
Peter Schmidt
Cloud & Security Architect, Microsoft MVP: M365 and Security, MCSM: Exchange, MCT.
Kolding, Denmark
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Peter is a Cloud & Security Architect based in Denmark with extensive experience in the IT industry, specializing in Messaging, Collaboration, and Cloud security. Since 1996, he has been a consultant, focusing on technologies such as Microsoft 365, Exchange Server, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive for Business, Office 365, Purview Information Protection, and Microsoft Defender Security products.
Peter holds the prestigious Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM) certification in Exchange and has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP in Microsoft 365 and Security. He is a seasoned speaker, having presented at numerous high-profile events, including the European SharePoint Conference, European Collab Summit, Nordic Infrastructure Conference, Workplace Ninja Summit, Microsoft Campus Days, and various local User Group events.
In addition to his professional work, Peter leads the Danish WorkPlace Ninja User Group, which focuses on advancing knowledge in Microsoft Modern Workplace, Productivity, and Security.
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Mastering a Tenant-to-Tenant Migration
In this session we will dive into tenant-to-tenant migrations, it could be based on anything from mergers, acquisitions, or consolidations.
What is possible during migration and how do we best plan, test, and migrate data in a tenant-to-tenant project?
Get a good understanding of what is possible and how to plan for a successful migration between tenants, including understanding the data structures and dependencies, managing security and compliance, and ensuring a smooth user experience.
By the end of this session, attendees will have a solid understanding of the challenges and opportunities of tenant-to-tenant migrations, and the tools and techniques required to master them.
Maximizing the Value of MDE: Vulnerability Management and Secure Score
Are you looking for ways to improve your organization's security posture and prioritize your infrastructure proactively? Join us for a comprehensive presentation on MDE Vulnerability Management and Secure Score and how to get the full value out of it.
We will delve into the vulnerability management capabilities of Defender for Endpoint, including how to use it to identify and address security risks in your environment. You'll learn how to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities based on the potential impact on your business, and gain insights into the latest threat intelligence from Microsoft.
We'll also cover details of Secure Score, including how it provides a clear and actionable overview of your organization's security posture. You'll learn how to use Secure Score to prioritize vulnerabilities.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the experts and take your vulnerability management to the next level together with Microsoft Secure Score!
Mastering Microsoft Security Exposure Management: Become a Security Ninja!
Are you often asked by management about your defenses against phishing emails, ransomware attacks, and how your critical assets are protected, but find it challenging to explain? This session is designed just for you.
During the session, you'll learn how to deepen your grasp of security posture management through detailed exposure insights and explore various security initiatives, including domain-specific and threat-focused areas. You will learn to master attack surface management to identify and mitigate potential attack paths. We'll also teach you how to assess the security status of your infrastructure using detailed metrics and how we recommend how to implement Microsoft's recommendations to enhance your protections.
Furthermore, you'll discover effective strategies for reporting to management in a way that builds trust in your security reporting. Finally, you'll leave equipped with a comprehensive plan for successful implementation, aimed at improving the maturity of processes and organizational support throughout your security journey.
No Phishing Allowed: A Deep Dive into Microsoft Defender for Office and Authtenticated E-mail
Phishing attacks continue to be a major threat to businesses, with attackers using increasingly sophisticated techniques to trick users into revealing sensitive information or infecting their systems with malware.
In this session, you will learn how to implement Microsoft Defender for Office in your organization, and how to use it in conjunction with other anti-phishing strategies. You will also learn how to customize its protection policies to meet the specific needs of your organization, and how to monitor and analyze the reports to understand the threat landscape.
The sessions will provide an overview of best practices for securing your organization against phishing attacks, such as user education, training, and policy development.
After this session, attendees will have a better understanding of how to use Microsoft Defender for Office and other security tools to protect their organizations against email-based threats.
Mastering Email Security: Microsoft Defender for Office Against Phishing
Phishing attacks present an ever-evolving threat to businesses, employing sophisticated techniques to compromise sensitive information. This session targets IT and cybersecurity professionals, focusing on deploying Microsoft Defender for Office (MDO) as a pivotal component of your organization’s defense strategy. You’ll gain insights into configuring MDO to its fullest potential, utilizing AI and machine learning to detect and neutralize phishing attempts before they impact your network.
We will walk you through customizing MDO’s protection policies to align with your organization's requirements, enhancing security with features like Safe Links, Safe Attachments, Impersonation Protection and the latest features.
