My name is Jasper Oosterveld and I live in Amsterdam with my wife Katie, our daughter Flora and our dog Millie. I have been working with SharePoint since 2008 as a SharePoint Consultant. In my role as SharePoint Consultant I support customers with the process of implementing SharePoint.
Collaborating in the SharePoint and Office 365 community is my passion. I speak at SharePoint and Office 365community events such as DIWUG, Office 365 User Group, SharePoint and Office 365 Saturday, European SharePoint Conference and SharePoint Connect Amsterdam. I am the co-founder of the site SPCNL and the SharePoint Business User Group NL. SPCNL collects Dutch SharePoint articles written by SharePoint experts and enthusiasts. The SharePoint Business User Group NL is dedicated to the business users working on a daily basis with SharePoint. Topics such as Document Management, User Adoption and Governance are discussed on Yammer and during meetings. For my community efforts I received the SharePoint MVP award in 2014.
Top 5 Twitter Accounts you would recommend the community to follow
@bniaulin: Benjamin Niaulin is, apart from one of the nicest people I ever met, a real SharePoint rock star and one of the best speakers out there! We both share the same passion for SharePoint and write articles for the business/end-users.
@danholme: Dan Holme, Office 365 MVP and co-founder of IT Unity, is an inspiration for me as a speaker and blogger. His sessions and articles about the business side of SharePoint and Office 365 are a must see and read for everyone!
@sebmatthews: Seb Matthews, well where do I start describing Seb Matthews 😉 Don’ think two sentences are sufficient. Follow Seb to stay up-to-date about PowerShell, Azure and other SharePoint/Cloud IT Pro goodness.
@office365: The official Office 365 Twitter account. I love Office 365 and all its services so this is a must follow to stay up-to-date about the latest Office 365 news.
@KBWorks: Paul is the co-founder of SharePoint Business User Group and everyday tweets links to useful and interesting SharePoint/Office 365 articles.
Featured eBook – an eBook you have found to be beneficial
To be honest, I don’t read many eBooks so I am going to be blunt and recommend my own eBook. I wrote an eBook about collaborate & connect with Office 365. The eBook contains 8 chapters about working with mobile devices and the Office 365 services such an OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online and Lync. A must read for every fan of the Microsoft Online services. You can download the free eBook from the good people of Sharegate.
Featured Video – A SharePoint video that you believe would be of interest to the European SharePoint Community
Top 5 SharePoint Articles
Start building a SharePoint Governance Plan – Real World by SharePoint MVP Benjamin Niaulin is a must read for people getting started with SharePoint Governance within their business or for a customer. We all know why we should use Governance but unfortunately we often don’t know where to start. Read this article and get started!
Andrew Connell wrote a series of articles about Navigating the New World of SharePoint Online, Office 365 and On-Premises. An unbelievably insightful read about Microsoft’s road to the Cloud, the benefits but also challenges.
SharePoint Search Queries Explained – The Series by Mikael Svenson, one of the leading SharePoint Search Experts in the world, has a must read series about SharePoint Search Queries. Although SharePoint Search is very powerful and easy to use, the engine contains many features to make it even stronger. Mikael is your man to help you out!
Are you looking for tips around SharePoint 2013 Web Content Management? Waldek Mastykarz is your man, he is already at tip 35 and counting!
Chris O’ Brien wrote an excellent post about Office 365 SharePoint hybrid, this gives you a good perspective at the many challenges and limitations of the current hybrid situation.
Highlight a cool SharePoint tool
My former colleague, SharePoint MCM, Bram de Jager created a very popular tool: SharePoint Client Browser. The tool displays the complete structure of your SharePoint Farm. You can also connect the tool with SharePoint Online. It’s free! So what are you waiting for?
Guest MVP’s choice of content to highlight
At the moment I am presenting a SharePoint Online session called SharePoint Online: Friend or Foe. I review suitable workloads for SharePoint Online and the current challenges of the platform. Although SharePoint Online has really grown as a platform over the years and its star is still rising, we are facing many challenges. One of these challenges is the release cycle. Microsoft has really changed their release strategy and are releasing monthly updates, fixes and new features for SharePoint Online. From a SharePoint geeks perspective this is great but from a business perspective it can be less great. You don’t want to leave the office on Friday with smoothly running SharePoint Online solutions but on Monday morning they stopped working because Microsoft changed some API’s without communicating this change. This is all going to change soon or in the near future. Are you interested in learning more about this subject? Join my session when you can or view this session from TechEd North America.
