On January 1st 2012, I was honored to hear about an award that is very special to me. I was notified that I had received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for community work in SharePoint. Over the years, I’ve had the chance to learn quite a lot from recipients of the MVP Award, commonly referred to as MVPs or Microsoft MVPs. Clearly, they set a great example for me to follow in their footsteps. I’ve learned from MVPs
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Happy New Year! Wondering what I did in 2012? I hope I saw you at one of these events, but if not, you have a good idea how to find me next year. In 2013, I’ll no doubt be engaging the SharePoint community by in person presentations, webinars, organizing events, book writing, blogging and tweeting once again. Take a look below to see how I’ve been measuring my community impact and feel free to let me know what you think.
Read more →Did you know that SharePoint 911 is now part of Rackspace SharePoint Services? When you’re looking for the experts from SharePoint911, you’ll probably see them with Rackspace shirts on and often at the Rackspace booth. Also, they’re very active presenting, signing books and working with the community. The Rackspace booth is number #704 and it’s in the 6th row of exhibitors when you head forward with your back to the main entrance of the Exhibit Hall. As part of the
Read more →Going to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference November 12-15, 2012 in Las Vegas? There are so many sessions, how do you choose? I got an email from a friend with the following question and so I thought I’d publish my response, because I’d probably give it to you too if you asked. Question Hey Tom, I will be going to the conference in Las Vegas and could appreciate your suggestions for the best events/sessions to attend. First time there so any
Read more →SharePoint Saturday San Antonio is October 6th. I hope you know that already and have RSVPs. Other than that, I’ll be at quite a few events over the next 6 months including these below: October 6th 2012, Region 20 ESC, San Antonio, TX I’ve helped organize SharePoint Saturday San Antonio. It’s a free, all day event with 26 technical presentations by 25 veterans of the industry including past and current MVPs, an MCM and a keynote by Microsoft Information Worker
Read more →More for me. More for them. More for you. I’m joining the incredibly talented, infamously humorous, infinitely engaging SharePoint team at Rackspace. Jeff Deverter and company have hosted the San Antonio SharePoint User Group monthly meetings at Rackspace for a couple years now and I’ve gotten to know a lot of their smart admins. With the recent addition of the SharePoint911 crew the level of SharePoint talent at Rackspace exploded overnight. If you attend conferences that include SharePoint content, it’s
Read more →Thanks to all who attended my presentation at SharePoint Saturday Austin in January. As promised, here are the slides for your reference. Integrate External Data with bcs #spsaustx View more presentations from Thomas Resing. Picture Here’s a picture from the event by Victor:
Read more →Last night I presented SharePoint for DBA’s Part II to the San Antonio League of SQL Server Administrators. Slides The slides from the presentation are available for download and viewing on SlideShare. Screencast of part of Demo 2 I recorded a screencast of one of the demos from the presentation. Video Note: I recorded the video above because during the presentation I ran into an error which prevented the creation of the External List from the External Content Type and
Read more →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
Read more →I wonder how many people caught the Live Chat on the Microsoft SharePoint Team’s Facebook page today. I missed the chat but noticed in the transcript some interesting details. First of all, Microsoft is renting Disneyland for a SharePoint Conference Party on the Tuesday night of the event. Only makes sense being in Anaheim, right? Other than that, I didn’t see much new in the chat. Eric kind of dodged a question by Rick Taylor about mobile, one about Skype
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