Michael Noel
Author, Speaker, Technologist
Автор, Оратор, Технолог
San Francisco, California, United States
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Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert and bestselling author who has spoken on a broad range of topics at over 250 events in over 90 unique countries and on every continent. He has authored over two dozen major industry books including the bestselling SharePoint Unleashed series. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing (cco.com) in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael's writings and extensive public speaking experience leverage his real-world expertise helping businesses realize real value from both on-premises and cloud offerings.
Майкл Ноэль (Michael Noel): всемирно признанный американский эксперт в области компьютерных и информационных технологий, автор переведенных на более чем дюжину языков и пользующихся широким спросом книг, публичный оратор по широкому диапазону тем, выступавший на шести континентах. Основными темами его книг и выступлений являются SharePoint, Exchange Server и Windows Server. Профессиональный и пропагандистский опыт Майкла помогает многим организациям и предприятиям получать реальную отдачу от внедрения передовых информационных технологий.
В настоящее время Майкл Ноэль является партнером компании Convergent Computing (www.cco.com), находящейся в районе San Francisco (California, USA).
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Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Microsoft Ecosystem
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, revolutionizing industries and shaping the future of innovation. With a deep-rooted commitment to innovation, Microsoft has been at the forefront of integrating AI across its suite of products and services. This session will elucidate the diverse ways AI is seamlessly integrated into Microsoft's offerings, spanning from productivity tools to cloud services, and from developer platforms to business applications.
The session will provide an insightful exploration of how AI enhances user experiences through personalized recommendations, natural language understanding, and computer vision capabilities. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of AI-powered features in Microsoft 365, Azure Cognitive Services, and Power Platform, among others. From empowering developers with AI-driven tools to driving digital transformation across industries, this session will underscore the pivotal role of AI in shaping the present and future of Microsoft technologies.
- Explore the pervasive integration of Artificial Intelligence within Microsoft's suite of technologies, spanning productivity tools, cloud services, developer platforms, and business applications
- Discover how AI enriches user experiences through personalized recommendations, natural language understanding, and computer vision, while also delving into Microsoft's commitment to ethical AI practices, transparency, fairness, and accountability.
- Gain insights into real-world use cases demonstrating how AI empowers developers, drives digital transformation, and shapes industries within the Microsoft ecosystem, inspiring attendees to harness AI's potential in navigating the ever-evolving tech landscape.
Office 365: A Detailed Analysis
Office 365: A Detailed Analysis
Session Level: 200
Audience: Decision Makers/Executives
Microsoft’s Office 365 has experienced massive growth in recent months, with reduced overhead costs and reliability acting as driving factors for many organizations. While popular services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online may be responsible for much of the interest in Office 365, there are other less well known services such as Office Groups, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business that make Microsoft’s cloud offering even more tempting for IT decision makers.
This session breaks down the various service offerings of Office 365, providing for easy to understand description of each of the tools provided and how they can be used to improve productivity and reduce costs.
• Understand key features and functionality of each of the service offerings within Office 365, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, Office Groups, Microsoft Teams, and the Office client suite
• Determine what type of license is required for your organization based on the level of functionality required and the type of information workers that will use the platform
• Review key decision points to make when considering an Office 365 deployment such as whether or not to provide Single Sign On to the platform with an internal Active Directory environment, data retention decisions, and migration options
Using Hybrid SharePoint Online/On-Premises Environments for Records Management
Organizations looking for end to end enterprise document or records management require tools and techniques that make it easier for end users to use the platform effectively and to properly classify their data and store it as records. Today in many situations this requires the use of a hybrid SharePoint environment with specific components in the cloud and others stored locally. This can be challenging to administer and use properly, particularly when attempting to make the two environments seamless and avoid end user confusion.
This session delves into a discussion on what the best practices are around document and records management in hybrid environments. A discussion of what platform works best for each type of data is covered, and tools that can be used to help automate the document and records classification process are covered.
• Understand when to use SharePoint Online vs. SharePoint On-Premises for records management scenarios, and some of the key challenges of running records management in a hybrid environment.
• Obtain key knowledge into configuration steps and tools that can help organizations get the most of their hybrid records management environment.
• Learn from the mistakes of past deployments and determine what key criteria is needed to make a document and records management project in a Hybrid environment succeed.
IT Insecurity - Understanding the Threat of Modern Cyber-attacks
Organizations today are vastly unprepared for the threat of modern cyber-attacks. At the same time, the attackers are becoming more sophisticated and the amount of resources at their disposal is increasing. It has become a lucrative business to hack, disrupt, and steal intellectual property from organizations of all sizes and in all business sectors.
While the attackers are becoming more sophisticated, organizations have their IT security positioned for threats from the past century, with poor password management techniques, simple ACL based file permissions, and basic firewall and zone-based containment techniques. This makes it easier for attackers to obtain access to critical intellectual property and makes career-ruining disruptions all the more common.
This session focuses on understanding what is currently wrong with IT security practices and how your organization can change processes, techniques, and tools to provide for a significantly higher level of IT security without necessarily having to implement expensive tools or obtrusive processes.
• Understand the pitfalls of current IT Security practices, including myths around password change policies, allowing logins without providing multiple factors, and the proliferation of ‘always-on’ admin rights.
• Examine how simple changes in IT strategy can greatly improve your overall IT posture, including providing for up to a 99% improvement in the likelihood of a data credential theft.
