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Listening to the SharePoint Community #SPTechCon
Hundreds of SharePoint-focused admins, collaboration experts, developers and business stakeholders packed the room yesterday at SPTechCon Austin to listen to a keynote from Seth Patton, senior director of product management for Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive and Chris McNulty, senior product marketing manager for SharePoint and Office 365.
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Does Microsoft Score with Cloud Search? #SPTechCon
SharePoint administrators and users want a lot of things out of their Microsoft platform. High up on that list? They want to find things. Over 850 attendees, vendors and Microsoft officials gathered this week at the SharePoint Technology Conference, the twice a year conference, held this week at the
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Austin's 1st #SPTechCon Meets in the Less Weird Part of Town
Austin’s famous for a number of things: breakfast tacos, live music, a thriving startup and tech community and the number of places one can go with virtually no clothing and not get arrested. But the city’s first SharePoint Tech Conference took place in the other part of Austin, in the
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Excuse Me SharePoint: A Crossroads or an On-Ramp? #SPTechCon
It may be time for SharePoint to pick a new analogy. After all, how long do you stay “at the crossroads?” And isn’t it true that, at crossroads, you pick one direction and forgo the other? I don’t think there’s a hybrid solution to a crossroads.
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SharePoint Users Stick with Older Versions, Eye Hybrid Cloud #SPTechCon
When we caught up in Boston a year ago with SharePoint Technology Conference Chair David Rubinstein, SharePoint 2013, Office 365 capabilities and mobile were all the rage. Same conference, next year at the Boston Park Plaza hotel? The cloud. SharePoint Online.
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Why You Must Identify Risks in SharePoint Technology #SPTechCon
SharePoint stakeholders can't know their risks without knowing their requirements. And they can't know their risks without knowing the potentially adverse effects of those risks. Bill English, 11-consecutive SharePoint MVP winner, champions these thoughts. Knowing your risks and potential outcomes can lead to strong governance and compliance.
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Is Microsoft Even Pushing SharePoint Users into the Cloud? #SPTechCon
BOSTON -- The cloud. SharePoint. Wait, what? Not me. Not us. Not anytime soon, if ever. That captures some of the sentiment we heard here among the nearly 1,000 people at the SharePoint Technology Conference at the Boston Park Plaza hotel. David Maldonado, an analyst programmer at the University of New Mexico's health division (pictured with
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Migrating From SharePoint to Office 365: Where Document Management Fits In #SPTechCon
Geoff Varosky’s in a band. And the tune he sang this month is all about taking SharePoint to the cloud with Office 365, a move that is helping organizations forget about the old, ungoverned music that was their intranets.
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SharePoint 2010 to 2013: Plan Content Migration Now #SPTechCon
For organizations contemplating the upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013, there doesn’t seem to be a concrete answer to the “when” question. Upgrade now? Upgrade later? Upgrade at all? Upgrading – With a Plan Whether it’s next week, next month or next year, upgrading is a smart choice.
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In a World of SharePoint and Email, Need for Culture Change Abounds #SPTechCon
Here’s a little irony: Our attempt to set up an interview about changing an email culture to a SharePoint culture came via … email. We couldn’t resist.
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AvePoint Perimeter, Accellion SharePoint Features, Metalogix Replicator 6.1 Announced At #SPTechCon
Increased mobile applications. Better SharePoint productivity. Harmony between different SharePoint platforms and versions. The calls are being heard this week at the SharePoint Technology Conference in Boston, and some vendors announced new offerings they say can help.
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SharePoint: What's Next for Stakeholders? Views From #SPTechCon
It’s always about, “What’s next?” isn’t it? In the SharePoint community, such is life. SharePoint end users, vendors, IT professionals, developers, designers and all stakeholders descended upon Boston at the SharePoint Technology Conference this week with a common goal: moving forward and staying on top of their changing environments.
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Mobile Device Explosion #sptechcon
He's earned the moniker SharePoint Joel. Now, they can update that to SharePoint Mobile Joel. Oleson, the keynote speaker at Monday's SharePoint Technology Conference in Boston, stressed the need for SharePoint users and organizations to jump onto the mobile train in a world that is seeing a "mobile
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Boston: You're My SharePoint Home Next Week #SPTechCon
Some dirty water, a little clam chowder (hopefully those aren’t connected) and the SPTechCon. Boston is home to the 10th SharePoint Technology Conference next week, and we’ll be there Monday Tweeting (@cmswire, #SPTechCon) and reporting. The conference, put on by BZ Media LLC, runs from Aug.
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