MVP TakeOver – Patrick Guimonet

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Patrick Guimonet MVP Takeover

Patrick Guimonet MVP:
I am Enterprise Solutions Architect and passionate about designing, selling and implementing IT solutions for customers of all size. I have been working in the IT industry for more than 20 years now. I had the chance to work as employee for great companies and organizations like: CERN (in Geneva, at the time URL, HTTP and HTML were conceived), Oracle, Sequent, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Cap Gemini (all five being Paris based).

I joined Microsoft in 2005 as a RDBMS and Windows NT specialist. Since then I enjoy playing with the countless features and options we have in SharePoint! I had also the chance to live the very beginning of Office 365 (which was called BPOS at that time).

In 2011, I created my own company Abalon (http://www.abalon.fr ). We are a consulting and engineering team specialized on helping our customers get the whole value of Microsoft collaboration tools and especially the gang of three: Yammer – Office 365 – SharePoint (for which I coined the nickname yOS, in a blink of an eye to the other one).

I am deeply engaged with the SharePoint community and managed to create great SharePoint/Office 365 events like Conf’SharePoint (in 2013) or SharePoint Saturday Paris in 2015.  I love sharing with other people, from experts to end-users, and have been SharePoint MVP for 4 years and I am now (since October 2014) Office 365 MVP as it’s now where innovation happens. My twitter is @patricg.

Top 5 Twitter Accounts I would Recommend the Community to Follow:

@Office365 is definitely THE first source of information to follow if you want to keep pace with the news in this area!

@Office365_Tech is more dedicated on technical news and links.

@Office365MVPs is one of the best way to keep in touch with most of Office 365 MVPs posts: a great source of information if you don’t want to be MS only informed! 😉

@nikxpatel, from Chicago, where MS Ignite will take place, is also a source of inspiration for me as it is targeting similar subjects in a very precise and accurate manner.

@jcgm1978  is a good friend from Spain with very interesting posts. I am totally astonished by the rhythm of publication he can sustain!

3 Featured eBooks I have found highly beneficial:

As it was too difficult to choose only one among the three, here are my top three.

One of the best ever content I read on SharePoint conception is the Gsoft guide on How to succeed in your SharePoint Analysis. Unfortunately it’s in French only right now and doesn’t appear to have been translated to English yet, so if you do not understand French and are interested, give a call to Franck Cornu for a translation! 😉

At such a very high level of precision and completeness, I would also mention the very good guide of BA Insight embracing all the Search capabilities of SharePoint 2013: The Essential Guide to Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2013

Having been part of the great TechNet house, internally at Microsoft, I have always been enthusiast about the treasures and jewels you can found on all its pages. But finding them is not always easy, so it’s a great thing to find eBooks combining the best of them! I wanted to give a special thanks for that to my good friend Gokan Ozcifci who aggregated so much content:

Featured Videos – SharePoint videos that I believe would be of interest to the European SharePoint Community:

I really enjoyed seeing not only one but the whole 11 parts of Office 365 Performance Management course by Paul Andrew on MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy). This is a must viewed for everyone who has interest on this topic. Here is the corresponding TechNet page: Network planning and performance tuning for Office 365

As I also focus for some part of my contributions on SharePoint on Microsoft Azure, I would recommend the whole event Azure IaaS for IT Pros Online Event

My Top SharePoint Articles:

I loved the great infographic about the 10 Misconceptions of Microsoft SharePoint by the guys from Evoke IT

Steve Peschka and its Share-n-dipity are definitely renowned in the SharePoint space and I especially appreciated its Using Azure Active Directory for Single Sign On with Yammer

Chris O’Brien post on Using CSOM in PowerShell scripts with Office 365 was also a great reading.

But I am rather a visual guy so I mostly pin all the good articles I find on my Pinterest dashboard.

Highlight a Cool SharePoint Tool:

As an IT pro and even if I no longer use it so much right now, THE tool I thanks the Community every day for is AutoSPInstaller. With AutoSPInstallerGUI and AutoSPSourceBuilder, it was the toolset that just made the SharePoint installation a reproducible thing! 😉

My Choice of Content to Highlight:

I mainly focus on four areas this later time and in the near future:

But my preferred subject since 2011 has been:

I had great time last year at ESPC14 in Barcelona and hope to see you in Stockholm at next ESPC event!

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