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User Group Golf Day - Ullesthorpe July 10th - Leicestershire

2008-05-07T11:01:00Z

Hi all , In July we will be hosting a user group evening at Ullesthorpe ( Leicestershire ) when Bill English & Todd Bleeker are over. However we thought it would be fun to have a golf day during the afternoon as Ullesthorpe has its own 18 golf course attached to the hotel http://www.bw-ullesthorpecourt.co.uk/BargainGolfDays.asp . We have 25 spaces free for people wishing to take part in the event and I am going to see if we can get some of the vendors from the User Group sponsoring a prize or two as well as hopefully attend ( step forward vendors !! ) as we will also be hosting a nearest the pin and longest drive competition. The cost for the afternoon's Golf is £26.50 per person including food.

Skill is not important it is a fun day out and then in the evening we can all enjoy the User Group event.

The first Tee times are confirmed for Midday so assume to arrive at Ullesthorpe around 11am to enjoy the pre golf snacks and drink :) , we will finish approx. 5.30pm in time to relax for an hour before the evening user group sessions start.

If you are interested in confirming your slot please post your comment here and send a cheque for £ 26.50 made payable to Combined Knowledge Ltd to 2 The Terrace , Rugby Road, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, LE174BW to confirm your place. I need confirmations and payments no later than the 30th of May as that is when we confirm the final numbers.

If you wish to book a room at the hotel please contact me ASAP as the chances are the rooms will be booked up very soon as we are running two courses that week as well.

Any other questions just ask

Steve Smith

Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 Event for SUGUK members and SBSC Partners - London

2008-04-21T10:09:00Z

Hi all, on April 29th we are hosting some sessions at London Victoria Microsoft for the Small Business Server user group on WSS 3. Myself , Craig Carpenter and Bill English will be speaking. For more info on signing up visit here - http://www.iqubed.biz/blog/2008/03/20/windows-sharepoint-services-30-event-for-sbsc-partners-on-29th-april-2008/

I will be covering Content Types and Document Management and Craig will be covering Search Server Express. Bill English willalso do a session on user management across your site collections with DeliverPoint

Steve Smith

2nd Vendor Night - London - April 30th

2008-04-15T19:56:00Z

Hi all we have a great 2nd Vendor night lined up for the end of this month including Bill English flying over from the US. 30 minute technical demo's only are allowed so sign up soon as I am sure it will be a full night like last time. More details and to sign up go here - http://suguk.org/forums/thread/9832.aspx

Steve Smith

April 10th - Accessibility event at Microsoft London

2008-04-01T16:45:00Z

For those interested there is a good lineup of content being presented in the Accessibility arena around SharePoint next week at Microsoft London. Details on the event can be found here: http://suguk.org/forums/thread/9463.aspx

Steve Smith

April 8th and 9th Community Day Reading - IT Hero Speakers needed

2008-04-01T11:14:00Z

For those of you attending the Big 2 day User Group event next week, which if you have't signed up yet has some great SharePoint sessions as well as other products http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk we also have an oppurtunity for you to take part.

At the end of each day we are running 5 minute slots for someone to get up and tell us about something you have done with SharePoint in your business / Job. The best 5 minute slot will win a cool prize. Once you have registered EMail me steve@combined-knowledge.com with your session title and I will pick the best ones to have a chance to win.

To sign up and register plus see all the sessions and abstracts go to the home page of the event http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk

See you there , it will be great event.We already have over 250 attending the days events but we can many more with 5 breakout rooms.

Steve Smith

The Biggest User Group Gathering is coming in April - Sign up Now !!

2008-03-18T20:35:00Z

Hi everyone on April the 8th and 9th at Microsoft Campus in reading we are holding our annual User Group Community day but not just 1 day this year but 2 !! We have so many sessions and so many User Groups holding sessions that we are making it two full days of great content including some great SharePoint stuff. There is also an evening event on each day as well if you want to enjoy a more social side to the event.

The really great part of this is that it is all FREE and hosted by the UK User Groups.

To sign up and register plus see all the sessions and abstracts go to the home page of the event http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk

I look forward to seeing lots of you there

Steve Smith

Fancy Having a go at becoming Speaker Idle ??

2008-02-27T10:47:00Z

Microsoft are looking for canditates to take part in a Speaker Idle competition at the upcoming Launch event of Visual Studio 2008, SQL 2008 and Server 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/heroeshappenhere/default.mspx

"Ready Steady Speak!"

"Ready Steady Speak!" is a mini Speaker Idol in which the contestants have been given predefined subjects to speak on for 5 mins in front of a panel of judges. There will be 3 categories: VS2008, SQL2008 and Windows Server 2008. We want to give your members an opportunity to speak at a major event rather than have recognised community speakers. So spread the word that there is an opportunity to a learn about the new products by giving a short Community talk at the Launch, with a chance to win a great prize too! Hosts and Judges will be in conflict over who is the best, so watch out for some banter and controversy!

