This year again I have the opportunity to speak at the SPS New England.

I’ll give a speech about “Improving DevOps using Microsoft’s Business Productivity Tools and more” and I’ll be co-presenting the session with my friend Haniel Croitoru.

We’ll explore together how DevOps practices impact and improve solutions delivery for your customers and for the best. With real life scenarios and experience for the field we’ll show you how you can get started and what to expect out of it.

I am delighted to announce I have been selected to speak at the European SharePoint Conference 2018. This event will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark from the 26th to the 29th of November.

I will be speaking about “Migrate your custom components to the SharePoint Framework”.

“It’s the 3rd model Microsoft has come with to customize SharePoint in less than 5 years. You may still have add-ins/apps or even solutions running in production and you’re asking yourself what to do about all that?

I Have the pleasure to announce I have been selected to speak at SPS Pittsburgh 2018.

I’ll give a speech about the graph “How to do Dev-Ops with the SharePoint Framework and why it matters”.

Together we’ll see why it’s important to follow the DevOps processes, methodologies, and philosophy and how to implement it for the SharePoint Framework with Visual Studio Team Services (or TFS). Go from the original idea to production automating as much as possible!

SharePoint Fest Seattle 2018 is happening from August 20th to 24th. This event will feature 2 days pre-conference workshops and 3 days of conference. You can find more information about it on the website. I’ve been selected amongst 74 other speakers (including people from Microsoft product teams!!) to present this year two sessions:

AZR203 - Azure Functions In The Real World: Lessons Learned & Best Practices

“Azure Functions is one of the most powerful new solutions provided by Microsoft. Customers are leveraging it, and it has generally been available for a year now quietly delivering value across hundreds of projects. Many of you are probably asking yourself questions like “are functions mature enough?” or “are they production ready?” or even “is the right tooling here yet?” when considering this option for your projects.”

I Have the pleasure to announce I have been selected to speak at SPS Charlotte 2018.

I’ll give a speech about the graph “How to do Dev-Ops with the SharePoint Framework and why it matters”.

Together we’ll see why it’s important to follow the DevOps processes, methodologies, and philosophy and how to implement it for the SharePoint Framework with Visual Studio Team Services (or TFS). Go from the original idea to production automating as much as possible!

I must admit I’ve not been on page lately for the blog posts. However, I had the privilege (among other great speakers) to present during the Microsoft Graph Community call for the month of June.

Microsoft Graph Community calls are online webinar organized by the Microsoft Graph Team. The Team usually presents announcements and then allows time for community speakers to presents discoveries, real life solutions and lessons learnt with the Microsoft Graph. Those call are free to attend and if you’re not already registered, here is all the information you need.

Last week I had the honor to be a guest on the Microsoft 365 Dev Podcast hosted by Jeremy Thake and Paul Schaeflein.

It was the second time I was invited on a podcast (the first one being in French about devops), this is a fun exercise where the content is delivered as a discussion between the hosts and the guests.

During this episode we discussed about two main topics:

• The Microsoft Graph open extensions (currently starting a project using those at 2toLead)
• The Calendar capabilities in the Microsoft Graph (and I shared a few tricks that might interested you if you plan on using those APIs)

I’d like to thank Jeremy and Paul for giving me this opportunity and for the good conversations.

Renewed as MVP and changed category

I have the pleasure to announce I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP, for the fifth year in a row (time flies, I’m getting old). A slight change this time, my award is Office development.

Over the years I’ve been a SharePoint MVP, an Office Servers and Services MVP and now an Office development MVP.

Originally Microsoft had it’s MVPs organized by products, which made a lot of sense in a on premises world which required a deep knowledge in something very specific. Also, it allowed MVP’s to be connected directly with the teams at Microsoft on their product. However, over the last decade the industry transitioned to a cloud first model and somebody who was working with SharePoint (or Exchange, Skype…) is most likely to be working with Office 365 at large (and some Azure as well). A couple of years ago (3?) Microsoft decided to reorganize the MVP program to have award categories (Azure, Office servers and services, Visual Studio and Team Services…) which regroup contribution areas (e.g. OSS: SharePoint, Exchange, Office 365, …)

This year again I have the opportunity to speak at the SPS NYC.

I’ll give a speech about “Migrate your custom components to the SharePoint Framework”.

Together we will see how you can transition from either the server-side object model or the add-ins development fashions to the modern SharePoint Framework approach. This session is mostly meant for developers and technical architects who are curious about getting started on the new model and that might have legacy applications.

This year again I have the privilege to be part of the organizing committee for SharePoint Saturday Montréal 2018 taking place June the 2nd at Cégep du vieux Montréal.

It’s free, it’s the occasion to learn a lot, not only about SharePoint but also about Office 365 and Azure.

This year in a few numbers:

• 25 sessions (in English and French)
• 1 Keynote by the Great Serge Tremblay
• 16 Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional)
• 1 MSP (Microsoft Student Partner)
• 5 MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainers)
• 9 partners
• 200 attendees (planned)

Besides the content, it’s also the occasion to develop your network, eat some Schwartz (smoked meat) and “SharePint” (Share a pint) !