The Western Mass .NET Users group along with the Knowledge Bases Special Interest Group are hosting their next monthly meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6 at 6:00 PM in Northampton. This is a great place to find answers to questions and learn the latest about the .Net environment and related areas such as metadata via its' affiliated SIG. Software developers, project managers, students and anyone interested in software development, particularly on the Microsoft platform are encouraged to attend. The next presentation will be: Windows Sharepoint Services and Sharepoint Portal Services by Kuang Zhang Windows Sharepoint Services are used to create collaborative team sites. Sharepoint Portal Services are used to aggregate multiple team sites. This talk will discuss the pros and cons of Sharepoint as a collaboration platform and comment on ways in which Sharepoint can be customized to work with metadata repositories and external information services. Kuang Zhang, Director of Software Development at Court Square Data Group and holds a BSEE from the University of Pittsburgh. At Fallon Community Health Plan he led a team that designed and implemented a system using Windows 2003, SQL Server 2000, Sharepoint Portal Server 2003, and Biztalk Server 2004. He has led several projects for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, including a knowledge management system to enable data interchange between manufacturing, research, and sales. Kuang Zhang IT Solutions for Companies in Transition zhang at csdg.com http://www.csdg.com/ : This meeting will be held at: Fazzi Associates, Inc. Suite 246. 243 King St. Northampton, MA 01060 Tel: 413 584-5300 (ask for Jami or email jami at fazzi.com) Web site: http://www.dotnetsaps.org/ For additional information please contact: Jean Graef (jean.graef at montague.com) 413-367-0245. The Montague Institute http://www.montague.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Food and drinks will be served. Some prizes including quality tech books will be given out. There is a suggested donation of $5. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20051205/4bfebd9a/attachment-0006.html