Azure Heroes NL Meetup (November 5, 2024)

Join us for the latest Azure Heroes NL Meetup.

Azure Heroes on the 5th of November welcomes the following two amazing speakers:

Speaker -
Sander Berkouwer:
You can't do Zero Trust with AD FS. Here's how to leave it behind...

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) has long been considered the best way to authenticate to the Microsoft Cloud in Hybrid Identity scenarios.

However, AD FS does not adhere to Zero Trust principles, and it's a pain to maintain and secure. If you don't need the functionality that AD FS offers, you can go all-in on Zero Trust by leaving AD FS behind.

Sander Berkouwer shows you what to look for, how to make the right decisions and how to tell your boss. Then, he shows you how to migrate off AD FS and how to properly decomission your AD FS deployment to make sure nothing is left behind that reminds you of your organization's AD FS past.

Speaker -
Niek Van Raaij:
Why No One Uses Your Amazing Cloud Platform and How to Fix it
You’ve spent months building a cutting-edge cloud platform with the coolest Azure features: AI observability, Layer 7 load balancers, dynamic routing, certificate management, terraform building blocks —you name it. It’s a true masterpiece. But now that it’s live, the teams around you are way less excited than you expected. In fact, adoption is lacking.

In this talk, we’ll explore why your platform isn’t being embraced as you’d hoped. While you’re enthusiastic about the advanced features, developers are focused on deploying their code efficiently. We’ll discuss how integrating technical innovation with insights from behavioral science can make a real difference.

We’ll cover strategies to reduce the extra work and mental load that come with onboarding to a new platform—because for already busy teams, “new and improved” often means “more work to do.” By keeping your customers (yes, those busy developers) in mind, you can transform your platform from an extra pile of work into a enabler for innovation.