Jean-Francois Aprea
IT & Cloud Architect
AZ-IT Consulting
Jean-François Apréa | CEO at AZ IT Consulting based on French Riviera | IT & Cloud Architect | Microsoft Azure Specialist | MVP Security | MVP Cloud and Datacenter Management (16) | Author | Speaker | Trainer
Jean-Francois has been working in the IT Pro world for over 30 years. Coming from the IBM and Microsoft Lan Manager era, he started working on Windows NT, Exchange, SNA Server in 1992 and until 2000 with Microsoft France before deploying AD directory services to his customers at the very beginning in 1999. Still passionate about hybrid cloud architectures, Jean-François likes to talk about Zero Trust, Azure AD, Active Directory identity technologies and the hybrid cloud.
He is the author of several books on Microsoft Active Directory, DNS services and Hyper-V / SC VMM at ENI editions.
After having been Microsoft Community Head at SPIE ICS, Jean-François is now an external architect and consultant for SPIE ICS and other companies.