California has a new Microsoft MVP!
2016 is going to be a great year. I had a fun, quiet evening last night and woke up feeling as I have many January 1st’s. Another day, another year. But not this year. This year, this 1st, is...
View ArticleDebugging Legacy Core Search Results Web Part in SharePoint 2013
Another in my series of past SharePoint adventures, and lessons learned, that finally gets to see the light of day. A while back I helped migrate a client’s SharePoint 2010 site collection to...
View ArticleYammer Rolls Out Seamless Activation in Office 365
This last Monday, Juliet Wei, Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Yammer at Microsoft made an important announcement for all Office 365 tenants with a Yammer subscription. Yammer will be automatically...
View ArticleCompany Collaboration: The Leading Force of Success
Recently Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) asked me and a few others to help collaborate on a community-based survey on measuring collaboration. One might ask, how did our collaboration measure?...
View ArticleImagine What’s Possible – Build 2016 – Day 1
“Imagine what’s possible”, a statement by Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, during the Day 1 Keynote, set the tone for this year’s Build 2016 taking place this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco,...
View ArticleXamarin Now Free with Visual Studio
This is just too hot to not share right away. During the Day 2 Keynote at Build (), taking place this week in San Francisco, Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie announced that Xamarin...
View ArticleMicrosoft Build 2016 Day 2 – Azure, IoT, Xamarin, Office Productivity, the...
Day 2 started with another great keynote, this time lead primarily by Microsoft Executive Vice President of Cloud + Enterprise, Scott Guthrie and Microsoft Executive Vice President of the Applications...
View ArticleReminder – The Future of SharePoint – An Online Event May 4th, 2016 9:30 AM PST
This is a friendly reminder that if you have any toe in the SharePoint world, you need to ensure your calendar is marked for tomorrow, May 4th, 2016, 9:30 AM PST. Why? Microsoft is presenting a webcast...
View ArticleSharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2016 is just a few days away!
SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2016 is this Saturday, June 11th, 2016 at the Microsoft Office in Mountain View and I couldn’t be more excited. If you haven’t heard of or haven’t attended a...
View ArticleMeasuring Collaboration Success – The Second Step
Back in March, I wrote an article on workplace collaboration, titled, “Company Collaboration: The Leading Force of Success, inspired by a survey series called, “Measuring Collaboration Success”...
View ArticleIgnite 2016: Mid-week report!
What a crazy week it’s been so far down in Atlanta for Ignite 2016. So many highlights already, and a great Keynote for the kickoff. Here are a few of my thoughts so far from my experiences: Day 1:...
View ArticleIgnite 2016: A Bright Future
Ignite 2016 has come and gone. Like many of you, I am still recovering from last week’s celebration of all things Microsoft. What an amazing time myself and my team had sharing in the wealth of...
View ArticleJoin Me in Vienna at European SharePoint Conference 2016
We are just over 3 weeks away from European SharePoint Conference 2016 in Vienna. For those of you heading that way, here are some great tips that will help you get the most out of the largest...
View ArticleHappy New Year! Microsoft MVP Renewed
Last year I was honored to receive my first Microsoft MVP award as an Office Servers and Services MVP. I am again honored and humbled to have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for another year. This past...
View ArticleParticipating in the SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP)...
The SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) initiative is changing the way many of us have been working with SharePoint On-prem and Online over the last few years. As a...
View ArticleA new honor – Microsoft Regional Director
I was standing in the Expo Hall at SPTechCon Austin, it was the 3rd day of the conference and I had just given my first session that morning on SharePoint UI Customization options. As I was conversing...
View ArticlePodcasts & PnP – Discussing Customizing SharePoint w/ Jeremy Thalke
I have had a very busy last few weeks. A week in Redmond with all my developer friends, a week in Austin at SPTechCon, a SharePoint Saturday in Vancouver, and now currently I’m polishing my sessions in...
View ArticleEuropean SharePoint Conference 2017 – November 13-16 – Dublin Bound!
European SharePoint Conference 2017 (ESPC17) is only a few months away, and the countdown has begun for Europe’s largest SharePoint, Office 365, and Azure Conference! This year’s ESPC is taking place...
View ArticleSharePoint Conference North America 2018 @SPConf #SPC18 – May 21st through...
On the off chance you’ve not yet heard, there is in fact a SharePoint Conference returning to Las Vegas, this May 2018. For those of you that have missed the large yearly SharePoint-focused conference...
View ArticleBlockchain – Hype or the Next Internet?
Part 1: Blockchain – Hype or the Next Internet? Part 2: Blockchain – Hype or the Next Internet? Part 2 Part 3: Blockchain – Hype or the Next Internet? Part 3 Now that the top was blown off the top of...
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