Macedonian ITPro User Group Meeting (March 2020)

We finished our first virtual IT Pro user group meeting. Thanks to our friends at Microsoft Teams, we managed to maintain the attention of 30 people, for 2 hours. :)

We combined the session, with different aspect of technology and experiences from 4 MVP's - Vladimir Meloski who spoke about Cloud Security in Business Productivity environment; Gorana Konevska-Jankoska spoke about Microsoft Teams; Vlatko Ivanosvki spoke about DevOps in #WFH mode.

I spoke about Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, in light of the #WFH model, and how to achieve quick wins by expanding infrastructure and services to the Azure these days. In addition to that, I hosted the session this time.

We gathered valuable feedback, had a quality discussion. Waiting for our next endeavor! :)


Link to the slides  can be found here.

Cloud Solution Provider Disti Bootcamp (Microsoft and Ingram Micro, June 25th- June 26th)

With cooperation of the local office of Microsoft, we held 2 separate events for our Kosovo and North Macedonia Partners.

The first event, was held at the Kosovo Innovation Center (ICK) on June 25th, and the second one, in North Macedonia, at Ingram Micro Offices, on June 26th.

Topics discussed were the changes in Microsoft Partner Program, held by my colleague Marija Gjorgjievska, with emphasis on migrating to the new Partner Center and how to become an Indirect CSP Re-seller.

On both events, I did a session/overview on Microsoft Cloud Services - what's new and what's going on. Emphasis was on Managed Solution Provider model, achieving transformation and growth by adopting the cloud economy model, end of life of Windows server 2008/ SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft 365.

Link's to the presentations can be found here - both for Kosovo and North Macedonia Event.

Event: Microsoft Network (April 18th - 20th, Neum, Bosnia&Herzegovina)

After 8 years, after my attendance on the first Microsoft Network Conference (held in Banja Luka), I'm back :) Glad to be there again, since as part of the first one (support, speaker, attendee), the conference progressed a lot. It grew to a amazing number of more than 1000 attendees, from all segments of the Bosnian Business and IT market - Partners, Customers, Academics, IT enthusiast and a bunch of speakers (local, regional and international). 

We got "stuck", on a small peace of the Bosnian seaside, in Neum, with a dilemma - excellent event, filled with people, old friends and great topics, and sunny seaside on the other. I'll tell you, it was tough 3 days! Kudos to the Bosnian team (Enis, Omar, and their sponsors) for this magnificent event.

The center was the imminent Cloud and its connected technologies, services, concepts, and

its future. They were broke down to 6 segments - Digital Transformation and Business Apps, Modern Business Environment, Big Data and AI, Case Studies, Apps and Infrastructure, and Education.

I did an Apps and Infrastructure Track session, titled "Improving your environment's security and management with OMS". This session is all about the "What?", "Where?" and "How?" in Azure Operation Management and Security, driving through the process, giving insights on what to do and how to do it. Little bit of theory, backed up by demos and raw collected data for analytics.