Monthly archive for October 2011

SharePoint for DBAs Part 1 at SALSSA

Last night I presented a session titled SharePoint for DBAs Part 1 at the San Antonio League of SQL Server Administrators (www.SALSSA.com). There was a great group of 10 Microsoft SQL Professionals attending who gave me great feedback and interaction during and after the presentation. I’ve agreed to do a follow up, Part 2, sometime in the future. Most of the presentation was demo which I may record seperately and upload to YouTube, but the slides are available from Slide

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Best SharePoint Conference Ever! #SPC11

Walking around Disneyland with my friend Michael Doyle last night, I said to him, “Could this day get any better?” and I think we really did both feel that way. Michael has had two books published within weeks of each other, one of them Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out we were co-authors on. We had a book signing event, heard great sessions, I passed another certification test, met lots of old friends and new ones and spent 4 hours

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Walking and Running around the Anaheim Convention Center

For #SPC11 conference attendees looking to get some fresh air and exercise while not in sessions at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, October 3rd-6th, there is some good news. The SPRunners group is back and active on Facebook this go-around. Join the open group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/sprunners/ Also, I found some good maps of the Conference Center Area. If you’re looking for the entrance to the conference center, I believe you’ll find the best, and maybe only, entrance on the following

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Meet me at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference

#SPC11 – I’ll be at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference October 3-6, 2011 at the Anaheim Convention Center and the party Tuesday night across the street at Disneyland. If you see me at the conference or the park, don’t be afraid to ask me to sign your copy of my new book, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out. If you’re looking for a copy of the book, there will be multiple giveaways and, I’m not sure, but it might be available

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Want a review copy of SharePoint Foundation Inside Out?

#SPC11 – Are you a blogger? Would you like a free copy of the newest book on SharePoint from Microsoft Press? Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out which I am a co-author on will be available through the O’Reilly Blogger Review program in the next week or two. My co-authors, the editors, publishers and I would love to hear what you think about our new book! If you’re not familiar with the program, O’Reilly provides select titles of recent book

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My take on SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out

Follow @Resing for background on the book I use twitter with the name @resing and I am actively promoting the book on twitter and on my blog http://tomresing.com/blog Why I contributed to this book I wrote this book because my friends and family want to know more about what I do in my day job. So much of my time is spent with the technical details behind the scenes of great SharePoint deployments, but it’s the people looking at that

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