MVP TakeOver with Vlad Catrinescu
Vlad Catrinescu is a SharePoint and Office 365 Consultant specializing in SharePoint and SharePoint Online deployments as well as hybrid scenarios. He also specializes into designing and implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery SharePoint solutions as well as DevOps scenarios with TFS Server.
Vlad is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in SharePoint since 2013 and is known in the community for his technical abilities and for founding the biggest and most active SharePoint Community that you can find at www.SharePoint-Community.net . Vlad also has his own blog at www.absolute-sharepoint.com and he often shares his knowledge by speaking at local conferences and community events.
Vlad is the recipient of the “Top 25 Office 365 Influencers” award, illustrating him as one of the most influential Office 365 specialist in 2015, showing his expertise and passion for Microsoft’s shift towards the cloud in the past years.
Top 5 twitter accounts:
a. @williambaer > Bill Baer is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft and is currently working on SharePoint Server 2016! He shares lots of goodies about SharePoint 2016 as well as asks for community feedback!
b. @mkashman > Mark Kashman is also working for Microsoft, mainly focused on SharePoint online ! Follow him for the latest news on Office 365
c. @ToddKlindt > Todd Klindt – Great guy, follow him for lots of great PowerShell articles as well as SharePoint IT Pro stuff and everything you want to know about what Microsoft broke in the last Cumulative Update!
d. @jthake > Jeremy Thake – Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft and great community guy! Follow him for the latest news on Office 365 Dev stuff as well as PnP!
e. @scottgu> Scott Guthrie – Executive VP at Microsoft of the Cloud division and very active on social media. If you want to stay up to date with the latest news on Azure!
Featured Video:
There are a few videos that I think are important to watch to see what’s coming up this year from Microsoft in the SharePoint & Office 365 space! Those videos talk about the future of SharePoint Server 2016, One Drive, SharePoint Designer as well as Office 365!
a. The Evolution of SharePoint: Overview and Roadmap
c. What’s New for IT Professionals in SharePoint Server 2016
Top 5 SharePoint Articles:
a. What’s new in SharePoint Server 2016 Installation and Deployment
d. The alternative for Meeting Workspaces in SharePoint 2013
e. Understanding Content Type Hub (CTH) in SharePoint 2013
Cool SharePoint Tool:
I have to give this one to my fellow Canadian Brian Lalancette for his tool AutoSPInstaller ! This is a PowerShell script that allows you to install a SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013 farm fully automated. This codeplex project saved me probably at least a hundred hours of work and makes installation a lot better. With over 135 000 downloads on Codeplex and 4.8/5 star rating, It’s one of the most useful tools out there! (Ok, maybe second after ULS Viewer) AutoSPInstaller link >>
Choice of content to highlight:
If you’re not a member yet, I highly suggest you join http://sharepoint-community.net ! It’s a great community with over 8500 members , chat with other experts from the community , lots of prizes to be won and the chat can get lots of fun! Join the site and start talking with your fellow community and you will see that you will become addicted!
