The European SharePoint Conference is more than a conference – it is a community organisation whose mission is to support the SharePoint and Office 365 community to excel. Each year ESPC gathers the leading SharePoint and Office 365 thought leaders from around the world in one European location for the largest conference of its kind.

I will be presenting a workshop and 2 sessions:

From the Ground to the Cloud with SharePoint & Business Intelligence

This is a full day pre-conference workshop. SharePoint has long been discussed as a center of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence (MSBI) world. Whether it is the visualizations provided through Excel Services, the reports that can be generated out of libraries, PerformancePoint Services dashboards, and most recently the awesome power of PowerBI, this massive landscape of tools can be difficult enough without the constantly changing nature of Microsoft’s Cloud First, Mobile First commitment.  Join us for a day of demystification around the massively powerful toolsets that make up Microsoft’s Business Intelligence offerings.  You will walk away from this full-day workshop with a working knowledge of the major tools that Microsoft has put at your disposal to drive SharePoint has long been discussed as a center of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence (MSBI) world. Whether it is the visualizations provided through Excel Services, the reports that can be generated out of libraries, PerformancePoint Services dashboards, and most recently the awesome power of PowerBI, this massive landscape of tools can be difficult enough without the constantly changing nature of Microsoft’s Cloud First, Mobile First commitment. Join us for a day of demystification around the massively powerful toolsets that make up Microsoft’s Business Intelligence offerings. You will walk away from this full-day workshop with a working knowledge of the major tools that Microsoft has put at your disposal to drive insights into your business. We will go through installation, configuration, implementation, recommended practices from the field on how to get started with MSBI and but how to manage it, and even what to avoid. This is a day not to be missed!

What’s new in Microsoft Business Intelligence in 2016

There are a number of significant changes to the BI workload in SharePoint 2016. Excel Services has been deprecated, and SQL Server Reporting Services has been significantly enhanced. Power BI is a big factor, but where does it fit? What do all of these changes mean for your new and existing BI investments?

This session will walk through the various changes, and call out the good the bad, and the ugly of these changes. It will highlight what can still be done, what has been enhanced, and what is no longer possible. Finally, it will provide a BI migration strategy for any existing investments.

OneDrive, TwoDrive, White Drive, Blue Drive

OneDrive is the personal cloud storage system from Microsoft. OneDrive is the corporate cloud storage system from Microsoft. OneDrive is the offline file solution for SharePoint. All of these statements are true, so how does it all work? OneDrive for business has undergone significant changes over the last year, and some of these changes have introduced significant confusion.

This session will walk through how One Drive has evolved over the years, and where it is at today. We’ll walk through all of the current configurations for OneDrive, setting up a client and discuss optimal ways of working with it, and provide a few tips and tricks. Finally, we’ll get out the crystal ball and attempt to make a few educated guesses on what’s coming down the road.