Upcoming events

I’ll shortly be once again out and about doing presentations on Azure and Office 365 for Ingram Micro. This time we’re going to places that we haven’t been before. I look forward to meeting a sea of new faces at these upcoming events. Here are the details of the upcoming roadshow:

Join us for our Cloud Elevate Bootcamp with Robert Crane, Microsoft MVP for a full day of learning around Office 365 and Azure. You’ll come away with not only technical answers but business solutions you can implement and sell to customers.

We have divided the day into two major sessions to maximise your learning:

Why Office 365 and Azure?
This session will take a technical deep dive into both Office 365 and Azure. You’ll learn about the services that constitute both products, you’ll learn how they are licenses and deployed as well as how to migrate from existing on premises environments include Small Business Server (SBS).

The session will be interactive with whiteboard tutorials and answers to your specific questions. By the end of this session you’ll have a much greater understanding about what Office 365 and Azure are and how they can be implemented within businesses.

How to sell Office 365 and Azure?
Azure and Office 365 represent a seismic shift in the way that IT providers need to think about delivering services to customers, but where do you start? This session will give you the knowledge and the tools that will allow you to take advantage of the opportunities that both Office 365 and Azure provide.

This session again is designed to be interactive with lots of practical business examples, whiteboard discussions and examination of real world SMB scenarios.

No matter what stage of your cloud journey you are current at, as an IT professional you’ll get value from attending both of these sessions.

You’ll get the chance to hear the latest product news, have your specific questions answered and learn about the opportunities that are now available to you in the Microsoft Cloud.

A day not to be missed.

Dates and locations

Melbourne – 22nd February
9:00am to 5:00pm
Registration starts 8:30am
All Seasons Bendigo
171-183 McIvor Road
Bendigo VIC 3550

Adelaide – 28th February
9:00am to 5:00pm
Registration starts 8:30am
Mercure Adelaide
125 North Terrace,
Adelaide SA 5000

Sydney – 2nd March
9:00am to 5:00pm
Registration starts 8:30am
Novotel Homebush
Olympic Blvd & Herb Elliott Ave
Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127

Gold Coast – 7th March
9:00am to 5:00pm
Registration starts 8:30am
Novotel Surfers Paradise
3105 Surfers Paradise Blvd
Surfers Paradise QLD 4217

Hobart – 9th March
9:00am to 5:00pm
Registration starts 8:30am
Grand Chancellor Hotel
1 Davey Street
Hobart TAS 7000

Register here

I hope to see you there.

Free CIAOPS Office 365 webinar next week

Please don’t forget to sign up for my free Office 365 webinar next Thursday the 22nd of September from 11am Sydney time. You can register here:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7120256258738097411

By attending you’ll get the latest Cloud news plus a deep dive into an Office 365 topic as well as open Questions and Answers where you can ask any question you like.

This months deep dive will focus on Yammer. What is is? How can it be used to collaborate? And how can it be used effectively inside a business of any size? I’ll show you and share some best practices, along with some tips and tricks.

Of course if you have specific questions on Yammer or Office 365 you’d like answered don’t hesitate to send them to me (director@ciaosp.com) and I’ll do my best to make sure they get answered.

The CIAOPS Need to Know Webinars are free to attend but if you want to receive the recording of the session you need to sign up as a CIAOPS patron (for only USD$10 per month) which you can do here:

https://www.patreon.com/ciaops

or purchase them individually at:

http://www.ciaopsacademy.com/

Also feel free at any stage to email me directly at director@ciaops.com with your webinar topic suggestions.

I’d also appreciate you sharing information about this webinar with anyone you feel may benefit from the session.

I look forward to seeing everyone on the webinar in September.

Upcoming Ingram Bootcamps

Ingram Micro Cloud Elevate Bootcamp

I’m presenting at the next round of Cloud Elevate Bootcamps from Ingram Micro. You can register for upcoming sessions in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth here:

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e7b9bf6fefc7f30ec0fad7629&id=a9dd2951fb&e=b579342c7f

In these sessions I’ll be talking about Office 365 collaboration (particularly SharePoint and OneDrive for Business) as well as on Skype for Business and Skykick backups. There will also be a session on Dropbox.

Love to see you come along, participate, ask questions and most importantly learn more about Office 365!

