SharePoint Chat – April 27 and 28th !
Get your SharePoint questions answered on April 27th at 4pm PDT by a collection of SharePoint MVPs and on April 28 9am PDT. Join me and a handful of SharePoint MVPs on April 27th including Bill English, Becky Bertram, Sahil Malik, Shane Young, Clayton Cobb, Asif Rehmani, Agnes Molnar, Matt McDermott, Rob Bogue, Sifullah Shafiq Ahmed, Serge Tremblay, Mike Oryszak as we chat about SharePoint 2010....
April 26th, 2010 by Darrin
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MVP Chat – March 15!
Get your SharePoint questions answered on March 15th at 9 PDT by a collection of SharePoint MVPs. Join me and a handful of SharePoint MVPs including Andrew Connell, Becky Bertram, Brendon Schwartz, Dan Attis, Daniel Larson, John Ross, Matthew McDermott, Mike Oryszak , Paul Galvin, Paul Schaeflein, Randy Drisgill, and Rob Foster as we chat about WSS, MOSS and SharePoint 2010. This is the first event...
March 15th, 2010 by Darrin
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Book Review – Professional SharePoint 2007 Reporting
I returned from SharePoint Conference to find my copy of Professional SharePoint 2007 Reporting with SQL Server Reporting 2008 Reporting Services waiting for me. I happened to get in involoved in some technical editing towards the end of this book. If you are a SharePoint person who knows the basics of Reporting Services and want to learn more about the integration of SharePoint and SSRS then pick...
October 27th, 2009 by Darrin
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SharePoint Lists vs. Database Tables – Interesting Quick Read
In the latest release of SharePoint Patterns and Practices ( Developing SharePoint Applications) the P&P documentation includes a section comparing and the use of SharePoint lists to database tables. It is a short read and worth the time to read since this topic surfaces often in discussions. While SharePoint lists provides a quick and easy way to store data it does has some limitations...
October 5th, 2009 by Darrin
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SharePoint Saturday Chicago Schedule Posted
For those who are registered for SharePoint Saturday in Chicago you can find the schedule and information at : http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/chicago/default.aspx Saturday Schedule
June 11th, 2009 by Darrin
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Announcing the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group
Please join us for the first meeting of the Central Illinois SharePoint User Group. The Central Illinois SharePoint User Group provides a venue for anyone who is interested in learning more about Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. We hope to provide a means for organizations within the Central Illinois region to connect and discuss all areas of SharePoint with the...
May 19th, 2009 by Darrin
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SharePoint Summit, Montreal
This week I am up in Montreal Canada speaking at SharePoint Summit. Spent the day working on slides and demos. The conference selected a Feature and Solution talk but I ended up with one of the 45 minute slots. Ouch, you cannot do Features and Solutions in 45 minutes. Thanks everyone who stayed on into the break to let me deploy the solution. Slides are available here: SPTechCon Features and Solutions So...
April 7th, 2009 by Darrin
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SPTechCon Day 3 Wrap Up
I started day 3 delivering my session on PowerShell and SharePoint. One of the first demos failed but we – the attendees and I recovered nicely. Seems that most in the audience has had little exposure with PowerShell but they were eager non-the-less. We spent the session working with PowerShell and SharePoint using both the object model and STSADM. The session actually went over by 15 minutes...
January 31st, 2009 by Darrin
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SPTechCon – SlideDeck for SharePoint/PowerShell Session
Here are the slides used in the SPTechCon’s SharePoint/PowerShell session. SPTechCon_PowerShellSharePoint
January 29th, 2009 by Darrin
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SPTechCon Day 2 Wrap Up
Started the day with the Key Note by Tom Rizzo. He did discuss the merging of PerformancePoint into SharePoint though nothing definitive. He did show a few Internet-facing MOSS implementations. He also covered a few items covered at PDC such as the web-based Office Companions which will what appears to be lightweight version of Office clients. Tom also covered Azure and services online. He did...
January 29th, 2009 by Darrin
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Darrin has been around SharePoint since the Tahoe days. For those that have not been working in SharePoint that long, Tahoe was the code name for SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
Lately Darrin has been working with SharePoint with Windows Phone 7 and Azure. His blog is primarily about SharePoint along with some WP7, Azure and other topics such as Data Entity Framework and Silverlight.
Darrin is a founding member of Aptillon along with Todd, Matt, Maurice, Gary, Dan and Dave. We all work together on some really interesting projects along with some of our trusted partners.
Need to contact Darrin? Drop him a line at www.aptillon.com.
