New MVPS Announced – July 2009

Technorati Tags: MVP,most valuable professional,Award,new,re-awarded,july,2009,fy10

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities.

We announce newly awarded and re-awarded MVPS every quarter, the award is valid for an year, given for the contributions of the individual to technical communities over the past year.

We are extremely happy to welcome the following new MVPs:

Hans vredevoort	Cluster	Netherlands
Ragnar Harper	PowerShell	Norway
Jannes Alink	System Center Configuration Manager	Netherlands
Kenny Buntinx	System Center Configuration Manager	Belgium
Jyrki Kivimaki	Directory Services	Finland
Andreas Stenhall	Windows Desktop Experience	Sweden
Andre Kamman	SQL Server	Netherlands
Peter Larsson	SQL Server	Sweden
Tero Vuorenmaa	Team System	Finland
Johan Veldhuis	Exchange Server	Netherlands
Magnus Bjork	Exchange Server	Sweden
Martin Lidholm	Communications Server	Sweden
Martijn Bellaard	Forefront	Netherlands
Maarten Balliauw	ASP/ASP.NET	Belgium
Petri Tapio Wilhelmsen	XNA/DirectX	Norway

We are also extremely happy to welcome back the following MVPS who have been re-awarded.

Hans Le Roy	Internet Explorer	Belgium
Jan Eliasen	BizTalk	Denmark
Marcus Murray	Enterprise Security	Sweden
Patrik Lowendahl	Visual C#	Sweden
Christoffer Andersson	Directory Services	Sweden
Jetze Mellema	Exchange Server	Netherlands
Cor Ligthert	Visual Basic	Netherlands
Maurice de Beijer	Connected System Developer	Netherlands
Bruno van Dooren	Visual C++	Belgium
Ronald Lemmen	Dynamics CRM	Netherlands
Wilfried Mestdagh	Windows Live Platform	Belgium
Jan Tielens	SharePoint Server	Belgium
Niek Otten	Excel	Netherlands
Erik van Ballegoij	ASP/ASP.NET	Netherlands
Edward Bakker	Solutions Architect	Netherlands
Bjorn Axell	System Center Operations Manager	Sweden
Anders Bengtsson	System Center Operations Manager	Sweden
Maarten Goet	System Center Operations Manager	Netherlands
Riemer Grootjans	XNA/DirectX	Belgium
Alex Thissen	Visual C#	Netherlands
Michel Roth	Remote Desktop Services	Netherlands
Wilco Van Bragt	Remote Desktop Services	Netherlands
Lene Fredborg	Word	Denmark
Henk Panneman	Windows Home Server	Netherlands
Joachim Marcel Farla	Communications Server	Netherlands
Stefan Schorling	System Center Configuration Manager	Sweden
Ronni Pedersen	System Center Configuration Manager	Denmark
Jesper Lund Stocholm	XML	Denmark
Joachim Nasslander	Cluster	Sweden
Peter Geelen	Identity Lifecycle Manager	Belgium
Peter Schmidt	Internet Information Services	Denmark
Olav Tvedt	Setup & Deployment	Norway
Dick Wenning	Dynamics AX	Netherlands
Marc Van Nooten	Consumer Security	Belgium
Toni Kinni	Consumer Security	Finland
Kurt Roggen	Management Infrastructure	Belgium
Andreas Sjostrom	Device Application Development	Sweden
Brian Rasmussen	Visual C#	Denmark

Thank you for your support to the community.

"How Do I?" Videos for the Azure Services Platform

Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Azure,HDI,free,content,learn

four Azure “How Do I” videos (HDIs) have been published Monday, June 8^th.

- The “How Do I” videos are free, task-oriented, and “bite-sized” to get you up to speed quickly

- See the Azure Services Platform in action without the CTP

- Learn more

· Webcasts – microsoft.com/events/series/azure.aspx

· Training kit – www.microsoft.com/azure/trainingkit.mspx

· Azure SDK - http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx

· Sample projects to review – codeplex.com, search “azure”

· Azure user groups – azureusergroup.com

Get access by going to the Connect.Microsoft.com site

Visit here for the overall summary page of videos

#DevDay2009 day 2

Technorati Tags: devdays09,microsoft,event,the netherlands,community

And yes, Day 2 also is better understanded when using pictures :)

Difficult questions on WPF or WCF? you need Sander Gerz!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attendees who were completely lost by all the great sessions were comforted by Gaby and went refreshed to the next sessions!

