One of the topics that I’ve been discussing often with my customers and partners is innovation management and ideation solutions. This is a hot topic and companies are trying to find new ways to make money, save money, improve processes and increase collaboration...

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...

<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...

During my 4+ years working at Microsoft I have had the privilege to work with many of the largest SharePoint enterprise customers based in the Northeast. One of the consistent topics that we end up discussing is SharePoint content types . One of the interesting...

One question that customers frequently ask is: how do we most efficiently ramp up new users on Microsoft Office 2007? With the release of Office 2007, we introduced the new Fluent User Interface which makes Office much more usable and enables users...

One of the topics that I frequently present on at conferences is the Office system and why it is “better” to use the Office 2007 client with the 2007 versions of the SharePoint and Exchange server products. The presentation that I use for most of these...

Over the past few weeks Microsoft has put out a ton of information related to SharePoint 2013 . Jeff Teper recently blogged about the new SharePoint 2013 customer preview milestone and the SharePoint team blogs regular updates. Hopefully you’ve...

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...

Since launch, SharePoint 2010 has experienced strong momentum, particularly in the form of favorable validation from the analyst community.  Gartner recently published a report by Jim Murphy, Gene Phifer, Ray Valdes and Eric Knipp: the 2010 Magic...

One of the questions that customers new to SharePoint regularly ask me is: “since SharePoint can do so much, where do we get started?” As the father of 2 young girls, I usually use an analogy related to how they learned to crawl, walk and...

Many of my customers are evaluating business intelligence (BI) solutions. There are often many business drivers behind this trend including the need for analysis, reporting, planning and forecasting. Prior to the release of Excel 2007 many customers...

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...

One of the topics that I frequently discuss with customers and partners is social computing. Many companies recognize the need for social computing technologies within the enterprise but often struggle with mapping various technology options back to business...

Couldn’t make it to Vegas this year? Best of SharePoint Conference Comes to You! This event is being offered in February 2010 exclusively for Microsoft Northeast region enterprise customers. Details are below. Please contact me or your Microsoft Account...

Prior to joining Microsoft last year, I worked for more than 14 years as a Microsoft customer primarily in IT architect, development and technical management roles for large companies. Most of my recent work was related to building custom applications...

First, I’d like to start by apologizing for not posting to this blog recently. My wife and I had twin girls about 6 weeks ago and I have been out of the office thanks to Microsoft’s VERY generous Infant Care Leave (ICL) policy that allowed me to stay...

Since Office 2007 was launched, a number of analysts have written about Office 2007, customer plans and end user adoption. Here are links to a few studies and reports that you may want to check out: 2007 Survey: Office 2007 Off to a Fast Start...

Thanks again to everyone that attended the “ driving end user adoption for SharePoint 2010 ” session that I presented at SharePoint Saturday in Hartford, CT this past weekend. As requested, the slides that I presented are linked to below. Most of the...

Last week, I had the opportunity to work the Microsoft booth at the SAP Boston event. There was a lot of discussion during the event about Duet Enterprise which is a product that is jointly developed by Microsoft and SAP to connect SAP to SharePoint and...

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...

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...

TechNet Webcast Series: SharePoint Internet Business Wednesdays at 1:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, 200-Level Partner-hosted Webcasts Tune in and learn how you can use Microsoft SharePoint for Internet Business to help you build your public-facing portal...

What a day here in Las Vegas! Earlier today we publicly unveiled SharePoint 2010 at the SharePoint Conference (SPC). There is such a positive energy, buzz and excitement from the 7,000+ customer and partner attendees. Today’s events included the announcement...

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...

While preparing to present my 2 sessions at the “Maximize Your SharePoint Investment: Leverage It as a Development Platform!” events that we’re doing for Northeast enterprise customers in Waltham, MA (November 19) and Rochester, NY (December 9) I continue...