Speaking at SharePoint user group Houston USA #SPSHOU

As always, presenting to SharePoint community across the world is a priceless sensation. This time I’ll be talking about SharePoint and OneDrive for SharePoint Houston User Group (H-SPUG) people.

There are two parallel sessions organized for this event and you can find out the full details of HSPUG web site.

http://h-spug.org/

You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/next-generation-collaboration-with-sharepoint-and-onedrive-tickets-48652812873?aff=erelexpmlt#tickets 

750 Town and Country Blvd #1000, Houston, TX 77024

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

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.

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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 !

I will be speaking at aOS Singapore Tour 2018 on 19th May–See you there !

aOS Singapore Tour 2018 is aiming to be educational & informative. Sessions will be conducted by respected SharePoint/Office 365/Azure professionals, covering a wide variety of topics. Sessions will cover Azure, SharePoint, and Office 365, including content for IT Pros, Developers, and Business Users.

Organised by technology enthusiasts and Microsoft MVPS (Most Valuable Professional), this is an event not to be missed. aOS is one of the largest and widely spread community for Microsoft SharePoint, Azure and Office 365 across the globe. In fact, the name of this global community is came out from the first character of these three products so that its easy to remember and more relevant.

In this session, I’ll  be talking about latest improvements of OneDrive and SharePoint as Microsoft have recently boosted their productivity stack when it comes to their capabilities.

Join us for a free full-day community event and learn more about the latest technologies and functionalities from respected experts!

Register here for free – https://aossg.azurewebsites.net/ 

I will be presenting at aOS Singapore Tour 2018

OneDrive Making a Real Comeback

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 :

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

Awarded as an Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

On 1st October 2016 (Yesterday) I received the most delightful email on my personal mail box with a surprising message saying that “Microsoft has recognized me as an Microsoft Most Valuable Professional”.

I don’t think there could be another spirit for a technical person who is whiling to share his/her knowledge and expertise with others than this wonderful opportunity. Receiving this made me the way to think of doing much more community works.

My thought to others who are dreaming for MVP:

MVP is not a certification of a private degree. its a collaborative decision made by the Microsoft MVP program team together with relevant product teams based on each persons contributions done for the community for past years. It could be blogging, speaking, forums participation, Pod casts, webinars or other good ways of educating others.

Its been many years since I started doing community contributions in Srilanka and Brunei so MVP is not just a goal to be recognized and keep the prize at home, instead a journey keep doing what you have done for the community and even better.

There are many people behind this incredible achievement, My good friend Nirmal Thewarathanthri been mentoring me for past few years. not forgetting the leader who showed me the right path at the right time, Amila Hendahewa, Ojith Nishantha are still my heroes. this will lead me to do much more and learn more from fellow MVPs as well.

Thank You MVP Program team and Microsoft for this invaluable opportunity given !

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

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.

Register yourself today at http://collab365.events/collab365-global-conference-2016/

Announcing the new Microsoft and Open Source Partner Community

It’s known for years now that Microsoft’s affair with Open source. Day by day this bound has been grown and now it’s obviously a blessed marriage. Microsoft’s one of the biggest strength is partner and technical community eco system. Unlike any other parties, Microsoft has done a lot to build the community eco system which connects every individual in the world with products and technologies in various ways.

In the other hand, Open source parties had this flaw where the community and support contribution to the product stack were very low.

Azure grown unbelievably faster unlike any other cloud service in past few years and open source migrations to the Azure has increased massively. Infect 1 in 3 VMs in Azure are Open source. This drastic growth rang the bells to Microsoft for the next button to be pressed. While open source resources are being moved to Azure, it is also a critical point to implement connectivity between open source vendors, partners and technical communities with Microsoft Partners and Technical Communities. This is a long due marriage which could have happened before but finally here we are.

At Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2016, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft and Open Source partner community on Microsoft Partner Network, the place for us to connect and collaborate with the vast and diverse ecosystem of partners who develop and distribute open source solutions and services on Microsoft Azure.

This community is open to discuss about diverse range of open technologies runs on Azure. It will allow anyone to stay tuned with updates, Share information on various criteria’s of open technologies and even to simply start a discussion on your own topic which shall be responded by the community.

Eventually, Microsoft has implemented another bridge between open source and Microsoft community across the globe. 

Original Announcement on MPN

Brunei Cloud User Group-May 2016

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

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.