SharePoint Saturday Kansas City

I am on the road again for another SharePoint Saturday in October. This time, my destination is Kansas City, MO on October 13th. This will be the first time I have presented in or visited Kansas City so I will be looking forward to the trip.

I am planning to present two of my favorite presentations around SharePoint and Office 365. These topics are highly requested at both events and private meetings with customers.

Migrating SharePoint to the Cloud: Lessons Learned by Microsoft IT covers how Microsoft moved many of its internal SharePoint sites from our on-prem farms onto Office 365. In the beginning, we will cover migration options and how they impact sites and users. Along the way, you can learn the possible migration paths and the capabilities of the Office 365 compared to your current environment. We will focus to the technical how-to of performing migrations to Office 365. Lastly, I will highlight the "gotchas" and guide you through some of the best practices used by Microsoft IT.

Quick and Easy Business Apps With PowerApps and Flow covers how to use the new "no-code" tools to create business applications without a full development team. We will learn the basics of PowerApps, PowerBI and Flow along with how they can be used to improve business processes. During the session, we will actually build a quick business app using the tools.

Location

KU Edwards Campus BEST Conference Center
12600 S Quivira Rd
Overland Park, KS 66213

Office 365 Connect

I have been lucky in my speaking career to be invited to a few wonderful events. To that end, when NC Communications asked me to submit session proposals to their Office 365 Connect event in Haarlem, Netherlands, I was beyond thrilled that they selected two of my sessions for this year's Office 365 Connect.

Migrating SharePoint from On-Prem to Office 365 – Lessons Learned by Microsoft IT covers how Microsoft moved many of its internal SharePoint sites from our on-prem farms onto Office 365. In the beginning, we will cover migration options and how they impact sites and users. Along the way, you can learn the possible migration paths and the capabilities of the Office 365 compared to your current environment. We will focus to the technical how-to of performing migrations to Office 365. Lastly, I will highlight the "gotchas" and guide you through some of the best practices used by Microsoft IT. While I present this session at many different venues, there will be some additional tips and tricks specific for this event. Make sure to come attend on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 14:00 in Room B.

Running SharePoint on Azure - Tips and Tricks is a quick session on the best ways to run SharePoint on Azure services. We will look at IaaS from a viewpoint of Compute, Networking and Storage to make the best of Azure hosting. We will also look at other services in Azure that you can utilized for hosting SharePoint on the Public Cloud. Please join me on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 13:30 in Room E.

On top of my two sessions, I plan to be around the conference center for much of my time over the days. If you would like to setup a quick chat, feel free to contact me about getting together.

Click on the button below to check out the conference site and to enjoy 20% off your registration price, use the code SPKJS20. It will work will all ticket types.

SharePoint Saturday Vancouver

Another SharePoint Saturday Vancouver is done and I am sad to be leaving the "Great White North". Thank you to the SPSVan Planning Committee and Board for allowing my to come up and present PowerApps and Flow: "How I Learned to Love No-code Apps". As usual, the attendees were great to speak with both during and outside my presentation. The interest in the topic was wonderful to see.

Unfortunately, due to pain from shoulder surgery I had 2 weeks prior to Saturday, I had to leave early which limited my interactions with attendees and speakers. I am looking forward to a return in 2019 to spend more times with attendees.

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Presentation Materials

SPS Vancouver - New Dawn of No-code Apps - PowerApps and Flow

SharePoint Saturday Utah

As always, SharePoint Saturday Utah is one of my favorite events of the year. The engagement with other speakers and attendees make it an event I look forward to every year. With the new facility, there was a new energy to the day of learning. Originally, I planned to fly in early for the ShareSki on Friday but could not participate. My plans for next year is to participate and enjoy the Utah snow.

Team Up for Success came from a request from the team to cover a topic that no other speaker was covering. Even though I do not claim to be a Microsoft Teams expert, it is a tool that I use extensively at work. This lead me to present a "how-to" and 101 about Microsoft Teams and I thank the attendees for their questions and feedback about this new presentation.

After arriving, the SPS Utah team asked if I could add in one of my standby presentations to help cover for a speaker that got too ill to come out. I was super happy to help out and we added Migrating SharePoint to the Cloud: Lessons Learned by Microsoft IT at the end of the day. The attendees impressed me with a room near its capacity for this presentation.

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Presentation Materials

Migrating SharePoint to the Cloud: Lessons Learned by Microsoft IT

Team up for Success

What's my Current Status?

I am very lucky to know many great people in the IT world. These people are experts in their fields, outspoken about what they know, and love to pass along this knowledge. One of these people is Phoummala Schmitt, aka Exchange Goddess. She is a contributor to the Petri.com website and someone fun to follow on twitter. She started a podcast with two other great IT Experts, Theresa Miller and Melissa Palmer, called Current Status. I have had a few friends appear with them.

Now, let's look back a few months and I get a DM from Phoummala. "Hey, we want you to appear on Current Status to talk about SharePoint." All I could think was, "Is she serious? Is she setting me up for some joke about wanting to talk about SharePoint or are they going to just make fun of me and SharePoint." Knowing Phoummala as I do, I knew that this was not going to be the case, or at least 100% of the case. We setup a time and away we go.

Guess what fans? That show is tonight. You can head over to YouTube and watch it live at 10:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Pacific. I will be joining from my hotel room in Dallas (crossing my fingers about bandwidth) to chat with Phoummala, Theresa, and Melissa on SharePoint, Office 365, unicorns, and probably some Azure. Won't you join in and watch?