Scotland

Anyone out there?

GeoffEVE — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:52:27 GMT

Hi Folks,

Finally managed to join SugUK and wondered if there are any SharePoint peeps in Scottie? Am based in the highlands past Inverness and trying to build a SharePoint group and hopefully get some events going?

Cheers

Geoff

Meetings - Scotland

PulsionSharepointDevelopment — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:41:46 GMT

Hi, im a new user and keen to find out about events taking place in Scotland but can't seem to gain access to the Meetings - Scotland area on here. Is this an invite only section??

thanks
L

Vendor night : Edinburgh 2nd June 2011

Chris Forbes — Wed, 04 May 2011 07:56:56 GMT

I am very excited to announce that the next SUGUK meeting in Scotland has now been scheduled at Microsoft, Waverly Gate, Edinburgh. on Thursday 2nd June 2011.

Agenda

Registration & welcome 5 - 5:30pm

Session 1 5:30 - 6:30
'SharePoint End User Adoption Solutions'
Speaker : Robb Pratt from Combined Knowledge.

6:30 - 7:00 Pizza and coke

7:00 - 8:00
Paul Henry and Pete Denness of OI Software will be giving an overview and a live demonstration of the nGage suite of collaborative tools and applications for SharePoint 2010. They’ll talk about how they built them leveraging what’s good and new in SharePoint 2010 as a development platform. But they will focus in on the issue of user adoption of SharePoint: how nGage can help you to define it, measure it and drive it. Because they believe that collaborative applications, whatever their potential, deliver little value unless you can sustain high levels of user adoption across an enterprise.

Paul Henry - CEO
Paul is OI Software’s founder. He is an experienced entrepreneur, having spent more than 20 years founding, building and leading consulting businesses operating in the technology sector. Paul’s early career was in accountancy. He then spent more than 10 years in the field of resourcing and organization development where he developed many of the innovative concepts that define nGage’s functionality.

Pete Denness - CTO
Pete is responsible for architecting and leading the development of nGage and has acquired a deep insight into how to leverage SharePoint 2010 as a development platform. He has over 10 years’ experience with the Microsoft technology platform. He worked for QSA from 1999 where he was instrumental in designing and developing ProductVine, one of the very first “Software as a Service” offerings. Moving to Charteris in 2005, Pete became recognised as a leading BizTalk consultant, responsible for delivering £1m+ development projects as a Technical Project Manager & Architect.

8:00 onwards SharePint

Register for the event here http://suguk-scotland.eventbrite.com

Look forward to seeing you there :)

Next SUGUK Meeting scheduled in Edinburgh, Thursday 20th Jan 2011

Chris Forbes — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:52:06 GMT

Hi All,

Apologies for the silence on my part but I have at last managed to get our next SUGUK meeting in Edinburgh scheduled for Thursday the 20th of January 2010. Hopefully you can make it along. You can register here http://sugukedinburgh.eventbrite.com

Sessions
It promised to be an excellent meeting with discussion on Service Federation from Spencer Harbar and Business Intelligence from Shaun O'Callaghan. A more detailed agenda shall be published soon.

Prize Draw
And if that wasn't enough attendees will also have a chance to win a full DVD set of this years SharePoint Evolutions conference held in London under a cloud of volcanic ash. If you weren't there this is an excellent opportunity to view all the sessions which took place over the jam packed 3 day.

Hope to see you all there. To register please visit http://sugukedinburgh.eventbrite.com

Hopefully see you there :)

SharePoint in Scotland

Nigel_23 — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:07:34 GMT

Surely there is someone in Scotland interested in SharePoint! I thought so.

Just as a start, lets see who is out there.

My name is Nigel, .......and I'm a SharePointolic. It was good to get that off my chest.

I'm located just to the north of Glasgow and can travel to anyway in the central belt for a meet and discussion (on SharePoint) if anyone's interested. If we can get a like minded group together then perhaps we can get Steve and the gang to come up for a SUG UK meeting and we won't feel so left out.

Lets start by just putting a message here if you do SharePoint in Scotland and want to talk to others about SharePoint out of office hours.

Best regards, Nigel (it is my mother's fault)

Edinburgh Thursday Aug. 19th - Bumper User Group Meeting

Chris Forbes — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:11:50 GMT

Hi all,

Edinburgh SUGUK meeting – Thursday Aug. 19th 2010

I am very excited to announce that the next SUGUK meeting in Scotland has now been scheduled at Microsoft, Waverly Gate, Edinburgh.

Agenda

Session 1 – 4:30 – 5:30
Virtualising and Monitoring SharePoint 2010 using Hyper-v R2

With the launch of System Center Service Manager 2010, along with Opalis, Microsoft has added to its already-comprehensive line-up of management technologies within the System Center Suite, enabling organisations to centrally configure, monitor, protect, virtualise, and more, but how does this apply to key workloads like Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint? Well, this session will reveal all – we’ll take a look at virtualising, monitoring, and protecting workloads like SharePoint and SQL, and explain how you can incorporate these technologies into your environments to streamline IT Operations and more.

