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							G'Day Developers! 
							
								A Favicon is a small image file included on nearly all
								professional developed SharePoint sites. The Favicon reflects
								the look and feel of the SharePoint site or the organizations
								logo.
							 
							
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									Figure: Good Example - Using the favicon gives your
									SharePoint site a very professional look and feel.
								
 
							 
							
								Internet Explorer ("IE") 5.0 and above has a function that, if
								someone bookmarks the page, it will look for favicon.ico from
								the directory of the web page, if not found it will look for
								it from the root directory of the SharePoint site. Otherwise
								it will use the default Icon.
							 
							To implement the favicon: 
							
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									Copy your company's .ico icon to the root of the site and
									rename it to favicon.ico
								
 
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									Add the yellow code between the <HEAD> tags in your
									MasterPage.master (or regular HTML/ASPX page)
								
 
							 
							
								Note: If you put the icon with the default file name of
								favicon.ico in the root directory of your domain, you don't
								need to add the following code. Because each time your Web
								page is added to a user's favorites, Internet Explorer
								automatically searches for this file from the root directory
								and places the icon next to all the favorites and quick links
								originating from your site.
							 
							
								See more of the
								
									SSW Rules
								pages.
							 
							Adam Cogan 
							
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								Email Adam
							 
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								Sydney .NET User Group -
								 
								The best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney
							
							
								
									
										 
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										6 days to go!
										
											Sydney .NET User Group 
											Wednesday 20th May 2009 
											5:45pm - 9:00pm 
											Microsoft, Sydney 
											1 Epping Road, North Ryde
										 
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								Something About Mary (SharePoint and Office 2010) by
									 Adam Cogan
							 
							
								Come see Adam Cogan explain what works well with SharePoint
								and Office for Mary and the other knowledge workers.
							 
							
								First you will get an overview of what is great about having
								SharePoint in your business.
							 
							Then see real world examples of: 
							
								- Using SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 together
 
								- 
									Where it fits with other important Microsoft products like
									CRM 4 and TFS
								
 
								- 
									Examples of how Word and Excel can be integrated into
									business processes (separate from SharePoint), and then
									followed by
								
 
								- 
									Examples of how Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be combined with
									SharePoint to improve visibility/searchability/versioning
									across the company
								
 
								- 
									Overview of how data can be synchronized between the two (eg
									using Access and Excel)
								
 
								- Overview of what 'workflow' (really!) means
 
								- 
									How Office can be incorporated into company workflows with
									SharePoint
								
 
								- 
									Extending SharePoint with Office SharePoint Designer 2010
									(free!)
								
 
								- 
									Where VBA and VSTO fit in terms of how solutions can be
									developed
								
 
								- 
									Examples of other interesting Office/SharePoint integrations
									(eg the the Atlassian SharePoint Connector and Atlassian
									Office Connector)
								
 
							 
							
								The session will be informal so there's plenty of
								opportunities for asking questions. This is a good chance for
								you to consider new ways of using Office in your company,
								along with pitfalls to avoid. Adam gets excited about this
								session because too often companies limit Office to just an
								email application, word processor and spreadsheet - completely
								missing the positive impact it can have on the entire business
								process.
							 
							
								Data access in Microsoft CRM and SharePoint by George
									Doubinski
							 
							
								George Doubinski is going to show you how to get data in and
								out for two Microsoft flagship products: Microsoft CRM and
								Microsoft SharePoint. You will see:
							 
							
								- 
									Two alter-egos attempting to do the tasks: Nancy, the
									ultimate end-user and Doug, the propeller head
								
 
								- 
									Importing data from Excel spreadsheets including the
									relationships
								
 
								- 
									Filtering, grouping and sorting your data and exporting the
									results
								
 
								- 
									Techniques from point and click (Nancy) down to Visual
									Studio code (Doug)
								
 
								- 
									See for yourself strengths and weaknesses of Microsoft CRM
									and Microsoft SharePoint in relation to external data
								
 
							 
							
								To see more details and RSVP, please visit our
								
									facebook .NET group
								or our
								
									LinkedIn .NET group.
							 
							 
							
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								Canberra .NET User Group -
								 
								The best place to learn .NET for free in Canberra
							
							
								
									
										 
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										11 days to go!
										
