SharePoint 2007 SP2 – Read before deploying. If you deployed it, read this article.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx

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A friend looking for an opportunity in the Washington DC Metro area.

Good Morning Everyone.

 

Karen Stuart is a friend of mine looking for an opportunity to utilize her skills in Retail Management, Project Management or Business Analysis. She would like to continue to work in the Washington DC metro area and could travel up to 50% of the time if required. She would prefer not to relocate at this time. She has quite an extensive background in all aspects of retail management, but could also easily apply those skills and experience to other industries and be very successful. If you have positions available or clients that could utilize Karen’s extensive management experience, please feel free to contact her directly. Her contact information is on her resume. If you could also do me a favor and pass her resume to other peers or recruiters in your network, I would very much appreciate it.

 

Please email Karen directly if you would to see her resume. Her email address is o2inspire@yahoo.com.

 

Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this post.

 

E.

New Availability Blog

I created a new availability blog so that I can capture dates that I am booked for project work, on vacation or just not available for travel. Please utilize this blog for tracking and scheduling my time. This was the quicked way I could come up with to communicate this information. The link is below:

Availability Blog: http://myavailability.wordpress.com/

 

If you have any question, please let me know.

 

Thanks.

 

E.

2009 is here! Happy New Year!

Hi all,

2008 has been quite a year. A ton of ups and downs, but overall, not too bad of a year. Made a number of great new friends and had the opportunity to work on several very cool projects. 2009 is going to be busy, but busy is good compared to the alternative. I’m already booked up with projects through February 13th (and I do believe it is a friday too) and I hope to keep filling my schedule up.

Happy New Year to you all and I hope 2009 is a great year for you too!

E.

Merry Christmas Friends and Family

Hi All,

I just wanted to wish my friends, my family, business partners and everyone else a very Merry Christmas. Please be safe in your travels wherever that may take you.

Warmest Wishes and God’s Blessings.

E.

Great Time and Awesome People in Kalispell, Montana…

It’s Saturday 12/13 and I’m getting packed to come home from my trip to Kalispell, Montana. I was involved with the design and implementation of the SharePoint infrastructure for a client up here. I also had the opportunity to share some of my knowledge while training a group of great people who have been tasked with supporting the new infrastructure.

It was a very exciting project as I had the opportunity to work with a number of very talented and intelligent engineers from Project Leadership Associates (based in Chicago, IL) and from the client as well.

I completely enjoyed the experience here and we are planning a family vacation to go back to Kalispell and visit some of the beautiful sites up here. We may even take a run for the border and check out a bit of Canada.

So, thank you Tim B. Michael C, Mike, Sid, Scott, Shannon, Chad, Darren, Stacey, Joe, Takaski, Jose, Dave D, Michael B, Sampath, Dave F, Jose G, Don P and everyone else who gave me the opportunity to work on such a cool project. I also don’t want to forget to thank the Kalispell officer who pulled me over for giving a slow-moving Kalispell resident a big Chicago HELLO. I will add it to my collection of other memorialbilia from police officers around this great nation of ours.

I also want to give a shout out to the friendly people at the Red Lion Hotel there on Main Street in Kalispell. MT.

Its 11:49pm Mountain Time, which means it 12:49am Sunday Morning in KC and I still have not packed a darn thing up. It was an awesome experience and I hope I have another opportunitity to work with these fine folks (that’s the KC in me) again.

Take care my friends in Kalispell, please keep in touch and I’ll see you again soon!

E.

Hello from Kalispell, Montana!

Hi Everyone!

Greetings from Kalispell, Montana. Tonight the expected low is going to be -25 degrees with a high tomorrow of a balmy2 degrees. Time to dig out the sunscreen and shades! We are expected to be dumped on with a unknown amount of snow between tomorrow and Saturday afternoon. I hope the people I work with up here who are going home tomorrow and Saturday make it out of here safely and arrive home on time. The hours are long and the timeline is brutal, but the client is excellent and the mountains surrounding the whole area are absolutely beautiful. What more can you ask for — long work days, awesome technologies, great client, beautiful scenery! I have been having a blast up here.

Anyway, I have a friend who is looking for a Project Management or Business Analyst position in the Kansas City metro area (both Missouri and Kansas sides).  So, what can I say about her…

- Hard working and dedicated to successfully completing any initiative

- Easy to work with and an absolutely terrific person

- Confident and energetic 

- Well liked and respected by her peers

- Excellent management, analytical and organization skills

- Capable of taking on any challenge and completing it successfully

- Overall, just a genuinely terrific person

- There is so much more you’ll just have to find out for yourself…

 

 

If you or a client have an opening for a very talented and energetic PM or BA, email me and I can get you her resume and pass her your contact information. You all have come through for so many of my other friends, please help me out one more time!

 

Please have a safe and happy holiday season and a great 2009.

 

E.

Happy Shopping and Happy Holidays!

It’s that time of year again when the frenzy of ‘after Thanksgiving’ shopping has begun and for some of us, will continue right up to Christmas Eve. There are tons of cool and new things out for this Christmas; it’s hard to decide which one to buy for myself (just kidding).

Seriously, there are a lot of people who could really use a helping hand this year to put gifts under the tree for their children. While you are out shopping for your family, think about all of the other kids out there that would really enjoy opening a gift from Santa. Spend what you can afford, but bring a smile to some little boy or girl or both by buying a toy or two and donating it to your favorite charity.

There are a number of great charities out there who are always looking for donations. My favorite is the Church of the Resurrection (www.cor.org) located in Leawood, Kansas. There is also the ResWest campus and if you need contact information please email me or go to www.cor.org.

Also, if you have any unused frequent flyer miles, most airlines allow you to donate them to the Make-A-Wish foundation. I donated 22,500 miles to help make one for more of those sweet kids’ dreams come true.

Food is always welcome and any food pantry. With the number of cuts and layoffs these last few months, the food pantries are struggling trying to keep up with the demand. COR has/had a food drive for Grace United and we filled 10 bags and cost less than $300.00 for all the groceries and another $150 in checks to purchase a turkey or ham for each bag. That is 10 families that will have something to eat for the holidays for less than what we typically spend in 1 week for groceries.

So my message is while you are out and about doing your holiday shopping, please take the time to think about those less fortunate families and do what you can to make someone else’s holiday special.

Take care and God Bless.

E.