MMS 2019 at MOA

Nerds of a Feather sessions are the heart of MMS! Come and spend time with other professionals who are working on the same ConfigMgr or MDT Operating System Deployment challenges you are. These round-tables have moderators who are experts in the area, and your peers may have excellent solutions you may never have even considered. Come network with the community in this informal round-table, Q&A, random knowledge event!

Description:
Join Maurice Daly and Mikael Nystrom in a session with Windows driver focus. Love them or hate them, drivers are a fundamental component to the Windows OS and management is essential for the health of the machine. Let's face it, NOBODY likes a BSOD mid-way through working on their Excel spreadsheet or machines running at a crawl with bad storage drivers. So, let’s talk about drivers, the selection process (known as ranking) within the Windows OS, strategy for keeping driver package sizes down, driver packages or legacy packages, family packages, UWP drivers (Yes, they are a "thing"), in-place upgrades and for old time sake "Apply All Drivers" (yes you will be asked to leave the room). You will learn about both client and server drivers, as well as choosing the correct method of deploying, upgrading, maintaining and troubleshoot drivers

What you will learn:

• Learn how to automate driver installation
• Get real world experience from consultants working with global customers
• Learn about the Windows driver ranking process

Nerds of a Feather sessions are the heart of MMS! Come and spend time with other professionals who are working on the same ConfigMgr or MDT Operating System Deployment challenges you are. These round-tables have moderators who are experts in the area, and your peers may have excellent solutions you may never have even considered. Come network with the community in this informal round-table, Q&A, random knowledge event!

Description:
Failure is inevitable. What matters is how you deal with it. In the case of Operating System Deployment, knowing where to look and how to find the root cause of failures is essential for anyone working with OSD. Join Johan and Adam as they take a look under the hood of ConfigMgr to show you how OSD works and share real-world examples for identifying, debugging and preventing OSD failures.

What you will learn:

• An understanding of the mechanics of OSD in ConfigMgr
• Tips for highlighting OSD failures to quickly resolve issues
• Real-world tested OSD diagnostic and debugging strategies

Nerds of a Feather sessions are the heart of MMS! Come and spend time with other professionals who are working on the same ConfigMgr or MDT Operating System Deployment challenges you are. These round-tables have moderators who are experts in the area, and your peers may have excellent solutions you may never have even considered. Come network with the community in this informal round-table, Q&A, random knowledge event!

Description:
OSD Back to the Basics (ConfigMgr Task Sequences) Level 200 This is all about OSD basics and Troubleshooting, we’ll start with the bare minimum to deploy an operating system using at Task Sequence. We’ll then integrate MDT and go through the basic MDT Task Sequence. Once the pure basics are behind us, we’ll start adding some of the simple tweaks make your life a little easier, and improve the success of your deployments. Things we’ll cover Basic OSD steps, (Format, Apply Operating System, Domain Join) Task Sequence Variables, leveraging native variables to make the task sequence more dynamic Driver Management Methods, quick over several solutions, native and community Several of the basic steps everyone adds, and why we add them Common issues that break OSD, and quick tips for troubleshooting

What you will learn:

• Understand the basics required to use ConfigMgr OSD for Baremetal Deployments
• Understand how Content and Policy come into play during OSD
• Understand basic Task Sequences Steps and Variables to enrich OSD
• Guideline for where to start troubleshooting, and common issues

Nerds of a Feather sessions are the heart of MMS! Come and spend time with other professionals who are working on the same ConfigMgr or MDT Operating System Deployment challenges you are. These round-tables have moderators who are experts in the area, and your peers may have excellent solutions you may never have even considered. Come network with the community in this informal round-table, Q&A, random knowledge event!

Description:
Failure is inevitable. What matters is how you deal with it. In the case of Operating System Deployment, knowing where to look and how to find the root cause of failures is essential for anyone working with OSD. Join Johan and Adam as they take a look under the hood of ConfigMgr to show you how OSD works and share real-world examples for identifying, debugging and preventing OSD failures.

What you will learn:

• An understanding of the mechanics of OSD in ConfigMgr
• Tips for highlighting OSD failures to quickly resolve issues
• Real-world tested OSD diagnostic and debugging strategies