on planning how to upgrade a branded WCM site.
| January 20, 2010 | Yes | CorasWorks | K2 | 1/25/2010 8:27 PM | Victor Chataboon | REGISTER | 25 | 22 | 88.0% | CorasWorks-Chris Kaveney, K2-Joe Bocardo |
| | | No | General | | Various | H-SPUG December SharePoint 2010 SuperFest | Time: 4:00pm-8:00pm, Registration opens 3:30pm
Location: Norris Conference Center-City Centre, 803 Town & Country Lane, Houston, TX 77024
Time to end the year with some great knowledge from our panel of SharePoint experts. This will be a great event, giving you the chance to ask those SharePoint questions you wanted answers for, in either an audience or one-on-one setting.
Speakers/Panelists:
Eric Shupps, MVP with BinaryWave
Matt Ranlett, MVP with Intellinet
Errin O'Connor with EPCGroup.net
Rafael Perez with Catapult Systems
Michael Foertsch with Idera
Available Experts:
Dan Luciano with Sogeti
Brian Bedard with Sogeti
Dave Frette with Moss Delight
This meeting will be a combination of year end party, presentation, many fabulous door prizes, food and drinks.
Our title sponsor is Idera.
Our drink sponsor is K2 - providing each attendee with two drinks at the cash bar
Other sponsors participating and will be on hand to answer any questions:
- AvePoint
- Gimmal Group
- Global360
- Intellinet
- KnowledgeLake/Fujitsu
- Microsoft
- Mimosa Systems
- New Horizons
- Sogeti
- Syntergy
- Volt Technical Services
There are only tickets available for the first 150 people who register. Only registered members will be allowed to attend.
If you register and then decide later that you cannot attend this event, please be sure to cancel your registration by December 1st in order to be fair to the rest of the members.
If you did not make registration, we will process walk-ins starting at 4:05pm on a first come, first serve basis. If a registered member does not show, we will accept walk-ins in their place.
The event will be at Norris Conference Centers in City Centre. Park in the free parking garage on the third level and walk into the conference center, which is at the south end of the parking garage.
| December 16, 2009 | Yes | Idera | K2 | 12/31/2009 10:11 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register | 150 | | 0.0% | To be held off site
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| | | No | General | | Hybrid Decisions Corp | Gen2010: SharePoint 2010 | Special presentation exclusively on SharePoint 2010. Concise coverage of the 2010 spectrum and a gradual drill down into key features that intersect various SharePoint audiences – Users/IW/Dev’s/Arch/IT/Biz – interspersed with as much demos as possible.
About the presenter:
Solution Enabler (Founder & Chief Architect) of Hybrid Decisions Corp. An HP|Microsoft Frontline Partner, Microsoft ISV/SI and Frontrunner in SQL Server2008/Windows7/Windows2008R2.
Member (President) of the Houston Chapter of IASA – International Associations of Software Architects.
Evolved with the IS/IT industry since 1991. Specializing in leveraging Technology for Biz. Been with SharePoint … since before it was called SharePoint. Coined the term SharePoint.NET in the days of SP2001 to highlight our specialty in enabling SharePoint with both Microsoft and Non-Microsoft Technologies.
| November 18, 2009 | Yes | AvePoint | Global 360 | 11/19/2009 7:34 PM | Victor Chataboon | Register | 62 | 53 | 85.5% | AvePoint - Judy Cheng, Global 360 - Heather Cunningham |
| | | No | Technical | | N/A | N/A | Due to the topics covered, there will only be one session for November. It will contain both general and technical information regarding SharePoint 2010. | November 18, 2009 | Yes | AvePoint | Global 360 | 1/15/2010 1:47 PM | Victor Chataboon | | | | 0.0% | AvePoint - Judy Cheng, Global 360 - Heather Cunningham |
| | | No | General | | CorasWorks | Building Successful Solutions on SharePoint | SharePoint is a great platform on which to build and deliver solutions. The question, however, quickly becomes what to build, how to build it, and most importantly, how to ensure that what I build is successful. In this presentation, we discuss the SharePoint "Solution Quadrant," which addresses the many types of solutions you can build on SharePoint. We explore how to build your solution, keeping in mind the concepts of modularity and reusability. And finally, we address end user adoption challenges and how to overcome these by providing the information people need right to their fingertips. In short, how to get the most value out of your SharePoint investment!
