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Speaking at SharePoint Saturday New York 2010

Brian T. Jackett Conference/Tech Event, PowerShell, Presentation

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With the busy schedule I’ve been keeping lately I realized I hadn’t even posted on here that I will be speaking at SharePoint Saturday New York (SPSNY) 2010 this weekend.  I will be presenting my “Managing SharePoint 2010 Farms With PowerShell” session for the second time ever.  The last time I presented this talk SharePoint 2010 hadn’t RTMed yet so I’ve updated the slides and demo scripts a little bit since then.  Aside from giving this presentation I’m also excited to be sitting in on a number of other amazing speakers that will also be presenting.  You can find the abstract below.  If you’ll be attending SPSNY feel free to stop in to my session.

 

Title: Managing SharePoint 2010 Farms With PowerShell”

Audience and Level: IT Admin, Beginner

Abstract: “Having you been using STSADM (or worse hand editing processes) to manage your SharePoint 2007 farms? Are you hearing about needing to learn PowerShell to manage SharePoint 2010 farms? This session will serve as part introduction to PowerShell and part overview of how you can use PowerShell to more efficiently and effectively manage your SharePoint 2010 farm. This session is targeted to farm administrators and IT pros and no previous experience with PowerShell is required.”

 

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Speaking at SPTechCon Boston 2010

Brian T. Jackett Conference/Tech Event, Presentation, SharePoint

    I’m happy to announce that I’ll be speaking at SPTechCon Boston 2010 this upcoming October 20-22.  The presentation I will be giving is titled “Real World Deployment of SharePoint 2007 Solutions” and below is the session abstract.  I’m very excited to be speaking at SPTechCon Boston as I attended and live blogged the recent SPTechCon San Francisco this past Feb (link here to recap of that event) and was impressed with all of the people and content I was exposed to.  If you have a chance to attend SPTechCon Boston I would highly encourage it.  Also on a side note you may notice the nice badge that the SPTechCon organizers provided on the right hand side of my blog.  Look forward to seeing you there if you’re attending.

 

Title: Real-World Deployment of SharePoint 2007 Solutions

Audience and Level: IT Admin, Intermediate

Abstract: “All I have to do is run some STSADM commands to deploy my SharePoint solutions, right?” If you are saying that to yourself, then you are missing out on some of the more advanced processes you can employ to deploy and maintain your SharePoint solutions and farm. In this session, we will cover lessons learned from three years of deploying and automating SharePoint solutions. This will include using a combination of STSADM, PowerShell, SharePoint API and a number of other tools in a real-world situation to deploy an entire suite of custom SharePoint solutions. This session is targeted to farm administrators and developers. Prior experience with SharePoint solutions, STSADM and minimal PowerShell experience is suggested.

 

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Central Ohio Day of .Net 2010 Slides and Files

Brian T. Jackett Conference/Tech Event, General .Net, PowerShell, Presentation, SharePoint

    This weekend I presented my “The Power of PowerShell + SharePoint 2007” session at the Central Ohio Day of .Net conference in Wilmington, OH.  This is the second year I’ve attended this conference, first time as a presenter.  For those unfamiliar Day of .Net conferences are a one-day conference on all things .NET organized by developers for developers.  These events are usually offered at no cost to anyone interested in .NET development.

    The attendees of my session had some great questions and I hope they all got something worthwhile out of it.  Below are my slides and demo scripts (some of which I didn’t have time to demo) along with my sample profiles.  If you have any questions, comments, or feedback feel free to leave comments here or send me an email at brian.jackett@gmail.com.

 

Slides and Files

SkyDrive link

 

Technology and Friends Interview Experience

    On a side note, any of you familiar with one of my Sogeti co-workers in Detroit David Giard may know that he hosts a web series called Technology and Friends.  After my session David tracked me down and asked to interview me about PowerShell.  I was happy to oblige so we sat down and taped some material.  I don’t know when that interview will be going live, but look for it on www.davidgiard.com.

 

Conclusion

    A big thanks goes out to all of the sponsors, speakers, and attendees for the Central Ohio Day of .Net conference.  Without all of them this conference couldn’t have been possible.  I had a great time at the conference and look forward to coming back next year whether that is as a speaker or attendee.

