SharePoint User Group UK

Hi everyone , Nick and I will be putting together the next few 2008 sessions soon and we wondered if anyone wanted to suggest any topics that they would like to hear about / demos and if you actually fancy volunteering for a session.

You can post here or if you prefer mail Nick or myself directly.

Thanks

Steve Smith

Hi Steve

There are a couple of areas I would really like to see covered in future presentations;

1. The new capacity planning tool that just went into public beta on the MS Connect website.
2. Users in SharePoint - in my experience this is often percieved to be much simpler than is actually the case! Things like the differences between a WSS user and a MOSS user, user profiles, integration with existing directories (AD, LDAP, SAP, BDC, etc.), persisting updates to user profiles, MySites, authentication (pros/cons of FBA, Windows Live integration, etc.), security (SP groups, AD groups, etc.), SSP administration. Users are arguably the single most important element of SharePoint and I think that most people, myself included, would benefit from a much deeper understanding of what is happening "under the covers".

Thanks to yourself, Nick and all the other MVPs and speakers who donate their venues, time and efforts to make the SUGUK so successful. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

Matt

I've been doing some very interesting work for a FTSE 100 client of mine. We have a MOSS Publishing site that needs to push translated content out to tens of country specific sites where the company operates. After using MOSS' Site Variations for some time I've gained a good overview of the benefits and pitfalls of the approach. If there is any great forum interest in using Site Variations to publish multi-lingual Sharepoint sites I'd be happy to do a demonstration and discussion. Venues and timing to be agreed of course!

Jamie

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Jamie McAllister
Consultant
Northridge Solutions Ltd

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiemcallister

Hi

Three areas very important to me and I would travel the length of the country to listen to an authorative speech:

1. Business Data Catalog

I am pulling in data to the BDC using Web Services, but I would like to verify my techniques for doing this are 'proper'.  Also developing against the BDC API, how the BDC responds to changes in the raw LOB data.

2. User Profiles

How user data in profile/My Sites can be combined with HR sensitive data and maintained in a central place.  HR want to maintain pictures, bios etc to make available to all, but at the same time store sensitive docs against each user for private use.  Also pull reports off such as Staff in Department X etc.

3. Reports

Whats required to create SQL Reports from SharePoint List data and integrate these reports into WSS Sites.

Cheers

Mark

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If it bleeds, we can kill it.

Hi Steve,

I would be happy to demonstrate the HP SharePoint 2007 Sizer tool released a few months ago.

Andy

Frank Faulds, from officetalk, could demonstrate ShareKnowledge which is one of the first complete E-Learning SCORN Authoring packages to be developed using Sharepoint 2007 as the engine engine. It takes the SLK to a new level. This award winning software developed with Microsoft is being used in Moscow University and is now being brought to the UK by officetalk.

Andy Dale
officetalk
andy.dale@office-talk.com
website http://office-talk.com

 

Hi Steve, Nick and everyone else at SUGUK.  Hope you all had a good christmas and an exceptional new year.

I was wandering if there are any plans to do a session in Telford at some point this year?

 

Thanks

 

Mark

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Mark Tonks
Knowledge Management and Compliance
SharePoint Support/Consultant
Office: 01952 295194
Tel: 0870 238 2173

Hi guys...more and more customers want to 'brand' moss sites so I would love to see more indepth branding sesssions particularly around sps designer and base templates

thanks

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Dave Nixon
MOSS BLOG

Regarding Users in SharePoint, I have developed an approach which we are using to drive out a robust and effective analysis for document metadata when using SharePoint as a deparmental knowledge base or document repository.  I'd be happy to share some of our work on that. 

It's "soft" - but then we all know that soft isn't easy, that soft is in fact really very hard!

Cheers

Ben Warsop
HBOS plc 

Hello Steve

We would love to do a Demo/Session on our PingFederate Software and how we integrate with Sharepoint and add Secure Internet Single Sign On/Identity Federation Softtware.

Regards

Daniel Dowell

 

Thanks for all your comments everyone , keep them coming as it helps us to plan future meetings.

Steve Smith

We at TSG would be happy to present some customer case studies for MOSS 2007 and WSS  V3, with over 100 deployed sites from 5 to 1000+ users across a broad range of business we can cover the good, the bad and, if required, the ugly!!

Hi All,

I would like to hear more information on the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) or general experience of making SharePoint sites accessible.

I would be willing to perform a K2 BlackPearl demo using Forms Services (InfoPath Forms) and SharePoint. Also give feedback on the pros and cons over using Microsoft WF and my experience with K2.  This could be a flip side to Chris O'Brien's recent discussion of creating SharePoint workflows with Microsoft WF.  CIBER delivered one of the first UK BlackPearl projects into production November last year.

Thanks

Dave

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My SharePoint Blog www.davehunter.co.uk/blog

I have to say I have been looking into MOSS variations recently and found good sources of information very hard to come by on this.

Would you be interested in offering some friendly advice with regard to what you can and can't do with variations and column translations?

Hey Mr Dowell,

How are you getting on?   

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James Fletcher | EMEA Partner Manager

AvePoint | Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

CHANGING THE WAY ADMINISTRATORS MANAGE SHAREPOINT™

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