So join us to see what kind of solutions you can build with SharePoint. | October 28, 2009 | Yes | Idera | CorasWorks | 10/30/2009 12:36 PM | Victor Chataboon | Register General | 28 | 21 | 75.0% | Idera - Eleanor Young - no show, CorasWorks - Chris Kaveney |
| | | No | Technical | | Sogeti | Building a SharePoint VM: Virtual Tools and Install Techniques | Need to know the essentials in building a virtual environment for SharePoint for development and testing? This presentation is focused on what tools are available to anyone who would like to create an environment for using SharePoint. Virtual tools will be listed and locations for downloads provided. Also, the presentation will provide guidelines for some best practices learned while creating many environments. By the end of the session, attendees should be able to have the skills required to create a basic working SharePoint virtual environment to use for Demos, PoCs, or Dev work.
Seating is limited for this presentation. | October 28, 2009 | Yes | Idera | CorasWorks | 10/30/2009 12:36 PM | Victor Chataboon | Register Technical | 20 | 11 | 55.0% | Idera - Eleanor Young - no show, CorasWorks - Chris Kaveney |
| | | No | General | | EPCGroup | Preparing for Your Organization’s SharePoint Future: Factoring in SharePoint 2010 | In this session, Errin O’Connor will discuss how you can examine your organization’s current SharePoint state as well as items you should start to consider around SharePoint 2010’s release.
Errin will discuss how organizations should examine their current SharePoint roadmap \ situation and provide guidance in helping to plan for the future. Errin is under a Microsoft NDA for SharePoint 2010, but will still be able cover the publicly available items that can be shared around SharePoint 2010 and will give insight into how organizations can avoid the SP2003 to SP2007 upgrade pitfalls when planning for future upgrades from SP2007 to SP2010.
| September 26, 2009 | Yes | | | 10/22/2009 5:23 PM | Victor Chataboon | | 47 | 33 | 70.2% | Houston TechFest 2009 |
| | | No | General | | AvePoint | Winning Strategies for Successful SharePoint Backup and Recovery | When deploying SharePoint as a business-critical collaboration platform and digital-asset repository, implementing a comprehensive backup and recovery strategy is absolutely essential. Though SharePoint and SQL Server natively provide some data protection capabilities, these prove inadequate for most competitive organizations. In this session we will discuss the key components of any successful SharePoint backup and recovery plan. After analyzing SharePoint's native data and platform protection capabilities, we will identify best practices, available free tools, and other best-of-breed solutions for ensuring a fully protected SharePoint platform. Finally, we will discuss SharePoint archiving, and review how intelligent archiving procedures, when coupled with a successful data protection plan, can improve platform performance and reliability, and lower storage and management costs. | September 26, 2009 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:44 AM | Victor Chataboon | | 23 | 11 | 47.8% | Houston TechFest 2009 |
| | | No | General | | Catapult Systems | Best Practices on Developing and Customizing Web Parts | Web Parts play a key role in just about every SharePoint implementation; from surfacing list or library content to extending SharePoint’s reach across the enterprise. If you’ve implemented SharePoint, chances are you have a highly customized, custom developed or third party web part. But how do we determine when to use out-of-the-box web parts or develop our own? And if we choose to develop our own how can we make sure we follow best practices? During this session, Catapult Systems will cover several aspects of Web Part development and customizations, including: when to choose one approach over the other, best practces, and lessons learned. | September 26, 2009 | Yes | | | 10/29/2009 10:08 AM | Victor Chataboon | | 39 | 33 | 84.6% | |
| | | No | General | | CorasWorks | Building Successful Solutions on SharePoint | SharePoint is a great platform on which to build and deliver solutions. The question, however, quickly becomes what to build, how to build it, and most importantly, how to ensure that what I build is successful. In this presentation, we discuss the SharePoint “Solution Quadrant,” which addresses the many types of solutions you can build on SharePoint. We explore how to build your solution, keeping in mind the concepts of modularity and reusability. And finally, we address end user adoption challenges and how to overcome these by providing the information people need right to their fingertips. In short, how to get the most value out of your SharePoint investment! | September 26, 2009 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:45 AM | Victor Chataboon | | 39 | 37 | 94.9% | |
| | | No | General | | Idera | Understanding the WSS/SharePoint Object Model | If you do any kind of development with SharePoint, you’ll inevitably encounter the WSS/SharePoint object model. This session will give an introduction to the object model as well as cover various tips and tricks when working with the objects.
