Minnesota SharePoint User Group - February 13, 2008

Minnesota SharePoint User Group

SharePoint Development Overview
You're invited.One of the core features of SharePoint is the ability to extend its features and functionalities with customizations. Please join us on Wednesday, February 13, 2008, for a high-level overview of opportunities to extend the SharePoint 2007 platform (both WSS and MOSS). Since starting presentations on the 2007 platform, we've lightly touched on development topics. This presentation will bind that information together and give developers, administrators and business users a foundation to understand where SharePoint can be extended. Click to attend

Covered topics include:

• What implementations mean to administrators
• Capabilities gained from customizations
• Opportunities to customize
• 'Wheel Aligned' examples of customizations
• Tools, methods, and best practices....
• and more!

Lunch and learn presented by KnowledgeLake.Immediately following the User Group, join us for a free seminar to learn about the business benefits of building your content management solution on the SharePoint platform. This presentation is designed to give you a solid understanding of the feature set for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We will help you understand the advanced capabilities of MOSS 2007 and outline the improvements made over SharePoint Portal Server 2003 in the areas of portal, search, content management, business forms and integration, and business intelligence. Additionally, see how you can leverage the SharePoint Server platform for content management business solutions. Realize a faster ROI and a lower cost of ownership using the platform-based ECM in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) with the KnowledgeLake Document Imaging and Capture system. Easily manage millions of paper documents, emails, reports and more. Streamline production document processing and increase your workers' efficiency. Register for the KnowledgeLake Lunch and Learn.

Presenter(s): Neil Iversen, Information Worker Lead Consultant, Inetium

Prizes/Drawing:$50 Barnes & Noble Gift Card

Save the Date.

Minneapolis Office Developers Interest Group:
A new interest group will be starting in February 2008 for area developers working with the Microsoft Office platform (including, but not limited to, SharePoint technologies). The first meeting will be the evening of February 21st, starting at 5:30pm, in the Microsoft Bloomington office (same room as MNSPUG). The February MODIG topic is Developing SharePoint Features-- invitations will be released shortly. If you're a developer that regularly attends MNSPUG meetings looking for deeper development content, this meeting is for you.


About the Minnesota SharePoint User Group:
Since 2004, Inetium's objective has been to develop and support the local community focused on SharePoint Technologies. The mission of the SharePoint User Group is to:

• Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies
• Transfer knowledge within the community
• Communicate best practices
• Introduce new products/solutions

We look forward to seeing you!

When: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Registration: 8:30 - 9:00 AM
Event: 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Networking/Q&A: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Where:Microsoft Office 8300 Norman Center Drive, Suite 950 Bloomington, MN 55437Meeting Room: Lake of the Woods I and II

Registration:
Click to attendContact Information:If you would like more information about this event or about the Minnesota SharePoint User Group, please contact Tara Schulz at (952) 646-0800 or tschulz@inetium.com.

ArcReady - Feb 21, 2008

Please join us for ArcReady: Service Lifecycle Management
Addressing the Challenges of the Provider/Consumer Relationship

www.arcready.com

While many organizations are starting to benefit from Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), many are now challenged with efficiently scaling the number of services provided and the number of consumers supported through their current approach and implementations. These organizations are starting to recognize the profound need for capabilities provided through service lifecycle management to help them address these challenges.

The Enterprise SOA Solutions team together with the Central Region Architect Evangelists will take a look at how organizations can attain a higher level of value from SOA through the development of a service lifecycle management strategy. We will look at the end-to-end service lifecycle, from service design, development, and deployment to versioning and retirement as well as the significance of infrastructure elements, such as repositories, registries, and intermediaries to facilitate and coordinate those stages.

This talk will also expose the impact this paradigm has on the culture and organizational makeup of IT departments.

MN Exchange Monthly User Group Meeting

We'd like to announce the next MNUCUG meeting for next Thursday, January 24 from 3 to 5pm at Microsoft's office in Bloomington. Please check out http://www.mneug.org for a link for directions.

**Please respond to this e-mail address (davidreller@gmail.com) to accept, or have others you'd like to invite send me an e-mail.**

The agenda for the meeting is..... all about you! We're not going to have the standard presentation and Q&A period. We're asking for you to bring your questions surrounding Exchange 2003/2007, SharePoint with Exchange, OCS, whatever you may be experiencing or have questions about. This meeting is all Q&A - you ask, we'll answer (as best we can!), and the goal is for everyone to leave with more information and answers than they walked in with. Also, please share this invitiation with anyone who you think would be interested in having their questions answered.

Sneak Peek at Server 2008

Inetium invites you to get a Sneak Peek at the next level of innovation and efficiency: Windows Server 2008.

