San Francisco SharePoint Users Group

Register to join us on Thursday 11/8 to hear Erik Jarlstrom of Dataguise discuss data security issues with SharePoint, and how a large financial services company secures data in SharePoint. Also, we’ll have a preview of the upcoming SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, where the San Francisco SharePoint User Group will be participating in the SharePoint Conference 2012 Community Lounge.

Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012
Arrival Time: 5:30 PM to 6:00PM
Presentation: 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Doors Close: 7:30PM
Microsoft San Francisco
835 Market Street (at Powell)
7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415.972.6400

closest BART station is Powell Street
Map: http://binged.it/N0fEqE

Sponsored by Slalom Consulting and Avepoint
Prizes for those who can STUMP THE PANEL! Prizes sponsored by AvePoint

Register here so we know how much pizza to order: http://sfspugnov.eventzilla.net 

SharePoint Conference Preview: The conference will be held November 12-15 in Las Vegas, NV.
http://www.sharepointconference.com

Presentation Topic: Safely Managing the SharePoint Data Explosion
Sound corporate governance and compliance practices require that companies know when sensitive data (typically determined by corporate security policy and regulatory requirements from HIPAA, PCI, PII, etc.) is posted in corporate repositories and prevent its unauthorized exposure. The explosion of files and documents being uploaded to SharePoint from users across the organization has created the need to ensure that sensitive data is secured in SharePoint installations. Learn how companies are managing these data security issues, and what you can do today to start finding and securing data in SharePoint.

Speaker Bio: Erik Jarlstrom is Vice President, Technology Solutions for Dataguise (www.dataguise.com), a leading provider of data privacy protection and risk assessment analytics. Erik’s experience includes top management roles in technical, customer advocacy, project management and enterprise software pre-sales positions at companies including Application Security Inc., Princeton Softech, IBM, Delegata, AristaSoft and Oracle Corporation. He earned his B.A. in Finance and Management from Copenhagen Business School.

Suggested Audience: IT Pros, Information Security Managers, Database Administrators, Architects and IT Managers.

Join us  on 10/11 to hear Michael Rain of AvePoint discuss Intelligent SharePoint Architecture & Storage Optimization Strategies. Also, we’ll have the second chapter of our sneak peek at SharePoint 2013. AvePoint will be giving out gift cards to those who can Stump the Panel.

Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012
Arrival Time: 5:30 PM to 6:00PM
Presentation: 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Doors Close: 7:30PM

Location:  Microsoft San Francisco

835 Market Street (at Powell)
7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
closest BART station is Powell Street
Map: http://binged.it/N0fEqE

Please register so we know how much pizza to order.

REGISTER: http://sfspugoct.eventzilla.net

Sponsored by Slalom Consulting and Avepoint

Prizes for those who can STUMP THE PANEL!

Topic 1: SharePoint 2013 Preview – Part 2  

We will continue our look at new features with another “Sneak Peek” of SharePoint 2013 with Shailen Sukul. Come and learn about what coming in SharePoint 2013, learn about new features and ones which are not supported. We will finish up with a demonstration of a real SharePoint App as well as walk through the SharePoint interface for an on-premise and a cloud installation. Shailen works for EMC, and presented on Integrating SharePoint with Azure in May. Follow Shailen on Twitter (http://twitter.com/shailensukul) and check out his blog at: http://www.shailensukul.com/

Topic 2: Intelligent SharePoint Architecture & Storage Optimization Strategies

Proper architecture design and intelligent storage management are critical to a successful SharePoint implementation. During this session, we will first discuss how to build an efficient and scalable SharePoint architecture based upon your organization’s unique business objectives, usage patterns, deployment size, and distribution. We will then review strategies for ensuring top platform performance and intelligent content lifecycle management, by expanding SharePoint’s SQL storage infrastructure through intelligent archiving, efficient BLOB content management, and migration-free SharePoint management of legacy data stores such as file shares.

Suggested Audience: IT Professionals, Developers, SharePoint Architects and IT Managers.

Michael Rain Bio:

As a technical specialist at AvePoint, Michael has demonstrated and delivered AvePoint’s SharePoint infrastructure management solutions to businesses throughout Australia and the United States. Michael was an experienced technical engineer in network and content security prior to joining AvePoint.