											Canberra .NET Developers User Group 
											Monday 18th May 2009
										 
										
											Lunch: 12:30pm - 1:30pm 
											King O'Malley's Irish Pub 
											131 City Walk 
											Canberra City 
											 
											Dinner: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
											 
											Microsoft Canberra Branch 
											Walter Turnbull Building 
											Level 2, 44 Sydney Ave
											 
											Barton ACT
										 
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								Something About Mary (SharePoint and Office 2007) by
									 Adam Cogan
							 
							
								Come see Adam Cogan explain what works well with SharePoint
								and Office for Mary and the other knowledge workers.
							 
							
								First you will get an overview of what is great about having
								SharePoint in your business.
							 
							Then see real world examples of: 
							
								- Using SharePoint 2007 and Office 2007 together
 
								- 
									Where it fits with other important Microsoft products like
									CRM 4 and TFS
								
 
								- 
									Examples of how Word and Excel can be integrated into
									business processes (separate from SharePoint), and then
									followed by
								
 
								- 
									Examples of how Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be combined with
									SharePoint to improve visibility/searchability/versioning
									across the company
								
 
								- 
									Overview of how data can be synchronised between the two (eg
									using Access and Excel)
								
 
								- Overview of what 'workflow' (really!) means
 
								- 
									How Office can be incorporated into company workflows with
									SharePoint
								
 
								- 
									High level examples of using/integrating Office with other
									products (eg VSTS integration with Outlook)
								
 
								- 
									Where VBA and VSTO fit in terms of how solutions can be
									developed
								
 
								- 
									Examples of other interesting Office/SharePoint integrations
									(eg the
									
										Atlassian SharePoint Connector
									and
									Office Connector)
								
 
							 
							
								The session will be informal so there's plenty of
								opportunities for asking questions. This is a good chance for
								you to consider new ways of using Office in your company,
								along with pitfalls to avoid. Adam gets excited about this
								session because too often companies limit Office to just an
								email application, word processor and spreadsheet - completely
								missing the positive impact it can have on the entire business
								process.
							 
							
								To see more details and RSVP, please visit our
								
									facebook .NET group
								or our
								
									LinkedIn .NET group.
							 
							
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								SharePoint 101
								Workshop - 
								What every business person should know about SharePoint 2007
							
							
								
									
										 
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											SharePoint 101 Workshop 
											Wednesday 27th May 2009 
											8:00am - 11:00am 
											SSW Office, Sydney 
											Suite 10, 81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay 
											Cost: No Charge 
										 
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								Workshop Objective
							 
							This workshop will provide the attendees with: 
							
								- 
									An understanding of how key features of SharePoint can
									enhance business processes
								
 
								- 
									An understanding of the costs, timelines, staff involvement
									and commitment a business will incur when implementing
									SharePoint
								
 
							 
							
								Workshop Outline
							 
							
								- Why should your business use SharePoint 2007?
 
								- 
									Differences between Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and
									Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS)
								
 
								- 
									Explanation and demonstration of the business challenges the
									SharePoint feature set solve
								
 
								- 
									SharePoint in regards to implementation, costs and timelines
								
 
								- 
									SharePoint 2007 and the User Experience (custom design)
								
 
								- 
									SharePoint Development - What if I need more than
									SharePoint's out of the box functionality?
								
 
							 
							Find out more and Register
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							Advertise with SSW
							
								If you would like to advertise your product or service with
								SSW or would like to find out more about various advertising
								opportunities, please email your enquiry to
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								or call: +61 2 9953 3000.
							 
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							May 2009
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							Tech Breakfast
							
								
									
										 
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										15 days to go 
										 SYDNEY: SharePoint - Yellow Brick Road 
										
											Friday, 29th May 2009 
											8:00am-11:00am
										 
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								Come and join us as we learn how the largest public SharePoint
								site in Australia (www.WorleyParsons.com) got up and
								running. 
								Adam Cogan of SSW will share his experience and lessons learnt
								on this project. Adam will also show you how to
								“sexify“ the look and feel of your website.
							 
							
								
									 
							 
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							Employment
							
								Due to the tremendous growth that our business has experienced
								over the last few months, we are seeking enthusiastic people
								to join the SSW team.
							 
							
								Our Company is based in Neutral Bay which is one of the most
								elegant and scenic areas of Sydney. SSW is an Australian owned
								progressive consulting firm specialising in building,
								implementing and maintaining Microsoft .NET software
								applications.
							 
							
								We are currently strongly looking for a
								SharePoint Developer.
							 
							We are also currently looking for: 
							
								- 
									ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, OLAP, SharePoint Software Developer
								
 
								- Technical BDM in Melbourne, Brisbane, or Canberra
 
								- IT Senior Marketing Consultant (part-time)
 
								- Project Manager
 
							 
							
								Read more and Apply NOW...
							 
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