With the release of the app model in SharePoint 2013, and all the subsequent marketing hype surrounding Office 365 and the determination of Microsoft to push their customers into the cloud, many have predicted that the end of full-trust farm solutions was nigh. For a while, especially if the rumors swirling within the greater SharePoint […]

​SharePoint Saturday is back in Big D – bigger and better than ever!  After a two year hiatus this free community event returns to the Metroplex on November 2, 2013 with a great line up of speakers and in-depth content covering a wide range of topics.  From end users to business excecutives, developers and administrators, no matter which SharePoint hat (or hats) you wear in your organization you will find a wealth of real-world information and practical solutions to common problems. The […]

SPTechCon 2013 is all wrapped up and it was a great event.  Attendance was high, there were lots of enthusiastic sponsors and tons of great content.  As a history buff I absolutely love Boston, even though I didn’t get to see much of it this time around, which is a shame as the weather was exceptional.  The folks at BZ Media do a […]

We are now accepting speaker submissions for SharePoint Saturday Dallas/Ft. Worth on November 2, 2013. We haven’t done this event for a couple of years so there is a lot of pent up demand. It will be a great opportunity to share your thoughts and experiences with other members of the community. For those not […]

Since the introduction of the app model for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online (Office 365) development was announced last year, much has been written on the topic of full-trust solutions versus apps (see Andrew Connell’s post and this one from Richard DiZerega). While the larger debate of how new applications should be written for SharePoint […]

​SPTechCon in Boston is just around the corner but it’s not too late to register.  Hit up the registration link and reserve one of the last spots.  Boston is a great town and this event is jam-packed with tons of good content.  Don’t miss out! I’m presenting three sessions at the conference:   Rev Your […]

DevIntersection is coming to Sin City! Mark your calendar for October 27th – 30th in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. DEVintersection is collaboration between Microsoft, NextGen Conference Production and .NET Rocks! It’s a unique opportunity to hear directly from industry experts who bring you their real-world experiences direct from the trenches. DEVintersection offers just the right […]

​We’ve just released a new promotional video for SmartTrack.  Check it out!      

The great thing about SharePoint Enterprise Search is that once it’s up and running it mostly just works. Except, of course, when it doesn’t. Recently I was troubleshooting a farm in which People search stopped returning any results. In this environment, the main OU containing user accounts had been moved and a new profile import […]

​Keenan Newton and Rob Lefferts from the SharePoint product team at Microsoft will be presenting a webcast on Monday, May 20, 2013, at 9:00am US Pacific Time.  They’ll be covering the thorny topic of migrating legacy full-trust solutions to the SharePoint 2013 app model – something a lot of developers and business analysts will need […]