SUGUK Meetings in November
Wow, two great SUGUK events planned for November. London on 25th and Scotland on 27th.
Edinburgh at the Scottish Parliment
Thurs 27th November
Spencer Harbar SharePoint MVP – MythBusters – debunking common SharePoint Farm Misconceptions
This interactive, whiteboard session will dive into common SharePoint Farm Myths and discuss common misconceptions around Global Deployments, Farm Topologies, Shared Service Providers, High Availability, Security and more. Alongside best practices for each “myth”, the SharePoint “magic numbers” will be covered and there will be plenty of scope to discuss any particular queries you may have on farm deployment.
Andrew Woodward SharePoint MVP – Test Driven Development – Contrary to popular belief it can be done on SharePoint projects
In the style of Don Box this PowerPoint free session will take you through the development of a SharePoint solution using TDD. We will introduce TDD , the tools of the trade, how TDD influences you design and mocking out the core SharePoint object model elements using the new Typemock Isolator APIs.
Sign Up for the Edinburgh event at SUGUK forum with your full name.
London at Microsoft Cardinal Place
Tue 25th November
Ben Robb SharePoint MVP – Customizing SharePoint Search
SharePoint Search is very powerful, and there are some key best practices which should be used to ensure that your search results are giving users the ability to find information more quickly. In this session we will learn how to customise search results and what search rules should be put in place to make sure that system pages do not find their way into search results. Finally, we will explore how to apply Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) techniques so that external search engines can crawl public facing sites effectively.
Rickard Lofberg – Lessons learned deploying SharePoint at Credit Suisse
This session will explore how Credit Suisse, a world leading financial services company, has deployed SharePoint as a large scale collaboration platform.
We will learn about the design, best practises and challenges of hosting more than 2000 Site Collections and 1.8 TB of data.
We will cover topics ranging from the physical farm architecture to SharePoint Designer Contributor settings.
Finally, we will discuss some of the operational process and policies needed to ensure platform stability.
Sign Up for the London event
