MMS 2016: Full Schedule

7:00am CDT

Birds of a Feather - Enterprise Mobility - CM, Intune, EMS, RemoteApp

Birds of a Feather sessions are the heart of MMS! Come and spend time with other professionals who are working on the same challenges with ConfigMgr/Intune/EMS/RemoteApp. 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!

Moderators

Nash Pherson

Customer Success Manager, Modern Workplace, Microsoft

Nash Pherson is a Customer Success Manager for Microsoft focused on Win 10 Enterprise, EMS/SCCM and Office 365. Prior to joining Microsoft, Nash was a systems management consultant and a Microsoft MVP for Enterprise Client Management.Nash's expertise is in organizational development... Read More →

Matthew Teegarden

System Administrator, Lifetouch

Matthew has worked in assisting organizations to improve productivity, services and processes within the System Center suite. In 2015 he was Vice President of the MN System Center Users Group – the largest System Center users group in the country and is currently a board member... Read More →

Tuesday May 17, 2016 7:00am - 7:45am CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

BoF EMS SCCM

8:00am CDT

MMS hAcKath0n Part 1 - Attendees Vote on What to Code

Limited Capacity seats available

You have a feeling that something you are doing can be done smarter, better, faster, easier. You have an idea about a tool you would love to see in any of the System Center products. Well bring that idea and either Microsoft or Coretech will get a fix by the end of MMS. That's right, you can get your change to CM made right at MMS.

The Microsoft devs ran a hackathon at the MVP Summit last year that was widely successful. Many changes are already in CM now or will be soon. Representatives of the team will be here at MMS to repeat that success. And where a fix might just not fit CM itself, the Coretech team will make it happen.

You can assist us now by thinking up ideas and submit them here.

The best ideas chosen will win a Surface Pro 4!

Attend the Part 2 session to see code results and winners.

Speakers

Kent Agerlund

Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Regional Director | CT Global, MMS Staff

Love to talk about anything related to Enterprise Client Management, cycling, running and football :-)Microsoft Enterprise Client Management MVP and Microsoft Regional Director

Aaron Czechowski

Principal Content Developer, Microsoft

Aaron Czechowski (@AaronCzechowski) works on docs.microsoft.com for Microsoft Endpoint Manager, focused on Configuration Manager. Ask him about ConfigMgr docs, and how you can contribute. Other good topics of conversation include Scouting, hiking, LEGO, or music.

Tuesday May 17, 2016 8:00am - 8:45am CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM

9:00am CDT

What's New in Configuration Manager Since RTM

Limited Capacity full
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As you are aware, Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager is going to be an ever evolving product with new features and updates added constantly. Since the RTM release of Configuration Manager in December, there have been a number of updates to the product. This session will cover those new updates, as well as some that may be available soon.

Speakers

Aaron Czechowski

Principal Content Developer, Microsoft

Wally Mead

None, Former Microsoft MVP, Retired

Wally has retired from the business world, and will not be keeping up with the ever changing world of Configuration Manager, so will be no longer doing any public speaking, not even MMS. However, since he loves the event, and the people he's met over the years, he volunteers at MMS... Read More →

What’s New in Configuration Manager Since RTM pptx

Tuesday May 17, 2016 9:00am - 10:45am CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM 300

11:00am CDT

Windows 10 Servicing with Configuration Manager

Limited Capacity full
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Not just an overview of Windows 10 servicing, this session will dig into the features of Configuration Manager to support Windows as a Service such as the Windows 10 Dashboard and Servicing Plans. And MVP Niall Brady will be there to keep the Microsoft guys honest. :-)

Speakers

Niall Brady

windows-noob

I blog about Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune). Please visit http://windowsnoob.com and http://niallbrady.com

Aaron Czechowski

Principal Content Developer, Microsoft

Dune Desormeaux

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

I'm a program manager on the Configuration Manager product team. My current focus is on configuring Windows security at enterprise scale and making it easier for customers to keep Windows and Office up to date. That said questions about all areas of the SCCM product are fair game... Read More →

Windows 10 Servicing pptx

Tuesday May 17, 2016 11:00am - 12:45pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM Win10 300

1:00pm CDT

ConfigMgr Content Management - A through Z and back

Limited Capacity full
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Content management and lookups are an important feat in Configuration Manager. In this session our goal is to dive under that hood and see what truly happens when you initiate a content lookup to give an insight of the mechanics of it all and give a thorough understanding of the different steps and components involved.

