A SharePoint Saturday on Monday #SPConfRU
June 23, 2011
It was a very pleasant and unusual experience for me this week to speak at the SharePoint Conference Russia – 2011. The conference was awesome and the crowd was much more interested in SharePoint than I was expecting. My session was the last before conference wrap up, and we stayed for almost half hour after the session for Q&A! The biggest challenge for me – surprisingly – was to keep speaking Russian, and not switch to English completely when using all the SharePoint terminology.
Having been to a number of different industry events in the US and Europe before, I cannot help comparing this conference to some of those. As far as I can tell, SharePoint Conference Russia is very close to the SharePoint Saturdays. The event is completely driven by community, in this case – Russian SharePoint User Group, and it is completely free to attend. (Thanks to the sponsors, and I am happy that my employer participated as the sponsor as well!)
- SPConfRu had simultaneous live stream online from all 3 concurrent sessions. Never seen this at any other SharePoint event really.
- The food was absolutely awesome :-) I’m not complaining about the food at other events, but here it was way better than one can expect to get a free event.
- Unlike other SharePoint Saturdays, good part of the attendees were seriously looking people in good suits – IT directors and CIO’s, not a typical attendee for a free event. I think this shows there is a lack of (and the need for) SharePoint-centric events targeted more at the business users and IT decision makers in Russia. There are no SPTechCon or SharePoint Best Practices here.
- Finally, the event was on Monday – so they had to call it SharePoint Conference instead of SharePoint Saturday :-)
So once again I’d like to say thank you to the SPConfRU organizers – Oksana and the team did absolutely great job, and I really look forward to more events from the user group in Russia.
BTW, here’re the slides from my “Planning SharePoint 2010 backup and recovery – where do I start?” session
SharePoint 2010 backup presentation from Buckeye SharePoint User Group
November 19, 2010
We had a good discussion tonight with Buckeye SharePoint User Group in Columbus around how you approach backup and recovery in 2010, and how new features might or might not change your backup strategy. Here’s the slide deck from my session:
SharePoint 2010: How new features change your backup and recovery
Apparently, there’s lots of interest in SharePoint 2010 – few folks already have it running in production, some are playing with it in the labs, while others are learning. Good times, interesting to see how SharePoint landscape changes.
New Home for Quest SharePoint Community
November 10, 2010
Just a quick post for those of you who have been following the Quest SharePoint For All community. We have moved the site to Quest Communities home and it is now available at http://communities.quest.com/community/sharepointforall.
I just posted my first blog entry there, a brief look back at the evolution of SharePoint administration and the challenges Quest Site Administrator has been helping to address since its first release in 2006.
So come join Quest experts, get insights from the product teams, connect with other users and the developers of Quest SharePoint products! And don’t forget to update your blog rolls and RSS feeds.
Book Giveaway: SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide
April 7, 2009
As promised last week, we’re giving away three copies of SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide, a book by John Ferringer and Sean McDonough.
If you’re following my blog, you already know about the new SharePoint community we (Quest Software) have launched at www.SharePointForAll.com. So I want to try and use this opportunity to bring more good people to the community.
To win your free copy of the book, you need to:
- Join the SharePoint For All community if you’re not a registered member yet. It’s very simple, but gives you access to the forums and downloads on the site. Downloads include pre-release Beta versions of Quest management and migration tools for SharePoint, as well as freeware tools such as SharePoint Disaster Recovery Advisor.
- Publish a link to SharePoint for all site on your SharePoint-related blog or on a publicly available SharePoint-related forum. It can be a link to the site’s home page, or any of the downloads, or any blog post on the Quest team blog, whatever is more relevant to the topic of your post.
- Finally, send an email with the two links to a special email address: get-a-book@sharepoint-recovery.com. Your email should include links to your profile at SharePointForAll.com community site and to your blog/forum post, and your name/contact info.
The first three winners will get the free copy of SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide. You can see my review of the book here, and read more about it on Amazon.com.
One more note, you cannot win the book if you work for Quest. Sorry, guys – I can lend you my copy if you want to read it :-)
Once again, many thanks to the publisher, Cengage Learning, for giving me this opportunity.
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SharePoint for all – new community site
February 25, 2009
Joel just anounced the new community site we’re starting here at Quest, SharePoint For All. We will try to use this site to share expertise, Quest product news, ideas, beta versions of new releases and even some research projects! Here you can also get first-hand answers from the product teams – our developers, product managers, consultants, – and of course your peers who may already be using the products.
All this is just getting started, and you can help us define what exactly SharePoint For All will become in the future. I encourage you to register and join the community now and get active on the forums.
The new community site also features the new Quest SharePoint Team blog. One of the recent posts there explains how Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint fits into various different environments and allows to leverage existing backup infrastructure for granular data recovery. This is a follow up for Joel Oleson’s recent SharePoint backup and recovery webcast (see the recorded webcast here, and Q&A in a separate blog post).
So – watch the new team blog for the product news, and I will try to keep this blog for more generic SharePoint backup and recovery topics.
