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Tribute to Tom Castiglia, True Community Leader, Gone but Not Forgotten!

When I first moved to California, there was one person who made a big impression on my life and it’s never been the same.  Tom Castiglia, President of the SharePoint User Group, and Founder of the .NET User Group in San Diego was all about community.  The first month I was there I had offered to help Tom and the SharePoint Saturday San Diego event committee.  I had some crazy ideas about doing a speaker party on the beach with fusion Hawaiian food and fire and hula dancers.  Tom didn’t shut me down despite the fact I accidentally planned a trip to Colombia and Bolivia over the top of that weekend.  I heard everyone had a great time, but Tom helped me pull it off without hesitation.

Up bright and early for SharePoint Bloggers breakfast before the keynote and on the second row…  Tom had Passion!!

The next month I was at the User group with some rough news.  I was in the middle of trying to buy a house with an unknown closing date.  It was during the committee meeting for the user group that I brought up I was out of work and looking.  I didn’t really have any time to make anything happen…  Tom reached out and I believe he stuck his neck out to take a chance on bringing me on at the small San Diego based business.   A day later I was talking to Neal and Arjay and the following Monday I was working with him at Hershey.  I was able to keep our house and with no drama my prayers were answered.

Some of the Hershey SharePoint team at a recent little reunion.

 

We’d share a room at the upcoming Ignite event, and nearly every waking moment of that event we were together.  My SharePoint friends were his friends, and the San Diego User Group and SharePoint crew got really tight.  Haaron Gonzales, Chris Givens, Randy Williams, Galen, Tony, Ron… you couldn’t find a tighter community.  We adopted David Leveille when he moved to San Diego.  He had a client in San Diego and lived with Tom and Martha for over a month.  Who does that?  Tom (and Martha).  1

While I was working with Tom at Hershey we had more than a few lunches together.  We shared a lot together.  I saw his work ethic first hand.  A hard worker with a passion for community and friendships.  He told me all about his Old Pros group, and I saw it first hand.  Those guys would do anything for each other.  Very tight knit group.

The next year in Atlanta for Ignite, Tom, Galen and I got glowing light sabers and we fought with our lazer swords under the laser light show.  Tom believed in my crazy ideas and backed me up when I was feeling spontaneous.  That’s a rare thing.

 

I went to more baseball games with Tom in the past few years than the rest of my life combined.  He sure loved baseball.

Tom knew how to make people feel wanted and how best to organize an event.  Last years SharePoint Saturday San Diego Zoiner opened his home for the speaker dinner.  It took things to a much more personal level.  Something I’ve strove for.  This community is more than a bunch of geeks.  It’s family.  We all know that.

 

It didn’t take much to convince Tom to join me on a crazy adventure to SharePoint Saturday in Cuba.

Politics doesn’t divide the SharePoint Community.  Tom, Rob, Chris and I met with the Cuban SharePoint folks who sacrificed to tell their stories.  I cherish the memories of walking through the dark streets of Havana with Tom.  He put a lot of trust in me.  It was one of the first times they’d left Ben alone and for so long.  Tom tells the story that Ben had a secret, but due to their strong relationship, he couldn’t hold it a secret for long and Tom would handle the situation like a good father would.

Tom was the glue that has kept the community here in southern California together.  Through ups and downs and thick and thin…  Even when Microsoft said we couldn’t keep meeting in San Diego, he pushed to get us what we needed to keep going.  He has put his own money into buying pizzas on more than one occasion, traveling to SharePoint events all over the country and beyond.  His impact cannot be measured.  As a Nintex vTE he helped people for free all over the world, and those developers and engineers are deeply indebted to his graciousness and technical knowledge.

 

Tom invited me and a few SharePoint friends to his 50th birthday party.  This wasn’t the first birthday he invited me to.  During the first year we moved here, he invited me into his home and my little boy Dean danced and danced at his party.  We all felt comfortable at Tom’s house…  We could be ourselves.  Being at Tom’s house belt like being at home…  being there felt like family.

