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For the first time, Hrvoje Kusulja will be presenting on the Microsoft NetWork conference. It is the fifth edition of this event, and this year it will be held in Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The presentation will be about the possibilities of Office 365 Power BI solutions and their integration with on-premises SQL databases, including Microsoft SQL Server and other database engines like MySQL and IBM DB2.

It is a very useful presentation to those who have existing databases on which they’d like to apply various Business Intelligence scenarios.

Date and time: April 29^th, 2015

Location: Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Register for the conference via the link below:

About Hrvoje:

System engineer by profession. Information Technologies Graduate from Polytechnic of Zagreb; worked in parallel in his own company on system engineering tasks such as IBM Enterprise Systems, Microsoft solutions – Windows Server, Exchange, System Center, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Office 365, Azure Cloud solutions, etc. Earned numerous Microsoft and IBM certifications, as well as various awards and honors from his high school and faculty. Mostly devoted to Cloud technologies and constantly perfecting himself in this field.

Hrvoje Kusulja, 3 PRO’s Chief Operating Officer, became a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Office 365. It is an award for prominent, independent community leaders who share their technical expertise related to Microsoft, and it is given for contributions over the previous year – especially for sharing knowledge within the technical community that utilizes Microsoft technologies.

Skype Rooms

Last week Microsoft rebranded Lync into Skype for Business. It was announced that Video Conferencing Solutions – Skype Rooms – will be provided by Polycom. The new series of video collaboration solutions is called Polycom RoundTable®; an affordable and easy-to-use video solution for small and midsized businesses and teams, including voice, video and content collaboration.

Skype and Office 365

Skype for Business will be fully functional in the Cloud. Microsoft is partnering with big telecommunications companies in order to make this possible. Their plan is to integrate Enterprise Voice into Office 365, so that Customers will be able to call people on any phone.

Skype for Business is coming in April and it will be available to Office 365 customers, as well as for on-premises deployments. You’ll be able to connect with your colleagues and with anyone who has a Skype account.

The exact date has not been specified yet, but it was officially announced that Windows 10 will be out this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages and it will be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users for one year after the operating system launches.

So, it will be launched sooner than expected.

Windows 10 will also be available for smartphones and the Xbox One. It will include Windows Hello biometric authentication – providing instant access to your devices. You’ll be able to unlock your devices with your face, fingerprint and iris scan, instead of a password.

For now, you can download the Windows 10 Technical Preview build 10041 here.

Read more about Windows 10 features on our previous blog post ‘Windows 10 – One OS to Rule Them All’.

Lync will become Skype for Business officially on March 18^th. Rebranding will bring a new modern UI with elements from Lync and Skype and it will include well known Skype icons for calling and call monitor, possibility of calling any Skype user on any device, etc.

“A new client experience, new server release, and updates to the service in Office 365.”

Users with on-premises Lync servers will have to upgrade Skype for Business manually. For Office 365 for business customers, it will be done automatically.