In less than a month the next SharePoint Conference goodness in the Netherlands is coming up: SharePoint Connection in Den Haag (or the Hague for most non-Dutch). The conference will be on September 28th and 29th in the World Forum. It will be another great conference with exciting sessions and great speakers. You can find the complete details about the conference and a list of all speakers and sessions on http://www.devconnections.com/speurope/. I will be presenting three sessions myself: Overview of What's New in SharePoint 2010 for IT Professionals In this introductory overview session...

The SharePoint Best Practices Conference in Washington is over and I had a great time. I’m back home now, still jetlagged, I will use the weekend to try and get over that. I was one of the keynote speakers, which was a first for me. I really liked doing the keynote with 4 of my fellow Microsoft Certified Masters, Tom Resing, Chris Beckett, Brian Culver and Spencer Harbar. I hope we will get more chances like this where we can promote the MCM Program in the SharePoint world. I also sat on the development panel...

It has been a bit quiet over the last few weeks here, while I was in Redmond, undertaking the SharePoint 2010 Microsoft Certified Master training. I’m back now, so I hope you enjoyed the silence while it lasted…   DIWUG eMagazine While I was hiding in Redmond, Marianne finished the work on the second DIWUG eMagazine. A big heads-up for Marianne for taking on a lot of the work on her own for this one. The magazine has turned out great again, with a lot of very cool SharePoint articles: Web...

I had the honour of speaking at the SharePoint Evolution Conference this year. The original plan was to fly to London on Saturday afternoon and to present on “Using SharePoint search to develop custom solutions” on Wednesday. Because of the infamous volcanic ash cloud that Iceland so kindly send in our (or basically in every) direction things worked out a little bit differently. On the Saturday afternoon I took the train from Rotterdam Central Station to Brussels Midi and from Brussels Midi I took the Eurostar train to London St. Pancras. I must say that this wasn’t an...

I know it’s been a while since the conference, but I still wanted to write a short wrap up. The conference was great. It was sold out, another sign of the fact that SharePoint is a booming business and people love to hear about what’s new in SharePoint 2010. The goal of the conference was to redeliver some of the content from the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas in October. Since this one only lasted two days it was impossible to cover all the content, but overall I think there was a lot of great content...