Meeting Date: Thursday, July 12, 2012

Arrival Time: 5:30PM to 6:00PM

Presentation: 6:00PM to 7:00PM

Doors Close: 7:30PM

Location: QuickStart San Francisco

Address: 160 Pine Street, 5th Floor (@ Battery)

San Francisco, CA 94111

Phone: 415.972.2554

closest BART station is Embarcadero

Map: http://www.quickstart.com/locations/san_francisco.aspx

REGISTER: Register for Pizza

Sponsored by Slalom Consulting, Avepoint, O’Reilly Media and QuickStart

Cost: FREE – thanks to our sponsor Slalom Consulting.

“Stump the Panel” and win a prize – courtesy of AvePoint

July 12th Topic: Avoiding Common SharePoint Administration

Pitfalls Presented by: Axceler

This presentation will focus on the SharePoint server administration experience, delegated administration models, and proactive management to ensure your SharePoint installation runs smoothly.

Suggested Audience: SharePoint Administrators, IT Pros, Information Architects, SharePoint Content Managers.

About Axceler

Axceler is a leader in managing SharePoint governance, security, reporting and analysis. More than 2,500 organizations worldwide are using Axceler products to control their SharePoint environments, and Axceler’s ControlPoint was recently named the Best SharePoint Product of 2011. Headquartered near Boston in Woburn, MA, Axceler maintains offices in Redmond, WA, Los Angeles, London and Sydney.

For more information, visit http://www.axceler.com

“Driving SharePoint Adoption with Content Intelligence.” Scroll down for special event info regarding SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley and the SQL Server 2012 Technology Workshop.

Meeting Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Arrival Time: 5:30 PM to 6:00PM
Presentation: 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Doors Close: 7:30PM
Location: QuickStart San Francisco
Address: 160 Pine Street, 5th Floor (@ Battery)
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415.972.2554
closest BART station is Embarcadero

Sponsored by Slalom Consulting, Avepoint and QuickStart

Cost: FREE – thanks to our sponsor Slalom Consulting. Please register so we know how much food to order: REGISTER

“Stump the Panel” and win a prize – courtesy of AvePoint

June 14th Topic: Driving SharePoint Adoption with Content Intelligence
Presented by: Toby Conrad, Senior Consultant, Smartlogic

Overview: Organizations designing and deploying SharePoint recognize that quality metadata is a critical factor in the system’s overall success. SharePoint Server 2010 ships with significant metadata enhancements that will spur enterprises to upgrade or adopt. However, semantic capabilities like autoclassification and entity extraction remain gaps in the SharePoint platform.

In this presentation, you’ll learn how you can:

• Semantically enable your SharePoint (2007 and 2010) implementation with navigational taxonomies, ontologies and automated classification to significantly enhance your metadata quality
• Utilize Semaphore, the Content Intelligent Platform to improve your migration, records retention, data loss prevention and business intelligence projects within SharePoint
• Ensure that your SharePoint investment will provide a solid ROI for your enterprise

Suggested Audience: SharePoint Project Managers, Information Architects, Web Designers, Power Users and Business Analysts.

Speaker Bio: Toby Conrad is a senior consultant at Smartlogic. He has advised organisations such as NASA, Bank of America, Applied Materials, BNP Paribas, Oxy, Autodesk, Ford Foundation and others on Enterprise Semantics for search (MSFAST, Google Search Appliance, Apache/ Solr and many more) and content management systems (SharePoint 2007 & 2010, OpenText, Documentum and others).

Smartlogic website: www.smartlogic.com

SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley
Saturday, June 2, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM in Palo Alto
SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint! It is an educational, informative and lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals and MVPs, covering a wide variety of topics focused on Microsoft SharePoint technologies.

Location:
Oshman Jewish Community Center
3921 Fabian Way Palo Alto, CA 94303
www.paloaltojcc.org

Event details: www.sharepointsaturday.org/siliconvalley
Register: http://spsaturdaysv.eventbrite.com/

SQL Server 2012 Technology Workshop

Saturday, June 2, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Mountain View at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Conference Center

Gain the essential SQL Server 2012 skills to elevate your career to the next level by attending a one day SQL Server 2012 Technology Workshop. Leave with tips, best practices, real world experiences, and get free consulting from the best. Led by Ross Mistry, a best-selling author, technology evangelist, former SQL Server MVP, and Principal Enterprise Architect with Microsoft.

