Conferences / SharePoint 2013 / SharePoint 2016
Cloud search reaches the on premises SharePoint farm
The most interesting search announcement of 2015 was not a bigger index. It was an index shared between two worlds.
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Field notes from SharePoint and Microsoft events, with the useful detail kept after the slides are gone.
Conference notes are worth keeping when they change how you work. These pieces collect the practical themes, conversations and follow up questions that survived the journey home.
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Conferences / Presentations / Search / SharePoint 2013
A search talk for the SharePoint UK community
Search is an operations story disguised as a product feature. That was the argument I took to SPSUK.
Conferences / SharePoint 2010
What the ISC London conversations left me thinking about
The most useful conference material was not a quotation. It was the set of assumptions the room kept testing.
Architecture / Conferences / Presentations / SharePoint 2010 / Uncategorized
A session on avoiding avoidable farm failures
The best disaster recovery talk is often a list of ordinary decisions that prevent the disaster.
Conferences / SharePoint 2010 / Uncategorized
Taking an IT pro session to SharePoint Saturday UK
A community session is a conversation with a room, not a product demonstration with an audience attached.
Conferences / SharePoint 2010 / Uncategorized
Field notes from the European Best Practices Conference
The best sessions did not offer a universal recipe. They showed how experienced teams reason when the recipe runs out.
Conferences / Presentations / SharePoint 2010
The useful parts of SPSUK 2010, after the slides
The session notes that survive are the ones that change a decision in the following month.
Outside reading
Useful references
Keep the current product documentation close when applying advice from an older entry.
- Microsoft Tech Community (opens in a new tab)Community discussion, product announcements and practical posts from Microsoft teams.
- Microsoft Tech Community: SharePoint (opens in a new tab)SharePoint announcements, community articles and product team updates.
- Microsoft Learn: Microsoft 365 documentation (opens in a new tab)Product documentation for Microsoft 365 services, administration and adoption.
- Microsoft 365 roadmap (opens in a new tab)Planned and rolling out changes across Microsoft 365 services.
- Microsoft Learn: SharePoint documentation (opens in a new tab)The starting point for current SharePoint administration, development and hybrid guidance.
- Microsoft Learn: SharePoint administration (opens in a new tab)Operational guidance for service settings, site management and the modern admin experience.
- Microsoft Learn: SharePoint search (opens in a new tab)Documentation for search architecture, crawling and result management.
- Microsoft Learn: PowerShell documentation (opens in a new tab)Language reference, cmdlet documentation and guidance for repeatable automation.