MMS 2017

• Differences between Identity Models

• What is Azure AD Connect and how to install and configure it

• Real world planning and preparing for customer and internal implementation

• Enterprise customer case studies

• Lessons learned and recommended practices in similar scenarios

• Fronting and controlling self-service and automation with SCSM

• Tips and tricks from the field based on real customer and business experiences

• What new solutions exist and how can these solutions be utilized in your environment·       How has the integration between OMS and Azure changed in the last year

• What changes have occurred in the underlying platform and how can these changes make OMS more (or less) useful in your environment

• How you can get more involved in the OMS community

• Server OSD

• Automating daily patch routines

• To fly *Note: MMS 2017 cannot guarantee this. Even if we could, the insurance would be cost prohibitive.

• How is Microsoft enabling Enterprise to use Windows Insider
• Why you should care about Windows Insider for Business
• How to turn it on and what you get as an ITPRO
• How to review what your company is already doing that you had no idea was going on

• How Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery has taken a cloud-first PAAS approach to deliver backup and DR for enterprise customers that offers the same levels of protection as the on-premises world with all the promises of the public cloud such a PAYG, no infrastructure, scale on demand etc.

• JEA provides a Windows administrators with a very powerful delegation model.

• With great power comes great responsibility - you should always take a minimalist approach to delegation with JEA, and audit your endpoints.

• Building tools on top of JEA endpoints will make your job much easier in the long run.

• Why patching non-Microsoft is important

• How to simplify the process of identifying and prioritizing patches

• How to leverage you Microsoft infrastructure to patch all non-Microsoft applications

• The basics of T-SQL - how queries are structured, sorting and filtering data, querying multiple views.

• How to work with different data types.

• How to aggregate your results

• How is the Windows as a service process being simplified?
• What is being done to address size challenges?
• What Windows as a service changes can you expect to see in the future?

• Get an overview about the new amazing features in Windows Server 2016

• New storage features like Storage Spaces Direct and Storage Replica

• New Hyper-V features such as Shielded VMs

• Learn about Nano Server and basics about containers

• The new editions, servicing model and licensing

• How to use the latest Collection, Updates, Deployment, and Site ConfigMgr cmdlets (and more)

• Understand how cmdlets have changed, so that you can begin planning/updating existing scripts and creating new ones with new functionality

• How to debug ConfigMgr cmdlets

• How to describe to management the opportunities to improve IT effectiveness, efficiency, and security as part of Win 10

• How to identify common Boat Anchors and winning strategies for cutting them off

• A list of common Band Aids that need to be addressed, and how to deal with them during Win 10 migration

• A helicopter view of the ConfigMgr industry from the Product group's point of view

• A helicopter view of the ConfigMgr industry from the community's point of view

• How to use the HTTP Data Collector API for Microsoft OMS to upload any type of data that you want

• How to use Automation jobs to gather to send the data you want to Microsoft OMS through the API

• How to use Log Search to find your custom data and the tricks for identifying your own custom logs and custom fields

• How to visualize your custom data using your own custom solution (or available community solutions)

• How this data can be carved up in PowerBI to provide another level of data visualization

• Which ConfigMgr Technical Preview feature is shiniest

• What features are on the horizon for ConfigMgr

• How you can get started with some of our latest features immediately (demos!)

• Don't use a CAS

• Collection evaluation in depth

• Incremental collection evaluation limits

• Proper limiting collection usage

• How to kill your DB - or better yet, how not to kill your DB with collection evaluation

• How to monitor collection evaluation and what to do when it goes wrong

• What new Windows 10 features have been introduced for deployment, management, security, and productivity
• What changes have been made to existing Windows 10 features
• What’s changing with Windows as a Service

• Deeper understanding of Operations Manager

• How to tune your monitoring environment

• How to address pre-established SCOM

• How to make monitoring useful to your operations team

• How we make decisions as to what features and fixes make it into a release
• HIow we measure quality
• How we process customer feedback
• TAP (Early Adopter) Participation
• ConfigMgr CB Fast Ring Enrollment and Participation
• How we analyze telemetry data

• Don?t use a CAS

• HTAs suck

• How to make your task sequences interactive

• How to use a front-end to validate that a system is ready to be "imaged"

• How to customize a front-end

• Whether you should build a front-end or use one from the community

• What tools can be used to query and report on data within the ConfigMgr Database

• How to customize SQL Server Reporting Services to match your corporate identity

• The tips and tricks to reporting, SQL 2016 and other tools

• What you can customize in your Windows 10 installations including fixed and variable start menu layouts, default applications, file associations, context menus, user profile pictures, and more

• Deploy these customizations during OSD.

• See what not to customize and why

• Configure, deploy, and collect data from the Windows Upgrade Readiness application, part of the OMS offering.

• Quickly dissect and act upon information provided by this cloud offering

• Address potential application or driver issues during your Windows 10 migration and continued servicing.