Speakers

Kim Oppalfens

Microsoft MVP, Senior Consultant, OSCC

Kim Oppalfens was awarded as an MVP 1st of April 2005, which makes him one of a couple of ConfigMgr April fool's MVP's. Kim is a self-proclaimed quiet, shy guy and overall nice guy, although part of that statement is currently under stress because of the evil influence of certain... Read More →

Jason Sandys

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Jason is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft for the Experience & Devices Customer Acceleration Team (CAT). Jason has 25+ years of experience in a wide range of technologies, environments, and industries and extensive knowledge in implementing and supporting all things Windows... Read More →

ConfigMgr Content Management v4 pptx

Tuesday May 17, 2016 1:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM 400

3:00pm CDT

Upgrading to System Center Configuration Manager

Limited Capacity full
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You've heard of the new System Center Configuration Manager, and have decided that there are great features in it that compell you to implement it. But can you, or should you, upgrade, migrate, or start fresh? In this session, we'll look at the various methods of moving to the newest Confguration Manager release, and why you'd want to consider each of them.

Speakers

Brian Mason

CM Admin, MMS Staff

Principle Consultant for 2Pint Software and MMS founder. 25 years with Wells Fargo running CM on 460K devices. Please tell me what you like or don't like about MMS. It's my passion and I always strive to improve it.

Wally Mead

None, Former Microsoft MVP, Retired

MMS2016 Upgrading to System Center Configuration Manager Onsite pptx

Tuesday May 17, 2016 3:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM 300

5:00pm CDT

Focus Group - Education

Limited Capacity seats available

Come talk on any common issues in education as far as IT is concerned.

Moderators

Nash Pherson

Customer Success Manager, Modern Workplace, Microsoft

Tuesday May 17, 2016 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

Focus

7:00am CDT

Birds of a Feather - Enterprise Mobility - CM, Intune, EMS, RemoteApp

Moderators

Dune Desormeaux

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Nash Pherson

Customer Success Manager, Modern Workplace, Microsoft

Zach Sattler

Platform Engineer, Artisan Partners

MEMCM (ConfigMgr) Admin / System and Desktop Engineer / Deployment / Powershell / Automation

Wednesday May 18, 2016 7:00am - 7:45am CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

BoF EMS SCCM

8:00am CDT

Hold on, you didn't do that...oohh my, you did! - Look what we did!

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This session has two facets.

First we will cover some of the dumbest mistakes you can make in SCCM and have a look at the consequences.

After that, we will cover how you can bend the rules of SCCM by thinking out of the box.

Speakers

Kent Agerlund

Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Regional Director | CT Global, MMS Staff

Love to talk about anything related to Enterprise Client Management, cycling, running and football :-)Microsoft Enterprise Client Management MVP and Microsoft Regional Director

Jason Sandys

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Hold on, you didn't do that pptx

Wednesday May 18, 2016 8:00am - 9:45am CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM 300

10:00am CDT

User Personality Management: How to Help Your Users Survive a Refresh or Migration

Limited Capacity filling up

Bare metal imaging is pretty straightforward, but throw user data and apps into the mix and suddenly things can get dicey. How do you ensure your users have not only their data but all the same apps they had before? Nobody likes the pain of having to return a new system to the usable state of the one it replaced

This session will cover tools, tips and methods for ensuring your users get their apps and data back. There are great third party solutions out there to help with this, but this session will show you to do it with free tools and licenses you likely already own. Technologies covered include User State Migration Tool (USMT), User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Work Folders, and MDT Application Mapping.