Topics we’ll cover include:
• What is the WSS object model?
• Why have an object model?
• How does the object model work?
• Object hierarchies
• Important things to know when coding
• What to know about the object model cache
• Performance issues when working with list objects
| September 26, 2009 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:45 AM | Victor Chataboon | | 38 | 30 | 78.9% | |
| | | No | General | | Moss Delight Services | Overcoming the obstacles of branding a portal | Most users are turned off by the out-of-the-box look and feel of a SharePoint portal, while IT may believe branding to be too daunting of a task to undertake. There is a common misconception that, while it’s possible for a website to look stunning, a SharePoint site has to be rigid and bland. The users are frequently left with a less than appealing portal and thus a less than ideal central place for them to work. To the user, SharePoint is a great collaboration tool, search tool, content management system, et cetera, but it feels so blah. Using the skill sets common to developers, we can create an appealing portal that drives traffic, delivers information to the users, and establishes a central workplace. | September 26, 2009 | Yes | | | 10/22/2009 5:23 PM | Victor Chataboon | | 26 | 20 | 76.9% | |
| | | No | Technical | | MOSS Delight Services | Overcoming the Obstacles to Branding a Portal | Most users are turned off by the out-of-the-box look and feel of a SharePoint portal, while IT may believe branding to be too daunting of a task to undertake. There is a common misconception that, while it’s possible for a website to look stunning, a SharePoint site has to be rigid and bland. The users are frequently left with a less than appealing portal and thus a less than ideal central place for them to work. To the user, SharePoint is a great collaboration tool, search tool, content management system, et cetera, but it feels so blah. Using the skill sets common to developers, we can create an appealing portal that drives traffic, delivers information to the users, and establishes a central workplace. | September 16, 2009 | Yes | Intellinet | Volt | 10/2/2009 9:04 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register - Technical | 23 | 18 | 78.3% | Intellinet - Daren Glenister, Volt - John Wawrzeniak |
| | | No | General | | Intellinet | SharePoint Security from soup to nuts | This presentation will introduce users to a variety of SharePoint security concepts, from the types of service accounts required to install and configure SharePoint to the security model inside of SharePoint. Aimed at developers as well as administrators, this presentation will include discussions of SharePoint security provisioning and membership providers, including the requirements to create a custom membership provider which allows Forms Based Authentication sites to store it’s list of users in a SharePoint contacts list. | September 16, 2009 | Yes | Intellinet | Volt | 10/2/2009 9:04 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register - General | 31 | 25 | 80.6% | Intellinet - Daren Glenister, Volt - John Wawrzeniak |
| | | No | General | | SMBology | SharePoint Deployments: A User-Centric Approach | Without end-user buy in, no solution can be considered a complete success. Justin Singer, President of SMBology, Inc., will be discussing the value of properly accounting for user experience when deploying SharePoint for any organization. This presentation will provide attendees with a high level framework used to ensure the deployed SharePoint solution remains user-focused. Tips and tricks for learning how to define the ideal user experience will also be revealed.
Most notably, the discussion will address how to ensure proper SharePoint site requirements are considered during early stages of development. This includes how to translate business/system requirements into an implementation that successfully supports end-users.
About the speaker:
Justin Singer, President and Founder
Justin Singer is the President and Founder of SMBology, Inc. Justin has over ten years of experience implementing enterprise IT projects in a variety of industries, particularly energy, financial, and retail. His experience runs the gamut from system architecture and development to the management of projects such as ground up network systems infrastructure design + implementation and e-commerce system architecture design.
