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Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group April 12 Reminder

Dennis Bottjer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:12:48 GMT

The Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group is having it’s monthly meeting tonight Monday April 12th @6:00 PM.

Come see Corey Roth’s presentation on SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services.

GREAT Prizes:

XBox 360 – Halo 3 ODST

Telerik Premium Collection ($1,300.00 value)

ReSharper ($199.00 value)

SQL Sets ($149.00 value)

64 Bit Windows 7

Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET Platform ($1,195.00 value)

You can click here for more information.

You can click here to RSVP for the meeting.

MSDN Events: Launch 2010 Highlights

Dennis Bottjer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:48:15 GMT

Tuesday May 04, 2010

Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and Convention Center

Seville II and III

6808 South 107th East Avenue

Tulsa Oklahoma 74133

For the Developer

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Event Overview

MSDN Events Present: Launch 2010 Highlights

Join your local Microsoft Developer Evangelism team to find out first-hand about how the latest features in Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 can help boost your development creativity and performance. Learn how to improve the process of refactoring your existing code base and drive tighter collaboration with testers. Explore innovative web technologies and frameworks that can help you build dynamic web applications and scale them to the cloud. And, learn about the wide variety of rich application platforms that Visual Studio 2010 supports, including Windows 7, the Web, Windows Azure, SQL Server, and Windows Phone 7 Series.

Click here to register.

For the IT Professional

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Event Overview

TechNet Events Present: Launch 2010 Highlights

Join your local Microsoft IT Pro Evangelism team to find out first-hand what Microsoft® Office® 2010 and SharePoint® 2010 mean for the productivity of you and your people—across PC, phone, and browser. Learn how this latest wave of technologies provides revolutionary user experience and how it takes us into a future of greater productivity. Come and explore the tools that will help you optimize desktop deployment.

Click here to register.

First Annual Northwest Arkansas Techfest 2010

Dennis Bottjer — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:41:25 GMT

What:	NWA TechFest Tulsa TechFest has been a growing success year over year for the last four years. We are PROUD to be bring this successful event to NWA!
When:	Thursday, July 8, 2010 (all day)
Where:	Center for Non Profits @ St Mary's 1200 West Walnut Street Rogers, AR 72756

The Tulsa Tech Fest has been an annual event for several years. Northwest Arkansas is a short drive from Tulsa and is very scenic. The NWA Techfest is a great opportunity for the Oklahoma User Group Community to support the Northwest Arkansas User Group Community.

Action Items

1) NWA Techfest is excepting speaker submissions. If you have expertise in areas such as C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, SharePoint, Agile Development, Hyper-V, Silverlight, WCF, WF, please consider submitting a session.

2) Mark your calendar and commit to attending.

Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Announced – Adds Dynamic Memory

Dennis Bottjer — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:50:19 GMT

Microsoft announced today the future release of Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7 Service Pack One. This Service Pack will include two major enhancements for Hyper-V including Dynamic Memory and Remote FX.

References: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/

Dynamic Memory will allow Hyper-V to achieve greater virtual machine density.

Additional Thoughts:

Dynamic Memory will have an obvious impact on datacenters trying to reduce costs and increase operating efficiency. However, Dynamic Memory will also help small business and / or development shops do more with less physical hardware.

Remote FX allows virtual machine users to watch full-motion video and Silverlight animations, run 3D animations, and use the Windows Aero Desktop.

Additional Thoughts:

Remote FX goes a long way to improving the user experience within the virtual environment. This feature combine with Direct Access could really improve the remote worker experience.

TCC Configuring MOSS 2007 Certification Prep Class

Dennis Bottjer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:06:37 GMT

Tomorrow I begin teaching an 8 week Configuring MOSS 2007 Certification Preparation Class at Tulsa Community College. The class will be every Thursday night at the northeast campus.

Details:

Course:	CSCI 2993-24212
Title:	SharePoint Administration in MOSS 2007
Delivery:	Blended (Class / Online)
Meeting:	Thursday
Times:	6:00p – 8:50p
Dates:	03/11/2010 – 05/06/2010
Campus:	Northeast
Room:	Academic Building, RM 2421
Book:	Click To Buy (Amazon)
Fee:	Free
Certification Exam:	Free (First Attempt)
TCC Sponsor (Please contact for enrollment assistance)	Brian Hall (918) 595-7444 Tulsa Community College bhall@tulsacc.edu

MSDN Webcast: Knee-Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions: Improved SharePoint Performance

dbottjer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:34:18 GMT

What:	MSDN Webcast: Knee-Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions: Improved SharePoint Performance Attend this webcast to learn one dozen easy-to-implement performance tips for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We discuss a wide range of topics from adjusting out-of-the-box settings to identifying memory leaks in custom code. We also describe several ways to proactively improve the user experience and squeeze more performance out of a SharePoint Server farm. Anyone currently designing a SharePoint Server implementation can benefit from this webcast.
When:	Friday, July 10, 2009 12:00 PM
Where:	MSDN Web Cast Live Meeting

Technorati Tags: Presentation,SharePoint Performance,MSDN Web Cast,ASP.NET MVP

News: Windows 7, Sharepoint Designer

dbottjer — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:06:34 GMT

Window 7 Release Candidate Due April 30th

Windows 7 Release Candidate is expected to be available for download through MSDN and TechNet on April 30th, 2009.