Be one of the... first to see how the latest Microsoft technology can provide you with a secure, reliable, and easy-to-manage platform - to help you host and develop connected applications that can give your business a competitive edge.

At Inetium's Sneak Peek event, you'll:

• Discover the features and functionalities of Windows Server 2008
• See first-hand how Windows Server works through a pilot case study
• Be given time to ask and exchange thoughts

Where:
Microsoft- Bloomington Office
Lake of the Woods I Conference Room
8300 Normandale Blvd.Bloomington, MN 55437

When:
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Registration 8:30am-9:00am
Program 9:00am-11:00am

To Register:
Register Now; or for more information, email marketing@inetium.com.

VSTS User Group

About our meetings:
When: 3rd Wed of Every Month @ 5pm
Where: Microsoft 8300 Norman Center Dr., Suite 950Bloomington, MN 55437
Sponsored By: Microsoft & Intertech

If you plan on attending, click on this link to register for this event. https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=123990

Date / Time: Wednesday, Janurary 16th @ 5pm

Topic: Thomson's use of Team Foundation Server with Teamprise as a cross platform, integrated Configuration Management solution.

Description: Thomson's Online Services is responsible for the backend storage and retrieval of online assets. The Online Services - Quality department has implemented Team Foundation Server (TFS) for the group, which primarily develops in Java on Windows, Linux, Linux64, Unix and Mac. With the help of Teamprise, Online Services is now able to interact with their configuration management solution (i.e. TFS) from non-Windows environments.
Online Services has learned some valuable "cross platform" lessons while implementing TFS. These lessons may benefit others as they start to implement TFS for non-Microsoft development groups. A sampling of their experience is below.
Yes, you can use TFS to store non-Microsoft software assets
Replace multiple bug, change, source management tools with TFS
Use Team Build for non-Microsoft builds

Presenter: Mac Noland
Mac is a Lead Software Configuration Management Engineer for Thomson. He currently is the TFS administrator for Online Services.

PROMOTION **Membership Drive**
Each attendee will receive 1 point for attending the meeting, if you bring a new member/guest to the meeting you will also receive and additional 3pt per new guest, you guest will also receive 1 pt. In March ’08 we will hold a drawing of prizes. Each point is = 1 raffle ticket.

Ryan McCabeIntertech :: RMcCabe@Intertech.com :: 651.994.8558 x11 :: 612.816.2400 (mobile)
Instructors Who Consult / Consultants Who Teach

TechFuse 2008

TechFuse 2008 is a new conference that provides you with up-to-date information, education and resources on the latest developments in technology trends, technologies, application implementation issues, products and services from tons of local IT and development experts.

Website Address: http://www.nhmn.com/techfuse

You can either pick a track and stick to it or jump around from session to session to get the most out of your day.

Education track topics include:
SharePoint 2007
SQL 2008 (NEW Release!)
Server 2008/Exchange 2007 (NEW Release!)
Visual Studio 2008 (NEW Release!)
System Center
Solution Showcase

The day also includes a keynote presentation, plenty of vendor booths to peruse and free buet lunch! There will even be free snacks and beverages provided throughout the entire day and lots of great prizes — like free training and a PSP — given away at the close of the conference. We can't wait to see you there!

Some of our sponsors are still working hard on coming up with the best topics for you. Here are the sessions that are confirmed so far...

• Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 John Thurow of New Horizons of Minnesota
• SQL Server 2008: Enterprise Ready Data Platform Lara Rubbelke of Microsoft
• Introducing Windows Server 2008 Kevin Remde of Microsoft
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Ron Hovland of New Horizons of Minnesota
• Lessons Learned Building Applications Using WPF and Silverlight Rocky Lohtka and Anthony Handley of Magenic
• Sequencing Applications for Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization Lu Patrick of New Horizons of Minnesota
• Desired Conguration Management Using SCCM Matthew Obert of New Horizons of Minnesota
• Creating Custom Web Reports Using SCCM Matthew Obert of New Horizons of Minnesota
• SharePoint 2007 as your Application Development Platform Zandy Garrard and Nicolas Leger of RBA Consulting
• Site Master Pages: “Through the Looking-Glass...” Jim Ferguson of New Horizons of Minnesota
• MOSS Search Conguration: “You can’t always get what you want...But if you try sometimes you just might nd, you get what you need” Jim Ferguson of New Horizons of Minnesota

Frozen Perl 2008

- Frozen Perl 2008 -

From http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2008/

"Frozen Perl is a low-cost one-day workshop held at the University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center. The workshop will on Saturday, February 16 beginning at 9:00 AM. The workshop theme is 'Perl in Practice'. The talks presented at the conference will be about practical uses of Perl, and practical ways to improve your Perl code and development efforts. Early-bird registration is $10 for students, and $20 for everyone else. Those rates will double on January 12."