Prior to founding SMBology in 2003, Justin employed his talents at software product companies Openspirit and Scalable Software, at the service company Data Star, and provided IT solutions to a wide range of clients while working as an independent consultant. His mix of experience with technology companies, both product and service, has provided him with a broad base of knowledge and business expertise.
Justin received his BS in Computer Science from Rice University in Houston, Texas and continues to stay active with his alma mater.
| August 19, 2009 | Yes | AvePoint | K2 | 10/2/2009 8:45 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register - General | 54 | 33 | 61.1% | AvePoint contact - Judy Cheng
K2 contact - Joe Borcado |
| | | No | General | | Idea Integration | Idea Integration Presents Geographic Information Systems within MOSS | Geographic Information Systems (GIS) allows users to search for and analyze assets in a unique and intuitive way. By imbedding GIS into your SharePoint experience valuable visual context and analytical capabilities are gained. Idea Integration will present general and implementation concepts regarding GIS in MOSS at the upcoming H-SPUG meeting and will address the following topics:
- Brief introduction to GIS
- The evolving GIS marketplace
- MOSS in the enterprise - how does GIS fit in?
- City of Houston case study
- Integration approaches
- Recommended approach:
- Technologies
- Architecture
- DOJO
- Demonstration
| July 15, 2009 | Yes | Open | Idera | 10/2/2009 8:46 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register - General | 48 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | Technical | | Idera | Understanding SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery | Content databases, configuration databases, the “12 hive”, index files, registry keys… There’s a lot in SharePoint that needs to be backed up in case of a disaster! In this presentation, we will explore the various types of backup operations available in SharePoint and what is actually backed up in these operations. We will discuss some best practices for SharePoint disaster recovery and environment configuration, as well as cover some tips and tricks for SharePoint’s built-in backup and restore tools.
About the presenter:
Michael Foertsch is the lead architect and software developer for the SharePoint product group at Idera. He and his team has designed and developed Idera SharePoint Backup and the Idera SharePoint Admin Toolset. Previously with Idera, he was the lead developer of Idera SQLsafe, a very popular high-performance backup and recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server.
Seats are limited to 65. | July 15, 2009 | Yes | Open | Idera | 10/2/2009 8:46 AM | Victor Chataboon | Register - Technical | 34 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | Swift Energy | General Presentation - Lessons learned at Swift | Lessons learned while deploying SharePoint at Swift Energy
- SharePoint will grow quickly in spite of your best efforts. Think big and then double that size.
- Roll out SharePoint in stages throughout your company even if it is small
- This will help you throughout the life of SharePoint.
- You will have a number of different design phases even before the site goes live.
- Once the users understand the various functions of SharePoint, you will have even more redesigns or new site requests.
- Train your content administrators or Power Users while you are developing their site
It will help them to take ownership of the site from the beginning
- Train that site’s end user group immediately upon taking their site live
- This will help them to understand the benefits of SharePoint and allow them to use it with confidence.
| June 17, 2009 | Yes | Catapult | Catapult | 10/2/2009 8:46 AM | Victor Chataboon | [Register] | 34 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | Technical | | Catapult | Technical Presentation - "Editor Parts - Extending the Web Part Editor Tool Pane" | Technical Presentation:
Catapult - "Editor Parts - Extending the Web Part Editor Tool Pane"
Have you ever needed to capture properties for custom Web Parts, and realized that the standard textboxes and drop-down lists in the Web Part Editor Tool Pane weren’t sufficient? Perhaps you’ve wanted to show a list of sub-sites or libraries to choose from, maybe a list of options coming from a separate system. SharePoint allows us to do just that with Editor Parts, a standard ASP.NET class that allows a user to edit an associated Web Part control by modifying its layout, appearance, properties, behavior, or other characteristics. During this presentation Catapult Systems will demonstrate how to use Editor Parts to extend the standard capabilities of the standard Web Part Editor Tool Pane. | June 17, 2009 | Yes | Catapult | Catapult | 10/2/2009 8:46 AM | Victor Chataboon | [Register] | 24 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | Catapult Systems | General - "Soup to Nuts: Project Planning for SharePoint Implementations" | General Presentation
Project Planning for SharePoint Implementations
Whether you are implementing SharePoint for the first time or for the hundredth time, very few things are going to be as important as a solid road plan. There are an infinite number ways to get between point A and point B, but what may appear to be shortest path may not be the best or quickest way to get there. To make matters worse SharePoint provides a large range of services; what works for one type of SharePoint implementation may not work for another. During this session, Catapult will cover the many aspects of putting together a proper project plan and schedule for SharePoint. We will share lessons learned, approaches, key milestones, and tasks that should be part of almost every SharePoint related project plan; and provide a detailed overview of a real world project schedule for a successful SharePoint implementation.