Twitter @RossMistry

Register: http://rossmistry.com/

Special Offers from O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media has generously provided discounts and book samples to our user group members. http://oreilly.com/

 

Here is Shailen Sukul’s presentation from tonight’s group:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/te15y4575ulyxr3/SPUG.Azure.20120510.pptx

Meeting Date: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Arrival Time: 5:30 PM to 6:00PM
Presentation: 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Doors Close: 7:30PM
Location: QuickStart San Francisco
Address: 160 Pine Street, 5th Floor (@ Battery)
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415.972.2554
closest BART station is Embarcadero

Sponsored by Slalom Consulting, Avepoint and QuickStart

Cost: FREE – thanks to our sponsor Slalom Consulting. Please register so we know how much food to order:  REGISTER

“Stump the Panel” and win a prize – courtesy of AvePoint

May 10th Topic: Integrating Azure with SharePoint
Presented By: Shailen Sukul, MCT, MCPD, MCTS, MCITP, MCSD

Shailen Sukul has been working as the Lead Architect on a long running SharePoint-based project at Microsoft called MASS.  The MASS platform is a cutting-edge syndication platform built on SharePoint 2010 and based on the principles of multi-tenancy. It is leveraged by Microsoft Partners and Microsoft Marketing departments. Due to its high popularity, it was decided to leverage Azure for some of the most traffic-heavy operations while retaining the core logic in SharePoint. Shailen will talk about the real world challenges and benefits of being one of the first companies integrating SharePoint and Azure.

Suggested Audience: IT Professionals, Developers, SharePoint Architects and IT Managers.

About Shailen (pronounced Shay-Len) Sukul is a bleeding-edge innovator, Architect, Project Manager, Trainer and Developer; working with the latest Web technologies to create compelling solutions. He loves to present at user groups and write articles and whitepapers based on his work. He works for the EMC Corporation as his day job and on stealth startups as his night job.

He loves to work with the following technologies:
– Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and wave 15
– Microsoft ASP.Net and ASP.Net MVC 4
– NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate CSLA.Net, Microsoft Entity Framework
– MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Oracle databases
– Design patterns such as Repository, Abstract Factory, Inersion of Control, etc and its applications to the real world
– CSS 3, Javascript, NodeJS, jQuery and its plugins

Shailen also has an active interest in the pre-sales and sales processes and occasionally helps out with RFPs and estimates, along with managing and working with large offshore teams.

Follow Shailen on Twitter (http://twitter.com/shailensukul) and check out his blog at: http://shailen.sukul.org

SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley
Saturday, June 2, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM in Palo Alto
SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint! It is an educational, informative and lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals and MVPs, covering a wide variety of topics focused on Microsoft SharePoint technologies.

Location:
Oshman Jewish Community Center
3921 Fabian Way Palo Alto, CA 94303
www.paloaltojcc.org

Event details: www.sharepointsaturday.org/siliconvalley
Register: http://spsaturdaysv.eventbrite.com/

Special Offers from O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media has generously provided discounts and book samples to our user group members. http://oreilly.com/

**NOTE** The meeting date has been changed from Thursday 4/12 to Tuesday 4/17 **

The April meeting will be a special event held at Mindjet’s office in San Francisco. Read about Mindjet’s products that work with SharePoint on the Mindjet website.

We will start the meeting a little bit later (6:30PM instead of 6:00PM) to give everyone a little more time to get to the Mindjet office – near Levi’s Plaza in San Francisco.

April SharePoint User Group Meeting Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Arrival Time: 6:00 PM to 6:30PM
Presentation: 6:30PM to 7:30PM
Doors Close: 8:00PM
Location: Mindjet Office
Address: 1160 Battery Street East, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415.972.2554
closest BART station is Embarcadero (15 minute walk from BART)
Map: click here

Cost: FREE – thanks to our sponsors!  Please register: Click here

Sponsored by Mindjet, Slalom Consulting, Avepoint and QuickStart

April 17th Presentation Topic:

Top Factors That Drive the Success of SharePoint Intranet Information Architecture

In this session we will cover the predominant factors that drive successful SharePoint Intranet information architecture.  We will dive in to a few common information architecture mistakes and approaches to avoiding them.  We will wrap up the session with Q&A.

Suggested Audience: Project Managers, Information Architects, Web Designers, Power Users and Business Analysts.

