The December SharePoint user group meeting is coming up and Covenant is sponsoring the event. Presenations are by Bryan Porter and Darrin Bishop and the topics will be Claims Authentication and Dashboards in 60 minutes or less.

The meeting agenda is listed below or go to SharePoint User Group to register for the meeting.

December Meeting Details:
 
Session: 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Description: SharePoint 2010 Claims Authentication
 
Claims authentication is an extraordinarily powerful, enabling technology baked right in to SharePoint 2010. Join Bryan Porter as he explores the common and not so common implementation cases for Claims Authentication, and along the way deep dives into claims authentication internals.
 
Presenter: Bryan Porter, Microsoft
 
Bryan Porter is a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint and a member of the Microsoft SharePoint Ranger team, otherwise known as Microsoft’s own SharePoint COE. He lives in St. Charles with his wife and 1.5 children, and when he’s not bending SharePoint to his will, he’s either riding his bike, developing apps for Windows Phone 7, working on plans for turning his Dumb Home into a Smart Home.
 
Session: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Description: Dashboards in 60 Minutes or Less
 
The title says it all. Creating dashboards are now simple thanks to PerformancePoint Services 2010. As a matter of fact there is no code involved. This session will show you how to create and publish a dashboard in 60 minutes or less. We will step-by-step create all the components needed to surface your data inside a PerformancePoint dashboard. Creating and publishing dashboards is a quick and easy way to make you the hero of the company.
 
Presenter: Darrin Bishop, Aptillon 
 
Darrin Bishop is a speaker, author and developer focusing on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies since the release of SharePoint Portal Server 2001. He has authored chapters in various SharePoint –related books including Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences from 23 SharePoint MVPs and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Pocket Consultant. Darrin is an international speaker and speaks at many SharePoint conferences, SharePoint Saturdays, MOSS Camps and User Groups. Darrin along with Gary, Dave, Dan, Maurice, Matt and Todd recently announced Aptillon, a company dedicated to SharePoint. Contact Darrin via his blog at www.darrinbishop.com/blog or via www.aptillon.com..

 
Q & A and Networking: 10:30 am - 11:00 am