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Recently, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Regional Directors website at rd.microsoft.com. Finally! Our CEO, Martina Grom, was awarded as Regional Director in 2015, see here. So we are more than happy that there’s now a place where Microsoft informs officially about the Regional Director program. Check it out at rd.microsoft.com. Since it’s not well known, what the Regional Director award is about, there’s a FAQ list at rd.microsoft.com/FAQ. The most frequently asked questions are, if Regional Directors (RD’s) are employed by Microsoft, how they are selected or if they are also MVP. The FAQ’s answer these questions clearly, see the statements summarized here: ...

Last week, our third IT/DevConnections conference took place in Las Vegas. We had the pleasure to have several sessions there. The IT/DevConnections conference took place from 10th to 13th of October in the luxurious Aria resort that is located right in the middle of the famous Las Vegas strip. That’s a very cool location for obtaining KnowHow transfer during the day and enjoying the nightlife of Vegas. Besides the networking at the conference, there were social events and parties. ...

It has been a busy week when we’ve been at Microsoft Ignite conference 2016 which took place in Atlanta from 26th to 30th September. This was Microsoft’s second Ignite conference (the first one happened in Chicago in May 2015, see here) with more than 20.000 people attending and more than 1.000 sessions. For us, it was our first time in the US South (in Georgia) and we enjoyed it very much. ...

This week Martina and I have been part of the aOS community event in Aix-en-Provence in South France. See our session presentation and some snapshots of the event here. The aOS Community organizes and supports all types of events promoting the sharing and exchange of Microsoft technologies in various communities in public meetings, conferences and online meetings targeting primarily French speaking countries. The event took place in Aix-en-Provence on 6th September at the campus of YNOV, a school building with perfect infrastructure for such an event (rooms, space, seats, projector, aircondition and fast WiFi). The event web page is Journée aOS Aix en Provence. ...

Check out this upcoming session with our CEO, Martina Grom, at Microsoft’s Ignite Conference 2016 in Atlanta: Ask us anything about Microsoft Office 365 Groups! https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/4098 CU there!

Gestern fand das erste Treffen des Azure Meetup Vienna statt. In dieser Gruppe geht es um Wissensvermittlung und den Erfahrungsaustausch zu Microsoft Azure für IT Pros, Entwickler und Entscheider mit Themen aus der Community. Die Meetup.com Website bietet die Online-Plattform zu den regelmäig geplanten Treffen: Azure Meetup Vienna Wir haben einige Snapshots vom Event auf der Event-Website hinzugefügt… Alle Details zur Azure Meetup Vienna Gruppe, den Terminen, Themen und allem organisatorischen Rundherum findet ihr auf der Meetup.com Website. ...

Just discovered the “Community Leaders page compiled by Communauté aOS” on docs.com with interviews with active members of the Microsoft communities! Martina and I are honored to be part of these communities with such great guys! The following picture shows Nuno Árias Silva, Hans Brender, Elio Struyf, Francesco Sodano, Jeff Teper (Microsoft Corporate Vice President OneDrive and SharePoint), Rodrigo Pinto and (the profile of) Paolo Pialorsi (and me). This photo was taken at SharePoint Saturday Paris in May 2016 and there were a lot of great speakers at that community event (see also our impressions here). ...

Mitte Mai fand die erste “CDC-Germany” Konferenz statt, siehe Cloud and Datacenter Conference Germany. In dieser prominent besetzten IT-Pro Konferenz ging es um die Themen Public und Private Cloud, Azure Stack, Hyper-V, Cluster, System Center, Hybrid, PowerShell, RDS, Recht und Datacenter-Technologien. Organisiert wurde dieses tolle Community Event mit internationalen Sprechern von dem Team rund um unseren Kollegen Carsten Rachfahl, Mr. ‎HyperVServer. Das Event in Düsseldorf war mit mehr als 270 Teilnehmern und insgesamt mehr als 360 IT-Pros äußerst gut besucht. Alle Teilnehmer nutzten die Veranstaltung, um über Private Cloud und Public Cloud-Technologien zu informieren, sich informieren zu lassen und um sich auszutauschen. ...

Letzten Donnerstag, den 16. Juni, fand bei Microsoft in Wien das Build 2016 Redelivery Event statt. Microsoft hatte eingeladen, sich persönlich über “Das neueste zu Windows 10 und anderen coolen Dingen – Zusammenfassung von der //build” zu informieren. Es gab drei Tracks, gefolgt vom Sommergrillen im Garten. Hier gibts ein paar Snapshots vom Event! Die Agenda bot Programm für IT-Pros und Open Source Enthusiasten (siehe hier) und für Developer (siehe hier) war bunt gemischt. Die Sprecher waren von Microsoft DX und Mitglieder aus der Microsoft Community (MCTs, MVPs, RDs). Die Themen reichten von Azure (Stack) bis HoloLens und Augmented und Virtual Reality. ...

Well, the 4th SPC Adriatics community event happening last week in Zagreb was a blast (see also our notice here). See some wrap-ups and posts of our colleagues here: And that was SPC Adriatics 2016 by Adis Jugo SPC Adriatics 2016 by Sebastien Levert Check out https://docs.com/officedevpnp by Vesa Juvonen & OfficeDevPnP-team Tweets statistics made by Jussi Roine Slides are here: SlideShare – thx Patrick Guimonet and of course much more… Some of my conference snapshots… again, we had very cool, individual T-Shirts ...