About
This blog is my online toolbox. I will blog things I need to remember and find useful. Instead of making a private link repository I will do it on this public blog and maybe someone will find it helpful. I will also post solutions to problems I solve myself and if it helped, please let me know in a comment. I also appreciate constructive feedback to my posts.
About me
My name is Ståle Hansen and I am a solution architect at Atea AS (Europe’s 3rd largest system integrator) in Oslo, Norway. I started working in the IT industry in 2003 and have been a Microsoft consultant since 2006 focusing on Exchange, OCS, Active Directory and Windows Server. As a certified MCITP: EMA 2010 and Microsoft UC Voice Specialist I have the opportunity to deep dive into the Microsoft Unified Communications portfolio and are able to spend most of my time working in this area. As a leading architect for Atea, I spend most of my time designing and implementing solutions based on Communications Server, Lync Server and Exchange. As a member of Microsoft Speakers Community, I do a lot of presenting and presale activities nationwide. April first 2011 I was awarded with the Microsoft® Lync MVP Award for the first time http://t.co/QrsxkCI
Public seminars I am scheduled to speak at
None at the moment
Public seminars I have spoken at
NIC – Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2012 – Two Lync Server 2010 talks in english, Level 200-400
Atea Community 2011 – Talking about Social Media and Lync Server 2010 in six cities
Microsoft TechDays Norway 2011 – Talking about Lync Online and Exchange Online, Level 300
Tekna Unified Communication seminar 2011 – Talk about the diversity between the different UC providers, Level 200
TechNet Live Norway 2011 – Three Lync Server 2010 talks
Microsoft UC Bootcamp 2011 - About Lync Server 2010 and integrations. Level 300
Atea Community 2010 - About Lync, benefits of UC and a technical deep dive on Lync Server in 5 cities
TechNet Live Norway 2010 – Two Exchange Level 300 Presentations
List of publications
My Lync PowerShell Script List-UnusedNumbers.ps1 is featured on the official Lync Server 2010 PowerShell Blog, look under Voice Applications
First article on NextHop: Integrating Communications Server 2007 R2 with Exchange UM When a User’s Mobile Number Is Their Primary Number
Webcasts about Lync with Microsoft: Produced two webcasts with Microsoft about Lync
Featured as one of 15 popular Exchange blogs: 15 Popular Exchange Server Blogs
I currently hold the following Microsoft certifications
MCT: Microsoft Certified Trainer
MCITP: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Administrator
MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2010 – Charter Member
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 – Unified Communications Voice Specialization
MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator
MCTS: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Configuring
MCSE: Windows Server 2003
MCSA: Messaging
For more details on my certifications visit my MCP Virtual Business Card
