Microsoft Ignite is just around the corner and I am excited to be a part of the event once again. I have been honored to be a speaker for the past 5 years after being on staff for the first one. This year is obviously going to look very different from those previous 6 events, but this virtual event will still be rife with valuable information and great connection opportunities. This year the “shiny new stuff” technical sessions that I…
There are SO many sessions to try to reasonably sort through for Ignite this year & WAY too many topic areas that I care about. Happily, everything happening at Ignite, other than the social events, is being recorded and will be made free via TechCommunity. Microsoft is actually streaming all of the sessions live for people who are members of TechCommunity as well, so this post doesn’t just apply to those attending in person because the issue is how to…
Preface At SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire I sat in a packed room and listened as Todd Klindt showed everyone how to install SharePoint 2013 without screwing it up (too badly). The big take away for me was this command that I had not heard about before called start-transcript. The power of start-transcript is that it is able to write everything that you do in a PowerShell session to a log file that you can review later. Todd demo’ed how he…
We are now almost a month removed from SPSNH and it has been just enough time for the glow to start to fade and for life to start getting back to normal. The event was wildly successful and somehow managed to receive nothing but positive reviews. There were a few things that I noted that are worth mentioning: 1.) Drop off between registration and attendance was between 30-40%. 2.) Doing 6 keynotes instead of 1 made the day interesting, but…
Over the past year I have been spending my night’s & weekends working on a book with my co-author, Dave Feldman, and I am proud to say that we have completed our draft of “Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint”. Through the book you will learn to create dynamic Business Intelligence solutions for SharePoint, using Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch, SQL Server 2012, and other tools and technologies. This hands-on book shows you how to create data-rich BI applications with SharePoint…
We are now almost a month removed from SPSNH and it has been just enough time for the glow to start to fade and for life to start getting back to normal. The event was wildly successful and somehow managed to receive nothing but positive reviews. There were a few things that I noted that are worth mentioning: 1.) Drop off between registration and attendance was between 30-40%. 2.) Doing 6 keynotes instead of 1 made the day interesting, but…
In preparation for SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire I had to load 250 USB drives with sponsor’s digital collateral. The fun last evening was getting all of the little buggers out of their individual boxes and sealed plastic wrappers in order to make loading them a bit faster. Today I ran out to Best Buy and purchased a pair of Belkin 7-Port USB 2.0 Powered Hubs and then sat down to “borrow” some PowerShell commands from someone on the interwebs. Sadly,…
With only 3 days to the big event things are rapidly coming together. The bags, speaker gifts, t-shirts, buttons, digital collateral, prizes and jump drives are all here and ready for Saturday. I am excited for my presentation “ITPro’s taking the SharePoint 2013 “red pill” will be a ton of fun to present and should be informational as well. More than anything I am excited that my co-organizers and I have been able to assemble an amazing cast of speakers to…
If you are in the greater NYC area and are looking for a way to put an exclamation point on a great day of geeking out during the Virtual SQL Server 2012 launch, find your way over to the Microsoft offices at the Avenue of the Americas and come hear all about SharePoint Logging & Debugging. Here is the primer: Troubleshooting and debugging issues in Enterprise SharePoint farms is a daunting task at best. SharePoint 2010 provides the tools to…
It has been almost 6 weeks since my last post and it is time to bring to light what has been going on in my world during that time. While I am not someone who discusses my employer regularly on my blog, I joined Sentri 6 months ago and couldn’t be happier. Especially in light of recent developments. Some of you may have noticed the press release, twitter storms, webcasts, etc about Sentri’s acquisition of the KMA SharePoint Practice. Over…