Speaking at SharePoint Saturday New York on 7/30/11

June 17, 2011 Leave a comment

I am pleased to announce (a bit belated) that I will be presenting at the next SharePoint Saturday New York on July 30th, 2011.  I will be presenting Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010.

Most companies, large or small, require contact and collaboration with external entities, whether they are vendors, clients, or contractors. SharePoint gives us the ability to open up portals for collaboration with these external entities – this session will show you how to accomplish this using SharePoint 2010.

We will review what is required to make SharePoint “open” to the external world, discuss scenarios regarding security and privacy, as well as walk through configuring Forms Based Authentication, Claims Based Authentication, as well as using Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010, to authenticate, and manage our external users.

Once completing this session, you should have a firm grasp on how to configure an extranet environment using SharePoint 2010, as well as what should be considered during the planning of your extranet scenarios.

SharePoint Saturday New York is one of the great SharePoint Saturday events – put on by some great people – Becky Isserman (@MossLover), Jason Gallicchio (@PrincetonSUG), Greg Hurlman (@ghurlman), with Tasha Scott (@TashasEv) coordinating volunteer efforts.

For more information on my session, check out my blog series on the matter here:

Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010–Part 1

Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010–Part 2

Planning and Configuring Extranets in SharePoint 2010-Part 3 “The Environment”

 

I hope to see you in New York! Oh, and by the way, registration is now open! Sign up today as space IS limited! SharePoint Saturday New York

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Registration open for Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on 7/13/11

June 16, 2011 Leave a comment

BASPUG_195square_initialsRegistration is now open for the July 13th, 2011 meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group, at the Microsoft Office in Waltham, MA.

July 13th, 2011 Meeting Information

PRESENTER
The presenter for our next meeting is Scott Jamison, Managing Partner and CEO of Jornata. He will be presenting "SharePoint 2010 Usage and Adoption Best Practices"

SESSION ABSTRACT
This session will cover best practices for usage and adoption of SharePoint 2010. We’ll answer questions for both the SharePoint adoption team and users alike….

For the adoption team:
• How can I get my employees excited about using this new collaboration technology (champions, incentives)?
• How do I make sure all the employees in my organization understand and feel comfortable using SharePoint?
• How can I make sure that SharePoint fits into existing business processes, and makes people’s jobs easier?
• How do I manage the behavioral change required to integrate SharePoint into the way people work?

For users:
• What collaboration methods and site templates are most appropriate for which types of situations?
• What should I ask myself before setting up a SharePoint site?
• How should I manage content?
• What should I think about when tagging?
• Etiquette for social interactions?

ABOUT SCOTT
Scott is Managing Partner and CEO of Jornata a Boston-based Gold Partner and SharePoint consulting firm. Scott is a world-renowned expert on knowledge worker technologies and collaborative solutions and is an experienced leader with almost 20 years directing managers and technology professionals to deliver a wide range of business solutions for customers. Scott is a recognized thought leader and published author with several books, including Essential SharePoint 2007 and Essential SharePoint 2010. Scott received his master’s degree in Computer Science from Boston University, with post-graduate work at Bentley’s McCallum Graduate School of Business. Scott is a SharePoint Certified Master.

MEETING SPONSOR – KnowledgeLake
KnowledgeLake provides an affordable, platform based solution for managing your company’s unstructured content right within SharePoint. More capable than even the more expensive legacy ECM applications, KnowledgeLake is an enterprise scalable and comprehensive SharePoint ECM solution for searching, securing, routing and annotating your company’s mission critical electronic content. The KnowledgeLake Solution is fully integrated with SharePoint, so it is easy to implement, easy to administer, presents low risk, and is cost effective. For more information please visit http://www.knowledgelake.com


SUSTENANCE
Food and beverages will be provided at the event!

RAFFLE PRIZES
We will be handing out raffle tickets at the BASPUG meetings.

LOCATION
We will be meeting at the Microsoft Waltham office, located on the 6th floor, at 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA.

LINKED IN
Join our group on LinkedIn today to connect with the rest of the BASPUG members, and spread the word!

FACEBOOK

We are also on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Boston-Area-SharePoint-User-Group/113652405354617

TWITTER
Follow news about the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on twitter by following us @BASPUG, and by using the hashtag #BASPUG

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PowerPoint Web App encountered an error. Please try again.

June 16, 2011 Leave a comment

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Ever seen this error? I cam across this in a new environment and was befuddled for a short while. Then, also realizing it was a new environment, I’d thought to check the service applications in Central Administration (Central Administration > Application Management > Service Applications > Manage Service Applications).

There was the problem – there was no service application configured for PowerPoint! So, the moral of this short blog post is, when using Office Web Applications in SharePoint 2010, and you receive an error similar to this, be sure to check your service applications, and make sure they exist!

This has been a Public Service Application Announcement.

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