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Steve Thomas shared thisSo this was my first Midwest Management Summit, and all I can say is WOW! This is a very unique and heavily focused conference. What an incredible experience at #MMS Midway 2026 in beautiful San Diego! I couldn't be more grateful for the experience! There's something truly special about MMS. The energy, the technical depth, the conversations, and most importantly, the PEOPLE make this one of my absolute new favorite events. It's a community where knowledge is shared freely, questions are encouraged, and everyone walks away having learned something new. A HUGE shoutout to my awesome co-speakers, Adam Nichols, Chris Cavazos, and Harjit Dhaliwal! As always a team effort. They also introduced me to a lot of brilliant community experts as well. It was an absolute pleasure sharing the stage with these incredibly talented individuals. The collaboration, expertise, humor, and teamwork made our sessions that much more enjoyable. Couldn't have asked for a better crew! And let's hear it for the AMAZING sponsors! Events like MMS simply wouldn't be possible without the companies that invest in and support this incredible community. A special shoutout to 2Pint Software and Patch My PC! Both continue to impress me with the awesome enhancements they're bringing to endpoint management. It's exciting to see companies pushing innovation forward, simplifying IT operations, and making life easier for administrators everywhere. Keep up the fantastic work! A huge THANK YOU to all the sponsors: 2Pint Software Patch My PC Recast Software Robopack ZeroTouch.ai CodeTwo PowerStacks Corporation PDQ NinjaOne AppControl.AI Flexera ThreatLocker baramundi software Nerdio System Center Dudes And a particular favorite of mine Eido (mainly because of all the #Windows365 for Agents innovation they are doing!) Your continued investment in the community makes a real difference! And finally, to the MMS organizers, volunteers, speakers, and attendees, THANK YOU Greg Ramsey Brian Mason and the rest of the MMS staffGreg Ramsey Brian Mason and the rest of the MMS staff for including me. The conversations, technical discussions, networking, and friendships are what make this conference so special.
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Steve Thomas reposted thisSteve Thomas reposted thisBig news for MEM Summit 2027! I am incredibly proud and excited to announce our keynote speaker for MEM Summit 2027 in Paris: -> Scott Hanselman <- Scott embodies everything we want MEM Summit to be about. Passion, authenticity, curiosity, and the ability to inspire people to think differently about technology and the opportunities it creates. Whether you know him from Microsoft, his podcasts, his videos, his developer advocacy work, or simply his ability to make complex topics understandable and engaging, Scott has inspired millions across our industry. We're honored to welcome him to Paris and can't wait to share this experience with our community. See you at MEM Summit 2027. Get your tickets https://lnkd.in/eM3wA3XB Nicklas | Peter | Florian | Joost | Angel | Mario #MEMSummit #MEMSummit2027 #Microsoft #Intune #EndpointManagement #Security #ScottHanselman #Community
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Steve Thomas shared thisThis should be a great event!Steve Thomas shared thisMoving to Windows 365 or Azure Virtual Desktop? The questions get practical fast. Will our apps work? How do we manage it at scale? Where does AI fit—and who stays in control? Join WorkspaceDNA, Microsoft and Nerdio at Pioneer Summit 2026 for a half-day session connecting those pieces: • Microsoft: Windows 365 and the foundation for governed AI. • Nerdio: Provisioning, migration and day-to-day management at enterprise scale. • WorkspaceDNA: Live autonomous validation with ATP360—testing apps and workflows before changes reach users. Bring the questions holding up your next move. Get time with the people building the technology and peers working through the same challenges. 📍 Microsoft Technology Center, New York 📅 October 29 | 9 AM–1 PM ET 🍴 Complimentary lunch and networking Space is limited Register today: https://lnkd.in/ejxPhWjy #Windows365 #AzureVirtualDesktop #WorkspaceDNA
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Steve Thomas shared thisI am humbled to share the stage with probably one of the most well-versed experts in AVD Hybrid - Adam Nichols at MMS Midway this year! Session: Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid: Features and Benefits Tuesday October 27, 2026 10:00am - 11:45amPDT - Harbor H #mmsmoa #MMSMidway
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Steve Thomas shared thisPlease don’t let the fact that you have to work with me on a nearly daily basis dissuade you from applying for this job. People say (including my teammates) that I’ve mellowed out quite a bit in these last few years.