Only a week ago, Tom helped me do some shopping and helped me throw the biggest party I’ve ever had.  I had commitments on Thursday and Friday and he took time out of his week to go shopping mid week.  Super nice guy.  Tons of Love.  He opened his heart and we’ll never be the same.   I miss my friend, but know he’ll be waiting for us all for a big party on the other side… with a brass cup and some ginger beer.  I’m sure he’s working with the Angels on their Records Management in the meantime.

Tom, I’ll miss your non judgmental smile and your never give up and do what it takes to make it work personality.  I promise to do what I can to keep the community together, and I’ll never forget the way you made us all feel… loved.

If you know or were inspired by Tom, I invite you to attend Tom Castiglia’s Funeral which will be on Tuesday February 5th at 10am. http://tomcastiglia.eventbrite.com

Saint Gregory the Great Church, Scripps Ranch

11451 Blue Cypress Drive

San Diego, CA 92131

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Hybrid Taxonomy – The current user has insufficient permissions to perform this operation

While configuring hybrid on a SharePoint Server 2019 farm, I was trying to synchronize my taxonomy from SharePoint Online to my SharePoint 2019 farm. Unfortunately, the Timer Job failed with the error: The current user has insufficient permissions to perform this operation! But… the timer job doesn’t tell us what user it tries to connect to, so let me show you how to easily find this out!

On the Job History you also have some very useful information that will help you find out more about the error: The Server the Timer Job was running on and the Correlation ID if you want to look it up in the ULS!

Most of the time, for users such as insufficient permissions, more details about the error will be logged in the Event Log of the server where the Timer Job ran. When logging in CALSP04 and going in the event viewer, I can see the same error, as well as the “User” it gave the error on, in my case LAB\S-farm , which is my farm account.

When looking in my on-premises Term Store, I realized I had forgotten to add my farm account as a term store administrator! It’s a requirement for Hybrid Taxonomy to make sure that the account running the Timer Service (your farm account) has Admin rights on the Term Store!

After adding the necessary rights, my terms were synced successfully!

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How to Screen Windows File Servers for Unapproved Content

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SharePoint Hybrid Picker does not run prerequisite checker

While I was configuring a hybrid SharePoint Server 2019 farm using the Hybrid Picker, I got into an annoying little error that the Hybrid Configuration Wizard was not doing anything on the “Checking prerequisites” phase, just an empty screen like the one you see below:

And when you go to the next screen, there are no features that are available, because the prerequisite checker didn’t verify anything .

One of the first thing I tried, as every good admin, is to try and run the app as an Administrator! However, trying to run it as an administrator using the normal, right click way didn’t even star the application! Luckily, PowerShell to the rescue!

If you’re having troubles like I did, open up PowerShell as an Administrator and simply run the following cmdlet, of course replacing the path with your path to the Hybrid Config Wizard!

& 'C:\Users\vlad.catrinescu\Desktop\Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid Configuration Wizard.appref-ms'

The app should now open as an admin, and prerequisite checker work like a charm!

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Heads Up on Error on Modern SharePoint Online Team Site Link

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Certifications for SharePoint 2019 and Office 365 Teamwork aspect have been released!

If you are a SharePoint person and one of your 2019 resolutions was to get a Microsoft Certification in 2019 you’re in luck, Microsoft just released the details for the two exams required to be a Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator Associate .

The two exams you need to get this certification are:

• Exam MS-300 – Deploying Microsoft 365 Teamwork
• Exam MS-301 – Deploying SharePoint Server Hybrid

Alternatively, if you are already certified in SharePoint Server 2016 with the 70-339 exam, you could do the following exam only:

• Exam MS-302 – Microsoft 365 Teamwork Administrator Certification Transition

This exam is a mix of both MS-300 and MS-301, but it allows you to only pay for one exam to get this latest certification!

Exam Details

Let’s look at the exams and what they cover! The first exam, the MS-300 really focuses on Office 365 and covers collaboration services such as SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams , Yammer and Stream! Here is a high level overview of the objectives:

1. Configure and Manage SharePoint Online (35-40%)
2. Configure and Manage OneDrive for Business (25-30%)
3. Configure and Manage Teams (20-25%)
4. Configure and Manage Workload Integrations (15-20%)

As you can see, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business and Teams take between 80 and 95% of the exam, while the other workloads such as Yammer, Stream, Flow, PowerApps and so on only take between 15 and 20% .

