East Anglia

Cambridge - 27th November (Cancelled)

Baddaz — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:15:51 GMT

Hi All

Note this meeting has been cancelled and will be rearranged for a future date.

The next Meeting for the East Anglia user group will be held on the 27th November in Cambridge. As it will be the last meeting of the year we are planning for it to be a bit different.

Agenda

Location

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park
Norman Way
Cambridge
CB1 3LH
United Kingdom

Registration

To register either reply to this post or go to http://sugukea012.eventbrite.com/

Thanks

Peter

Cambridge - 18th September

Baddaz — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:54:14 GMT

Hi All

The next Meeting for the East Anglia user group will be held on the 18th September in Cambridge. The meeting will be focused around SharePoint 2013, with details of speakers to be announced shortly.

Agenda

6.30pm - Registration
6:45pm - John Timney MVP - What's new for IT Pro in SharePoint 2013
7:45pm - Break
8:15pm - John Timney MVP &Brian English - SharePoint 2013 Project Management Overview for Team Members
Ask the Experts
9:15pm - SharePint

Location

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park
Norman Way
Cambridge
CB1 3LH
United Kingdom

Speakers and Abstracts

John Timney MVP - What’s new for IT Pro in SharePoint 2013
This session provides a holistic overview of the changes in SharePoint 2013 from an IT Pro perspective. The session is designed to help the audience to determine what significant changes they need to research, target and practice build in 2013. What significant architectural changes have occurred, what the new footprint entails, storage considerations, browser support, a dip into what has been dropped, an overview of what has matured, upgrade differences, search changes and other aspects that are important to an IT Pro in up-skilling with the next wave of SharePoint. This is a must attend session for leading edge SharePoint IT Pro looking to jump start their 2013 experience curve.

John Timney MVP & Brian English - SharePoint 2013 Project Management overview for Team Members
Taking a different viewpoint on SharePoint delivery this session looks at Project Management for SharePoint from the shop floor view, looking at how you as a member of the implementation team can impact the successful delivery of SharePoint 2013 and shows how having a better understanding of the stages of delivery can make you a better IT Pro. The session considers what the different phases of a SharePoint 2013 delivery are, who and what might be involved and what some of the gotchas are at each stage. Without ever opening Microsoft Project the session is ideally aimed at information architects, implementation and development staff and will also give Management a much needed view of delivery from the shop floor up.

Registration

To register either reply to this post or go to http://sugukea011.eventbrite.com/

Thanks

Peter

Cambridge 12th June

Baddaz — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:32:56 GMT

Hi All

The next Meeting for the East Anglia user group will be held on the 12th June in Cambridge.

The meeting is all about BCS, from creating connections to visualising the data.

Agenda

6.30pm - Registration
6:45pm - Penny Coventry - BCS: How to get started
7:45pm - Break
8:15pm - Anthony Obi - Accessing BCS Data: Query vs. Search
9:15pm - SharePint

Location

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park
Norman Way
Cambridge
CB1 3LH
United Kingdom

Speakers and Abstracts

Penny Coventry - BCS: How to get started

Many organizations see Microsoft SharePoint as yet another silo of information that can only exploit data stored in lists and libraries. In this session, Penny will review the different methods of using external data within SharePoint. The rest of the session will concentrate on Business Connectivity Services (BCS). She will show you what you need to do within the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration web site, how to use SharePoint Designer to create external conten types - the components that enable you to connect to external sources. Lastly Penny, will look at external lists.

Anthony Obi - Accessing BCS Data: SharePoint Query vs. SharePoint Search

In this session, Anthony will be looking at two different approaches for retrieving and displaying external data in SharePoint 2010. He will be covering the basic fundamentals required by each for it to work, before attempting to explore and compare a variety of features available within each approach through a series of demonstrations. Finally Anthony will attempt to highlight key points/comparisons to look out for when attempting to identify which approach to use in real world scenarios.

