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...

I am happy to announce that I have recently accepted a new position within Microsoft. I will still be working with enterprise customers and partners based here in the Northeast but my focus will be shifting to Office 365 . So, why am I making this move...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Office 2007 service pack 2 has been released today and is available for download . Some of the features being incorporated into SP2 are integrated support for saving to PDF, XPS and ODF file formats - all of which previously required separate free...

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...

<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...

Thanks again to everyone that came out last week for the 1st SharePoint user group meeting in Rochester, NY. We had a great turnout and I really enjoyed the discussion and interaction – as well as the SharePint after! As requested, I’ve posted my “SharePoint...

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...

Mainstream support for Microsoft Office 2003 is scheduled to end on April 14, 2009. Extended support for the 2003 release will be available until January 14, 2014. The Office 2003 Frequently Asked Questions and Support Lifecycle pages have more details...

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...

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...

With many customers and partners migrating to SharePoint 2010, one of the topics I get asked about regularly is making “safe” customizations to SharePoint and thinking about upgrades and migrations – both now and in the future. While the answer is often...

This past Saturday, we had our 1st SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire . Over 150 people attended this event and there were more than 35 sessions delivered . It was an amazing event and we are grateful for all of our event sponsors that made this event...

Many of my customers and partners comment about how much they love OneNote . OneNote is a great tool for organizing notes; brainstorming; collaborating; and (most importantly) finding information. For those of you that simply cannot live without OneNote...

Performance updates for Outlook 2007 were recently released. You can read more about these updates and download them here . Please note that these updates, as well as a number of other items, will also be included in Office 2007 SP2. More information...

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...

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...

Details have recently been published and released here regarding service pack 2 for Office 2007. The current expected release date for this is sometime between February and April 2009. Some of the features being incorporated into SP2 are integrated...

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...

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...

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...

While SharePoint and Office 2010 were recently released in April, Microsoft is already hard at work on planning for future versions and updates of these products. I am fortunate to have a number of meetings setup with members of the product development...