Wow… It’s been a crazy summer. The chaos started back in May when I began hardcore preparations for the SP2010 Upgrade rotation. This was followed by the actual rotation itself in early June. Shout out to my U2 buddies out here! So the rotation training was fantastic but the testing didn’t work out as well …
Category Archive: General
Sep
28
May
26
I Haven’t Forgotten About You!
Blog Reader: Hey Russ… What gives? You haven’t written any blog entries lately? Russ: Yeah man. I’ve been slammed with FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 install / configurations, baseball games for my boys, prepping for speaking engagements, and most of all, studying for my MCM 2010 upgrade which is coming up in June. Blog Reader: …
Feb
04
Calling all Workflow Developers…
In my previous post, I suggested that I don’t like to plug KnowledgeLake on my personal blog because I want this blog to be neutral in order to best serve the SharePoint community. In regard to my technical posts, I will always strive to maintain this neutrality. But this is not a technical post! So I’m going to make an …
Feb
03
European SharePoint Best Practices Conference: April 11-13
I am honored to once again be invited to speak at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London. The conference is being held from April 11th to the 13th Last year a pesky little volcano in Iceland completely wrecked international travel between the US and Europe for several week. God willing, the volcano will …
Oct
24
SPC2009 Decompression
Well, here I am, 24 hours past the SPC2009 ride. Now I feel like I’m on a long slow decompression ascension (lame scuba reference) to the public launch of SP2010 next year some time. Now that the SP2010 veil is lifted, I’m finally free to talk about some incredible new SP2010 features that are abslutely CLUTCH for scaling SharePoint …
Oct
14
SP2010 Coming Out Party!
I’ll talk about the SharePoint 2009 conference in a sec, but a few have been asking where I been the last couple months? Well, I’ve been grinding on a huge solution implementation for a gigantic customer that unfortunately must remain nameless. It will be the largest SharePoint based document imaging system that I’ve had the pleasure …
Jul
28
Microsoft Certified Master – SharePoint 2007
So back in March, I blogged on the SharePoint Master (MCM) program. It was an amazing experience. Unfortunately, even though I did pass the grueling qualification lab, I only passed 2 of 3 written tests on the first pass. Well, I just knocked out my retake and the results are in…. PASS! It really has …

