March 20th 5:30pm

Topic: You forgot the custom solutions (and other migration considerations)
Location: 8 City Blvd., Suite 403, Nashville, TN 37209 – MAP
Speaker: Nick Brattoli
Sponsor: Provisions Group
Cost: FREE (free food too!)

Topic Details

In this session, Nick Brattoli talks about SharePoint and Office 365 migrations, including things like:

• Situations where SharePoint or Exchange migrations could be needed
• Things to consider when planning your migration
• Different migration methods (and when to use what)
• How to use the new Microsoft Migration Tool

If you are going through a migration, or are considering it, you’ll want to attend this session.

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Sponsor Details

Provisions Group is a Nashville leader in IT consulting and recruiting. Our talent recruitment resources in Nashville are unmatched, and our ability to combine those resources with deep strategy and consulting makes us a remarkably powerful problem-solving machine. But there’s another reason companies choose to work with Provisions: because we value, above anything, our relationships. There’s a common misconception that technology is about hardware and software. Like few others, we know that it’s about people. And that understanding is hard to duplicate. If your company has a strategy or recruiting issue, no problem is too large. No distance is too great. And no challenge is too difficult for Provisions Group to solve. Put the Provisions Group recruiting and consulting engine to work for you.

Speaker Details

Nick Brattoli is an Ohio native, Office Servers and Services MVP, MCP, and self-employed Consultant, as well as the Collab365 Community Manager. He’s worked in the IT Field for 15 years, 9 of which have been SharePoint-focused.

Over the years, he’s worked in a variety of industries, such as Healthcare, Finance, Law, and Manufacturing. He currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and works in many different fields, doing a wide variety of SharePoint, Office 365, and Azure projects. In his free time, he practices Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, goes on adventures, works on nerdy projects.

February 13th 5:30pm

Topic: Security and Compliance in SharePoint/Office 365: The Four Microsoft Products You Need in Your Arsenal
Location: 8 City Blvd., Suite 403, Nashville, TN 37209 – MAP
Speaker: Scott Edwards
Sponsor: Summit 7 Systems
Cost: FREE (free food too!)

Topic Details
For modern organizations, the most common chasm between security plans/plans of action and an actual compliant IT ecosystem is product management and configuration. National compliance speaker and cloud pro, Scott Edwards, will provide a breakdown of where the world of compliance is heading (GDPR, FAR, ITAR, etc) and help make sense of Microsoft Office 365 security features and how they integrate with various Cloud environments (namely SharePoint). Topics and areas to be covered:

• Security and compliance issues in 2018
• Compliance model
• Breakdown of Office 365 security product offerings
• Roadmap review and Q&A

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Sponsor Details

Summit 7 Systems (S7S) is a Microsoft Gold Cloud Productivity Partner, built to help mid-size to large organizations transform the way they work through the use of cutting edge cloud technologies and intelligent governance. The S7S team – led by an 11x Microsoft MVP – supports organizations through complex security and compliance implementations (DFARS/NIST 800-171/ITAR), diverse migrations, business process transformations, and ongoing management and maintenance of on premises and cloud infrastructure. S7S is also a Tier 1 Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider and Microsoft Managed Partner.

Speaker Details
Scott Edwards is a national expert and speaker on regulatory compliance and implementation with Microsoft Office 365 and Azure. He is an accomplished computer engineer and organizational leader, and maintains communication with the Microsoft Government Cloud team to discuss latest industry hurdles and best practices.

Scott’s technical experience was honed at NASA as a Senior Computer Engineer and the Chief Engineer and Engineering Manager for the NASA Datacenter. Scott received his Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy and his Master of Science in Computer Science with an emphasis in Information Assurance at James Madison University. Scott proudly served as an Officer in the US Army Signal Corps with both the 2-227th Aviation Battalion in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the 1-6 Air Defense Artillery Battalion in Fort Bliss, Texas. Currently, Scott is the President and Managing Partner of Summit 7 Systems – a Gold Microsoft Partner Company.

December 5th 5:30pm

Topic: Automation Using JSON in SharePoint Designer Workflows
Location: 8 City Blvd., Suite 403, Nashville, TN 37209 – MAP
Speaker: Jim Bob Howard
Sponsor: Rezult Group
Cost: FREE (free food too!)

Topic Details
Use REST services and create intelligent looping to automate processes, using the Dictionary as a JSON object to streamline processing and avoid redundancy.

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Sponsor Details

Since 2001 Rezult Group has been a full service I.T. recruiting firm specialized in placing highly sought after resources in Contract / Contract to Perm / Permanent positions throughout the greater Nashville area. Our strength lies in our ability to connect local talent with local companies by forging strong relationships with the area’s top talent and top employers. We are committed to partnering and supporting the local technology community to help drive Nashville to be one of the nation’s premiere technology hubs. To learn more of to connect with a Technology Recruiter please visit our website www.rezultgroup.com.

Speaker Details

Jim Bob Howard is first a husband and father. For fun, he gets to work and play with SharePoint. Jim Bob has invested almost 25 years in software development and website management for companies of all sizes. For the last 8+ years, he has applied his expertise to SharePoint UX/UI Development and Architecture, and in his current role as SharePoint Practice Director for JourneyTEAM in Nashville, TN. Jim Bob is heavily involved in the SharePoint community globally, having organized SharePoint Saturdays in Austin, TX, and Nairobi, Kenya, and serving as a Board Member of the Nashville SUG; and spoken on SharePoint at more than 20 events..