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Steve Thomas shared thisIf you are attending MMS Midway this year, please make sure you catch Chris Cavazos and I talking about #Windows365 Cloud Apps! "Windows 365 Cloud Apps: an easy way to publish apps!" https://lnkd.in/g3hi-zNP #mmsmoa #MMSMidway
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Steve Thomas shared thisIt's alive. IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://lnkd.in/gVVnJY_qApp-V server support extended through October 9, 2029App-V server support extended through October 9, 2029
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Steve Thomas shared thisWhere and how do you start? How can one safely introduce prove secure AI agentic computer use within an organization that is skeptical and cautious -beyond conceptually?On Introducing Computer Use Agents to your Internal Security, Management, and Governance stakeholdersOn Introducing Computer Use Agents to your Internal Security, Management, and Governance stakeholders
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Steve Thomas liked thisSteve Thomas liked thisAnother fine collection of eccentric people and ideas this morning at Yorkshire’s finest* Digital Workspace Brekkie Club. The conversation and tea flowed effortlessly, and the charisma was off the charts. We compared notes on the latest developments in our little industry, and shared anecdotes that cannot be repeated; but in summary: ✅ Ice creams ✅ Whitby ✅ Ever increasing vulnerabilities (apps, not us) ✅ Market Dynamics And of course, we paid tribute on the passing of perhaps the greatest Yorkshireman ever, Patrick Stewart 🙁 Thank you to our regulars Darren Hirons, Chris Marks, Guy Leech, Lindell Harry, Karl Nicholson and Shaun Pugh *we cannot back this up. #yorkshire
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Steve Thomas liked thisSteve Thomas liked thisParking lots are already paved, already exposed to the sun, and already taking up huge amounts of space. We built millions of acres of asphalt and gave almost none of it a second job. Covering them with solar panels can generate power, shade cars, reduce heat, and keep farmland for farming. It also means cooler cars in summer, less stormwater runoff, and EV charging infrastructure that’s already wired into a parking lot you were going to build anyway. Meanwhile open fields keep doing what they’ve always done: growing food, holding soil, supporting ecosystems we can’t get back once they’re gone. The infrastructure for solar carports already exists. The technology isn’t the bottleneck — the decision is. What do you think! 🤔
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Steve Thomas liked thisSteve Thomas liked thisExcited to be heading over to MMS Midway today! Will I see you there? Catch me at the Robopack booth, where we’ll be talking about all things apps and tenant management ♥️
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Steve Thomas liked thisUse winget they said, it’ll be cool they said. I hope Stephen doesn’t take the voluntary exit offer if it comes his way 🤨Steve Thomas liked thisThe recent surge in application development has had a huge impact on the Winget community repository so I wanted to share a few thoughts on it in a blog. In short, it's currently imploding due to an overwhelming backlog of pull requests with new application submissions and updates and is hanging on by a thread due to one overworked Microsoft moderator. This isn't to crap on the Winget repo, we love it what Microsoft built but it's been hard to watch it slowly crumble under the weight of its own success. https://lnkd.in/g-U_M4jNWinget Is Drowning, and One Person Is Keeping It AfloatWinget Is Drowning, and One Person Is Keeping It Afloat
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Steve Thomas liked thisSteve Thomas liked thisMMS Midway next week! San Diego, here we come! Looking forward to meeting my fellow Intune nerds and getting far too invested in someone else’s tenant struggles. I’ll be at the Eido booth. Come say hi, swap Intune stories. Who else is going to be there? #MMSMidway #MicrosoftIntune #Eido
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Steve Thomas liked thisSteve Thomas liked thisBig week this week and it’s only Tuesday. Today my first ever GitHub accepted commit to a project that wasn’t my own code or a skills repo that was self-contained. In this case it was adding code for concurrency checks into a MCP for our CRM. Not bad for having started really using GitHub this summer for my own internal project. And tomorrow will be my first time as an interviewer here at Microsoft. Been looking forward to this for multiple reasons. Not just because I’m looking forward to having a new coworker but also it’s a great sign of trust. From newbie on the team 3 years ago to helping interview for my team. Great personal and professional growth milestone.
