SharePoint Dan

This evening, Scott Hoag and I presented a session on the Pitfalls of Migrating to SharePoint 2010 up in Princeton, New Jersey at the Princeton SharePoint User Group (PrincetonSUG, not PrincetonSPUG). If you live in the Princeton area, be sure to register on the Princeton SUG Meetup.com site so that you’re in the know about the presenters and meeting times.

Nevertheless, the topic – our tried and trusted fun with Migration Pitfalls with SharePoint 2010.  Interested? Check it out at your convenience

Thanks to Greg Hurlman, Jason Gallicchio, and Tom Daly for the invite – fun times and we’d love to come back sometime next year for another thrilling and exciting session… we’re not sure on what yet

So if you’re one of the four readers that come here regularly, you’ll notice that the slides for the session that Edmond Avanesian and I presented on are already available below… however if you’re curious about some of the other sessions from #SPSPhilly, then look no further than the Agenda listing and slides – http://go.spdan.com/rroto.

Also if you did attend and wanted to leave feedback then check your inbox, there’s a note there from David Mann with a link to contribute your thoughts.

Do you ever find yourself banging your head against the wall wondering why it is that non-technical folks try to provide technical solutions? Definitely recommend if you’re hitting that wall or getting advice that you don’t feel you can trust, feel free to remember to bust out your best resource – TechNet. More often than not TechNet has the majority of the answers that you’re looking for – it’s continually being updated and examples are being added by the respective product groups to assist system integrators and engineers be able to make the product shine. So before you go and start using your search engine of choice, consider checking out TechNet for your solution.

If you’ve not been to Philadelphia for a SharePoint Saturday event – you really should consider checking it out sometime here in the near future.  Why do I say this? Because these folks have it down to a science – David Mann, Peter Senescu, Michael Mukalian and Bill Wolff. It’s a fantastic event that is well put together and I’ve gotta say – packed with speakers that are rockin’ solid.

I was honored to be selected with my colleague Edmond Avanesian and to present on Worst Practices – that’s right, worst practices. Why Worst and not Best? Because everyone tells about the good things to do – why not enlighten folks as to the things to avoid

So if you’re curious, here’s the slide deck:

This past Wednesday evening, Scott Hoag and I had the privilege of sharing the evening with the Capital Area .Net SharePoint Special Interest Group, hosted by Excella in the Navy League building in Arlington, VA. The crowd was lively and engaged and we even had Nick Inglis, Mack Sigman, Stacey Draper, David Berry and Cicely Behne in the mix to provide their insight and expertise, supplementing and complementing the gaps that Scott and I left open (it’s the partner ecosystem idea, right? ).

Nevertheless, if you were looking for a copy of the slides, they’re available here:

Last week I received an e-mail from my colleague and coffee drinking buddy who is one of the coordinators for the Capital Area .NET SharePoint User Group asking if I’d be interested in presenting at their monthly meeting. After checking with my com padre, Scott Hoag, further discussion ensued as to whether or not to present.

Well, we accepted, so tomorrow evening we’ll be presenting on some of the pitfalls, methodologies and planning steps that should be taken to ensure that crisis and apocalypse do not ensue during a migration to SharePoint 2010.

If you’re in the area and interested in coming out, further details can be found on the SUG’s Meetup site available here:

http://www.meetup.com/CapArea-NET-SPSIG/

For those that can make it out, we’ll be SharePinting afterward at the Arlington Rooftop Bar and Grill

For anyone looking around for the slides from the presentation that Scott Hoag and I presented this past Saturday at SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach on 7 January 2012 is available below…

I realize it’s short notice, but wanted to make sure that the word got out about this evening’s Federal SharePoint Users Group meeting where Tim Ferro will be presenting on SharePoint 2010 and the use of Event Receivers.

This presentation titled SharePoint 2010 Event Receivers, is a beginning to intermediate look at Event Receivers and Event Handlers in SharePoint 2010. We will discus the different types of event receivers but focus on those related to list item events. Some basic C# code will be shown and explained followed by a demo. Throughout the presentation real world examples and stories will be used in order to show the ease of use and power of list item event receiver features in SharePoint 2010.

If you don’t know Tim, or anything about Event Receivers, I’d definitely recommend hitting up the session either in person or online to learn more about the topic – oh and Tim’s a pretty sharp guy too.

Registration details are available at:

http://www.meetup.com/fedspug-wspdc/events/46235312/

This past weekend the SharePoint Saturday Richmond crew put together a fantastic event hosted at the Greater Richmond Convention Center downtown. It was a great opportunity to see friends I hadn’t seen in a while as well as to meet a few folks in the community that I’d been chatting with for a while and just never met in person.

Nevertheless, I presented two sessions with a few friends in the community… slide decks are available through the SPSRIC site as well as through slideshare.net/spdan.