| May 20, 2009 | Yes | Facilitek | Volt | 10/2/2009 8:46 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=138283 | 72 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | Technical | | Idera | Technical Presentation - Tips and tricks for working with the WSS/SP object model | | May 20, 2009 | Yes | Facilitek | Volt | 11/2/2009 12:41 PM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=138284 | 34 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | Infonic | Deploying SharePoint in a Global Enterprise | As large enterprises deploy SharePoint in a distributed environment, there are many things to consider in order to optimize their end users' experience. At this meeting, Jeffrey Wolff, Technical Director of Infornic, will discuss the benefits of deploying a distributed SharePoint environment, factors to consider when planning your environement, and possible problems distributed organizations faces as they architect an enterprise-wide SharePoint infrastructure. He will also review various third party solutions that can address these problems as well as the pros and cons of each.
Speaker Bio: Jeffrey Wolff has been in the IT industry for the past 16 years and has spent the last four with Infonic. He mainly works with large enterprises primarily based in the US, such as the US Navy, in designining and implementing global and distributed SharePoint deployments.
| April 15, 2009 | Yes | Perficient | AvePoint | 10/2/2009 8:46 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=137385 | 51 | 33 | 64.7% | Perficient food sponsorship cost $350 |
| | | | General | | EPC Group | SharePoint Implementations Done Right the First Time, Integrating Custom Application Pages into the SharePoint Menu System | EPC Group.net Presenters:
Errin O’Connor: SharePoint Implementations Done Right the First Time
Rafael Perez’s Topic: Integrating Custom Application Pages into the SharePoint Menu System | March 18, 2009 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:46 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=136743 | 70 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Avanade | Implementing Business Logic from Excel Services in SharePoint 2007 | Excel is the most widely used tool for performing data analysis and reporting. It is also considered a powerful database in most organizations both big and small. So making use of this valuable legacy information stored in Excel is critical for most organizations. Excel Services is a new server technology that is included in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 but dare to say that it is one of the most underutilized techniques. The goal of this presentation is to provide a technical overview of Excel Services with demos and dive into implementing Business Logic from Excel in SharePoint 2007 applications. This talk is primarily targeted towards developers and also business analysts to a certain extent.
Agenda:
Overview of Excel Services
Key benefits in SharePoint applications
Real World Business Cases
Demos
Pros and Cons of in SharePoint applications
Proposed Demos:
1.) Create a Simple WebPart using Business Logic from Excel 2007 Worksheet
2.) (Time Permitting) Create a simple dashboard in Excel 2007 from SSAS 2008 and publish in SharePoint 2007
Audience Takeaways:
1.) Thought-provoking use cases on how they can use Excel Services immediately in their organizations
2.) How to reduce costs because business analysts and information workers can make changes to the calculation model without requiring developers to recode a solution | February 18, 2009 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:46 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=135664 | | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | Hitachi Consulting | Governance, Risk, and Compliance Automation: Managing Legal Risk and E-Discovery compliance using MOSS 2007 | Daniel V. Adam - Director - Microsoft Strategic Services - Hitachi Consulting
Recent high-profile lawsuits demonstrate that enterprises are better protected if they keep complete automated archives for electronic records including email. These days an enterprise that prematurely destroy records or most cannot account for electronic records stand to lose a lot more in court then they would have prior to Dec. 2006. This session will identify how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to address electronic record management as it applies to the E-Discovery process in ways an organization can mitigate the costs of E-Discovery.
