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First year awarded:
2011
Number of MVP Awards:
5
Technical Expertise:
Windows Expert-IT Pro
Technical Interests:
Enterprise Client Management, Enterprise Security, Windows Expert-IT Pro
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Language
Finnish, English
Social
Certifications
MCSE,MCT,MCITP,MCDBA,GCWN
Recognitions

Best Session TechEd Europe 2014

Best Session - TechEd North America 2014

Best Speaker - TechEd North America 2014

Best Session - TechEd Australia 2013

Best Speaker - TechEd Australia 2013

Sami Laiho
Finland
HELSINKI
Biography
Sami is one of the leading Windows OS professionals in the world. Sami has been working with the Windows OS and training its use for more than 15 years. Sami has been working with companies sized from tens of computers to tens of thousands of computers worldwide. Sami has been working in different TAP and RDP programs and was the lead consultant in the Windows 7 deployment planning for the city of Helsinki - capital of Finland.

Sami has been an MVP in Windows since 2011 and is also currently the only STEP (Springboard Technical Expert Panel) evangelist in Finland.

Sami is country lead for the IAMCT and an MCT regional lead for Microsoft Learning.

Sami is an MCSE in Windows NT 4.0 and a six time MCITP in Windows Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows 8. 

Sami is the team lead at a Blog site called itpro.fi which is the biggest of its kind in Finland.

Sami has built a free replacement for the SteadyState product called the Wioski (http://www.wioski.com/) and a free password resetting tool called http://www.getabrandnewpassword.com/.

Sami is also a certified scuba diving instructor and a medic first aid instructor.

Sami delivers consultation and classroom training for advanced topics on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Active Directory, Security, WSUS, MDT 2010 and Group Policy.

Sami also builds software for his own company called Adminize (www.adminize.com).

The year 2013 was the first year Sami's sessions got accepted to TechEd with marvellous results:

- in TechEd North America Sami's session was ranked #19 out of over 500 sessions
- in TechEd Europe Sami's session was ranked #3 out of over 500 sessions
- in TechEd Australia Sami's session was the Best Session in the conference and Sami the Best Speaker

In 2014 Sami was the Best Speaker with the Best Session of the whole TechEd North America in Houston!
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