Title: Getting More Performance from Azure Virtual Machines

Speaker: Aidan Finn, MVP, Cloud Mechanix, Ireland

Date and Time: Wed, May 1, 2019 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CEST

Webinar Description:  You’ve deployed your shiny new application in the cloud, and all that pride crashes down when developers and users start to complain that it’s slow. How do you fix it? In this session you’ll learn to understand what Azure virtual machines can offer, how to pick the right ones for the right job, and how to design for the best possible performance, including networking, storage, processor, and GPU.

Key benefits of attending:
– Understand virtual machine design
– Optimise storage performance
– Get more from Azure networking
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Stefano Tempesta Webinar

Title: Automate blockchain workflows with the Azure Blockchain Development Kit

Speaker: Stefano Tempesta, Microsoft RD (Regional Director) and MVP, Avanade, UK

Date and Time: Thu, May 9, 2019 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

Webinar Description:  Blockchain has captured the collective curiosity of the business and technology world for streamlining business processes, verifying transactions, and reducing the potential for fraud. This session introduces Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) in Microsoft Azure to build a secured data structure and create a distributed transactional digital ledger, on which we develop and deploy distributed apps and smart contracts.

Key benefits of attending: During this session, we’ll be using extensively Azure Blockchain Workbench for creating a decentralized solution deployed on a blockchain network, which shares on and off-chain data and services. Focus is on automating the workflows that can be generated in Blockchain Workbench, by leveraging the Azure Blockchain Development Kit and Microsoft Flow. Since the Azure Blockchain API provides access to on and off-chain data, we’ll understand how to integrate blockchain data with PowerBI, chat bots, Azure Service Bus, Event Grid and Machine Learning as well.

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Sergei Sergeev Webinar

Title: PnPJS – Your New SharePoint and Office 365 Development Friend

Speaker: Sergei Sergeev, MVP, Mastaq, Belarus

Date and Time: Tue, May 14, 2019 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CEST

Webinar Description:  A long time ago the only way to interact with SharePoint was server-side object model. Everything has evolved, and SharePoint is no exception. A lot of new things were introduced for SharePoint during the last few years. Among them a new standard for querying SharePoint objects through http protocol called REST API. With REST API you can relatively easy CRUD SharePoint or Office 365 APIs. However, managing REST queries in your code might be tricky. Normally your REST queries are just strings, you don’t have IntelliSense, auto-suggestions or type checking. You don’t have a simple and straightforward way to build your REST URLs. Fortunately, there is a library which helps you to create smarter code with fewer efforts but greater efficiency. PnPJS is a JavaScript library, written in TypeScript, which hides SharePoint and Microsoft Graph API URLs implementation details. Instead, it provides a fluent interface to work with REST APIs, including type checking, IntelliSense, some advanced abstractions over regular tasks like caching, batching and some other interesting stuff. The library helps you to write code faster, at the same time increases readability and maintainability of your code. PnPJS is a part of SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) program, maintained by Microsoft together with the community.

Key benefits of attending:
– Understand what PnPjs library is
– Learn the core features of PnPjs
– Discover the advanced features of PnPjs
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Title: Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and Office – the ideal threesome for co-authoring documents

Speaker: Sasja Beerendonk, User Adoption Consultant, Silverside, The Netherlands

Date and Time: Tue, Jun 18, 2019 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CEST

Webinar Description:  There are many apps and possibilities in Office 365 to make co-authoring a smooth and effective process. But many employees lack the digital skills, or are stuck in old habits and using outdated tools. Many employees never learned about the many new features offered by Office 365 apps. Learn how you can be more effective in ‘Co-authoring documents’ using a mix of OneDrive, Teams and Office features. This session goes beyond the real time co-editing feature possible in Office Online or sharing a file through OneDrive. It focuses on a real-to-life work scenario, where people discover what a combination of Office 365 tools can do to improve their every day work on Office files. This is a deep-dive in the complete document reviewing process (draft – collaborate – publish). Learn how this can be done smarter and with a lot more fun by using a mix of great features in Office 365 tools: Different reviewing options, inking, version management, speak to text, translation, thesaurus, conversation in Teams, document sharing, among many other cool features. I will show you how to re-think the tools and practices teams use today, with all the old & new possibilities Office 365 offers to improve the co-authoring of documents groups of people have to do every day.

Key benefits of attending:
– Get familiar with many Office features you never knew about, or didn’t know how they could improve the co-authoring process.
– Understand the powerful mix of OneDrive, Teams and Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) features to support your co-authoring though the whole process from draft to publication.
– Help employees by giving them practical productivity scenarios to help them adopt Office 365, and get more productive and efficient in their daily work.
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Jesper Jensen Webinar

Title: Notes from the Field: Secure your Azure Environments!

Speaker: Jesper Jensen, MVP, SOLVO IT, Denmark

Date and Time: Wed, Jul 10, 2019 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CEST

Webinar Description:  This session contains learnings from numerous customer projects, where we fixed a lot of things that technically worked but weren’t a good solution. Security is on everyone’s mind and it’s ranging from securing networks, controlling access to subscriptions and resources, enabling Azure AD security features like conditional access, and how to monitor logins and much more. This session will guide you through the common mistakes companies make when they start using Azure, and how to avoid these. We will investigate secure network designs, Azure Security Centre, Identity Management, reporting, how you can use Azure Policies to enforce security and much more.

Key benefits of attending:
– See how to build a secure network
– Get to know the different ways to secure cloud identities in Azure AD
– Learn how to control access to your critical Azure resources
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