The second exam , the MS-301 is focused on SharePoint Server 2019 and Hybrid scenarios. Here are the high-level objectives:

1. Configure and Manage SharePoint On-Premises (55-60%)
2. Configure and Manage Hybrid Scenarios (30-35%)
3. Migrate to SharePoint Online (5-10%)

Half of the course is focusing purely On-Premises in installing, configuring and managing SharePoint 2019, while 30% of it is on SharePoint Hybrid, so definitely something you need to master in order to pass this exam. The Migrating to SharePoint Online part is a smaller percentage than what I would have thought, but you will need to know the SharePoint Migration Tool and the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool to get those points.

Beta Codes and Transition Exam Deadline

To finish off, a few important details about the exam, especially if you ready this while this blog post is hot off the (Word)press! You can take the Beta exams for 33 USD Each using the following codes:

• Exam MS-300 – CODE: MS300Season
• Exam MS-301 – CODE: MS300Rocks
• Exam MS-302 – CODE: MS302TravelKLS

You can use these codes to register for the exams on or before February 13, 2019, and you must take the exams on or before February 15, 2019.

If you have already passed the 70-339 , then only doing the MS-302 will give you the certification. However, the MS-302: Microsoft 365 Teamwork Administrator Certification Transition is retiring on July 31, 2019. If you are planning to take 70-339, do it soon! Then, take MS-302 while you still can to become a Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator!

I have signed up for both exams , and I am looking forward to test out the Betas! Let me know in the comments if you plan to take them as well!

 

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Seven SharePoint and Office 365 Predictions for 2019 and Reflections

(I snapped this photo in Indonesia.  I hope you like it!)

1. SharePoint 2019 will become the new base standard, but the community bloggers and speakers will get over it very quickly.  It won’t feel new by June.   Where usually a product is new for a couple of years.  Now the on prem releases will feel dated nearly immediately. We won’t see hardly any posts unfortunately.  

2. Teams will get a TON of press and become a leading workload (fastest growing) for Office 365.  Microsoft Sales will CARE most about Teams and Azure.  The Teams team will really dial in the MVP community and connect in solid ways.

3. Digital Workspaces will move from being buzz words to being company initiatives.  Some companies will refocus intranet teams to focus on The Digital Workspace. Productivity will change based on personalized organizational insights through analytics.  Analytics will be big in gaining new insights and driving the interfaces of our personalized workspaces.

4. Chat Bots will go from being seen as a gimmick to being more common corporate projects.  Today chat bots are seen as squishy dev projects working with APIs, but we’re likely to see chat bots be more productized and with plug and play integration.  I expect to see large enterprises who have sprint initiatives feeding the bots.  HR and Support will find each other to support these initiatives, sparking a marriage.

5. Digital Transformation – What was previously seen as stages for moving to the cloud will now be more about looking at streamlining business processes with taking advantage of investments in AI for automation.  

6.  The Battle of the year will be Microsoft Teams and Slack.  Microsoft’s arsenals are loaded and Skype is dead.  This battle won’t end in a year.  Atlassian alignment with Slack is going to cause some significant changes inside organizations.

7.  Microsoft will double down on Mixed Reality.  The story will really start coming together even if it sounds ahead of it’s time.  Microsoft does have their work cut out.  Remote assist + Teams + Hololens… It’s ahead of it’s time, but solid.  The community really doesn’t seem to understand SharePoint spaces.  I think it will take a year unfortunately for the right stories to come together, but 3D/360 content viewing is a solid investment especially if you look at 3-5 years.  Engineering will start sharing more 3D/360.

8. PowerPack will be a big thing.  Licensing confusion will rise, but PowerBI, PowerApps, and Flow will gain in adoption and usage in a significant way, and Microsoft will find a way to promote these products in a more streamlined way.

Here’s a review of last year’s post including my thoughts.  Love to hear what you think…

8 Predictions for SharePoint & Office 365 in 2018

1. People will look to Skip SharePoint 2016 and go to 2019. It will be much better received than 2016 was, but it will still be somewhat lackluster (never will it be like it was back in the good old days of dedicated SPCs for SharePoint launches). In the first year of SharePoint 2019 release it will surpass 2016 as an install base. (2016 still hasn’t surpassed 2013.)

