Greetings and Salutations,
This month the Adelaide SharePoint User Group will be on Tuesday the 21st of May, 2013 and do we have a full newsletter this month!
For May’s for our guest speaker, we have returning speaker Adam Cogan MVP RD of SSW in Sydney, who is fresh off the heels of speaking at the Australian SharePoint Conference in Sydney and New Zealand who will be presenting - “I feel the love again, Access is back vs. the power user new comer, Lightswitch” on Tuesday the 21st of May, 2013.
Presentation Description: “Fifteen years ago, Microsoft Access was the solution, for allowing power users to create, update and modify their database. Some even created monster solutions that ran their entire business. But as you know that created a booming industry that spun up to support these mammoth databases. In 2013, what’s the best solution for bringing a database to the web so that users can maintain the records?”
You can register for this month’s Adelaide SharePoint User Group meeting at http://aspug21052013.eventbrite.com which has a kick off time at 3:30pm. Registration allows for catering for the correct number of people.
For the latest information and agenda for 2013 of the Adelaide SharePoint User Group as it comes to hand, check out our website at http://www.aspug.org.au or our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com.au/ASPUG
We’ll see you there on the 21st!
Windows Azure DevCamps
Keen to get started with Windows Azure development?
Join us at our complimentary Windows Azure DevCamps in May – they’re a great place to learn about the latest Windows Azure features.
The Adelaide event will be taking place on the 22nd of May 2013.
Events are also in Melbourne and Perth.
More info at - http://spr.ly/6039Xihv
Free Exam Second Shot Voucher
Until May 31st 2013, Microsoft is providing the popular Second Shot offer that gives you a free second chance to pass your certification exam.
Now you can sign up for that certification exam with the confidence that, even if you don’t pass it the first time, you’ll get a second chance at success. Rush offer ends on 31st May 2013
To get your free voucher, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/second-shot.aspx#fbid=7FDyPYpk7wt
SharePoint Conference
The Australian SharePoint Conference is fast approaching in Melbourne with it kicking off on June 11 & 12! (Early Bird discount ends this Friday!)
This is a great event and has been running now for several years throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia!
Early bird registration is open; Tickets are $700 (non-early bird $875AUD), but hurry, it ends Friday the 10th of May, while Australian Computer Society Members can receive a future discount.

Engage in person with the SharePoint Community. Connect with peers, industry experts and SharePoint specialists. These are annual ShareThePoint Conferences which attract both business and technical roles, and provide a wide range of content to learn, up skill and re-train.
More information can be found at: http://www.sharethepoint.com/engage/Pages/default.aspx (Running on SharePoint 2013!)
Also, Congratulations goes to Andrew Pawelski who won the tree ticket to the Melbourne 2013 event!
SharePoint Saturday is back!

That's right folks! SharePoint Saturday is coming back to Adelaide for the fourth time and this year promises to be bigger and better than ever!
So go and mark June 29th in your calendar as the day that it is all happening because you don't want to miss this!
SharePoint March Public Update
The March 2013 Public Update for SharePoint 2013 should be considered the base line version of any SharePoint 2013 installations from this point forward, it has also become mandatory for all future SharePoint 2013 updates!
As always, please test all updates in your testing environment first before applying them in production!
More information can be found at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2013/03/21/march-public-update-for-sharepoint-2013-available-and-mandatory.aspx
SharePoint April Cumulative Update
Microsoft have also released the April 2013 updates for SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013!
More information can be found on Stefan Gossner’s (MSFT) blog by visiting the links below:
· SharePoint 2007 - http://tinyurl.com/c3o68rf
· SharePoint 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/dyur888
· SharePoint 2013 - http://tinyurl.com/cwsh7q5
As always, please test all updates in your testing environment first before applying them in production!
Office Developer tools for Visual Studio 2012
The Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 provide broad and deep support, ranging from new templates to new designers to a whole host of integrated lifecycle tools. They enable developers to create, edit, test, debug, package, and deploy apps for Office and SharePoint, across all current Office and SharePoint hosting models and app types.
More information can be found at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/03/04/now-available-office-developer-tools-for-visual-studio-2012.aspx
SharePoint links
You can find more information on SharePoint 2013 at the official Microsoft Site at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/preview/sharepoint.aspx and for IT Pro’s, Technet and for Developers, MSDN.
SharePoint 2013 Videos:
· SharePoint 2013 training for IT pros - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp123606.aspx
· Developer training | Apps for Office and SharePoint - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/apps/fp123626.aspx
· Training for IT Pros – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp142366
More Links:
· Microsoft SharePoint Blog: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/default.aspx
· SharePoint Strategy Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint_strategery/
· SharePoint 2013 for IT Pro’s http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/fp142366
Local Groups
Adelaide Windows User Group
· Date: First Tuesday of the Month
· Venue: Microsoft - Level 12, Aurora Building, 147 Pirie Street, Adelaide
· More Info can be found here
Adelaide SQL Server User Group
· Date: 3rd Wednesday of the month
· Venue: Edge on Hindley, 128 Hindley Street Adelaide, South Australia 5000
· More Info can be found here
Adelaide .NET User Group
· Date: 2nd Tuesday of the month
· Venue: School of Computer & Information Science, University of South Australia, IT Innovation Studio, 27 North Terrace, City West Campus (Cnr Gray St) Adelaide, SA 5000
· More Information can be found here
SAGE-AU-SA
· Date: Last Tuesday of the month
· Venue: 162 Grenfell St, Adelaide
· More Info can be found here
National Events
SharePoint Saturday’s
Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for ‘SharePoint Saturday’ event. SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!
Website: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/
Microsoft TechED Australia
You can now also pre-register your interest for Microsoft TechEd 2013 and be the first to get information on next year’s conference as it becomes available direct from Microsoft. Register your interest for TechEd 2013 at http://australia.msteched.com/
Microsoft have also published the video sessions of TechEd 2012 which are available for download http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Australia/2012
SharePoint Conference 2013 Australia
Mark your Calendar! The Australian SharePoint Conference is to be held on the 11 & 12th of June.
Early bird registration is open; Tickets are $700 per event, but hurry, it ends Friday the 10th of May!
Australian Computer Society members receive a further discount!
More information can be found at: http://www.sharepointconference.com.au/