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4/14/2008

AIIM NW Event - The Evolution of Content Management

I understand that this is short notice, but there’s an event this Thursday evening in Seattle that will be worth the time of any SharePoint fans in the area. The NW Chapter of AIIM is hosting an event titled, “The Evolution of Content Management – Microsoft and the SharePoint Solution”. While most members of the Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group will already grok SharePoint well beyond this level, I know that there are other folks within your organizations that do not. This presentation promises to be an easy way to help your friends understand why you live and breath SharePoint and why you feel that it is a critical I.T. service offering within your organization.

Two speakers are on the docket. Dave Healey, a Sr. Product Manager for SharePoint from Microsoft, and Robert Langer, from Global 360.

The cost for this event is $20 for AIIM Members and $25 for Non-Members. This cost includes the program, an appetizer, and a dinner.

The event will be held at the Best Western Executive Inn, 200 Taylor Ave N, Seattle, WA., on April 17^th, from 4PM to 7:30PM.

Registration should be made by April 14^th. (Sorry for the short notice). Register by email to aramsay123@aol.com, or online at http://www.aiim.org/northwest, or by phone, +1 425.681.4689.

I’ll see you there!

Posted at 12:03 AM by Owen Allen | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

4/13/2008

Logical Architecture Model for SharePoint

Note: For those of you that attended the April 10th UG meeting, About 9 or 10 of these printouts were handed out that night.

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While I love using PowerPoint slides as much as the next person, sometimes I find that unrolling a printed diagram and placing it on the table and getting everyone to review a sample SharePoint Logical Architecture Model is a wonderful way to introduce SharePoint concepts that are hard to grasp in other ways.

There is a white paper that describes this architecture model on TechNet, titled Logical Architecture Model: Corporate Deployment. This architecture description includes a link to a visio model, Design Sample: Corporate Deployment Logical Architecture. I took this file and had FedEx*Kinko’s print me up a couple of dozen of this printouts, and when appropriate, I hand them to SharePoint administrators when I have this discussion with them.

The basic idea is that a SharePoint Farm for the Fabrikam company is described within this model. There are two SharePoint farms, one that includes the Intranet and the Partner-facing Extranet application, and one farm for the Public Internet site. Within this model, the following SharePoint concepts are illustrated:

· Web Zones (Intranet, Extranet, Internet, etc.) and Zone Policies

· Different Authentication Models

· Multiple SSPs

· My Sites

· Web Applications

· Collaborative Team Sites

· Secure Content Authoring and Publishing

· Content Databases

· Application Pools

· Site Collections

It’s all good stuff. This is a model that keeps on giving back insights into SharePoint architecture beyond the first review. Post it somewhere on your cube wall and when the day gets to tough, take a few minutes to gaze upon this model and simply allow the SharePoint sweetness to soak in.

Posted at 10:56 PM by Owen Allen | Category: General Meetings | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

3/18/2008

SPConference doc library

A new document library has been created to hold notes and thoughts from the SharePoint Conference. If you'd like permissions to contribute to this document library, please let us know.

Posted at 4:11 PM by Owen Allen | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (1)

3/14/2008

MOSS Internet Site screenshots

At last night's user group meeting, I was displaying a slideshow of internet-facing MOSS sites. You can download that slide deck from my SkyDrive - http://cid-ed3af275f9b41e67.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/SharePoint-based%20Internet%20Sites-Feb2008.pptx

Enjoy!

Posted at 2:33 PM by Owen Allen | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

3/13/2008

March User Group Meeting

Notes from the SharePoint Conference

Owen Allen and Robert Banghart shared their notes and comments from the SharePoint Conference. Great stuff! Owen's slides are available here.

K2 (Awesome) also presented on their Business Process Management tools and technologies.

Chris Good and Eric Schaeffer shared their knowledge and demos.

Thanks, everyone, for participating this month!

Our next meeting will be on April 10th.

