dwinter's [MSFT] WebLog : Introducing...

I found my new cheese

dwinter — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:32:00 GMT

Of course that is referring to Who moved my cheese?, but the reality behind the analogy is still the same. I no longer am working in Product Support (CSS) as a Senior EE. I am now working as a PM (Program Manager) within the MOSS Product Group in Redmond (I have moved from Texas to Redmond). Specifically I am working with a group of people known as the CAT team (Customer Advisory Team). In this new adventure I am challenged with many things oriented around making the SharePoint offerings better for our customers through various avenues ranging from changes to upcoming products, tools for existing products, or even documentation/whitepapers to fill customer needs. One of my initial challenges is in the areas of Patching and Upgrade, which some of you know I am rather passionate about. As much of my work is internal, I won't be able to share as much here as I have in the past with one exception. When whitepapers or other public documentation are released that I had a hand in, I will be putting notes here with perhaps some additional thoughts around the content. Beyond that, I look forward to seeing you at various conferences/etc and working with you in the Beta programs.

Introducing Steve Sheppard and his series on SharePoint Performance

dwinter — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:10:00 GMT

Steve is one of the lead Escalation Engineers on my team. This generally represents the highest technical level within Microsoft product support . He has joined the SharePoint blogging community with a series of posts on SharePoint v3 performance optimization. Steve has done a significant amount of work in this area recently as well as many other areas of SharePoint (you may remember the Explorer View whitepaper)--I am for one looking forward to what else he writes up for us to read. As an EE--know that Steve solves the toughest problems that are presented to Microsoft with regards to SharePoint. In particular, recently Steve has spent a large amount of time working very deep in the area of performance tuning. Steve is going to write his blog with a focus on showing how to troubleshoot as he goes through his various topics. This should give him some rather unique perspective and make some interesting reading that you are not likely to find anywhere else. Speaking firsthand, the type of work EEs do keeps us really busy, but I hope you will find that the quality of the content coming from our team is worth the less frequent posts. Enjoy!

http://blogs.msdn.com/steveshe

Introducing Scott Fellman

dwinter — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:29:00 GMT

Scott is a Support Escalation Engineer (SEE) on my team. SEEs are the non-bug component of Escalation Services which is "where the buck stops" within Microsoft product support. He has joined the SharePoint blogging community with a few posts on outlook interop, but Scott works with everything so don't expect to see a trend here. Scott does a lot of advanced troubleshooting which he will be showcasing on his blog--I am for one looking forward to what else he writes up for us to read. As an SEE--know that Scott solves the toughest non-bug problems that are presented to Microsoft with regards to SharePoint. This should give him some rather unique perspective and make some interesting reading that you are not likely to find anywhere else. The type of work SEEs do keeps them really busy, but I hope you will find that the quality of the content coming from our team is worth the less frequent posts. Enjoy!

http://blogs.msdn.com/sfellman

Introducing Tony McIntyre

dwinter — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:40:00 GMT

Tony is a Senior Escalation Engineer on my team. This represents the highest technical level within Microsoft product support . He has joined the SharePoint blogging community with a series of posts on crawl perf tuning. Tony has done a significant amount of work in this area as well as many other areas of SharePoint (including Search and Alerts)--I am for one looking forward to what else he writes up for us to read. As an EE--know that Tony solves the toughest problems that are presented to Microsoft with regards to SharePoint. This should give him some rather unique perspective and make some interesting reading that you are not likely to find anywhere else. Speaking firsthand, the type of work EEs do keeps us really busy, but I hope you will find that the quality of the content coming from our team is worth the less frequent posts. Enjoy!

http://blogs.msdn.com/tonymcin

SharePoint Dev Launches a team blog

dwinter — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:59:00 GMT

For those of you that haven't noticed, the SharePoint team has launched a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint

This blog already has provided some very interesting content around the Office 12 SharePoint story from the perspective of the folks who make the decisions.
It is definately worth adding to your aggregator.

For those of you that have asked, I am planning to remain dormant until Beta 2, which is when I will resume contributing to the blogging community.