SharePoint User Group UK

Hi all!

The south user group will be meeting in Bristol at 6:30pm on 27th Jan 2010. HP Labs have kindly allowed us to use their auditorium, and are going to be providing some pizzas! Attendance is free, as usual, and new attendees are particularly welcome. To attend please post a response to this post by Monday 25 Jan, giving your name and names of others if there is more than one of you please.

Directions to the venue can be found here, and there is plenty of free parking.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/bristol/directions.html

Agenda is:

6:30pm Welcome

6:40 - 7:20 Andy Ginn: An overview of HP white papers and tools organisations can use when adopting SharePoint
Andy introduces some useful tools for sizing and configuration of SharePoint environments, and reviews research from HP labs looking at the performance of SharePoint on Windows Server 03/SQL Server 05 versus Windows Server 08/SQL Server 08 – come along and see if the results are as you would expect! Best practice guidance on the use of virtualised solutions is also reviewed.

7:20 - 7:35pm New Speaker Slot - Lee Fedder
Integrating SharePoint with insurance claims management applications via web services. Issues and lessons learned.

7:35 - 8pm Break, pizzas

8 - 9pm Mark Macrae: Utilising SQL Reporting Services in Integrated Mode for SharePoint and Empowering Information Managers with Report Builder
In this session Mark will be focussing on Reporting Services - a ‘free’ but often forgotten Business Intelligence tool which has much improved with SQL 2008. Mark will discuss the steps required to install and configure SSRS in SharePoint Integrated Mode, complete with the much improved Report Builder 2.0. He will then demonstrate how Report Builder can be used by Power Users to quickly build reports, manage and version them in SharePoint, approve and publish to an audience. Finally, Mark will examine the improvements which SharePoint 2010, SQL 2008 R2 and Report Builder 3 will offer when they are released.

See you there!
Ian

Well, I will be there! ;-)

I'll be there (my 1st time!)

Excellent, look forward to meeting you! Can you let me know your name please as we need it to get you in to the building!

You can mail me if you don't want to post.

Thanks
Ian

John Mills, hence j0mi

Hi Ian

Hotel booked, I'll definitely be along.

Btw the directions link is missing an 'l' on the end, should be http://www.hpl.hp.com/bristol/directions.html

See you there

Matt Taylor

Thanks I've updated the link - see you there!

Ian

I'm coming...

PP Symon Garfield

Hi Ian,

I will be there too, looking forward to it

Regards

Phill

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MCTS : WSS 3.0 Application Development

I'll be there

Regards

Geraint Pugh (BT)

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Geraint Pugh

Principal Consultant - SharePoint
BT Engage IT

I'll be along too.

Hello Ian,

Tim Barker ..... I am planning to attend although the subject matter appears to be out of my scope.  Would be good to make some contacts though.....

Regards

TimB

I'll be there

I'll be there (new member) :)

Ryan Gillett
Harmoni Health Services

Hi Ian,

Count me in too please :) Last one was great with Joel!

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Regards,

Andy Talbot

www.SharePointAndy.com
@SharePointAndy