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I got fired, chat. How cooked are we? 😱 It's never a good time to lose a job - but to lose a job in this economy? No thanks! So... What happened?

I'll be speaking at HELish Summit 2026 on Thursday, September 17th with my old colleague and great friend Gautam Sheth!

The summer is finally here, and I'm on vacation. The blog will be quiet for the next 3 weeks or so, as I'm trying to survive the hail, thunder and mosquitoes of the Finnish summer.

If you're anywhere near Madrid on June 4th and enjoy Microsoft 365, Copilot, developer tooling, or just a good tech event with smart people in the room, this is your cue: come join us at CollabDays Madrid 2026 .

European Collaboration Summit 2026 wrapped up on Thursday in Cologne, and what a week it was. Michaël Maillot and I presented our session on the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, and got the chance to attend a lot of exciting sessions by other speakers.

This week I'll be in Cologne for the European Collaboration Summit 2026 - one of the largest Microsoft 365 conferences in the world - and I'll be presenting a session together with my good friend Michaël Maillot on the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK.

What exactly is happening in the USA?

Ever had one of those conferences that are fun, informative, and did I say - fun? No matter whether you're a speaker or an attendee, Cloud Tech Tallinn 2026 was one of those!

If you are attending CTTT26 in the beautiful city of Tallinn on January 29-30, come say hi! I will be there both days, and would love to chat about all the exciting things happening in the world of Microsoft 365 and AI agents.

It’s that end‑of‑year ritual again — a short pause to look back at what actually happened, what broke, and what was surprisingly useful.

Helloooooooo Stockholm! Are you coming to Teamsdagen on 17th of September? Because you probably should!

CollabDays Finland/Helsinki was last week, and boy was it an interesting trip! I feel super fortunate having the opportunity to do some fun traveling for work, and the privilege to speak and meet people at these community events.

This article is going to be something a little bit different: I'm still on vacation, but figured I should write sort of a self-congratulatory celebration post for 500 published blog posts on koskila.

This week I'll be attending Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2025. It's my first time in this event that's practically next door in the beautiful town of Tallinn! Although I guess the name was kind of a dead giveaway already, right?

Wow, that's quite a headline for a 30-something to write, right? But the very real side effect of being a weird kid and starting freelancing when I was on 8th grade is that it's now just over 20 years since I finished my first paid website projects.

This article will contain links, materials, slides (should I get the permission to post them) and other stuff related to my session at Scottish Summit 2024. In case you stopped by my session - thanks!

A few of my friends were already worried since I didn't publish the now-classic " Humbled & Honored " post on LinkedIn - perhaps I had not been renewed this year, dropped out of the program or even been kicked out?

I've made it a tradition to post something about the last year just after the New Year's, so here's another look back at the last 12 months. Next Tuesday, we'll be back to the regularly scheduled programming!

2022 is over, and it's high time to write the annual Year Review again. The ongoing pandemic and the 3rd World War on my doorstep have made me a little bit cynical, but in all fairness, the year was not all bad.

Exciting news right after the Easter break (and a bit of a change from the usual flow of technical stuff) - I've joined the Omnia team at Precio Fishbone.

I never thought that I would write an article on this site of mine about war, peace and a threat to not only an entire nation's existence, but mine, too.

Well, it's been a year. It certainly does not feel like it has been a whole 12 months since I last wrote one of these, you know?

Long story short: My 6-year career with Valo is now coming to an end. Today was my last day at Valo. This is the longest I've ever worked at a company, and I've had the time of my life in the many positions I've held within Valo / Blue Meteorite.

Like is almost customary at this point in the year, I decided to take a look at 2020 - which goals I had set for myself if I hit them, and what happened on koskila.net during the year. And like last year, I thought I'd set myself a few new goals!

Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, there's a sudden influx of people working remotely.

When I started this blog in 2015 as a place to stash my, eh, thoughtful workarounds , I didn't think I'd ever hit 200 live articles (with another hundred still in draft mode). Or that I'd get half a million people reading them in a year!

Late Friday night a couple of weeks ago, I got an interesting and a bit surprising email from Microsoft. Flabbergasted, I tweeted this right after: Wait, WHAT?

Is this seriously my first ACTUAL post about Canada? What a major gap in my content!

This is just a quick update to share my materials from my SharePoint Saturday Charlotte 2019 session. What a fun event - and a cool city! It was a pleasure getting to know the local community and visiting a new state.

I got an awesome, (kind of) last-minute opportunity to join a crew of awesome speakers at SharePoint Saturday Charlotte (NC) on the 10th of August, 2019, and I was super happy to jump on it!

I had the honor of speaking at SharePoint Saturday Nashville 2019 again, and it was a lot of fun! I had the chance to meet a lot of new (and some “old”) people. And what a crowd - so many (difficult) questions about SPFx & Teams development...

Exciting news to share again! My session on using SPFx to extend Microsoft Teams got accepted to SharePoint Saturday Nashville next June.

The year 2018 is drawing to an end, and it's a good time for some reflection on what an interesting year it's been!

I had the privilege of speaking at SharePoint Saturday New England in Burlington (near Boston) on the 20th of October. Thanks for the super-active crowd! A lot of difficult (e.g. good) questions and great conversations.

I have another exciting announcement to make - I'll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday New England on 20. of October in Boston! My session about Microsoft Flow, Azure Functions, and a bit of Cognitive Services was accepted for the developer track.

I was at Cloud Friday and SharePoint Saturday Nashville 2018 (SPSNash18), and had my session on Saturday - that was a lot of fun!

This Spring is crazy - so many cool announcements to make! I'll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Nashville on 5.5.2018. This one's a completely new SPS event for me, and I'm honored that my session was accepted on the developer track!

I had an awesome time at SharePoint Saturday in Houston! I had a lot of fun meeting a lot of new people, and I think the community liked my session about Citizen Development tools quite well!

I have another exciting announcement to make - I'll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Houston on 28.4.2018!

Whoops - this post comes quite late, as the session was a couple of weeks ago already. I recently had a session at SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities (SPS TC for short) and thought I'd share my materials and document my experiences.

Exciting announcement to make - I'll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Twin Cities (SPS TC for short) on 4/14/42018! It's one of the biggest SPS events worldwide, and I'm honored my session was accepted on the developer track.

I won a hackathon! They had fun topics, it was a cool challenge, a well-organized event, and had cool prizes. Since this is the first hackathon I ever took part in, I thought I'd post something about my experience and the solution(s) I figured out.

I haven't actually written that much about my daily work on this blog. I'm currently most involved with Blue Meteorite's North America team and specialized in partner acquisition and support.

This post is about our first excursion with the international student group to see Epic System's HQ. During the first days, I also walked around the town a bit in search of wall plug adapters and accidentally made contact with the local IT industry.

This is the second post about my and my wife's excursion to the USA and all the traveling we have done. We'll be spending 6 months in the country, to study, attend conferences, travel, and compare the culture to Finland.

I'm staying in the United States of America for the first 6 months of 2017 for both work and leisure. In case you'd need to contact me during that time, that's doable by normal means (Twitter/email).