E-Discovery requires an organization to respond in a short window of time, the process from start to finish will cover:
* Broad search and identification of records that may be impacted by the Litagtion
* Gathering the data (records)
* Detailed analysis and processing of these recoreds (can be very iterative)
* Taking the final 'filtered' set of records and putting them on hold
* Delivery of these records to the requesting party
Want to know how organizations are dealing with E-Discovery as well as what some of the best practices are in using MOSS to manage records that include email to insure the process of responding to litigation can be exponentially reduced? This is one HSPUG event not to be missed. | January 21, 2009 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:47 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134799 | 75 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Intellinet | SharePoint and Social Computing in the Enterprise | Synopsis: Social Computing is a huge meme on the Internet these days, with sites like YouTube and Facebook fetching billions of dollars in record breaking sales. This presentation will cover the basics of Social Computing and how can you leverage SharePoint to introduce the best aspects of Social Computing to your enterprise | October 15, 2008 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:47 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=132369 | 47 | 16 | 34.0% | |
| | | | General | | Hitachi Consulting | Governance, Risk, and Compliance Automation: Managing Legal Risk and E-Discovery compliance using MOSS 2007 | Recent high-profile lawsuits demonstrate that enterprises are better protected if they keep complete automated archives for electronic records including email. These days an enterprise that prematurely destroy records or most cannot account for electronic records stand to lose a lot more in court then they would have prior to Dec. 2006. This session will identify how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to address electronic record management as it applies to the E-Discovery process in ways an organization can mitigate the costs of E-Discovery.
E-Discovery requires an organization to respond in a short window of time, the process from start to finish will cover:
*
Broad search and identification of records that may be impacted by the Litagtion
*
Gathering the data (records)
*
Detailed analysis and processing of these recoreds (can be very iterative)
*
Taking the final 'filtered' set of records and putting them on hold
*
Delivery of these recoreds to the requesting party
Want to know how organizations are dealing with E-Discovery as well as what some of the best practices are in using MOSS to manage records that include email to insure the process of responding to litigation can be exponentially reduced? This is one HSPUG event not to be missed.
| September 17, 2008 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:47 AM | Victor Chataboon | | | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Applied Information Sciences | SharePoint as an Application Development Platform | Using SharePoint as a platform for creating and developing applications
Presented by: Alex Holcombe, Principal with AIS
-- Development challenges
-- Tools avaliable
-- Managing change control
-- Testing applications
-- Deploying applications
| August 20, 2008 | Yes | Clearpoint Technology | Avanade | 10/2/2009 8:47 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=130391 | 107 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Chevron | Chevron Lessons Learned | Summary: Keith will share Chevron’s Lessons Learned deploying SharePoint. He will touch on
· Chevron’s SharePoint Roadmap
· Project team lessons learned
· Use of the Microsoft Solution Framework
· SharePoint Governance
· Random lessons learned
| June 18, 2008 | Yes | Logica | Intellect | 10/2/2009 8:47 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=129209 | 125 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | KnowledgeLake | Scaling SharePoint 2007 - Storage Architect | Most experienced client server developers know that poor database architecture can absolutely wreck the performance of an application. A poor relational design, inefficient stored procedures, or even improperly indexed tables can have a dramatically negative effect on how SQL Server is able to serve data to your application. The same is true not only of logical design but also of physical storage implementation, particularly when large databases are present. Even with a properly architected database, the sheer storage requirements of large database data files cause SQL Server to spend significant additional time to seek the requested data.
On May 21st, Russ Houberg from KnowledgeLake will share with HSPUG his prescriptive guidance, as well as strive to explain a little bit of the “how and why” that back up the recommendations. As his recommendations are focused on implementing SQL Server 2005, it is also applicable to SQL Server 2008. The primary goal is to provide specific SharePoint storage architecture guidance, discuss the reasons behind the recommended limits for SharePoint databases, and discuss how we might extend those limits by implementing SharePoint databases in SQL Server in a more granular way.
| May 21, 2008 | Yes | KnowledgeLake | Modis | 10/2/2009 8:47 AM | Victor Chataboon | | 63 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | Idea Integration | ESRI GIS w/ MOSS | | April 16, 2008 | Yes | CorasWorks | ObjectWin | 10/2/2009 8:47 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=127730 | | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | US Marine Corps | Virtural Work Environment - Beyond Brick-and-Mortar | Work environments housed in brick-and-mortar structures — with employees working on computers, file cabinets holding every document produced and hard drives storing data — are simply outdated. This work environment has not radically changed for more than 20 years, with the exception of the addition of e-mail.