I haven’t seen any numbers, I think we’ve already heard great things about 2019.  I expect to hear more at SPC. 

2. Hub sites will become the preferred way of doing Information Architecture in SharePoint and deep portal structures will be flattened as a best practice. Note there will be many who cry foul and it will cause heated debates.

Hub Sites are preferred way to do Information Architecture in SharePoint Now.

3. OneDrive on Demand will become a great drive to Windows 10. Sync for SharePoint will be carried along as a benefit and client sync for SharePoint will have its greatest adoption since groove.

OneDrive on Demand has been huge for OneDrive.

4. Modern Team Sites, Modern Lists, and Themes will soon become consistent with the expectation for status quo for SharePoint and a big line will be drawn for OLD SharePoint vs. New SharePoint based on what comes in 2019 and what’s in O365 now.

This prediction stands.  Teams and Modern are the way.

5. WSPs are Dead – The community will abhor them and it will be an insult to think of installing them. As a result even third party solutions will need to rethink how they not only support apps for online but also on prem.

True.  No one is creating anything in WSPs now.

6. Groups will cause further confusion in 2018, but Teams will become the darling of Microsoft sales for collab as it activates multiple workloads.

I think some of the confusion is gone now that Team sites = group template, but Teams is definitely been a big winner.

7. Microsoft AI (Simple automation, auto classification and extraction) will start to make its way into SharePoint Online amongst other workloads.

True. Microsoft has provided extraction through OCR and it shipped for OneDrive & SharePoint Online.  Not just that, but also Flow is now in lists with simple approvals.

8. Simple Communication Site based Intranets (and Intranet in a box solutions) + Hub sites will gain favor for Office 365 adopters. Deep complicated Intranets will fall out of favor in a huge significant industry wide way.

True. I do believe Intranet in a box solutions and even lowered expectations for more out of the box cloud based solutions as either digital workspaces or as a baseline for more has accelerated both deployment and adoption.

In 2015 predictions I called out worth mentioning

Mobile will become more important in SharePoint world – The new mobile app is really good.  The new search feature is the best thing that’s happened to mobile.

SharePoint gets cool again – It’s really happened.  SharePoint has really improved and looking at the Top Intranets… there’s nothing better right now.  Teams is the only challenge based on the interface, and with the new SPFX investments in Teams. 

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Here’s What We Know about the Samsung Galaxy S10 Models

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by Paul Heltzel via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Toshiba Forgoes Next-Gen Recording Tech in Designing Its First 16TB Drive

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Survey Indicates Container Security Concerns Limit Adoption

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Survey Indicates Container Security Concerns Limiting Adoption

A new survey indicates that 60 percent of IT pros working with containers experienced at least one container security incident in the last year.
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HCI Use Cases: Edge Computing, Artificial Intelligence

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by Eric Slack via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Walgreens Teams With Microsoft as Both Wrestle Amazon Threats

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Building Blocks for Your 2019 IT Security Program

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Mark Your Calendars: The End of Support for Windows 7 is Jan. 14, 2020

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Mark Your Calendars: The End of Support for Windows 7 is January 14th, 2020

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Trends Driving Big Changes in Unified Endpoint Management

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Bosch Exec Dishes on the Company's Renewed IoT Commitment

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Linux's Systemd Hit With Three Security Holes

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In CEO Search, Intel Still Hasn't Found What It's Looking For

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Amazon Invests in Qualcomm-Backed Israeli Semiconductor Startup

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AI Jobs Outlook: Gender Gap Ahead

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Rethinking Your Data Deduplication Strategy in the Software-defined Data Center

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DFFS Package updated to v4.4.3.60

I have released a new version of the DFFS package (v4.4.3.60) with a few bugfixes and some new functionality.

You find the change log here and the files in the download section of the user manual.

Post comments below, but use the form if you have questions or you think you have found a bug.

