July 2012 #mvpbuzz #Microsoft

below the list of MEA MVPs for July 2012:

 

Renewed MVPs

Influencer	Technical Expertise	Country/Region
Mustafa  Acungil	SQL Server	Turkey
Alon  Fliess	Visual C++	Israel
Pnina  Zinger	Project	Israel
Aviv  Liberman	Visio	Israel
Tarek  Majdalani	Forefront	Kuwait
Muhammad Imran  Khawar Bodla	SharePoint Server	Pakistan
Hakan  Uzuner	Directory Services	Turkey
Gokhan  Senyuz	Enterprise Security	Turkey
Shay  Levy	PowerShell	Israel
Ockert Johannes du Preez	Visual Basic	South Africa
Muhammad  Umair	Visual Basic	Saudi Arabia
Gail  Shaw	SQL Server	South Africa
Ali  Tahiri	Visual Studio ALM	Morocco
Michael (Micky) Avidan	Excel	Israel
Baki Onur Okutucu	Windows Expert-IT Pro	Turkey
Adil Ahmed Mughal	Visual C#	Pakistan
Alex  Golesh	Silverlight	Israel
Yaron  Naveh	Connected System Developer	Israel
Dylan  Haskins	Dynamics CRM	South Africa
Bechir  Gharbi	System Center Configuration Manager	Tunisia
Meir  Dudai	SQL Server	Israel
Ahmet Sertay  Halka	Connected System Developer	Turkey
Josh  Reuben	Technical Computing	Israel
Ronen  Chenn	SQL Server	Israel
Idan  Plotnik	Forefront	Israel
Mustafa  Kara	System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management	Turkey
Burak  Batur	SharePoint Server	Turkey

New MVPs

Influencer	Technical Expertise	Country/Region
Serkan  Varoglu	Exchange Server	Bermuda
Yaniv  Totshvili	Exchange Server	Israel

Retired MVPs

Sadly, we had to say goodbye to the following MVPs this cycle, but they stay on our watch list for possible nominations in the future.

Influencer	Technical Expertise	Country/Region
Ediz  Ozturk	System Center Configuration Manager	Turkey
Peter  Willmot	SQL Server	South Africa
Khalil ur Rehman  Khan	SharePoint Server	Pakistan
Erbug  Kaya	Expression Blend	Turkey
Mina  Nagy	Lync	Egypt
Alaa  Ajweh	App-V	Jordan
Fatih  Karaalioglu	System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management	Turkey

In addition, Turkish SQL Server MVP Turgay Sahtiyan is retired due to his recent employment at Microsoft MEA as a Senior Premier Field Engineer.

#Microsoft Office 365 is now available in #UAE, #Kuwait, #Qatar, #South Africa, #Saudi Arabia, #Egypt and #Turkey

We all know that O365 has been released in Europe and USA, now it is our time, Microsoft has launched the program in selected countries and trials of it could be tested.

   

Got this Message this morning and would like to share it with you

Microsoft is delighted to announce the availability of Office 365 trial services to its MVPs, partners and customers in UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey.

Microsoft Office 365 brings together online versions of our trusted email and collaboration software* with our familiar Office Professional Plus suite; it is designed to help meet your needs for robust security, 24/7 reliability, and user productivity in the cloud.

If you are in these geographies we encourage you to try Office 365 by signing up on our trial page.  We are currently working on the web experience, the way to activate the trial properly is to go to these sites and select the “Free Trial” button.

 

Enjoy

Speaking on Wednesday 28/9 at Microsoft about VDI building blocks with #Microsoft,#Citrix & #Netapp #mvpbuzz #xendesktop

next Wednesday I will speak at Microsoft hero event about VDI building blocks with Microsoft, Citrix and Netapp solutions.

the session will be level 300-350 going from design to implementation, the session content will be:

No Marketing stuff , it is All Hot technical materials. so Drink a lot of Coffee :), The session is for Arabic language speakers

 book your calendar, you can confirm your registration and share it on linedin or facebook:

Linkedin:  http://events.linkedin.com/VDI-Building-Blocks-Microsoft-Citrix/pub/785942

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215307091861783

– Introduction to Desktop Virtualization and what does it mean.

– Benefits of VDI for corporates

– Building Blocks for VDI:

• Understand Hypervisor Requirements, Hyper-v, SCVMM
• Understand Connection Broker Requirements Xendesktop
• Understand application delivery requirements (Terminal Services and Xenapp)
• Understand VDI Type and OS Delivery Types.

– Get your VDI on the right track:

• Sizing your Hypervisor correctly Including Memory, Processor and Storage.
• Designing Operating System Delivery
• Sizing your application delivery infrastructure
• Sizing remote access and network
• Storage optimization matrix for VDI deployments (De-duplication, Thin Provisioning and Snapshots)
• Design backup and restore

– Lab for end to end solution implementation

See you there,

Register for my Second Arabic Webinar about Microsoft Exchange Server

Due to the demonstrations and revolution was running in Egypt last month we didn’t manage to do the second session, we are back and you can meet me in the second session, you can register here, registration is mandatory but takes less than 30 second.

you can register here

see you.