| Hamilton SPUG: User Adoption Strategies for SharePoint: What's Effective? | What’s the number one complaint from people charged with the implementation of new collaboration tools? They do the work, and then no one uses them! The very people whom the new tools are intended to help, empower, enable, and enhance ultimately reject the new tools and don’t use them. That's not a good outcome!
In this session, Michael outlines key strategies that can be used to encourage user adoption of SharePoint for collaboration, based on SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration. This baseline is then extended with a discussion of Michael's recent global survey on the use and effectiveness of user adoption strategies for SharePoint. Interestingly, the most commonly used user adoption strategies are NOT the most effective, so come and learn how to maximise your user adoption strategy. | | 28/07/2010 |
| Hamilton: SPUG: Business Connectivity Services | Business Connectivity Services (BCS) are the set of services that connect SharePoint-based solutions to sources of external data. BCS is the replacement for Business Data Catalogues (BDC’s) in SharePoint 2010. The presentation will explain what BCS is and the new functionality they can deliver and will run through a variety of BCS scenarios and tooling options. | Gavin Jones is a senior developer at Enlighten Designs and has been with the company for 5 years . He is seen as the “go to guy” by many due to his ability to see the big picture and identify the best solution. With a varied history, Gavin has developed in everything from Oracle Forms, VBA and ASP Classic to .NET Web and Compact Framework (portable). Gavin is a SharePoint 2007 MCP and is one of very few developers in New Zealand with Fast Search experience, the new search included within SharePoint 2010. | 27/05/2010 |
| Getting Started with SharePoint Development | This user group session focuses on getting started with SharePoint Development by introducing you the SharePoint Development Platform and best practices around building SharePoint solutions. | Chakkaradeep Chandran employed by Intergen specializes in developing solutions and custom applications using Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. As a MCTS in WSS & SharePoint Application Development and with 4 years of development experience, Chakkaradeep brings in a wealth of knowledge in adopting the best practices around building SharePoint applications. Chakkaradeep is a frequent speaker at various SharePoint conferences like New Zealand SharePoint Conference, OfficeDevCon, SPTechCon. Chakkaradeep shares his knowledge through regular contributor to the local Wellington SharePoint user group and moderating the Microsoft MSDN SharePoint 2010 forums. You can find Chakkaradeep at his blog http://www.chakkaradeep.com or follow him on twitter @chakkaradeep. | 30/04/2010 |
| Hamilton: SPUG: InfoPath Forms Services: Lessons learnt from the trenches | InfoPath Forms Services brings the rich InfoPath experience to the web via SharePoint. We'll share with you an overview of what you can expect and cover how to push InfoPath Forms Services to its limits. A few tips and tricks smattered with some common sense should leave you with a decent understanding of the value InfoPath Forms Services can bring to your business. | Alex Taylor is a Senior Developer at Enlighten Designs. Alex has a strong development and infrastructure background which has led to him being involved in the design and architecture of many systems. He has developed several Microsoft Office SharePoint solutions and recently had the opportunity to co-lead a team working on a large InfoPath project. | 20/04/2010 |
| Hamilton: SPUG: Intrigue and Discovery: The Not-So Boring World of SharePoint Web Content Security | So you thought security was boring? Ben Gracewood has lived through numerous SharePoint public website deployments with varying degrees of failure. Join him on a journey of discovery, intrigue, and scandal as he recounts the pitfalls and equips you with solutions to implement enterprise-grade web content management with SharePoint. | Ben Gracewood is an architect with Datacom’s Online team in Auckland. He has been implementing SharePoint in anger for a number of years, and managed to pass the infamous SharePoint Elite Infrastructure exam on only his second try. When Ben isn’t building websites, he also reviews gadgets for TVNZ Breakfast and blogs at http://ben.geek.nz. Ben doesn’t like talking in the third person because it makes him sound like David Tua. | 23/03/2010 |
| New Features of SharePoint 2010 | | Alan Marshall is SharePoint champion at Gen-i, and the long time co-organiser of the Auckland SharePoint User Group. | 18/02/2010 |
| Gracelands Group of Services - SharePoint as an Intranet | Overview of how Gracelands Group of Services uses SharePoint as an Intranet | Brendon Pilott, Systems Administrator, Gracelands Group of Services | 19/11/2009 |
| Lists, Libraries and Content Types | Content types are one of the hardest concepts in SharePoint for users to grasp. They add huge value, but are often excluded from initial SharePoint Projects due to time and understanding. | Presenter: Debbie Ireland has over 15 years experience in managing IT projects across a number of industries. She has been working with MOSS and WSS since 2005. Debbie manages envisionIT, an IT consulting company, specialising in Microsoft SharePoint technologies, including Training.
Debbie participates in many community events, encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing around SharePoint technologies. She is the leader of the Bay Of Plenty SharePoint User Group and President of the New Zealand .NET User Society. Debbie was awarded the Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) award in January 2009 for her contribution to the SharePoint community.
| 15/10/2009 |