| I had the extreme pleasure of speaking at SharePoint Saturday Austin 2012 on the following topic: Top 10 Performance Tips for Making your Public Facing SharePoint 2010 Site Faster Learn how you can make your sites faster with tips directly from the field. After working on over dozens of projects in the past five (5) years, I'd like to share my favorite 25 best practices for SharePoint 2010 deployments. This session will provide an inside look into server performance, browser performance, development performance, discuss why common best practices are important. We'll then go deep into how to get the most from new SharePoint 2010 capabilities including improving server response time, caching options, reducing page weight, testing methodologies and more. Thank you everyone for attending and look forward to hearing from you. |
| I have the fortunate pleasure, while travelling to New York, to present at the New York City Office 365 User Group. Attend this session if you or your organization is considering migrating to Microsoft Office 365. Kanwal Khipple clearly explains the differences between Google Apps and Office 365, as well as compares the benefits, limitations, and costs of Office 365 and Google Apps. Knowing the clear benefits, Kanwal also walks you through how to migrate from Google Apps to Office 365. Learn the best practices and gotchas before you begin your own migration.
Presenter: Kanwal Khipple, Principal SharePoint Architect, BrightStarr
Kanwal Khipple is a Microsoft SharePoint Most Valued Professional (MVP) and a principal SharePoint architect for BrightStarr. He focuses on designing adoptable solutions that use SharePoint. Kanwal lives in Toronto, Canada, and you can find him tweeting, buzzing, and blogging on his personal blog. Connect with him on LinkedIn to learn how you can quickly start getting return on investment for your SharePoint intranet.
About BrightStarr
BrightStarr is the most forward thinking online solution provider working with Microsoft’s Web Technology. We have gained an enviable reputation for providing collaboration and communications solutions within global, international and large national brands. We continue to push the boundaries and raise the bar by providing creative, rich and engaging web solutions that are business focused and user centric.
Our holistic approach to project delivery is underpinned by a first class technical and consulting team that continually strive for best of breed solution whilst managing budgets and clients expectations. Our commitment to innovation and creativity is evident in everything we do. At BrightStarr we build and deliver the best SharePoint solutions. 6:00 PM Networking, Food & Drink 6:30 PM Migrating from Google Apps to Office 365 (Level 200) 7:15 PM QA / Discussion 7:30 PM Door Prizes |
| It’s been a busy few weeks but I always love presenting. Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting on how migrating from Google Apps to Office 365. Whether you are a consultant or a relatively small business – you’ll benefit by attending. 
Attend this session if you or your organization is considering migrating to Microsoft Office 365. Kanwal Khipple clearly explains the differences between Google Apps and Office 365, as well as compares the benefits, limitations, and costs of Office 365 and Google Apps. Knowing the clear benefits, Kanwal also walks you through how to migrate from Google Apps to Office 365. Learn the best practices and gotchas before you begin your own migration. Register for TechNet Webcast: Migrating from Google Apps to Office 365 (Level 200)
Presenter: Kanwal Khipple, Principal SharePoint Architect, BrightStarr
Kanwal Khipple is a Microsoft SharePoint Most Valued Professional (MVP) and a principal SharePoint architect for BrightStarr. He focuses on designing adoptable solutions that use SharePoint. Kanwal lives in Toronto, Canada, and you can find him tweeting, buzzing, and blogging on his personal blog. Connect with him on LinkedIn to learn how you can quickly start getting return on investment for your SharePoint intranet. About BrightStarr
BrightStarr is the most forward thinking online solution provider working with Microsoft’s Web Technology. We have gained an enviable reputation for providing collaboration and communications solutions within global, international and large national brands. We continue to push the boundaries and raise the bar by providing creative, rich and engaging web solutions that are business focused and user centric. Our holistic approach to project delivery is underpinned by a first class technical and consulting team that continually strive for best of breed solution whilst managing budgets and clients expectations. Our commitment to innovation and creativity is evident in everything we do. At BrightStarr we build and deliver the best SharePoint solutions. |
| I have the fortunate pleasure to be speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK 2011. This session is not Development or IT Pro focused. One particular focus of this presentation is to encourage contribution to the session.
UPDATE Nov. 30, 2011: Received an email from SlideShare that this presentation is being talked about on LinkedIn more than anything else on SlideShare right now.
