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A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from Microsoft with exciting news that my MVP status has been renewed again. I am now an Azure MVP! For me this is the  seventh time  to receive this award. The sixth year in the program has been again an awesome experience, which gave me the opportunity to do great things and meet inspiring, very skilled people. I have had some interesting speaking engagement, which were fun to do and were very fulfilling. I learned a lot through speaking thanks to the community and fellow MVP's. I was able to share my experiences through these speaking gigs and other channels like this blog, MSDN Gallery, and above all the TechNet Wiki. I would like to thank: My MVP old lead  William Jansen,  and new MVP lead  Tina Stenderup-Larsen . The BizTalk Product Team,  Jim Harrer,   Ed Price, Mandi Ohlinger ,   Tord G. Nordahl ,  Dan Rosanova ,  Jon Fancey ,  Paolo Salvatori ,   and all other Microsoft employees...

In two weeks time I will head out to North America. My first stop will be Calgary to visit my friend Kent Weare. My MVP buddies Saravana Kumar and Michael Stephenson will join me as we will be speaking during the Azure Hybrid Integration the 30th of October at Microsoft Calgary. The Azure Hybrid Integration will be a full day with Kent, Saravana, Michael, myself and Darren King from Microsoft speaking on the following topics SaaS connectivity, IoT, Hybrid SQL Server, BizTalk administration & operations and Two Speed IT using Microsoft Azure. The free event takes place on October 30th, 2015 at the Calgary Microsoft office. You can find more details here . After this event we will head out to Redmond for the yearly MVP Summit . This is a multi-day event that is hosted in Bellevue and at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. All the MVP in the world that are able to come will be there to connect with fellow MVP’s and the various product groups. I look forward to both ...

There will be another BizTalk Summit event in august in Australia. The early bird tickets are on sale now until the end of this month! The event will take place in three different cities: Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. I will be speaking at each of the events together with fellow MVP’s Saravana Kumar, Michael Stephenson, Bill Chesnut, Mikael Hakansson and Mick Badran on various topics around integration with the Microsoft technology stack: Microsoft Azure, BizTalk Service, BizTalk Server 2013 R2, Mobile, Office365, and BizTalk360. My talk will specifically go into Microsoft Azure BizTalk Service, what it offers today, what scenarios can be supported, development-, deployment-, and operation perspective of this cloud service. Session is called: Hitchhiker's guide to integration with Microsoft Azure BizTalk Service and the actual abstract: Microsoft Azure BizTalk Service (MABS) is almost available to us for a year. It is a newcomer in the world of integration Platform a...

Today I have received an e-mail from Microsoft with exciting news that my MVP status has been renewed again! For me this is the fifth time to receive this award. The fourth year in the program has been an awesome experience, which gave me the opportunity to do great things and meet inspiring, very skilled people. I have had some interesting speaking engagement, which were fun to do and were very fulfilling. I learned a lot through speaking thanks to the community and fellow MVP's. I was able to share my experiences through these speaking gigs and other channels like this blog, MSDN Gallery, and above all the TechNet Wiki. I would like to thank: My MVP leads William Jansen . The BizTalk Product Team, Mark Mortimore, Guru Venkataraman, Karthik Bharathy, Ed Price, Nitin Mehrota, Mandi Ohlinger , Allesandro Teglia , Paolo Salvatori , Clemens Vasters and all other Microsoft employees involved. People at my former employer motion10: Rene Brauwers , Eldert Grootenboer an...

Today I have received an e-mail from Microsoft with exciting news that my MVP status has been renewed again! For me this is the fourth time to receive this award. The third year in the program has been an awesome experience, which gave me the opportunity to do great things and meet inspiring, very skilled people. I have had some interesting speaking engagement, which were fun to do and were very fulfilling. I learned a lot through speaking thanks to the community and fellow MVP's. I was able to share my experiences through these speaking gigs and other channels like this blog, MSDN Gallery, Forums and above all the TechNet Wiki. I would like to thank: My MVP leads William Jansen . BizTalk Product Team, Kent Brown , Guru Venkataraman, Karthik Bharathy, Ed Price, Nitin Mehrota, Mandi Ohlinger, Allesandro Teglia , Paolo Salvatori , Clemens Vasters and all other Microsoft employees involved. People at my former employer motion10: Daan Scheer , Gijs in ‘t Veld , Wilfred...

During MVP summit I was interviewed by my fellow MVP Richard Seroter. MVP summit was great and it was nice to be elected/nominated for diner with Soma . Thanks Richard for including me in the monthly interviews and the entertaining "Soma" diner together with Stephen. I enjoyed the conversations and laughs.

This is an exciting moment, before summer holidays will start. I have been awarded by Microsoft with 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award. I was working today and after finishing diner with the family I opened my mailbox and found the ‘ Congratulations 2010 Microsoft MVP! ’ email from Microsoft. I cannot describe how happy I am and how rewarding it feels to receive such an award. I would like to thank all people at Microsoft (ones that nominated me), community members and other involved. My wife and children for enduring the long hours without me, while I was blogging, writing or participating on forums. I would dedicated this to them. Finally I also would like to thank my former employer Inter Access (especially manager Kees Hout), dear friends Harco van Polen and Ivo Brouwer for always believing in me and supporting me for last couple of years in my career. P.S. No logo yet as I have to wait for my logo kit. Technorati: biztalk