Microsoft M365 MVP, Power Platform Consultant, Founder
With Microsoft’s Bloomington Minnesota office moving to Edina, the Minnesota SharePoint User Group meetings will be moving as well. The next meeting on November 9th and all meetings after that (I believe) will be held at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) location in Edina.
Hopefully they’ll get information about the new location, parking, etc. on the MNSPUG site soon.
The latest SharePoint Saturday event in the Twin Cities was a huge success! Some of the numbers:
The new location worked out very well – holding everyone without too much crowding (other than a few really popular sessions), with free parking and wireless access available. A nice upgrade from our previous digs. We also had a Kinect play area during the day. 
Presentations are now available on the site for download.
Keep an eye on the official site for updates and news about the fall “ScarePoint Saturday” event – tentatively scheduled for October 29th.
A big thanks to Sarah Haase for overseeing the organization of the event, as well as to all the sponsors, volunteers, and attendees.
See you in the fall!
Lookout SharePoint world – Sarah Haase (locally of Best Buy fame) has entered the blogosphere. Sarah has been a presenter at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group, SharePoint Saturday – Twin Cities and the Best Practices Conferences and always has great information, especially when it comes to measuring the ROI of SharePoint solutions.
Well, she finally started up a blog here: http://sarahlhaase.wordpress.com/
Go check it out!
Raymond Mitchell and Brian Caauwe delivered a presentation on SharePoint Search at today’s MNSPUG. If you’d like to learn more, check out the PPT deck HERE. Check back soon to download the recording of the session. We had about 90 attendees between folks in the room and joining us online.
March’s session will be on SharePoint workflows and Business Process. Check back to the MNSPUG site for more information as session details are rolled out.
See you next month!
Microsoft announced today that SharePoint 2010 has reached RTM status. Read about it on the SharePoint Team Blog – HERE.
Sounds like the earliest availability for downloading bits will be on April 27th for Volume License and Software Assurance Customers.
The official (virtual) launch will be on May 12th – which also happens to be our next MNSPUG meeting. We’ll be streaming the launch live and working on adding some more fun as well – check the MNSPUG site for more information as we have it.
This month’s MNSPUG will be covering Social Networking with SharePoint 2007 and 2010. We’re also going to be having a Lunch and Learn session with BlueThread.
Please join us on Wednesday, March 10, as we take a look at Social Networking with SharePoint 2007 and 2010. In this session we will cover the social networking features that were introduced in SharePoint 2007 and how the new features of SharePoint 2010 take social networking within an organization to the next level.
Topics to be discussed include:
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Oh, and BlueThread will also be giving away a Dell Netbook! 🙂
See you there!
Brian Caauwe will be presenting tomorrow on Migrating to SharePoint 2010. Join us either in person or on Live Meeting. More details are available on the Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MNSPUG) site. The presentation will be available after the event.
2010 was welcomed in with a SharePoint Server Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award renewal message from Microsoft for the new year. What a wonderful honor and great way to start the new year – this is my second year being awarded. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.
To be included with the SharePoint MVP community is really cool – everyone I’ve met has been incredibly gracious – eager to help and to share. As with the greater SharePoint community, they are a community themselves – a lot more cohesive than some of the other MVP product groupings out there. They are amazing technical resources and provide so much energy to the community at large, making the products we support and the people we work with so much better and more fun to work with.
2009 was an interesting year for the MVP community. Maybe this happens every year and I wasn’t aware of it, but being a part of the MVP community this past year has made me more aware of it. There were changes driven by the economy as well as conversation and criticism regarding who is awarded and how awardees are chosen – amongst other topics. There are still plenty of things I’m not privy to, but I do know that regardless of who receives the MVP awards, there are a lot of people in the SharePoint community and other technical communities that are amazing contributors out there – people that love to learn and to share – people that will continue to advance our communities through their efforts – people that should be recognized and thanked. Kudos go out to them as well.
A huge thanks goes out to the SharePoint community that I’ve been blessed to be a part of. I hope we can continue to learn, share and grow in the coming year. See you at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MNSPUG), other SharePoint user groups, SharePoint Saturdays, SharePoint Camps, conferences and other events online and in person.
God Bless.
Well we had a little hiccup with this months meeting – between some double-booking of the room and enough snow to seriously impact travel efforts on Wednesday – but we still worked through it. We didn’t have our usual on-site meeting, but all of our experience with Live Meetings this year and the ongoing support of Microsoft (Thank you Nick Stillings!) we did pull of a pretty successful online-ONLY meeting. We peaked out a little over 100 folks visiting.
Thank you everyone for your participation!
This month’s meeting was about SharePoint 2010 and Enterprise Content Management. This broke down to the major areas of document management, records management and web content management.
The slide deck is available now – the meeting recording will be available soon. (I’ll update this post once it’s available)
We had our first 2010 SharePoint Overview presentation today as part of the series of presentations we do at New Horizons Minnesota. This is still early information, so keep in mind that the content in this deck will continue to evolve as we get closer to RTM and we keep refining the content and presentation. I’ve posted the slide deck on the Minnesota SharePoint User Group site (MNSPUG) – HERE.
Oh, and it sounds like ‘New Horizons’ is reverting back to ‘Benchmark Learning’ soon… so links, etc will likely be changing.