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Practical Tips to Increase SharePoint Adoption #spsuk11
Have you deployed SharePoint but none of your employees are using it? Despite having SharePoint within your organization, end users continue do their work the old fashioned way via email threads, file shares, paper based approval, etc. There is no guarantee that the solution will be adopted. This is the case even if users are involved in every step of your SharePoint solution.
Attend this session, to learn techniques I've used to increase adoption of SharePoint solutions that have become slow or stalled.
The presentation Practical Tips to Increase Adoption slide deck has been uploaded to |
| Halloween, the day once a year that your employees log onto your SharePoint portal and realize that they have been buried alive! Developed by Al Roome from BrightStarr, I'd like to present to you a new theme for SharePoint 2010 "Buried Alive". It is part of my collection of Free themes and master pages that you can download and install on your environment.
I highly recommend you check out Free SharePoint Master Pages for Buried Alive - Halloween Theme and other master pages.
If your organization is using Buried Alive on their intranet portal, please leave a comment below. Would love to chat with you.
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| Thank you to everyone voting for me at TechDays Canada 2011. Because of your votes, I was selected to speak on the following topics: - CLD210 Office 365 versus Google Apps - The Elephant in the Room - Attend this session to learn how Google Apps compares to Microsoft Office 365. This session is a no-nonsense comparison that showcases the pros and cons of each offering. Walk away with knowledge on how you can migrate from Google Apps for Business to Microsoft Office 365 with relative ease. This session will also provide tips and tricks to make the migration smoother.
- CLB272 Practical Tips for Governance of SharePoint - Congratulations, your company has adopted SharePoint! You are now one of the millions of licensed users that are using SharePoint within their organization. In one form or another, many of you are now responsible for maintaining SharePoint. As Uncle Ben said, "With great power comes great responsibility". The same is true for SharePoint. As the adoption of SharePoint increases within your organization, it can get out of control if proper governance is not in place. Attend this session to learn about useful and practical Governance Tips on SharePoint for Everyone. You'll learn about governance in SharePoint-based environments as well as pick up tips to help you effectively implement governance in your organization. This session will also dig into how to leverage out of box components of SharePoint to compliment your governance strategy.
I’ll be presenting both the sessions on October 25th at the Toronto Congress Center. I’m very excited and look forward to meeting you all! |
|  Join Principal SharePoint Architect, Kanwal Khipple, and Riverbed Solutions Manager, Dormain Drewitz, to learn how Riverbed’s industry leading RiOS® and Aptimize software have unique features for optimizing Microsoft SharePoint for improved performance and lower costs.
Microsoft SharePoint provides businesses with a powerful tool for content management, collaboration, and portal development, allowing users from around the globe to share documents and information. Although SharePoint provides a rich suite of team productivity tools, it often requires a centralized store for all business documents. As a result, users working remotely or on the road must access the portal over a WAN and often suffer suboptimal performance. Learn how to: - Accelerate access to SharePoint across the WAN while reducing bandwidth utilization
- Maximize SharePoint search capabilities and enable cross-regional collaboration
- Reduce hardware and management costs by consolidating SharePoint infrastructure
- Optimize your private or public cloud deployment of SharePoint
Register Featured Speakers: Dormain Drewitz
Solutions Manager
Riverbed Technology Dormain Drewitz is a Product Marketing Manager for Solutions and Verticals at Riverbed. She spent over 5 years as a technology investment analyst, closely following IT software companies. She's written and commented extensively on technology trends like cloud computing and desktop virtualization. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles. Kanwal Khipple
Principal SharePoint Architect
BrighStarr Kanwal Khipple is a SharePoint MVP and Principal Architect for BrightStarr. He is a true evangelist and visionary when it comes to SharePoint and provides the business and technical leadership required for delivering successful global SharePoint projects. Kanwal believes that the key to driving business productivity through technology is governance and adoption. As an evangelist and supporter for the SharePoint community where he shares what he learns through his blog and tweets. Connect with him on LinkedIn to learn how you can get the highest ROI for your SharePoint projects. |
| I have a pleasure to present a webinar with Metavis titled Designing SharePoint 2010 for Business Webinar. This webinar will be live on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT. Session Abstract A business owner nowadays needs to be able to attract and engage people to their website. In this session, learn to implement your company’s brand on SharePoint 2010. During this session, we’ll use the right tools to take a design from concept to a fully functioning SharePoint 2010 site. Based on real world experiences, this session is sure to give you some practical tips, tricks, and advice you can use immediately. Learn to leverage SharePoint 2010 tools to customize your experiences, and make them unique. You will be able to take this knowledge and deliver the best end to end experiences to your customers. Registration Link Make sure you register for the webinar. Contest I’ll also be holding a twitter contest during the webinar. Follow me on twitter @kkhipple for more details. |
| How often have you stopped and said thank to someone? I am making an extra effort in my life to thank those that have helped me. This post focuses on all the ways that Microsoft helps me, you and the community. I hope you take the opportunity as well to thank Microsoft and the people within your community. Twice a year Microsoft (through a third-party) conducts a survey to gauge how satisfied IT Pros are with Microsoft. The survey is called “The Global Relationship Study”. The email is sent by “Microsoft Feedback” with the subject line: “Help Microsoft Focus on Customers and Partners”. The results from the survey enable Microsoft to focus on the content they deliver and the way it is delivered. It’s critically important to have people to fill out the survey and even more important to land a message of satisfaction. The key drivers and messaging associated with them are as follows: Help and Resources This is by no means exhaustive, but it should give you a great start when you need to tackle your next IT challenge. Other Resources You May Find Useful - Microsoft Virtual Academy - For Free Training To Help Improve Your IT Skill Set.
