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Last updated by Thomas Maurer at April 5, 2018.

Apr052018April 5, 2018April 5, 20180 Commentby Thomas Maurer

Speaking about Azure Stack at the Global Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2018

Posted in Cloud, Events, IT, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, Powershell, Private Cloud

I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at this years Global Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2018. Global Azure Bootcamp Switzerland is a full day conference about the Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform. The event is taking place in Zurich on 21st April 2018. It is free and open for everybody to join.

Around the world, user groups and communities want to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing. On April 21, all communities will come together once again for a great Global Azure Bootcamp event. Each user group will organize their own one day deep dive class on Azure the way they see fit and how it works for their members. The result is that thousands of people get to learn about Azure and join together online under the social hashtag #GlobalAzure.
If you would like to read more about the worldwide movement, please visit: Global Azure Bootcamp

In my session I will speak about Microsoft Azure Stack

Global Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2018

Azure Stack - Your Cloud, Your Datacenter

Microsoft released Azure Stack as a Azure appliance for your datacenter. Learn what Azure Stack is, what challenges it solves, how you deploy, manage and operate a Azure Stack in your datacenter. Learn about the features and services you will get by offering Azure Stack to your customers and how you can build a true Hybrid Cloud experience. In this presentation, Thomas Maurer (Microsoft MVP) will guide you through the highly anticipated innovations and experience during the Azure Stack Early Adaption Program and Azure Stack Technology Adoption Program (TAP).

It is going to be a great event, hopefully see you there! The event is already sold out, but if you want to learn more about Azure and Azure Stack in Switzerland, I recommend that you join ExpertsLive Switzerland. But register quickly, there are also only a few tickets left.

Mar132018March 13, 2018March 13, 20180 Commentby Thomas Maurer

Speaking about Azure Stack at Experts Live Switzerland 2018 in Bern

Posted in Cloud, Containers, Events, Hyper-V, IT, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, Office365, System Center, Virtualization, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Server, Windows Server 2016, Work

Today, I am proud to announce that I am speaking at the country event of Experts Live in Switzerland. Experts Live Switzerland 2018 will take place at the 3rd of May in the new Workspace Welle 7 in Bern Switzerland. Experts Live Switzerland is a one day event with 17 session in three parallel tracks focusing on Microsoft Cloud, Datacenter and Workplace Management topics, with Microsoft MVPs, speakers from Microsoft and other industry experts.

I was already speaking at Experts Live US 2018, Experts Live Australia 2017 and of course Experts Live Europe 2017. As always, I am really looking forward to this country event of the Experts Live conference series. It is always a lot of fun to listen to great sessions and meet friends.

I am happy to give attendees an overview about Microsoft Azure Stack:

Experts Live Switzerland

Azure Stack - Your Cloud Your Datacenter

Microsoft released Azure Stack as a Azure appliance for your datacenter. Learn what Azure Stack is, what challenges it solves, how you deploy, manage and operate a Azure Stack in your datacenter. Learn about the features and services you will get by offering Azure Stack to your customers and how you can build a true Hybrid Cloud experience. In this presentation Thomas Maurer (Microsoft MVP) will guide you through the highly anticipated innovations and experience during the Azure Stack Early Adaption Program and Azure Stack Technology Adoption Program (TAP).

The event is limited to only 180 attendees, so make sure you reserve you ticket right now! There will be a lot of other great sessions and a lot of experts from the Microsoft Cloud community.

Some more information about the conference:

1 day event
In the heart of Switzerland (Bern)
17 sessions
3 parallel tracks
Top Community speakers
limited to 180 attendees
Partner booths in the expo hall
modern location
focusing on Microsoft Cloud Technology

Feb122018February 12, 2018February 12, 20180 Commentby Thomas Maurer

Speaking about Azure Stack at the Microsoft Tech Summit Switzerland 2018

Posted in Cloud, Containers, Docker, Events, Hyper-V, IT, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, Powershell, Virtualization, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Server, Work

I am proud to announce that I am speaking at the Microsoft Tech Summit Switzerland 2018. The Microsoft Tech Summit is a new format of Microsoft conferences all around the world, and the successor of the Microsoft TechDays in Switzerland. The Microsoft Tech Summit is a free 2 day event covering the latest in cloud technologies for IT professionals and developers from February 28 – March 1, 2018.

We are proud to offer you an impressive line-up of keynote speakers such as Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure and Patrick Chanezon, chief developer advocate at Docker, the world’s leading software container platform. We further decided to dedicate 50% of all break out session to OSS to show that we don’t just say that we love OSS, but actually live it.
Plus, you will have the chance to experience the unique Microsoft HoloLens and Mixed-Reality glasses on-site! Our diverse and disruptive exhibition is also featuring surprising showcases by our partners.

