Next week I'll be at the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2014!!!

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Microsoft Exchange Conference 2014 will start in a week! As with the previous version I’ll be there too! For those attending, this is my MEC2014 profile (login required). I’ll arriving Saturday late evening and I’ll leave the next Saturday in the afternoon. Unfortunately no solo sessions, but I will certanly be there for The UC Architects Live session (code: ARC.IN.306 currently planned on wednesday afternoon)! Between the official event parties etc., ENow will also sponsor a The UC Architects party!!! Registration is required and

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The UC Architects Episode 35: Service Packed! is available now!

Reading Time: 2 minutes A few days ago episode 35 of The UC Architects podcast went live! Service Packed! With Steve Goodman hosting, joined by John Cook, Michael Van Hybrid, Michel de Rooij, Serkan Varoglu, Ståle Hansen and yours truly. Our editor was the legendary Andrew Price. In this episode we talk (a lot) about Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1, a quick review of the new features and the detected Transport bug and how we feel about that one. If you have plans

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My contributions to future and past events

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes people ask me whether I’m busy and with what. Well, next to my “normal” job consulting, designing, implementing and troubleshooting Exchange, Office 365 and some other stuff. Next to attending events and such, I also contribute to them. The 31st of October there will be an Exchange day in the Netherlands, organized by the Dutch IT Pro group NGN. Together with Jaap Wesselius, Kay Sellenrode, Johan Veldhuis, Jetze Mellema,  Michel de Rooij and Ashley Flentge we will have full

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TechEd Europe 2012: Thursday's (day 3) quick thoughts

Reading Time: 2 minutes Same quick summary as previous days, I was dead beat so wrote it this morning enroute to day 4. SWAG: Did a bit better with USB hub, 2 USB 4GB Sticks, and some other stuff. Oh yeah; I won a Nokia Lumia 900!!! At the Nokia booth after handing over the tile from the conference bag and clicking randomly on a screen. You can't beat that! Well, a Win8 tablet could have 😉 Weather: very nice and I had no

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Upcoming Microsoft Events I’m attending: TechEd Europe and MEC

Reading Time: 2 minutes Faithfull Twitter followers probably already know, but my employer made it possible for me to attend TechEd Europe 2012 (June 26-29) in Amsterdam (and the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2012 (MEC, September 24-26) in Orlando! For me this TechEd is a bit more special than others I’ve attended (Barcelona, Berlin) because I was born in Amsterdam and I currently live within an hour commuting to the conferencing site RAI. Talk about convenient. Unfortunately the discount period is over, so you’ll have

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