Connecting the dots

Everyday Windows Ramblings fueled by Microsoft 365

Hello world

Hello world

Welcome to my new, and rebuilt from scratch, corner of the world wide web! My name is Jesper Nielsen, I am a Principal Architect & Technology Provocateur of trade, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MWP) and former Windows Insider MVP - I am so excited, to finally start sharing my day-to-day ramblings and experiences.

I have been rambling within the IT industry for decades and have collected a wide range of experiences, enterprise level End-user computing, End-user solutions, and End User Experience. Although my primary focus has always been focusing on Windows Management and End User Experience, I have a strong passion for areas around Endpoint Security, Endpoint Baselining and Endpoint Management and everything within the reach of an End User Devices.

It is my job to visualize Microsoft technologies to IT Professionals, organizations, and corporations, embracing the philosophy behind Modern Work and Security. Helping apply User Centric strategies, helping define goals to transform and move organizations and corporations towards Microsoft 365 fueled Modern Workplace, Modern Security and Modern Management.

I wanted to start by telling you why I created this blog, what you will be seeing more of in my posts, and my overall experience of rebuilding my website. Blogs have long been a huge source of help and inspiration to me, and I wanted to contribute my own voice to the great dialogue. The amount of ideas, how-to’s and inspiration are constantly spinning in my head and is getting ready to jump out.

Microsoft 365 Endpoint Management topics will, obviously, be the main topics of my blog, powered by my professional ramblings, including a mixture of lifehack and other professional experiences.

The whole thing is Work in progress… I am no expert on any of this. I may be a “perfectionist”, but I am nowhere near perfect. So, expect a lot of trial and error in my endeavor becoming a ‘blogger’, and please feel free to share your advice and communicate with me along the way!

I have been waiting to launch a blog for a while (years) now and I am pleased that I finally had the guts to click that publish button and stop procrastinating.

Starting with a hard reset

Building a blog and navigating topics, is hard work - this is not a fast task people. The whole project has been a steep learning experience, and I felt a hard reset would be advantageous, and I have started rebuilding my blog from the Ground Up. At the same time, it gave me the opportunity to thoroughly document the process and share it along the way.

UPDATE: I have moved away from WordPress and rebuilt the whole site using static website framework running the site as an Azure Static Web App and what you are looking at, is built using Hugo .

In short, it means core functionality is restored, core pages are recreated, reviewed and rewritten, and more content is flowing in gradually. I still have a few action points and a huge post backlog that needs to be rewritten and shared

Follow my endeavor building the blog and read more about why I decided to use Hugo here .

Stay tuned for more posts coming soon!

-Jesper

Community

Community rocks

I have been involved in numerous community meetings, community events and conferences and I am always willing to participate as a speaker, participant or supporter because #communityrocks.

I am founding member of Windows Management User Group Denmark , commonly known as ‘WMUGdk’ and I am part of the team running Workplace Ninjas User group Danmark .

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Being an active member in a community is greatly satisfying, and I encourage everybody to join a community, it sums up to it is all about contributing to, and benefiting from the ‘common good’, so hop on board and get involved in a community.

Contact me

Feel free to reach out, connect or just send a virtual high-five using
Twitter , or using the Contact methods listed.

Recent posts

Microsoft MVP award 2023-2024

July 7, 2023 by Jesper Nielsen

Since 2016, July 1st has been a rather important date for me, this year was nothing less, however this year I had to wait until June 6th, waiting for that e-mail. For some reason, this year I felt the uncertainty flowering and I might have been a little edgy for the last couple of days. Being a Microsoft MVP is a huge part of my professional identity - Windows and User experience has been a huge passion for me for my entire career.

Read more

Microsoft Architecture icons and templates

March 7, 2023 by Jesper Nielsen

Visual aids to improve your presentations Microsoft provides various visual aids that can help you improve your presentations and speeches. Microsoft architecture templates and icons are a set of visual aids that help communicate design decisions and the relationships between components in an environment. These templates and icons can be used to create diagrams that illustrate various scenarios such as search architecture diagram for SharePoint, Teams retention lifecycle architecture diagram, and more.

Read more

5 thoughts about Endpoint Privilege Management

February 22, 2023 by Jesper Nielsen

While Microsoft is preparing the early 2023 Microsoft Intune Endpoint Privilege Management solution public preview, I will kickstart the waiting time with my personal ramblings regarding Endpoint Privilege Management and managing Administrative Privileges. With Microsoft Endpoint Privilege Management, you will no longer need to give users Local Administrative Privileges. Instead, your users can have Standard Privileges and be Dynamically Elevated to have privilege required for specific administrative tasks, improving productivity while enhancing security posture.

Read more

5 thoughts about Digital Employee Experience

February 18, 2023 by Jesper Nielsen

While Microsoft is preparing the early 2023 Microsoft Intune Advanced Endpoint Analytics solution public preview, I will kickstart the waiting time with my personal ramblings regarding Digital Employee Experience (DEX) and organization readiness. With Microsoft Endpoint Privilege Management, you will no longer need to give users Local Administrative Privileges. Instead, your users can have Standard Privileges and be Dynamically Elevated to have privilege required for specific administrative tasks, improving productivity while enhancing security posture.

Read more