 

 

Matthijs talked about Unified Communications Development and the tools to use. Even I thought afterwards I could program these things! We make technology available to all levels :)

Questions on SQL? talk to JP at the SQLPass booth!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dynamics MVP Dick Wenning talking to MVP Ton Stegeman how to combine the best of both technologies, something is happening there!

 

 

 

 

 

Sander and Dennis talking Visual Studio 2010 representing DotNed.nl

 

 

 

And the Winner from SDN “Krasse Krasse Krasse” recieved an XBOX360 from Mariane van Wanrooij representing SDN!

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the end of the day the attendees were exhausted by an information overflow while all the Sharepoint brains in The Netherlands got together and conversed about? (next version of sharepoint?, great techology? problems?) Personally I think they were either planning the next BlackBelt session or SharePINT!

Thank you all community members, MVPs, speakers and user group members who made the Ask The Experts area a great success this year, see you next year!

(btw, check out www.Devdays.nl for all the recorded sessions!)

#Devdays2009, day 1

Technorati Tags: devdays09,microsoft,ask the experts,community,most valuable professional

Busy, very busy.. and pictures say more than words (think someone once said it) so here goes!

Ask The Eperts at the Silverlight and Expression stand, Rob Houweling and Sandra de Ridder showing all Microsoft Bling Bling!.

 

 

At the Community stand with all the usergroups such as VBCentral, DotNed, SQLPass and SDN, the latter made an applications on touch PC’s “Krassen, Krassen, Krassen” .

No complaints received from attendees where to find the experts :) All MVPs and User group experts were properly dressed!

 

 

MVP @Pvandesande won a Wildcard session, full house at his presentation!

 

 

 

And 2 more MVPs showing their good stuff to a crowd, @edwb and @clemensreijnen

 

 

 

Day 1 ended with Geeknight, an evening for geeks who like technology. Keynote consisted of a connected life on Microsoft technology followed by many presentations!

And luckily the Geeks were present.

 

 

 

 

 

Personally I think it was a great day 1 with many attendees and much interaction happening at the Ask The Experts and Community area. Day 2 here we come!

Community Day Belgium, 25th of June 2009 – FREE EVENT, DO NOT MISS IT (awesome!)

Technorati Tags: community,communityday,belgium,mvp,most valuable professional,ilse van criekinge,gill cleeren,microsoft

Last year, “Successful Communityday.be” indeed.. this year, the continued succes of Ilse van Criekinge [Exchange MVP] en Gill Cleeren [ASP.NET MVP] who’s time and devotion are to be praised :)

Compared to last time, there are 6 more User Groups joining that brings the total to 11 now. I also see 8 MVP’s on the agenda as a speaker and assume many will be visiting and available to talk to.

Below there is a snapshot of the email invitation I received, click it to register yourself for this free event and get updated to the latest information.

Mix essentials Europe, May 28 & 29

Technorati Tags: microsoft,mix,essentials,netherlands,mvps,devday09

Several MVPs such as Jan Tielens, Gill Cleeren and previous MVPs (ex-mvp?) Maarten Struys will be presenting at the European Mix Essentials in the Netherlands.

Take a look at the agenda,
Day 1, http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/mixeurope/day1.aspx
Day 2, http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/mixeurope/day2.aspx

See you there!

Microsoft Devdays 2009 Wildcard session list

Technorati Tags: wildcard,devdays09,microsoft,the netherlands,community,event

The introduced Wildcards at the Devday09 website www.devdays.nl has produced a few interesting suggested sessions already. I have listed them all for your convenience.

Michael van der Veeken 
- Creating a Web Desktop environment with Silverlight

Dennis Doomen
- TDD and SOLID, two ingredients for high quality software

Dennis van der Stelt
- If you build it, you’ll ship it

Nick Boumans
- E-commerce using SharePoint Commerce Services for Commerce Server 2009

Lennard van Leuven
- Toegankelijke websites realiseren met SharePoint, kan dat?

Pieter Joost van de Sande
-  Introductie Design by Contract in .NET

Sander Hoogendoorn
- Agile and Scrum anti-patterns

Go vote for your favorite session or presenter and you can still propose sessions if you are interested! Looking at the content and current votes it will be hard but I am sure we have many in the community out there that like a challenge!

CU @ devays09!