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Month: November 2011

#SPSDenver Wrap-up

#SPSDenver Wrap-up

I was honored to be a two-day speaker at SPSDenver this past weekend and had a marvelous time doing so.  The conference was well organized, properly planned, and extremely well attended.  Credit to Clayton Cobb and his team for putting on such a great event.  From the care of ensuring that they understood every issue that an attendee had to making sure that the fragile egos of the speakers were well cared for to making sure that every sponsor got…

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SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate is here!

SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate is here!

We are creeping slowly toward the release of SQL Server 2012 and all of its new, fun features for SharePoint 2010!  The first Release Candidate of SQL Server 2012, known as RC0, dropped today and is publicly available for download.   Here are a some links worth checking out: Download SQL 2012 RC0 – Get the software here! SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate is now Available! – SQL Server Reporting Services Team Blog Announcing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0…

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SharePoint Connections Las Vegas 2011 Wrap up

SharePoint Connections Las Vegas 2011 Wrap up

I just completed my 5 sessions, 3 of which I presented with my great friend Cornelius J. van Dyk, here at SharePoint Connections Las Vegas.  While here we received several pieces of great news: 1.) O’Reilly has green lit our book “SharePoint for Business Intelligence” which will be coming out in 2012 and will revolve around how you can solve business problems using SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2012, & Visual Studio LightSwitch technologies for Business Intelligence. 2.) We will be…

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