SharePoint in action: a UKeiG Intranets Forum 21st July 2009 - places limited

Venue: City Business Library, City of London, 1 Brewers' Hall Garden
(off Aldermanbury Square), London EC2V 5BX

Date & Time: Tuesday 21st July 2009 2.30 – 4.30 p.m.

"SharePoint in action" is a free informal Intranets Forum meeting for UKeiG members. There will be two presentations:

Making the most of MOSS: managing content through a global portal, by Linda MacDonald, Hay Group
Global Gateway is a MOSS 2007 portal accessed by Hay Group’s employees (over 2,000 staff in 86 offices across 49 countries). Linda will give a brief tour of the portal and highlight some of the key features.

Discussion Boards in SharePoint – some lessons learnt, by Janet White, Metropolitan Police
Janet will share her experiences of a ‘mini-project’ to move the MPS on-line discussion forums (Special Interest Groups) to SharePoint. This project presented some challenges with respect to the permissions needed for ‘members-only’ groups.

Bookings:
If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact: Janet Corcoran, Imperial College London j.m.corcoran@imperial.ac.uk

Please note that due to limited space, places will be restricted to one per organization.

Workshop: Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Projects

Workshop: Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Projects
Venue: The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London, EC1V 8DS
Date & Time: Thursday 21st May 2009, 9.30-16.30
Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeiG members £140 + VAT (£161.00); others £170 + VAT (£195.50)

Further details and booking form: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/May/SharePoint.html

Course Outline

Many organisations with a strong commitment to Microsoft are moving to implement SharePoint 2007 (often referred to as MOSS07) as a general-purpose intranet/collaboration/document management application. As a result, intranet and web managers are increasingly under some pressure from their organisation to migrate their intranet to SharePoint 2007 and even defend why they feel it is not of benefit to the organisation to do so.

The objective of this workshop is to outline the benefits and challenges of SharePoint 2007 implementations so that intranet managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using SharePoint 2007.

The main sections of the workshop will be

• An introduction to SharePoint 2007
• Supporting collaboration with SharePoint 2007
• Using SharePoint 2007 for intranet content management
• SharePoint 2007 search functionality
• Planning for a SharePoint 2007 implementation
• Working with Microsoft channel partners
• Future plans for SharePoint 2007
• Critical success factors

Who should attend

Intranet and web managers who are considering migrating from their current content management and collaboration applications to SharePoint 2007. No technical knowledge of SharePoint will be required.

Presenter

The course will be presented by Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd, who has evaluated SharePoint 2007 on behalf of a number of his clients and is writing a report on the use of SharePoint 2007 for intranet applications.

UKeiG has the CILIP Seal of Recognition, which recognises high standards in the content and relevance of training courses. See http://www.cilip.org.uk/qualificationschartership/seal/ for details.

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Projects

Venue: The City Suite, Thistle City Hotel, Barbican, London, EC1V 8DS
Date: Thursday 21st May 2009, 9.30-16.30
Presenter: Martin White

Course Outline

Many organisations with a strong commitment to Microsoft are moving to implement SharePoint 2007 (often referred to as MOSS07) as a general-purpose intranet/collaboration document management application. As a result, intranet and web managers are increasingly under some pressure from their organisation to migrate their intranet to SharePoint 2007 and even defend why they feel it is not of benefit to the organisation to do so.

The objective of this workshop is to outline the benefits and challenges of SharePoint 2007 implementations so that intranet managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using SharePoint 2007.

The main sections of the workshop will be

• An introduction to SharePoint 2007
• Supporting collaboration with SharePoint 2007
• Using SharePoint 2007 for intranet content management
• SharePoint 2007 search functionality
• Planning for a SharePoint 2007 implementation
• Working with Microsoft channel partners
• Future plans for SharePoint 2007
• Critical success factors

Who should attend

Intranet and web managers who are considering migrating from their current content management and collaboration applications to SharePoint 2007. No technical knowledge of SharePoint will be required.

Course Presenter

The course will be presented by Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd, who has evaluated SharePoint 2007 on behalf of a number of his clients and is writing a report on the use of SharePoint 2007 for intranet applications.

For more information or to book a place on this course, please visit www.ukeig.org.uk or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk

SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Web Sites - Fully Booked

Please note that the SharePoint 2007 meeting being held on 15th July is now fully booked.

SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Web Sites

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Tuesday 15th July 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline

Many organisations with a strong commitment to Microsoft are moving to implement MOSS07 as a general-purpose intranet/collaboration/document management application. This is often as an upgrade to SharePoint Server 2003 but also as a new application. As a result, intranet and web managers are increasingly under some pressure from their organisation to migrate their web site or intranet to MOSS07.

The objective of this seminar is to outline the benefits and challenges of MOSS07 implementations so that intranet and web managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using MOSS07.

The course will commence with a comprehensive introduction to MOSS07 which will provide an independent assessment of how to get the best out of MOSS07. This will be followed by a presentation on the search application that is included in MOSS07 and also the new Search Server 2008 Express. There will be a series of case studies of MOSS07 implementations, and the day will conclude with a Q&A Session.

As well as copies of the presentations delegates will be provided with a checklist of the key issues that need to be considered and resolved, and a list of resources on SharePoint implementation.

Who should attend

Intranet and web managers who are considering either upgrading web applications from SharePoint Server 2003 or migrating from their current content management applications to MOSS07. No technical knowledge of SharePoint will be required.

Course Presenters
The course will be presented by Janus Boye http://eng.jboye.dk/ the author of the CMSWatch Enterprise Portals Report and a European authority on SharePoint. The presentation on search applications will be given by Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd.

Further details and a booking form are on the UKeiG web site.