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We are very happy to announce that our both CEO’s, Martina Grom, CEO of atwork.at, and Siegfried Jagott, CEO of atwork.de, have been reawarded with the Microsoft MVP Award! Martina and Sigi have expertise in Microsoft Office 365 and are recognized experts, book authors and conference speakers. See Martina’s MVP profile. Martina was awarded as Microsoft Regional Director as well in 2015 (see here and the new RD website) Martina (@magrom) is recognized as an expert in Microsoft Office Online Services solutions and was worldwide one of the first 8 Microsoft MVP’s awarded in 2011 for her expertise in Office 365. Martina is doing consulting companies on their way to the cloud. Her expertise is related to online technologies especially in Microsoft cloud services with Azure and Office 365. She helps companies in architecture planning toward cloud solutions. Martina has authored numerous books, articles and blogs and is a well known conference speaker. See Martina’s about page. ...

Check out the sessions of Technical Summit 2016 in Darmstadt here! All sessions are online now at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/microsoft-techncial-summit/Technical-Summit-2016 Find the sessions by atwork on channel9 here: Martina Grom Toni Pohl Siegfried Jagott Christoph Wilfing Enjoy!

Wir wünschen allen unseren Kunden, Freunden und Partnern auf diesem Weg frohe Festtage und ein schönes Neues Jahr! Wir möchten uns recht herzlich für die gute Zusammenarbeit bedanken und freuen uns schon auf ein erfolgreiches, gemeinsames 2017! Auch dieses Jahr haben wir uns für unsere Weihnachtsgrafik von der inoffiziellen Windows 10 Ninja-Cat inspirieren lassen. Wie sehr wir von guten Partnerschaften profitieren, erfahren wir das ganze Jahr hindurch. ...

The next Microsoft BUILD conference will be held from May 10th to 12th 2017, this time no longer in San Francisco, but in Seattle. It seems Microsoft wants to simplify their organization, so they now pick the region of their headquarter. See https://build.microsoft.com/ CU there!

Oh, Microsoft is rebranding it’s events: PDC became BUILD in 2011, TechEd became Ignite in 2015 and in 2017, WPC becomes Inspire! The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) now will be named Microsoft Inspire, while the content and targets will stay the same: Connect Microsoft Partners worldwide. Microsoft states: “Microsoft Inspire welcomes both active Microsoft partners and those seeking to partner with us. With a primarily executive audience, Microsoft Inspire is the ideal conference for business and channel leaders in SMB, Corporate Accounts and Enterprise markets.” ...

According to the principle “Technical Summit 2016: Mehr Technologie geht nicht”, this year’s Technical Summit 2016 is happening next week in Darmstadt, Germany. The event lasts from Tuesday, 6th to Wednesday, 7th of December with an optional additional workshop day on Thursday, 8th. This events features prominent Microsoft speakers as Scott Guthrie, Donovan Brown and more. We from atwork are pleased to be part of this event with four sessions! ...

Last week Martina and I have been speaking at Unity Connect in Haarlem in the Netherlands. Unity Connect is an IT conference about Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Skype, Yammer, and Azure and took place from 16th to 18th November 2016 in the beautiful city of Haarlem. We arrived on Tuesday evening and entered the stunning inner city of Haarlem with so many cool restaurants and bars. The banner picture of Unity Connect just gives a brief impression of the beautiful buildings in that small town. The conference location was in Philharmonie Haarlem which is actually a concert hall but a very cool event location. With the inner city and the hotels around the corner, this event is - besides the conference offerings - one of my absolute favorite places to go in this region. ...

The European SharePoint Conference took place in Vienna from 14th to 18th November 2016. We took this occasion to meet our friends from the Office 365 community in our home town Vienna for an informal come together aka #SharePintVienna. Right after the MVP Summit week in Redmond, we invited about 60 persons and more than 40 came to our come together at “TheRoom” near the city center for some drinks and dinner on the 14th November. See some snapshots of the evening in this Sway. ...

Each year, Microsoft invites members of the MVP program and the RD program to their headquarter in Redmond, Washington state. This year, the MVP Summit took place from 7th to 10th of November. As in the previous years, for Martina and me this event was a great occasion to come to Seattle area, to connect with other MVPs and Microsoft product managers and to provide feedback on Microsoft technologies. We met friends and colleagues from all over the world. ...

Today, one day after the US presidential elections, there’s an interesting read about coming together in IT industry in blogs.microsoft.com by Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft. Moving forward together: Our thoughts on the US election (My) very short extract: “…And like so many Americans, regardless of who we supported through our vote, we strongly share the view that this is a time for the nation to come together…” ...