Category Archives: General

5 years as a Microsoft MVP

Back in July I was rewarded with the precious Microsoft MVP award in the category Microsoft Azure. It took a while to receive my MVP award disks, especially the 5 years disk. I am looking forward to my fifth award year and my upcoming speaking engagements at the Cloud Summit 2021 in September and the European Cloud Summit at the end of November. -> https://azuresummit.live/ -> https://www.cloudsummit.eu/ Read more [...]

Microsoft MVP Award – Microsoft Azure

Today, I received an exciting email that I got the Microsoft MVP award in the category Microsoft Azure. In total this is my fourth award after being awarded in the category Cloud and Datacenter Management in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Then I joined Microsoft and hence as a Microsoft employee was not eligible anymore for receiving the MVP award. After nearly three years at Microsoft I decided Read more [...]

Speaking at Experts Live 2015

Yesterday I got the message that I will be one of the speakers presenting at Experts Live 2015 in November. I am really happy that one of my sessions got accepted. The session will be about “What’s new in System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager?”. Have a look at the agenda! It is an awesome line up. -> http://www.expertslive.nl/programma/ Read more [...]

MCSD Azure Solutions Architect

Yesterday I successfully passed my last exam on the way to the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer Azure Solutions Architect. In comparison to the previous ones the 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions was the hardest exam out of this three. It is targeting developer stuff and that made it really difficult for me. The other two exams are the 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Read more [...]

Speaking at Microsoft Technical Summit 2015

After being a speaker at the first Microsoft Technical Summit in 2014, I’m invited once again to speak at the Microsoft Technical Summit 2015. The Technical Summit this year will take place in Darmstadt from 17th to 19th November. The first two days are the general conference days and on day three you can join different workshops, if you have signed up in advance. My session by the way will be Read more [...]

Using Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure for on-premises workloads

This month Veeam released the RTM version of FastSCP for Microsoft Azure. -> http://www.veeam.com/blog/fastscp-microsoft-azure-available.html I really like the tool for my Microsoft Azure VM workloads. But you can use the tool also for your on-premises VM workloads. Just make sure you have enabled Windows Remote Management and the Port 5985 is open. You can easily test it with PowerShell and the Read more [...]

Speaking at System Center Universe Europe

In two weeks the SCU Europe takes place in Basel. I am happy that I have been chosen to present this year again at this top conference! My session will be right after the keynote on the first conference day about “Azure Site Recovery with VMware sites – Learnings from the field”. -> http://planning.systemcenteruniverse.ch/Planing/SessionDetail/123?DateId=0 If we have a look at the sessions, Read more [...]

MVP Award – System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management for the third time

Today I received the most important email in the year and I got the MVP award in the expertise area System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management for the third time in a row. I am totally happy and feel very honored! Ahead with Windows Server 2016, System Center 2016 and Microsoft Azure Stack it will be a very exciting award year! Furthermore I am looking forward to the MVP Global Summit in November Read more [...]