This portrayal of the current work environment should be viewed as fragile and susceptible to contributing to inefficiencies. But it also points up workers’ reliance on the e-mail for a major part of their knowledge management, albeit in a method that does not make this knowledge easy to search, retrieve, share or archive.
Enter a new concept called Virtual Work Environment (VWE). Not only does this environment revolutionize how organizations can think about work processes, but it extends business efficiencies beyond the traditional brick-and-mortar limitations of a corporation. If done correctly, this new approach promises to improve business processes, create better collaborative environments, and, enhance corporate knowledge management – all of which provides a real ROI (Return on Investment).
This presentation will outline the concepts of VWE to include the technology foundations; provide the logical steps to integrate these concepts within one’s organization; and, provide some very compelling lessons-learned from the Federal Aviation Administration, US Marine Corps, and the State of Virginia. All of these organizations have to some degree embraced VWE. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was VWE 1.0 and has grown to over 30,000 participants. The US Marine Corps can be considered VWE 2.0. While it has been in operations much shorter than the FAA, the refined implementation processes have accelerate the adoption of this new approach much faster than was realized within the FAA. This presentation will also discuss these implementation methods.
| March 19, 2008 | Yes | Sogeti | AIS | 10/2/2009 8:47 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=126223 | 77 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Complete Solutions w/ The Houston Texans | Customization of the Search and Core Search Results Web Parts | When users perform search queries (and people search queries) by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the search results are rendered by the Search Core Results and People Search Core Results Web Parts. These web parts can be easily configured to show different results. The contents and format are controlled by a selection of columns and XSL; both configurable properties of these Web Parts.
On February 20th, guest speaker Rafael Perez from Catapult Systems will show us how to configure the Search Core Results and People Search Core Results Web Parts to include additional data, and how to use XSL to control the way the results are displayed.
| February 20, 2008 | Yes | New Horizon | Catapult Systems | 10/2/2009 8:47 AM | Victor Chataboon | | 93 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | Unisys | Unisys' Knowledge Management SharePoint Strategy | The general public may know Unisys as a company to provide Enterprise Content Management and collaboration solution. The latter includes system integration services with solutions from Microsoft as welll as other industry ECM solutions.
What the public may not know is that, besides Microsoft, Unisys has the second largest SharePoint installation around the world. Like many industry peers, getting there was not a walk in the park. With thousands of users and groups of business units, the application of SharePoint was just as critical as the implementation.
On January 16th, Unisys will share with us their SharePoint application in the context of Knowledge Management. Members of HSPUG will get to see the inner workings of Unisys SharePoint application from an internal point of view.
| January 16, 2008 | Yes | Idea Integration - Stephen Armbrust | Intellinet - Alysha McCree | 10/2/2009 8:47 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=123757 | 125 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Complete Solutions / Dynegy | SharePoint Migration Strategies and Customer Case Study (Dynegy) | Presentation Topics:
· Overview of the migration strategies
· Benefits and challenges of migration strategies
· Selecting the right migration approach
· Planning the migration
· Customer impacts on migration
· Change management approach
· Customer case study
| November 14, 2007 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:48 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=122455 | 85 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Microsoft | Solutions and Features | So you've got your new capabilities built. User experience is there, code is debugged and optimized. Now, how do you get the darn project up on the server in a controlled and maintainable manner? More to the point, how do you support and upgrade it later on after you've gotten it there? This is not a process designed by the pit crew from a NASCAR race. There are parts in your SharePoint that with the right nuts and bolts fastened, will increase its performance significantly. Want to know what these are? Come to the meeting and we'll talk more about it. Also, we'll also share with the members how the new Solution and Feature framework in WSS v3 helped Microsoft product group create MOSS. | October 17, 2007 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:48 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=121713 | 96 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Avanade | Large Implementation Pain Experiences: Navigating Pitfalls in SharePoint 2007 | Implementing MOSS 07 is not as easy as just turning on the switch. If you're starting with a blank canvas, your challenges are smaller than if you are migrating from previous version(s) of SharePoint.