In my session on day two I will speak about Azure Stack and my experience deploying it for customers.

Microsoft Tech Summit Switzerland 2018

Azure Stack - Your Cloud, Your Datacenter

Microsoft released Azure Stack as an Azure appliance for your datacenter. Learn what Azure Stack is, what challenges it solves, how you deploy, manage and operate an Azure Stack in your datacenter. Learn about the features and services you will get by offering Azure Stack to your customers and how you can build a true Hybrid Cloud experience. In this presentation Thomas Maurer (Microsoft MVP) will guide you through the highly anticipated innovations and experience during the Azure Stack Early Adaption Program and Azure Stack Technology Adoption Program (TAP).

Btw. itnetX will be there with a booth as a Gold Sponsor! I hope I will see you there!

Dec282016December 28, 2016December 29, 20160 Commentby Thomas Maurer

Speaking at Microsoft TechDays 2017 Switzerland

Posted in Cloud, Containers, Hyper-V, IT, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Nano Server, Powershell, Private Cloud, Virtualization, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Server, Windows Server 2016, Work

I hope everyone had or is still having a great holiday. Today I am proud to announce that I have the opportunity to speak again at the Microsoft TechDays in Switzerland. From 30th – 31st January the Microsoft TechDays will take place in Baden. The conference will cover the latest trends and news from the industry and is a great opportunity for IT professionals and software developers to learn all about the newest developments in Microsoft technologies, products and services.

My session will be placed under the IT Pro track and I will cover some of the new stuff coming with Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016, including:

Hyper-V 2016 features
Nano Server
Storage Spaces Direct
Storage Replica
Windows Server Containers
And more!

So if you want to learn the latest and greatest about Microsoft technology, make sure you attend this event.

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TechDays 2017

From 30th – 31st January the Microsoft TechDays will take place in Baden. The conference will cover the latest trends and news from the industry and is a great opportunity for IT professionals and software developers to learn all about the newest developments in Microsoft technologies, products and services.

Feb082016February 8, 2016February 8, 20160 Commentby Thomas Maurer

Speaking at Microsoft TechDays 2016 Switzerland

Posted in Cloud, Containers, Events, Hyper-V, IT, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Nano Server, Operations Management Suite, Powershell, System Center, Virtualization, Web, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Server, Windows Server 2016, Work

Today I am proud to announce that I have the opportunity to speak at the Swiss version of the Microsoft TechDays. My session will be placed under the IT Pro track and I will cover some of the new stuff coming with Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016, including:

Hyper-V 2016 features
Nano Server
Storage Spaces Direct
Storage Replica
Windows Server Containers
And more!

There are also more cool session and I specially want to announce the session of Markus Erlacher (CEO itnetX) and Marcel Zehner (Microsoft MVP) called “Better Together: System Center und Microsoft Operations Management Suite”. So if you want to learn the latest and greats about Microsoft technology, make sure you attend this event.

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TechDays 2016

Check out the Microsoft TechDays 2016 in Baden, Switzerland. Keynotes – February 29, 2016 | 1.30pm to 6.15pm with subsequent networking get-together and apéro riche Breakout sessions – March 1st, 2016 | 9.00am to 4.30pm

Dec222015December 22, 2015December 22, 20150 Commentby Thomas Maurer

You can now watch my System Center Universe Europe 2015 Sessions on Channel9

Posted in Active Directory, Cloud, Containers, Events, Hardware, Hyper-V, IT, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Nano Server, Office, Office365, Operations Management Suite, Powershell, Private Cloud, System Center, Virtualization, Web, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Azure Pack, Windows Server, Windows Server 2016, Work

Great news today, some of my sessions I did at System Center Universe Europe 2015 in Basel, are now available on Microsoft Channel9. You can watch them directly on Channel9 with a lot of other great sessions from SCU Europe 2015, or you can just watch them here:

Nano Server the next generation of Cloud Server in your datacenter

In this session we will walk you through how Nano Server is changing the fundamental way we look at fabric Servers and workloads. Nano Server will change the way we build servers and solve fundamental challenges which we have encountered over the pact years embracing cloud fundamentals. Speaking together with Kristian Nese (Microsoft MVP)

What’s new in Windows Server 2016 for Hyper-V

With Windows Server 2016 Microsoft adds again exiting features to its Virtualization Platform. Learn in this session what Shielded VMs, Rolling Cluster Upgrades, Storage Spaces Direct, Hyper converged, PowerShell Direct, Windows Containers, and much more is and how you can profit from these new technologies. Speaking together with Carsten Rachfahl (Microsoft MVP)

Azure Site Recovery, 365 days later

Disaster Recovery, everyone talks about it – everyone claims they have it! But does it really work as expected?! Join us in the session about Azure Site Recovery, the business continuity service from Microsoft for all cloud platforms, on-premise – service providers – public cloud. You will learn how your company or customers can use ASR in their datacenter and which new scenarios have been added in the last 365 days, since we presented this topic at SCU 2014. Speaking together with Michel Lüscher (Microsoft)

Are ITIL and System Center BFFs?