I hope to see you at an upcoming event.

Innovations Days event in Sydney–Register now

I’m speaking at an upcoming event in Sydney. My topic will be on Azure Rights management. This includes the free version that comes with office 365 E3 or better as well as the stand alone Azure Rights Management product.

The event is Saturday the 17th of September 2016 from 8.30am at the NSI Tafe NSW, St Leonards Campus, Sydney. You can register now at:

http://innovationdays.com.au/register

Here are all the details about the day. I hope to see you there.

Join us at Innovation Days

Join Australian Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) and Industry Experts for a one day of accelerated learning about innovative technologies. Expert Speakers will present based on their real world experience in short action packed sessions.

Major Topics Includes:

Cloud and Datacenter Management
Topics covered include Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud and the future of applications, integrating Cloud into your IT strategy/the challenges of the journey to the cloud, managing scalable applications to managing customer relationships through social platforms; Linux and Windows OS migration to public Cloud.
Data Analytics and Integration
The world is moving faster than ever before, with more devices, more connections, more networks and new data. More than ever, to stay competitive, your business needs to move fast to process the large volumes of dynamically changing data. Learn how to be at the market frontier with enterprise analytics and unlock the power of your data in the cloud.
Identity
Enterprise identity management has been primarily focused on access to employees and contractors. But as the industry has been perfecting how to serve employees, consumer identity has presented itself as a growth opportunity for businesses and identity professionals alike. Topics covered: Identity Management, Device Management and Identity as a Service.

Session Details

Date: Saturday, 17th September
Time: 08:30am to 05:30pm
Venue: NSI Tafe NSW – St Leonards Campus, Sydney, Australia
The day session will include: 16+ sessions, solution roadmaps, direct access to industry experts, networking and more.

Register

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Are you going to Office 365 Nation?

Harry Brelsford has been running SMB reseller events for many years now. He continues this tradition with the Office 365 Nation event in Seattle from October 2 – 4, 2015 and you can get more details and register at:

http://fall2015.smbnation.com/

I have been lucky enough to again be selected to speak at the event this year. If you missed it, I also presented last year and here’s my summary of the whole event:

Review of office 365 Nation 2014

This year I’ll be presenting on a broad range of topics including:

– Office 365 Identity

– Yammer

– Office 365 Security and compliance

– Azure and Office 365 exam cram topics

– Office 365 for MAC

to name but a few. Chances are that I’ll also be doing a few impromptu sessions like I did last year.

But you know what the best thing about this event is? The networking. Catching up with peers and sharing experiences, gaining understanding and building relationships is something you can’t do as effectively in emails, social media or in forums.

I look forward to seeing everyone soon and if you aren’t registered then hop to it as I’m sure places are limited. Tell Harry I sent you.

Office 365 Saturday–Sydney

I have been lucky enough to be selected to speak at the Office 365 Saturday event in Sydney this weekend, the 13th June. My session is on the ‘Business of Yammer’ but I am also looking forward to a full day of Office 365 topics presented by some very knowledgeable people in the SharePoint and Office 365 space.

One of the sessions I am really keen to see is the one on PowerBI. So if you are interesting in attending you can register at:

http://www.o365saturdayaustralia.com/Pages/Sydney.aspx

O365 Saturday Sydney kicks off registrations at 8:30am on 13th June at Cliftons – 13/60 Margaret Street, Sydney NSW, 2000.

The whole day is free and great opportunity to do some networking and get those burning Office 365 questions answered. If you are planning on attending let me know and we can perhaps catch up.

I hope to see you there.

Karl’s on line conference

We are less than a month away from Karl Palachuk’s online conference at which I have been lucky enough to be given a speaking opportunity. You can find out more about the conference and sign up at:

http://www.smbonlineconference.com/

My presentation topic is:

You Need a New Business Model for Success in the Cloud

and I’ll warn you that I’m going to rather brutal in what I present here. My focus is on looking forward not back and looking for a business model that will be sustainable now and into the foreseeable future.

That, no doubt, will challenge a lot of conventional thinking but I really believe that is what is called for in the SMB technology reseller space these days. The game has changed which brings both threats and opportunities and understanding both is key.

If you want to get both barrels from my no holds bared presentation as well as some great insight for a score of other really smart and talented presenters then sign up for Karl’s conference today.