Intro

The beginning

This isn't really the first blog I've written but is definitely the 1st published here in my own tech(ish) blog. So, let me introduce myself shortly.

I'm Pete, living in Finland in a city called Järvenpää (Jar-when-bad?). Yes, it's quite unpronounceable place to live, but you can also say "near Helsinki". I've worked in IT (or ICT) my whole career and started my first real job during the great WinNT era. We were programming with C, VB and with ancient tools no one remembers any more (Plexus, LightSpeed, SCO Unix, Informix databases). But we did do kind of cool stuff back in late 90's, like image archiving with WORM jukeboxes, optical character recognition (OCR), in-house case and document management solutions. And all without the helping hands of Google and Stack Overflow. Ok, we did have AltaVista.

During the years I've done my share of SharePoint "tailoring". And made few intranets with SharePoint Online also. I've worked with Office 365 since the launch of the service (still remember the summer of 2011). Not long after O365 was launched, I was hired as a consultant to Sulava Oy. Still there and happy!

Oh, and I have a life/family too. I'm living with my lovely wife and soon-to-be adult son, we have two not-so-bright belgian shepherds (that is a brand of a dog), a small house with a garden and a sports utility vehicle (or we did have, now waiting for the next one to be assembled somewhere in Mexico).

About the blog

For a while I wondered if I should write in Finnish or in English. My Swedish is so "dåligt" I couldn't consider that one. So, I decided to go with English. Most of the referenced articles are anyway in English and computing just won't translate to Finnish very well. So I'll do with my not-so-native English. Please do ask/comment if you can't make sense of my posts.

Initially I planned this to be a PowerShell blog related to Microsoft 365. But I think I'll reserve a right to change my mind if something interesting should appear. Maybe write a few words about Log Analytics. Or adventures in AIP or DLP. I hope that I can bring something extra to the table. At least I've seen a lot with my wonderful customers and I think there's few experiences to be shared with you all.

I don't do fb or ig but (re)tweeting as @helipetr.

That's all for now, see you! Oh wait, you can already read the 1st post with substance in it, about EXO PowerShell V2.