Thanksgiving has passed, December is right around the corner, and it seems that many folks I know are settling into the holiday mindset. There’s very little slowdown of activity when it comes to SharePoint, though; one need only look at the SharePoint Saturday home page to see that the first half of December is jam-packed with events.
I’ll be participating in a couple of SharePoint events myself in December, and I thought I’d share those.
Cincinnati SharePoint User Group (CincySPUG)
It’s been quite a while since I’ve attended the monthly Cincinnati SharePoint User Group meetings, and I’ve been meaning to get back to some level of involvement for a while now. Family and work-related obligations have tied me up more often than not, and then there’s the fact that the meeting location is a solid 40 minutes from my house – and that’s before factoring in rush-hour traffic.
All excuses aside, I’m happy to announce that I’ll be speaking at this month’s CincySPUG meeting. I’ll be delivering the SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery: New Capabilities, New Possibilities! talk that I recently delivered at SharePoint Saturday Dallas. Here’s the abstract:
Disaster recovery planning for a SharePoint 2010 environment is something that must be performed to insure your data and the continuity of business operations. Microsoft made significant enhancements to the disaster recovery landscape with SharePoint 2010, and we’ll be taking a good look at how the platform has evolved in this session. We’ll dive inside the improvements to the native backup and restore capabilities that are present in the SharePoint 2007 platform to see what has been changed and enhanced. We’ll also look at the array of exciting new capabilities that have been integrated into the SharePoint 2010 platform, such as unattended content database recovery, SQL Server snapshot integration, and configuration-only backup and restore. By the time we’re done, you will possess a solid understanding of how the disaster recovery landscape has changed with SharePoint 2010.
I put the talk together using Prezi, so its style and flow is inherently different from the standard PowerPoint deck you’re probably used to seeing.
The December 2010 meeting of the CincySPUG is at MAX Technical Training on Thursday, December 2nd. Socializing starts at 6pm, and the actual presentation goes from 6:30pm until 8pm. If you have the time and availability, it would be great to see you.
Oh, and here’s (perhaps) a little extra incentive: I’ll be giving away a copy of the new SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide that John Ferringer and I co-authored. Come on out!
SharePoint Saturday Kansas City
I mentioned that there are a number of SharePoint Saturday events during the first half of December, and I’m fortunate enough to be participating in one them!
SharePoint Saturday Kansas City will be held on Saturday December 11th at the Johnson County Community College Regnier Center (12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, KS 66210-1299). The event is a full day of free SharePoint training; all you need to do is register through the Eventbrite site and show up!
I’ll be presenting the tried-and-true Saving SharePoint session. Here’s the abstract:
In this session, we will be discussing disaster recovery (DR) concepts and strategies for SharePoint in a format that highlights a combination of both business and technical concerns. We will define some critical planning terms such as “recovery time objectives” and “recovery point objectives,” and we’ll see why they are so important to understand when trying to formulate a DR strategy. We will also identify the capabilities and limitations of the Microsoft tools that can used for backing up, restoring, and making SharePoint highly available for disaster recovery purposes. Changes that have arrived with SharePoint Server 2010 and how they affect DR planning and implementation will also be covered.
I’m not one to simply leave a presentation alone. I’ve delivered Saving SharePoint a number of times, but I’ve found a few new goodies to work into it for this go ‘round – should be fun!
Additional Reading and References
- Site: SharePoint Saturday Home Page
- Group: Cincinnati SharePoint User Group
- Event: SharePoint Saturday Dallas
- Tools: Prezi
- Training: MAX Technical Training
- Book: SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide
- Blog: John Ferringer’s MyCentralAdmin
- Event: SharePoint Saturday Kansas City
- Site: Eventbrite Registration for SPS KC
