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The Baltimore SharePoint User’s Group welcomed a special guest speaker to the meeting held on February 18th, 2010.
Tom Miller of Bluethread stopped by to discuss BLOB storage within SQL Databases and what his company’s product StoragePoint can do to alleviate under-performing database management leveraging the tool.

StoragePoint is deployed to the Web Front End server as a solution package and provides a list of options within the SharePoint Central Administration site to manage and configure the tool.

StoragePoint is available as a 30 day trial installation for evaluation and testing purposes with full support for SharePoint 2010 at this time.

For more information on StoragePoint, log into www.storagepoint.com

Written by: Shadeed Eleazer

Written by: Shadeed Eleazer

The Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group will be unveiling SharePoint 2010 at their next meeting scheduled for October 28th starting at 5:30pm.

The meeting location will be the Microsoft Greater PA District office located in Malvern, PA.

Meeting Overview

We will discuss the business momentum and investment areas in the new release including demonstrations of new functionality that makes SharePoint the premier choice for a business collaboration platform. We will drill into the new functionality in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and the benefits it provides to end users, IT professionals, and developers.

Areas such as SharePoint Communities, Insights, and Sites will be discussed and demonstrated to show the value that the new Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can bring to enterprises of all sizes.

Explore the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) and the remarkable changes to the Business Data Catalog (BDC).

5:30 - 5:45 Registration, Food and Beverages, Networking and News

Discussion of events and news in the local SharePoint community.

5:45 - 6:00 Topic: SharePoint Tips and Tricks

Audience: All
Technical Level:  100 - 200

6:00 – 7:00 Topic: SharePoint 2010 Unveiling

Audience: All
Technical Level: 200

7:00 – 7:45 Topic: SharePoint 2010 Composites

Audience: All
Technical Level: 200

7:45 - 8:00 Round Table Q and A, Raffles and Giveaways

Round table discussions will be held on specific challenges facing the members. If you have an issue that you would like to have addressed by the group submit your questions to phillysharepoint@rjbtech.com

Written by: Mr.Shadeed Eleazer

SharePoint User’s Group of Northern Virginia will be hosting two sessions for its September meeting.
Session 1 kicks off with Architecting a Robust Global SharePoint Infrastructure delivered by Tom Lin of AvePoint, one of the leading providers of SharePoint backup and recovery.

Session 2 is Nelson Johnson with CRM Integration. Food and soft drinks will be provided. The organizers are requesting that you RSVP to properly accomodate attendees.

CRM integration
September 2009

Meeting Agenda:
Thursday September 10th, 2009
6:00 PM Meet, Greet and Eat (food and drinks provided by Surfray)
7:00 PM Group business, sponsor introductions, summer conference plans
7:10 PM Presentation #1 (see below)
8:15 PM Presentation #2 (see below)

Location:
At the offices of Hire Strategy, 11730 Plaza America Drive Reston, VA 20190
Map: http://tinyurl.com/24qv88

Please RSVP if you plan to attend so that we can buy enough food

Presentaiton #1: Architecting a Robust Global SharePoint Infrastructure

Speaker: Tom Lin, AvePoint

When deploying SharePoint as a business-critical collaboration platform and digital-asset repository, ensuring data access, availability, and protection, is absolutely critical. Though SharePoint and SQL Server offer some scalability and data protection natively, these may prove inadequate for most competitive organizations.

In this session, we will discuss the key components of any successful SharePoint global deployment. This will include architecture configurations for efficient data access across geographies and networks, considerations for high availability of data and SharePoint sites, and robust design including backup & recovery planning. After analyzing SharePoint’s native capabilities, we will identify best practices, available free tools, and other best-of-breed solutions for ensuring a fully distributed and protected SharePoint platform.

Finally, we will discuss SharePoint archiving, and review how intelligent archiving procedures, when coupled with successful replication and data protection plans, can improve platform performance and reliability, and lower storage and management costs.

Speaker Bio: For a number of years Tom has been working exclusively with enterprise-level data protection and management software deployments for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Tom’s extensive experience with SharePoint custom backup and recovery applications has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within SharePoint communities and at technical events.

Suggested audience:all

Audience experience level: any

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Topic #2: CRM integration

Speaker: Nelson Johnson

Nelson will discuss some of the features of Microsoft CRM and how it makes an excellent enhancement for a true database tool in the SharePoint environment. See how it works hand-in-hand with SharePoint as a tool that supports data integrity using the relational database model.

Suggested audience:Developer

Audience experience level: All

Food Sponsor: Surfray, Pioneers in Enterprise Search and Behavior Analytics, Contact Alan Anderson at aan@surfray.com.

Room Sponsor: Hire Strategy, a full-service professional staffing firm providing consulting services, permanent placement and executive search solutions for companies and career management in the technology, sales, finance & account, and administrative & HR professions.

Community event serving as informal kick-off to SharePoint Best Practices Conference
written by: Shadeed Eleazer

The SharePoint Best Practices Conference attracts professionals from all over the world on August 24-26th that will converge upon Northern Virginia to learn from the best technical expertise available today.

Dux Raymond Sy sent out an invite for a Pre-Best Practices Conference #sharefood BBQ event to be held at his home. A menu consisting of grilled meat, seafood, veggies, salad, drinks, and a roasted pig was served to attendees, some of which were meeting for the first time or re-uniting after previously speaking or attending other SharePoint events.

(Photos Courtesy of @meetdux)

Dux mentioned that he had a surprise for attendees of his session at Best Practices Conference.
You don’t want to miss this one. He posted a sample of his surprise on Twitter this evening.

Twitter Directory of #ShareFood attendees:
@meetdux
@scottsingleton
@catpaint1
@sharepointsara
@WonderLaura
@usher
@AndrewWoody
@budweber
@ruveng
@lorigowin
@paulculmsee
@mikecferrara
@gdegregori
@sharepointlinc
ZlatanDzinic
@EUSP
@IECmike
@mattgowin
@mrshadeed

The SharePoint Best Practices Conference will be event to remember on the eve of the 2010 release. The ShareFood event was very instrumental in allowing SharePoint professionals to gather and discuss outside of the hectic event day schedules.

About Dux Raymond Sy:
With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux (you’re right, it’s pronounced as “ducks”) has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft-certified, business technology consulting and services company that serves startups to Global 50 clients.

View his presentation on Best Practices in Gathering Requirements for SharePoint Projects:
Dux’s Presentation HERE