Cincinnati SharePoint User Group Meeting!

Register here: http://www.meetup.com/TechLife-Cincinnati/events/219938769/

User group site: http://www.CincinnatiSPUG.org

Thursday, January 22, 2015

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Speaker: Justin Kobel   

Title:   Branding SharePoint 2013 without breaking everything

SharePoint 2013 (and SharePoint Online) have given us a lot of different tools to offer a better design experience to our users; but it’s  never as easy as the marketing materials make it out to be.  In this session we’ll look at a couple of different methods to apply branding to SharePoint, while also making sure that you do not break existing SharePoint Functionality.

Topics:

• Branding the easy way  (SharePoint themes and Office 365 themes)
• Design Manager
• Minimal Download Strategy (and why you will hate it)
• Deploying via WSP
• Deploying via the App Model

We will try to have remote access available. Check the web site Thursday afternoon for details. http://www.CincinnatiSPUG.org

 

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How do you spell SharePoint?

 

Ok, this is useless trivia… In the list of SharePoint 2013 Search Result Types (Settings, Site Settings, Search section, Result Types) it looks like someone at Microsoft is not sure how to spell SharePoint! At least they did not spell it SharePint!

Oh wait… they made up for it in the next word. Everywhere in TechNet microblog has a lowercase "b"!

So, for accuracy, in my courseware should I use "Sharepoint MicroBlog", "SharePoint MicroBlog" or "SharePoint Microblog"?   Decisions, decisions, decisions… Oh the life of a tech writer…

 

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Still exam procrastinating? Second Shot is back!

 

Time for New Year's resolutions? Or just finish some of last years…

Take any Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exam between January 5, 2015, and May 31, 2015. If you don't pass, get a free retake!

All of the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), and Microsoft Specialist certification exams are eligible. Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) exams and Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exams do not qualify for this promotion.

Details here: https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/second-shot.aspx

 

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Louisville SharePoint User Group Live Meeting!

 

Virtual meeting: Thursday, January 8, 2015  6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Register and find connection information here: http://www.meetup.com/Lou-SPU-Louisville-SharePoint-Users-Meetup/events/219133851/

With the unpredictable weather in January, the Louisville SharePoint User Group has decided to hold an all-virtual event.  Paul Stork, a SharePoint MVP and Microsoft Certified Master based out of the Cleveland area will be our speaker.  Since this will be our first "outside" speaker, I would love to make this a well-attended event.

Topic: Intro to Office Graph and Delve: Finding what you want before you know you need it

At the SharePoint Conference in the Spring of 2014 Microsoft announced a new Product called Project "Oslo".  Project "Oslo" is made up of two new product offerings; Office Graph and Delve. Office Graph is a new technology that uses a combination of machine learning and SharePoint search to explore the relationships between People you follow, the content they author, and the social activities they participate in.  The information revealed by Office Graph is then presented to users in a personalized interface using Delve in Office 365.  By leveraging these new technologies Delve can present you with a proactive look at content you might be interested in before you even think to search for it.  In this talk we'll demonstrate how Delve works and review the underlying architecture of Delve and Office Graph.  We'll also provide some examples of how developers can leverage Delve to create new applications or surface Office Graph content in SharePoint.

See you there! (virtually!)

 

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