Are you exploring new and different ways to use SharePoint to get business results? SHARE is the only SharePoint event truly designed by and for BUSINESS users. It will explore all facets of real-world SharePoint, and you will benefit by learning from hundreds of SharePoint projects that can help you...

Register now to give yourself a competitive edge and get the inside scoop about 'SharePoint 15' while learning how to better use SharePoint 2010. Get informed with the best in the field: Engineers who built the product, Microsoft Certified Masters, and MVPs. Gain invaluable knowledge to increase your...

SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Training View the course: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh126809 Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence (BI) skills in this training course. This course teaches how to use SharePoint Server...

Getting your users excited and ready for SharePoint 2010 doesn’t have to be challenging! Visit www.iusesharepoint.com to help you get started. Content for Users: 10 Humorous Webisodes 10 Corresponding How-To Videos 45 Quick Reference Cards 25 Tips and Tricks Real User Stories Content to Drive Adoption...

Thanks again to everyone that attended, organized and sponsored the 1st SharePoint User Group in New Hampshire on Wednesday night. It was an amazing turnout – far exceeding my expectations. As requested, below are the slides that I used in my presentation. They are posted on SkyDrive . Looking forward...

I’ve just posted the slides that I presented at the SharePoint Connections Boston event this week. These include the slides that I presented on Monday morning during the SharePoint 2010 Development Bootcamp with Bob German and the Migrating SharePoint 2007 Solutions to SharePoint 2010 breakout session...

I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast tour in Boston April 25-27. Get your team up to speed for developing, deploying and administering SharePoint 2010 sites and get on the path to success. Enter "SP100" and get $100 off registration ! BONUS: The first 100 people to...

This past Saturday, we had our 4th SharePoint Saturday Boston . Over 250 people attended this event and there were 35 sessions delivered . It was once again an amazing event and we are grateful for all of our event sponsors that make this event possible and free of charge for attendees. ThirdM and Grace...

Registration is now open for our 4 th SharePoint Saturday Boston , which will be held on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at the Microsoft Jones Road office in Waltham, MA. The speaker and session lists have been published as well. This time, I will be presenting a session on Upgrading to SharePoint 2010: Why...

Thanks again to everyone that attended the “ How To Drive End User Adoption For SharePoint 2010 ” session that I presented on the Axceler sponsored webinar earlier today. As requested, the slides that I presented are linked to below. 3/11/11 Update Based on some additional requests, here are direct links...

Register today to attend the Microsoft SharePoint Conference , the premier worldwide conference dedicated to SharePoint and related technologies! The 2011 SharePoint Conference will be held October 3-6, 2011 in Anaheim, California, in the Los Angeles area. SharePoint Conference 2011 will be the only...

Over the next 2 weeks I have many SharePoint related speaking engagements scheduled … in addition to my regular meetings and work with customers and partners. The 4 events below are all open to the public …and are at no charge! Hope you can attend some of these. Thursday, November 11 – Rochester New...

Building upon the tremendously successful SharePoint Saturday Boston and MA SharePoint user groups, we continue to work with our Partners and the Northeast Developer & Platform Evangelists ( Chris Bowen , Jim O’Neil and Dan Stolts ) to provide more SharePoint related community events. Below...

SharePoint Saturday Boston was held this past weekend. It was another amazing event with over 300 people in attendance. It continues to inspire and amaze me that we have so many customers and partners committed and passionate to SharePoint. Think about all of the personal time and effort that was given...

I recently returned from 3 weeks on the road attending multiple internal Microsoft training events and conferences. I spent the last week of my trip in a deep-dive hands on technical course on using FAST for SharePoint 2010. I was very impressed with this release and what it offers to our customers and...

Registration is now open for SharePoint Saturday Boston . SharePoint Saturday is a free Microsoft partner led community event that will be held in the Microsoft Jones Road office in Waltham, MA on Saturday, September 25. SharePoint Saturday features many speakers from Microsoft partners, customers and...

Cross posting the event details that Jim O’Neil recently announced on his blog. The Boston launch event for Visual Studio, SharePoint and Office 2010 will take place on Thursday, April 29th, at the Westin Copley Place , with two tracks.  One, focused on developers, will cover application lifecycle...

Yesterday I received an updated copy of the cover of the “Essential SharePoint 2010” book, for which I have been a contributing author. I am extremely proud of the fact that the lead authors, Scott Jamison , Mauro Cardarelli and Susan Hanley , have added myself and Donal Conlon to the cover! This is...

<May 2010 - Updating with SharePoint RTM links.> Since the beta for SharePoint 2010 was publicly released in November 2009 there has been a lot of interest and activity by our customers and partners testing and planning for SharePoint 2010. About 90% of my activities these days is directly related...

Yesterday, Channel 9 launched two new training courses for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 created by developers for developers. Channel 9 has always been about giving direct access to the engineers and future technologies from Microsoft, and now we’re extending this successful formula to bring you training...

Want to quickly learn about SharePoint 2010 products in preparation of the new Beta release? Try these new “Learning Snacks”; bite-sized online readiness courses provided by Microsoft Learning, on the following subjects: Developing Solutions with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 enables...

Over the past few months I have been meeting and working with customers to help them with Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) and to plan for SharePoint 2010 . Our discussion usually starts with generic questions such as: How do we architect and setup our SharePoint environment? What features...

We have recently released the Productivity Hub as a free download . A number of my customers have been beta testing this Hub over the past few months and it has received great feedback and helped to accelerate the deployment, adoption and training for Office and SharePoint 2007. The Hub is a SharePoint...

We recently rolled out changes to the Microsoft Home Use Program (HUP) that may enable you to download Office Enterprise 2007 for your home personal use for just $9.95! Details can be found on the Home Use site . Not familiar with the Home Use Program? Home Use is just one of the many Software Assurance...

On Friday, June 26, 2009 from 8:30am – 4:00pm, I will be leading another 1 day technical hands-on lab related to Office 2007 deployment. The event will be held at the Microsoft offices at 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor, Waltham, MA 02451 Space is limited and attendance is restricted to Northeast enterprise...