November's Baltimore SharePoint User's Group meeting will be a treat
as we will host the SharePoint "Road Warrior" Fabian Williams.
Fabian is often on the road supporting SharePoint deployments and
it will be great to have him at our meeting. He will be discussing
SharePoint 2010.

Session Title:
All About Business Connectivity Services. What It Is and Why You Should Care.

Session Overview:
Business Connectivity Services (formerly named the Business Data
Catalog) provides read/write access to external data from
line-of-business (LOB) systems, Web services, databases, and other
external systems within Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 has
product features that can use external data directly, both online and
offline. Come and kick the tires! Demo External Lists, Content Types
and Web Parts to BCS

About Fabian:

Fabian Williams is a Technical Lead and SharePoint Architect for CDW
Advanced Technology Services SharePoint Practice. He is based out of
Herndon Virginia. Mr. Williams has a Bachelors degree in Computer
Information Systems from Strayer University, Washington, D.C. and is 9
Credits and a Capstone away from Masters in CIS at Johns Hopkins
University in Columbia Maryland. In addition, he is a Microsoft
Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Solutions
Developer (MCSD) and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator
(MCDBA). Prior to CDW., Mr. Williams was the Chief Technology Officer
for WING, Inc. Recently, he was the Chief Internet Developer for the
Department of Defense’s Global Emerging Infections System and a Sales
Engineer at Citrix Incorporated.

Doors open at 6pm. Food and beverages will be served.

Sponsor: Surfray, UMBC Tech Center

Thanks for your continued support of BSPUG
Mr. Shadeed Eleazer
Baltimore SharePoint User's Group Co-Founder/Organizer

The Baltimore SharePoint User's Group is rolling full steam ahead as we
welcome i3 Solutions' VP of Delivery Services Juan Santiago to present a much needed topic
that will appeal to our core attendees:

Creating Business Processes in SharePoint.

This session is geared towards: Management, Designers, and End Users but all seeking to learn more about SharePoint are welcome to attend.

Attendees will learn practical tips and techniques, such as:

· An introduction to Business Processes

· Workflow Vs. Business Processes

· The 4 Steps of Business Process Mapping

· Techniques on transforming Business Process to SharePoint Features and Functions

· Introduction to a system to Map, Analyze and Document your process for use in SharePoint

· Common Pitfalls to Avoid

When: Thursday September 17th, 2009

Where: UMBC Tech Center

1450 South Rolling Road

Halethorpe, MD 21223

About our Guest Speaker:
Juan Santiago is a Project Manager and Business Analyst who has facilitated the implementation and user adoption of a number of SharePoint solutions. Mr. Santiago’s SharePoint knowledge and experience consulting for both government and private sector clients have been critical in the success of several implementations. He has conducted end user and content manager training on basic SharePoint and customized solutions as well as providing direct content migration and management support for clients at the National Education Association (NEA), American Institute for Research (AIR), and Beers and Cutler.

I3 Solutions Corporate Website

Doors open at 6pm. Food and beverages will be served.

Sponsor: Surfray, UMBC Tech Center

Thanks for your continued support of BSPUG
Mr. Shadeed Eleazer
Baltimore SharePoint User's Group Co-Founder/Organizer

Registration for SharePoint Saturday Baltimore has sold out in less than 24 hours.
Our SharePoint Saturday 101 hands-on session has sold out in less than 18 minutes!

Thank you for supporting the event. For those who registered please be aware that you will have to validate your registration due to the growing waiting list. Validation email will be sent out in the days leading up to the event.

About SharePoint Saturday Baltimore:

Join us in welcoming the first SharePoint Saturday event to Baltimore, MD

SharePoint Saturday Baltimore will feature a lineup of heavy hitters within the SharePoint community including: Michael Noel, Joel Oleson, Dux Raymond Sy, Steve Andrews, John Gerl, Susan Lennon, Dan Lewis, Errin O'Connor, Russ Basiura, Paul Schaeflein, Mike Watson, and more!

When: Saturday July 25th, 2009

Where: UMBC Tech Center

1450 South Rolling Road

Halethorpe, MD 21223

More Info: http://sharepointsaturday.org/baltimore

What is SharePoint Saturday?

