Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint

User Group

• Quick Intro

• Keynote Presentation – Chris Caposella

• User Group Kick Off

• Introductions

• Goals / Objectives

• Proposed Schedule

• Proposed Format

• Possible Future Topics

• Introduce www.sharepointmn.com

• The XML Web Part

• Q & A

Agenda

• Microsoft Corporate Vice President

• Information Worker Product Management Group

• SharePoint Technologies

• Office System

• Business Productivity Solutions Group

• 12 Years at Microsoft

Keynote Presentation – Chris Capossela

• Twin Cites based Microsoft consulting company

• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

• Practice Area focused on Information Worker Technologies

• Microsoft Office System

• SharePoint Portal Server

• Windows SharePoint Services

• InfoPath

• Smart Documents

• Integration Services

Introductions – Who is Inetium?

Build a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

User Group Goal – Why Are We Here?

• Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies

• Transfer knowledge within the community

• Communicate best practices

• Introduce new products / solutions

User Group Objectives

• Proposed Schedule

• 1st Tuesday of each Month at Microsoft (Tentative)

• What time works best – morning, lunch, afternoon, evening?

• Proposed Format

• 2 hour meetings

• Technology / business presentations

• Product demonstrations

• Case Studies

• Web Part / feature of the month

• Q & A

Housekeeping

• Extending SharePoint’s Workflow Capabilities

• Planning a SharePoint Implementation

• Incorporating the Office System with SharePoint

• Collaboration – Document / Meeting / Project

• Developing Web Parts (basic / advanced)

• Creating customized templates for SharePoint

• Extending SharePoint’s Document Management Capabilities

• Integrating external data into SharePoint

• Administration / Support

• Others?

Possible Future Topics

• Website for user group

• SharePoint resource documents

• SharePoint resource websites links

• RSS Feeds

• Meeting Schedule

• Upcoming meeting agendas

• Discussion board

• What else would you like to see?

www.sharepointmn.com

• Utilizing built-in Web Parts

• Many 3rd party web parts available (links to be provided on site)

• XML Web Part – one of the more powerful parts

• Link to XML file or enter XML

• Link to XSL file or enter XSL

• Leverage information from external sites

• Quickly integrate content into SharePoint

Web Part of the Month – XML Web Part

• What is RSS?

• Real Simple Syndication

• XML Feeds

• ex. Weblogs

• Setting it up

• Add an XML Web Part to a page

• Link to the URL where the RSS feed is located

• Apply the XSL

• Done!

XML Web Part – RSS Example

Q & A