MMS 2019 at MOA

Description:
With the January 2020 Windows 7 deadline looming, many organizations are still some distance from completing their migration to Windows 10. Even for those that have made the jump, Windows Servicing updates, inadequate patch success rates, and endpoint compliance reporting challenges mean the journey is ongoing.

In this session you’ll learn how you can minimize manual effort and give users a great experience by automating Windows deployments and updates, improve patch success rates and make best practice and endpoint compliance reporting simpler than ever. In addition, you’ll find out how to identify and remediate issues on all endpoints using core services such as Active Directory, WMI, Group Policy, and ConfigMgr.

Einstein defined genius as taking the complex and making it simple – join the team from 1E to learn how to look like a genius by simplifying endpoint management.


What you will learn:

• Minimize manual effort and make users happy through automated, self-service Windows deployment
• Improve your patch success rates
• Deliver real-time operational endpoint compliance reporting

Description:
Tired of wasting time manually imaging PC’s, testing OS updates for compatibility and checking if patches have actually deployed to systems, especially if they’re off the network? Join this session to learn how to automate some of the most mundane tasks so you can focus on higher value work. You will see how to leverage modern approaches for deployment and management leveraging Microsoft 365 and OEM vendors like Dell.

What you will learn:

• How to adopt zero touch OSD for Windows 10 leveraging provisioning packages
• How to automate OS updates at the device level and automate vulnerability remediation
• How to leverage modern management beyond MDM with full GPO coverage
• How VMware Workspace ONE complements your Microsoft 365 investments

In this Adaptiva sponsor session, you will discover how one of the world’s largest organizations manages 400,000 endpoints with absolutely no remote infrastructure. Hear directly from this retailer on how they easily meet their Windows 10 OSD and software distribution goals. Find out how they manage Windows updates and security on a global scale using ConfigMgr.

Learn best practices and tips on what ConfigMgr admins can do to automate routine tasks, save time, and work smarter. Make sure you know the key standards, tools, and best practices to secure your organization and reduce trouble tickets.

What you will learn:

• Tips to deploy Windows globally with minimal admin time
• Best practices manage Windows updates and security at massive scale
• How experts address a variety of real-life endpoint management issue

One lucky attendee will also win a Bose QC35 Series II headset!

Description:
Join Justin Chalfant from Patch My PC for a 100% live demo showing how easy extending ConfigMgr to patch 300 third-party updates can be! Learn how to offload the tedious work of packaging, deploying, and troubleshooting third-party updates in your ConfigMgr environment. Our third-party updates use the same software update deployment process as Microsoft updates with no additional servers or client agents required! We’ll use ADR’s, Searches, Software Update Groups, Collections, Deployment Packages and other familiar options for deploying our third-party updates. Learn about helpful options like auto-closing apps, running custom pre/post scripts, removing desktop shortcuts, and disabling self-updates! There are also some significant improvements in ConfigMgr 1806 that make the initial setup a breeze! Save time, money, and stay secure by integrating third-party updates into your ConfigMgr environment. We are hoping for a bunch of Q&A throughout the demo!

What you will learn:

• Understand how to integrate third-party patching into ConfigMgr with Patch My PC
• Scan your current ConfigMgr database and automatically detect and enable detected products for patching
• See how to deploy third-party updates in ConfigMgr using the same deployment method as Microsoft updates
• Learn about third-party update improvements in Configuration Manager 1806
• Learn about custom actions including closing apps before updating, running custom pre/post scripts, removing desktop shortcuts, and disabling self-updates

Description:
Are you tired of the time and bandwidth required to deploy software to the edge in a distributed environment? Kollective is a cloud-based delivery optimization platform that integrates with ConfigMgr to scale the delivery of applications, software updates and operating system images. In this session, Kollective will illustrate how their customers are delivering software faster and more reliably in the enterprise.

What you will learn:

• How to prepare for the increased cadence of OS updates
• How infrastructure reduction will simplify the management of your environment
• How to reduce bandwidth and help drive lower network spend with an intelligent peering solution
• The value and flexibility of a cloud-based solution versus an on-prem infrastructure
• How network analytics can optimize your environment for peak delivery

Join the Dell Product and Services teams to see our latest ConfigMgr integrations to help you deploy, configure and monitor Dell devices. Transforming to the cloud? We have you covered there as well, and will discuss how Dell enables modern deployment using Autopilot, onboarding, and management consulting services. Our product, development and services team will also be present, and look for your feedback in extended Q&A!