• Determine which easy to deploy tools and features which you may already be licensed for can be used to tighten up IT security within an environment, including solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, next-generation firewalls, and more.
Combatting Cyberthreats with Microsoft Defender 365
The dramatic rise in the number and severity of cyber-threats faced by organisations today has led to a proliferation of countermeasure tool-sets. In many cases, these security tools can lead to siloed alerting and monitoring making it difficult for IT staff to effectively identify threats and mitigate them before they become major issues.
The Microsoft Defender 365 suite of cloud security tools consolidates multiple security tool-sets under a single management interface and provides for end-to-end security, allowing administrators to quickly identify and contain threats.
This session takes an in-depth look at the tools that are part of the Microsoft Defender 365 suite, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity and more. Discover how to better control, audit, and manage your organisation’s data in both the cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Explore the various tool-sets and capabilities built into Microsoft 365 Defender,
• Examine how an intuitive ‘single pane of glass’ view of threat detection and management can greatly improve the odds of stopping sophisticated cyber-attacks
• Understand how Microsoft licensing for Microsoft Defender 365 is structured
Breaking Down the Tools and Features in Office 365
Microsoft’s Office 365 has experienced massive growth, with reduced overhead costs and reliability acting as driving factors for many organizations. While popular services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online may be responsible for much of the interest in Office 365, there are other less well-known tools such as Power BI, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Flow, Delve, Stream, MyAnalytics and many more tools which are added on a continual basis.
This session breaks down the various service offerings of Office 365, providing for easy to understand description of each of the tools provided and how they can be used to improve productivity and reduce costs. It examines the overall Office 365 licensing options and compares and contrasts the internal tools with other industry tools to help business decision makers to get the most out of their licensing.
• Understand key features and functionality of each of the service offerings within Office 365, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Groups, Power BI, Microsoft Teams, and much more
• Determine what type of license is required for your organization based on the level of functionality required and the type of information workers that will use the platform
• Compare Office 365 native tools with other similar industry tools to better understand what type of cost savings can be realized through the platform.
Azure AD Connect Technical Deep Dive
Microsoft has expended significant effort in the creation of an all-encompassing tool that provides organizations with the ability to quickly and easily synchronize information from on-premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory instances such as those running as part of Office 365. This tool, named Azure AD Connect, has robust bidirectional synchronization options as well as the built-in ability to provide for Single Sign On (SSO) with Active Directory Federation Services. While simple to deploy, management and maintenance of the tool requires a thorough understanding of the core components utilized by the tool. This session takes an in-depth technical look at the various components of Azure AD Connect, walking the audience through various deployment scenarios, the upgrade approach used by the tool, SSO with ADFS, and how to maintain and manage the various running components.
• Understand key deployment scenarios with Azure AD Connect, including password and directory synchronization, Single Sign-On, and self-service password reset as part of Azure AD Premium.
• Explore the various synchronization components of Azure AD Connect and how to use and manage them to transfer directory info from on-premises Active Directory to Azure AD
• Examine the requirements to implement Single Sign On to Azure AD/Office 365 using the built-in Azure AD Connect AD FS components
AI is Hacking You – How Cybercriminals Leverage Artificial Intelligence
Organisations today are vastly unprepared for the threat of modern artificial intelligence tools being utilised by cybercriminals. Modern attackers are highly organised, well-resourced, and skilled in the use of the latest commercially released AI tools. The reality is that it has unfortunately become a lucrative business to hack, disrupt, and steal intellectual property.
While the attackers are becoming more sophisticated, organisations have their IT security positioned for threats from the past. This unfortunately makes it that much easier for attackers to obtain access to your critical intellectual property and makes career-ruining disruptions commonplace.
This session focuses on understanding how modern cyber-criminals utilise AI tools to attack your people, processes, and infrastructure and what type of changes to strategies, security practices, and tools can be used to combat them.
• Understand how AI is being used by cybercriminals to improve the effectiveness of phishing attacks, DDOS attacks, and social engineering exploits
• Identify weaknesses in modern IT systems and how they are being actively exploited
• Examine tools, techniques, and processes which can be used to defend from AI-enhanced attacks
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aMSKL 2023 Sessionize Event
CollabDays Finland 2023 Sessionize Event
CollabDays Belgium 2022 Sessionize Event
CollabDays Netherlands 2022 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Friday Cabo San Lucas Sessionize Event
aMS Douala - 2021-10-26 Sessionize Event
CollabDays Belgium & Netherlands 2021 Sessionize Event
India Cloud Security Summit , 2021 Sessionize Event
M365 Philly Virtual 2021 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon Sessionize Event
M365 Saturday Pune 2021 Sessionize Event
CollabDays Birmingham Virtual 2021 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Friday California 2021 Sessionize Event
Collabdays Munich & Vienna - Winter across the Alps Sessionize Event
aMS Germany - 1/12/2020 Sessionize Event
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Microsoft 365 Virtual 2020 Spain Sessionize Event
M365 Friday Cincinnati Sessionize Event
aOS Southeast Asia 2020 Sessionize Event
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Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon Sessionize Event
SPS Lisbon 2019 Sessionize Event
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aOS Singapore 2019 Sessionize Event
aOS Papeete Sessionize Event
SPS Lisbon 2018 Sessionize Event
European Collaboration Summit 2018 Sessionize Event
European Collaboration Summit 2017 Sessionize Event
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