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August 23rd, 2011

About the site

MS Digest (www.msdigest.net) is a personal blog about Microsoft technologies, started back in January 2005 (formerly known as IIS Digest – www.iis-digest.com), it have since then changed domain and name, because I wanted to write about other things, than just IIS. Since my main focus today is Exchange, Lync and Office 365 and IIS is only a minor part of my daily life. The blog covers Microsoft technologies and it is maintained and owned by Peter Schmidt. My blog will contain the latest news, scripting, tips and miscellaneous for Microsoft Technologies of my interest, which means areas such as Exchange, Lync, Office 365, Internet Information Services, ISA/TMG and everything else around those technologies that I find interesting.

 

About Me

My name is Peter Schmidt and I'm from Denmark.

I have been working as an IT Pro since 1996 and working with Microsoft technologies ever since. I'm currently an Infrastructure Architect working at a consulting firm in Denmark. My primary focus is Microsoft Unified Communication and Messaging solutions, based on technologies like Exchange, Lync/OCS and Directory Services (AD etc.) and then security based on ISA/TMG Server and Microsoft PKI.

Articles and writing

I write articles on a regular basis about Microsoft technologies for:

Community Activities

I’m trying to share as much IT knowledge as possible within my spare time. This sharing is mainly done on the largest Danish IT Pro website: IT Experts, http://www.it.experts.dk, where I’m one of the top posters and moderator.

Forums, pages and communities where I am active:

User Groups

I have co-founded the first Danish User Group for Microsoft Unified Communications technologies: CoLabora.

CoLabora

Out main goal is to provide a forum in danish for everyone, from consultants to administrators, who work with Microsoft Unified Communications technologies. We maintain a blog and website at www.colabora.dk, where we post tips and news about Microsoft UC. A few times a year we arrange meetings for all the members, both offline and online meetings.

Speaking engagements

I've been speaking at the following engagements (some are listed below):

  • 2011 – Microsoft Campus Days
  • 2010 - Lync Server 2010 Launch - Lync Server 2010 Architecture and Upgrading
  • 2010 – Lync Server 2010 Launch – CoLabora event 
  • 2010 – Joomladay Denmark – Joomla on Windows (about running Joomla on IIS, WPI and WebMatrix)
  • 2010 – CoLabora event – Exchange 2010 SP1 features
  • 2003 - Microsoft TechDays - Windows Server 2003 Security
  • 2001 - Microsoft TechNet Summit - SharePoint Portal Server 2001

Training 

I have trained the Internal IT staff, colleagues and customers in various technologies:

  • Exchange Server 2010
  • Exchange Server 2007
  • Exchange Server 2003
  • Active Directory Services

Technical Training and Conferences

Conferences I've been attending in the past:

2010 Microsoft Master Training: Exchange 2010, Redmond, WA, USA
Microsoft MVP Summit, Redmond, WA, USA
2009 Microsoft Master Training: Exchange 2007, Redmond, WA
Microsoft MVP Summit, Redmond, WA, USA
2008 Microsoft TechEd: IT Professionals, Orlando, FL, USA
2007 Microsoft TechEd: IT Professionals, Orlando, FL, USA
2005 Microsoft TechEd, Amsterdam, NL
2004 Microsoft IT Forum, Copenhagen, DK
2001 Microsoft Exchange Conference, Nice, FR
2000 Microsoft Exchange Conference, Nice, FR

 

Certifications

I currently hold the following Microsoft certifications:

  • Microsoft Certified Master: Exchange 2010
  • Microsoft Certified Master: Exchange 2007
  • MCITP: Enterprise Administrator
  • MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator
  • MCITP: Server Administrator
  • MCSE-Internet/Messaging/Security
  • MCSA-Messaging/Security
  • MCDBA

Along with Symantec Technical Specialist in Enterprise Vault 7.

Awards of Recognition

Microsoft MVP: Exchange Server.

Since 2008 awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), 4 years in a row.

1st of July 2008 I recieved my first Microsoft MVP award in Internet Information Services (IIS) for my contributions to the IIS community. I have since been fortunate enough to be re-awarded. As of 1st of July 2011, I received the award in Exchange Server.

Microsoft MVPs are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.

You can see my public MVP profile here:

 MVP

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