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 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...
In Episode 23 of the #MVPbuzzChat series, I connected with fellow Office Servers & Services MVP David Patrick (@davidepatrick), a Subject-Matter Expert with DSA, Inc. in Baltimore, MD. David is very active in the SharePoint, SQL, and Azure communities, and helps run several user groups, including www.madsharepoint.com, www.meetup.com/MACEME, and www.meetup.com/Baltimore-Cloud. I always appreciate...
For Episode 22 of the #MVPbuzzChat series, I chatted with Haniel Croitoru (@HCroitoru), an Office Servers and Services MVP who cut his teeth on SharePoint and the rest of the Office 365 suite, but has more recently expanded his focus to include the Business Solutions space. Haniel is a Lead...
In Episode 21 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I spoke with fellow Office Servers and Services MVP Becky Benishek (@beckybenishek), a Yammer experts and Online Communities Manager at Crisis Prevention Institute in Milwaukee, MI. She is also a children’s author, having published “What’s At the End of Your Nose?” and “Dr....
For Episode 20 of the #MVPbuzzChat interview series, I was able to connect with Windows and Devices for IT MVP B. Onur Okutucu (@bakionur), a DevOps engineer and consultant based out of London, UK. You can find Onur writing in a number of places on Azure, Powershell, and other DevOps...