October 10th 5:30pm

Topic: Rethinking Document Management in Office 365
Location: 8 City Blvd., Suite 403, Nashville, TN 37209 – MAP
Speaker: Peter Baddeley
Sponsor: Keller Schroeder
Cost: FREE (free food too!)

Topic Details
It is time to challenge yourself to think differently about Document Management, so that you can get the most out of the capabilities of Office 365. Scrap you network folder mindset, don’t get caught up with lots of meta data and don’t worry about building a navigation. Instead take the red pill and be welcomed to the real world of document management in Office 365. This session will explain why keeping it simple allows you to get the most out of Office 365, by demonstrating key areas like document authoring, collaboration, navigation, mobile working and security. It will advocate a simple four step approach which you can be used to guide your business into this new world of document management.

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Sponsor Details
Keller Schroeder is a technology company in the performance improvement business. Our mission is to leverage technology tools and services to help our clients more successfully achieve their objectives. Founded in 1978, Keller Schroeder is an employee-owned information technology consulting services firm, a value-added reseller, and systems integrator of hardware and software products. Headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, we have a cross-industry market focus including a concentration of clients in manufacturing, finance, utilities, and healthcare. Our client base ranges from local and regional businesses to global enterprises.

Speaker Details

Peter delivers solutions on the Microsoft platform, primarily focusing on SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and Office 365. He lives in Cambridgeshire (United Kingdom) and can often be found on Twitter (@Baddaz) or his blog (www.baddaz.com). Peter is one of the organisers SharePoint Saturday London and one of the founders of ProvisionPoint (www.provisionpoint.com). He shares his project experiences at local user group meetings or at international events.

September 12th 5:30pm

Topic: How we did it: Leveraging SharePoint search and content management out of the box
Location: 8 City Blvd., Suite 403, Nashville, TN 37209 – MAP
Speaker: Virginia Hovde
Sponsor: Rezult Group
Cost: FREE (free food too!)

Topic Details
Want to see how we used SharePoint completely out of the box to design an enterprise content management and collaboration system? All the way down to pages designed to be easily maintained by content owners? Have you struggled supporting customizations from version to version? Getting people to really own their content?

Come see what we were able to accomplish when challenged to build a simple, standard and sustainable out of the box SharePoint solution. The outcome is a broadly deployed yet connected architecture we can build on for years to come.

Slides can be downloaded here: Search and Content Management Out of The Box Virginia Hovde Sept 2017

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Sponsor Details

Since 2001 Rezult Group has been a full service I.T. recruiting firm specialized in placing highly sought after resources in Contract / Contract to Perm / Permanent positions throughout the greater Nashville area. Our strength lies in our ability to connect local talent with local companies by forging strong relationships with the area’s top talent and top employers. We are committed to partnering and supporting the local technology community to help drive Nashville to be one of the nation’s premiere technology hubs. To learn more of to connect with a Technology Recruiter please visit our website www.rezultgroup.com.

Speaker Details

Virginia Hovde is an IT Professional with a wide variety of experience in Fortune 500 companies. She started her career in Marketing and Sales before moving into IT in roles from the service desk to application development then into the SharePoint arena 10 years ago. In that time she has moved from highly customizing SharePoint to using it primarily out of the box.

July 20th 11:30am – Lunch Meeting

Location: Flying Saucer, 111 10th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37203– MAP
Cost: Bring money for your own lunch

Lunch Details
This month we are meeting for a social and networking time – discuss your Office 365 & SharePoint successes and get some help from the community on items that you might be struggling.

Bring your own lunch money – there will be NO free food/drink at this event (unless we have a generous donor!). Also bring some money to cover parking if you use the lower-level lot. Flying Saucer will validate up to one-hour, but you will need to cover the rest.

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June 13th 5:30pm

Topic: SharePoint Saga: Why We Went to and Came Back from the Cloud
Location: 8 City Blvd., Suite 403, Nashville, TN 37209 – MAP
Speaker: Shantell Ogden
Sponsor: Cardinal Solutions
Cost: FREE (free food too!)

Topic Details
Hear the unique SharePoint Story of SPX Corporation, a leading global manufacturing company, at the June User Group. Our speaker will be SPX’s IT User Experience and Communications Manager Shantell Ogden.

The discussion will highlight lessons learned from SPX’s SharePoint journey—a journey that has included:
– Launching SharePoint on-premise
– Moving SharePoint to the cloud
– Splitting SharePoint environments in the cloud
– Moving SharePoint back on premise

Considering a move to the cloud? Find out the pros and cons from a company that has been there, and back!

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Sponsor Details

Cardinal Solutions is a national IT Solutions Provider that delivers custom applications, strategic guidance, and training to help businesses work better, smarter, and easier.  With over 450 employees across seven offices, we lead with our experience and expertise in digital solutions across mobile, web, analytics, and cloud. Collaboration with clients through an Agile process allows us to create the right solutions that users embrace and help advance businesses.

Speaker Details

Shantell Ogden is a creative and inquisitve professional known for building highly-effective marketing and communications programs from the ground-up.

She has more than 19 years of diverse experience, working in IT for Fortune 500 companies such as Nissan North America and SPX Corporation, and other technology start-up ventures.

At SPX Shantell is responsible for envisioning and developing training/adoption programs for global applications, as well as internal IT communications.