Speaking at Microsoft Ignite!!!

Microsoft Ignite starts in just a few days. Microsoft Ignite is the biggest Microsoft conference of the year where around 30000 IT Professionals join for a week long of amazing announcements of new services and features, deep dive technical sessions and amazing Networking during the conference and in the after parties – cof cof – events 😊. You can also find areas to do some HOL – Hands on Labs, talk about certifications, talk with amazing sponsors in the expo area, etc…

This will be my third Microsoft Ignite, but it’s the first where I will be a Speaker. I already had the honor to speak at several events around the world. All events have their strong points and I have loved every one of them, from the smallest to the biggest. I always try my best to deliver a state-of-the-art presentation, if I have a small or big audience it
really does matter and I hope that every other speaker fells the same. Speaking in all those conferences gave me the possibility to deliver 3 sessions in this year Microsoft Ignite. Has you can imagine I was thrilled and astonishing when I got the confirmation email. Microsoft Ignite is the high point of the conference season. I just finished all presentations and demos and I’m already in Orlando, so it’s GO time!!!

A lot of new services and new features will be announced during the week, keep your eyes on social network and this blog. I will do my best to report everything ASAP. I have my gimble with me for some short videos that I plan to record with some of the speakers, PMs and general attendees. I want to bring the felling of Ignite to some of you that for all sort of reasons can’t attend in-person.

I will deliver 3 amazing sessions:

  • BRK2273 – Best ways to capacity your team on Microsoft Azure
  • THR1107 – Training & Certification Roadmap – Azure Apps & Infra
  • THR2132 – Access OneDrive and SharePoint files, a Developer view

 

BRK2273 – Best ways to capacity your team on Microsoft Azure

Tuesday – Sep 25 – 12:45PM to 1:30 PM @OCCC W240

During this 45-minute session, I will explain with real case scenarios how you can capacity your team for the brand-new world of the Cloud! Using cloud technologies is not something of the future, is the PRESENT, and if your team currently is not up to speed with Microsoft Azure, this is a to-go session. We will go throw all the steps needed to get your team able to design, Architect, develop and maintain Microsoft Azure based solutions. A lot of resources will be shared in this session.

THR1107 – Training & Certification Roadmap – Azure Apps & Infra

Wednesday – Sep 26 – 10:45AM to 11:05AM @Expo Theater #9

In this session I will have the honor to officially release the new Microsoft Azure Certifications from Microsoft Learning. A lot will change and if some is already public because a part of it was launch in July during Microsoft Inspire, now we will open the full book! Everything will be shared. If you are in the Learning space and if your work with Microsoft Azure and want to be certified don’t forget to come by this session and get all the information first hand!

THR2132 – Access OneDrive and SharePoint files, a Developer view

Wednesday – Sep 26 – 4:00PM to 4:20PM @Expo Theater #2

In this short session, I will show how the Microsoft Graph can help developer build and integrate a file experience to store files into OneDrive and/or SharePoint in their apps.

BIG BIG News!!! – Microsoft launches Azure DevOps

Microsoft just announced Azure DevOps.

In a great blog post, Jamie Cool the Director of Program Manager for Azure DevOps announced the service and what Includes:

  • Azure Pipelines
  • Azure Boards
  • Azure Artifacts
  • Azure Repos
  • Azure Test Plans

Azure DevOps is an amazing in the evolution of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). If you currently use VSTS you will be upgraded to Azure DevOps automatically. Your URL will be updated from myvsts.visualstudio.com to dev.azure.com/abc and the service will support redirection of the old URL to the new one, this means that you don’t need to update right away your url. Stuff will still work for you, but of course is highly recommended that you inform your teams of the new URL ASAP.

With this change Team Foundation Server will also be updated naming wise, it will be called Azure DevOps Server.

Next few days I will review the new UI and create a more complete blog post about Azure DevOps. Hope you’re so exited with this change has I am!

Official Launche will happen on the Sep, 11th 8AM to 9:30AM (Pacific Time). Check all the information about the event at: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/community/events/devops/

You can check all the pricing of this service at: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devops-services/