User:Prabhat.Nigam

Prabhat Nigam is 3 times awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Exchange Server and Office 365 community work. Prabhat is a renowned Exchange and Office 365 Speaker. He has over 5000 viewers of his youtube channel. He has been doing speaking in New York Exchange USer Group, New Jersey Unified Communication User Group, The only New York Technical Conference and 2nd after ball dropping event at Times Square "Tech Stravaganza", yes Pitbull can his name now when he talks about Times Square now, NetCom Learning and Microsoft MVP Community.

Prabhat writes his blog for MSExchangeGuru and Microsoft MVP Monday. He is MBA in Information Technology and over 17 years working in Information Technology.

Prabhat had become more famous when Prabhat's photo was used by Microsoft to advertise MVP Summit event in Seattle at lamp post and at registration desk which made him MVP Summit Celebrity. Prabhat always wanted to be an actor so this incident surely added some spark to grow him in acting field and you might see him in hollywood movie if he is lucky enough.

Currently he is working as a CTO and Chief Architect for Golden Five Consulting. He has been doing multiple my Exchange 2016 and Hybrid migrations. He is focus on companies future growth.

Previously he was working as Principal Solutions Architect where he helps in designing, implementing and managing solutions of private messaging cloud, mergers, collaboration between different messaging software and other migration & deployment projects. He manages the Presales of Exchange and Directory services for his company. He also helps in writing and testing the Exchange requirement to other companies. Recently he did Exchange 2013 migrations with Public Folders and a major 270K users SMTP Gateway migration from FOPE to EOP.

He has worked for big IT giants WIPRO, CSC, Accenture, EDS and IBM where he has lead the Global team for Exchange and Active Directory. He has also worked for United Nations International Computing Center where he build a private cloud for rest of the UN Orgs and build Disaster Recovery Site for them. He has started his career as Technical Consultant in Exchange 5.5 with Microsoft Product Support Services and his exchange love never stopped & continued 2000/2003/2007/2010/2013. At one point of time he was the only person to support EDS customers when Microsoft had closed all the supports for 5.5.

For his work he has visited to Australia, Switzerland, Spain, France, Canada & USA.

He manages the website – MSExchangeGuru.com (Learn Exchange The Guru Way), LinkedIn Groups "Microsoft Exchange Server" and "Microsoft Exchange Server 2013". The website and linkedin groups have more than 500 subscribers worldwide and he always find free time to help their subscribers with questions and issues with their exchange environment. He also reply to the queries on TechNet blog.

During his personal time he play Tennis, watch Cricket, Soccer or Tennis or 3D movies. For the technical queries he can be reached at prabhat@msexchangeguru.com and for the business queries he can be reached at prabhat.nigam@GoldenFive.net

Certifications MS Hyper-V and Exchange 2016, MCSE: Messaging 2013, MCSA2012, MCITP & MCTS E2010/2007, MCSA - E2003, MCSE since 1999, CCNA

Microsoft Specialist: Designing and Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 (Charter Member) Microsoft Specialist: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center Specialist Microsoft Certified Solution Expert: Messaging (Charter Member) 2013 Microsoft Certified Solution Associate: Windows 2012(Charter Member) Microsoft® Certified IT Professional: Exchange 2010 Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist: Exchange 2010