Tag: The European SharePoint Conference Experience

Architecting your SharePoint application–things you shouldn’t miss out on by Radi Atanassov
Architecting your SharePoint application–things you shouldn’t miss out on by Radi Atanassov
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So a few people recommended I post my slides or content from my European SharePoint Conference session. I cover a list of considerations that makes a good reference for people undertaking the design of custom applications on SharePoint.

Usually in projects you would have people responsible for the design of the infrastructure and then a development team would dig into the technical design of the SharePoint application. They will try to answer how different components will be used to satisfy the requirements. Solution Architects explore various options for meeting each requirement and all these options and choices intertwine into a proposed design, maybe a model or a proof of concept, and hopefully a document. Projects that miss this communication are either chaotic, or extremely agile.

Issue with Azure SDK on a SharePoint Server
Issue with Azure SDK on a SharePoint Server
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Few weeks ago I and Hilton Giesenow prepared togheter a SharePoint & Azure session for the TechEd Africa and the European SharePoint conference. During the preparation we discovered an issue running the Azure Compute Emulator on a SharePoint box (Azure SDK 1.5 and 1.6). First it seemed that the user profile service screwed up after you had started the emulator for the first time, but further investigations had shown that many service applications didn’t work properly anymore. The problem was, that the emulator sets the IIS anonymous user account to the application pool’s identity. Many thanks to Wictor Wilen for telling us which IIS setting has been affected ( we owe you a pint=>summit 2011 🙂

European SharePoint Conference – Updated slides from governance session by Anders Skjoenaa
European SharePoint Conference – Updated slides from governance session by Anders Skjoenaa
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Made it back from the Berlin European SharePoint Conference 2012. A very succesful event that hopefully is the first of a long row of yearly european gatherings of the european SharePoint community.

It was great to meet so many people from all around Europe. I made new connection with some very nice people from a lot of different places; Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, UK and Russia – just to name a few – , and got to refuel a lot of old relatioships with people from Denmark, US etc. To an extend, this conference actually felt even more global than the Microsoft conference in Anaheim. It was very interesting to be a part of this.

European SharePoint Conference 2011– Berlin – Day 3
European SharePoint Conference 2011– Berlin – Day 3
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Day 3 starts – the real warriors are up and at it ready for another day. Some are still in bed after the night before!

Expert Panel Session – “Will Public Offerings or Private cloud Solutions influence the Adoption of SharePoint as a Web and Application Platform”. Some selected quotes:

European SharePoint Conference 2011 – Berlin – Evening 2
European SharePoint Conference 2011 – Berlin – Evening 2
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Last evening I went back to the hotel room – the first night of the conference – and was on email and calls all night – no surprises there! But on the second night I decided to finish work at 7:30pm and join the conference festivities. This was a good call!

There was a conference sit-down dinner – not that usual at a conference – certainly not at a US conference – more a European thing. Wonderful food. Superb wine. Great service. Very nice live music – a 3 piece ensemble. At dinner I sat at a table where I knew no one – and of course in a few minutes the connections were made. I sat with some folks from AI – a new records management ISV for SharePoint – with many of the folks who were originally in Meridio (that was sold to Autonomy – and as you may know Autonomy was sold to HP very recently). A very nice setting to relax and to get to know new people. Lots of praise for the conference organizing team on the week thus far.