A FREE one day conference that gathers the best SharePoint professionals from around the country for a intense day filled with education, community, and prize giveaways.

We will be offering a SharePoint 101 track as well. This track will be a very exclusive 25 person session that will last for 2 two hour sessions. This will be an option to register for separate from the normal days sessions. If you or your organization has some representatives that need very basic ground floor overview of SharePoint, this is a great opportunity.

Speaking about registration, you will be required to validate you are still able to come to the event a few days prior even after you have already registered. The reason we are doing this is to take full advantage of our limited space. We will be filling any newly opened slots from our 40 person waiting list. The event will officially be open to 150 guests as well as the 25 SharePoint 101 attendees.

Additionally, we are still fielding additional sponsors to help promote the event. If you or your organization feels this might be a good fit, please drop us a line back and we can talk specifics as well as send out information packages. As you know our sponsors and volunteers are really what make this “free” event “free”

Thanks to everyone that made it out to the DC SharePoint Saturday there were something to the effect of 230 + people in attendance, and I saw a lot of BSPUG faces! Sorry if we didn't get a chance to catch up or if it was very quick, it was a crazy day! Remember July 25th will be the Baltimore SharePoint Saturday. The BSPUG will have first notice for sign ups!

For the May 21st session, we will be welcoming Dan Usher to come and talk to us about "Designing Effective Logical Architectures and Site Taxonomies". Dan has spoke at numerous SharePoint Saturday events and will be speaking in Boston at SPTechCon. Anyone who has or will need to create sites, web zones, web applications, multiple authentication methods, and more will want to see this session.

...Stepping into contextual thinking, the design, the functional requirements, the technical requirements and limitations of the environment in which your working within. Defining the basis and working on it, occasionally climbing out of it for the whiz bang capability.....

So again, Thursday May 21st at UMBC training centers (directions available here). Room 3.013 in the main UMBC building.

We will also be live twittering the event, just follow @baltsharepoint or @ericharlan

Please RSVP on the Events page so we can accurately determine how much food to order! Thanks See you all then!

The Baltimore SharePoint User Group meets every third Thursday of the month unless specifically
noted. If you have any questions about our meeting dates and times, www.baltimoresug.org is the most accurate source of info regarding the group.

For more information on BSPUG, please log-on to www.baltimoresug.org.

For our new members, we will be meeting at UMBC Tech Center, 1450 Rolling Road, Halethorpe, MD 21228. Doors open at 6pm for food and refreshments.
As always please go to www.baltimoresug.org/events and respond to the RSVP survey to RSVP your spot.

Baltimore SharePoint User's Group Members and New Attendees,

The Baltimore SharePoint User Group meets every third Thursday of the month unless specifically
noted. If you have any questions about our meeting dates and times, www.baltimoresug.org is the most accurate source of info regarding the group.

Thursday March 19th, 2009 will be a special presentation as the CorasWorks Technical Team, leading provider of modular application development software for Microsoft SharePoint, will be delivering a technical presentation on the new release of the Workplace Suite v10.

What is the Workplace Suite v10?

Workplace Suite v10 allows today's SharePoint information worker the ability to extend the capabilities of SharePoint. Many common tasks normally outsourced to a developer are included within this release which enables organizations to lower in-house development costs and enhance productivity with this product.

Capabilities include but are not limited to:

• End-user Forms to add, view and edit information

• Business Process for automating and adding workflow to defined processes

• Displays, Dashboards and Reporting for instant access to real-time data and information

• Design Tools to optimize your solutions and overall environment

• One-Touch Management System for centralizing management/maintenance and admin control

This presentation will be delivered in a format that shows the limitations of SharePoint and how Workplace V10 fills those gaps. This will not be a sales overview, the Corasworks Technical Team
will answer all questions from developer, admin, and project manager standpoints alike.

For our new members, we will be meeting at UMBC Tech Center, 1450 Rolling Road, Halethorpe, MD 21228. Doors open at 6pm for food and refreshments.
As always please go to www.baltimoresug.org/events and respond to the RSVP survey to RSVP your spot.