Jeff has been working in the IT Pro world for over 35 years. Coming from the IBM and Microsoft Lan Manager era, he started working on Windows NT, Exchange, SNA Server in 1992 and until 2000 as a contractor for Consulting and Marketing at Microsoft France in Paris.
Still passionate about the Microsoft Azure Hybrid Cloud, Jeff likes to talk Identity & Security, so Zero Trust, Entra ID, Active Directory, devices management and compliance with Intune and more broadly Microsoft security products like Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Defender for Servers.

He also has a lot of experience on the Windows Server operating system side with networking, storage, clustering, and Hyper-V.

He is the author of several books on Active Directory, DNS services and Hyper-V / SC VMM. He also participates as a speaker every year in multiple conferences : Identity Days (Paris), Microsoft Ignite (Seattle, San Francisco), Microsoft Build (Chicago), M365 Summit (Manchester), India Cloud Summit, Microsoft Global Azure Bootcamp, …

After having been Microsoft Community Head at SPIE ICS, Jean-François is now an external consultant for SPIE ICS and other companies.