My Stuff 2025

This post is my annual post aimed at bringing the links to everything I have out there on the Internet together into a single place. Here we go.

About me

Summary – http://about.me/ciaops
Website – http://www.ciaops.com/
Email – director@ciaops.com
Microsoft Teams – admin@ciaops365.com

Social Media

Linkedin – http://www.linkedin.com/in/ciaops
X – https://www.twitter.com/directorcia
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/ciaops

Free Stuff

Regular technical and business information, tutorials, walk throughs, learnings, upcoming courses and more.

Blog – http://blog.ciaops.com

Here you’ll find currently almost 200 videos full of tutorials on SharePoint, Office 365, Azure and technology.

YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/directorciaops

Presentations and whitepapers for free download.

Github – https://github.com/directorcia/general/tree/master/Presentations
Slideshare (archive) – https://www.slideshare.net/directorcia

Documentation for older versions of SharePoint on premises, especially the free versions and those that came with SBS.

Windows SharePoint Operations Guide – https://github.com/directorcia/general/tree/master/Archive/WSSOPS

Cloud lecture series is a set of free tutorials, training session and so on that I have provided over the years:

https://www.ciaopsacademy.com/p/cloud-lecture-series

I have number of free GitHub repositories that include things like PowerShell scripts, pricing calculators, reference documents, helpful links and more. You will find all these at:

https://github.com/directorcia/

I maintain a GitHub repository that contains not only links to articles on best practices for services like Exchange Online but also contains configuration files and settings typically in JSON format that can be imported and used to configure your Microsoft 365 environment. You will find all that here:

https://github.com/directorcia/bp

With over 330 episodes and now in it’s 15th year, my podcast focuses on providing you news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud around Microsoft 365 and Azure.

Need to Know podcasts – http://ciaops.podbean.com

You can subscribe using iTunes or Spotify. If you’d like to be a guest or know someone who would, please let me know.

Need to Know webinars are held monthly and announced on my blog. These are conducted using Microsoft Teams on a topic around the Microsoft Cloud.

and subscribe to previous and upcoming webinar recordings and resources here:

Need to Know Microsoft 365 Webinars

You can join my free Teams shared channel. To do so follow the instruction here:

https://blog.ciaops.com/2022/07/29/join-my-teams-shared-channel/

here you’ll find a forum on the Microsoft Cloud along with up to date news and information.

I publish a weekly round up of Microsoft Cloud news in my CIA Brief here on my blog:

https://blog.ciaops.com/tag/cia-brief/

Commercial stuff

This stuff helps pay for free stuff above, so I appreciate your support for my paid work.

CIAOPS Online training academy – http://www.ciaopsacademy.com

Access to the CIAOPS community for technical support, product discounts and access to the best Office 365 and Azure information

CIAOPS Patron – http://www.ciaopspatron.com

You can also just buy me a coffee and support what I do – https://ko-fi.com/ciaops, which I would very much appreciate.

General Interest

Australian Battlefields of World War 1 France –http://www.anzacsinfrance.com/
Kiva Loan portfolio – http://www.kiva.org/lender/robert5824
CIAOPS Labs – https://blog.ciaopslabs.com/

I’m a big believer in supporting those who want to build their own business but just need a leg up to get started. Kiva is simply and easy way to provide this and I recommend this to everyone.

Being an Electrical Engineer by trade I enjoy building and solving problems with a variety of projects. This involves digging to electronics, IoT and 3D Printing amongst other things. I try and document all of those learnings over at CIAOPS Labs when I can.

Goodreads (reading list) feed https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/708903-robert

In 2024 I read over 30 books. That means I do a lot of reading on a variety of topics and with Goodreads you can follow along with the books I’m reading as well as those that I add to my bookshelf. I’ll have an upcoming post on my recommended reads, so watch out for that post coming soon.