Reza Alirezaei’s Blog

I just wanted to thank everyone who attended and stayed after the presentation I did tonight on “Delving Into Custom Authentication Providers in SharePoint” at the Toronto SharePoint Users Group. It was a great turn out and there were a lot of good questions and discussions that came from you. As promised, below is a link to the slide deck(in PDF format) I used during the presentation. Thanks again to everyone, I had a great time presenting and interacting with you.

Slide Deck (PDF)

If you are in Toronto, feel free to join me Wednesday, January 16, 2008 , at the Toronto SharePoint User Group. I am giving a talk on Delving Into Custom Authentication Providers in SharePoint. I will share design,engineering and implementation challenges that should be considered when writing custom authentication providers for SharePoint.For more information click here.

Toronto SharePoint Camp 2007 is only 3 days away – and we need your help. 

If you have already registered to help us or if you are interested, then tonight is the right time to get more involved.Please join other volunteers at 6:00pm at the Toronto SharePoint User Group venue at 2 Bloor West, so that we can allocate job roles, functions, and responsibilities surrounding the event this Saturday.

Thank you in advance for donating your time to support the Toronto SharePoint Camp 2007.

See you tonight,

The Toronto SharePoint Camp 2007 is just around the corner, 20^th of October in Toronto. Register Today, Space is limited! Remember, this is a *Free* event and no matter how expert you are in SharePoint, there should be something there for you to learn. For those of you who keep sending me emails asking for events and opportunities to learn MOSS 2007, there you are! Here is a great opportunity to meet a lot of SharePoint guys, learn for top-notch industry experts plus a lot of fun and PRIZES!!! I have two demos prepared one targeting the advanced audience and the other one for beginners. I probably have to choose one of them if there are many speakers lined up.Please keep an eye on my blog, Eli’s blog and SharePoint Buzz blog for updates and  announcements.

I’ve just come back from vacation and I am very pleased to announce The first ever SharePoint Camp being held in Toronto on Saturday, October 20, 2007. I duplicate what Eli has posted in his blog because no one in Greater Toronto Area(GTA) should miss this great opportunity. For most updated information on this event keep an eye on Eli’s blog.

Mark your calendar! The first ever SharePoint Camp will be in Toronto, and registration will be absolutely free.

Toronto SharePoint Camp, Manulife Centre
200 Bloor Street East
Saturday, October 20

The event will be hosted by the Toronto SharePoint User Group with a supporting cast of many fantastic volunteers and guest speakers.

There are 3 tracks: Developer, Administrator, and Champion/Architect. There will be 15-18 presentations total in 3 to 5 theatres. The space should comfortably accomodate 200 to 300 attendees. We’ll follow the CodeCamp manifesto: free, volunteer-run, brand-agnostic, less talk, more rock. 

Call for speakers: All submissions must be delivered by September 21, 2007. Presentations and demo code is due by October 12, 2007. Read more about how you can contribute and apply by downloading the Call For Speakers today!

Call for Volunteers:  If you’d like to help out, mark your calendar for October 17 and 20 today. Then, watch this blog for link to the sign-up sheet as soon as the site goes live. On Wednesday, October 17th at 6:pm we’ll have a pizza meeting for about an hour at 2 Bloor Street West (Nexient) to get organized. Note that this is the regular time and location of the SharePoint User Group meeting which will be replaced in October by the Organizer’s Meeting (note: in September TSPUG will have a great workflow presentation by K2).

Registration: The website will be up asap, watch Eli’s blog for the announcement to be the first in line.