NEBytes & SUGUK North East Launch Event - Silverlight, Hyper-V and Sharepoint 2010!

Join North East Bytes for our Launch Event, where we are pleased to announce that we are partnering with SUGUK North East for their first event of the year too!.  This is the first of many great events scheduled for 2010.  We are very pleased to welcome Mike Taulty and James O'Neill from Microsoft UK's Developer and Platform Evangelism Team to cover two great topics to kickstart the year!  We are pleased to also welcome Steve Smith who will be covering the Highlights and Features of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2010.

SUGUK: Highlights and Features of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2010 - Steve Smith

Steve will add his own insight to a well balanced presentation on the replacement for the product we have all come to know, specifically highlighting the new metadata management model and the new records management and records routing features of 2010, the Ribbon, Office integration, migration options, architecture and new facets of the product likely to keep you employed well into the next few years. The session will be an open forum to allow participants to ask questions as the session progresses.

Steve Smith

Steve Smith is the Director of Combined Knowledge, a specialist Sharepoint training consultancy.  Steve is a Sharepoint MVP and a prominent and very well known circuit speaker for the Sharepoint User Group in the UK.  He has recently returned from speaking appearance Sweden, and was a speaker at both the Sharepoint 2010 conference in Las Vegas and the European Sharepoint Conference, held in London in April 2009.  He is an authority on Sharepoint 2010 and we are very pleased to have him agree to come along to present on the next iteration of Sharepoint.

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=6F1C3FD4-330A-4916-BB5B-53B0D52BAA4F

Silverlight - 2 Years, 4 Versions, Where are We? - Mike Taulty

Silverlight is Microsoft's UX Technology for rich internet applications and its development is moving at internet-speed with 4 versions coming out in different forms over just 2 years.  In this session, we'll talk about Silverlight from version 1 to version 4 with a focus on the currently released Silverlight 3 and also a look at Silverlight 4 which is in beta.  We'll look at various aspects from the core capabilities of the framework through to where the tooling has got to as it progresses towards Visual Studio 2010.

Mike Taulty

Mike Taulty works in the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft in the UK where he has spent the past few years helping developers understand and get the best from the Microsoft platform. Prior to this, Mike spent 3 years with Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant on developer technologies.

Before joining Microsoft, Mike spent the previous 9 years working as a software developer for a number of enterprises, consultancies and software vendors working with a variety of operating system, client, communication and server technologies.

Mike holds a BSc Hons (1st Class) in Computer Science from the University of Leeds.

Mike's blog - http://mtaulty.com and follow Mike on Twitter - http://twitter.com/mtaulty

Hyper-V with James O'Neill

James O'Neill from Microsoft's UK IT Pro Evangelism Team will cover the Hyper-V virtualisation technology, including the improvements in the new version of Hyper-V that launched with Windows Server 2008 R2, and management of your virtual infrastructure with System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Windows PowerShell.

James O'Neill

It is hard to believe but I used my first Microsoft product in 1979 and then joined Microsoft 21 years later, specialising in messaging technologies. In the 5 years before joining Microsoft, I ran my own consultancy company and in 1993, I became a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) with a focus on messaging and systems management. Prior to joining the Evangelist team, I worked for Microsoft Consulting Services.

James' blog - http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone and follow James on Twitter - http://twitter.com/jamesoneill

Location

The event will be hosted in Room G11 of the Percy Building at Newcastle University.  For a detailed campus map - http://www.ncl.ac.uk/documents/Campus-Map-Print.pdf 

Launch Event

This is North East Bytes launch event and as such expect plenty of food, drink, prizes and giveaways.  We look forward to welcoming you all to help ring in the New Year and Era!  Check out our site at http://www.nebytes.net; follow us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/nebytes and become a fan on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/NEBytes/154009434309