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Live Chat with the SharePoint MVPs on July 21

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:10:05 GMT

Got a question about SharePoint? Join 18 SharePoint MVPs on a live chat on July 21 where you get to ask the panel questions around SharePoint. Eighteen MVPs are scheduled to answer your questions. The MVPs select for the July 21 chat session include those with administration, development, design and end user specialties.

Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx for more information.

Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint

Darrin Bishop — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:55:19 GMT

Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint - with 28 MVP Experts Do you have questions about SharePoint? Want to learn more about the recently launched SharePoint 2010? By popular request, 28 SharePoint MVPs from around the world are participating in two live chat events about SharePoint: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx . These events are a great opportunity to tap into the vast knowledge of these industry professionals who are regarded as the best in their field. Two opportunities are available to join the conversation. Times were chose to accommodate most of the world.

On Tuesday May 25th, tune in between 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific time to chat with the following MVPs:

Agnes Molnar
Bill English
Brian Farnhill
Bryan Phillips
Clayton Cobb
David Mann
Matt McDermott
Paul Stork
Rob Bogue
Rob Foster
Sahil Malik
Saifullah Shafiq Ahmed
Serge Tremblay

On Wednesday May 26, tune in between 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific time to chat with the following MVPs:

Andrew Connell
Becky Bertram
Bil Simser
Chandima Kulathilake
Claudio Brotto
Gary Lapointe
Darrin Bishop
John Ross
Michael Mukalian
Muhanad Omar
Paul Galvin
Randy Drisgill
Shane Young
Todd Bleeker
Zlatan Dzinic

Learn more and add these chats to your calendar by visiting the MSDN event page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx

SharePoint Chat – April 27 and 28th !

Darrin Bishop — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:42:13 GMT

Get your SharePoint questions answered on April 27th at 4pm PDT by a collection of SharePoint MVPs and on April 28 9am PDT. Join me and a handful of SharePoint MVPs on April 27th including Bill English, Becky Bertram, Sahil Malik, Shane Young, Clayton Cobb, Asif Rehmani, Agnes Molnar, Matt McDermott, Rob Bogue, Sifullah Shafiq Ahmed, Serge Tremblay, Mike Oryszak as we chat about SharePoint 2010.

And if you do not get enough SharePoint chat on April feel free to return on April 28 to chat with Andrew Connell, Bil Simser, Bryan Phillips, Chris O'Brien, Dan Attis, David Mann, John Ross, Kevin Laahs, Muhanad Omar, Randy Drisgill, Spence Harbar, Michael Mukalian, Rob Foster , Woody Windishman and Paul Stork.

Get all the chat details from: http://blogs.msdn.com/mvpawardprogram/archive/2010/04/23/join-28-sharepoint-mvps-in-a-live-chat.aspx

MVP Chat – March 15!

Darrin Bishop — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:06:42 GMT

Get your SharePoint questions answered on March 15th at 9 PDT by a collection of SharePoint MVPs. Join me and a handful of SharePoint MVPs including Andrew Connell, Becky Bertram, Brendon Schwartz, Dan Attis, Daniel Larson, John Ross, Matthew McDermott, Mike Oryszak , Paul Galvin, Paul Schaeflein, Randy Drisgill, and Rob Foster as we chat about WSS, MOSS and SharePoint 2010. This is the first event that will be repeated with different MVPs and topics.

Get all the chat details from: blogs.msdn.com/mvpawardprogram/archive/2010/03/11/geek-out-about-sharepoint-with-sharepoint-mvps.aspx

Announcing the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group

Darrin Bishop — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:14:59 GMT

Please join us for the first meeting of the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group.

The Central Illinois SharePoint User Group provides a venue for anyone who is interested in learning more about Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. We hope to provide a means for organizations within the Central Illinois region to connect and discuss all areas of SharePoint with the help of some great speakers. If you are thinking about SharePoint, starting with SharePoint or have a long history of using SharePoint we hope you will spend the morning with the group and help spread the knowledge.

Topic: Do you Know SharePoint?
Whether you've spent two minutes or two years with SharePoint you'll get tons of little quirks, tricks, and features you never knew existed out of this presentation. We'll take a journey around the product and point out some of the lesser known features. Did you know you can get your users to enter metadata -- without knowing it?

