Hello world
Important
Missing Posts and GitHub repositories I am still recovering from issues from a disk failure and a following cloud storage issue that affected some of my GitHub repositories, resulting in my blog are currently missing posts. Furthermore, I have unwilling been forced to make a few of my GitHub repositories private to ensure that they are valid and accurate, and this has impact on some of my posts currently unavailable. I am working most nights to restore the missing posts and repositories and I hope to have everything back to normal in a few more days. I will keep you updated on the progress and let you know when everything is back to normal – sorry for any inconvenience. --Jesper Updated April 25, 2024
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
Recent posts
How to use Microsoft Copilot to write better documents
March 11, 2024 by Jesper Nielsen
Writing Copilot prompts well and efficiently Writing well and efficiently is a constant goal for me as a writer. When we first heard about Copilot, we were eager to test the full feature set of Copilot for Microsoft 365. Copilot for Microsoft 365 comes with new possibilities to assist you in writing more quickly and intelligently with the help of AI (Artificial Intelligence). In this post, I will share my experiences using Copilot for Microsoft 365, and how it can help you to get started writing higher-quality documents with less work.
3 ways to optimize any Windows Autopilot scenario
December 11, 2023 by Jesper Nielsen
I learned that every Windows Autopilot scenario has it own differences and has its own goals and solutions for the deployment scenario needed. However, most Windows Autopilot scenario can be improved and enhanced by some small, yet very effective, optimizations. Many, if not all Windows Autopilot scenarios I participated in, I have been able to and have helped achieve more reliable and successful Windows Autopilot deployment scenarios with fewer errors, ensuring as optimal user experience possible.
How to Configure Git Username and E-mail address
August 23, 2023 by Jesper Nielsen
Git is a powerful and popular version control system that allows you to track changes in your code and files, collaborating with other developers and works great with e.g., Visual Studio Code. One of the benefits of using Git and GitHub, or similar platforms, to version your code, or use Source Control, is that you can easily integrate them with your editor of choice. For example, Visual Studio has a built-in Git support that allows you to perform common Git operations, such as staging, committing, pushing, pulling, branching, and merging, directly from the editor.
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.