In the lead-up to the Share conference, Marius Botha from TFG, a large national South African retail group, tells us about their journey with SharePoint and some of the important lessons they learned along the way on governance, UI, change management, and more.
Show Links:
Marius’ About.Me Page
Marius’ Blog
Mariuson Twitter

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In this episode we catch up with well known SharePoint expert, author, comedian and fellow podcaster, Todd Klindt to discuss podcasting, movies, Star Wars, Highlander, PowerShell, SQL, and SharePoint in the Cloud. Could you ask for more?!?
Show Links:
Todd’s Blog
Todd’s ‘Netcast’
Todd on Twitter
Todd’s new book

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In this episode we talk with well known SharePoint personality Tobias Zimmergren about the history of SharePoint development and his experiences over the years compiling WSPs, debugging, working with the community and eventually Microsoft tools and finally coming to Apps in SharePoint 2013.
Show Links:
Tobias’ Blog
Tobias on Twitter

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In this episode we meet Mark Kashman, a Senior Program Manager on the SharePoint team overseeing SharePoint Online as well as Microsoft’s new mobile apps for Windows Phone, iOS and eventually Android. Mark takes us through some of SharePoint’s history on mobile platforms, 2013’s take on things and where the new apps fit in.
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Mark [...]

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Ahead of Sue’s trip to the Share Conference in South Africa, we had a chat about knowledge management, Communities in SharePoint 2013, gamification, and the new ‘Share’ feature in SharePoint 2013 together with the governance issues it raises.
Show Links:
Sue on Twitter
Sue’s Website
Sue’s Blog
Essential SharePoint 2010 (Sue’s Book) (free chapter)
Essential SharePoint 2013 (Sue’s Latest Book – [...]

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In preparation for his upcoming Share Conference session, in this episode we dive into the Social side of SharePoint with Jeff Willinger from RightPoint. Jeff explains some key points about why Social is important, how to put it in place and how to see the results.
Show Links:
Share Conference – South Africa
Jeff’s Profile at RightPoint
Jeff’s on [...]

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SharePoint is a vast product with many moving parts touching on a wide base of an organisation. In addition, it can be used in such different environments, setups and company sizes and types, which serve to make planning for an recovering from a disaster an interesting challenge. But, before we look at DR we need [...]

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SharePoint is a vast product with many moving parts touching on a wide base of an organisation. In addition, it can be used in such different environments, setups and company sizes and types, which serve to make planning for an recovering from a disaster an interesting challenge. But, before we look at DR we need [...]

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In this episode we meet Stefan Gossner, a well-known Senior Escalation Engineer on the SharePoint team. Stefan explains what an escalation engineer is, and the many ways Microsoft deals with customer problems from initial discovery, to verification, debugging, fixing and ultimately patching with hotfixes and service packs.
Show Links:
What’s new for developers in SharePoint 2013
Chris O’Brian [...]

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In this episode we chat with Peter Ward and Michael McCabe, two long-standing ECM practitioners, about their book, their histories and perspectices on Lotus Notes and SharePoint, and the Cloud. We even discuss the death-knell of SharePoint!
[Update] Shortly after our interview, Michael moved from Microsoft over to Gig Werks in NYC.
Show Links:
Peter & Michael’s Book [...]

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