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IndyTechFest 2010 Presentation ResourcesMay 24

As I mentioned earlier today, this past weekend I was lucky enough to be asked to speak at a local IT conference here in Indianapolis: IndyTechFest 2010.

My presentation was a new topic for me, which made it exciting but also a little “too” exciting, since you never know if you’ve got something down pat until you do it for real the first time. My talk was titled “SharePoint on Imaginary Hardware”, and focused on the advantages and challenges of implementing SharePoint 2007 and 2010 in virtualized or “cloud” environments, or both. It was a bit tricky for me to write since I wasn’t sure how technical the audience was going to be, but I was pleased with how it turned out.

Anyways, I mentioned on Saturday that I would get a post up today with my slides and resources from the talk, so here we are:

Here We Go AgainMay 24

Well, I’m going to be trying to get back into the habit of blogging again, so I’m just going to get a brief post up saying hello and mentioning a couple of items to keep in mind…

First of all, hello! Thanks for checking out my blog, I hope you find the information I’ll be sharing through it to be useful and helpful. If you’re familiar with my previous blog, “SharePoint For the User”, the content I’ll be posting here may seem a little different. It’s still going to be mostly SharePoint-oriented, but while that blog was geared towards End Users, here I’ll be focusing more on SharePoint from the perspective of an Information Technology (IT) Professional and/or Administrator since that’s what I do on a regular basis.

My goal with blogging is to talk about and record information, tips, lessons learned, and problems as I encounter them throughout my work, both to share them with you and save them for myself in I need them again down the road and have overwritten that sector in my own mental hard drive. I may try to do longer ongoing series, but I think its going to be easier for me to generate content and stick with blogging if I try to keep it simple as best I can. I’ll also be posting information on my speaking schedule and resources from my talks as I give them, so keep an eye out for that as well. (There also may be a BBQ post or two, just as a break to the IT-monotony)

Finally, my volume may be a little slow here at first, becaus