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SharePoint Saturday DC 2010 Slides, Demo Scripts, and Pictures

Brian T. Jackett Conference/Tech Event, PowerShell, Presentation, SharePoint

Wow! This past weekend I attended SharePoint Saturday Washington DC (SPSDC) which was quite an event to say the least.  For those unfamiliar, SharePoint Saturday is a community driven event where various speakers gather to present at a FREE conference on all topics related to SharePoint.  This made my fifth SharePoint Saturday attended and fourth I’ve spoken at.  SPSDC was a bit different than most SharePoint Saturdays mostly due to the scale of it.  We had almost 950 attendees, over 80 speakers presenting close to 90 sessions, and dozens of sponsors.  A big thanks goes out to the organizers of this event.  They put in a lot of hard work and time to pull this event off and should be very proud of the end result.

For SPSDC I presented “The Power of PowerShell + SharePoint 2007”.  I want to thank all of the attendees of my session for coming and asking some great questions.  Below you can find the slides and demo scripts for this session.  I also took some photos throughout the day (not as many as usual since so much going on) so check them out.  If you have any follow up questions feel free to drop me a line in the comments or the contact link at the top of the site.

Slides and Scripts

Click here for the demo scripts and slides posted on my SkyDrive.

 

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: One thing I forgot to mention in my presentation.  In order to run code against the SharePoint API you need to load the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll assembly first.  Run the below command on the PowerShell console line to complete that:

 

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.SharePoint”)

 

Photos

Facebook album

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My album on Windows Live site (higher res shots).

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Slides and Files from Day of .Net Ann Arbor ‘10

Brian T. Jackett Conference/Tech Event, General .Net, Presentation

    This past Saturday I presented “Real World Deployment of SharePoint 2007 Solutions” at the Ann Arbor Day of .Net conference in Ann Arbor, MI.  Below are my slides and PowerShell demo scripts I used during the presentation.  Thanks to everyone who attended my session, as well as the sponsors, speakers, organizers and all attendees who made this event happen.

 

Slides and demo scripts

SharePoint Saturday Charlotte 2010 Recap, Slides and Photos

Brian T. Jackett Conference/Tech Event, PowerShell, Presentation, SharePoint

NorthCarolina     This past weekend I attended SharePoint Saturday Charlotte (SPSCLT) in Charlotte, North Carolina.  For those unfamiliar, SharePoint Saturday is a community driven event where various speakers gather to present at a FREE conference on all topics related to SharePoint.  This made my fourth SharePoint Saturday attended and third I’ve spoken at.  The event was very well organized, attended, and a pleasure to be a part of along with many other great speakers.

At SharePoint Saturday Charlotte I had the opportunity to give two presentations.  First was “The Power of PowerShell + SharePoint 2007” and second was a new one “Managing SharePoint 2010 Farms with PowerShell.”  I want to thank everyone who attended either of my sessions and for all of the feedback given.  Below you will find links to my slides, demo scripts, and pictures taken throughout the event.  If anyone has any questions from the slides or scripts feel free to drop me a line.

 

Pictures

SharePoint Saturday Charlotte Apr ’10 Pictures on Facebook (recommend these with comments and tagging)

 

 

Slides, Scripts, and Rating Links

SharePoint Saturday Charlotte Apr ’10 Slides and Demo Scripts

SpeakerRate: The Power of PowerShell + SharePoint 2007

SpeakerRate: Managing SharePoint 2010 Farms with PowerShell

 

Conclusion

Big thanks out to Brian Gough (@bkgough), Dan Lewis (@sharepointcomic) and all of the other organizers of this event.  Also a big thanks out to the other speakers and sponsors (too many to list) who made the event possible.  Lastly thanks to my Sogeti coworker Kelly Jones (@kellydjones) for picking me up from the airport and a ride back to Columbus.  I hope everyone that attended got something out of the event and will continue to grow the SharePoint community.  I’m on a break from conferences for a few weeks and then have 3 more back to back weekends in May, blog posts announcing those coming later.  Enjoy the slides, scripts, and pictures.

 

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