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My session for the May Winnipeg SharePoint User Group meeting

legault — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:42:00 GMT

Join us for the next session of the Winnipeg SharePoint User Group where I will give a guided tour of SharePoint and the Office System. Focus will be on some of the powerful and overlooked features throughout the suite, as well as demonstrating some third-party software and tools that can give real-world value for your current projects.

Cool Community Tools
Overview of the “Fantastic 40” Site Templates and how they can be batch installed
Connecting Office Applications to SharePoint
Working with Content Types
Taking your SharePoint content offline
And much more!!

Pizza will be provided and we'll be giving away some door prizes!

May 27th, 5:30 PM

Richardson Building

One Lombard Place

17th Floor Conference Room

Click here to register!

My Presentation at the LegalIT 3.0 Conference in Montreal

legault — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:08:00 GMT

OneNote MVP extraordinaire Ben Schorr (from Hawaii) and myself are co-presenting at the LegalIT 3.0 conference in Montreal on April 20th-21st. Join us for our session "Beyond Cut and Paste : the Importance of Mastering Power User Techniques in MS-Office".

Hope to see you there!

February Winnipeg SharePoint User Group Meeting

legault — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:39:00 GMT

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Juan Larios and Eric Legault will go head to head and compete to prove whether using the SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio is the better environment for developing SharePoint WebParts!

Topics will include WebPart architecture, deployment, reusability, debugging, data-source connectivity, and other features. These topics target the beginner to intermediate developers.

Come find out which technology emerges as the victor!

When: Wednesday, February 25 2009 – 5:30 PM
Where: 17th Floor Conference Room, Richardson Building
Food will be provided, Prizes will be given out!

Register for this event at the link below!

https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=135876

Winnipeg SharePoint User Group
http://www.sharepointgroups.org/wsug/

Event Sponsors:
ZoomOffice.Com
Collaborative Innovations

January Winnipeg SharePoint User Group Meeting

legault — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:39:00 GMT

http://www.sharepointgroups.org/wsug/default.aspx

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Juan Larios presents Inside SharePoint Workflows
Date: January 20 (Tuesday)

Time: 5:30 PM
Location: One Lombard Place (Richardson Building), 17th floor conference room.
Pizza and drinks to be provided
To register, click here: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=134584

Presentation Abstract

SharePoint workflows are a great tool for automating processes. This session will give you a closer look at what workflows are available out of the box in both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. We will also look under the hood and see how the workflow engine works with SharePoint. This session will have a different approach as it will be role driven. There are 3 roles I want to explore: The Business Analyst, the Technical Business Analyst, and the Developer. This session will start from an introduction to out of the box functionality to a more detailed look at workflow development, and cover a bit of everything in between. Specifically we will look at workflows and what they can do and how each role would approach using workflows. This session will have a bit of something for everyone, weather you are new to SharePoint and just starting to roll it out in your business environment, or if you are a seasoned developer and looking to dive into heavy duty development in SharePoint.

Some of the content that will be covered: Out of the Box workflows - Approval Workflow, Collect Feedback, 3 State Workflow SharePoint Designer Workflows - designing and deploying workflows with SPD. SP Workflows using Visual Studio 2008 - building and deploying sequential and state machine workflows.

Speaker Bio

Juan Larios is a Solution Specialist with Imaginet Resources Corp, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Winnipeg. You can read Juan's SharePoint blog at

http://www.imaginets.com/cs/blogs/juanl/default.aspx

Announcing - the Winnipeg SharePoint User Group!

legault — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:19:00 GMT

http://www.sharepointgroups.org/wsug/default.aspx

Sponsored By:
Zoom Office
Collaborative Innovations
Microsoft

The first Winnipeg SharePoint User Group event will be happening this month! D'Arcy Lussier, Gérald Danais, Juan Larios, Jason Miller and myself all put our heads together to bring this group to life very quickly. Come join us!

Ed Musters on SharePoint Customization and Best Practices
Date: November 25 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: One Lombard Place (Richardson Building), 17th floor conference room.
Pizza and drinks to be provided
To register, send an email to wpgsug@gmail.com with your name.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is reportedly the FASTEST SELLING and GROWING product in Microsoft history! Bigger than Windows 95, bigger than Office suites, bigger than anything. Consequently, the DEMAND for all things SharePoint is huge. I am doing nothing but training in SharePoint development these days, and the gap in the marketplace for skilled SharePoint Developers is critical.

We’ll talk about how to get started with SharePoint customization with Visual Studio, and especially what the best practices are. We'll even take a bit of time up front to show you SharePoint - so come even if you've never seen the product before and want to know what all the buzz is about!

So this ambitious talk has the following objectives:

1. Whirlwind tour of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 features
2. Whirlwind tour of MOSS 2007 Standard and Enterprise Features
3. Setting up your very own MOSS 2007 Development Environment
4. Best practices for SharePoint customization using Visual Studio
5. Develop and deploy a custom web part and custom workflow using Visual Studio
6. Development resources

The best practices will cover:

1. Using a "code beside" technique for your ASPX pages and deploying to the GAC
2. Using "The Feature" to package your customization
3. Using Solution Packages (WSP) files to deploy your feature
44. Automation of Visual Studio Project generation and Solution Package generation using Ted Pattison's new STSDEV utility!

Speaker Bio

Ed Musters MCT, MCPD, MCTS SharePoint, MCDBA

Ed Musters an independent Consultant and President of Open Highway Consulting Inc and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Ed is President of the Toronto .NET User Group - one of the largest in North America boasting over 4000 members and regular meeting attendance of 125 developers.

In addition to teaching any of the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET related curriculum, Ed is also a SharePoint Instructor - teaching the Microsoft SharePoint curriculum as well as the Ted Pattison SharePoint content - especially "The Great SharePoint Adventure". Ed has instructed this course numerous times for Microsoft Certified and Gold Certified Partners, and Canadian Fortune 500 companies. Ed has also instructed the Microsoft SharePoint Administrator 5060/5061 classes.

Ed holds certifications for MCT, MCPD, MCSD, and MCDBA. Ed also holds all MCTS certifications in SharePoint including WSS 3.0 Administration, WSS 3.0 Development, MOSS 2007 Administration, and MOSS 2007 Development. Ed has given talks recently to the Toronto SharePoint Code camp, the Toronto Code Camp, the Great Indian Developer Summit 2008 held at the Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore India, and most recently at DevReach in Sofia Bulgaria.