Michael Blumenthal, Office 365 MVP
Microsoft 365 Collaboration and Teamwork Leader | Business Productivity Advisor | Employee Experience Architect | M365Chicago Co-Organizer
There’s an old project management adage, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. This is certainly true for deploying Office 365 and more specifically, SharePoint Online, for an organization. Planning involves more than just answering the technical questions Continue reading Why do I need Governance for Office 365?
The SharePoint Azure Office365 User Group has teamed with SharePoint Fest to host a moderated Panel Discussion at SharePoint Fest Chicago. The panel of speakers bring an abundance of insights and thoughts about the future of SharePoint, its capabilities, and resolutions to Continue reading User Group meeting at SharePoint Fest Chicago 2015
I’ve started a List.ly list for all the IT events that I am tracking that are in the Chicago area (with the one exception being Microsoft Ignite, which was supposed to be in Chicago but got moved dk-apotek.com.). Continue reading Chicago area IT Events, Conferences, and User Group meetings in 2016
I’ll be presenting the following talk: ECM 101 – Keys to a Successful Intranet We’ve been building Intranets on SharePoint since 2001. Let’s take a look at what we’ve learned along the way, and discuss best practices for building a Continue reading I’ll be speaking at SharePoint Fest Chicago 2015
Although I have not taken these exams yet myself, here is my advice on preparing for them, based on the numerous other exams I have taken and passed. My general approach is to find a study book, work through it, Continue reading Advice on preparing for Office 365 exams 70-346 and 70-347
This is a follow up to my post about the events in the first half of the year that you can find here. The first half of the year now only has a month and a half left. We’ve just Continue reading 2015H2 IT Events that Chicagoland Developers Must Know About
Last night, I attended an entertaining talk by Uncle Bob Martin at the Schaumburg .NET Users Group. Before his talk, a few attendees announced a few upcoming events. However, there are many more events in 2015, so I got permission from Continue reading 2015H1 IT Events that Chicagoland Developers Must Know About
A client of mine asked me about SharePoint training, and I realized I hadn’t blogged about training for SharePoint Online, only – quite a while ago – about some SharePoint Server end user training. For End User training, you have Continue reading Office 365 and SharePoint Online (“Sites”) Training Resources
A colleague of mine asked me this recently. I realized that the links that I provided recently are great reference information, but if you are just getting started, it’s overwhelming. My suggestion is this: Get yourself access to a SharePoint Continue reading I want to teach myself SharePoint. Where do I start?
InfoPath I attended a class on Document and Records Management this last Thursday and Friday and the instructor recommended the following book for anyone interested in InfoPath Development: Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Continue reading Training/Learning Resources