Month: October 2017

Thank You SPS New England!

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Over the weekend I had the opportunity to speak in Boston at the first annual SharePoint Saturday New England. The entire event was fantastic, I had a really great time and the sentiment from the attendees was very positive.

The organizers even coordinated with the O365 Global Dev Bootcamp to put on an all day SPFx workshop the day before. Bob German and Scot Hillier did a great job introducing everyone to SPFx and all the foundational technologies.

Our Session

Matt Jimison and I presented Getting the Most out of SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP). You can find the slides below.

Our goal was to introduce everyone to what’s in PnP (and to get them to use it), teach them how to stay up to date, and to encourage participation (even just documentation updates or submitting bugs).

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Nearly everyone in the room had heard of some portion of PnP and there were even those that were using one or more parts. However, there wasn’t anyone that was aware of everything available and it’s always nice to give demos where people are visibly impressed (PnP PowerShell was the big winner this time)!

For no real reason at all we decided to make our slides and session be Stranger Things themed and we even gave away Stranger Things action figures (I’ll miss you my babies). I’m pretty sure we convinced people to use PnP AND to go watch Stranger Things. We’re still waiting for Netflix to send us our royalty check and/or a cease and desist letter.

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It was a really great event and the organizers should be really proud! If you missed it, they’ve already announced that the next SPS New England will be on October 20, 2018! Thanks to all the sponsors, organizers, speakers, and attendees! See you next year!

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Join us at SharePoint Saturday New England on October 28th!

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Matt Jimison and I will be presenting Getting the Most out of SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) on Saturday, October 28th, 201 in Boston as part of SharePoint Saturday New England!

Our session is right after lunch at 12:45 pm and we’ll be talking about SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP):

The SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) is an open source initiative coordinated by SharePoint engineering – but what does that mean and why should you care? PnP has tons of tutorials, videos, samples, documentation, and tools (as in amazing, ground-breaking tools). If you haven’t heard of it or if you thought it was just one or two things, you’re doing SharePoint development on hard mode! In this session we’ll dive into what’s available, how to get started, how to stay up to date, and even how to contribute. You’ll leave this session knowing not only what PnP is, but you’ll be ready to start taking advantage immediately! It doesn’t matter if your using On-Premises or Online, you’re sure to learn something new and likely amazing.

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SPS New England is a collaborative effort from the Boston Area, Connecticut, Granite State, and Rhode Island SharePoint Groups. There are a ton of awesome speakers, Chris McNulty will be doing a Microsoft Q&A, and the whole thing is FREE!

Thank You SPS Cincy!

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This weekend I had the pleasure of speaking at SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati. It was a really well organized event with speakers coming from as far away as Chicago, Texas, Georgia, Indiana, Canada, and even England. However, it wasn’t just the speakers willing to travel, there were attendees coming from all over Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and even Tennessee!

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Bill Baer’s Virtual Keynote

Unfortunately, Bill Baer wasn’t able to attend in person (family reasons) but he got up super early and delivered a top notch keynote virtually.

My Session

I presented Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework. You can find the slides below. Here was the outline:

  • Setup Steps 1 & 2
    • Installing NodeJS LTS
    • Installing VS Code
  • SharePoint Development: A Brief History
    • SP 2016 Development Recommendations
    • Office 365 Development Recommendations
  • The Modern Experience
  • Setup Step 3 & 4
    • Installing Yeoman & Gulp
    • Installing the SPFx Generator
  • An Introduction to the SharePoint Framework
    • Client-side Web Parts
    • SPFx Extensions
    • Tool Comparison
    • The SharePoint Workbench
  • Building Your First Client-Side WebPart
    • Running the Generator
    • Trusting the Dev Certificate
    • Exploring the Local Workbench
    • Adding a Custom Property
  • SharePoint Patterns & Practices
    • What’s in PnP (Selective Highlights
    • Staying Up to Date with PnP

If you have any questions about what I presented, or the SharePoint Framework in general, you can comment here or reach out on Twitter anytime. The presentation went over very well and people seemed very excited about using SPFx, whoo whoo!

Resources

You can find my slides here: Getting Started with SPFx – SPSCinci17 (now with embedded fonts!)

Many of these slides are original but several have been adapted from other sources (mostly Ignite).

I had a great time! SPS Cincinnati had great organizers, great sponsors, great speakers, and great attendees! If you missed it, be sure to be on the lookout for it next year.

Join us at Cincinnati SharePoint Saturday on October 14th!

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Matt Jimison and I will be presenting Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) on Saturday, October 14th, 2017 in Cincinnati as part of ScarePoint Saturday (SPS Cincinnati)!

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Bill Baer will be delivering the keynote: SharePoint, OneDrive, and Digital Transformation – and there are a ton of other great speakers (plus it’s free)!

Our session is at 10:40 and will introduce you to the SharePoint Framework (both web parts and extensions). We’ll actually walk you through getting the various tools installed and ready (bring your laptop) so that by the time you leave you’ll know not only what the SharePoint Framework is, what it can do, and when to use it – you’ll be ready to start experimenting immediately!