Empowering Microsoft customers to interact, share, and learn Azure together.
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Join us for our weekly community call at 2-3PM Eastern, 11AM-Noon Pacific each Friday. The purpose of the call is to help you easily maintain current knowledge of Azure updates, learning opportunities, and a focused topic each week that is chosen by the Azure Hour team based on popular topics and customer requests.
The community team is a Microsoft Teams Team where we maintain a number of different materials and artifacts. Most importantly, it is an offline gathering of the same individuals who attend our Friday calls and provides a place where you can interact with the Microsoft coordinators and your peers who are also part of the Team.
An interactive way to ask questions, get new ideas, and learn from your peers. Think of it as the water cooler for the topic you choose.
Audience: Customers interested in, adopting or supporting Data, Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence solutions
When: Every Tuesday 3-4PM Eastern, Noon-1PM Pacific
Add to Calendar| DATE | TOPIC | PRESENTER |
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| Ongoing | Q & A + Open Discussion Format | Hope, Steve, & Team |
Audience: Customers looking at, deploying or supporting VDI scenarios in Azure including Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365 & Lab Services as well as partner solutions such as Citrix on WVD, VMWare on WVD, CloudJumper, Nerdio, etc.
When: Thursdays 2-3PM Eastern, 11AM-Noon Pacific
Add to Calendar| DATE | TOPIC | PRESENTER |
|---|---|---|
| Ongoing | Q & A + Open Discussion Format | David, Manuel, & Team |
Audience: Customers interested in, adopting or supporting Application Development and DevSecOps scenarios in Azure including GitHub, DevOps, App Service, Functions, PowerPlatform, etc.
When: Alternating Wednesdays 2-3PM Eastern, 11AM-Noon Pacific
Add to Calendar| DATE | TOPIC | HOST |
|---|---|---|
| TBD | Session topics will be updated here | TBD |
Audience: Customers who want to learn more about Microsoft's security solutions. This call is a bit different than the others because the technologies are not focused solely on Azure. Come learn about all things Microsoft security and ask your questions!
When: Every Other Wednesday 3-4PM Eastern, 12PM-1PM Pacific
Register| DATE | TOPIC | HOST |
|---|---|---|
| TBD | Session topics will be updated here | TBD |
Azure Focus Hours is a spin-off of Azure Hour that gives us the opportunity to go deeper into a topic via a virtual workshop. Sometimes the workshop is hands-on, and sometimes it is just follow-along. In any case, we schedule these occasionally based on customer interest and on topics that are popular.
Meet the people who helped build and guide the Azure Community of Practice experience.
Creator
David Ulloa is a Senior Specialist in Cloud and AI Platforms who provides technical expertise to education customers across the United States. He supports institutions in adopting Microsoft datacenter and hybrid cloud solutions to improve reliability, scalability, and long-term platform outcomes.
Creator
Dr. Eric W. DeBord is Director of Azure Cloud and AI Platforms at Microsoft, bringing more than 25 years of IT experience across industries and leadership roles. He leads complex Azure modernization initiatives spanning infrastructure, applications, and data, with a strong focus on healthcare transformation through secure interoperability and AI-driven insights. Eric is also passionate about scaling communities of practice that foster collaboration, shared learning, and meaningful outcomes for customers and peers.
Creator
Manuel Garriga is a Principal Cloud Solution Architect with more than 20 years of experience architecting, deploying, and securing enterprise technology across on-premises and public cloud environments. His work is centered on helping education institutions empower students, faculty, and staff to achieve their full potential through modern, secure, and scalable cloud solutions.
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