The big news this week within the SharePoint and broader Office 365 community is, of course, that the SharePoint Conference is back in Las Vegas this week, with ‘SharePoint Conference North America’ kicking off today in coordination with the SharePoint Virtual Summit. While being run by a 3rd party team...
The definition of “community” in its most basic form is “a group of people with shared interests.” Community-building may take many different forms, and organizers may prescribe to different approaches and philosophies — but it always comes back to that simple, core definition. Without shared interests (i.e. shared purpose) there...
One of the fastest growing areas within Microsoft’s many different productivity solutions has been PowerApps and Flow, helping to expand the concept of the “citizen developer” within the enterprise through the creation of Business Apps. By providing templates that end users can leverage to build custom software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, and the...
In the modern workplace, moving between tools and platforms should be fairly seamless. End users expect to be able to not only work from anywhere, but to also have access to their content whenever and wherever needed. One of the ubiquitous experiences that end users expect is the sharing of...
With the Microsoft MVP Program moving all program renewals to July 1st, you may have seen a crushing wave of social media yesterday as many MVPs received their annual renewal emails from Redmond letting them know that they have been recognized with the 2018-2019 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award...
What It Is: Announced during the SharePoint Conference North America (#SPC18) in Las Vegas in May, the Patterns and Practices (PnP) community has created the “SharePoint Starter Kit” — a package of web parts, components and documentation to help organizations more rapidly and successfully extend the out-of-the-box capabilities of the...
In the 27th Episode of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I connected with Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP David Pine (@davidpine7), a Technical Evangelist at Centare, based in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. In this video, David and I dig into some of the latest developer news coming from Microsoft (and specifically, the...
In Episode 26 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I caught up with another fellow Office Servers & Services MVP and close personal friend, Eric Riz (@RIZinsights), the founder and CEO of EmptyCubicle (https://emptycubicle.com/), which is billed as “the next generation of HR software to improve the process of hiring verified candidates.” Eric...
For those who found their way to Las Vegas a couple weeks back for the SharePoint Conference North America (#SPC18), the event delivered on much of what we expected it to deliver: tons of product and features news, old and new friends everywhere, and a lot of fun. This was...
In Episode 25 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I connected with fellow Office Servers & Services MVP Thomas Stensitzki (@stensitzki), Owner of Granikos in Hückelhoven, Germany, and an Office Servers & Services MVP. Concentrating primarily on the Exchange workload, his company does work across the other workloads, but concentrates on...
The big news this week within the SharePoint and broader Office 365 community is, of course, that the SharePoint Conference is back in Las Vegas this week, with ‘SharePoint Conference North America’ kicking off today in coordination with the SharePoint Virtual Summit. While being run by a 3rd party team...
You can watch the #SPC18 keynotes — part of the #SharePoint Virtual Summit — live from this page, and on-demand following the keynotes. I’ll post other announcements and takeaways from this page, as well, so be sure to check back!
For Episode 24 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I sat down to talk with fellow Office Servers & Services MVP Kevin Crossman (@kevincrossman), Manager of IT Collaboration (Office 365 Content Collaboration Service Owner) at Juniper Networks, based in Sunnyvale, California (near where I grew up, btw). Kevin has had his MVP for...