Best regards,
Alexander

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CERN's New Data Center for the Large Hadron Collider 'beauty' Project

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by Christine Hall via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Google Cloud Platform Shares About Security Trends to Watch in 2019

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Vendors up Browser Security Ante

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Google Wins Round in Fight Against Global Right to Be Forgotten

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U.S. Military Trusted More Than Google, Facebook to Develop AI

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Amazon Acquires AWS Backup Solutions Firm CloudEndure

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CommentBox for SharePoint v3.0.0.7

I have released a new version of CommentBox for SharePoint with some bugfixes and one new feature.

Look here for the complete change log: https://spjsblog.com/commentbox-for-sharepoint/commentbox-v3-x-change-log/

Post any comments below, but please post bugs or questions in the forum: https://spjsblog.com/forums/forum/comment-box-for-sharepoint/

Alexander

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Failover Detection Utility Simplifies Availability Group Failover Analysis

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IBM Sees Revenue From Quantum Computing in as Soon as Two Years

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Top 10 Cloud Access Security Brokers

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How to Prepare for the Inevitable Security Incident with Digital Forensics Essentials

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IBM Managers Discussed Ways to Thin Older Ranks, Documents Say

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Kroger, Microsoft Create Futuristic Grocery Store. Amazon, Take Note

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How to Get Unlimited OneDrive for Business in a Nutshell

In recent history, Microsoft quietly supported 1TB to 5TB.  Many customers didn’t notice that change.  Many Office 365 Admins don’t realize the limit is NOT 1TB.  This quiet update to the pricing plans has not really made it to the community and many customers still support competing products not realizing that OneDrive as well supports UNLIMITED STORAGE for users!  Why would you not want 25TB quotas for your users who refuse to move because there isn’t enough cloud storage or they are worried about the cost?  OneDrive just got 25x more cool and beyond!

I put together the very sharable infographic above, so you can help promote the fact that OneDrive for Business is now Unlimited.  Download it here.

It’s not hard to give all your users 5TB of storage by default.  Simply go to https://admin.onedrive.com/?v=StorageSettings and change the default 1TB to 5TB

Or through the Office 365 Admin Powershell:

To change default quota to 5TB  for OneDrive for Business for entire Tenant

Set-SPOTenant -OneDriveStorageQuota 5120

To change quota for a user:

Set-SPOSite -Identity <user’s OneDrive URL> -StorageQuota <quota>

Subscriptions with less than five users receive 1 TB of personal cloud storage per user.

Customers will initially be provisioned 1 TB of personal cloud storage per user in OneDrive for Business. You may increase the default OneDrive for Business storage space to up to 5 TB per user with the help of your Office 365 administrator once the 1TB quota is 90% full.

Whenever you need cloud storage beyond the initial 5 TB, open a case with Microsoft technical support to request it. Additional cloud storage will be granted as follows:

• When a user has filled their 5 TB of OneDrive for Business storage to at least 90% capacity, Microsoft will increase your default storage space in OneDrive for Business to up to 25 TB per user (admins may set a lower per user limit if they wish to).

• For any user that reaches at least 90% capacity of their 25 TB of OneDrive for Business storage, additional cloud storage will be provided as 25 TB SharePoint team sites to individual users. This additional storage is provided to the tenant by way of credit.

To see how much personal cloud storage you are using, your Office 365 administrator can go to the OneDrive Admin Center to manage their users’ personal cloud storage.

See Change your users’ OneDrive storage space using PowerShell for more information on how Office 365 administrators can manage user storage in OneDrive for Business.

I had heard rumors that the 15GB per file limit was increased.  I have not seen this play out.  Uploading a file of 15.1 GB failed.

 

You can determine your personal quota by navigating to your onedrive for business and appending /_layouts/15/storman.aspx?root=Documents  It’s also in site settings… look for storage manager.  The nick name was StorMan

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/set-default-storage-space

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/change-user-storage

https://products.office.com/en-us/onedrive-for-business/compare-onedrive-for-business-plans

https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans

by Joel Oleson via Collabshow.com

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Weekly Update with ITPro Today: Jan. 4, 2019

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CommentBox for SharePoint v3.0.0.6

I have released a new version of CommentBox for SharePoint with some new features.

