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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JLearning how to use or better use SharePoint is a constant challenge for all of us and our customers. What should we learn? How should we do it? Is classroom training the way to go? How about video-based material? In this session, long time SharePoint expert, author, trainer, speaker and MVP Rob Bogue discusses his thoughts on the topic as well as discussing approaches to measuring adoption and engaging enterprise IT.

Show Links:
Todd Klindt’s SharePoint ‘netcast’
Rob Bogue’s Blog
Rob on Twitter
The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users
Content Panda

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:58 — 37.1MB)

Join us as Andrew Connell returns to The Moss Show to update us on what’s happening with Apps in SharePoint, especially in Office 365. We’ll be discussing his role in IT Unity, why the App model came about, and how it’s evolved. We’ll also discuss his sample Research Tracker sample project, co-developed with Scot Hillier.

Show Links:
Andrew’s Blog
Andrew on Twitter
IT Unity
Research Tracker Project on GitHub

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:34 — 42.3MB)

In this episode, Karuana Gatimu, Directory of Strategy and Adoption for Microsoft IT, takes us through some of her experience and tips in planning and executing SharePoint adoption and strategy.

Show Links:
Karuana’s Blog
Karuana on Twitter

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:46 — 37.6MB)

IT Unity aims to be a different kind of community – one aimed at bridging all the roles within the enterprise to deliver solutions of all kinds to the business around Microsoft technologies. In this interview, we speak to Dan Holme, a co-founder of IT Unity, and Matthew McDermott, a contributor and content curator, about the vision of this new community and hub about the goals, vision, background and people behind ITUnity.com.

Show Links:
Matthew’s Blog
Matthew on Twitter
Dan’s Website
Dan on Twitter
IT Unity

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:49 — 32.2MB)

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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