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Showing posts with label Speaking. Show all posts

Saturday 9 November 2013

IaC Presentation for SharePoint Saturday UK

Overview: I am presenting at SharePoint Saturday UK (9 November 2013).  This post contains my slide deck and will answer any questions that arise from the session.

SharePoint Saturday UK 2013 Web Site

 Infrastructure as Code for SharePoint 2013 PowerPoint Presentation

Outline of the session:
Creating automated farm builds is key to having a stable SharePoint on-prem. service. This session looks at how and why automating infrastructure, SharePoint 2013 builds and assets is a good idea. The session is heavily focused on Infrastructure as Code (IaC). I look at building a large on premise SP2013 stretched farm on stable repeatable infrastructure that includes SSRS, WCA/OWA and Blob storage.

This is a technical overview for IT pro’s & architects, throwing in best practices for looking at large SharePoint 2013 deployments. Concepts such as devops and Continuous Delivery (CD) are examined. PowerShell is extensively used with several takeaways provided to jumpstart SharePoint 2013 service creation via IaC.

Saturday 25 February 2012

SharePoint CoE & Estimating SharePoint Projects

Overview:  On Tuesday 21st of February I present a real world experience of a method of estimating and providing a high level design for SharePoint projects as done in our CoE at the SharePoint User Group UK (SUGUK) meeting in Nottingham.

Here is the slide deck (pptx) 1.1MB

Also see:
http://blog.sharepointsite.co.uk/2011/11/sharepoint-center-or-excellence.html


Friday 20 May 2011

SUGUK Southampton Meet

SUGUK South Meeting - Thursday 19th May 2011 http://suguksouth.eventbrite.com/
Thanks to Ian Woodgate for arranging the user group session.  A good close nit user group.  Using Southampton universities facilities is great. On the night we did 3 developer sessions, I got some useful tips and ideas from the other presenters namely: Martin Hatch, Chris McKinley and Darren White.
LINQ to SharePoint Sandbox solution development demo presentation
Ian Woodgate's blog & summary of the evening - http://blog.pointbeyond.com/2011/05/21/sharepoint-uk-user-group-southampton-19-may/
Martin Hatch's blog is: http://www.martinhatch.com/
Chris McKinley's blog: http://crmckinley.sharepointspace.com
Demo Code Download
VS project - create lists & set up referential integrity.
VS project - deploy a visual user control web part via a sandbox solution.
Slide Deck - More detailed

Sunday 15 May 2011

SharePoint Retreat Roundup

Summary of the day:  "Here is my feedback from the SharePoint Retreat meeting on Saturday 14th of May 2011.   9 people were at the retreat. We did 5 hours work and were really pushed for time - the day covered too many areas and needed more time to use the SPRetreat format properly. Venue was good - not exactly central but definately happy with the venue. I thought my presentation went well - only 1 other guy had used LINQ to SP in practice so a good topic choice, the practice exercise went well with everyone sharing however, we ran out of the time and Ashraf was left about an hour to present which he did very well on Info Path 2010 - a lot of the guys knew Infopath 2007 and I think they got a lot out of Ash's session.
My general feeling was the attendees were all glad they came and I believe we all walked away with good information. I think all the guys want to have more of these on a Saturday and guys are volunteering to do sessions. I like the coding katas format but it takes a long time and the day should only address 1 topic. All the guys that attended liked having 1 practice session per topic and the retrospective is great. Doing 2 topics worked well for 5 odd hours which allowed us all to only use up our day to lunch time. But i guess it really depends how in depth one goes on each topic.  
I'm going to open up a dialog with all the attendees and look to do another event in July."
Please post comments on your thoughts of the day - pls suggest topics, format for a July day.   thanks
paul


The videos I recorded came out very poorly, try get better light and equipement next time. 
Video of the slides explaining LINQ to SharePoint on YouTube

Monday 2 May 2011

SharePoint Retreat South West London

Overview:  Ashraf Islam & I are presenting a SharePoint Retreat on 14 May in Cobham (South West London).  We are looking at LINQ to SharePoint & InfoPath on the day.  This event broadly follows Andrew Woodward's SharePoint Retreat format: so it's free, everyone attending will get real world coding practice and we to retrospectives after each session.  http://www.21apps.com/sharepoint/spretreat-swlondon2011/
To book for the event: http://spretreatswlondon.eventbrite.com/

LINQ to SharePoint Session Downloads:
VS project - create lists & set up referential integrity.
VS project - deploy a visual user control web part via a sandbox solution. 