Speaker Bio: Bob Mixon is a Senior SharePoint Information Architect, Project Manager, Speaker & Author, and Microsoft SharePoint MVP with more than 30 years of experience delivering business solutions driving improved process management, communications and collaboration.  His areas of expertise include Document Management, Knowledge Management, BPM/BPA, Portals & Collaboration. With his extensive information architecture and library sciences background, Bob has led the successful implementation of over 100 enterprise-class SharePoint Document Management, Knowledge Management and Collaboration Intranet Portals.   www.BobMixon.com

The SF SharePoint User Group meetings are held the second Thursday of each month.

Some exciting new events to announce! Instead of the monthly second Thursday meeting date, our February meeting will be held on Tuesday 2/28 in conjunction with the SPTechCon conference. The March meeting will be held Thursday, March 8th (see below). SharePoint users have also been invited to the AIIM conference in San Francisco on March 20-22. See below for event details.

February User Group Meeting Date: Tuesday February 28, 2012
Time: 7:00PM to 9:00PM

Register here: Click to Register
Location:
Hilton San Francisco Union Square
333 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: +1-415-771-1400
www.hiltonsanfranciscohotel.com
Map and Directions

The SPTechCon conference chair has graciously invited our user group members to attend the Exhibit Hall Reception for free on Tuesday 2/28, and then host our user group meeting in a hotel meeting room after the reception. Join us for a panel of SharePoint experts – including Bill English – who will be able to answer our questions and discuss all the hottest SharePoint topics:

Ajay Mistry – Microsoft – Panel Moderator
Chris Beckett – SharePoint Bits – Development
Ben Curry – Summit 7 Systems – IT Pro
Cathy Dew – Summit 7 Systems – Branding and User Interface
Bill English – MindSharp – IT Pro
Randy Williams – AvePoint – IT Pro

 
This meeting will be a joint session of the San Francisco SharePoint User Group and the Silicon Valley SharePoint User Group. Attendance is free, and all interested SharePoint users are welcome to attend (invite your friends and colleagues).
 
Upon arrival at the Hilton San Francisco, please stop at the SPTech Con registration desk to pick up your badge, which will allow you entry to the exhibit hall and user group meeting. The reception starts at 5:15PM at the Exhibit Hall (until 7:00PM), with the user group meeting to immediately follow. Exhibitors include O’Reilly Media, which has invited our members to visit their booth to see SharePoint books and receive discounts on both printed and digital format E-books.

SPTechCon Conference Information: 
SPTechCon: The SharePoint Technology Conference
The conference runs Sunday 2/26 to Wednesday 2/29
7:30AM – 7:00PM at the Hilton San Francisco
http://www.sptechcon.com/SanFrancisco2012/
 
March SharePoint User Group Meeting Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012
Arrival Time: 5:30 PM to 6:00PM
Presentation: 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Doors Close: 7:30PM
Location:  QuickStart San Francisco
Address:    160 Pine Street (at Battery) 
                  Suite 530
                  San Francisco, CA 94111
                  Phone: 415.972.2554
closest BART station is Embarcadero
Map: click here

Sponsored by Slalom Consulting and Avepoint

March 8th Presentation Topic: Cloud Collaboration Strategies and Technologies

Cloud computing has spawned a new industry with many different technologies and applications including new approaches to document management, workflow, and storage not to mention new approaches to buying and managing software. This presentation will help the user understand cloud-collaboration technologies including document management, records management, preservation, legal, workflow, and storage. Mr. Porter-Roth will also review benefits and risks, as well at touch upon emerging governance issues. Because the cloud-collaboration technologies are changing rapidly, there is no clear strategy or road map that has emerged for adopting these technologies, but we will discuss what are the current options and trade-offs.

Who Should Attend: Information management users and managers; information technology managers; records managers; and executive managers who are interested in learning about cloud-based document/records management applications. The presentation will be from the business side of the table and will be non-technical.

Speaker Bio: Bud Porter-Roth has over 20 years of experience as a document/records management consultant with a focus on electronic document management, document imaging, workflow, and records management. Mr. Porter-Roth is the past president of the AIIM San Francisco Golden Gate Chapter, and is a member of the SharePoint User Group, AIIM, and ARMA.

AIIM Conference March 20-22 in San Francisco:
The association for enterprise content management invites SharePoint User Group members to attend their conference March 20-22 at the Grand Hyatt hotel in San Francisco.
http://www.aiimconference.com/

The SF SharePoint User Group is sponsored by Slalom Consulting and Avepoint
Meetings are held the second Thursday of each month.