November was looking like a pretty busy month for me before this year’s SharePoint Conference (SPC) in Las Vegas, but the excitement about SharePoint 2010 both in and around the conference seems to have ratcheted things up a notch. Here’s where I’ll be and what I’ll be doing (in “order of appearance”) in the month of November:
Microsoft “Best of SPC 2009” Event
Many of the folks who wanted to attend the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas this year weren’t able to so for a variety of reasons. To “share the love” a bit, Microsoft is holding a series of one-day events that brings select sessions from the SPC to cities around the country … or at least around the state of Ohio. Yes, I’m extrapolating a bit with “around the country,” but it’s an educated guess :-)
In any case, I’ll be delivering a session titled What’s New for SharePoint 2010 Administration and Governance to the crowd that will be attending the event at the Microsoft office in Columbus, Ohio, on November 10th. The abstract for the session reads as follows:
SharePoint 2010 includes many new and improved tools for providing a flexible and controlled environment and this session will provide an overview of those innovations.
I caught this session while I was at the SPC, and I found it to be good, solid information for IT professionals. I’m very much looking forward to delivering the content myself!
SharePoint Saturday Cleveland
SharePoint Saturday finally makes its way to Ohio! SharePoint Saturday Cleveland will be held on Saturday, November 14th, at the Embassy Suites on Rockside Woods Blvd. in Independence, Ohio.
John Ferringer and I will be delivering our SharePoint disaster recovery (DR) talk titled “Saving SharePoint.” It will differ a bit from previous presentations on the topic in that we can now include SharePoint 2010 content. After the talk, I’ll be sure to post our slide deck here on my blog.
SPS Cleveland is less than two weeks away, but there are still seats open. As with all SPS events, there’s no charge for those in attendance – all you need to do is show up and take it all in!
“SharePoint Disaster Recovery Essential Guidelines” Webcast
The “week of whirlwind activity” (roughly speaking) will conclude with a webcast for Idera. John and I will be presenting SharePoint Disaster Recovery Essential Guidelines on Wednesday, November 18th, and it will be similar to the SharePoint Saturday presentation we’ve given in the past (and will have given a few days earlier at SPS Cleveland).
Todd Klindt recently presented a DR webcast with Idera; if you saw it, you might be asking “do I really need another DR webcast?” Probably the biggest differences between Todd’s webcast and ours are scope and target audience. I caught Todd’s presentation, and his webcast was aimed more at the solidly SharePoint admin/IT pro crowd. John and I include some of the same content and focus, but our webcast is packaged with more of a lean towards classic DR concepts (RTO, RPO, BCPs, etc.). I would also say that our webcast targets IT decision makers and DR planners as much as it does IT pros, though I feel that both groups will find something of interest in what we have to say.
If our webcast sounds like it would be of interest to you, hop over to Idera’s site and sign up!
Additional Reading and References
- Events: Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009
- Events: SharePoint Saturday Cleveland
- Company: Idera
- Blog: Todd Klindt’s SharePoint Admin Blog
- Events: SharePoint Disaster Recovery Essential Guidelines webcast
