Macedonian ITPro User Group Meeting (January 2021)

As planned, we kicked of 2021 with user group meeting. As planned for last week, with Gorana, Vlatko and Vladimir , this session was about Microsoft 365. 

The session was presented by Gorana and Vladimir, and the topic was "Security best practices in Microsoft Teams" (an session they did on Modern Workplace Conference Paris 2021). 

It was an overview of Microsoft 365 security, with specifics on Microsoft Teams Admin Center, Policies, Security and Compliance.

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.

Security preview of Microsoft 365 Enterprise

I did an Microsoft 365 Security overview session, combined with demos and quite extensive discussion, with group of IT Pros that work in Public Safety and Judicial Sector. (They are not keen on taking pictures of them, even in compliance with GDPR:))

We did a extensive overview of Microsoft 365 Security features, in four segments - Compliance, Secure Access and Identity, AI and Automation, and Security Operations Center (SOC). Spiced things up with some demos on Compliance Manager, Data Retention and Protection Policies,  Azure AD, Conditional Access, MFA, and Security Center and Sentinel.

I personally liked the Q&A and discussion session we had during the day, it gave u the opportunity to go beyond the slides and demos, and discuss some real life issues they are facing, and how cloud tech can support their efforts.

The presentation can be downloaded on the following link

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: "The future of business is digital" (December 13th, Tirana, Albania)

In the course of continuous technological developments and the so-called industrial revolution, business faces every day more with the demand to optimize operational costs as well as the immediate need for the use of new technology solutions in business service.

Technology is a disruptive force – enabling new business models, opening new sources of revenue and shaping entire industry landscapes. Ensuring security, privacy, and compliance is key to enabling digital transformation. As people bring in devices, apps, and data into organizations today, protecting company data requires a new approach.

As part of this future vision of Ingram Micro and Microsoft, I will be conducting an cloud session, covering Microsoft Azure and Office 365 portfolio with specific business scenarios.

Agenda:
09:00 – 09:30   Registration

09:30 – 09:40   Welcome and introduction
Sokol Vladi, General Manager, Microsoft Albania

09:40 – 10:15   Culture eats digitization for breakfast
Oskar Goschl, Managing Director CEE HQ Digital Advisory Services, Microsoft

10:15 – 10:45   Break

10:45 – 11:45   Microsoft Cloud 101
Dimitar Grozdanov, Sales Engineer/Trainer, Datacenter and Cloud Services (CEE), Ingram Micro
    
11:45 – 12:45   Cyber security in cloud
Marko Kavcic, SAM and Compliance Lead, Microsoft

12:45 – 13:00   Questions and Answers (Q&A session)