Attendees of next week's SharePoint Bootcamps (regular and developer flavors) will be privy to another “premier”, brought to you by your favorite training company, SharePoint Experts.  From what we can tell from scanning the web sites of “those others guys“, they will be the first students to receive training on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 / Windows SharePoint Services V3 from any US-based training company (Ascend materials notwithstanding).  I'm proud of the effort put into this exciting new development.  Hats off especially to Todd Baginski for his tireless contributions to this new material.

Why are we waiting to teach full-week courses on the next version of SharePoint?  Well, a little perspective is in order.  And a clarification.  First, the clarification: If you're looking for on-site training on V3, we're ready now.  In fact, we've been delivering V3 content since the NDA was lifted.  This “wait and see“ approach only affects our public classes.

MOSS 2007 and WSS V3 won't be released until, last I saw published, end of this year.  Corporations who are choosing to jump to the next release will probably begin that process this summer (supported, of course, by our on-site training if they'd like!).  Once those people have had a chance to work through their migration issues, and learn a bit of the new UI, they'll be hungry for some serious V3 development and customization training.  Cue our SharePoint Bootcamp “2007” and the SharePoint Development Bootcamp “2007”.  And we're going to begin our full-featured V3 classes with a big entrance: Las Vegas, with multiple instructors in each classroom to support up to 50 students.  Each of the two 2007 courses will have five days of brand-spanking-new material, tons of prizes, and special surprises for alumni of previous classes who come back for more.

This is going to be a big year for the SharePoint Bootcamp, folks.  Stay tuned...