Today Microsoft announced a change in the MVP program and they have changed to 10 award categories containing the old ones (although there are a few remaining Power Users that is not IT Pro or Developers and are left unchanged).

This meaning that I (Mr Hyper-V) am now part of the Cloud and Datacenter Management. Together with about 350+ other MVP´s we make quite a large group of community contributors. I have already been contributing in PowerShell, Azure and lots of other areas during the year so based on that it feels good to be recognised for and also be able to be part of a broader contribution community!

And here are the five others:

And here are the unchanged categories:

If you want to read more about this change please follow this link to the MVP Award site

So the day has come when windows 10 became available,

I did not have the patience to wait for the Windows Update so I downloaded an ISO and started to upgrade and on my Surface 3 Pro it was a matter of about 30 minutes and I had a working new version! It was a really smooth upgrade process!

Download your copy today!

I have been quite busy after Ignite but wanted to share with you what sessions I attended and the recordings for those so you can watch them. There were some better quality sessions and I will try to guide you to them. My interest was of course Hyper-V, Nanoserver, Docker, Azure, Automation, System Center, Storage….

Monday

First of was of course the keynote https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/KEY01

Then I went to the foundation session “Bring Azure to your datacenter” with Jeffrey Snover and Mark Russinovich https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/FND1451 and in this session they where not allowed to show any demos but cheated a bit anyway 😉

After that I went to the Azure Operations: Enabling IT Organizations to Leverage Microsoft Azure https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3475 – “Shadow IT is here to stay”

Tuesday

First of I went to the second “Platform vision & strategy” foundation session https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2466

I had my own Community Theater Session at 1 PM and had to prepare so I did not attend other sessions prior to that

In the afternoon I went to my MVP-friend and Hyper-V colleague Aidan Finn´s “Hidden treasures in Hyper-V 2012 R2” https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3506 which is a keeper as it gives you some hints on what to think about to make your hosts run better and that is with the version available for production today!

Wednesday 

After a great party by Veeam I was a bit late in to the sessions on the morning but got a nice breakfast and chat with a Microsoft guy, after that I went to the Nanoserver session with Jeffrey Snover, always a pleasure to listen to a guy that can do presentations https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2461

After that It was lunchtime and then I went to watch my friend Fredrik Nilsson´s Community Theater Session “Getting started with Chef”

Then it was time for the Windows containers session with Hyper-V PM Taylor Brown https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2493

I guess that most of the Hyper-V MVP´s present at Ingite went to the what´s new with Hyper-V in Windows 2016 and watched the session given by Ben Armstrong and Sarah Cooley from the Hyper-V team https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3461

Thursday

The first session of the day for me was “Managing Windows and Linux on Azure with Chef” https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3722

After that I went to the “Automating operational tasks with Azure Automation” https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3451

During lunch I went into the Expo Area and watched my friend Jakob G Svendsen´s Community Theater Session with device management and a bit lego-robotstuff.. hilarious!

After lunch I attended “Azure Iaas for Azure Stack” https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3479

And then I attended the “Enabling Private Cloud Storage Using Servers with Local Disks”  https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3474

One of the funniest sessions was the “Exploring Storage replica in Server vNext” with Ned Pyle https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3489

There was a bunch of more sessions that I could not attend to in person but still was really valuable and I will do a follow-up post giving the links to the records of those so stay tuned 🙂

One year passes so fast and today was the day when it was my renewal date for the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award. This is my second time that I get the award!

I have been working quite hard in the communities during the year with live presentations, webcasts, blog posts etc and was hoping that it was enough. In the afternoon I got a bit nervous and started thinking that maybe there was someone else that have made a bit more contributions and took my place but,

At the magic time 04:29 PM CET I got the longing mail :

 I am in good company with about 50 other Hyper-V MVP´s and learn stuff every day from my friends and expertise-colleagues and 2015 will ROCK, so see you around and most certainly at Ignite in Chicago in May!

keep following my blog and twitter and I will try to keep up and post information and help when I encounter problems or smart solutions that you can benefit from 🙂

I have now in a couple of weeks been testing a Nokia Lumia 930 phone and it is soon time to return it. Importantly that need to be said here is that I have been using iPhones since 2008 and also for a short while I used an Android phone and quite quickly went back to the iPhone.

The iPhone and Apple has been very successful with their devices since the first came out. The amount of apps available for IOS is huge and companies and governments also have adapted and created usable apps for making the life of the user smooth.

The Windows Phone in it´s earlier versions have had its ups and downs and I have not seen it as a possible replacement before the version 8 of the OS and later..

Now as I have lived with the phone and tried to adapt I can really say that I like it.. the build quality is magnificent and the screen looks great, it is fast and I can manage my daily tasks, it is obvious that the development of the OS have got some attention and Microsoft have thought through how the phone should work and with the new features like for instance Cortana it is in the edge of Phone OS development..

Still I miss my banks app but they say that it is coming this year so when that one have arrived I can buy me self a beutiful Lumia 😉

Some of the apps I have installed:

• Waze
• SAS Scandinavian Airlines
• Skype
• Spotify
• SVT Play
• Swish
• Yammer
• Amazon Kindle
• Easy Park
• Facebook Beta
• GoPro
• Instagram Beta
• Lync 2013
• Netflix
• Office Lens
• PC Remote
• Twitter
• WinRunner

There are of course more apps that would make it into the cut and the development of new apps go blazing fast so just because your favorite app right now only exist for Android or IOS that will change in a near future. I think we will see a fast changing map now that Microsoft owns the phone division of NOKIA and can make the momentum for devices and solutions that would attract new users that most likely could have been stuck with an iPhone before..

So when you are going to change device next time, think twice and look at the Lumia phones!

Hope that you all have a nice summer!

I have been busy with vacation and taking care of the family the latest couple of weeks! But there is some news I want to share with you, Tomorrow I will work my last day at Lumagate and then a new adventure will start at my old employer Real Time Services.

My role will be Chief Technical Architect – Microsoft Solutions, within this I will be responsible for offerings and design with hybrid clouds based on Azure and all its features, Hyper-V and office 365. With the new functionality that Azure continuously delivers it will be exiting times ahead getting customers to utilise and see the benefits with an hybrid cloud environment.

Real Time Services is also in a new exciting phase with a recent merger with two other companies making a larger and broader company that will be able to be a better solution provider and also make a serious commitment on Microsoft Cloud OS. The other companies that is part of the merger are PMCG and Skypoint.

If you want to contact me from now on use the following details 🙂

It´s just about one week left until the Microsoft TechEd 2014 starts in Houston with about 15 000 attendees!

I am really looking forward to this event and the following sessions will be in my priority list and most likely you can find me in those rooms:

Monday

Keynote
Comment: Of course I will be at the Keynote to see what Brad has to say about Hybrid Clouds in the Enterprise

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

I will probably find some more interesting sessions later and will update this list, I will also make a new post when the sessions are available to view on Channel 9.

Here is also a list that my friend and colleague Fredrik Nilsson has wrote in the Channel 9 forums what you should pack to make your visit as smooth as possible, unfortunately he could not attend this year in TechEd US 🙁