Global Azure Boot camp-Colombo 2018 was a great success !

On April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 By Manoj V KarunarathneIn Community Events, Contributions, EventsLeave a comment

With 150 participants in Movenpick hotel Colombo, Azure Boot camp achieved a great success last Saturday, 21st April. This was a full day event filled with fruitful moments and rich technical content focused on Microsoft Azure technologies. 13 Technical sessions by Industry experts and MVPs enriched the agenda and wrapped up in style with raffle draw and give-aways.

p align=”justify”>I’m glad that I was able to deliver a session there and taking this as a chance to thank all attendees, sponsors and organizers. all in all such a fantastic day we had !

OneDrive Making a Real Comeback

On October 19, 2017October 19, 2017 By Manoj V KarunarathneIn Community Events, Contribution for SharePoint Community, Contributions, Events, Hybrid, Office 365, SharePointLeave a comment

Have you heard about the virtual Collab365 Global Conference 2017 that’s streaming online November 1st – 2nd?

Join me and 120 other speakers from around the world who will be bringing you the very latest content around SharePoint, Office 365, Flow, PowerApps, Azure, OneDrive for Business and of course the increasingly popular Microsoft Teams. The event is produced by the Collab365 Community and is entirely free to attend.

Places are limited to 5000 so be quick and register now.

During the conference I’d love you to watch my session which is called : ‘OneDrive Making a Real Comeback’

OneDrive and OneDrive for business has been vital for collaboration context. Microsoft is making OneDrive better and better everyday with bunch of exciting and useful new features. Let’s discover the latest on OneDrive as its now acts as a more unified product with the latest capabilities announced.

If you join me, you will learn:

Latest of OneDrive
OneDrive
Unified OneDrive for everyone

Topic(s):

OneDrive

Audience :

End User
IT Manager
Power User

Time (in UTC) :

Thursday, November 2 2017 7:00 AM

How to attend :

Register here.
At the time listed above go here to watch my session. (you can also add me to your own personal planner from the agenda.
Be ready to take notes!

First step towards your cloud adventure – SharePoint in hybrid mode deep dive

On October 19, 2017October 19, 2017 By Manoj V KarunarathneIn Community Events, Contribution for SharePoint Community, Events, Hybrid, Hybrid CloudLeave a comment

Have you heard about the virtual Collab365 Global Conference 2017 that’s streaming online November 1st – 2nd?

Places are limited to 5000 so be quick and register now.

During the conference I’d love you to watch my session which is called : ‘First step towards your cloud adventure – SharePoint in hybrid mode deep dive’

With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft Introduced new Hybrid capabilities to transfer some of your workloads to the cloud using Azure and Office 365 in order to mitigate administrative and managing efforts of your on-premises farms. And now with latest SharePoint 2016 and bold cloud platform vision, Hybrid capabilities are massively improved to make your journey towards cloud smooth and right. This is a technical and business user mixed session suitable for IT Pros, Developers and Business Users.

If you join me, you will learn:

When and Why SharePoint has to be in Hybrid Mode
Requirements to Implement a Hybrid Setup
Latest SharePoint Hybrid Capabilities including Hybrid Search, Insights (Analytics), Hybrid Profiles, Hybrid Sites
Setting up Hybrid SharePoint Environment (Live Demonstration of a deployment of SharePoint Hybrid Scenario)

Topic(s):

Hybrid SharePoint

Audience :

Business Analyst
Developer
End User
IT Pro
Power User

Time (in UTC) :

Thursday, November 2 2017 8:00 AM

How to attend :

Register here.
At the time listed above go here to watch my session. (you can also add me to your own personal planner from the agenda.
Be ready to take notes!

I will be speaking at SharePoint Saturday Baltimore (#SPSBMore)

On August 6, 2017August 6, 2017 By Manoj V KarunarathneIn Community Events, Contribution for SharePoint Community, Events, HybridLeave a comment

SharePoint community is always a great place to be and I am fascinated to be selected as a speaker for SharePoint Saturday Baltimore, Maryland. SPS Events are happening all over the world for many years at no cost for attendees.

If you are around Maryland, go ahead and register here – http://www.spsevents.org/city/baltimore/baltimoretecc

SharePoint Hybrid Deployment Live Demo

On October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 By Manoj V KarunarathneIn Community Events, Hybrid, Office 365, SharePointLeave a comment

It was a fruitful day at Collab365 Global conference 2016 with lots of wonderful sessions from experts allover the world. It was great to address an online crown this morning and my session is now on-demand and you can watch it here

Here are some resources for those who love to explore and try Hybrid for SharePoint

Download IdFix Tool – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36832

Download Azure AD Connect – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594

Planning SharePoint Hybrid Free E-Book – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoft_press/2016/04/26/free-ebook-planning-and-preparing-for-microsoft-sharepoint-hybrid/

Configuring SharePoint Hybrid Free E-Book – https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoft_press/2016/07/06/free-ebook-configuring-microsoft-sharepoint-hybrid-capabilities/

Its Official and I will be speaking at Collab365 Global Conference!

On July 22, 2016July 22, 2016 By Manoj V KarunarathneIn Community Events, Contributions, Events, Hybrid Cloud, Office 365, SharePointLeave a comment

It is indeed a great opportunity for me to present in the world’s largest online conference with over 5000 attendees from more than 100 countries.

Collab365 is the largest online conference with hundreds of live sessions streamed nonstop 24 hours. Join the Collab365 team on the 19th – 20th October, for great sessions of SharePoint, Azure and Office365 content by the global experts. Delivered direct to your device, wherever you are in the world, when you want it and for no cost at all.

Brunei Cloud User Group-May 2016

On May 26, 2016May 31, 2016 By Manoj V KarunarathneIn Brunei Cloud User Group, Community Events, Contributions, EventsLeave a comment

I will be Presenting at Brunei Cloud User Group May 2016 Event. It feels great to keep the sharing on going with a wonderful audience as always. see you there !

For registration and more details about the event visit the site here – http://sharepointbrunei.net

Brunei Cloud User Group December 2015

On December 18, 2015December 18, 2015 By Manoj V KarunarathneIn Brunei Cloud User Group, Community Events, Contribution for SharePoint Community, Contributions, EventsLeave a comment

Time to say good bye to 2015 and right before that let’s meetup and talk a bit about latest SharePoint Member of the Product Family. I’ll be presenting on SharePoint 2016 Beta 2 so that you are set to get start with Next RTM release.

Brunei Cloud User Group October 2015 Meetup

On November 2, 2015November 2, 2015 By Manoj V KarunarathneIn Brunei Cloud User Group, Community Events, Contributions, EventsLeave a comment

Another Milestone marked for Brunei Cloud User Group as we did the October Meetup with office 365 and Azure machine learning. Everyone was interestingly responded to the topic and content as we move ahead with mobile first Cloud First Concept.