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November’s Minnesota SharePoint User Group meeting on Wednesday, November 11 will be a special, ALL DAY session!  This super-sized user group will be chock full of information on SharePoint 2010 as well as highlights from the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas. 

The first part of the day will be an overview of SharePoint 2010: A Walk Around the Wheel.  Stick around for lunch, and listen in on "Preparing for 2010: The Top Things to Do Now."

In the afternoon, we will be offering four different breakout sessions, each taking a deeper look into various aspects of SharePoint 2010. We’ll have 2 different "tracks," a Business Track and a Technical Track.  We will split the room in half and these breakout sessions will be going on simultaneously.

On top of this day full of new content, we’re going to have our first MNSPUG-associated "SharePint"!  Yes, after Raymond and I heard about all the other SPUGs out there and how critical the socializing/drinking component of their user groups are – we thought you’d want that opportunity too.  We’ve been missing out with our morning meetings.  🙂 So, this month we’ll be over at Major’s in Bloomington and will reserve some space, please come to socialize over a pint and hear more stories from Las Vegas!

We hope you can join us for at least part of if not the whole day! There will be lots of new information and demos, as well as time for Q&As. 

For more details on sessions, schedule and registration, see the MNSPUG site. 

FYI – Recordings made of the Minnesota SharePoint User Group are now available on the “Find a Presentation” page.  We’ve done a few since the beginning of the year, including a WSS 101 and MOSS 101 session.  The more recent sessions even include video.  😛 

Raymond and I are working on next week’s MNSPUG session – SharePoint and Social Networking.  It looks like we’re going to have a full house for this month’s MNSPUG meeting.  As of early last week we had 175 folks registered, which generally means we’ll get around 140-150.  So make sure you get there early for a good seat.  There will also be a Lunch and Learn session following the MNSPUG session with NewsGator presenting their SharePoint integrated products. 

Two other quick notes/reminders:

1. Microsoft isn’t hosting soda anymore.  🙁  There are a number of businesses in the office complex for soda and other beverage options.  Microsoft continues to have coffee, tea and water available.   
2. There’s still a lot of road construction going on near the Microsoft office, but as of the last time we checked, you can still access the parking ramp for the 8300 building.  Allow yourself a few more minutes to navigate the mess.  

See you on Wednesday! 

(as requested, I’ll hold off on cutting my hair until after this week’s session 🙂 )

Oh how the monthly SPUG events just sneak up on you. 

April 1 – Iowa SharePoint User Group
April 2 – Nebraska SharePoint User Group
Kirk Hofer will be delivering a variation of the SharePoint Search presentation Brian and I did at the March MNSPUG – reviewing the SharePoint search landscape and walking through configuration of Search Server 2008 Express integrated with Windows SharePoint Services v3. 

April 9 – Minnesota SharePoint User Group – (click to attend)
Erik Mau will be presenting on the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) features of MOSS 2007. 

April 9 – Lunch and Learn – eDocument Resources (click to attend)
Immediately following the MNSPUG meeting there will be a Lunch and Learn session exploring the ‘better together’ story with SharePoint and eDocument Resources – an advanced ECM and workflow solution. 

See you there!