In terms of numbers, we need about 4 Dev volunteers and 4 IT Pro volunteers to ensure we have a full competition. So far we’ve 2 volunteers for Dev presentations and one probable for IT Pro, so we spread the word out there to your members, particularly those active ones who may have dabbled in speaking and want an opportunity to have a crack at a large event. Excellent prizes up for grabs as well as accolades !!

If you are interested please contact dave@nxtgenug.net

Steve Smith

Midlands Meeting - Ullesthorpe - March 13th

2008-02-26T09:47:00Z

Hi all , another of my new style User Group meetings lined up with sessions on Design best practices for Shared Services and Web Applications plus a special session dedicated to the SharePoint Conference round up that some of us are attending next week in Seattle. Hopefully a few Vnext bits to pass on !! ?? http://suguk.org/forums/thread/8647.aspx Sign up here and more info on the event.

Steve Smith

2nd Vendor Night Suggestion wanted

2008-02-22T14:41:00Z

ok folks , the 2nd Vendor night is being planned for April and I would like you all to suggest some products you would like to see and if any vendors out there would like to do a 30 minute demo of their product ( not solution this has to be a product we can all buy ) then please give me your suggestions. I have a few companies already lines up like AvePoint but I am always keen to get the companies in that you al want to see. Please post on this forum your suggestions. http://suguk.org/forums/8581/ShowThread.aspx#8581

Steve Smith

Upcoming SharePoint Event on Capacity Planning in Manchester

2008-02-06T10:51:00Z

For those of you interested in some knowledge on capacity planning our own Nick Swan is doing a Technet session on Capacity Planning around SharePoint in Manchester on February 19th

To sign up follow the link below

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032365180&Culture=en-GB

Steve Smith

Coventry User Group Meeting February 12th

2008-01-26T17:23:00Z

Hi All , we are back in the Midlands with a great session On ISA Server and Extranets. Matt Groves will be doing the main session with a Q&A and discussion after. Sign up here for the event :

http://suguk.org/forums/thread/8064.aspx

SharePoint , Extranets and ISA, it's easier than you think”.

The presentation will be on configuring SharePoint for Extranet access in the real world and also how to work with ISA server as a SharePoint publishing tool

Event details
18:00 – 18:30 registration

Location
Trinity Expert Systems Ltd
The Oaks
Westwood Way
Coventry
CV4 8JB

Newcastle meeting Roundup

2008-01-26T16:54:00Z

Thanks to everyone for attending the meeting at Newcastle last week. We had 40 people and I hope everyone found the sessions useful. I found it very interesting that out of all the attendees no company had yet installed an Anti Virus on their SharePoint system. I think I will repeat this session in London in the near future.

A for Penny's talk we had the extra surprse of Penny giving away Her new MS Press SharePoint Designer Step by Step http://mindsharpblogs.com/penny/archive/2008/01/20/4184.aspx

As I mentioned in the meeting we really want some suggestions for what you would all like to cover in future meetings and we can then start to organise them. To get the ball started :

- To have an open round table discussion on best practices for Design and implementation.

Steve Smith

Newcastle meeting - Jan 23rd - Back on - New Venue

2008-01-10T11:55:00Z

Hi all we have re-arranged the user group meeting in Newcastle for this month. Same agenda , same speakers. Go here to sign up and get directions http://suguk.org/forums/thread/7684.aspx , The venue is also only 50 yards from the Metro station which is nice.

Penny Coventry - SharePoint MVP

SharePoint Designer for All - During this session, you'll see how SharePoint Designer can be used to customise SharePoint Team Sites, advanced data manipulation using the DataView Web Part, consume RSS feeds and how to complete administrative tasks, such as moving documents, including their metadata and limiting what users can do with SharePoint Designer.

Steve Smith- SharePoint MVP

Forefront Security for SharePoint - Find out how to use Microsoft’s security product lo lock down your SharePoint environment including Anti Virus , Keyword Checking and Content Filtering

Arrive 6:30 for a 7pm start

See you there ,

Steve Smith

Thanks and Have a great holiday everyone

2007-12-21T11:06:00Z

Nick and I would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a great New Year. Thanks for all your support this year on the forums ( posters and answering ), The Speakers , the people who help host events ( Big thanks to Phil Cross at Microsoft ) and everyone for making the effort to turn up to the events. Nick and I are sure next year will be even better and we look forward to seeing many of you next year.

Steve & Nick

64 bit only for VNext ; For those planning SharePoint Servers now

2007-12-18T22:02:00Z

You may be interested to know that Microsoft have now made it official that the next version of SharePoint will be released on 64 bit only. So if you have the choice today and you think that upgrading may be something you would do in the lifespam of that server then you may want to test 64 bit now. The Devil is in the detail but look to step 5 http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/12/17/12-things-to-do-over-the-holidays.aspx

Steve Smith