SESSION CATALOG

This page allows you to search and review the various sessions planned for the MMS 2009 event. Using the controls below you can search based on keywords and filter the session list by Product, Session Type, Track, Session Level or Speaker. Note that sessions can be members of multiple tracks where their content reflects more than one topic area.

A PDF file with a complete list of all currently planned MMS 2009 Breakout and Hands-on Lab sessions is available by clicking here: MMS 2009 Session Listing

Please note that this is a preliminary list and subject to change.  Additional Breakout sessions and Hands-on Lab topics will be added as confirmed.

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BC01 Group Policy Preferences
Speaker(s): Lilia Gutnik
Track(s): Client Management Technologies
Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
Products(s): Group Policy, Windows Client, Windows Server

The primary uses of Group Policy are for security and Internet Explorer management, but there is so much more that can be done with Group Policy- a lot of which is currently done in logon scripts, which are hard to manage and even harder to report on. Group Policy Preferences is a cool new addition to Group Policy introduced in Windows Server 2003 that includes the ability to deploy shortcuts, map drives, configure printers, and much more.

During this session our conversation will include:
  • Overview: What is GP Preferences?
  • Differences between Policy and Preference
  • Targeting
  • Examples
  • Q & A

    • BC02 Windows XP-to-Windows 7: Planning and Tooling for Successful Migrations
    Speaker(s): Jeremy Chapman, Rhonda Layfield, Michael Niehaus
    Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Solution Accelerators
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Windows Client

    With many organizations opting to go straight from Windows XP to Windows 7, application and hardware readiness, imaging and deployment tools introduced with Windows Vista may still be new to many. Likewise, net new technologies introduced for Windows 7 can help inventory and prepare applications, quickly migrate user state and deliver system images, and automate installation tasks. These tools and processes are especially valuable for organizations currently downgrading to Windows XP on new hardware purchases and looking to retain the same hardware for users when moving to Windows 7. In this interactive session, we will focus on key themes for organizations moving from Windows XP to Windows 7, tools available to support all major deployment tasks and criteria for selecting the right options and processes for your organization.
    BM01 Thin, Thick, Fat, Optimized Desktop... What do you use... What is Microsoft's Vision?
    Speaker(s): Eduardo Kassner
    Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Microsoft Initiatives, Virtualization
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Core IO, Windows Client

    The client market has gone from Thin to Thick, to Fat, to Slim... and now to Optimized...What have analysts said over time? How has this market grown? What is Microsoft's vision? What are our current investments? We will have a candid talk with lots of interaction from the audience on what is going on and how we see this progressing into the near future.

    BN01 Ask the Experts: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010
    Speaker(s): Tim Mintner, Michael Niehaus
    Track(s): Solution Accelerators, Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Solution Accelerators

    Now's your chance to sit with the team that's building the MDT technology, troubleshooting customer scenarios, blogging about the latest and greatest solutions and planning the next generation of deployment tools. Bring your questions about MDT 2010 to this Birds-of-a-feather session and find out how to apply the latest solutions to your specific scenarios.
    BN02 Roadmap Discussion and Sharing: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit v.Next for virtualization and OS migration
    Speaker(s): Jay Sauls
    Track(s): Solution Accelerators, Systems Management, Virtualization
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Hyper-V, Solution Accelerators, Windows Server

    Virtualization is becoming ubiquitous in datacenters. But do you know which of your existing servers are good candidates for server consolidation and virtualization using Hyper-V? Attend this interactive birds-of-a-feather session and learn how to quickly assess servers for a Hyper-V server consolidation project with Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit. We will also discuss potential features of the next releases of the MAP Toolkit that will cover next-generation OS migration and virtualization features. Existing and interested users of the MAP Toolkit are especially welcome.
    BO01 Learn about the Cross Platform Extensions in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
    Speaker(s): Barry Shilmover
    Track(s): Operations Management
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Operations Manager 2007

    The Operations Manager 2007 R2 release includes Platform Extensions which open up the doors for improved monitoring of your heterogeneous IT environment using System Center. Join us at this interactive Birds-of-a-feather session to find out how Microsoft has created an easily extensible architecture using open standards for monitoring non-Microsoft environments, how the release provides monitoring of non-Microsoft operating systems and how Microsoft Partners are extending the cross platform extensions framework to monitor non-Microsoft applications.
    BO02 How Microsoft IT deployed Data Protection Manager 2007 and Other Lessons Learned From the Field
    Speaker(s): Jason Buffington, Ray Maker
    Track(s): Microsoft IT, Operations Management
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Data Protection Manager

    One of the original design goals of Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 was to provide the backup/recovery solution for Microsft's internal IT team (MSIT). Come to this Birds-of-a-feather session to learn how we did it -- and also to hear about other lessons we've learned from large field deployments.
    BS01 Windows PowerShell: Come Ask about Windows PowerShell Basics
    Speaker(s): Erin Chapple
    Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Server Management Technologies
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Windows Client, Windows PowerShell, Windows Server

    Windows PowerShell is a revolutionary interactive shell and scripting language that brings the power of the .NET Framework to command-line users and script writers. It exposes a consistent, extensible interface that provides a wide range of capabilities from executing simple interactive commands to scripting sophisticated automation solutions. During this birds-of-a-feather session, we'll take questions from IT pros and programmers who are just starting out with PowerShell on whatever topics the audience finds most interesting and relevant.
    BS02 WSUS best practices
    Speaker(s): Marc Shepard
    Track(s): Security Management, Server Management Technologies
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Security, Windows Server, WSUS

    In this birds-of-a-feather session any questions you have about WSUS servers will be answered by the product team, including: best practices for deploying and managing the server, creating customer reports, managing web farms, and much more. This session covers using WSUS as a standalone product (not from within ConfigMgr) as the techniques for deploying and managing WSUS within SCCM are quite different.