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Steve Thomas liked thisSteve Thomas liked thisGet ready for some of the most entertaining sessions at MMS Midway with Nathan Ziehnert! Join Nathan for three sessions covering everything from coding agents and automation to PowerShell discussions and a game show where everything is an object. 📅 Coding Agent Battle Royale: The Happy Hour Build-Off 🕔 Monday, October 26 @ 5:00 PM 📅 Whose Pipeline Is It Anyway? The Game Show Where Everything Is an Object 🕔 Tuesday, October 27 @ 5:00 PM 📅 PowerShell Hot Takes 🕒 Wednesday, October 28 @ 3:00 PM Expect technical insights, practical takeaways, and a healthy dose of fun along the way. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dXQ7p6js #MMSMidway #MMS2026 #PowerShell #Automation #AI #ITPros Andreas Hammarskjöld, Michael Niehaus, Michelle Hammarskjöld, Mike Terrill, Ranjith Lewis, Benny Kazemian, Carljohan Hederoth, Carl Otto Tuneld, Gary Blok, Mattias Benninge
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Steve Thomas liked thisSteve Thomas liked thisFrom the Security Agent sessions at MMS Midway this week. For you: All the content, demos, recommendations, agent templates, etc. https://lnkd.in/enhsheuU
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Steve Thomas liked thisSteve Thomas liked thisNice session on Intune Community tools by Gerry Hampson and Jörgen Nilsson. Here’s a couple of tools mentioned: Intune Assistant - Sander Rozemuller - https://lnkd.in/g7hF2UcB Cloud Policy Preference - Maurice Daly - https://lnkd.in/gmcrapg9 IntuneAssignementChecker - Ugur Koc - https://lnkd.in/gFp7_p5e #MMSMidway #Intune
Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
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MCITP: Enterprise Support Technician on Windows Vista
Microsoft
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MCITP: Windows 7 Configuration
Microsoft
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MCTS: Business Desktop Deployment
Microsoft
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MCTS: Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
Microsoft
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MCTS: System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Microsoft
IssuedCredential ID 39945
Publications
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Deploying, managing, and supporting Windows 10 on ARM in the enterprise
Microsoft Tech Community
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Use CMPivot to gather troubleshooting data from remote clients
Microsoft Tech Community
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Windows Nt Heterogeneous Networking
MacMillan Technical Publishing
See publicationhttps://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=isbn:1578700647
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Windows NT 4.0 Registry: A Professional Reference
McGraw-Hill
See publicationhttps://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=isbn:0079136559
Projects
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X-Culture Global Symposium 2025
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The X-Culture Global Symposium 2025 is a week-long international event hosted by the University of Vaasa in Finland, designed to unite academia and industry around themes of global business, energy, technology, and sustainability.
Key Highlights
• Location: University of Vaasa, Finland — known for its stunning campus near a UNESCO World Heritage site and its role as a leading energy technology hub in the Nordics.
• Participants: Around 200 attendees from approximately 60…The X-Culture Global Symposium 2025 is a week-long international event hosted by the University of Vaasa in Finland, designed to unite academia and industry around themes of global business, energy, technology, and sustainability.
Key Highlights
• Location: University of Vaasa, Finland — known for its stunning campus near a UNESCO World Heritage site and its role as a leading energy technology hub in the Nordics.
• Participants: Around 200 attendees from approximately 60 countries.
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X-Culture Global Business Immersion
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X-Culture is a large-scale international experiential learning and business consulting project that
involves over 6,000 MBA and business students from over 140 universities in 70 countries on six
continents every semester.
Over 105,000 students have participated in the project since its inception in 2010.
The program participants worked in global virtual teams, each team member in a different country.
Working with peers from around the globe, dealing with cultural…X-Culture is a large-scale international experiential learning and business consulting project that
involves over 6,000 MBA and business students from over 140 universities in 70 countries on six
continents every semester.
Over 105,000 students have participated in the project since its inception in 2010.
The program participants worked in global virtual teams, each team member in a different country.
