Penny Coventry

SharePoint User Group UK Meeting - Southampton

Penny Coventry — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:42:00 GMT

I'm presenting a session on Thursday 25^th March 2010 at Southampton University. My session at 18:30 is titled: "Best Practice for Designing and Deploying Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2007". I'll briefly look at the out-of-the-box workflows that come with SharePoint Server 2007 and then how to use SharePoint Designer 2007 for building workflow solutions. The second session starts at 19:30 when Ian Woodgate will do a quick tour of records management in SharePoint Server 2010. There will then be a break followed by Symon Garfield and "What is SharePoint?" and the New Speaker Slot at 20:45.

Location:
Building 06 (Nuffield Theatre) Room 1077 (Lecture Theatre A)
University Road,
Southampton,
SO17 1BJ‎

http://www.soton.ac.uk/about/whereissoton/maps/highfield_campus.pdf

And as usual, there will be a SharePint event afterwards.

Arrive around 6 pm for a 6:30 pm start.

SharePoint User Group UK Meeting - Nottingham

Penny Coventry — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:42:00 GMT

Cross posted from: http://www.sharepointdesignerstepbystep.com/Blog/

I'm presenting a session this Thursday, 14th January 2010 at Intelligent Decisioning Ltd Offices at Nottingham. The session is on "Branding SharePoint Sites: Using the browser and SharePoint Designer 2007/2010". The first session will cover what's possible in 2007 and then after the break I'll briefly cover what's happened to branding in 2010. After which, there will then be some 'tales from the trenches' from Sam Dolan, aka @PinkPetrol, on SharePoint Designs and Nikki Ashington on Accessibility.

I have some SWAG that I've brought back from TechEd 2009, North America, to give away, so make sure you attend.

Location:
Intelligent Decisioning Ltd Offices
Strelley Hall,
Nottingham,
NG8 6PE

For full directions please see the following link http://www.id-live.com/ (and click 'Contact Us')

And as usual, there will be a SharePint event event afterwards, at the Broad Oak pub, down the road in Strelley Village, where everyone is welcome.

Arrive around 6 pm for a 6:30 pm start.

[Update: 19/01/2010: Link to write up of meeting together with links to slide decks and other information http://macraem.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/suguk-nottingham-14th-january-2010/]

Speaking at SEF2009 and Evolution

Penny Coventry — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:27:00 GMT

Cross posted from: http://www.sharepointdesignerstepbystep.com/Blog/

I’m presenting SharePoint 2010 sessions at the Swedish SharePoint & Exchange Forum (SEF2009), and at SharePoint Evolution Conference. (Beta 2 of SharePoint 2010 will be available this month, so make sure your register to get a copy). The sessions I am presenting at the two conferences are :

Swedish SharePoint & Exchange Conference 2009

Day 1: 16^th November 2009

11:00-12:00 "SharePoint 2010 workflows without code" – Best Practices Track:
Workflow in SharePoint 2010 has been revamped. The new SharePoint Designer 2010 can build reusable workflows as well as site and list based workflows. In this session we’ll cover the workflows built into SharePoint 2010 as well as how to build new and reuse workflows, the integration with Visio, and how to prototype workflows in SharePoint Designer for further development in Visual Studio 2010. More information on SharePoint Designer can be found at the following links:

Day 2: 17^th November 2009

11:00-12:00 "SharePoint 2010 and Access 2010 – Better together" – SharePoint Nerd Track:
Access has always been a great landing pad for data. Last year I did a presentation at the SEF event showing how well Access and SharePoint worked well together. Now the story is even better, so this session follows on the story. Access 2010 includes new performance improvement when connecting to SharePoint lists. In this session I’ll cover these as well as other improvements, such as, connecting to Business Connectivity Services (BCS) data and using Access Services. If you can’t attend SEF, then you can find out more about Access and SharePoint at the following links:

13:00-14:00 "Administrating SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell 2.0" – Best Practices Track:
In this session you’ll see how to use PowerShell to administer SharePoint 2010. We’ll cover some basic PowerShell commands and then jump into showing how to do day to day administrating of SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell. Useful PowerShell and SharePoint 2010 links are:

Zach Rosenfield’s blogs tagged with PowerShell
If you’ve still using CTP3 of PowerShell 2.0, then you really need to use the RTM version which can be obtain from links on Microsoft KB968929 page, make sure you upgrade to the WinRM RTM version at the same time. (The RTM versions of PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM are automatically included in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.)
Read about PowerShell in the SharePoint 2010 Evaluation Guide.
Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Foundation 2010
SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cmdlets Reference
Getting Started: Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Administrators

SharePoint Evolution Conference

More information of the two session I’ll be presenting will be detailed on this blog nearer the date. Of course by April 2010, I’ll know much more about SharePoint 2010 than I do now and I’m really looking forward to this conference. It’s at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference centre, which is where the European SharePoint Best Practice 2009 conference was held. That conference was a sell-out and I expect that the Evolution conference will also sell out, so don’t leave it too late until your register.