What you will learn:

• Leverage Dell Command Suite for OS Deployment and configuration
• Monitor Dell hardware for proactive troubleshooting
• Dell’s strategy for Modern Management and Deployment
• Leverage AutoPilot and the Dell Custom Factory Processes

Description:
Win, Win, Win! – One lucky attendee will win a Surface GO!

P2P and bandwidth control – BranchCache, Peer Cache, Delivery Optimization, LEDBAT, Data Deduplication - all these technologies are available for you to take advantage of right now and can be used standalone, or as a complete solution to provide incredible data flow efficiencies throughout the modern Enterprise. Knowing how all these various P2P solutions work individually is one thing, the real trick is knowing how to combine them into an integrated solution while adding visibility and control.

At 2Pint software, we have done just that. Our world-leading solutions deliver administrators unprecedented monitoring and control over the flow of traffic from the data center right down to a single data stream to a single PC. Come and learn something new and exciting. Find out why Microsoft sees these technologies as the future of content delivery!

Master this technology to unlock the future:

• Identify each of the P2P technologies that are available to you right now in your environment
• Understand the use cases of these various P2P technologies
• Look at how each of these technologies fit into your enterprise and how they can complement each other
• Determine what you should be enabling and which you can leave alone depending on your environment

Learn how 2Pint software solutions can:

• Be used to monitor and control content flow across your enterprise
•     Enable you to boot and build machines anywhere at lightning speed using P2P in the WinPE environment!
•     Centrally monitor and control your Task Sequence OSD builds in real time.

Description:
We get it – managing Windows Endpoints is a tough enough job in ConfigMgr/Intune. Updates, Patches, FileVault2 – oh my! It’s a full-time job – but how about:

• Those Macs in Marketing? 
• Those Chromebooks in the Computer Lab?
• Those Android & iPhones in the Sales Department?

As a SysAdmin, the days of offering a static group of end users a few flavors of Windows Laptops are long gone. For many IT orgs, BYOD has given way to CYOD (Choose Your Own Device.) End users don’t necessarily work in offices or cubicles anymore either – they’re mobile and on the go…using all TYPES of devices to connect to back end data sources on your network via VPN or cloud-based apps.

And let’s talk about BREACHS – 90% of breaches could have been AVOIDED if IT departments simply applied patches that had ALREDY BEEN RELEASED by solution providers. What if it was as easy as right-click?

What you will learn:

• Patching Mac’s with WSUS and ADRs
• Deploy mobileconfig files to a Mac from a DP or Parallels MDM
• Built into ConfigMgr Apple DEP for Zero Touch enrollment
• Enrollment Off-prem and policy enforcement
•  Available or Mandatory Task Sequences for Macs

In this session, we talk about the world we – as SysAdmins – live in and how Parallels is leading the way to help us survive in it.

Come check out the latest of what Recast Software has to offer for the Right Click Tools. All session attendees get an extended 45 day trial license of RCT Enterprise.

We'll start with a deep dive walkthrough of our RCT Builder tool to help you automate complex tasks in your environment. Choose from a variety of pre-existing RCT actions to make your own automation workflows. We'll be unveling a new pack of RCT Builder templates with this to help you get started. If you'd rather be drinking beer and playing Xbox games rather than doing more repetitive tedious tasks, this is for you. P.S. Apologies if you've been owned by Recast Software while playing Rocket League on Fridays.

Excited to see what else RCT has in the works? Our team of engineers has been feverishly working on our soon to come 4.0 build! We're going to give you an exclusive preview of what is in the pipe to arrive in the near future.

To cap it all off, we're going to play a little game. Four lucky attendees will be selected to participate in our very own game of Who Wants to Win a Onesie? Prizes include Recast Stickers, T-Shirts, Onesies, and up to 1 year of Recast Enterprise licensing each. Brush up on your Systems Management and RCT knowledge and be ready!

TL;DR
1. Learn how we can help you automate ALL THE THINGS!
2. See a preview of our new, soon to be released 4.0 version
3. Play a game and win free stuff