    BS03 Windows PowerShell: Come Ask about Windows PowerShell Advanced Techniques
    Speaker(s): Erin Chapple
    Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Server Management Technologies
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Windows Client, Windows PowerShell, Windows Server

    Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 bring datacenter automation to new levels through a set of production-oriented features included with Windows PowerShell 2.0, such as transactions, jobs, remoting, custom sessions, advanced functions, and modules. During this Birds-of-a-feather session, we'll take questions from IT pros and programmers who are working with PowerShell to accomplish more advanced scenarios on whatever topics the audience finds most interesting and relevant.
    BY01 Best Practices for Managing Software Updates in Configuration Manager 2007
    Speaker(s): Rick Duong
    Track(s): Security Management, Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Configuration Manager 2007, Security

    This session will discuss how companies are managing Software Updates using Configuration Manager in this Birds-ofoa-feather topic. Are customers creating one large patch package to deploy patches or do they create a new update package every month? Bring your questions for the experts and your peers, and learn tricks and tips including the best reports to use and how to create and deploy Custom Patches.

    BY02 Troubleshooting Configuration Manager 2007 Server & Client Issues
    Speaker(s): Wally Mead
    Track(s): Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Configuration Manager 2007

    Bring your questions about troubleshooting ConfigMgr server and client issues to this Birds-of-a-feather format session, where Wally Mead will provide all the answers! This interactive Q&A session will cover tools and techniques for diagnosing client and site system health, interpreting log files and quickly resolving common issues.
    BY03 Best Practices for Managing Application Virtualization Deployments
    Speaker(s): Daniel Emerson
    Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Systems Management, Virtualization
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Application Virtualization, Configuration Manager 2007

    Join us for a discussion of Application-Virtualization (App-V) management options, including the use of ConfigMgr, to help identify what works best in various different deployment environments. We'll cover the benefits of App-V streaming options including what you need to know when sequencing and deploying.

    The discussion will also examine challenges in deploying and managing App-V and how it can be optimized for:
  • Server apps
  • Client apps
  • Client runtime deployment and management
  • Sequencing for broad deployments

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    BY04 Deploying System Center Configuration Manager 2007
    Speaker(s): Wally Mead
    Track(s): Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Configuration Manager 2007

    This supporting Birds-of-a-Feather session follows on from the Deploying System Center Configuration Manager breakout session series. Join us at this session to ask questions and drill deeper into the deployment and configuration of Configuration Manager 2007 with Wally Mead.
    BY05 Configuration Manager SuperFlow Showcase
    Speaker(s): Doug Eby, Steven Kaczmarek
    Track(s): Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Configuration Manager 2007

    At this Birds-of-a-feather session we will showcase 6-8 of the newest Configuration Manager SuperFlows currently in development or available for publishing. A SuperFlow is a downloadable interactive content model that provides troubleshooting, process flow and other data flow information in an interactive format. We will also demonstrate an authoring template that can be used to create SuperFlows.
    BY06 Hey! You! Get onto my Cloud!
    Speaker(s): David Mills
    Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Birds-of-a-Feather
    Products(s): Essentials, Windows Client

    Come join us for this interactive discussion about System Center Online Desktop Manager. This new System Center IT management solution will deliver essentials Desktop IT management capabilities via an integrated web-based console without the need to install and maintain management infrastructure on-site.
    FG007 Mobile Device Management
    Speaker(s): Russ Wilson, Dan Woodman
    Session Type(s): Focus Group
    IC03 MDOP: Application Virtualization - Publishing
    Speaker(s): Angela Anderson, Daniel Emerson, Gene Ferioli, Aseem Kohli
    Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Virtualization
    Session Type(s): Instructor-led Lab
    Products(s): Application Virtualization, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Windows Client

    In this session, we will look behind the scenes at package generation with Microsoft Application Virtualization Sequencer. We will also discuss how package data is organized, managed, and accessed on the Microsoft Application Virtualization Client and examine publishing through a web server, one of the new features of version 4.5.
    IC04 MDOP: Application Virtualization - Sequencing
    Speaker(s): Angela Anderson, Daniel Emerson, Aseem Kohli, William Morein
    Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Virtualization
    Session Type(s): Instructor-led Lab
    Products(s): Application Virtualization, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Windows Client

    This lab will examine sequencing; the attendees will be able to sequence applications end to end for themselves and learn how to configure them before deployment. The goal of this lab is familiarize attendees with Softgrid application sequencing.
    IC09 Windows 7 Deployment (Part 1): Introduction to Microsoft Deployment Tools
    Speaker(s): Steve Campbell, Jeremy Chapman, Aaron Czechowski
    Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Solution Accelerators
    Session Type(s): Instructor-led Lab
    Products(s): Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Windows Client

    Use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 to deploy Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. This lab will introduce you to the updated Deployment Workbench MMC. In the course of this lab, you will install and configure the Deployment Workbench. In preparation for a deployment, you will learn how the Deployment Workbench and Operating System Deployment in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 are used to create builds and task sequences to deploy Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista. This lab is part 1 in a Microsoft Deployment series of Microsoft Deployment labs and will not cover Lite Touch or Zero Touch Installation; these themes are covered in subsequent labs.
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