Registration

To register either reply to this post or go to http://sugukea010.eventbrite.com/

Thanks

Peter

Cambridge 20th March

Baddaz — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:11:05 GMT

Hi All

The next Meeting for the East Anglia user group will be held on the 20th March in Cambridge.

Agenda

6.30pm - Registration
6:45pm - Paul Hunt - Sift Through Search And Deliver More
7:45pm - Break
8:15pm - Matthew Hughes - Creating Effective OOTB Dashboards using Site Columns, Web Part Connections and Elbow Grease
9:15pm - SharePint

Location

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park
Norman Way
Cambridge
CB1 3LH
United Kingdom

Registration

To register please go to http://sugukea009.eventbrite.com/

Thanks

Peter

Cambridge - 24th January

Baddaz — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:06:22 GMT

Hi All,

Early news about the first East Anglia meeting in 2012, more details to follow so

About

The next Meeting for the East Anglia user group will be held on the 24th January in Cambridge.

Agenda

6.30pm - Registration
6:45pm - Ant Clay (@Soulsailor) - Using Innovation Games® to understand what your users really need from SharePoint
An overview of Innovation Games®, how we feel these techniques can apply to your SharePoint projects AND we'll get to play so you see hands-on the value the techniques can bring. Serious Fun!

7:45pm - Break
8:15pm - Brian Cartmel (@BrianCartmel) - SharePoint Multi Tenancy
- Why use multi-tenancy?
- When not to use multi-tenancy
- Scope – Web Application / Site Collection & Host Header Site Collections ( + demo)
- Subscriptions ( + demo)
- Service Application Partitioning ( + demo )
- Feature Packs (+ demo)
- Tenant Administration ( + demo)
- Bringing it all together ( + demo)
- Recommendations
- Sample PowerShell
9:15pm - SharePint

Location

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park
Norman Way
Cambridge
CB1 3LH
United Kingdom

Registration

To register please go to http://sugukea008.eventbrite.com/

Thanks

Peter

Cambridge - 2nd November

Baddaz — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:45:23 GMT

Hi All,

I am please to announce the next meeting of the East Anglia region.

About

The next Meeting for the East Anglia user group will be held on the 2nd November in Cambridge.

Agenda

6.30pm - Registration
6.45pm - Benjamin Athawes
7.45pm - Break
8.15pm - John Timney
9.15pm - Close and Sharepint

Speakers

Benjamin Athawes - Dodge the bullet: 10 common SharePoint administration mistakes to avoid
John Timney - SharePoint 2010 Virtualisation

Location

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park
Norman Way
Cambridge
CB1 3LH
United Kingdom

Registration

To register please go to http://sugukea007.eventbrite.com/

Thanks

Peter

Cambridge - 20th September

Baddaz — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:08:12 GMT

Hi All,

I am please to announce the next meeting of the East Anglia region.

About

The next Meeting for the East Anglia user group will be held on the 20th September in Cambridge.

Agenda

6.30pm - Registration
6.45pm - Symon Garfield
7.45pm - Break
8.15pm - Giles Hamson
9.15pm - Close and Sharepint

Speakers

Symon Garfield (Chief Technology Officer, ICS Solutions) (@symon_garfield
Giles Hamson (Senior SharePoint Consultant, Coporate Project Solutions) (@ghamson)

Location

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park
Norman Way
Cambridge
CB1 3LH
United Kingdom

Registration

To register please go to http://sugukea006.eventbrite.com/

Thanks

Peter

Cancelled - Cambridge 14th July

Baddaz — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:05:20 GMT

Hi All,

Due to the relatively low sign up, I have decided to cancel this meeting. Hopefully this gives everyone enough notice.

I will reschedule the meeting for a later date

Peter

Hi All,

I am please to announce the next meeting of the East Anglia region.

About

The next Meeting for the East Anglia user group will be held on the 14th July in Cambridge.

