My review of 2024

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So…. 2024. That was a couple of days ago.
2024 was a special year for me. In this blog post, I will mention all the highlights, on a personal level, community and website.

Personal

The highlight in this area is that I got to speak at different meetups and events, like Experts Live Netherlands together with Sander Rozemuller. You can read the report of this further on. Furthermore I spoke at meetups from the WP Ninjas NL, WP Ninjas CH and my own community Meetup, the WorkplaceDudes. And I spoke at the Europe MCT Summit in the Netherlands.

Just like in 2023, I was again nominated for Microsoft MVP. But…. From last June, I can call myself a Microsoft MVP in the Intune category. More about that in one of the links below.

As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, I have been able to give quite a few training courses in the past year. Together with Class-IT, I was able to give an 11-week evening training MS-102 for a customer of Class-IT on behalf of my own company Mizze Solutions. With a good result, because students have already passed.

Class-IT – Consultancy, Training & Cloud Architecture

Community

2024 was a busy year for my community activities.

WorkplaceDudes

Together with Richard Sousa Ferreira, in the 2nd half of 2024, Richard was replaced by Pascal Vis, and Engin Soysal, we continued with season 3 and season 4 of the WorkplaceDudes.

Some figures from the WorkplaceDudes:
• 1 summit with 15 speakers, including 11 MVP's
• 2 Meetups we've organized
• 19 webcasts / podcast created

And there are more fun things to come!

Modern Endpoint Management Summit

New this year, at least for me, was attending the MEM Summit in Paris.

Again, several days of just sessions, networking, eating and drinking together. Of course, long days too, but that's part of it. Going to Paris is, for us anyway, the fastest method to go by high-speed train. Within a few hours you are in Paris.

In the end there were 6 of us on the train to Paris. From the station a cab to the hotel. The venue was on the other side of the water, so a nice walk every day. During these days we talked to a huge number of people, laughed and so on.

Next year again to Paris.

Experts Live Netherlands

Like last year, I'm on the Experts Live Netherlands team again this year. And again this year responsible for the interpretation of the sessions, together with 10 other people. Or in other words, the Program Panel Team.

On this day, me and Sander Rozemuller had a session called Secure Emergency Access Strategies: Zero Trust Break the Glass Solutions.
This session covered solutions for accessing critical systems during MFA outages. It included setting up emergency accounts with alerts and introduces a more secure, passwordless alternative to traditional break glass accounts.

The rest of the day I helped speakers get their laptops and microphones working properly.

Workplace Ninjas Summit

My 2nd time at the Workplace Ninjas Summit. This time it was again in Lucerne.

I had to change my travel plans because I was invited to the MVP Intune pre-day. So on Saturday afternoon I drove to Lucerne together with Erik Loef.

These days are full of sessions, networking, eating and drinking together. But also time for some entertainment. On Wednesday we took a few people up the mountain on a gondola elevator.

On Thursday we drove back to the Netherlands.

Next year I will definitely come back!

Microsoft 365 Modern Management Meetup

This year, we continued with the Microsoft 365 Modern Management Meetup.
Mostly in hybrid form with a number of regular speakers. This year we will continue as usual.