JeffDeVerter on July 30th, 2011

Michelle had me take this pic as we walked home tonight from The Prince Arthur – our neighborhood Pub. That’s right – after six weeks living and working in England we can say we have a neighborhood pub that we call our own. We’ve gotten to know Windsor as “locals” while I have worked here. [...]

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JeffDeVerter on July 29th, 2011

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE [This is a post I published at work today...] I have been over here in the UK launching Rackspace’s SharePoint support for the past 6 weeks and today is my last day here in the office.  As a token of the team’s appreciation they bestowed upon me [...]

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JeffDeVerter on June 21st, 2011

I would imaging that as this trip progresses, posts during the week will be dramatically shorter or non-existant on some days given the fact that – well – I’m just going to work. What “post worthy” is my commute to work is now by train – for the first time in my life. I really [...]

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JeffDeVerter on May 31st, 2011

In this video Grant Paisley (SQL MVP) of Angy Koala and I talk about PowerPivot inside of SharePoint 2010. Grant has been doing some great work in this space. Grant is also coming off his first year to present at TechEd – Contrats to Grant! PS: Sorry about the audio quality – we didn’t chose [...]

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JeffDeVerter on May 25th, 2011

Chris Schwab of FPWeb and I sit down to visit about some of the decision points that companies have to go through when considering SharePoint.  As you will hear, it’s not just about having one option anymore (on premise or off premise).  The governance decisions work their way down to individual document classifications.  

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JeffDeVerter on January 27th, 2011

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/27/microsofts-surface-becomes-the-worlds-biggest-remote-control-f/

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JeffDeVerter on November 15th, 2010

The behemoth that has become SharePoint is riddled with layers of complexity providing an endless array of options for specialization within the product.  My own journey began in the same location as many of you – a SharePoint End-User. Like many of you (as you sit there reading a geeky SharePoint blog) I was not [...]

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JeffDeVerter on November 15th, 2010

For years so many people have struggled to understand SharePoint licensing.  Well with the advent of SharePoint 2010 Microsoft has authored a WEB page that makes the different scenarios understandable (who know)! http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Licensing-Details.aspx If you have any questions about how to license SharePoint, take a look at the above link.  One major change/clarification I found [...]

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JeffDeVerter on August 15th, 2010

Download now or watch on posterous IMG_0010.mov (16328 KB) Tonights burger grilling session was done as recommended by Adam Perry Lang style. This means they were first grilled over the coals (note the char marks). While that was going on (and before) I was grilling onions in Extra Virgin Olive Oil seasoned with fresh pepper [...]

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JeffDeVerter on August 12th, 2010

The Rackspace SharePoint team will be live on Slashdot (www.slashdot.com) answering your sharepoint questions today at 12:00 central.  Come on over!

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