Office Zealot

I'll be presenting on ''Digital Marketing, SharePoint, and FAST - Perspectives from the trenches” at an event hosted by Aditi on December 1st in Waltham.  This is an encore presentation following an informative and well attended event in NYC earlier this month.  For those sales and marketing folks thinking about rebranding your corporate ...

Last week, I took (and passed) two SQL Server 2008 certification exams (Business Intelligence Development and Implementation and Maintenance).  It was almost 12 years to day from my first Microsoft certification exam.  I mentioned this to a friend and he asked how I could possible stay active enough in the newest technologies to continue ...

It was interesting to read the announcement of the Microsoft Search Roadmap that came out of FASTForward last week.  As someone who has strong ties to SharePoint and equally strong interest in enterprise search, I am extremely pleased.  It was five years ago when I wrote my first article on search and SharePoint (SPS2003 at the ...

Today at the Fast forward conference Microsoft announced their product roadmap for enterprise search. It includes two new products to be released with the Office 14 wave. The first is FAST search for SharePoint which is basically FAST ESP 5.3x tuned and integrated with SharePoint and targeted for use inside the enterprise. It will be included as ...