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Welcome to the Los Angeles SharePoint User Group (LASPUG) Website 

The Los Angeles SharePoint User Group is a community forum for Information Workers and End users of the SharePoint product, IT Personnel, Administrators and Developers alike; all with a desire to learn more about Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.

LASPUG meetings are held the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 6:30pm to 8:00pm PST. Meetings include a variety of speakers, "how-to" examples, product demonstrations, activities and sponsors as well as snacks and free giveaways.

Membership Options

 Announcements

Customers with SharePoint ECAL SA will have rights to deploy PerformancePoint Server today!
Microsoft is removing the barriers for customers who want to deploy a complete Business Intelligence solution, leveraging their existing investments in SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Excel. Customers with SharePoint ECAL SA will have rights to deploy PerformancePoint Server today. PerformancePoint’s scorecard capabilities are certified by the Balanced Scorecard Institute/Palladium, building on the capabilities first introduced in Business Scorecard Manager. This means companies can implement their scorecards, following any methodology they choose, and accurately reflect this with their company strategy. The contextual dashboards allow organizations to create data-rich views that are interactive and change based on the users context.  Read more about it here...

10 Best Intranets of 2009
In total, the 10 winners were built on 26 different products—substantially fewer than the 41 used in 2008 or the 49 used in 2007. Most impressively, fully half of the winning intranets used SharePoint, especially the recent MOSS platform (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007).  Read more here...

The Top 10 Enterprise Windows Events of 2008

From the birth of Hyper-V to Bill Gates' retirement, 2008 was an eventful year for Microsoft.  Here's #7 from the list:

The year of SharePoint. The buzz around SharePoint in 2008 was everywhere. At TechEd 2008, Microsoft's biggest tech conference, it seemed like all the vendors wanted to push that they had books on SharePoint, training about SharePoint, products that work with SharePoint or back up SharePoint ... you get the point.

Full article here...

 


The right tools for the connected economy
Skinner says his company has seen value in the Microsoft SharePoint document collaboration architecture, which a growing number of Irish businesses and government departments are now adopting.   Read more here...

Top 10 Microsoft Stories Of 2008
Having bid farewell to Bill Gates, Microsoft tempered its appetite for Yahoo, tweaked Vista, leapt into cloud computing, allowed a peek at Windows 7, and warmed up to open source.  SharePoint is featured as the 10th story: The SharePoint Phenomenon. Read more here...

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 Meetings and Events

Date/TimeTitle/Description

 MSDN: SharePoint Products and Technologies

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Take your workflows to the next level by creating custom actions in Visual Studio and configuring them to work inside SharePoint Designer.

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Build on your Figure experience with the Data View and Data Source Library to reach beyond Windows SharePoint Services and build truly heterogeneous applications and mashups.

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Learn how Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 use membership and role providers and how to automatically configure providers into SharePoint Server so it can manage the configuration settings.

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Explore the membership and role provider architecture and how it operates in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Explore how to configure the LDAP Providers in SharePoint Server 2007, how to automate provider assignment and provider registration, and how to configure Web Single Sign On with Active Directory Federation Services.

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Learn how to use the HTTP PUT method to programmatically upload files from an ASP.NET Web application to a SharePoint Server 2007 site.