Hi everyone, we're happy to announce another evening of SharePoint in Nottingham! Two fantastic speakers lined up: Alex Pearce MVP recently co-organised the SharePoint Learning Gateway Conference and will be sharing his experience with SharePoint User Adoption. Also we have managed to grab Mike Watson while he's in the UK to do a session on SharePoint Performance. Mike is an inspiring speaker and has a huge wealth of experience to share. If thats not enough we'll be prividing coffee, food & soft drinks and there will be a SharePint event afterwards at the local pub.
Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start, finish approx 9pm:
Session Details
Session 1:
Alex Pearce MVP - My Top 5 User Adoption Techniques
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[Summary to follow]
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Alex Pearce
Alex (SharePoint MVP) has been in IT since the year 2000 and has worked both in education and industry. He has been working in schools within the West Midlands since 2004 before moving to the largest school in Europe in April 2008. His current role is Learning Gateway and ICT Manager at Great Barr School providing the Microsoft Learning Gateway to schools in the local area of Birmingham, UK.
His main focus is SharePoint but also works with all the products in the Microsoft Learning Gateway which includes Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange and ISA.
Alex believes that the most important part of his job is not about the technology but how it is being used to help the pupils and staff in their delivery of lessons and development of pupils work lives in lessons and at home.
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Session 2:
Mike Watson (SharePoint Mad Scientist) - Top 10 Ways to Improve SharePoint Performance
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"Top 10 ways to improve SharePoint performance today" - Got doubts about SharePoint performance? Are you struggling to stay ahead of user demand?
Want to virtualize SharePoint but scared of the performance implications?
Come learn how to improve SharePoint performance today using tried and true best practices and methodologies. In this fast paced class, we'll discuss the performance & capacity planning mindset, topology improvements, frontend & backend tweaks, and storage best practices.
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Mike Watson
Mike Watson (MCSE, MCSA) is a senior product manager at Quest specializing in SharePoint manageability, scalability and availability. Before moving to Quest Software, Mike was instrumental in planning and deploying Microsoft Managed Services and Microsoft Online, as well as Microsoft Services efforts such as MOSSRAP (MOSS Risk Assessment Program) and SLM (Service Level Manager). Mike is a top-rated speaker at technical conferences, a former instructor for Microsoft's Certified Master program, and a frequent contributor to whitepapers, articles, and books.
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Location
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Strelley Hall, Nottingham, NG8 6PE
SharePint
There will also be a SharePint event afterwards, at the Broad Oak pub, down the road in Strelley Village.
This is sure to be a great event - please add your name here if you would like to come along.
Mark Macrae
Director, Intelligent Decisioning Ltd
http://www.id-live.com