In the modern world where organizations are facing new challenges to be more competitive, they are looking for better ways to improve the quality and efficiency of their IT Service delivery using the ITIL framework. Gain valuable insights and best practices on how you can adopt the ITIL framework to Microsoft System Center and OMS from real world experiences together with Savision, Jonas Lenntun, CEO and Solution Architect at Approved Consulting, and Microsoft MVPs: Robert Hedblom, Kristian Nese, Kevin Greene and Thomas Maurer.

Nov022015November 2, 2015November 4, 20150 Commentby Thomas Maurer

My first impressions of the Surface Book

Posted in Cloud, Fun, Hardware, Hardware, IT, Microsoft, Pictures, Surface, Virtualization, Web, Windows, Windows 10, Work

Last week Microsoft released some of their new device including the Surface Pro 4, the Surface Book and the Microsoft Band. I was one of the lucky few who had the chance to pick up a Surface Book in Las Vegas during the VeeamON Conference. I didn’t really plan to get the Surface Book in the US since it has another keyboard layout, instead I planed to get the Surface Pro 4. But when I had the chance to have a look at the Surface Book I really had to get it. The Surface Book is the first laptop made by Microsoft, and I have to say it is gorgeous and fast! I think this is the fastest machine I have ever owned. The reason for that is not only the new Core i7 processor from Intel or the dedicated Nvidia graphics card, in my opinion the reason for that is also the integrated flash storage which is extrem fast. This factors and some tuning by Microsoft really makes it fast. In the Microsoft Store in Las Vegas they only had one version left, which was the Core i7, 8GB RAM and 256GB Storage version. I really would have loved to get the version with 16GB RAM to run more Hyper-V Virtual Machines, but well I am happy I could at least get one.

I will write a full review later on but let get the quick impressions I could get during the short time I had to use it.

The display is amazing, the color and brightness is stunning.
The display ratio of 3:2 is perfect, I loved it on the Surface Pro 3 and I love it on the Surface Book. you have much more space to work on.
It is fast, Microsoft was not lying when they said it is fast, this is the fastest machine I ever owned.
The detachable screen, which makes it to a tablet is very light, even lighter than a Surface Pro
Build quality is great as even better than the Surface Pro 3
The keyboard is also some of the best keyboards I have ever used, it feels great to type on.
The trackpad is maybe the best trackpad you can find on a Windows laptop
Audio Quality is good as well.
Detaching the screen from the keyboard is easy but it takes some time, it is not as fast as you could do it with the Surface Pro.
Design is just great it looks and feels premium.
Windows Hello on Windows 10 which allows you to sign in via face recognition work perfect, even in a dark hotel room. I think I will never sign it using a password 😉
The new Surface Pen feels a lot better than the old one, it feels more writing on paper instead of a glass screen than before.
There are some minor driver issues for example screen flickering when you install the Hyper-V role, or some battery drain during the sleep time which can be solved by disabling the WiFi connected during sleep (under settings).
The screen is a little bit larger than the one on the Surface Pro 3 or Surface Pro 4, which I really like for my daily work machine.
I still like the concept of the Surface Pro which allows you to faster switch between notebook and tablet mode. Over the past 3 years I really got used to it by using the Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2 and the Surface Pro 3. I think I still have to test the Surface Pro 4 which brings the most of the improvements the Surface Book has, including the better screen.

This are my first impression of the Surface Book, if you have any questions just ask it in the comments of this post. I will write a full review after a couple of weeks using it.

Tag: Switzerland

Speaking about Azure Stack at the Global Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2018

Azure Stack - Your Cloud, Your Datacenter

Speaking about Azure Stack at the Microsoft Tech Summit Switzerland 2018

Azure Stack - Your Cloud, Your Datacenter

Speaking at Microsoft TechDays 2016 Switzerland

TechDays 2016

You can now watch my System Center Universe Europe 2015 Sessions on Channel9

Nano Server the next generation of Cloud Server in your datacenter

What’s new in Windows Server 2016 for Hyper-V

Azure Site Recovery, 365 days later

Are ITIL and System Center BFFs?

My first impressions of the Surface Book

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