In with December!

When I return to the office after Thanksgiving, I’m always both shocked and pleased to see the holiday lobby decorations have magically appeared in all the office building lobbies downtown. They are always different and certainly start off the month of December with some cheer.

If you need some events to attend in December to round out your year, this is what I have on my radar:

December 8th – LearnIT! Tech Adoption Summit and Open House (all day)
December 8th – Bay Area Azure Developers hosts Holiday Meetup with Lightning Talks (evening). This is a great opportunity to mingle with other local communities, like NorCal PowerShell, PacITPros, etc.
December 14th – HashiCorp User Group & DataDog Meetup (evening)

Hope to see you around before the years end!

Noticed the Update?

Since it’s a holiday week, I figured it’s a good time to throw the switch and cut over to a fresh blog platform. I opted for the “simplicity” of wordpress.com, partly because “everybody is doing it”. I’ve know people who are really familiar with designing for WordPress, people who used to work at WordPress and since I don’t want to overthink it, well, here I am. 🙂

I did toy with the idea of hosting my own instance of WordPress on Azure, but the reality of life means that I really can’t be worried about the “webmastering” of the whole thing. I really just wanted it “as-a-service”. I want some widgets and some columns and the ability to type and post. That’s it. Nothing crazy.

Anyway, let me know what you think of the new design. I’ll be doing more tweaks and updates over the next few weeks, I’m sure!

Goodbye November.

November seemed like a pretty busy month for me, so I’m looking forward to starting off a more relaxing holiday season, where I can get caught up with friends, family and abandoned side projects! I was doing a lot of presentations at a variety of places this past month and I know many of you might have asked for access to slides and various content.

If you’ve attended any of the “Ignite Your Business” events for Windows 10, you can find content related to that at: http://aka.ms/ITInnovationResources

If you’ve seen me at:

LearnIT! (San Francisco, 10/31)
Silicon Valley Code Camp (San Jose, 10/3)
Central CA .NET User Group (Fresno, 11/19)
IC3 DevOps Conference (San Jose, 10/10)

You can find those presentations on docs.com: https://docs.com/jennelle-crothers/5543/presentations

Upcoming Events… Cool Stuff, In Person!

Are you in the Portland area? Are you a SharePoint fan? A favorite MVP of mine, Zubair Alexander will be presenting at SharePointlanda 2015 this coming Saturday (Nov 14th). You can still join him!

Not into SharePoint? Are you thinking about Windows 10 for your enterprise instead? I’ve got you covered for that too… My fellow Tech Evangelists are hitting a bunch of cities across the US over the next several weeks. Boston, Atlanta, Philly, Dallas, to name just a few. Learn more at Ignite Your Business.

And for you folks who are stuck in the office, check out Part 7 of Blain Barton’s “To The Cloud” series! Blain Barton welcomes Microsoft MVP Adnan Cartwright to the show as they discuss the inner workings of Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 R2 and how you can manage roles and features in the cloud.

[10:04] DEMO: Introduction to Server Manager

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