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 Where we meet

Location:
Microsoft, 2000 West Sam Houston Parkway South, Suite 350, Houston, TX 77042
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To find out more about our sponsors, visit Our Sponsors' page.

Schedule
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Eat and Greet
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Welcome
6:45 PM - 7:30 PM

Presentations:
General - MPR A
Technical - MPR B

7:30 PM - 7:45 PM Q & A Session
7:45 PM - 8:00 PM Door Prizes
8:00 PM - After Meeting Social Ragin Cajun

Have design questions or issues with your SharePoint initiative? Bring it with you! Let's see if we can address it together.

Welcome to Houston SharePoint User Group (H-SPUG)
 H-SPUG provides a forum for Houston’s community of SharePoint users, professionals and partners to collaborate, share best practices and network.  The group meets on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at the Houston Microsoft Office.

On this website you will find information about upcoming events, access to presentation archives, useful resources and much more. Not sure if you can benefit from what we have to offer?  Attend our meetings and you will be surprised what you discover.

 
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For the next meeting, our door prizes are:
  • Introducing .NET 4.0 - Apress
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administation Instant Reference - MS Press
  • Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices - O'Reilly
  • Programming Windows Azure - O'Reilly
  • Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development - WROX
  • Beginning SharePoint 2010 Administration - WROX
  • Xbox 360 Game - Halo 3 ODST
  • Azure T-Shirt and Hat
  • Visual Studio 2010 T-Shirt

Remember to get your door prize ticket at the registration desk.  You must be present to win.

Special treats Wednesday presented by MSSharePointTips.com.

M S SharePoint Tips is a new free online resource with tips and tricks for SharePoint.

In addition, they are always looking for new authors, so if you are interested visit the website for more info.

As a special gift for user groups, M S SharePoint Tips is having a drawing for a $100 gas card that you can use as you please. 

To enter the drawing just signup at the URL below:

http://www.mssharepointtips.com/giftcard.asp

 Meeting Information

Our presentations consist of two tracks that run concurrently.

Please make sure you select the correct presentation,
they occur during the same time.

General Presentation

Starting Small, Growing Large
 
By Troy Lanphier with GUIO

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

Register - General

Technical Presentation

 
By Not Available with 

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.

Sponsors for this Month:

Please remember to take a moment to thank and/or visit with them.

 Eat & Greet Sponsor:
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Gimmal Group

 Social Sponsor:
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Infusion

 Upcoming special events

SPTechCon Boston

SPTechCon, October 20-22, 2010, Boston

The 2010 SharePoint Technology Conference, October 20-22 in Boston, focuses on Microsoft's collaboration software used by IT developers, users and managers. Whether you are migrating to SharePoint 2010, remaining with SharePoint 2007 or just getting started with SharePoint, the future of SharePoint education is at SPTechCon. H-SPUG members and newsletter subscribers receive a $100 discount off the Full Event Passport and/or gain free admission to the exhibits (first time registrants only - cannot be combined with other offers) by inserting the code MEDIASPONSOR when prompted on the eRegistration page linked from www.sptechcon.com.

 

 
SharePoint Connections Conference
 
The conversation starts on November 1st. Come to Las Vegas and participate in the SharePoint community! Meet other professionals in sessions, in the expo hall, and at conference events. This is your chance to network and make those personal connections with conference speakers, the SharePoint team from Microsoft plus our sponsors and vendors. 
 
What does SharePoint 2010 offer my business? How can I deploy or upgrade successfully? What can I do to ensure my environment is secure, compliant, and manageable? What tools and features allow me to build better solutions on top of SharePoint? The largest independent SharePoint event in the USA returns to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV, November 1-4, 2010. SharePoint Connections brings the experts and the community together, with three days and over 50 sessions for IT professionals and developers as well as no-code solutions for business managers using SharePoint 2010.
 
www.devconnections.com, use registration code "Chata50" for $50 off your registration.

 

For more information contact:
info@h-spug.com