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

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.

LinkedIn SREInCon 2018

While attending Microsoft's first SRECon earlier this year, I found out that our LinkedIn SRE sisters and brothers not only have their own but it has been put on several years now. I worked with my boss to get an invitation but wanted to bring something to their conference, so I applied to speak.

First, I want to thank the LinkedIn SREInCon 2018 Committee for letting me not only attend but speak at this year's event. It was a tremendous honor to learn a lot about how LinkedIn runs their services and site, how their SRE's work to improve the site reliability and the integrated roles that the SRE's have with the engineering teams they work with.

Additionaly, I want to thank all of the attendees that came to my session. I had a great time with the topic and it felt well received. The Q&A at the end was amazing as well. As this was an internal conference, I cannot provide any details about my session nor any of the resources.

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