{"id":5556,"date":"2025-07-23T00:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/11-years-of-microsoft-regional-director-and-15-years-of-mvp\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:07:27","slug":"11-years-of-microsoft-regional-director-and-15-years-of-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/11-years-of-microsoft-regional-director-and-15-years-of-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Years of Microsoft Regional Director and 15 Years of MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    11 Years of Microsoft Regional Director and 15 Years of MVP<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2025\/07\/IMG_3458.JPG?ssl=1\" alt=\"11 Years of Microsoft Regional Director and 15 Years of MVP\"><\/p>\n<p>I often wonder how much people in other professions genuinely love the industry they&#8217;re in to the point that they&#8217;d do it regardless of the money. I&#8217;m sure there are examples, but I wonder how many lawyers look forward to doing something in the legal space on their weekend, or a shoe salesman wanting to, well, it&#8217;s hard to imagine anything too exciting there. For me, it&#8217;s stuff like this:<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rack upgrade day! Some new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ubiquiti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\">@Ubiquiti<\/a> goodness to consolidate things, pics and details coming\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hRrFFUBKch?ref=troyhunt.com\">pic.twitter.com\/hRrFFUBKch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1945959396284010543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\">July 17, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of *the* coolest things we\u2019ve 3D printed with our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Prusa3D?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\">@Prusa3D<\/a> is a hydroponics tower. That\u2019s 3 weeks from the first 2 pics to the last, from tiny plants to eating out of our back yard \ud83d\ude2e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I5nZtkHFyS?ref=troyhunt.com\">pic.twitter.com\/I5nZtkHFyS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1790508947746783417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\">May 14, 2024<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And for the next bit of my IoT buildout &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/home_assistant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\">@home_assistant<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kEoQBEt7AW?ref=troyhunt.com\">pic.twitter.com\/kEoQBEt7AW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1266193284755419138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\">May 29, 2020<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s &#8220;downtime&#8221; between coding &#8211; playing with the network, 3D printing random stuff and descending down the bottomless rabbit hole that is IoT. <em>That&#8217;s the fun stuff!<\/em> To be fair, I also love watersports, playing tennis, fitness, cooking, travel and other &#8220;normal&#8221; stuff too, the point is that to me, technology was a passion before it was a career. It&#8217;s been that way for most of my life:<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is me, 32 years ago, a 16 year old in 1992 trying to make some cash. Worked out good in the long run \ud83d\ude0a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xOfsrwdRCK?ref=troyhunt.com\">pic.twitter.com\/xOfsrwdRCK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1940534226207605105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\">July 2, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p>To the point of the blog post, this month marked the beginning of my 10th and 11th years as a Microsoft Regional Director (a biennial award), and the 15th year of being a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. These are not titles people set out seeking, and most of my peers who have been awarded them are like me in that they simply did things they loved, shared them with the community, and were then recognised for their efforts. And that, to me, remains at the heart of these programs: doing what you love and sharing the journey. Thank you to everyone who has joined me along the way.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly, as I finish writing this, I recall all the times as a kid when my airline pilot father would spend his weekends building radio-controlled model planes. Maybe this is all a hereditary thing \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Troy Hunt<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/11-years-of-microsoft-regional-director-and-15-years-of-mvp\/\">Go to troyhunt<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Years of Microsoft Regional Director and 15 Years of MVP I often wonder how much people in other professions genuinely love the industry they&#8217;re in to the point that they&#8217;d do it regardless of the money. 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