Look here for the complete change log: https://spjsblog.com/commentbox-for-sharepoint/commentbox-v3-x-change-log/

Post any comments below, but please post bugs or questions in the forum: https://spjsblog.com/forums/forum/comment-box-for-sharepoint/

Alexander

by Alexander Bautz via SharePoint JavaScripts

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Weekly Update with ITPro Today: Jan. 4, 2019

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Anonymous Data Collection Is More Risky Than Users Think

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Big Data Companies Cloudera, Hortonworks Complete Merger

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Citrix Workspace on Google Cloud Platform

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Microsoft Digital Well-Being Tool More Broadly Available

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Proactive SQL Server Performance Tuning

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Microsoft, Google Use Artificial Intelligence to Fight Hackers

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Robots Aren't Yet Killing Off All Our Jobs, World Bank Says

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Are Ruggedized Laptops More Rugged Than Your Business Needs?

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Joel Oleson Awarded MVP – 10 years of Community Building in Pictures

 

I’m humbled and excited to be recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for Office Apps and Services.  It’s been about 11 years since I left Microsoft back in March 2008, and started my journey to connect to IT communities in every country in the world. 

 

 

10 years later, and over 100 speaking engagements, and 100 communities later…

 

Here are a few of the highlights…

It started with Jordan… my first community visit after Microsoft

 

SharePoint in London and on the battlefields of Gettysburg

 

Many Many Share-Point I Mean SharePints later

 

From Bethlehem

To 3x in Lima Peru

Many Share-A-Okes!

You wouldn’t believe the LadyGaga SharePoint Outing in Sweden

SharePoint Bermuda…. Speaker shorts required

SharePoint Saturday Jamaica!  They said it wasn’t possible!

Sharing the Point in Vietnam in 2011

SharePoint Singapore x4 including User Group, SPS, and TechEd South East Asia x3 (man I miss that event)

SharePoint Malta

SharePoint Amsterdam x3

SharePoint in Czech

 

SharePoint Sweden (SEF!) x 3 + ESPC

Trinidad and Dominican Republic

SharePoint in Morocco

SharePoint in Slovenia (Thrive) x8

 

Getting interviewed in Berlin by Michael Greth… about 8 years ago.  5+ trips to Germany for the community.

Including a European SharePoint Conference where we saw the 20 year anniversary of the Wall topple!

SharePoint in Iceland!

More than a few SharePoint Limos.  (Many photos not included to protect the innocent )

SharePoint Manilla

They said it wasn’t possible to do a SharePoint event in Georgia

SharePoint Bangladesh… Thanks MJ!

Ecuador

and of course one of my favorites… Chile x2  and Costa Rica x4 with Ricardo and Crew

The Latin American SharePoint Community is still very strong

Guyana, Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador

And many trips down with Share The Point Under to Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Signapore… Thanks Debbie!

75 signed up in Yeravan Armenia…. but 125 showed up!!

We made it happen in Bolivia

and in Venezuela

From Nigeria

To Ghana

And Nairobi

SharePoint in Antarctica

The bottom of the world

Arab community

To Tunisia

and Brazil

and Pakistan

and Egypt

Bulgaria

SharePoint in Full Robes in UAE Dubai

SharePoint has definitely made the rounds in the middle east

Central Asia Tour in Uzbekistan

Azerbaijan

And in Kurdish Iraq!

Sri Lanka

SharePoint Saturday Algeria

On the Top of Africa –  Kilimonjaro

To the Bottom of the world – Yes that is Dan Holme… I took this shot

Many Late nights

Hanging out with crazy people who make big impressions…

Ukraine and Russia

Great communities in Ukraine!

Across deserts and mountains

and in previously forbidden places

Building relationships in the Persian community and then not getting allowed to see them was tough, but I’m happy to say Persian language packs in SharePoint 2010 on have a small contribution in part to my relationship with an MVP who’s business is in Dubai that I met 10 years ago.  Thanks Neo!

 

Thanks much to the whole community, with special mention to those who left a whole in my heart…

I miss you!  Dave, John, and Patrick

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!  Thanks to the community… it’s been a lot of fun these past 10 years!

 

I really love our community…  I hope you can see that.  The recognition has always been just a bonus, but it does mean a lot.  It’s been a lot easier to find people when they’ve been recognized by Microsoft. MVP and community impact does change lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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