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IT Pro Toronto User Group

posted on August 28, 2009

Toronto’s IT Pro User group meets on the first Tuesday of the month. Here is the agenda for the upcoming meeting.

 

 

SharePoint for Public Facing Websites

Start Date/Time:
September 1, 2009 6:00 PM

End Date/Time:
September 1, 2009 9:00 PM

Location:

University of Toronto
Health Sciences Building, Room 108
155 College Street,
Toronto, ON
M5T 3M7

To Register for this Event click the following Link:

Registration site: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=140614

Presentation Overview

When done wrong, SharePoint can turn your public facing sites into a performance hog, which is impossible to manage.

Here we will cover some guidelines for a successful public website based on SharePoint:

  • Planning your SharePoint environment for a public facing website
  • Branding your SharePoint website; master pages; page layouts, style sheets, XSLT, item/group styles, etc.
  • Writing custom code to add more functionality to your SharePoint-based site: web parts, features, etc.
  • Customizing built-in SharePoint search functionality on your site
  • Securing your SharePoint-based website (protect backend servers, configure anonymous mode, use lockdown mode, etc.)
  • Implementing or preserving SEO practices in SharePoint
  • Tuning the performance of the SharePoint-based public site (managing page load, optimizing server response time, http compression, cache profiles, blob-cache, etc.)

Presenter

Max Yermakhanov

IT Manager, ObjectSharp

http://objectsharp.com/max

Max is an IT Manager with ObjectSharp Consulting where his main goal is to help the clients and staff to get more (and better) use out Microsoft and other leading technologies.

Max has been involved with information technology professionally since 1999, i.e. “the last millennium.” He has two Master’s degrees: first one in Computer Science and the second one in Library and Information Science. He also has MCSE, MCSA, CCNA, and a few other certifications, but who is counting…

With over nine years’ experience working in public and private organizations, Max has a vast depth of knowledge in Information Technology. He is a life-long learner, bringing an uncompromising approach to client satisfaction.

Filed Under: User Groups Tagged With: IT Pro Toronto, Sharepoint, User Group Meeting

Why August 6th Rocked

posted on August 24, 2009

Okay, so Windows 7 was released on TechNet and MSDN on August 6th but I was too busy to notice; Tracey was into day 4 of being induced with our first child. Yes I said that right, Day 4! Tracey had to be induced so we were 4 days trying to get her into labour. Long story short, my son Nathan was born at 10:34pm on August 6th.

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You probably have noticed I haven’t posted in a bit even with all the good stuff going on in my life, (new house, baby) I haven’t had much time to devote to the blog. Now that things are settling down a little bit, I hope to be able to start posting some more.

Filed Under: Personal

Bing Search – An Improvement From Live

posted on July 9, 2009

I used to use Google exclusively. Sometimes I would search from Internet Explorer and it defaulted to Live Search. I would get my list of results and I would wonder what the heck is this, it isn’t close to what I was looking for. Then I’d realize my error (“Oops, used Live Search”), try to wipe the icky feeling I would have off and then I would search on Google and get the results I was looking for.

When Bing was released, the results that came back were much better. The difference between Bing and Live Search was like HDTV vs Black and White with a coat hanger antenna. I find the results that much better with Bing. If I am using Bing, I almost never have to switch to Google to find what I am looking for. I could not say that for Live Search. I bought a new house recently and I am looking at water softeners. Searching for information on them was a great experience.

That being said, yesterday I found myself searching for information the Hyper-V exam, 70-652 – TS: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring. I did my search using the term 70-652 exam using Bing and looked at the list of results. Testking, pass4sure, braindumps etc (You get in big trouble for using these). The link to Microsoft Learning’s page for the exam is on page 4. That is not so good. Pop over to Google, do the same search and the first result for 70-652 exam is the Microsoft learning link to the exam. Obviously, the “spammy” type sites are still managing to game the search results on Bing.

Microsoft has really improved their search engine with Bing. I think they have some work to do to get it fine tuned.

 

PS – Here is Monty Python’s skit “The Machine that goes Bing”

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Bing, Game Search, Google, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Search, Search Engine, Search Google, Search Results

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