This year MMS 2009 is offering an additional set of IT Management sessions from key Microsoft Partners in the Partner Technical Showcase. These topics are presented in parallel with the main breakout sessions during the event, offering additional insights into solutions, products and best practices from a number of key partners attending MMS 2009.

The topics being offered are listed below, and are also included in the Session Builder, allowing them to be added to individual attendee schedules. All Partner Technical Showcase sessions are presented in Room San Polo 3405.

Company	Code	Topic	Time
Veloxum	TS43	Optimizing Your Infrastructure	10:15am
A huge amount of IT capacity and performance is locked away, unavailable for one simple reason: infrastructure components - servers, networks, operating systems, desktops - are not configured to work together optimally. At the same time, organizations are delivering business-critical applications across the enterprise to an increasingly distributed workforce. Users are remote, data is centralized, bandwidth is jammed, and server demand is increasing exponentially. Attend this session to review key performance blockers and learn remediation steps to reclaim performance and capacity.
FullArmor Corporation	TS36	Scaling IT management from on-premise private clouds to the public cloud using Windows Azure	11:45am
This session will cover several commercial examples of scalable Windows Azure services that can help IT organizations reduce IT operational costs from management of endpoints to automation and provisioning of Virtualization technology in VMM and SCOM by utilizing a combination of cloud based services both in the private and public clouds. The session will also cover an introduction to the Windows Azure development environment and an ISV's development experience deploying a commercial product on Azure platform.
CA Inc.	TS33	Integrating Microsoft Systems Management into Cross-Silo Infrastructure Management	2:15pm
Many organizations have IT management teams assigned to specific management tools - such as separate domain managers for the network, systems, databases and applications. But a desire to improve management efficiency by delivering event and alarm information to a single pane of glass has some organizations moving toward transparency across these silos. This session will discuss the integration of Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager with CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager and how this increases efficiency, reduces incident resolution time and fosters a service-oriented IT organization.
Xandros	TS44	Managing Cross Platform LOB Applications in Virtualized Environments with Operations Manager 2007 R2	4:00pm
Which haystack is the needle in? Many distributed line of business applications built on components such as Oracle, Apache, MySQL, JBoss and others are deployed in virtualized environments. This makes root cause analysis a very difficult and time-consuming effort. Join us to see how the cross platform monitoring capabilities in the upcoming Operations Manager 2007 R2 release can be leveraged to correlate data from many different applications into manageable information presented in a single console.

Company	Code	Topic	Time
Secure Vantage	TS40	ISV Solutions for Cross-platform Monitoring, Regulatory Auditing and Advanced Visualizations	10:15am
Learn how to optimize System Center Operations Manager for cross-platform devices and applications, regulatory auditing requirements, plus how to create advance LOB, geographic and executive level dashboards in SharePoint. This session includes four demos and presents a customer example of extending Operations Manager for Oracle and VMWare monitoring using BridgeWays, supporting SOX and PCI audit requirements using Secure Vantage Technologies, and building intelligent views across all these solutions using Savision LiveMaps.
Acresso Software	TS31	Efficiently Managing Your Desktop Strategy for Application Virtualization	11:45am
Application virtualization projects are high-profile, requiring a structured approach. AdminStudio can alleviate the challenges of an application virtualization migration. Learn: how to evaluate an existing application portfolio to determine good candidates for App-V how to streamline and automate application sequencing best practices to overcome application delivery challenges industry-leading techniques to manage virtualized applications alongside traditional MSI how enterprises are accelerating application packaging to deliver libraries of virtualized applications in just days.
Odyssey Software	TS39	Solving real-world mobile device management challenges with Configuration Manager 2007	2:15pm
Very few device management products have truly been designed to deal with challenging real-world scenarios, such as; the automatic detection and repair of corrupt or missing files and applications, updating applications that are currently running, updating common runtimes (.NET Compact Framework and SQL Server Mobile), and live over-the-air diagnostics and remote assistance. See how Odyssey Software's Athena extends and complements the native capabilities of Configuration Manager 2007 to handle these real-world mobile device management scenarios.
ManageSoft Corporation	TS38	Leveraging Configuration Manager for software license compliance and management	4:00pm
How to enable your organization to lower software investments and ongoing spend by leveraging Configuration Manager data for license management. License entitlement is much more than comparing purchases and installations. License types need to be understood in conjunction with the computing environment (virtual machines, servers, multi-processor machines, physical locations,...) and specific vendors license terms. ManageSoft, a member of the System Center Alliance Program, describes the process and requirements to leverage the Microsoft System Center infrastructure in order to meet license compliance and save costs.

Company	Code	Topic	Time
Lieberman Software	TS37	Securely managing local administrator and cross-platform root accounts in Microsoft System Center for GRC compliance	8:30am
Many organizations set their machine local privileged accounts to the same name and password, or never change these critical accounts. In an environment of internal and external threats, this decision can lead to the total compromise of security. We will show you how hackers crack the local administrator account and gain peer-level access to every system. Learn how you can stop this problem and securely manage these critical accounts from within the System Center environment.
Data Core Software	TS35	Architecting Hyper-V Disaster Recovery configurations for 1-to-many distribution over low speed IP WANs	10:15am
Take a deep dive into architecting, sizing, and distributing Disaster Recovery responsibilities for a centralized Hyper-V environment among several smaller sites using standard, low speed, IP WANs. Understand the nuances necessary to initialize and switch over from a central facility to asynchronously replicated virtual machines spread across multiple locations. Learn how to coordinate and remotely trigger point-in-time snapshots from SQL, Exchange and other crucial applications to ensure smooth transitions to and from the contingency sites.
Blue Coat Systems, Inc.	TS32	Accelerate Your Remote Office Performance of Systems Center Applications	11:45am
Learn how Blue Coat's Application Delivery Network solutions solve network performance challenges for delivery of System Center applications like SMS, Configuration Manager and App-V at remote sites. This session will cover key concepts including architecture and deployment scenarios of Blue Coat's WAN application delivery products in System Center environments, using flexible choices ranging from data center & branch office appliances to desktop software clients. Blue Coat is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner providing appliance and software solutions for remote infrastructure optimization.
Veeam	TS42	Monitoring VMware systems using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager	2:30pm
This talk will address the technical challenges discovered and overcome while developing the "nworks Management Pack for VMware", a solution to integrate monitoring of VMware systems into Ops Mgr. Points raised will include: Communicating with VMware API and delivering data in Ops Mgr -consumable format Building a Health Model for VMware Scalability issues for large discoveries & bulk data deliveries Using Ops Mgr Agent as a Proxy for a distributed architecture Designing Diagrams, Dashboards and Reports
Tideway	TS41	Automated Discovery and Dependency Mapping for Operations Manager	4:00pm
Tideway Foundation automates the discovery and dependency mapping of application services. This session provides an overview of Tideway's integration with Operations Manager to provide a complete topology of your business applications and infrastructure including switches, servers, operating systems, software, configuration files and logs. The result is an automatically generated Distributed Application Diagram which is dynamically updated to reflect changes in your environment and eliminate manual and error-prone processes.
CDW	TS34	Best of Both Worlds: Configuration Manager Operating System Deployment and Vendor Configuration Centers	4:00pm
Tips and tricks for maximizing the benefit of System Center Configuration Manager and hardware vendor configuration centers when deploying Operating Systems in the field. In this session we will cover how to utilize configuration centers to pre-stage hardware and not lose the agility gained through operating system deployment with ConfigMgr. Specific sub-topics, such as: multi-language support, mid image revision change management, advanced scripting, and dynamic configuration options. NOTE: This session will be presented in Room Veronese 2405