Speakers

John Marcum

Managing Consultant, Microsoft MVP, CTGlobal Services

John Marcum, Enterprise Client Management MVP, is a Managing Consultant with Coretech US. Starting with SMS 2.0, John has been highly focused on enterprise client management. Most recently John has become a leading expert in the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility and Security suite.

Phil Schwan

Technical Architect, PLA

Phil has spent the past 18 years in Windows desktop administration, specializing in OSD and application packaging. After an eight year tour of duty in a large Ohio-based healthcare organization, Phil is currently a Technical Architect with Project Leadership Associates (“PLA... Read More →

User Personality Management pptx

MMS2016 User Personality Scripts zip

Wednesday May 18, 2016 10:00am - 11:45am CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

OSD Win10 300

12:00pm CDT

ConfigMgr - Microsoft Product Team Q&A

Limited Capacity full
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Chat with members of the Configuration Manager product team from Microsoft on your topics and questions. This will be a great opportunity to share your feedback. BYOQ, AMA.

One question per attendee please (so make it good!)

Speakers

Aaron Czechowski

Principal Content Developer, Microsoft

Dune Desormeaux

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Kerim Hanif

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

I am a PM in Configuration Manager and Intune product teams; I am mainly responsible content distribution scenarios for both products (Delivery Optimization, peer cache, BranchCache, DPs, Edge Cache etc.) I also own the following features/scenarios: ConfigMgr Updates and Servicing... Read More →

Kerwin Medina

Software Design Engineer, Microsoft

A Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Kerwin is one of the most passionate and animated members of the System Center Configuration Manger development team. Kerwin is responsible for implementing some of the favorite community-suggested features in ConfigMgr current branch today... Read More →

Configuration Manager Product Team Q&A pptx

Wednesday May 18, 2016 12:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM 300

2:00pm CDT

Deploying Windows: Moving from VBScript to PowerShell

Limited Capacity filling up

Many of you have used the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit over the years to deploy a variety of different Windows versions, starting with Windows XP. When it was first created, VBScript was the answer, but now PowerShell rules. What would it look like to deploy using PowerShell instead? We'll explore that in this session.

Speakers

Keith Garner

Solutions Architect, 1E

Keith Garner is a Solutions Architect with 1E, working on next generation Deployment Solutions for IT Clients. Previously Keith was working in the Microsoft Product Groups on Windows, MDT, SCCM, Surface, and more!

Michael Niehaus

Programme Director, 2Pint Software

Michael Niehaus is a Programme Director and Master Inventor at 2Pint Software, working on device management and OS deployment technologies. Previously, Michael spent 16 years at Microsoft working on MDT, Windows as a Service, Windows Autopilot, and related management and deployment... Read More →

Niehaus Deploying with PowerShell pptx

Wednesday May 18, 2016 2:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

OSD 300

4:00pm CDT

Cloud Distribution Points Demystified

Limited Capacity seats available

Cloud Distribution Points have been around for a while, and have been deployed with varying levels of success! In this session we will deconstruct the Cloud DP role, lay out the best practice for deploying and using it, and provide some invaluable troubleshooting steps along the way. Want to deploy your SCCM content from the Cloud? Come on in!

Speakers

Andreas Hammarskjöld

Co-Founder, 2Pint Software

During his 19 year career in desktop deployment he has become a leading expert in designing and implementing Microsoft based system management solutions. He has been responsible for deploying an impressive 1.2 million desktops at a wide range of organizations, including several Fortune... Read More →

Phil Wilcock

Co-Founder, 2Pint Software

Phil has been at the forefront of bringing network optimization to the masses for over 25 years. An ex-Microsoftie , he co-founded 1E, and after taking a sideways career swerve into the family farming business for a few years, Phil teamed up with old friend and former colleague Andreas... Read More →

CloudDIstributionPoints pptx

Wednesday May 18, 2016 4:00pm - 5:45pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM 400

7:00am CDT

Birds of a Feather - Enterprise Mobility - CM, Intune, EMS, RemoteApp

Moderators

Dune Desormeaux

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Julia Kambiri

Desktop Engineer, Jostens, Inc

Thursday May 19, 2016 7:00am - 8:45am CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

BoF EMS SCCM

9:00am CDT

ConfigMgr ConfigurationItem Craziness

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Configuration Manager has had the ability to use Compliance Settings (also known as "Baselines" or "Configuration Items") since 2007. This session will explain the logic behind using a Compliance Setting--when it makes sense and when it doesn't. The session will also cover SQL custom reporting on Configuration Item results, as well as WQL (collection query) using ConfigItem information.