• How the PowerShell Deployment (PSD) solution fits with existing MDT functionality
• What additional features have been added since the introduction of PSD
• What is the roadmap forward (and from your perspective, what should it be)
  
  

• How to approach proactive monitoring in your environment

• Leverage and understand the power of OMS

• Understand how SCOM and OMS could cooperate

• How to start build concepts within OMS

• Understand the use and benefits of source control

• Learn the difference between source control providers like TFVC (TFS) and Git

• Understand what Git is, how it works, and why it's so popular

• By the end of this session you should feel ready to tackle the Windows 10 roll out in your enterprise

• How to use telemetry data to come up with a project plan

• Infrastructure requirements not just limited to ConfigMgr

• Overview of servicing the environment after successful deployment

• How to Find and enroll Macs via ConfigMgr

• Deploy content – packages, applications

• Filevault 2 Disk Encryption

• Software Updates using WSUS

• Image deployment

• Determine what method(s) of managing customizations will work best for you organization

• Apply these settings organization-wide or scope some of them based on business units

• Learn how the build update process affects these customizations and how to maintain them between updates

Session Description:
You've asked, you've waited and asked again.  We listened and listened an now the time is here.  Come hear how Configuration Manager plans to solve high availability.  Not just for the database, but also for the site server.  We first introduced support for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups in the SCCM 1602 release.  Now we are ready to introduce Site Server High Availability.  That's right, true site server HA coming to a hierarchy near you.

What you will learn:

• How Primary Site Server high availability works
• Using SQL Always On for HA / DR
• Considerations using SQL Always On and Site Server High Availability
• What is available in SCCM Technical Preview 1705

• How to use the latest Collection, Updates, Deployment, and Site ConfigMgr cmdlets (and more)

• Understand how cmdlets have changed, so that you can begin planning/updating existing scripts and creating new ones with new functionality

• How to debug ConfigMgr cmdlets

• Don?t use a CAS

• HTAs suck

• How to make your task sequences interactive

• How to use a front-end to validate that a system is ready to be "imaged"

• How to customize a front-end

• Whether you should build a front-end or use one from the community

• The basics of Containers

• Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers

• How to create Containers and deploy containers to host and the Cloud

• Essential equipment to get started brewing your own beer

• Tips for successful brewing and ways to avoid common mistakes

• How to make brewing easier and more accessible

• How to think regarding restore concepts

• How you can leverage the power of Azure

• Azure Backup design considerations

• Azure Backup Server technologies

• System Center Data Protection Manager 2016

• Instant-restore concepts

• OMS Security features

• Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA)

• Azure Security Center

• And how we can mix things together!

• Power BI: Best practices, data staging and data flow considerations
• Custom reports: Some of our favorite custom reports will be demonstrated
• Understand the new Data warehouse 

• How to enhance your Windows 10 security strategy using Configuration Manager

• What versions of Configuration Manager can manage which versions of Windows 10

• What you need to do to stay current with Windows 10

• Learn how to select the right tool for the request

• Create a Configuration Item, from simple to complex

• Field Notes, otherwise known as "Learn what not to do from someone who has done it wrong and learned their lesson. "

• By the end of this session you should feel ready to tackle the Windows 10 roll out in your enterprise

• How to use telemetry data to come up with a project plan

• Infrastructure requirements not just limited to ConfigMgr

• Overview of servicing the environment after successful deployment

• Viable solutions for backup, restore, and disaster tolerance missions using just the right set of native Microsoft technologies

• Features and price points favorable to the solutions architect

• Tips and tricks for deploying Azure Site Recovery and VPN in the new Azure Resource Manager model

One of the great features of Operations Manager is the ability to define and monitor distributed applications.   Service Map runs in Azure and automatically discovers the components of your application in addition to their dependencies, and thanks to a new management pack we can turn that map into a distributed application.

In this session we'll give an introduction to Service Map and then and have it build a distributed application for us.  We'll then dig into the management pack and see how we might leverage it for ongoing monitoring.  This will be an interactive session where we'll share coming features of Service Map and exchange ideas on how we might leverage it for application monitoring.

• Introduction to Service Map.
• How to install the new management pack and have Service Map build a distributed application.
• Technical details of the distributed application built by Service Map.
• Disussion on leveraging the new management pack for further monitoring.