- TechNet Evaluation Center - Try some of the latest Microsoft products like Office 365, Windows Intune or System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 for free, before you buy.
- TechNet Newsletter - Sign Up To Receive The Latest IT News and Developments, Product Releases, Expert Insights and Support Services with Microsoft’s complimentary biweekly newsletter for industry professionals.
2) Security – How to Help Keep Your PC Protected Have you ever wondered how you can help keep your PC protected? Whether it’s at work or at home, I’ve been told that it can be hard to make sense of what’s important, which updates should be installed and how best to protect your PC. Microsoft has a resource center for their Monthly updates listed below – it’s something you should check out every second Tuesday of the month. If you prefer to listen to a podcast – they’ve created one that’s easy to listen to and not too technical called Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy. Security Resources Other Resources You May Find Useful - Springboard Series - Your destination for technical resources, free tools and expert guidance to ease the deployment and management of your Windows-based client infrastructure.
- AlignIT Manager Tech Talk Series - A monthly streamed video series with a range of topics for both infrastructure and development managers. Ask questions and participate real-time or watch the on-demand recording.
- Microsoft Virtual Academy - For Free Training To Help Improve Your IT Skill Set.
- TechNet Evaluation Center - Try some of the latest Microsoft products like Office 365, Windows Intune or System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 for free, before you buy.
3) Licensing Simplified – at Home and at Work Have you ever wondered if there’s an easier way to understand licensing, for both home and business use? Whether you need to buy one license from a traditional retail store or explore options for a more flexible volume licensing program, it can be confusing and sometimes downright intimidating to figure out what you need. After doing a little digging – I’ve highlighted some resources you can use to help figure out exactly what you need when you talk with your software reseller. Licensing Resources Other Resources You May Find Useful - TechNet Cloud Hub – Get the latest news and find great resources to help you jump into the Cloud.
- TechNet Evaluation Center - Try some of the latest Microsoft products like Office 365, Windows Intune or System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 for free, before you buy.
- Microsoft Virtual Academy - For free training to help improve your IT skill set.
4) Free Online Training and Resources from Microsoft Have you ever wondered how you can help build your IT skill set? Microsoft has a number of great resources to help you in areas of professional development and access to software. The Microsoft Virtual Academy contains some fantastic FREE online training on hot topics for IT Professionals. Once you’ve stopped by and tried out a course or two — head on over to the Microsoft Eval Center to download copies of their server products to try out in your lab environment. And while you’re at it, check out this free Microsoft Office 365 ebook by Katherine Murray, it shows you how you can use cloud computing to help get more done and help improve ease of collaboration. |
|  I’m honoured to be a SharePoint MVP for the 3rd year in a row! I started my journey with SharePoint in June 2006 with the launch of www.SharePointBuzz.com and have since then been tweeting (@sharepointbuzz, @kkhipple), blogging, organizing and speaking at conferences, co-founding a user group and much much more.
Attending the SharePoint Conference 2011, I have met many members of the community included other SharePoint MVPs and rock stars! Surprisingly enough, I have enjoyed every single minute and I thank Microsoft as well as the SharePoint community for allowing me to be a part of the community. The MVP Award is focused on the contributions an individual over the past year. I hope to continue contributing to the community to make it the best possible! |
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