I’m Still Here!

I haven’t written any SharePoint 2010 content in a while.  I haven’t had much time since I moved into the Fpweb.net sales department.  This is a temporary move to help handle the incoming sales load while we ramp up the sales team.  It has been a great opportunity to witness first hand how that part of our business works.  I enjoy being challenged and this been a great experience for me.  I have worked in almost every department in the company and have now been able to work with our customers in different contexts: pre-sales, consulting, support, and marketing.

I have also found that I enjoy the business development side of things as well.  I love helping people.  I want to make my colleagues’ daily lives easier and I want to make our customers experience better.  I am always thinking about how to innovate and improve business processes.  I have been very busy, but it’s fun.

On top of my busy work life, Kristen and I are also planning for our growing family.  We are expecting our first child this Winter!  So just like the Nissan commercial, I gotta get a bigger car.  I’m thinking about an SUV, but we’ll see.

I am going to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in October and to SharePoint Saturday Denver in November.   My last SharePoint event was SPSNYC.  I finally got to meet some of my virtual SharePoint support team from twitter in person!  Kristen and I stayed a couple days and explored Manhattan; it was awesome.

So thanks for sticking with me.  I will have more juicy SharePoint content coming soon. 

SharePoint Saturday St. Louis – April 30th, 2011

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We’ve finally got a SharePoint Saturday coming to St. Louis.  I have submitted a session to present on Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint 2010.  I’m still working on the presentation, but here are some major points I’d like to cover.

  • Preparing to upgrade (hardware, software, pre-upgrade checker)
  • Pre-upgrade checker in depth, what it provides
  • OOB upgrade\migration approaches from SharePoint 2007
  • A quick demo of a database attach upgrade and the status pages in Central Admin
  • Some potential issues (customizations, 3rd party software, Fab 40 templates)
  • How to get around these issues
  • Some other content migration approaches – 3rd party tools
  • Feature comparison of Metavis, Metalogix, and Axceler’s migration tools

I hope to include as much information as possible from my experiences in SharePoint consulting and SharePoint hosting.  If you have any ideas on additional content I would love to hear them!  This is a work in progress.

If you live in or around the St. Louis area and you would like to network and learn more about SharePoint,  please join me for SPSSTL Saturday April 30th, 2011 at the Washington University campus.  I hope to see you there!

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