Code Freeze Symposium

The UMN's Software Engineering Center's annual Code Freeze symposium is January 17th ($90). From their site:

"In one action packed day, the Code Freeze 2008 Software Symposium will touch on many facets of innovation. We will discuss business innovations for four hours in the morning and technology innovations for four hours in the afternoon. Topics will range from how to rethink or change your business to a myriad of ways you can use cool new technologies to improve your software production."

http://www.umsec.umn.edu/code_freeze_08/

Facebook Developers Event

Interested in learning more about the Facebook platform? Join Facebook and local developers January 15 for the Minneapolis Facebook Developer Garage.

Presenters include members of Facebook's platform team who will give an overview of the Facebook platform and share their tips on best practices for creating Facebook applications.

Who: All are welcome.
When: January 15, 2008, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Where: Best Buy Campus, (7601 Penn Ave S, Richfield MN)

Register now at http://www.socialmn.com (You must register by Jan.
14th!). Also, join the Minneapolis Facebook developers group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5332567481

Attending a Facebook Garage is an opportunity for local developers, marketers, and others interested in Facebook applications and viral growth to socialize, network, and share ideas.

:: CALL FOR PRESENTERS ::

Got a cool Facebook app you want to show off? Do you know the techniques for virally promoting your app? Contact Eric Chapweske
(eric@slantwisedesign.com) if you would like to present at the Developer Garage.

:: SPONSORS NEEDED ::

There are still slots for sponsors for this event. Sponsorship money will be used to buy food and drink for attendees. Please contact Eric Chapweske (eric@slantwisedesign.com) if you would like to be a sponsor.

CTA - Communications Technology Association of MN Monthly Meeting

CTA - Communications Technology Association of MN

Building a World Class Security Program from the Ground Up

Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Eagan Community Center
1501 Central Parkway, Eagan, MN 55121

Registration Link: http://www.ctamn.org/cde.cfm?event=179280

This presentation will highlight the journey underway by the State of Minnesota to build an Enterprise Security Program, starting from a blank sheet of paper. The discussion will include political, cultural, and technological barriers that the State Chief Information Security Officer is now working to overcome. It will also showcase the framework of the new program and high priority areas that are now moving from design to deployment.

Speaker: Christopher P. Buse

Christopher Buse is the Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Minnesota. In this capacity, Christopher is responsible for designing and implementing the enterprise security architecture for state government. Before accepting this position, Christopher served as the Manager of Information Technology Audits for the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor. During his 19 years as an auditor, Christopher planned and oversaw information technology audit work done on large government computer systems. Christopher also provided state of the art technology tools and training for financial audit professionals who worked for the office.

Christopher Buse graduated from St. Cloud State University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. Since graduation, he has supplemented his accounting degree with numerous computer science and management information systems courses. Christopher is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Christopher is active in many professional organizations and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Christopher has held many leadership positions in ISACA during his career, including President.

Webinars From Magenic

You are invited to join Magenic at a complimentary webinar, designed as a resource for IT decision makers. Listen in and bring your questions for the Q&A.

Get More from BI with Integrated Performance Management (January 9)
For business and IT managers that rely on business systems to form insightful decisions, we’ll show you how to take your BI systems to the next level with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server. view details

How to Break Through Software Development's Million-Dollar, 18-Month ROI Barrier (January 15)
There's no law that says software development projects must take 18 months and a million dollars to deliver ROI. There is a better way! view details

How to Use CSLA .NET to make Building Object-Oriented Business Layers a Breeze (January 24)
In this technical overiew of CSLA .NET, Microsoft legend Rockford Lhotka expands on last month's webinar about the tremendous advantages of CSLA .NET. A must for technical professionals who want to master this development technique! view details

SQL User Group Monthly Meeting

Object Role Modeling (ORM)
A Better Way to do Data Modeling
January 15, 2008
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Register Here visit www.mnssug.

Object Role Modeling (ORM) A Better Way to do Data Modeling

Speaker: Gordon Everest, University of Minnesota

ORM is a better, richer way to do high-level, conceptual data modeling. It is distinctly different from the more traditional, record-based schemes such as ER, Extended ER (EER), IDEF1X, IE, or UML. It was originally developed by Shir Nijssen (called NIAM) and further enhanced by Terry Halpin. ORM is now embodied in Microsoft's Visual Studio.net Enterprise Architect/Team edition, and called VisioEA. However, it is practically impossible to use that tool without some basic understanding of ORM.

