Sad news ... No Jared at NACS 2019

Hello readers. I know I have not kept this blog up recently but things have been very busy on my personal front lately. I have moved out of my current residence to a new place as I sell my home of the last 12 years. I had built my timeline based on my attending the North American Collaboration Summit 2019 in Branson, MO.

This is an event I was looking forward to attending and speaking at. I have heard nothing but praise from my fellow speakers about the event Mark Rackley puts on and wanted to see it for myself. Alas, this was not the year. My moving and sales preparation plans were thwarted by Mother Nature in a couple of ways.

I hope to get the opportunity to speak in future years but I do hope those of you attending and speaking have a blast and learn a lot.

Cheers!

SharePoint Saturday Utah 2019

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. I am also going to be presenting the day before at a Microsoft 365 event. Use this button to register on Meetup for that Friday event.

For SharePoint Saturday, I am presenting The Power of the Cloud: Working with Flow and PowerApps. SharePoint can get help from Azure Services as we move into the new future of SharePoint, both for on-prem SharePoint farms and SharePoint Online. This session will show you how PowerApps and Flow can help you modernize your usage of SharePoint, from forms and workflows to full business solutions. All of this can be accomplished by someone who has an understanding of Excel Formulas.

Join us for SharePoint Saturday Utah on Feburary 9, 2019 at the Karen G. Miller Conference Center in Sandy, Utah. The day starts with registration and breakfast at 8:00 am. Click on the button below for more details.

Office 365 Connect 2018

I want to send a large thank you to NC Communications and Nigel Clapham and Spencer Harbar in specific for inviting me to speak at the Office 365 and SharePoint Connect 2018 conference in Haarlem, Netherlands. This is the second time I have spoken at the Philharmonie in Haarlem and enjoyed it just like the last time.

Arriving later on Tuesday, I got to see some fellow speakers in the evening at a local user group meeting. With this conference in town, the local user group gets to have some incredible speakers for their meeting this month. I sat in on some of the discussions and the start of a panel discussion. Unfortunately, my stomach growled so loud it interrupted, or so I felt it was. Dinner was at a place I enjoyed a lot last summer, Thrill Grill, and was as good as I remembered it.

Wednesday started with some errands for my trip in the Netherlands so I missed the Keynote. I did get to the Philmarmonie in time to catch Eric Shupps session on Introduction to Azure Web Applications for Office and SharePoint Developers. The developer in me thanks Eric for some understandings of how to setup Web Apps to work with Azure AD. I had some good conversations with presenters and attendees around many.

In the afternoon, my first session of the conference was an oldie but goodie, Migrating SharePoint from On-Prem to Office 365 - Lessons Learned by Microsoft IT. One of the things I find is that many conferences like this session because so many businesses are still looking at a move from on-prem to the cloud. This is still popular and Office 365 Connect 2018 wanted me to present it. I got some really good interaction and had a great time presenting it. I want to thank all of the folks who attended and made the session a good one.

On Thursday, my second session of the conference was a "Lightning Session". I presented my SharePoint on Azure - Tips and Tricks session. Normally, this is a 60 minute session but I had to cut it down to 20 minutes. I felt bad for the presenter after me as I didn't make the 20 minutes but ended at 25. Another good session with great attendees wrapped up my Office 365 Connect for 2018.

Again, I can't thank the NC Communications team and Nigel Clapham for the opportunity to come speak at their conference and hope to return for more in the future.

Cheers!

North American Collaboration Summit 2019

Hello to my readers. I have started getting my plans for conferences in 2019 together and I am happy to announce that I will be presenting this coming year at the North American Collaboration Summit in Branson, MO.

I have heard a lot about this conference from many of my SharePoint Speaker friends and I knew I needed to get it on my schedule. Now, many of you might say "Why Branson, Missouri?" This conference started as SharePointalooza and has grown to the event we now know. I have heard a lot of good things about the creator and coordinator, Mark Rackley.

Now, if you want to get all sorts of information on how to use SharePoint on Azure, come attend my session Running SharePoint on Azure – Tips and Tricks. I will go over the basics of hosting SharePoint on Azure and covering specific scenarios.

I encourage you to join myself and tons of great speakers on SharePoint and Office 365 in Branson.

UPDATED!! - SharePoint Saturday Denver

SharePoint Saturday is back in Denver again and I can't wait to come and speak. There has been a few years since the last event in Denver but we are back and there is a great lineup of speakers for this event.

Now, many of you might know I speak a lot about SharePoint, Office 365, services like PowerApps and Flow, and the Cloud, but this time I thought a new topic would be best for the restart of the Denver events.

I am bringing Rick Claus, lead of the Cloud Advocacy team at Microsoft focusing on Operations, to co-present with me in Denver. What could we be talking about? We are going to be presenting on the Journey to the Cloud. Not only are we presenting information, but we are going to spend over half the time taking Q&A from attendees about what the Cloud means for them and their careers.

At the end of this session, we want to have answered all of your questions and pointed the attendees to resources to help them further their education about the Cloud and their role in using, administering, and getting the most of Cloud Services.

Due to unfortunate cancelations by a couple of speakers, I am also going to present Migrating SharePoint to the Cloud: Lessons Learned by Microsoft IT. This session will help anyone looking to start a migration to the cloud or improve a current migration to the cloud. On top of talking about best practices, I will go over the dos and don'ts that I learned being part of the Microsoft IT team performing these migrations for Microsoft IT.

Location

Microsoft Office
7595 E. Technology Way, Suite 400
Denver, CO 80237