Agenda

6.30pm - Registration
6.45pm - Benjamin Athawes - Dodge the bullet: 10 common SharePoint administration mistakes to avoid
7.45pm - Break
8.15pm - Speaker Panel - Best practices of upgrading to 2010 and the ongoing support challenges
9.15pm - Close and Sharepint

Speakers

Benjamin Athawes - Dodge the bullet: 10 common SharePoint administration mistakes to avoid
This IT PRO session will be technical in nature and include common mistakes with some real world examples (not cloud related - this is on premise). The target audience includes those new to SharePoint administration and perhaps developers looking to make sure they are on the straight and narrow.

Speaker Panel - Best practices of upgrading to 2010 and the ongoing support challenges
A selection of previous speakers will lead an open discussion into the challenges of upgrading to 2010 and ongoing support. Topics could include Moving to 2010, Change Control, Delegation of responsibilities, Permissions, Patching and Data Migration. Please send your questions/topics to @sugukea or eastanglia@suguk.org

Location

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park
Norman Way
Cambridge
CB1 3LH
United Kingdom

Registration

To register please go to http://sugukea005.eventbrite.com/

Thanks

Peter

Cambridge - 31st March

Baddaz — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:04:47 GMT

Hi All,

I am please to announce the next meeting of the East Anglia region.

About

The next Meeting for the East Anglia user group will be held on the 31st March in Cambridge. The theme of the evening will be "Extending the Boundaries of SharePoint."

Agenda

6.30pm - Registration
6.45pm - Randy Perkins - Extending the Boundaries of SharePoint: Migration & Storage
7.45pm - Break
8.15pm - Anthony Sale - Extending the Boundaries of SharePoint in the Client
9.15pm - Close and Sharepint

Speakers

Randy Perkins (Solution Architect, Fujitsu) (@sharepointrandy) - Extending the Boundaries of SharePoint: Migration & Storage
This interactive session will provide overview along with some tips regarding migration and storage for SharePoint. Don’t under estimate the time and effort required when embarking on migration to SharePoint from another CMS/DMS, file system or even a pre-existing SharePoint farm.
Anthony Sale (Senior Developer, ISC Software Solutions) - Extending the Boundaries of SharePoint in the Client
The new SharePoint 2010 client API allow you to provide a richer and more powerful client side experience. Working with Forms and Browser based examples Anthony Sale will demonstrate some of the new possibilities.

Location

We will be back again at the Holiday Inn Express in Cambridge.

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park
Norman Way
Cambridge
CB1 3LH
United Kingdom

Registration

To register please go to http://sugukea004.eventbrite.com/

Thanks

Peter

Cambridge 27th January

Baddaz — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:41:06 GMT

About

The next Meeting for the East Anglia user group will be held on the 27th January in Cambridge. It will be a session specifically focused around Forms within SharePoint.

Agenda

6.30pm - Registration
6.45pm - Jess Meats - Introducing InfoPath 2010
7.45pm - Break
8.15pm - Jason Firth - Custom Forms Workshop
9.15pm - Close and Sharepint

Please note the slightly later start to time to allow for Cambridge traffic.

Speakers

Jess Meats (Microsoft) - Introducing InfoPath 2010

Jess answer the questions What is InfoPath? What’s new in 2010? And how does it relate to SharePoint

Jason Firth (Mindpoint) - Custom Forms Workshop

Jason will show how to create forms if your company hasn’t invested in SharePoint 2010 Enterprise

Location

We will be back again at the Holiday Inn Express in Cambridge.

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park
Norman Way
CB1 3LH Cambridge
United Kingdom

Registration

To register please go to http://sugukea27jan.eventbrite.com/

Follow Up from Cambridge 11th November

Baddaz — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:24:14 GMT

Thanks again to everyone who attended the meeting in Cambridge on the 11th November. I have a couple of useful links for you so that you can catch up on the event.

