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From 24th to 28th September, Microsoft’s largest and fourth Microsoft Ignite conference took place in Orlando, Florida. #MSIgnite is the largest and leading event for IT-Professionals, Developers and Decision-Makers in the Microsoft universe. With approximately 30,000 attendees and about 700 breakouts and a lot of theater-sessions , a large expo and a lot of networking, this event was huge. We were proud to be part of the conference and we have collected some of our impressions here. ...

This session gives you insights from Microsoft IT about how they use their internal Teams Champion program to drive collaboration and communication using Microsoft Teams. The session was delivered by Sara Bush, Sr. Program Manager Microsoft Teams, Microsoft. Sara is a member of the Teams & Voice team in End User Services Engineering, Sara is driving Microsoft Teams adoption internally through the Art of Teamwork Tour training program, the Teamwork Champions program and the EUSE change management effort to bring all Microsoft users into a deep understanding of how Microsoft Teams supports day to day work, increasing collaboration and productivity. ...

In a good week, Microsoft Ignite 2018 will start! Ignite is Microsoft’s largest yearly IT conference that will take place from September 24 - 28, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Ignite will offer about 700+ sessions, insights and roadmaps from industry leaders, and deep dives and live demos on the products you use every day. We are looking forward to a full week to meet customers, partners and friends from all over the world. And we have prepared a bunch of great content we will deliver in our sessions! ...

On July 1st, the Microsoft MVP Award Program announced new and renewed MVPs. We at atwork are happy that our MVP’s have been renewed for their community contributions for 2018-2019! The MVP Award is Microsoft’s way of thanking outstanding community leaders based on their actions to share knowledge and technology in all possible ways, from speaking engagements to supporting others in communities. An MVP is awarded for contributions over the previous year. See more abut the MVP program at mvp.microsoft.com and learn about the award categories here. ...

Yesterday, on June 20th, the Insider Dev Tour (see insiderdevtour.com) took place in our home town Vienna. It’s a roadshow for software developers in the Microsoft universe delivering the latest news about Windows, Azure, Office, Graph, AI technology and more. I enjoyed being part of the event along with my fellow MVP colleagues and the Windows Development community. The content was more or less pre-defined and included demos and code-focused overviews of the new developer technologies coming out of Redmond. The topics included building native Win32/XAML apps and Progressive Web Apps, how to connect with new ecosystems using the Microsoft Graph and Windows Timeline (my session), how to add AI (Artificial Intelligence) into your projects, and how to bring your experiences into the next dimension through Mixed Reality and more. ...

This week, from May 28th to 30th 2018, European Collaboration Summit (ECS) took place in the Rheingoldhalle directly on the beautiful Rhine bank in Mainz, Germany. We enjoyed the community conference together with about 1,600 IT-colleagues and we had a blast! ECS (#collabsummit) is the largest community-driven conference in Europe in 2018 with a focus on Microsoft’s cloud services Office 365 and Azure. ECS is a three-day community event, based on the previous SPC Adriatics community events that took place formerly in Zagreb, Croatia, from 2012 to 2017 and more community events, see more details at the FAQ’s. Moving the ECS to Germany, the organizers - see Contact - could enlarge the event immensely. So, the ECS 2018 event and the setup was amazing, see details at Schedule. ...

Microsoft Ignite is Microsoft’s largest, yearly conference focused on the latest insights and skills from technology leaders and practitioners with more than 25.000 attendees and will take place in September 24–28, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. We are very pleased to announce, that atwork’s CEO, Martina Grom, is a featured speaker at this year’s Ignite! As presented on the Ignite Speakers website, Martina will be among other well-known speakers within Microsoft and the Microsoft communities. ...

This week, from May 21st to 23rd, SharePoint Conference North America 2018 - now the Microsoft 365 Community Conference took place in fabulous Las Vegas, in the MGM Grand Hotel. Martina and I were glad to be part of the conference and enjoyed the conference, the networking and cool announcements and sessions! See some visual impressions of #SPC18 here! Martina and I had a workshop about “Office 365 governance” on the pre-conference days on Saturday, May 19th, and Martina delivered the session “The Keys to Office 365 Groups Management” together with Microsoft’s Christophe Fiessinger on Tuesday. See the full conference details at m365conf.com. ...

Unter dem Motto #TrustInTech laden die Gastgeber Trans4mation, atwork und Microsoft Deutschland sowie DriveLock zu einem Informationstag rund um die neuesten Technologien und Trends im Bereich Daten- und Informationssicherheit. Bilden Sie sich am 11. Juni 2018 im Microsoft Hauptquartier in München zu Themen wie die DSGVO/GDPR, Cloud Security, Modern Devices sowie die rechtlichen Aspekte weiter. Unsere Experten (CEOs, Manager, MVPs und Rechtsanwälte) möchten Ihnen durch ihre informativen Vorträge einen umfassenden Einblick in die Thematik gewähren und offene Fragen beantworten. So können Sie effektiv dazu beitragen Ihren eigenen Geschäftsbetrieb abzusichern und an die am 25. Mai 2018 neu in Kraft tretende EU Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) anzupassen. ...

Microsoft BUILD conference 2018 took place two weeks ago in Seattle with over 350 sessions covering Azure, Visual Studios, Microsoft 365, and more. Although you can watch the sessions online at mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions, sometimes it’s helpful to have them downloaded. You can do so with the following PowerShell script. Our colleague Vlad Catrinescu has published a BUILD 2017 sessions downloader at The Ultimate Script to download Microsoft Build 2017 Videos AND slides! or for downloading directly at TechNet Gallery. Thankfully, this script works if you replace “2017” with “2018”… ...