Arizona SharePoint Professionals Group

June 26^th 2008 Meeting Bulletin

 Join us for the June 26^th, 2008 meeting of the Arizona SharePoint Professionals Group (AZSPG)

Our guest speakers for the evening will be Thomas Baer from Statera and William Xi from Microsoft

v  Thomas is a Senior Consultant for Statera, a consulting firm located here in Arizona. He has been in programming since 1984 when he was writing 68000 assembly code. Currently, he specializes in all things related to SharePoint. When not trying to figure out which SP objects he needs to dispose of in his code, he enjoys cooling off by playing ice hockey and swimming.

Thomas will be demonstrating what the Business Data Catalog (BDC) is, why you would want to use it, and how to create applications that leverage the BDC. He will demonstrate what functionality the out-of-the-box BDC Web Parts provide and show how they can be leveraged to quickly create applications inside SharePoint without writing a line of code!

v  William joined Microsoft in 2000, and has worked in a wide variety of industries and customers on different many technologies. Prior to Microsoft, William worked on product development at Honeywell and Emerson Electric.

William will be showcasing how to use Windows Powershell to manage and administer a SharePoint environment.  There will be plenty of takeaway examples and demos from this session.