Welcome to the St. Louis SharePoint User Group Website 

On this website you will find information, tips and tricks shared by other SharePoint community members.  The St. Louis SharePoint User Group meets bi-monthly, on the second Tuesday of the month. Check the events for specific meeting dates and times. If you are interested in joining our group, you can sign up by clicking the button below...

Next St. Louis SharePoint User Group Meeting  

When: Tuesday, February 14, 2011 Registration: 8:00 - 8:30AM Event: 8:30 - 10:45AM Networking/Q&A: 10:45 - 11:00AM

Where: Microsoft Corporation 3 City Place Dr. St. Louis, MO 63141 11th Floor, MPR2

Click here to register for the next STLSUG Meeting!
The SharePoint 2010 Series: Join us for a montlhy series of presentations highlighting the new features and capabilities of SharePoint 2010. Our planned series has included the following over the last 12 months:   May 2010 - SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight June 2010 - SharePoint 2010 and the New Visual Studio 2010 Development Tools September 2010 - SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010 October 2010 - SharePoint 2010 Analytics and Enterprise Metadata Management November 2010 - Windows 7 and SharePoint 2010 Integration December 2010 - Claims Authentication January 2011 - Variations in SharePoint 2010 February 2011 - FAST Search and Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 Case Study March 2011 - Health Analysis Rules and SharePoint Maturity Model April/May 2011 - SharePoint Saturday September 2011 - UX Research Methods and Office 365 Public Facing Fast Start October 2011 - Developing SharePoint 2010 Sandbox Solutions November 2011 - SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Customization and Office 365 SSO/Identity Access December 2011 - Overview of SharePoint 2010 ECM and Record Retention Rules     February   Session: 8:30 am - 9:30 am Description: Security Best Practices for SharePoint 2010 Extranets This session will cover various extranet topologies, understand pros and cons, discuss security hardening steps and procedures, protecting IP/Content using rights management, virus protection using forefront, why you should be thinking about reverse proxy solution, cover some of the capabilities of ForeFront UAG in extranet scenarios.   Presenter: Ram Gopinathan  Ram is an independant SharePoint Architect based out of Chicago IL. Ram’s primary focus is on SharePoint Architecture, Web Content Management, Enterprise Content Management, SharePoint Security, BCS, and SharePoint Development. Ram has been working with SharePoint since version 2001 and is also a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Master for SharePoint 2007   Session: 9:45 am - 10:45 am Description: Deploying ADFS with SharePoint 2010 Claims-based authentication is the future, this session will cover some key planning considerations, experiences from real world deployments, scenarios for using ADFS, issues you might run into, how to integrate SharePoint 2010 with ADFS, special considerations when using host named site collections as well as claims augmentation scenarios etc.   Presenter: Ram Gopinathan      Q & A and Networking: 10:45 am - 11:00 am