Posted at 7:28 PM by Owen Allen | Category: General Meetings | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (1)

2/12/2008

SharePoint Server Usability Study

Microsoft’s User Research Group is looking for server Administrators in the Seattle-area who are familiar with SharePoint Server to participate in an upcoming usability study. The study will be running the week of February 25^th with each time slot taking roughly one-and-a-half to two hours.

Study Criteria:

· Must be a server Administrator for a mid-level, large, or enterprise level organization.

· Must manage at least one server.

· Must resolve issues escalated from Tier 1 support.

Each participant will be given a gift item chosen from a list of Microsoft’s most popular software/hardware items including Visual Studio 2008, Office Professional 2007, Mac Office 2008, Vista products, and much more.

If you are interested or would like more information, please email a-bransp@microsoft.com.

Posted at 3:35 PM by Bryan Hart | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (1)

1/21/2008

SharePoint Advanced Training - Virtual Delivery

Training for end users (see previous post) is one thing, but how can it be made easier for a SharePoint IT Pro or Developer to get the advanced training that they need? Well, this question has been answered...

There is a Virtual Training class that is being offered, and there are two classes that are currently available. This is not virtual in the sense that you download and take it whenever you want. This is Virtual in the sense that you still dedicate most of 5 days to attend the class, but you attend the class remotely through your computer and you have interaction with the course instructor via your computer.

The classes cost $695, but are on sale for February and March for $100 off.

The two classes offered are:

Advanced IT Pro Course for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0
Architecting and Planning a MOSS 2007 Search Solution

Find details about the classes and more information here: http://www.microsoftsharepointacademy.com/courseSchedule.htm

Posted at 10:30 AM by Owen Allen | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

SharePoint End User Training

The SharePoint team at Microsoft has produced and delivered SharePoint training materials for end users.

This training includes documents, examples, step-by-step instructions, videos, interactive training, etc. for the following areas:

Collaboration
Enterprise Content Management
Search
Portals and Personalization
Business Processes and Forms
Business Intelligence

This is available in two versions, one that can be installed on a user's desktop machine, and one version that is installed on your SharePoint portal site, and delivered via the portal.

Both versions of the training can be downloaded here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102488011033.aspx

Posted at 9:31 AM by Owen Allen | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

1/9/2008

MOSS Intranet Design Award Winner - New Zealand Ministry of Transport

The Nielsen Norman Group's "Intranet Design Annual 2008: Year's Ten Best Intranets" contest has announced their winners and produced a report describing their selections. See the web site and download the report here.

One of the winners was built on the MOSS platform - the New Zealand Ministry of Transport.

Chandima Kulathilake has posted up some details and a couple of screen shots about the implementation and design of this site.

The use of silverlight to help with the display of survey results was interesting, and the tag management stuff was really cool.

Posted at 9:07 AM by Owen Allen | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

12/31/2007

SharePoint Lab Webcasts (or, “LabCasts”) during January

Class description: Join this Full Day virtual training to learn the new features of Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server 2007. In this hands-on session, we will show you how to prepare for an Office SharePoint Server 2007 Implementation going through the planning and designing for non-functional requirements. You will see an overview of Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search and Indexing. This virtual training event will also provide a hands-on virtual lab environment where you can perform the tasks yourself with step-by-step guidance from Microsoft professionals, giving you experience-based knowledge of Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The SharePoint Deployment Labcast program has announced sessions through January! The schedule is below. You can register for any session, the only difference is which time zone the 8:30AM start time is relative to.

Monday, January 07, 2008 (8:30AM Central) http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7923244

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 (8:30AM Eastern) http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7923245

Monday, January 14, 2008 (8:30AM Pacific) http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7923246

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 (8:30AM Central) http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7923247

Monday, January 21, 2008 (8:30AM Eastern) http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7923248

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 (8:30AM Pacific) http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7923249

Monday, January 28, 2008 (8:30AM Central) http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7923250

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 (8:30AM Eastern) http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7923251

Posted at 11:02 AM by Owen Allen | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

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