By Eric Harlan
Published: April 19, 2009
Updated: April 21, 2009
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I just got back from SharePoint Saturday (Atlanta), had a great time at a great event. @JDAttis, @michaellotter and company did a fanstastic job making sure it ran smoothly (though ice was scarce haha).  It was great to see some of the old faces and catch up, it was also awesome to finally put a flesh and blood to some of the "TwitterTars" I see all day long and make new friends at that. 

I spoke on Federated Search in one of the first sessions of the day. After coming back from a great speakers dinner I figured i'd do the responsible thing and go over my demo and slide deck. I then realized that I deleted the Web App that contained my Shared Service Provider and my Federated Search. I got the VPC up and running again with a new SSP but I couldn't get my Federated Search Web Parts to see any of the results I was calling. So in haste and up until 4:30am, I rebuild and re-patched a back up vpc (that for some reason I knew i should bring). Later the next day after a flawless presentation, and pointed out by an attendee Terry Patterson, I wasn't sharing out my Hosts Connection. Terry I still owe you that beer my friend!

With that said, May 2nd, and the SharePoint Saturday (DC) event is coming quickly and I need to finalize my plans for that events presentation. I have three possibilities but I have to narrow it down.  If you haven't got a chance to get out to an event, they are a great resource to get out and get some knowledge, totally free mind you. You can check it out at SharePointSaturday.org.

Here are some photos from the Atlanta event http://www.flickr.com/photos/spsatl/

 

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