Practical demonstrations will guide you in setting up these defenses, monitoring for threats, and analyzing reports to gain a comprehensive view of the phishing landscape.
Beyond technical configurations, this session emphasizes the importance of user education, training, and policy development as cornerstone practices for securing your organization against phishing attacks.
You will leave this session with best practices and actionable strategies to implement Microsoft Defender for Office and complementary security measures, ensuring robust protection against email-based threats.
A Hitchhikers Guide to Microsoft Information Protection
All Your Data is now in the Cloud, what's next. This session will show you how to get a good start on data protection using Microsoft Information Protection. Get the full overview of what Microsoft Information Protection is and how it can help protect our data at rest. Covering everything you need to know, to get started with data classification and how to use Sensitivity Labels to protect and your data
Teams Architecture Deep Dive
In this session, we will go deep-dive into the architecture of Microsoft Teams and how Microsoft is using existing Azure and Office 365 technology to make Microsoft Teams a scalable platform, that can perform and is easy to manage.
This session will cover the logical architecture of Teams, where are conversations, images, files, voicemails, and recordings are stored.
Exchange Server SE: What's Coming and How to Get Ready
The upcoming release of the latest Exchange Server version is set to be released in 2025. What to expect from this new version. What does it mean when running hybrid and do we still need Exchange Server. This session is designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of what to expect from this new release and how to prepare for it.
AI-Powered Productivity: Navigating the Microsoft Copilots
In the evolving digital landscape, AI is revolutionizing how we approach productivity, and Microsoft Copilot is at the forefront of this transformation. In this session, we will provide an in-depth look into how AI-powered Copilots within the Microsoft ecosystem can enhance personal and organizational productivity.
We will cover the range of Microsoft Copilots available, focusing on those designed for productivity. Copilot works alongside users, generating content, automating repetitive tasks, analyzing data, and improving collaboration. But how does it work? Copilot harnesses the power of AI and natural language processing to understand user prompts, perform contextual actions, and produce meaningful outputs, all while learning from user interactions to continuously improve its capabilities.
Implementing Copilot successfully requires a strategic and secure approach. We’ll discuss the recommended path to implementing Microsoft Copilot in an organization.
By the end of this session, attendees will walk away with a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft 365 Copilot and Cpolit Studio, the licenses needed to deploy it, the key Copilots available to enhance productivity, and a clear, secure path to implementation. This session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to lead your team into the future of AI-enhanced productivity, ensuring you stay ahead in today’s competitive environment.
Navigating Exchange supportability, Mailflow and hybrid management in 2025
A New Exchange Server in the horizon in 2025, this session will cover what is important to know about an important and always critical component of your infrastructure and Microsoft 365.
Supportability
Mailflow - what about our SMTP relay
Management - Hybrid servers or not
Mastering Email Security: Defending Against Phishing with Microsoft Defender for Office
In today’s evolving threat landscape, email remains one of the most vulnerable entry points for cyberattacks, particularly through phishing. With sophisticated attackers constantly refining their tactics, organizations need to stay ahead by deploying robust email security measures. This 60-minute session focuses on the essentials of email security and how to leverage Microsoft Defender for Office (MDO) to protect your organization from phishing and other email-based threats.
We’ll begin by examining the latest trends in email attacks, highlighting the risks and impact of phishing, malware, and business email compromise (BEC). Attendees will learn about the layered security approach necessary for comprehensive protection, with a deep dive into Microsoft Defender for Office’s capabilities. We’ll cover critical features, such as real-time phishing detection, anti-spoofing protection, and automated threat response, along with best practices for policy configuration and user training.
By the end of the session, participants will have a clear understanding of how to:
Identify common phishing tactics and emerging email threats.
Implement Microsoft Defender for Office to strengthen email defenses.
Customize threat protection policies to meet specific organizational needs.
Educate users on recognizing and responding to phishing attempts.
Whether you're an IT administrator, security professional, or anyone responsible for safeguarding your organization’s email environment, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to effectively mitigate email-based risks using MDO.
Combatting Phishing in 2025: Defender for Office, Teams Security, and AI Protection
Phishing attacks continue to be a sophisticated threat in 2025, targeting users and systems to compromise sensitive information and spread malware. This session explores Microsoft Defender for Office, offering strategies to enhance your organization's email security.