Matt McSpirit is a Partner Technology Advisor, an MCSE, MCTS, and a VMware VCP, and has worked at Microsoft UK since January 2006. Matt's role aims to ensure Microsoft Partners understand the 'Art of the Possible' when it comes to Microsoft technologies, and how to build solutions around the platform. Matt's role has taken him across products, from Client to Server, through to Virtualisation & Management. Matt has delivered a number of high-profile events, including IT Forum in Barcelona, the Partner and Customer UK Launches of Windows Server 2008, and the UK Virtualisation Launch

Session 2 – 6:00 – 7:00

Microsoft Project Server 2010 on SharePoint 2010
Find out about Microsoft’s project management solution, built on the SharePoint 2010 platform. We’ll look at how Project Server 2010 can be used to solve demand management, resource management and work management problems, making use of SharePoint’s sites and workflow capabilities.

Tara Hellier works for Microsoft as a Partner Technology Advisor, focusing on business productivity solutions including SharePoint, Office and Project. Her role is to enable and support partners involved with deploying these solutions. Follow her blog at http://blogs.technet.com/tara

Session 3 – 7:30 – 8:30

Business Connectivity Services – What is it and what does it do for you?

Within this session we will begin by introducing the challenge of accessing line of business data through SharePoint 2010. We will briefly discuss The Business Data Catalog (BDC) before fully covering the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) and all of the new functionality.
Covered in this session will be the services of BCS including External Lists, Web Parts, Search, User Profiles, External Data Column and the Object Model. A detailed walkthrough of connecting to line of business systems using Microsoft tools such as SharePoint Designer 2010 along with a summary of why you may decide to connect to your Line of Business Data using Visual Studio Professional 2010 instead of SharePoint Designer.

Brett Lonsdale is the author of the SharePoint Developers Guide to the Business Data Catalog 2007, and contributing author to Developers Guide to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and the Administrators Companion 2007 & 2010. Brett is co owner of Lightning Tools limited www.lightningtools.com and co host of the SharePoint Pod Show www.sharepointpodshow.com.

SharePint 8:30 onwards

The invite obviously extends to SharePint at the pub afterwards for a more informal discussions on SharePoint over a beer or two.

CHANGE NOTICE : It looks like we will have 3 sessions for this meeting so we may kick off at an earlier time of 4:00 for 4:30 but I will confirm this as soon as possible, so please check back

Obligatory half-time pizza and refreshments.

Venue: Microsoft Offices, Waverly Gate, 2-4 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EG
Directions : http://www.microsoft.com/uk/about/map-edinburgh.mspx

To register free for this event please follow this link http://bit.ly/bYiuWU

Chris Forbes
Instalec
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http://chrisforbesblogs.net
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Edinburgh - Wed. 5th May 2010 - User Group Meeting

Chris Forbes — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:08:09 GMT

Edinburgh SUGUK meeting – Wednesday 5th May

I am very excited to announce that the next SUGUK meeting in Scotland is scheduled for May 5th at Microsoft, Waverly Gate, Edinburgh.

Spencer Harbar http://www.harbar.net/articles/About.aspx (MVP) will be discussing...

Scaling SharePoint 2010 Topologies
Learn about the new SharePoint Service architecture, and how you architect Services for your organization. We will talk about various Canonical SharePoint deployment types (Internet Presence, Partner Collaboration via Extranets, distributed/consolidated data centers, medium sized organization etc.) and describe how you architect the Services logical topology. In addition to the logical topology, we will drill into how you scale-up/scale-out the physical topology to meet the scale expectations for your organization. Regardless of the nature and scale of your organization, SharePoint 2010 now offers a topology for you!

and Jess Meats http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats/default.aspx from Microsoft shall be diving into the new workflow capabilities in SP2010 including the visual design capabilities within Visio 2010.

The invite obviously extends to SharePint at the pub afterwards for a more informal discussions on SharePoint over a beer or two.

Doors open at 5:30 and will begin promptly at 6:00, with the obligatory half-time pizza and refreshments.

Venue: Microsoft Offices, Waverly Gate, 2-4 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EG
Directions : http://www.microsoft.com/uk/about/map-edinburgh.mspx

Chris Forbes
Chris Forbes
Instalec
http://www.instalec.co.uk
http://chrisforbesblogs.net
http://twitter.com/chris_E_Forbes

Event in Glasgow: Developer Testing for Sharepoint

Colin Angus Mackay — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:38:54 GMT

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The Talk

The development of components for use in SharePoint is a complex process, and often seems to fly in the face of what is considered good development practice in a Test Driven Development world.

In this session Richard will show how using some good design practices and tools such as Typemock Isolator you can develop testable components for Sharepoint without even having to have Sharepoint on your development PC.

Speaker Biography

Richard is the Engineering Director of Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in BizTalk & SharePoint based business automation. As Engineering Director Richard is responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow the company, and their clients, to deliver solutions efficiently. All Black Mable's development activity is underpinned by Team System using Scrum as a process model. Richard is a Certified Scrum Master. Richard is a regular presenter at community events in the UK and Ireland (and the rest of the world given a chance) where his most common subject is software testing and development process.

Agenda

18:30 Doors Open & Refreshments
19:00 Welcome
19:10 Developer Testing for Sharepoint (Part 1)
20:10 Break
20:20 Developer Testing for Sharepoint (Part 2)
20:50 Feedback and Prizes
21:00 Close and Repair to the Bar

Venue

We are meeting the the Broker Suite at the Ramada Jarvis Glasgow City Hotel at 201 Ingram Street, Glasgow, G1 1DQ.

Host & Sponsor

This event is hosted by Scottish Developers with the kind sponsorship from Equator.

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