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Windows 7, SharePoint 2010, and Events I’m Speaking At Coming Up

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

As most of the technology world knows (and even the general public thanks to commercials like the one below… who doesn’t love unicorns, kittens and rainbows) Windows 7 is releasing to the public on Oct 22, 2009.  Normally this would get me very excited except that I’ve been running Windows 7 RTM as the primary boot on my home desktop and as the secondary boot on my work laptop for a few months now.  I didn’t get much chance to use Vista over the past few years (client workstations with XP, working more with servers, etc) so I’m taking a more concerted effort to jump into Windows 7 early on.  So far the experience has been great with only one major issue I had with IE8 (crashing due to plug-ins) which I’m writing another post about.

Despite the Windows 7 release this week, what really has me excited is the start of the SharePoint Conference 2009 today.  Sadly I am unable to attend the conference this year so I’ve been trying to follow news coming out of the conference through live blogging from EndUserSharePoint.com and Twitter tweeps.  One of the best pieces of news I heard confirmed one of my long held beliefs: STSADM is essentially being replaced by PowerShell (reference).  Now this isn’t to say that you can’t use STSADM going forward with SharePoint 2010.  STSADM will still be around for backwards compatibility, but you really do want to learn PowerShell if you’ll be working in any sort of developer or administrative role with SharePoint.

Speaking of SharePoint and PowerShell, I just received word today that I was accepted to speak at SharePoint Saturday Cleveland coming up on Nov. 14th, 2009.  My presentation is titled “The Power of PowerShell + SharePoint” and it will be half introduction to PowerShell and half overview of how admins/developers can use PowerShell to maintain and develop against their farm.  I’ve been using PowerShell to help me with SharePoint for over a year now and I’m very happy to see that PowerShell is taking such a prominent place amongst tools for SharePoint.  So if you’re free on the Sat Nov 14th and can make it to the Cleveland area come see me talk, the event is free.  Registration and schedules should be posted shortly to the link above.  I’ll post my slides and code samples to my blog for those unable to attend or wishing to try out samples as well.

 

-Frog Out

PowerShell + SharePoint Presentation Links and Files

Brian T. Jackett Presentation

Just got back from giving my PowerShell + SharePoint presentation at the COSPUG Show-N-Tell event.  Great turn out with just under 100 registered.  Shane Young gave a good keynote even if he let slip a few juicy tidbits about SharePoint 2010.  Steve Carvajal also gave a good talk on the upcoming Geneva framework for rights identity.  Sadly I didn’t have time to see a speaker during the other slot.

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk.  Below are links to my presentation and the demo files I used.  You’ll want to copy the text from the Limited SharePoint Profile.txt into your own profile.  Please rate my talk if you attended and/or send me feedback, I appreciate negative and positive comments so that I can improve for any future talks I may give.  Special thanks to Jennifer Mason and the rest of the COSPUG steering committee for organizing the event and letting me have a slot.  I also have my pictures from the event linked below.

 

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Create Profile example 1

Create Profile example 2

Presentation and Demo Files

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Presenting at COSPUG Show and Tell Event

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

On Friday, May 22nd the Central Ohio SharePoint User Group (COSPUG) is hosting a Show and Tell Event at the Microsoft office in Columbus.  I’ll be presenting on combining PowerShell and SharePoint.  This will be an introductory style presentation for those who have limited to medium experience with PowerShell and a few “laser show” type finale scripts to hopefully wow the crowd.  With the current schedule I’ll be presenting during the last technical track session of the day.  Shane Young from SharePoint911 will be the keynote speaker and as with almost all talks he gives I’m sure it will be energetic and informative.  On top of all those great reasons why you should attend, the event is FREE.  Hard to beat that.  Registration can be found at the following link: click here.  Hope to see you there.

    -Frog out