Office 365 Saturday Adelaide - 2018 September 15

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So it is said - there's always a SharePoint or Office 365 Saturday every Saturday around the world.

 


O365 Saturday Adelaide / SPS Saturday Adelaide

In less than two weeks, we'll converge in Adelaide Australia for September 15 2018 SharePoint and Office 365 Saturday.

This is a free event (held at Microsoft Adelaide this year) for Office 365 and SharePoint experts, developers, admin and powerusers to converge and talk about Office 365.

https://www.meetup.com/O365-Saturday/events/254139366/

This year I'm presenting an ever evolving talk around Microsoft Flow and what it can (and SharePoint's old Workflow platform can't do).

Hope to see you in Adelaide!

A small favour - share this with two people

Every year we reach out and people that come to the event tells us it's a great event but they wish they know about it earlier.  So here's our small ask:

If you are in Adelaide, please come, and please tell two other colleagues about this.
If you aren't in Adelaide - but you have colleagues in Adelaide, please tell them about this event.

 

 

 

Speaking and Hackathon at Digital Workplace Conference Australia - Melbourne

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In a little less than a month on August 15-16, I'll be presenting in Melbourne at the Digital Workplace Conference Australia 2018.  

www.dwcau.com.au

(I still fondly remember this conference as the previously annual Australian SharePoint Conference - but all things evolve.  SharePoint to SharePoint Online to Office 365, and the workplace evolved from portals to intranet to social platforms to conversational platforms).

Flow and Functions: level up our Serverless Toolkit in Office 365

I will be presenting an amped up talk covering the implementation and automation with Microsoft Flow and Azure Functions.  This is one of several sessions on Microsoft Flow at this conference so I will be covering implementation and mastery at level 200+  (But because it's Flow, it'll still look deceivingly simple!)


John join forces with Paul Culmsee and Ashlee at #DWCAU pre-conf hackathon

I want to also mention that I'm helping out with Paul Culmsee and Ashlee's PowerApps and Flow Workshop/Hackathon on 14 August 2018

http://www.dwcau.com.au/workshops/powerapps-hackathon/

I personally don't know how much PowerApps and Flow raw potential would be in that room in the hackathon.  I really want to find out and I hope you would too.  Space for this is limited - please consider this one day pre-conference workshop.

"Learn PowerApps and Flow from experts and build an app that you need." says John.

"Two MVPs for the price of one" says Paul.  I'll just leave this here.

Whether at the conference, and/or the hackathon, I hope to see you there in Melbourne.

Office 365 Saturday Canberra 2018 #O365CBR #SPSCBR

This Saturday - 14 July, we'll be converging on SharePoint and Office 365 Saturday Canberra.  I'm planning to take my time and drive down for the weekend.

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https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/O365-Saturday/events/252110689/ 

The event is held at Microsoft office this time (so not at the previous Clifton's venue).  We will be covering a mix of Office 365, modern SharePoint, and security topics.

I'll be around all day as well - ask me anything about SharePoint, Flow, PowerApps, Office Development, Todo, Xbox and everything!

I believe we have an Xbox One and a bunch of swag to give away too!  But you are definitely coming for the wide range of content and topics, and definitely not for the swag.

We hope to see you there!

 

Building a tool to help everyone with Flows: Flow Studio

So, I've been head-down, deep building a tool to help everyone make better Microsoft Flows

It doesn't have many bells and whistles, it is still in very early alpha.  But it will help makers navigate the Flows we build, and I'm rapidly adding tools to the toolset.  There are near endless ideas of where this can go.

So far, getting a lot of feedback from a few colleagues, I'd love to get more feedback, say from a dozen users.

This app is called Flow Studio, the code name is Kunai (a Ninja dagger, because it helps us slice and dice / sort and filter).

A public alpha version is hosted on Azure Blob Storage and AzureFunctions.  

https://flow-studio.azurewebsites.net/welcome

Please tell me about the bugs, but also tell me about what awesome ideas you'd like to see.

Crazy Version History:

  • 0.0.17 (not yet released) Duplicate Flow
  • 0.0.16 IndexDB caching, remembers settings now
  • 0.0.15 fix URL for run
  • 0.0.14 update to Angular 6
  • 0.0.13 Edit JSON (exercise in opening and saving Flow Definition)
  • 0.0.12 Disable/Enable Flow
  • 0.0.10 ...nested grid, layout, dialog, building out different services, auth, usual headaches

I figure it's the third day of SharePoint Conference North America and it's as good time as any to push this baby into the public.

Please let me know what you think of this.

 

 

If anyone asks is Microsoft still investing in SharePoint - show them this.

I was attending an MVP community event, and a few non-office MVPs asked me, hey is Microsoft still investing in SharePoint?  Is there anything new coming next?  There hasn't been a product for a few years right?  (This is so odd, we just had SP2016...  and SPO hasn't stopped having new features every month.)

I was also working at a client when one of our advanced users rushed over and asked John - what's going on with this new Teams thing - is Microsoft scrapping SharePoint.  (I was pretty shocked at this one).

Realizing that I'm probably directly connected to the flood of news regarding SharePoint - it is surprising people aren't aware of many of the best and greatest of SharePoint is still to come.  I decided to write this post.

April - SP Tech Con (lastest info as of this post)

This is the latest info as of this post.  Follow Mark Kashman - PM SharePoint. 

This was the SPTechCon keynote. 
https://www.slideshare.net/markkashman/reinventing-content-collaboration-the-future-of-sharepoint-is-now-sptechcon-austin-ms-keynote

 

Feburary - Internal Demo Day

Is there still a SharePoint team?  YES - and they are legion.

Directly from Jeff Teper the father of SharePoint

May - What's next?

2017 May 16 is the SharePoint Virtual Summit.  This is the big one.  Especially if we look back to 2016's May the 4th event when we first embarked on the next step of the Future of SharePoint, and now we see what the team has delivered within just one year.  It's been nothing but awesome. 

So no matter where you are in the world - you should register for the Virtual Summit.

In Australia

The Office 365 Saturday is upon us really soon.  The annual free community event will be coming to a city near you!  You need to sign up.  This helps us plan our catering needs.