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September 2012 Blog Posts

Speaking Engagements – Autumn 2012

It’s once again silly season with SharePoint conferences (when isn’t it? :)) but this autumn it’s a bit more fun as we are able to discuss SharePoint 2013. I’ll be doing a few events over the next couple months. SharePoint and Exchange Forum 2012 – Stockholm, Sweden. October 22-23. This is a great event in a very cool place. Looking forward to going back to Stockholm for a few days and catching up again with some good friends and meeting some new ones. I’ll be presenting a couple of breakouts: Host Named...

What's new in SharePoint 2013 for IT Professionals: Critical Path SharePoint 2013 Office Hours

Critical Path Training have been running a series of SharePoint 2013 Office Hours, where you get a chance to ask your burning questions regarding the new version. I’m happy to be doing one of these along with my good friend Andrew Connell on September 18th at 2pm Eastern – that’s 7pm GMT or 8pm CET. The subject is What’s new in SharePoint 2013 for IT Professionals. Ask your infrastructure and operations questions about the new version of SharePoint here! We'll look at the highlights for IT Pros in the 2013 release along with coverage of...

The best cloud app, ever, by a country mile

I’m always being asked about tools. Tools to help me cheat, tools to help me be quicker, tools to avoid the need for thinking. Tools that make a SharePoint person’s life better. That sorta thing. Often times tools I will mention have nothing to do with SharePoint, but are simply what I consider to be core elements of operating a Windows based infrastructure. One set of those tools are the Sysinternals utilities from Microsoft. Since day dot of my life as a Windows NT monkey, I’ve used these. Every box has them. I was using Windows Live Mesh to...