This presentation covers:* the essence of ORM data modeling* relationship of ORM to Object-Oriented Design and Development* comparison of ORM to conventional record-based modeling schemes such as ER - transitioning understanding from ER/Relational to ORM. * the basic constructs of ORM - the elementary fact sentence with one predicate (a relationship) and one or more objects (the entities)* representing a rich set of semantic constraints in ORM - dependency, uniqueness (multiplicity/exclusivity), value sets, role populations, frequency, ring, subtype/supertype, ... * graphical and verbal representations of an ORM model; abstractions in ORM* mapping an ORM model to a Relational data model. - automatic generation of a fully normalized model from an ORM model* The place of ORM in a taxonomy of data modeling schemes

This talk is a must for anyone involved with logical data modeling. It behooves every data professional to consider the ORM data modeling scheme and to critically examine the claims made for it. Find out for yourself if it really is a better way to do data modeling.

A good follow-on to "Overcoming the Limitations of ER Modeling."Having whetted your appetite with the problems of ER modeling and after giving you a taste of Object Role Modeling (ORM) as a better way to do data modeling, it would be appropriate to delve more deeply into the basics of ORM. If anyone is considering using VisioEA for data modeling prior to setting up a database in SQL Server, this is essential information.

AITP monthly Meeting (Topic: .NET and AJAX for Managers)

ASSOCIATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS NORTHWEST CHAPTER

Wednesday morning, January 9th, 2008
Topic: .Net and Ajax for Managers

The .Net Framework and Ajax programming languages may be familiar to your developers, but what do they mean from a manager's perspective? This presentation by Simacor trainer John Morgan will cover some core questions from the perspective of a manager to help us better understand the tools and technologies involved:
· What is Microsoft .NET
· The Microsoft Application Platform
· Introduction to Ajax
· Inside the .NET Framework
· Introduction to .NET Languages

Presenters: John Morgan
John Morgan is a Sr. Microsoft .Net Architect for Simacor, located in Plymouth MN. John has over 10 yrs Microsoft experience and 7 yrs of .Net and Web Technologies, helping Simacor clients with applications development and custom .Net solutions to solve specific business needs.

Location: Bloomington Sheraton Hotel near Interstate 494 and Highway 100
Meeting times:

7:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

7:30 AM Business Meeting and Program

9:00 AM Adjourn

Cost: $ 15 for AITP and MnIPS Members $ 25 for Guests$ 10 for Students
To register:Please go to Event Registration to make your reservation

Future meetings: February 6, 2008 - TBA

PACT (Professional Association for Computer Training) Monthly Meeting

This month @ PACT

January 11, 2008 Laughter is Serious Business: Are you having fun yet? (or Laugh! for the Health of it) Presented by Robin Getman

Are you serious about having fun? Need to lighten up? Laugh and learn as Robin Getman helps you identify ways to relax, renew and restore (and look forward to coming to work each day!). This session will tickle your funny bone, sharpen your customer service and do wonders for your self-esteem. You'll learn the proven health benefits of laughter, laughter exercises you can use the rest of your life, and fundamentals that ensure helpful, not harmful, humor in the workplace.

Please join us
Date: January 11, 2008
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. »
Location: Metropolitan Ballroom»get directions
Fees: Meetings are Free to members, theGuest Fee is $30 (You do not need to know a PACT member to attend. Please arrive by 8:15 to register.) Pay your guest registration with PayPal now!

About PACT

Our Mission: The mission of PACT is to provide opportunities for learning, networking, and the exchange of ideas among technical training professionals.

Our Vision: PACT exists to inspire technical training professionals to lead, develop, explore, network, and grow themselves and their organization, in a fun and motivating environment.

The Details: PACT (Professional Association for Computer Training), located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is one of the oldest professional computer training associations in the United States.

We meet the second Friday of every month to provide information, discuss options, and discover answers regarding issues and technologies facing today's ever-changing organizations.
PACT is your opportunity to take three hours a month to focus on your professional growth and development. At monthly meetings you will hear your peers and nationally renowned training and support experts speak about issues we all face as trainers and support personnel.
Join us as a guest or consider investing in your personal and professional development by becoming a PACT member.

SharePoint User Group Wednesday January 9

Minnesota SharePoint User Group

Vendor Showcase

Please join us on Wednesday, January 9, 2008, when the Minnesota SharePoint User Group hosts a vendor showcase for our next meeting.

Click to attend

Now is your chance to get involved! Bring your own experiences with SharePoint vendors to share with the group! We will have time to collaborate as a group on feedback. As a current SharePoint professional or administrator you won't want to miss this unique opportunity, as a variety of vendors and partners will present their SharePoint-specific products and how they increase functionalities of a current system. Discover for yourself how to accelerate SharePoint processes, from vendors such as:
CommVault
Barracuda
And more....

Prizes/Drawing:$50 Barnes & Noble Gift Card