• Learn how to select the right tool for the request

• Create a Configuration Item, from simple to complex

• Field Notes, otherwise known as "Learn what not to do from someone who has done it wrong and learned their lesson. "

• What topics are most likely to generate issues
• How can you avoid common pitfalls 
• Fixes for common issues

• Tips and tricks for avoiding some of the more common gotchas on Win10 OSD

• How to leverage P2P technologies to reduce infrastructure costs and Win10 migration timelines

• Options to easily move from legacy BIOS to UEFI and leverage Secure Boot, Device Guard, and Credential Guard

• Practical examples of how some of the largest companies in the world are migrating to Windows 10

• The how, what and why of the Cloud Management Gateway
• Guidance for when to use, as well as scale and performance considerations
• Why this is not competing with Microsoft Intune

• Why silos develop and how to identify the most common silos

• How silos make an organization vulnerable to disruptive change

• How Microsoft is driving datacenter cost down and cloud adoption up by making former silo'ed technologies obsolete

• Enlightened persona to adopt for career and corporate survival

• Cover top mistakes as seen in the forums and projects

• Work with Client Health

• Work with Configuration Manager infrastructure

• Get a Windows based PC from an unmanaged state to a managed state without re-deployment
• Different scenarios for the Designer tool
• Use various methods to apply the configuration

• How to enhance your Windows 10 security strategy using Configuration Manager

• What versions of Configuration Manager can manage which versions of Windows 10

• What you need to do to stay current with Windows 10

• Bits & bolts about Configuration Manager

• How to have fun with a bunch of geeks

• Pro-tip: follow @thewmiguy & @agerlund for potential hints and answers to questions leading up to the event

• Using the SQL assessment to improve security, performance and availability

• Look into your Active Directory to improve compliance, scalability and business continuity

• Get you started in using these and other OMS assessments and how to customize the assessments to your environment!

• Traditional process conversion to cloud process design

• Using SCSM and 3rd Party ITSM tools on MS Cloud

• ITSM cloud integration and automation using SCSM and Azure

• Tips and tricks from the field based on real customer and business experiences

• Surprise: Something new and super geeky!

• Techniques for efficient troubleshooting

• Common issues and their workarounds

• Behind the scenes info

• How to describe to management the opportunities to improve IT effectiveness, efficiency, and security as part of Win 10

• How to identify common Boat Anchors and winning strategies for cutting them off

• A list of common Band Aids that need to be addressed, and how to deal with them during Win 10 migration

• The basics and reasons for Windows Server

• How to deploy Nano Server

• How to manage and operate Nano Server

• Learn some best practices and lessons learned from the field

• Don't use a CAS

• Collection evaluation in depth

• Incremental collection evaluation limits

• Proper limiting collection usage

• How to kill your DB - or better yet, how not to kill your DB with collection evaluation

• How to monitor collection evaluation and what to do when it goes wrong

• Prepare your data

• Filter through the huge amounts of data in Configuration Manager

• Present information in a simple and agile form

• Planning for and installing Microsoft EMS

• Managing Mobile devices using Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager

• Protecting data using Microsoft Intune and Azure information protection

• App-V Client Management Strategies
• Upgrading Apps
• Automation ideas surrounding user based deployments

• Write PowerShell Rules for Application Detection, Configuration Items, Package/Programs, and Task Sequences

• Use PowerShell to capture non-standard data, and place it so that ConfigMgr can consume it (via inventory)

• Learn about the caveats when using PowerShell with ConfigMgr

• Techniques for efficient troubleshooting

• Common issues and their workarounds

• Behind the scenes info

• What you can customize in your Windows 10 installations including fixed and variable start menu layouts, default applications, file associations, context menus, user profile pictures, and more

• Deploy these customizations during OSD.

• See what not to customize and why

• Planning for and installing Microsoft EMS

• Managing Mobile devices using Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager

• Protecting data using Microsoft Intune and Azure information protection

• Directly query your ConfigMgr database in SQL Server Management Studio

• Customize inventory using multiple methods: custom registry keys, custom WMI, and scripts + WMI

• Use WMI Explorer to find what you are looking for, to be inventoried.

• Write PowerShell Rules for Application Detection, Configuration Items, Package/Programs, and Task Sequences

• Use PowerShell to capture non-standard data, and place it so that ConfigMgr can consume it (via inventory)

• Learn about the caveats when using PowerShell with ConfigMgr

• Determine what method(s) of managing customizations will work best for you organization

• Apply these settings organization-wide or scope some of them based on business units

• Learn how the build update process affects these customizations and how to maintain them between updates

• How to better secure your ConfigMgr environment

• Worst case scenarios when best practices are not followed

• Best practices to follow

• Cover top mistakes as seen in the forums and projects

• Work with Client Health

• Work with Configuration Manager infrastructure

• Understand what it means to your company now that "Identity is the new perimeter" and some strategies on how to protect your users' identities and data on-prem and in the cloud

• See multiple native tools in action from Microsoft that will protect against modern attacks including Advanced Threat Analytics, LAPS, Azure AD Premium and Conditional Access

• Learn about some of the new security features in Server 2016 and how to start using them right away

• How to build 2 and 4+s node clusters
• Expanding clusters
• Perform In-depth performance analysis using diskspd.exe and VMFleet
• Troubleshoot and Repair