Dear Adis Jugo, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2016 Microsoft\u00ae MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Office Development<\/u> and Office Servers and Services<\/u> technical communities during the past year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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As our industry was changing, the Microsoft MVP award was\u00a0changing as well. I was first awarded Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server<\/strong>. In September 2015,\u00a0that title was changed from \u201cSharePoint\u201d to \u201cMicrosoft MVP for Office Servers and Services\u201d. That includes Microsoft Office 365 (a service), but also Office Servers (like SharePoint, Exchange, Skype 4 Business, Project Server etc.).<\/p>\n We, \u201cSharePoint people\u201d, have used to have internal division on developers (which were using SharePoint as a development platform), IT Pros (those guys who were keeping your SharePoint up and running), and business (people who took care that SharePoint is understood, adopted and used properly). Even if my work was inevitably in all three fields, my focus was always on creating and delivering software solutions, which were related, or even dependent, on SharePoint in one or another way. In the past five years, this has slowly shifted towards Office 365 stack.\u00a0 Office 365 went public on June 28th 2011, and I had a privilege and honor to demo development options three months earlier, on April 4th 2011 at Micrsosoft\u2019s WinDays conference<\/a>, in Rovinj\/Croatia. I have just looked at the slide deck and the code samples I was presenting back then: even if it was only less than 5 years ago, it seems like ages. It was all about sandbox, CSOM, and yes \u2013 integration with Azure! Still no mention of Azure AD, though. And I had that \u201cMicrosoft Code\u201d image on my last slide \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Slide deck (in Bosnian) and demo code from that session can still be found on my \u201cSpeaking\u201d page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since then, as the technology was evolving, my\u00a0\u201clet\u2019s start with Office 365 development\u201d session has been changing pretty much radically. I spent the good part of the last year speaking\u00a0about Azure AD, AAD Applications and how they differ from SharePoint Apps\/AddIns, and artist formerly known as “Unified API” (now known as Microsoft Graph). I had a privilege to \u201cpresent\u201d the Microsoft Graph the very same day it went public, on November 18th at Slovenian SharePoint Days conference<\/a>. Altogether, I was speaking about this topic 14 times in the past 12 months, in 8 different European countries. It was a good ride, this 2015 year.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>This is the reason that I am extremely honored, and humbled, to be awarded by Microsoft, another MVP category: \u201cMicrosoft MVP for Office Development\u201d<\/strong>. I am, at this moment, one of the first two people to be awarded in two Office award categories (\u201cOffice Servers and Services\u201d and \u201cOffice Development\u201d), together with the developer legend Scot Hillier. And, one of the first 11 Microsoft MVPs for Office Development world-wide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n