I have added a blog post with some pictures and videos http://www.baddaz.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=11

Antony Clay has done a great blog post on the event and made his presentation available http://www.sharepointbusinessvalue.com/2010/11/east-anglian-celery-tale-of-sugukea.html

Look out for details of the next event sometime in January.

SUGUK East Anglia Meeting -11th November -

Baddaz — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:08:20 GMT

Just to let everyone know we will organising the next User Group meeting for East Anglia in Cambridge on the 11th November.

The agenda will be as follows

Session 1: Antony Clay (@Soulsailor) - Don’t do SharePoint Projects
The session will be around how most SharePoint projects are based upon business requirements not Business Value, this is why the SharePoint Implementing Community get a lot of customers who “don’t get it” or don’t feel SharePoint delivers value.

Session 2: Mark Macrae (@m_macrae) - BI Tools in 2010 Round Up
This session will look at everything from Chart Part to PerformancePoint/SSRS.

We have a new venue for the User Group Meetings

Holiday Inn Express Cambridge
15-17 Coldhams Park, Norman Way
Cambridge
CB1 3LH
(http://www.expresscambridge.co.uk/)

The meeting will start at 6.30pm, with a break in the middle and we will aim to finish about 9pm.

Please let me know by replying to this post if you want to attend. Or alternatively just drop me an email at eastanglia@suguk.org

Thanks

Peter

Follow Up to First East Anglia Meeting

Baddaz — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:53:25 GMT

Thanks everyone who attended the First User Group Meeting last night, I thought it was a great night. Also thanks again to Steve and Penny for Speaking.

We are hoping to organise the next meeting in November, and I will post up another message once I have more details. However I am really keen to get feedback from people.

> What topics would you like to be covered in future meetings?

> Would you like future sessions to be more Development or Technical or Business User?

> Please let me know if you would be willing to speak in a future meeting, and what you would like to speak on?

Thanks again for coming

Peter

First East Anglia meeting - September 16th - Cambridge

Steve Smith — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:21:32 GMT

Hi all

We kick off the first meeting in East Anglia on September 16th at Perse School in Cambridge.

Start time is 6.30 until 9.30 with a break inbetween sessions.

Session 1
Steve Smith - Combined Knowledge

SharePoint 2010 Great new features for Document Management

In this session Steve is going to go through some of the great new features in SharePoint 2010 for document management and compliancy.

Session 2
Penny Coventry

Creating business application using Access 2007 and SharePoint

This session looks are how to use Office Access 2007 to build applications with Windows SharePoint Services. The integration of these two products allows for better manageability of the data and ownership of the solution by the business.

Date & Time – 16th September 2010 Starting at 6.30pm

Location –

Perse School
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 8QF
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&q=perse+school&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=perse+school&cid=0,0,11977413658719518582&ei=t0NNTMWYPMuTjAfC9YTYDA&ved=0CCQQnwIwAQ&hnear=&z=16&iwloc=A

Post A reply here if you are planning to attend.

Looking forward to seeing everyone

Steve

Geographical Spread and SharePoint Angle

jasonfirth — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:47:21 GMT

Hi everyone, for the East Anglia region I'd be interested in knowing what the geographical spread is for SharePoint, whether you're an end-user business or providing services and how long you've been working with SharePoint. Could be interesting to see the make up for the group.

I'll go first:

Colchester, Services, 8 years (has it really being that long?)

East Anglia

Cambridge - 27th November (Cancelled)

Cambridge - 18th September

Cambridge 12th June

Cambridge 20th March

Cambridge - 24th January

Cambridge - 2nd November

Cambridge - 20th September

** Cancelled - Cambridge 14th July **

Cambridge - 31st March

Cambridge 27th January

Follow Up from Cambridge 11th November

SUGUK East Anglia Meeting -11th November -

Follow Up to First East Anglia Meeting

First East Anglia meeting - September 16th - Cambridge

Geographical Spread and SharePoint Angle

Cancelled - Cambridge 14th July