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Speaking at SPS Cincinnati 2011

On Saturday Oct 29th, 2011 I’ll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati. My presentation is “PowerShell for the SharePoint 2010 Developer” which covers an introduction to PowerShell while focusing on integration with SharePoint and the .Net framework. This presentation has a fair amount of demonstrations and sample code. I’m excited to be attending SPSCincinnati as it is a short drive from Columbus and I also know a number of the other speakers and organizers. It’s looking to be a great conference....
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SharePoint Saturday Columbus 2011 Call for Speakers and Sponsors Is Open

Once again myself and a great group of individuals (Jennifer Mason, Sean McDonough, Nicola Young, and Michelle Caldwell) are organizing a SharePoint Saturday in Columbus, OH. The event will be on August 20, 2011 at the OCLC Conference Center, a fantastic venue that attendees (including speakers and sponsors) gave high praises on for last year’s event. Today we announced the opening of call for speakers and sponsors. If you are interested in speaking please fill out the speaker submission form (click...
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Speaking at SPS St. Louis 2011 and SPS Michigan 2011

April 30th, 2011 I’ll be presenting at SharePoint Saturday St. Louis. My presentation is “The Expanding Developer Toolbox for SharePoint 2010” which covers many of the new tools and functionality available to developers. This session is fairly demo heavy but stays more on the “overview” side rather than deep dive. I’m excited to visit St. Louis again as I have a number of friends who live there and I’ve heard the SharePoint community is in full swing. Click here for registration information. May...
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Stir Trek: Thor Edition Registration Opens March 17th

Registration for Stir Trek: Thor Edition opens at 12:00am “Thors"day March 17th. Stir Trek is now in its third year and this is the second year I’ve helped with planning. For those unfamiliar the Stir Trek conference here is the description from the website. Stir Trek is an opportunity to learn about the newest advances and latest trends in Web and Mobile development. There will be 30 Sessions in six tracks, so you can pick the content that interests you the most. And the best part? At the end of...
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Slides, Scripts, and Photos from SharePoint Saturday New Orleans 2011

This weekend I presented “Managing SharePoint 2010 Farms with PowerShell” at SharePoint Saturday New Orleans. This was my first time visiting New Orleans so I was excited for the experience. A big thanks to everyone who attended my session. I condensed the material a little but the slides and scripts below have additional material that we couldn’t cover. Let me know if you have any comments, questions, or feedback. Thanks. Slides and Scripts Managing SharePoint 2010 Farms with PowerShell Photos Pictures...
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Slides, Code, and Photos from SPTechCon San Francisco 2011

Note: Updated 2/12/11 with links to both presentation materials. This past week I presented two sessions at SPTechCon San Francisco 2011. The first session was “The Expanding Developer Toolbox for SharePoint 2010” which . Thanks to all of my attendees for this session. They had so many great questions that we ran out of time before covering all of the planned material. Especially for them I’ve provided the slides and code samples to walk through them on their own. The second session was “Real World...
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The One Thing: Brian Jackett and SharePoint 2010

Last weekend at SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach (website) I was asked by Christian Buckley (twitter) from Axceler (website) to do a short video for his “The One Thing You Need To Know About SharePoint 2010” video series. Below is the video. Background When Christian asked me to do this video I was in a time crunch to make it to the airport for my flight home. I was literally running out the door right after we finished. As a result I was rushed in my response which led to my funny line at the...
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Slides, Materials, and Pictures from SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach 2011

This past weekend I presented “Managing SharePoint 2010 Farms with PowerShell” and “SharePoint 2010 and Integrating Line of Business Applications” SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach. A big thanks to everyone who attended my sessions. I had a great time presenting, getting to meet new folks, and exploring a little bit of the local life. Below are slides, materials, and pictures from the event. Let me know if you have any comments, questions, or feedback. Thanks. Slides and Materials Managing SharePoint...
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Slides from Dog Food Conference 2010

At the Dog Food Conference 2010 I presented a session titled “SharePoint 2010 and Integrating Line of Business Applications”. In this session we covered the basics of the Business Connectivity Service (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 and went through a number of demos on how to develop against it. Click here for my slides. Thanks to all who attended and had some great questions and interactions. If you would like more BCS resources or have any feedback on this presentation feel free to leave comments. -Frog...
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Slides, Scripts, and Photos from SPTechCon Boston 2010

A big thank you to everyone who attended my “Real-World Deployment of SharePoint 2010 Solutions” at SPTechCon Boston 2010 this week. I hope you learned some things and can take them back to improve your farms. This was my first time speaking at SPTechCon and second one attended. It was great to catch up with countless old friends I haven’t seen in awhile as well as meet new friends. I’m looking forward to speaking at SPTechCon San Francisco 2011 in Feb, so if you’re attending feel free to stop by...
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