Learn how to implement Microsoft Defender for Office, customize protection policies, and use advanced features like SafeLinks for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Chat, and Office apps. Discover new Collaboration Security capabilities for Microsoft Teams to counter threats like impersonation and malicious file sharing.
The session also covers authenticated email methods such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to secure email traffic. Practical demonstrations will show how these protocols reduce phishing risks and improve email deliverability.
Emphasizing practical anti-phishing strategies, including Awareness Simulation exercises.
Attendees will gain actionable techniques to protect their organizations against sophisticated email and collaboration-based threats.
In 2025, attackers are targeting not just users, but also AI tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot. This session shows how to secure your email and collaboration environment with Microsoft Defender for Office and Teams, including advanced protections like SafeLinks for Copilot, Chat, and Office apps. You’ll also learn how to implement SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to stop spoofing and protect your domain, plus how to run realistic Awareness Simulations to train users. Walk away with actionable strategies to defend against today’s most sophisticated threats.
Tenant-to-Tenant Migration in 2025: Advanced Strategies & Best Practices
Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations continue to be highly relevant in 2025 due to increasing mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and the evolving landscape of hybrid work.
This session offers advanced insights, up-to-date best practices, and cutting-edge tools tailored specifically for 2025.
With Microsoft's latest enhancements, attendees will learn how to effectively streamline their migration processes, minimize operational downtime, enhance user adoption, and maintain compliance and security throughout complex migration projects.
Real-world scenarios, success stories, and lessons learned will provide practical guidance to confidently manage and optimize tenant migrations in the contemporary Microsoft 365 environment.
Driven by ongoing mergers, acquisitions, and hybrid work, this session delivers advanced strategies, real-world lessons, and the latest tools to navigate complex tenant-to-tenant migrations with confidence. Learn how to reduce downtime, maintain compliance, and boost user adoption—all tailored to the evolving Microsoft 365 landscape in 2025.
Mastering Microsoft 365 Security Posture in 2025
In today's dynamic threat landscape, proactively securing your Microsoft 365 environment is more critical than ever.
This session provides advanced insights and actionable strategies for optimizing your security posture in 2025.
We'll delve into the powerful synergy of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management capabilities and Microsoft Secure Score, demonstrating how to gain a comprehensive and prioritized view of your organization's security risks.
Building on this foundation, we'll explore how to leverage the open-source Meister framework to automate and streamline your security workflows.
Leave this session with some practical knowledge, actionable strategies, and a roadmap for enhancing your Microsoft 365 security posture through the effective use of Microsoft Defender, Secure Score, and security automation.
Leave this session with practical knowledge, actionable strategies, and a roadmap for enhancing their Microsoft 365 security posture in 2025 through the effective use of Microsoft Defender, Secure Score, and security automation.
Workplace Ninjas Denmark User group Sessionize Event Upcoming
Experts Live Denmark 2025 Sessionize Event
Festive Tech Calendar 2024 Sessionize Event
NIC Empower 2024 Sessionize Event
AI Day 2024
Delivered a Copilot session
Workplace NInja User Group Denmark
Delivered a session about Microsoft 365 backup.
6th Cloud8 virtual Summit 2024 Sessionize Event
Festive Tech Calendar 2023 Sessionize Event
ESPC23 - European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference Sessionize Event
AI Day 2024
Delivered a Copilot session.
NIC Cloud Connect 2023 Sessionize Event
Experts Live User Group Denmark
Workplace Ninja Summit 2023 Sessionize Event
Workplace Ninja Summit 2023
Delivered two sessions about E-mail Security and Secure Score.
5th cloud8 virtual Summit 2022 Sessionize Event
NIC X Edition Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2022 Sessionize Event
Nordic Virtual Summit 3rd Edition Sessionize Event
M365 Below in Chicago! Sessionize Event
Nordic Virtual Summit Second Edition Sessionize Event
ExpertsLive Norway 2021 Sessionize Event
Nordic Virtual Summit Sessionize Event
2nd cloud8 virtual Summit in 2020 Sessionize Event
Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2020
Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2020
Delivered two sessions about Teams and Security.
Microsoft Tech Summit Stockholm 2018
Proctor on a workshop about Microsoft Teamwork (Teams, Groups, OneDrive, Yammer).
Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2017
Delivered two sessions, one about OneDrive for Business and one about Exchange Online (Office 365).
Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2016
Delivered two sessions about Office 365 and Exchange.
Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2015
Delivered two sessions about Exchange and Office 365.
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