MVP Takeover – Chris McNulty (@cmcnulty2000)

Chris McNulty was selected as ‘MVP Takeover’ for the month of April. Chris tells the European SharePoint Community about himself and what content and information he found or finds useful. Read on to find out more!

Hi again. It’s Chris, writing to you from high over the Pacific, but getting ready for next month’s’ Atlantic journey to Barcelona, Spain and the European SharePoint Conference 2014. And it’s a great honor to be part of the SharePoint Europe community. I had a great introduction to this team last year in Copenhagen, and I’m very much looking forward to reconnecting with everyone soon in Spain.

A little about me.

I’m Chief Technology Officer at HiSoftware. We focus on governance, security, compliance and accessibility solutions for enterprise content on Microsoft platforms, especially SharePoint. Before joining HiSoftware, I served as CTO at Dell Software. I’m a Microsoft SharePoint MVP, MCTS, MCSE, MSA and MVTSP. I speak at lots of events, everywhere it would seem. I wrote the “SharePoint 2013 Consultant’s Handbook” among other books, and I blog at http://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog. Previously, I led the SharePoint consulting practice at KMA in Boston, Massachusetts. I received my MBA from Boston College in Investment Management, and have experience in financial services technology with John Hancock, State Street, GMO and Santander. I live in Milton, Massachusetts, USA with my wife Hayley and three kids.
Heaven is a long hike to the top of a mountain with a guitar, and book on early American history for the campfire, followed by a weekend on the Atlantic.

Five Twitter Accounts to follow:

So many great folks in the community! Here are five people I go back to over and again.

@sympmarc (Marc Anderson) – Marc is the creator of the SPServices library for SharePoint and one of the most knowledgeable experts on SharePoint development, especially with jQuery and client side code.

@sharepointlhorn (Jason Himmelstein) – Jason’s a fantastic source of detail on using Microsoft business intelligence solutions with the SharePoint platform, as well as PowerShell.

@toddklindt (Todd Klindt) Hails from Iowa, and is the most reliable source of information for the SharePoint architect and admin (more than me!)

@andrewconnell (Andrew Connell) AC has forgotten more about SharePoint development than you will ever learn. Don’t bet against him, especially after 11pm.

• @jennifermason (Jennifer Mason) Mean, surly, uninformed (sorry, reading my own session evals!) One of the kindest and smartest folks connecting real world business needs and no code solutions on SharePoint today

• And I’d mention @buckleyplanet @rizinsights and @jthake (Christian Buckley, Eric Riz and Jeremy Thake) again, but you’ve already heard about them, right?

A great ebook

OK, I wrote it – but it’s free. Yes, chapter 2 of my newest book, the SharePoint 2013 Consultant’s Handbook, is available now. It covers how to run a SharePoint consulting practice, and is helpful to consultants, project managers and clients alike. Download now at [SPE has the URL, I don’t.]

Featured Video

Understanding Yammer is essential to provide business value for collaboration on SharePoint and Office 365. Laura Rogers (@wonderlaura) for Rackspace walks through a Power Hour introducing Yammer integration with SharePoint.

Top 5 SharePoint Articles

Gosh, there are so many. Here are a few:

1. From Microsoft, Bill Baer’s (@williambaer) article on using Azure to host SharePoint:

2. Chris Givens (@givenscj), my MVP classmate, has an article I go back to often when I forget a detail on Shredded Storage

3. Setting up SQL Server Reporting Services integrated mode on SharePoint? This TechNet article is my go-to when I need to double-check my logic: Read Now>>

4. Remember STSADM? Or tried to forget it? Years ago, there were rumors that someone had written a whole bunch of custom command line extensions to allow for really powerful batch scripts and remote administration. It was Gary LaPointe. Flash forward to Office 365 and the reduced administrative rights given to O365 admins. Gary, once again, has risen to the occasion with his PowerShell extension for SharePoint online in this blog.

5. Finally, once you’re in the cloud you’re going to want to harness all that computing capacity for some powerful business insights. Or as Microsoft calls it, PowerBI. John White (@diverdown1964) is the go-to authority for me, and his article on data refresh is a great introduction to using the PowerBI data gateway to bridge on premises data into the cloud. Read Now>>

A cool SharePoint tool

You mean other than something HiSoftware makes? Dell still has one of the best answers to forms development and no-code solutions with their QuickApps for SharePoint.

Guest MVP’s choice of content to highlight

You have user profiles, and an Active Directory. So many things can go wrong when you try to connect them. Learn from the master – Spencer Harbar here>>

“The fault dear Brutus lies not in our stars but ourselves.” Usually, technology itself isn’t the issue. A fearless and searching inventory of your organizational culture is essential to charting your future. Sadie Van Buren (@sadalit) has shared her SharePoint Maturity Model with the world at www.spmaturity.com

I live in New England, on the brink of the icy, salty Atlantic. The Boston Globe does a great job chronicling events near and far, but their Big Picture is a great window to the mages that define our world. New photo-essays posted three times a week. Take ten minutes, tune out, and tune in. (Sorry, hometown bias. Could have suggested news about the Red Sox or the Patriots.)

Finally I grew up on the East End of Long Island in New York. Its farm country, and going there always provides me great peace. Here’s a picture from there. I hope that it does the same for you.

Chris McNulty

© 2012 Christopher F. McNulty also at Flickr

The final blarney

Thanks again to the whole team at SharePoint Europe foe letting me write to you, again.

For more expert advice from Chris, why not download his ESPC14 session ‘What’s your Social IQ? Succeeding with SharePoint Social’ .

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