Speaker: Robert Bogue, MCSE (NT4/W2K), MCSA:Security, A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+ is the president of Thor Projects LLC. Thor Projects LLC provides SharePoint Consulting services to clients around the country. Robert has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. Robert’s latest book is The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users. You can find out more about the book at http://www.SharePointShepherd.com. Robert has been pleased to be a part of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program for the past 5 years. He was most recently awarded for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Before that Robert was a Microsoft Commerce Server MVP and before that Microsoft Windows Servers-Networking MVP. Robert is the president of the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN, www.spindiana.com). He’s also a member of the board for the Indiana Windows Users Group (www.iwug.net) . Robert blogs at http://www.thorprojects.com/blog You can reach Robert at Rob.Bogue@thorprojects.com.

When: June 10, 2009
           Doors open at 8:30 AM
           Presentation at 9:00 AM
           Open Discussion after presentation

Where: LRS
2451 W Monroe
Springfield, Illinois

LRS Eucation Center
(Directions)

Contact: Darrin Bishop, dbishop@darrinbishop.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/cisug

This is the first Central Illinois SharePoint User Group meeting. We have secured enough room, coffee and breakfast snacks for twenty to thirty attendees. Feel free to send an email to dbishop@darrinbishop.com if you plan to attend so we can ensure we have enough room ,coffee and food for all. Special thanks to Levi, Ray and Shoup, Inc. for providing the meeting space and coffee. This is a community-driven user group. At the first meeting we will be discussing dates and times for following meetings. If morning meetings to discuss SharePoint will be difficult to attend please let us know. This is the community's user group and we will make adjustment to best fit the community's needs. If you are interested in speaking or assisting the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group please send an email to dbishop@darrinbishop.com .

vNext SharePoint is Officially Announced

Darrin Bishop — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:41:03 GMT

Sure we all knew the next version of SharePoint is under development but today Microsoft has released an official Press Release refering to the next version of SharePoint as SharePoint Server 2010. Yep the name Microsoft Office is not offically part of the name but I would not read much into that. Read the press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx

Adding the SharePoint team blog post url: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx

SharePoint Summit, Montreal

Darrin Bishop — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:39:52 GMT

This week I am up in Montreal Canada speaking at SharePoint Summit. Spent the day working on slides and demos. The conference selected a Feature and Solution talk but I ended up with one of the 45 minute slots. Ouch, you cannot do Features and Solutions in 45 minutes. Thanks everyone who stayed on into the break to let me deploy the solution. Slides are available here: SPTechCon Features and Solutions

So far I have not had time to sit in on a full session but I have managed to meet up with Serge Tremblay, Reza Alirezaei, Eli Robillard, Bill English and Matt Passannante. Also met up with Mike Fitzmaurice who was on hand as a vendor (Nintex) and a speaker.

SharePoint Product Team TweetStream

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:45:38 GMT

After a short pause the SharePoint Product Group is back onTwitter.
http://twitter.com/SharePoint

SPTechCon Day 3 Wrap Up

Darrin Bishop — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:38:52 GMT

I started day 3 delivering my session on PowerShell and SharePoint. One of the first demos failed but we - the attendees and I recovered nicely. Seems that most in the audience has had little exposure with PowerShell but they were eager non-the-less. We spent the session working with PowerShell and SharePoint using both the object model and STSADM. The session actually went over by 15 minutes when one of the conference organizer stopped by to mention that it was time for a break. Not one person mentioned that we were going over or got up to leave. I don’t think I have had such an attentive group of attendees. This was my final presentation for the conference.

I spent the day catching up with work and emails but did manage to attend Todd Klindt and Shane Young's Better with SQL Server 2008 and Server 2008 - For Todd's Benefit Windows Server 2008 :) but that is an inside joke.

That was it for me for SPTechCon. The next SPTechCon is scheduled in Boston, June 22-24 2008. Check out SPTechCon for more info.

Slide Deck for SPTechCon - Building BI Portals

Darrin Bishop — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:24:24 GMT

Here is the slide deck for the session. This is primarily screenshots of using PerformancePoint Server to create Business Intelligence Portals that went with my talk. This was the first time these slides were used. The session went well and the question answer period went well into lunch. Will be improving them based on some of the great feedback received from the group.

SPTechCon - Building Business Intelligence Portals