Welcome to the homepage for The MOSS Show, a podcast about Microsoft SharePoint technologies recorded and produced by Hilton Giesenow. In time, the show will hopefully become weekly, but for now it’s ad hoc.

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Lou’s been working for a long time in IT in education, and this has included SharePoint for many a year as well. In the episode, he tells us about the amazing work he’s been doing for decades helping his students learn real practical skills, building real solutions for their school and district. His students emerge with a combined theoretical and practical base, well on their way to being IT (and SharePoint) rockstars – find out more in this show!

Show Links:
A Few Good SharePointers – Clip 1
A Few Good SharePointers – Clip 2
A Few Good SharePointers – Clip 3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:36 — 45.1MB)

In preparation for coming out to Share South Africa, Sue Hanley shares her strategic tips on being successful with Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) in your organisation, be it with SharePoint, Yammer or both.

Show Links:
My OneNote Videos on Channel 9
Sue’s Website
Sue’s Blog
Sue on Twitter

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:22 — 16.7MB)

In preparation for coming out to Share South Africa, Erica Toelle shares some of her thoughts and ideas around setting up a SharePoint shared service within your company, handling and prioritising incoming projects, servicing them, roadmapping, and more. We also discuss how this ties into her Governance session at the conference.

Show Links:
The Share Conference
Erica’s Blog
Erica on Twitter
Erica on Slideshare

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:47 — 15.0MB)

In preparation for coming out to Share South Africa, Jasper Oosterveld tells us about some of his favourite Office 365 features including NDA Preview, PowerBI, Office Graph, Oslo, OneDrive for Business and more. We also discuss some cloud challenges, like staging environments, migrations and co-existence.

Show Links:
The Share Conference
Work like a network video
What is SharePoint video
NDA Preview for customers
Office 365 First Release information
Jasper’s Blog
Jasper on Twitter

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:57 — 39.8MB)

The entire web development world seems to have had a love-hate-love-hate relationship with JavaScript over the many years of its existence, and it’s no different in the SharePoint world, albeit a few years behind in many cases. In this episode we speak with many-year industry veteran and long time SharePointer Marc Anderson about his experiences with JavaScript and SharePoint over the years, his wildly successful SPServices library, Single-Page Applications (SPAs) and lots more.

Show Links:
An Interview with Me on DotNetRocks
OneDrive
DotNetRocks JavaScript episode
Marc’s Blog
Marc’s Post that started us talking
Marc on Twitter
SPServices

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11:02 — 48.8MB)

Deploying SharePoint to fit global demands in a way that suits all geographies, Internet connections and features remains a huge challenge, arguably more so in 2013. Join us as we speak with reknowned expert and multi-product SharePoint Master Wictor Wilen to discuss what replication in SharePoint means and doesn’t mean, how to approach it, how to engage customers, and how to achieve aspects of what your end customers need.

Show Links:
An Interview with Me on DotNetRocks
Wictor’s Blog
Wictor on Twitter

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Project Management is very often a key requirement in any SharePoint customer and there are a great many things in the SharePoint space, both out of box and in the Project client and server tools to make this possible. These days, we even have an Office 365 aspect in the form of the recent Project Online. Join us as Dux takes us through PM in SharePoint end to end, looking at all the players in the game and how to choose between them over time.

Show Links:
Dux Raymond Sy’s Typhoon Haiyan Support Program
Dux on About.Me
Dux’s Blog
Dux on Twitter
Teaser on project collaboration w/ SP 2013
Presentation on SP2013 for PM
Presentation on Project Server 2013 for PM
Project Online

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:32 — 36.1MB)

Enterprise Social continues to be a hot topic in the SharePoint space – understanding what the tools are for, how they differ, how and when to choose which one, and how important it is to create a “Social” organisation. Following his visit to South Africa, Christian and I had a follow up chat to discuss these and related topics.

Show Links:
Dux Raymond Sy’s Typhoon Haiyan Support Program
Christian’s blog
Christian on Twitter

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:23 — 36.0MB)

Following the release of his practical guide on the topic, in this episode we hear from Ruven Gotz, well known SharePoint expert, speaker and author about information architecure. Ruven tells us what IA is, some of the key components that are required to achieve it successfully in SharePoint, and some of the tools he uses day to day. We touch on metadata, content types, search, navigation, and more, as well as hear about his planned next book.

Show Links:
Ruven’s blog
Ruven on Twitter
Ruven’s book – Practical SharePoint 2010 Information Architecture
Michelle Caldwell on Twitter
SharePoint Information Architecture Talk (referenced in the show)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:04 — 34.4MB)

In this episode we learn about the various ways that SharePoint has an has not supported multiple languages from version to version, both for team sites and publishing scenarios, how these have changed and improved over the years as well as what’s new with Machine Translation, Multilingual User Interface and more in 2013.

Show Links:
Icefire’s website
XLIFF Overview on Wikipedia
Martin’s slides

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 35:46 — 24.6MB)