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Session with Bill Bear and Rick Taylor about all things hybrid. Here are my notes: Hybrid Scenarios Bill started with hosting scenarios from traditional, private and public cloud options: If you are in doubt check if there is a bigger company in your area that moved to the cloud Business Needs Different view to meet business needs is to look at the time to deliver: and your application needs: dynamic scale required?

Session with Mark Kashmann (@mkashman) and Adam Harnetz (@adamharnetz) about whats coming for SharePoint intranets especially in regards to mobile. Here are my session notes: Customer usecase: Delta Delta has 500 content creators; previously it was only posible to do that 80.000 employees, entire user base is 260.000 with externals. Mobile is increasing Replaced legacy technology Delta is now starting to move to O365 SharePoint Online, but starts with OneDrive

My clients currently use OneDrive for Business quite a lot and there are still some rough edges – I hope in that session we get some insights what is coming soon. Here are my brief notes: Rock Solid Sync The robustness of sync has greatly increased (I share that experience). Mobile Experience The mobile experience has greatly increased, 4+ star rating in all app stores. Android and iOS app usage is high.

Watch out, I am attending a developer session! Mainly because Scott Hanselman is the speaker and I totally love his style. Developers! This session will give us a broad overview of all the new things for devs - so we start with the current options of Visual Studio: 12.7 Mio downloads of Visual Studio 2 Mio Visual Studio Code 4 Mio users of Visual Studio Team Services Demo 1: Modernization Porting sounds boring, modernization is a cooler word for it.

Satya Nadella on the stage again, this time talking about the current vision of Microsoft. Digital Transformation Satya starts to give an idea of AI in context of digital transformation. Create more personal computing, build the intelligent cloud, reinvent productivity & business processes! The four core pillars for the “AI democratisation” for Sataya are: Agents, Applications, Services and Infrastructure. Demo: Intelligent Agent - Cortana Cortana will be more integrated, LinkedIn integration, reminders based on emails, health insights, integration into the action center of windows 10, add items to wunderlist, intelligent sticky notes.

The session by Jeff Teper will show us whats coming for SharePoint! Expectations are always highest. Here we go, Jeff enters the stage: SharePoint ecosystem is healthy - we saw that slide already at May, 4th event: And now a very good overview slide of SharePoint and whats it good for: Session Scope In this sessions 4 major areas will be covered: Simple and powerful file sharing Mobile and intelligent Intranet Open & Connected Platform Security, privacy and compliance Let’s start: OneDrive New sync options Access all files Mobile app improvements Better file preview Deeper Office integration OneDrive file activity The last point is Jeff’s favorite - who changed what file recently is really helpful!

Microsoft Ignite 2016 - Atlanta, Georgia - Philips Arena, 09:00 AM PDC Welcome to my almost live coverage of the Ignite 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. Two years ago I attended the very last SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas and crafted 30 blog posts - and got good feedback afterwards. So well, this year I aim at 20 posts - lets see how it goes. Please excuse typos, I do fast releases!

Recently my colleagues and I created a lot of SharePoint provider-hosted addins - in our case that is just a MVC Website hosted on Azure that talks balk to SharePoint. And I have to say it is good fun because we could actually debug a production site/business application in case something unforeseeable happens (aka. bugs). And the integration in Visual Studio via the Cloud Explorer could not be simpler. Right click on the website, attach debugger and see the problem.

On June, 6th 2016 we have met at Alegri in Munich to have our very own Enterprise Productivity & Search meetup. This time David Hollembaek talked about Usage Analytics and how to easily gain insights by using Azure Application Insights. We had ~10 attendees, great questions and lots of fun. Usage Analytics Dave told us how easily it is to setup App Insights and add it to a page to track events.

Some quick notes (more a braindump) about the last SharePoint User Group in Munich (6/14/2016) with Samuel Zuercher. Samuel was apparently a little sick, but still presented remotely! That was one of the funniest User Group in a while, I had good fun and Samuel delivered some solid info about SharePoint 2016 hybrid story. Hybrid Overview by Samuel Zuercher Start with OneDrive Shared with me does not work with mixed content.