Upcoming SharePoint Events in July and August

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The last month has been very busy for me. Some of you may have noticed that I had only done only 3 posts. I have a few posts/articles that I am writing which I hope to publish in the next few weeks. For the moment I had to do this quick post to make these important very exciting announcements.

Last month’s user group event was a huge success. Thanks to the guys at 3months.com and Brendan Law from Intergen for the presentations.

For July we have a special guest coming all the way from Christchurch. This is one session that you should not miss if you are a business owner, project manager or a stakeholder of a SharePoint project.

So mark the 16th of July Monday on your Calendar. The special guest is non other than Michael Sampson from Collaboration Success Partners. Michael needs no special introduction in the Collaboration space. He’s one of the leading thinkers and analysts in this space and I am thrilled to have him present at the SharePoint user group in Wellington. We are yet to determine a venue but it will be in Wellington CBD. If you want to attend please drop me an email on (chandima @ provoke . co . nz) and I will add you to the list.

Presentation topic: SharePoint for Business

Presented by: Michael Sampson [ http://www.michaelsampson.net ]

“Michael Sampson is the Principal Advisor at Collaboration Success Advisors, an advisory firm that leads people and organisations, businesses and government agencies to success with collaboration. One of the contemporary research and advisory themes for Collaboration Success Advisors is “SharePoint for Business”, which is focused on how people and organisations should approach SharePoint from a business and strategic perspective.

Michael is a leading thinker, analyst and consultant in the collaboration space. He contributes to the success of business collaboration endeavors through writing, speaking at conferences, and engaging directly with clients. Michael holds an MCom with first class honors in telecommunications-based IT, from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and is currently working on his doctorate in collaborative applications and virtual teams. Michael has been professionally involved with messaging and collaboration since 1994.”

Date: 16th July Monday

Venue: **Intergen ** Level 7 Plunket House, 126 Lambton Quay

If you are a developer then mark Wednesday the 1st of August 2007. The .Net user group and SharePoint user group will have a combined session on SharePoint development.

Presentation topic: Developing with Windows SharePoint Services v3.0

Presented by: Zac Smith of Provoke Solutions

With Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, IT professionals can tailor or extend the Windows SharePoint Services foundation to create new, efficient, Web-based tools and services specific to the organization, department, business process, or industry vertical. Through a highly customizable and extensible platform, companies can tie these new tools and services to existing line-of-business applications, capitalizing on existing IT investments and valuable information stored in back-end systems.

WSS is often thought of as just a document collaboration platform. This session will demonstrate how to use the Windows SharePoint Services platform to build rich, flexible, and scalable Web-based applications and Internet sites specific to the needs of your organization. As of version 3.0, WSS is now built on top of the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework. This allows modern .NET development techniques to be employed. With the major architectural improvements in version 3.0, WSS can now be realised as a powerful application framework.

The development topics being covered in this session may include the following:

  • Object Model Basics

  • Object Model Best Practices

  • Cross Site Queries (CAML)

  • SharePoint Designer Basics

  • WebPart Basics

  • WSS Event Handling

  • Microsoft and Community Developed Tools & Utilities

  • Features & the Solution Framework

  • WSS as an Application Framework

The session is intended to be at a technical level and there will be many code based demonstrations. It is targeted at competent .NET web developers. No in-depth WSS knowledge is required, however a basic understanding of SharePoint related technologies will be beneficial.

Zac Smith is an Implementation Consultant for Provoke Solutions who develops in WSS all day, every day. Zac has worked on a number of high profile SharePoint projects such as the Ministry of Transport’s new Intranet and the Web Government Standards Innovation Centre Project. These projects involved implementing cutting edge SharePoint solutions to address complex business problems.

Zac is a keen community player that contributes to projects such as the Community Kit for SharePoint (http://www.codeplex.com/CKS) among other projects on CodePlex. He also maintains a blog focusing on the technical aspects of SharePoint development (http://blogs.provoke.co.nz/Zac).

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