Macedonian ITPro User Group Meeting (December 2020)

Last week we had our monthly meeting, which seems it will be the last one for 2020. We did a short overview of the activates so far, and shared some of the plans for 2021. I have co-hosted the event with Gorana, Vlatko and Vladimir (the usual suspects) 😃😃😃

Our guest speaker was Marjan Stamatovski, Trainer and Consultant in Glasspaper (Norway). He did a session titled "Threat hunting with Azure Sentinel". 

After the short overview of the technology behind the service and its capabilities, and then jumped in the demonstration of Sentinel and what it can do for SecOps.

We also had a surprise guest, Mr. Scott Schnoll popped in on our session. 😃😃😃

His visit was short, after all the session was in Macedonian Language.

Macedonian IT Pro User Group Meeting (October 2020)

We have been running our community meetings via Teams, for a while. The current conditions, this s our safest tool to hold regular monthly meetings and hang out. this months meeting of the MK IT Pro User Group was providing a glimpse on Microsot Ignite 2020. 

 The unfortunate things is, that we only had 90 minutes to do it. :) My fellow MVP Gorana Konevska-Jankoska, co-hosted the event with me, and Vladimir Meloski and Vlatko Ivanovski were moderating the sessions.

We talked about all the good stuff from Microsoft 365, Microsot Teams, Azure, and Security. We had some cool discussion, and laughs with the attendees

Copy of the presentation can be found HERE.

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.

Webinar: Microsoft 365 and GDPR

With 25th of May closing and marking GDPR’s active implementation it is more then important to understand the new personal information protection regulation. Webinar will give you an overview of the main GDPR features, it’s impact to your business and most important data you need to understand. Main goal of this webinar is to showcase how you can use Microsoft’s productivity technology and solutions for to ensure your compliance with GDPR. We will make sure you understand what are the advantages of different Microsoft solutions that are making your way to GDPR easier and will lower your risk of non-compliance.


Additionally, you will see a live demo of usage and implementation of said technologies in day-to-day business. After this webinar, you will have better knowledge of GDPR – how to be compliant, what can you use to do it and how.
Agenda

• What is GDPR?
• How will it affect my company/organization?
• How can Microsoft 365 help to make me compliant?
• What do I need to do?
• Demo
• Next steps
• Q&A

The registration link for the event is here. The event will be held in Croatian language.

Event: Macedonian IT Pro User Group Meet up - February 2018

Its time for our monthly IT Pro User Group meeting. Its scheduled for February 8th @ Ingram Micro Macedonia Office (starting from 17:30 till 19:30).

Our guest star is  George Dobrea, eminent Cyber Security Expert and Microsoft MVP -  Cloud Security. We are going to do an overview of Cyber Security related trends, backed up by an AMA session (Ask-me-Anything).


The event is co-organized with my colleague MVP's, Vladimir and Gorana.
See you there!

Webinar: EasyAzure - Protection & Monitoring

As part of "web based activities" with colleagues from Ingram Micro Croatia, we have scheduled two Microsoft Azure Webinars, focused on EasyAzure Blueprints.

EasyAzure offers free downloadable instructions on how to build single solutions within Azure. The instructions are formatted in Blueprints: Ready-to-use and easy-to-understand product offerings, fine-tuned to be cost effective. they can be combined, as per usage scenario to achieve enterprise grade solution. EasyAzure covers three solution areas - Protection, Management and Expansion, and includes over 25 free downloadable Blueprints. New material is constantly developed, and its available as soon as it gets verified.

The specific webinars are based on Protection and Monitoring Blueprints, both in Croatian language:

- Protection (Backup): December 6th, 10:30-11:30

- Monitoring (OMS): December 11th, 14:00 -15:00

The webinars are invitation based, aimed towards local partners. 

Event: Ingram Micro Days (26-27 October, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Just wrapped up my session at Ingram Micro Days, in Cluj-Napoca (Romania). It  was 2 days event, supported from different vendors and our local Ingram Micro teams. First day was focused on sales aspect, where Microsoft Cloud was covered on a high level, by a joint session done by Marius Danescu (Microsoft Romania) and Mihalea Babeanu (Ingram Micro Romania).

The second day was all about technical stuff and demos. I did one hour technical session titled "Azure Fundamentals and implementation scenarios", with demos and interactive chalk talk segment.

Event: Macedonian IT Pro User Group Meet up - November 2017

Its time for our monthly IT Pro User Group meeting.Its scheduled for November 1st @ Microsoft Macedonia Office (starting from 15:00 till 16:00).

You will have a chance to get first hand infro from Microsoft Ignite 2017, what was announced and what we should expect in near future. As well as info on regional events that occur.

The event is co-organized with my colleagues Vladimir and Gorana.

Please refer to the following link for additional information and register for seat allocation: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/517399318618127

Event: Ingram Micro Days (28-29 September, Iassi, Romania)

Just wrapped up my session at Ingram Micro Days, in Iasi (Romania). It  was 2 days event, supported from different vendors and our local teams. First day was focused on sales aspect, where Microsoft Cloud was covered on a high level, by a joint session done by Marius Danescu (Microsoft Romania) and Mihalea Babeanu (Ingram Micro Romania).

The second day was all about technical stuff and demos. I did an hour technical session titled "Azure Fundamentals and implementation scenarios", with demos and interactive chalk talk segment.

Looking forward for the next event, in Cluz (Romania).

Olddie, but still valid - Microsoft FREE book giveaway

Once again, its that time of the year.  Microsoft isgiving away a bunch of free eBooks, reference guides, Step-By-Step Guides, and other informational resources to our customers and partners around the world.

Complete list can be found here.

Office 365 webinar

In cooperation with Microsoft Albania, on June 28th (Wednesday), starting from 10 o'clock, I will be conducting an webinar on Office 365 titled: "Office 365 - 365 days of success".

This webinar is about what Office 365 is, how it is structured and how it provides a highly scalable, highly available, cloud platform and how it supports daily business and technology operations. You will also learn about different scenarios of migration and/or coexistence with your customers infrastructure.

It's aimed towards BDM's, TDM's, system integrator's and implementators.

Title: Office 365 - 365 days of success

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 28th, 10:00-11:00

Presentation language: English

Registration URL: https://info.microsoft.com/CE-NoGEP-WBNR-FY17-05May-31-Office365325643_02OnDemandRegistration.html

Microsoft on Trust, Privacy and the GDPR

As we see increased focus in every indistry on data privacy and data protection, and in light of the recent talks and commitment from all major cloud vendors on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Microsoft (as usual) si stteping up and this webcast will provide additional information on this topic.

the focus will be on Microsoft's commitment and approach to privacy in the digital world, as well as whta will GDPR mean for its cloud services.

Event date/time: May 24th, 15:00 (GMT+1)

Speakers:
Brad Smith

Microsoft President & Chief Legal Officer

Brendon Lynch

Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer

Registration link: https://info.microsoft.com/TrustPrivacyandGDPR-Registration.html

Microsoft BUILD 2017

In Seattle, from May 10th - 12th, Microsoft is hostin the annual BUILD conference. The conference is primarily aimed towards developers, covering various aspect of Microsoft cloud platform (Office 365, Azure) and tools for it.

You can wath the live streams and/or recordings on Channel 9 following link: http://soc.fm/RiXn1gik as well as follw what's going on on Twitter via hastag #MSBuild.

The wrap up of Day 1 can be seen on the following link.