Speakers

Sherry Kissinger

Cardinal Health

For ConfigMgr, talk to me about large hierarchies, inventory customizations, compliance settings, and reporting for the SQL and SRS-challenged.

Wally Mead

None, Former Microsoft MVP, Retired

ConfigItem Craziness pptx

Thursday May 19, 2016 9:00am - 10:45am CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM 300

11:00am CDT

ConfigMgr Policies - A through Z and back

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Last MMS we delivered a session around collections were we did a deep dive into a very core component of SCCM that has been around for decades. This session aims at doing that same thing again, deep dive into a core component that is.

This time our focus isn't on a core operational object, but it's on policies, which are arguably deeper into the heart of Configuration Manager than anything else.

Speakers

Tom Degreef

Managing Consultant, OSCC

Tom has been a Configmgr consultant for several years and has been a Microsoft Support Escalation Engineer for over 2 years. Tom became an independent Configmgr Consultant again recently and delivers consultancy for just about anything that is EMS or Systems Management related... Read More →

Kim Oppalfens

Microsoft MVP, Senior Consultant, OSCC

ConfigMgr Policies A through Z and back pptx

policy related queries sql

Thursday May 19, 2016 11:00am - 12:45pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM 400

1:00pm CDT

Packaging Applications with Powershell, OneGet and Chocolatey

Limited Capacity full
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Learn about the new OneGet Application packaging system built into PowerShell Windows Management Framework 5.0, and One Get Providers like Chocolatey.org. Learn how to create Chocolatey packages using PowerShell.

[Ed] Keith Garner and Michael Niehaus are the MDT authors as most of you are aware.

Speakers

Keith Garner

Solutions Architect, 1E

Michael Niehaus

Programme Director, 2Pint Software

MMS16 Chocolatey v0.2.1 pptx

Thursday May 19, 2016 1:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

Win10 400

3:00pm CDT

Pull like a Boss with BITS & Pull DP’s

Limited Capacity seats available

BITS is everywhere! Windows Core even Windows Phone. If it’s good enough for Nano Server to pull containers with, its good enough for you. ConfigMgr uses it all the time, especially for Pull DP’s. But how can you manage it? Script it? Code it? Make it sing and dance?

Learn how to really get the most out of your Pull DP in ConfigMgr. We'll use some custom code to optimize the way that the Pull DP transfers content, and show you have the DP can even harvest content from local clients using BranchCache & De-Duplication. Your WAN will never be the same.

Speakers

Andreas Hammarskjöld

Co-Founder, 2Pint Software

Phil Wilcock

Co-Founder, 2Pint Software

PullLikeABossWithPullDPs pptx

Thursday May 19, 2016 3:00pm - 4:45pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

SCCM 400

6:00pm CDT

MMS 2016 hAcKath0n Part 2 - Results!

Speakers

Kent Agerlund

Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Regional Director | CT Global, MMS Staff

Love to talk about anything related to Enterprise Client Management, cycling, running and football :-)Microsoft Enterprise Client Management MVP and Microsoft Regional Director

Aaron Czechowski

Principal Content Developer, Microsoft

Kerwin Medina

Software Design Engineer, Microsoft

Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen

Global Lead Developer, Microsoft MVP, CTGlobal

You might have seen me in videos such as "Coretech Coffee Monitor"Automate everything is my motto! and its what I do.Besides producing music in my sparetime. That is when I actually have time off. Luckily I can automate my way of out most situations, which actually provides me with... Read More →

Thursday May 19, 2016 6:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
Lakes B Radisson Blu

Beer SCCM 300