Working with peers from around the globe, dealing with cultural differences, time-zone dispersion, and
global communication challenges, the teams completed an international business consulting business
project for a client company.
The task was to develop an international market expansion strategy, including the analysis of the
competitive position of the client company, its strengths and weaknesses, threats and opportunities,
identifying the most promising markets, and conducting an in-depth analysis of their economic,
cultural, and political environments; developing market entry, pricing, promotion, marketing, and HR
strategies; as well as developing recommendations concerning the logistics and product adaptations for
the new markets.
Before the project started, the project participants received training on online collaboration tools,
international team dynamics, cross-cultural communication, conflict resolution, and more. During the
semester, the participants have had multiple live webinars with the CEOs and owners of the client
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Music Fest Perugia 2023
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See projectMusic Fest Perugia is proud to announce that this year, we will be welcoming some of the world's most renowned artistic faculty to our Festival! This summer, musicians and music lovers from all over the world will have the opportunity to learn from and be inspired by some of the greatest musicians of our time. Our 2023 faculty includes Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jerome Lowenthal, Ursula Oppens, Ilana Vered, Alexandre Moutouzkine, Chloe Kiffer, Marius Stravinsky, Ian Jones, John Perry, just to name a…
Music Fest Perugia is proud to announce that this year, we will be welcoming some of the world's most renowned artistic faculty to our Festival! This summer, musicians and music lovers from all over the world will have the opportunity to learn from and be inspired by some of the greatest musicians of our time. Our 2023 faculty includes Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jerome Lowenthal, Ursula Oppens, Ilana Vered, Alexandre Moutouzkine, Chloe Kiffer, Marius Stravinsky, Ian Jones, John Perry, just to name a few! These mega giants will be joining us for masterclasses, workshops, and concerts, offering students and attendees the opportunity to learn from the best. Our Professional Orchestra Europa Musica conducted by Alessandro Alonzi will be joining us during the entire festival, to accompany the brilliant young musicians in their concertos and to perform with our soloists in the wonderful Le Nozze di Figaro!
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Music Fest Perugia 2022
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Music Fest Perugia 2019
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Honors & Awards
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MSUS FY23 Living Our Culture: Team First Award
Microsoft Sales US
MSUS Living Our Culture Awards recognize employees who have made an impact by embodying the MSUS cultural pillars: Acting with Care, Team First, Being Brave, and Bringing our Best.
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Microsoft Sales, Marketing, and Services (SMSGR) Key Talent Designate
Microsoft
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Microsoft Sales, Marketing, and Services (SMSGR) Key Talent Designate
Microsoft
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Microsoft Sales, Marketing, and Services (SMSGR) Key Talent Designate
Microsoft
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Microsoft Sales, Marketing, and Services (SMSGR) Key Talent Designate
Microsoft
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Microsoft Sales, Marketing, and Services (SMSGR) Key Talent Designate
Microsoft
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Microsoft CSS Gold Star Award
Microsoft
Microsoft Customer Support Services award working in Commercial Technical Support.
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Ship-It Award - MED-V 2.0 (MDOP 2011)
Microsoft
Service Award for the release of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 2.0
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Ship-It Award - MED-V 1.0 SP1 (MDOP 2010)
Microsoft
Service Award for the release of MED-V 1.0 SP1 (Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization)
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Microsoft CSS Gold Star Award
Microsoft
Microsoft Customer Support Services award working in Commercial Technical Support.
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Ship-It Award MED-V 1.0 (MDOP 2009)
Microsoft
Service Award for the release of MED-V 1.0 (Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization)
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Ship-It Award - App-V 4.5 (MDOP 2008 R2)
Microsoft
Service Award for the release of Application Virtualization 4.5
Organizations
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The Artslantic Exchange
Board Member
- PresentThe Artslantic Exchange is a 501c3 non-profit that focuses on sponsoring and organizing musical cultural immersion and learning experiences through Summer music festivals that celebrate the spirit of community and togetherness in singing. We aim to provide a place of learning and respite for classical singers to build on their present skills, gain new skills, restore their spirits, calm their minds, and sing with orchestra.
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International Horn Society
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Sigma Nu Fraternity
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