How to find the version level of SharePoint

Penny Coventry — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:07:00 GMT

Back in May 2005 I started an article mapping SharePoint versions to service packs and hot fixes. Late last year, Mindsharp, who hosts my blog site, moved to another blog environment and therefore my old article has never had details of any updates since August 2008.

I have received several emails asking me to continue on with this list of updates to version numbers. Also Todd Klindt in several of his netcasts keep sending people my way. So I've created an article on my blog web site: "How to find the level of SharePoint you are running". I hope you enjoy and if you find any information to include in the article, then do let me know.

Speaking at SUGIE and Learning Gateway Conference

Penny Coventry — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:47:00 GMT

Cross post from: http://www.sharepointdesignerstepbystep.com/Blog/default.aspx.

I'm presenting sessions at:

SharePoint User Group Ireland, 29th June 2009 at Radisson Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin

19:00 -20:00 This is a developer-oriented session using Data Views and ASP.NET controls with SharePoint Designer. Please register to attend here: Registration site: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=138968 Event Code: 138968

The Learning Gateway Conference, 15th July 2009 at The Belfry, Birmingham, UK.

14:30-15:30 "Branding SharePoint Sites: The session will cover such topics as content pages, page layouts, master pages and themes. Registration Fee: £150 Per Delegate

SharePoint UK User Group Meeting - North West

Penny Coventry — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:59:00 GMT

Cross post from: http://www.sharepointdesignerstepbystep.com/Blog/default.aspx.

[Updated 26th May 2009: Meeting Cancelled. Please take a minute to complete the following survey which will help plan the next North West event: North West Location Survey]

I'm presenting a session this Thursday, 28th May at CSC at Knowsley. I'll be presenting on Services Packs and Hot Fixes, where I'll cover why do you need to deploy them and how, plus what's in the latest service packs (SP2) and cumulative Update (April 2009); How to find out what level of software you have installed and what to look out for, in particular the SharePoint team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx

The second session of the evening is an open session for questions and discussions. I have some SWAG that I've brought back from TechEd 2009, North America, to give away, so make sure you attend.

Location:
V7
Kings Business Park
Knowsley
Merseyside
L34 1PJ

For full directions please see the following link: http://www.csc.com/uk/ds/11508/14467-csc_knowsley

Arrive around 6pm for a 6:30pm start.

Session Webcasts and HOL manuals available on MS TechEd Online

Penny Coventry — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:25:00 GMT

Cross post from: http://www.sharepointdesignerstepbystep.com/Blog/default.aspx.

Many of the session that have taken place earlier this week are now available to attendees of TechEd 2009, on Ms Tech Online, as well as copies of the Hands On Labs (HOL) manuals.

The HOL manuals may not be available after the conference. So download them NOW!

[Update 26th May 2009 HOL labs are still available on the TechEd Online site]

To download a copy of the labs:

Go to https://www.msteched.com.
If you cannot see Sessions/Evals as one of the top navigation tabs, click the Sign Out button in the middle of the page. Then click Sign In, and enter your email address/Live ID password that you used to register for TechEd.
Click the Sessions/Evals top navigation tab.
Scroll, down and on the Tags tab, click Session Type and then click Hands-on Labs [211].
Choose the HOL you're interested in.
Right click the xps file and click Save Target As.

I'm an MVP for the Third Year

Penny Coventry — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:30:00 GMT

It is with much joy that I received my Congratulations email. Thanks to everyone who helped me on my journey the past year.

Moving My Main Blog Site

Penny Coventry — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:26:00 GMT

With the new introduction of the Mindsharp blog server, I have decided to use my http://www.sharepointdesignerstepbystep.com/Blog/ web site as my primary blog site. I will be cross posting to this blog site as well. In the near future I will create a blog post with links to my blog posts on the old mindsharp blog server, that I still believe will be useful, as much for my own benefit as well as for others.