A meeting slightly west of London this time which is kindly being hosted by ICS. 3 sessions to get your teeth into!
1800 - arrive for tea and coffee
1830 - Architecting a Highly Available MOSS Farm - by Lewis Baldwin, ICS, Head of Infrastructure and Support
This 0.5 hour session will cover design considerations for architecting a highly available redundant MOSS environment.
Overview
of MOSS server roles with regard to availability and in addition
specifics on how to use SQL Server 2005 Database mirroring technology
to secure remote data replication to deliver a MOSS Disaster Recovery
site.
1900 - Governance: Protecting your SharePoint Investment - by Symon Garfield, ICS, SharePoint Practice Lead
This
half hour session will present a framework that will help organisations
ensure that SharePoint platforms grow in a controlled and managed
manner, remain aligned with business objectives and continue to deliver
genuine, measurable business value and Return on Investment.
1930 - break for food and drinks
2000 - Introducing Silverlight and SharePoint - by Colin Byrne, Flexnet Consultants
Silverlight is a major new technology from Microsoft and it's new entry into the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) space.
This presentation will explain what Silverlight is, what the benefits
are over standard web development and how Silverlight can be hosted in
and integrate with SharePoint.
With few slides and plenty of demos we'll walkthrough the creation of a
Silverlight video browser application that uses data from SharePoint
and then deploy it to SharePoint. We'll also show how a commercial
Silverlight 2.0 product for SharePoint is put together.
For location information and to sign up please visit here:
http://suguk.org/forums/thread/8918.aspx