On September 19th, guest speaker Chris Roth from Avanade will share with you the pitfalls and potholes of implementing SharePoint 2007. Whether you're new to SharePoint or are thinking of migrating, this is a presentation you wouldn't want to miss. | September 19, 2007 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:48 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=120837 | 104 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Sogeti - USA | Portals 2.0 – Making your portal THE business critical application | For many of us, SharePoint 2003 taught us the joys of document libraries, surveys, and discussion groups. Many portals set up around consuming these components failed, however, because no one really cared enough about document collaboration to actually use the sites consistently. With the release of MOSS 2007, many companies are getting a second (or first!) chance to re-design their portals to become a much stronger force in their organization. This presentation will provide a high-level business discussion about the critical areas you need to address to turn your portal site from just “one more tool” to a business critical application that introduces efficiencies and clarity into the daily lives of you and your fellow employees. Far from answering all of your questions, this session will give you enough knowledge to challenge Business and IT with the hard questions that can help drive some organizations out of the traditional portal thought processes in which they have been entrenched for years. | August 15, 2007 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:48 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=119938 | 102 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Catapult Systems | Governance and SharePoint 2007 | When companies make the move to rollout a tool as robust and full-featured as SharePoint 2007, simply installing the product, handing over a URL, and saying "okay, go play with it" is rarely enough. The goal of every business that implements SharePoint is to utilize the immense amount of power that it can bring to bear in the organization. Without proper governance, SharePoint features and technologies can get out of control. A balance must be struck between no governance - large-scale adoption with no ability to manage it, and heavy governance - low-to-no adoption with complete control.
On June 20th, guest speaker Jim O'Brien from Catapult Systems will discuss governance as it applies to SharePoint 2007 implementations. | June 20, 2007 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:48 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=118940 | 106 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Gimmal Group | MOSS 2007 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Features of MOSS 2007 | Content management is critical to the continued success of any corporation. Regardless of whether your company is small or large, global or local, managing content is a good practice. While requirements vary across different regulated industries, keeping records is required to provide evidence of a company's activities in the event of litigation or an audit.
On May 16th, guest speaker Stephen Milano from Gimmal Group, will demonstrate the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) features of MOSS 2007, which includes some of the following features:
• Check-in/Check-Out
• Versioning
• InfoPath Forms Services
• Office 2007 metadata integration (Document Information Panel)
• Basic Workflows
• Hierarchical Content Management
• Records Management/Policies
• Document Conversions
Join us in this upcoming event to learn more about MOSS 2007 ECM, to see how MOSS 2007 fits into your existing ECM practice and network with fellow SharePoint users.
| May 16, 2007 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:48 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=118159 | 91 | | 0.0% | |
| | | | General | | Hitachi Consulting | SharePoint 2007 Migration and Compliance Issues | SharePoint 2007 comes with many added benefits. However, unlike the bells and whistles of a newly acquired Benz, the challenge most companies face is the unknown issues of migrating to SharePoint 2007 from their existing infrastructure. Ever wonder what would happen when the switch is turned on?
On April 18th, guest speaker Ted Wong, from Hitachi Consulting, will share lessons learned from the field, outline things you need to think about before migrating to SharePoint 2007, highlight MOSS 2007 compliance features and showcase some of the core collaboration features MOSS 2007 has to offer.
This is a definite not-to-miss for those considering migration to or implementation of the SharePoint 2007 environment. | April 18, 2007 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:48 AM | Victor Chataboon | http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=117691 | 1 | | 0.0% | |
| | | No | General | | Solomon Creative | Introduction to customization options for SharePoint 2007 | It can often be a daunting task to determine how to customize SharePoint. At this meeting we will take a look at the various customization methods, categorize each one into easy to understand customization types, and look at some examples of what each method can accomplish. By the end of the meeting, you will have a clearer understanding of what is best for your SharePoint installation. | March 21, 2007 | Yes | | | 10/2/2009 8:48 AM | Victor Chataboon | | | | 0.0% | |