SPTechCon San Francisco 2014 wrapped up last Friday. I was there from end to end, presenting in the first time slot Wednesday and the last time slot Friday.
Here are some of my highlights from the show:
Andrew Connell’s Keynote
Andrew encouraged attendees to get used to the fact that Microsoft is moving to the cloud. As an example, he pointed out that Yammer has no executable install file. It is cloud only. And further, SharePoint Social will not be updated. If you’re not listening to the Microsoft Cloud Show he does with Microsoft Product Manager Chris Johnson, you should check it out.
Other Cloud Presentations
Longtime San Antonio SharePoint User Group supporter Jason Himmelstein presented on SharePoint and Azure.
SharePoint MVP and security specialist Liam Cleary talked about authenticating SharePoint with Google Accounts.
My Presentations
I enjoy presenting. I like to share what I’ve learned with others. I also learn from the process and the feedback. This was my second SPTechCon and I gave 3 presentations.
Listening to Tom @resing speak about external database integration with SharePoint at the #SPTechCon in San Fran. pic.twitter.com/mknUAwkp1E
— james white (@jameswithjive) April 25, 2014
Jive Software
There were a lot of conversations going on at the Jive Software booth in the Exhibit Hall. James White and others were sharing our customers’ experiences using Jive’s ability to connect people as a compliment to document sharing and existing intranets in SharePoint.
During my presentations, I also got a chance to meet customers who were doing the same like Caitlin Young from First Republic Bank and Matt Duval from Ironwood Pharmaceuticals.
San Francisco and Friends
Of course, I was glad to take advantage of the great downtown location to see some sights and enjoy some time with fellow speakers.
I love to use twitter at conferences. I share what I learn and connect to others through twitter. Here are my top tweets for #SPTechCon , according to twitter:
Tweets about “from:resing #sptechcon”
References
My slide decks are built for presenting, not reading later. One slide from each deck useful after the presentation is the references slide. Here are the links from those:
SharePoint Administration – Talk the Talk
- SharePoint 2013 Inside Out, Coventry, Shadravan, Resing + Wheeler
- Chapter 2, Administration for Business Users
- Chapters 18 and 19, Discovering information with Search and customizing the search experience
- Chapter 12, Branding – to upgrade or migrate you’ll need new master pages
- Overview of the upgrade process to SharePoint 2013, Technet
- Plan for user authentication methods in SharePoint 2013, Technet
Planning Site Content
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Morville + Rosenfeld
- SharePoint 2013 Inside Out, Coventry, Shadravan, Resing + Wheeler
- Chapter 8, Planning site content
- Governance planning in SharePoint 2013, Technet
- Also a 2010 version, also http://zoom.it/vb5G
- Design Samples: Corporate Portal and Extranet Sites, TechNet
A Practical Use of External Data Sources
- SharePoint 2013 Inside Out, Coventry, Shadravan, Resing + Wheeler
- Chapter 22, Working with External Data
- Professional SharePoint 2010 Development, Coventry
- Prerequisite software needed to work with external data in Office 2013
- Exposing external BCS content via search in SharePoint 2013 by Alexander Meijers
- Resolving the Directory Links Across Partitions are not Allowed Error When Crawling OData BDC Sources, Steve Peschka
- How To: Create, Configure, Consume SharePoint 2010 Secure Store in Business Connectivity Services, Fabian Williams
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