Ref: Windows Team Blog - Windows 7 Release Candidate Update

Also Of Interest:

The Windows 7 team also comment how “At the peak of the feedback cycle, we were receiving a “Send Feedback” report every 15 seconds for an entire week.”

SharePoint Designer now Free!

As SharePoint continues to increase in popularity, Microsoft announced SharePoint Designer is now available as a free download.

SharePoint Designer Free Download – Requires Live ID

Other Stuff:

Follow Me On Twitter (@dbottjer)

Technorati Tags: SharePoint Designer Free,Windows 7 RC

Event: Tulsa .NET User Group April 27th Corey Roth on Automated Web Testing

dbottjer — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:42:02 GMT

When: April 27th, 2009

Where:

TCC (Tulsa Community College) Northeast Campus

3727 East Apache

Tulsa, OK 74115

918-594-8000

Intro Presentation:

Geek Speak: How Geeks Can Communicate with the Rest of the Business World

Business Presentation Strategist Shari Alexander is going to share with use the secrets behind successful presentations. She will help you become more persuasive and influential in your communications and, more importantly, show you how to create a technical presentation that doesn't make your listeners' heads hurt. Come and learn the speaking skills that will help you make a positive impression on your clients and supervisors.

Shari Alexander is the founder and president of Presenting Matters, LLC, a business presentation consulting firm. She has works with executives, international speakers, along with other organizations and individuals that want results-driven business presentations.

Shari started out as an actress at a young age. She carried her passion to college, where she was a theatre major. She later gained extra training at the University of London and studied under directors from the Globe Theatre. She then ventured into an actor's life. It was then that she soon realized the term "starving actor" was meant to be taken literally.

Shari founded Presenting Matters when she discovered her unique ability to combine her theatrical background with a marketing perspective and influential communications. This is how she has helped so many organizations increase revenues, productivity, and employee morale. She is now a professional speaker, corporate communications consultant, and speech and presentation coach.

Shari has been named the 2007 Emerging High Impact Professional Speaker by the National Speakers Association-OK and one of the 2008 Tulsa Top 40 Under 40. Her articles on effective presentations and communication have been published internationally. Her clients have included an front-line sales associates and entrepreneurs to Emmy Award Winning executive and an ESPN announcer.

Main Event:

Speaker: Corey Roth , an Enterprise Consultant at Stonebridge specializing in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has ten years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, LINQ, and SilverLight. He also contributed greatly to the beta phases of Visual Studio 2005. For his contributions, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint.

Corey will present on Automated Web Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition This no slides talk will show you how to record and script testing of your web application using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition. You will learn what kind of web applications you can test and what kind of validation rules you can use. This is a great talk for any developer or tester that wants to automate everyday repetitive testing tasks.

Comments:

Shari is an amazing presenter with such passion. This session should not be missed and her tips are of value to anyone in our industry. I have seen Cory speak several times and he is the real deal. Cory has much real world industry experience and it comes through in his talks,.

-Dennis

RSVP Here

Oklahoma City SQL Server Developers Group Kick Off Meeting

dbottjer — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:48:38 GMT

Oklahoma City has a new user group thanks to the hard work of Kristin Ferrier. The Oklahoma City SQL Server Developers Group will meet monthly. The Group’s first meeting is Monday April 13th. See details below:

Event Details:

We are excited to invite you to the first meeting of the Oklahoma City SQL Server Developers Group! Mike Hotek, former SQL Pass speaker, has graciously agreed to be our first speaker.

Topic: Q&A with Mike Hotek (open topics are Database Administration and T-SQL in both SQL Server 2005 and 2008)

Mike will be open to questions on the topics of both database administration and T-SQL with respects to both SQL Server 2005 and 2008. This is a format that Mike has used with great success in a variety of presentation arenas, including SQL Pass.

Mike is a SQL Server specialist with three decades of experience as a developer and database professional. He is the Vice-President of FilAm Software Technology, a development company located in the Philippines as well as the Vice-President of MHS Enterprises, a development company based in the Dallas, TX area. He has deployed applications and environments spanning every feature within the SQL Server product as well as authoring/co-authoring 8 books on SQL Server.

When: Monday, April 13th
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Oklahoma City Downtown Library (300 Park Avenue) on the 4th Floor in the Friends of the Library Room

Socialization time will be from 6:00 p.m. - 6:20 p.m. Mike will then begin taking your questions from 6:20 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

We would like to thank GDH Consulting for sponsoring the location.
We would, also, like to thank OakTree Software for donating a grand prize for the first meeting. OakTree will donate a 3-day SQL class (value $1,275). It must be a class that is already running. Here is a link to their schedule - http://www.oaktreesoftware.com/course_list.aspx

FYI...No food or drinks will be provided, however, you many bring your own.

Please RSVP at the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7Mh_2fXhN0wq_2fzCRnTnUGJbQ_3d_3d

Technorati Tags: Oklahoma City,SQL Developers,Oklahoma Developers,Oklahoma User Groups

ASP.NET MVP Again on April Fools… No Joke!

Dennis Bottjer — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:28:00 GMT

I just received notification that I am now a three time Microsoft ASP.NET MVP.

Dear Dennis Bottjer,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.

Also in this email:

About your MVP Award Gift
How to access http://www.mvpaward.com to get your technical subscription benefits
Your MVP Identification Number
MVP Award Program Code of Conduct
The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say "Thank you for your technical leadership."

Toby Richards
General Manager
Community Support Services