Microsoft SharePoint Conference Notes: Day 2

Day 2 Notes from Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011

When I wasn’t talking to SharePoint product vendors today, I was speaking to the people attending the conference: the men and women who are SharePoint admins, SharePoint developers, just-plain developers, records managers, librarians, business analysts, project managers, IT pros, SQL Server people, and IT managers.

Their conference badges identify who sent them: companies in pharmaceuticals, finance, paper products, energy, government, healthcare, and technology.  I met more international attendees than I did at TechEd 2011: including many from France, Sweden, and India, as well as attendees from the UK, Russia, Germany, Brazil, China, and Australia.

They need info and advice with all stages of SharePoint, from investigating SharePoint’s possibilities,  to migrating to SharePoint 2010, to dealing with more specific challenges such as security, user adoption, and general administration issues. Here are the top things I observed:

Everybody, no matter what level of experience, is here to learn more.  Because there’s no end to what you can learn in SharePoint. Which can be good or bad depending on your perspective.

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