Update 14 May 2011 - Thanks to everyone - i gained a lot from the day, good to meet a and discuss things with some passionate devs & architects - paul
Update 28 May 2011 - Video I recorded on using LINQ to SharePoint

Wednesday 13 April 2011

IW User Group - JBG ToolFest

Yesterday I present Community Kit for SharePoint - Developer tools (CKSDev) as a tool for SharePoint 2010 developers to improve productivity at Microsoft in Johannesburg to the IW user group

CKSDEV is a great tool built by people in the SharePoint community and lives on codeplex.  I highly recommend CKSDev if you use VS2010 - it gives you so much extra functionality from within VS as a SharePoint developer.

My Impression of IW User group Jbg - Brilliant, I was amazed by the whole toolfest idea and think it's a good idea for user groups to follow.  Michael O'Donavan, Veronique Palmer and Rob MacLean are doing a great job for the SharePoint community in SA.  Good idea, great venue, smallish turnout.  SharePoint is flying in SA and the community is good. 

About ToolFest Jbg - This is the second toolfest that has been held in Jbg, I have no doubt there will be more as I learnt tons.  Rob MacLean showed Light Switch using SP lists (In my head i always call it LightBox - no idea why) - it was impressive.  All the presenters showed me new tips and tricks.  I have some thoughts on some of the presentations below:

Installing SP2010 using SPAutoInstaller, I knew Brian Edwards presentation on Brian Lala's Powershell autospinstall was key, all i can say is I wish I had thought of presenting this but alas there are always so many topics and CKSDev I am a big supporter of.  This looked at installing SP2010 using Powershell.  Anyway, Brian is a fellow from Benoni (I did most of my schooling on the East rand).  Brian raised the key point of installing SharePoint correctly using multiple managed accounts. The wizard is fine if you are small and don't have resource but it's an extremely simplified start that I am not a big fan of.  Here is a post on installation options in SP2010 - AutoSPInstaller from Brian Lala is my preferred option, this is under the PowerShell installation option.    Managed Accounts I use for SP2010 installations.
Update: 22/06/2011 - Current versio of AutoSPInstaller is 2.5, additionallly the codeplex project is called AutoSPIntaller not SPAutoInstaller as previously named.

Wicus van den Berg did a good session on upgrading to SP2010 using PS and scripts he build with a nice XML config file.  Also I was unaware of the Powershell ISE option, I use PowerGui but Powershell ISE is built in a looks to do a very good job.  I voted for Wicus - his 1st script failed which made the presentation even better as he showed why it's important to perform the upgrade using Powershell and allowing us to watch the variables returned.

All the presenters gave me info from learning about zipping for document library's to raising my awareness of content types in the eyes of enterprise users.  Workflow and SPD were discussed.  And Rober MacLean had an absolutely blinder with Light Switch - it was brilliant.  His claim to be the greatest person he knows - it may be true!  The reason some sessions are better covered are I feel I am better qualified to discuss these topics but I took a lot from all the presenters and speaking to people at the event.

Veronique Palmer the only SharePoint MVP in SA lead a session "How mature is your SharePoint implementation?" And Veronique walked us through the SharePoint Maturity Model, so this was interesting but the conversation and input from people with actual experiences was the real gem.  I got smashed out the park by a guy from a engineering background when I suggested Workspace easily had sufficient space for all the required documents when going offline.  Well I was wrong and I loved the way he told me.  why - Engineering company's in Africa have a unique set of challenges to say the least, many files, remote locations and absolutely huge files with a requirement for literally thousands of docs.  I said "Who would ever work on more than 500 document offline", now I know this does happen.

Summary:  I loved presenting and people asked me great questions about CKSDev.  The community in Johannesburg is going well.  I have been to a lot of SharePoint user groups and I can honestly say this is the best evening event I have participated in. 

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Presenting in Johannesburg on 4 April 2011

I'm presenting on Monday the 4th of  April at Corlett Drive for SharePoint 2010 Johannesburg Knowledge Group at 18:00 in the evening so if you are in the area, it will be good to see you. 

Event book and details: http://sp2010jbg.eventbrite.com/
Session summarys
Session 1
Presentation - Overview of data access in SharePoint. What are your options? Is SharePoint storage always the answer? What is LINQ to SharePoint? What is LINQ to SharePoint not good at? The 8 caveats to LINQ to SharePoint.
Session 2
Demonstrate LINQ to SharePoint 2010. Using Visual Studio creating a visual web part to perform CRUD operations on SharePoint lists.

Reference Material:
Project to create Lookup lists