SharePoint Fest rocks! I found that out when I first presented at the Chicago conference last year. Things that impressed me the most: Focus on the locality (lots of Chicagoland based folks attended) Great content and speakers Nicely organized This conference was professionally arranged and executed. There were no networking or scheduling issues that I noticed and I heard great comments from attendees afterwards. This conference was successful in providing great content to the folks who were just not satisfied enough with the content at SharePoint Saturdays and local user groups (no offense to either since they both do the …

Title: Build SharePoint 2013 Composite Solutions – all you need is a Browser! Abstract: The possibilities are limitless when building SharePoint solutions using just the internet browser. The simple and intuitive interface makes it very easy to create robust applications. In this session, you will learn how to use the SharePoint 2013 framework of lists, libraries, pages, web parts and even apps to build powerful SharePoint solutions. Time Slot: Thursday, November 15, 2012 -  12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Room: Jasmine ABEF Session Code: SPC027   As always, my hope is going to be to show you as much as …

SPTechCon is a conference that I have recommended to many people in the past. This is one of those conferences that caters to the whole spectrum of SharePoint users – End Users, Power Users, Administrators and Developers. There is certainly something for everyone here! I personally have presented several times at this conference and am planning to do my sessions at the July 2012 conference as well: If you are deciding on a SharePoint conference this summer, my vote is to look into attending this one! If and once you do decide, you can use the following coupon code to …

In case you are wondering where Berchtesgaden is, here is a map for it: http://g.co/maps/mpu7w (not far from Salzburg, Austria) Lots of great SharePoint and SQL sessions are planned for the event. If you are in that area, come and join us

If you or anyone you know is going to SharePoint Connections conference on March 26 to 29 2012 in Vegas, use the coupon code Asif to get $100 off the price of the conference. If you have already paid for the conference, sorry, I can’t help get a refund . Here’s the URL for the conference: http://www.devconnections.com/shows/sp2012/default.aspx?s=186

I usually get asked for my slide decks after my conference presentations so I recently started using the SlideShare service to start sharing the slide decks. The slide decks up there are from the sessions I delivered at SharePoint Connections Amsterdam last week. Hope these are helpful to those of you who can use it. Also, if you need to access the environment that I use for my demonstrations, I have that hosted at CloudShare. It’s a completely pre-built environment with all the SharePoint and Office software you need to get going plus it has my demonstrations on Workflows, Business …

All slide decks from my presentations at SharePoint Connections Amsterdam 2011 have now been uploaded to SlideShare here: http://www.slideshare.net/asifrehmani Hope they are helpful!

Update: All session videos have been removed by Microsoft. No idea why.. Many of the SharePoint Conference 2011 recordings have been posted to YouTube by Microsoft at their sharepointconference channel. I was very happily surprised to see that. These recordings are complete sessions (many of them over an hour) and not small snippets of 15 minutes or less like many of the other YouTube videos. In the description of the video, it states the session title, code, speaker name, level of presentations, abstract and even which room it too place in at the conference center. Wow!  

SharePoint Connections Fall 2011 is underway this week in Las Vegas. Lots of great sessions planned for the week. 15 sessions will be presented by Critical Path Training trainers altogether and there is also a couple of book signings planned for Scot H. and I in the evening. Stop by the CPT booth for more information. Here are the sessions that I’ll be presenting: HNC01: Make the Best use of SharePoint Designer 2010 HNC03: Create SharePoint Library forms using SharePoint 2010 HOF03: Office 365: Customize SharePoint Online with SharePoint Designer 2010

SharePoint Connections conference is coming back to Amsterdam once again. Register before Oct 14 to save 100 Euros. Also, there is a special 50% discount offered for students. http://www.nccomms-events.com/sharepointconnections I’m honored to be presenting the following sessions at the conference: Using SharePoint Designer 2010 in the ‘Real World’ SharePoint Designer is an Awesome product. However, do you know how to use it to the best of its capability? I’ll be happy to show it to you in this session.   Create SharePoint Library Forms Using InfoPath 2010 The Form Library in SharePoint is there to host InfoPath forms much like …