Minnesota SharePoint User Group - March 12, 2008

Minnesota SharePoint User Group

How will Microsoft's new search products contribute to your SharePoint implementation?You're invited.SharePoint Server for Search is now Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express. Make it easy to bring enterprise search to your organization.

Please join us on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 to learn more about these new products and how they will enhance your experience.

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Covered topics include:

• Features and Overview
• Product comparisons
• Federated Search
• Integration with WSS and MOSS
• General search features (as time allows)

Presenter(s): Wes Preston, Senior Consultant, Inetium and Brian Caauwe, Consultant, Inetium

Prizes/Drawing: $50 Barnes & Noble Gift Card

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, March 12, 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 55437
Meeting Room: Lake of the Woods I and II

SharePoint Pro Live! Minneapolis - Updated Link

Event Title: SharePoint Pro Live! Minneapolis

Produced by: Windows IT Pro Magazine & OfficeSharePointPro.com

Date: April 15, 2007 – All Day Event

Location: Hilton Minneapolis, 1001 Marquette Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55403

Cost: $59 Early Bird Pricing through February 29th.
$99 If you register online before the event.

Description: Are you getting the MOST from MOSS 2007?This SharePoint event series offers information packed technical training on the most common business uses of SharePoint. Join SharePoint experts Dan Holme and Melissa Fraser for a good understanding of how to deploy and implement MOSS and SharePoint Services effectively in your organization. SharePoint pros, IT generalists, and IT directors/managers responsible for SharePoint deployments will gather in 10 US cities to learn how they can better use SharePoint to maximize their organizational effectiveness.

Discover how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services helps teams stay connected!

Register today to take advantage of Early Bird special pricing for only $59 through February 29th.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/go/sptwincities

SharePoint Pro Live! Minneapolis

Event Title: SharePoint Pro Live! Minneapolis

Produced by: Windows IT Pro Magazine & OfficeSharePointPro.com

Date: April 15, 2007 – All Day Event

Location: Hilton Minneapolis, 1001 Marquette Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55403

Cost: $59 Early Bird Pricing through February 29th.
$99 If you register online before the event.

Description:
Are you getting the MOST from MOSS 2007?

This SharePoint event series offers information packed technical training on the most common business uses of SharePoint. Join SharePoint experts Dan Holme and Melissa Fraser for a good understanding of how to deploy and implement MOSS and SharePoint Services effectively in your organization. SharePoint pros, IT generalists, and IT directors/managers responsible for SharePoint deployments will gather in 10 US cities to learn how they can better use SharePoint to maximize their organizational effectiveness.

Discover how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services helps teams stay connected! Register today to take advantage of Early Bird special pricing for only $59 through February 29th.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/go/sptwincities

SQL Server User Group Monthly Meeting - February 19

SSIS 2005 Lookup Transformation Deep Dive & Data Compression

Date: February 19, 2008
Time: 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Register Here or visit www.mnssug.org

SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: Deep Dive into the Lookup Transformation
Speaker: Lara Rubbelke, Microsoft

Challenged with designing temporary tables in SQL Server Integration Services? Need to match data from multiple sources? Wondering how to implement an insert/update/delete action within an Integration Services package? This session will focus on the Lookup transformation, with demonstrations of various use cases and implementation models.

Lara Rubbelke brings her passion for architecting, implementing and improving SQL Server solutions to the community as a Technology Specialist for Microsoft. Her expertise involves both OLTP and OLAP systems, data management, performance tuning, encryption, ETL, and the Business Intelligence lifecycle. She is an active board member of the local PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) chapter and regularly delivers technical presentations at local, regional and national conferences, user groups and webcasts. Notably, Lara has presented at Tech Ed (2006 and 2007), the PASS Summit (2006 and 2007), the Minneapolis SQL Server 2005 Launch, and delivered numerous webcasts on MSDN and TechNet. Lara authored the Microsoft whitepaper detailing SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition features and was a contributing author of "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development". Prior to joining Microsoft, Lara was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

Data Compression: Is Your Database Too Big?
Speaker: Sunil Agarwal, Microsoft

Data Compression: Is your database big? Are you interested in reducing its size to 1/2 or even to 1/3? The new release of SQL Server will provide you native data compression for your tables, indexes and partitions that can significantly reduce the size of your database. A smaller database can lead to better performance for IO bound loads, reduce memory requirement and the manageability cost (e.g. backup/recovery) of your database. This session describes how SQL Server compresses the data in SQL Server, common usage scenarios and its impact on the workload.

Sunil Agarwal is a Senior Program Manager in SQL Server Storage Engine Group, Prior to joining Microsoft, Sunil had worked in Digital Equipment Corp, Sybase, BMC Software and DigitalThink with primary focus on core database engine technology and related applications. Sunil holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, India, and has done graduate work in Computer Science at University of Rhode Island and at Brown University".