SharePoint User Group UK

Hi All!

Next meeting for the South region is at Southampton University, 6:30pm, 25 March. Everyone welcome, especially newcomers, and attendance is free.

Agenda is as follows

6:30pm Symon Garfield
Answering The Ultimate Question: What is SharePoint?

“What is SharePoint? This is still a question I get asked when out visiting customers... It’s kind of magical in a certain way. It’s a really special kind of product... It’s kinda like an operating system”, Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO, SharePoint Conference 2009 Keynote speech.

Despite ten years in the market, one hundred million licenses sold, over one billion dollars of sales revenues, and four versions of the product people still ask the question, “What is SharePoint?”, and even those at the top of Microsoft struggle to provide a meaningful answer. Answers range include; “An operating system”; “A business productivity infrastructure”; “A replacement for your file server”; “A web site with a database backend”; “A Collaboration platform”; “An Information Workplace Platform”; and, “A Horizontal Portal Product” .

This session explores why this basic question is so hard to answer, unravels some of the mystifying answers given, and explains why you should care!

7:15pm Ian Woodgate
SharePoint 2010 Records Management in 15 Minutes
A quick tour of records management in 2010.

7:30pm Break

7:45pm Penny Coventry MVP
Best Practice for Designing and Deploying Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2007
More often than not companies are never sure of the best method for building and using the workflow engine used by SharePoint. This session will briefly look at the out-of-the-box workflows using SharePoint Server 2007 and the browser and then look at using SharePoint Designer for building workflow solutions. Penny will discuss why this may or may not be the tool you need for your deployments pointing out the ease of use plus the limitations when trying to use SPD and solutions around these limitations.

8:45pm Ian Chivers
Creating Custom Workflow Activities for Sharepoint Designer

9:00pm SharePint!
We're in a university, there are loads of pubs around, it would be rude not to...


We are in Building 06 Room 1077 (Lecture Theatre A). Building 6 is also labelled as "Nuffield Theatre" on http://www.soton.ac.uk/about/whereissoton/maps/highfield_campus.pdf

All car parks around the Nuffield Theatre are free to Nuffield Theatre users in the evening and are accessed by turning into Salisbury Road from University Road, then taking the fist left into the car park. As you walk into Building 6, Lecture Theatre A is the big circular room straight in front of you.

See you there!

Ian

Hi Ian,

I'd love to come along.

Cheers,

Matt.

Hi All

For anyone interested, NxtGenUG are meeting this Thursday (18 Feb) in Southampton, see http://www.nxtgenug.net/ViewEvent.aspx?EventID=269
They've a couple of interesting sessions lined up.

Cheers
Ian

Dear Ian
I would like to attend.

Mike Walker
Chromedata Ltd

Ian,
I'm interested in coming along, and look forward to learning more about the agenda.
cheers,
Ian

Hi Ian

I am good to go! Please forward on the agenda.

Cheers

Tom

Count me in Ian
Seb

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Seb Matthews
http://twitter.com/sebmatthews

Hi Ian

I'll be there !

Regards

Simon
Senior Consultant
Matchtech

Thank you for organising a meeting in Southampton, I'll be there.

Angie Towers

 

Hi Ian, I hope to be able to get to this one.

I'd like to come

Cheers

Paul Hudson

Ian, thanks for posting the agenda,
please count me in...

cheers,
Ian

I'll be there :)
Penny

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MVP SharePoint Server

I'll be there!!

Jason Nelson

Hi Ian,

I'll be there

Regards,

(another) Ian.