Sessions
Please pay attention to this list of sessions at NIC2013 as it can be updated on a short notice.
Check Agenda for schedule.
- All talks
- Windows server
- Virtualization & Cloud
- System Management
- Unified Communication
- Windows Client
- Partner talks
Bio
Brian Desmond
Brian Desmond is an Industry recognized Active Directory and Exchange expert with diverse global background.
Over the past several years, Brian has had the opportunity to design, implement, and manage Active Directory, Exchange, and Identity Lifecycle Manager solutions for customers across the public sector, K-12 and higher education, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals verticals ranging up to 500,000 seats in size.
He will share his knowledge with us during NIC2012. Check out http://briandesmond.com/ for more information about Brian.
Synopsis
Active Directory Disaster Recovery
For many organizations, Active Directory is the cornerstone of the network. Keeping the directory online and healthy is only half the battle. What if something happens and you need to restore from backup or recover accidentally deleted objects? In this session, we’ll look at what you need to know in order to be prepared as well as look at the Active Directory Recycle Bin and how it helps mitigate many of the most common Active Directory disaster scenarios.
Bio
Olav Tvedt
Olav Tvedt is working at Evry as Consigliore, the formal title is Advisor but he loves to get his hands dirty on the technology. Experience from all kinds of environments has given him a deep understanding on how to really take the best advantage of the systems to make them work for you. Olav is an MVP and well known, popular speaker both national in Norway and international at events like TechEd Europe and North America. He always show his passion for the technology, likes to have lots of demos and have twinkle in his eye when presenting.
Synopsis
Are you ready for Windows 8?
Are you just looking into how to get a better overview of your hardware and software, or are you planning on upgrading to WIndows 8? Let us show you the free tools and utilities from Microsoft that helps you out. We also look into what to think about before starting, how to make the right choices and what deployment tools to use. Lots of free tools and solutions will be covered.
Bio
Anders Bengtsson
Anders Bengtsson is a Microsoft senior premier field engineer, focusing on System Center. He was involved in the Service Manager TAP with one of the largest Service Manager TAP customers. Anders has written a number of System Center training courses, including the Service Manager and Operations Manager advanced courses for Microsoft Learning. Before joining Microsoft, Anders was a Microsoft MVP from 2007-2010 for his work in the System Center community, including more than 10,000 posts in news groups and forums. Anders has presented and worked at numerous Microsoft conferences and events, including Microsoft Techdays and Microsoft TechEd EMEA.
Synopsis
Best practices and lessons-learned around runbook design
Orchestrator 2012 introduce a new way to integrate and automate cross the datacenter. Join us for an in-depth session on experiences from the field gather during first’s years with Orchestrator. During the session we will walk through the best practices and lessons learned around Orchestrator runbook design, infrastructure and processes. We give you a look at the solutions that were rolled out early, highlight what worked and pitfalls to avoid. You this session to get ideas and tips how to get most out of Orchestrator and success with the automation in your datacenter.
Bio
Jon Jahren
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As an industry leading expert on SQL Server technologies for almost 20 years, Jon Jahren is a recognized authority on Database development, Enterprise software systems, Scalability, and Business Intelligence. Besides taking on challenges as a consultant, architect or strategic advisor, Jon is also well known by numerous of appearances at MS technical events as a speaker and educator on the Microsoft Application Platform. Building on a broad experience as well from different roles, Jon was a MS Product Manager and MCS Principal Consultant on SQL Server for 6 years before returning to his roots as an independent consultant, now running his own company Databasesentralen.
Synopsis
Best Practices for Virtualizing SQL Server and still getting Physical performance
SQL Server can run great in virtual environments, but it can also get really ugly when people start forgetting the laws of physics. In this session we will see why SQL Server has completely different workload characteristics than most other servers, and which options in Hyper-V and VMWare that can tune your demanding SQL Servers to the max.
Time:
Day 1 11:25 - 12:25Bio
Daniel Wedel
Daniel Wedel has been awarded the Citrix Technology Professional title after his work with Citrix products for the last 10 years. He is the founder of Wedel IT and works as a Senior Consultant and Trainer in Norway. Daniel works for customers in Norway helping them design, implement and operate Citrix solutions. He is currently a Citrix Certified Instructor on the virtualization suite as well as a trainer on Appsense and RES. After 12 years in the IT-industry Daniel has done several presentations at the Norwegian User Group events as well as VirtualPower the biggest virtualization event in Norway. He was also awarded Citrix Instructor of the year - Nordic Region 2010.
Synopsis
Building a dynamic Citrix environment using Microsoft Technology
In this session we will show how to build the ultimate Citrix farm using Provisioning Server and adding App-V, Group Policy preferences and SCCM to make it even more streamlined.Citrix servers seem to become more unstable over time, too many users / admins make changes that affect your users, and servers need to be reinstalled. Well, not anymore!
Tired of having separate silo's for that one app that requires special modifications? We'll show you how to make it part of your standard farm and what pitfalls you have to be aware of.
Bio
Patrik Sundqvist
Patrik is one of the founders of Gridpro AB (www.gridpro.se), works as a solutions architect and developer with special interest in self-service and process automation. Patrik has spent the last ten years on building process automation solutions on top of Microsoft products. By combining deep knowledge within infrastructure- and software development Patrik can see solutions that goes beyond the normal limits. With special interest in System Center Service Manager, Patrik was picked to be one of the authors of “System Center Service Manager 2010 – Unleashed”. In 2012 he was rewarded the “System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management” MVP award for his work with the Service Manager community.
Bio
Anders Bengtsson
Anders Bengtsson is a Microsoft senior premier field engineer, focusing on System Center. He was involved in the Service Manager TAP with one of the largest Service Manager TAP customers. Anders has written a number of System Center training courses, including the Service Manager and Operations Manager advanced courses for Microsoft Learning. Before joining Microsoft, Anders was a Microsoft MVP from 2007-2010 for his work in the System Center community, including more than 10,000 posts in news groups and forums. Anders has presented and worked at numerous Microsoft conferences and events, including Microsoft Techdays and Microsoft TechEd EMEA.
Synopsis
Busting the time wasters in your IT environment
This session will help the attendees understand how to leverage the power of System Center 2012 to automate various common and tasks involved in the IT environment. This will utilize Service Manager and Orchestrator to automate various tasks. This session will also demonstrate how to build and tweak Orchestrator runbooks and Service Manager customization to accommodate the changing requirements of a dynamic IT environment today. This will empower attendees to accelerate the implementation of self-service and automation effectively and provide value to end customers.
Bio
Alex de Jong
Alex de Jong is a natural born geek and is freelancer for Microsoft. Next to delivering technical sessions at international events he is often hired as a Trainer and Consultant. He speaks regularly at Technet Intracks, Microsoft Partner events, product launches and User Group Seminars. Alex focuses on network- and computer management products such as Windows Intune, SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM and Windows client deployment tools. Alex also is a contributing author on the Dutch Microsoft IT Pro Community blog: blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/itprocommunity. Alex distinguishes himself with his passion for technology and the gift to entertain audiences with complex technologies, even during the “just after lunch sessions”.
Synopsis
BYOD… WTF?!
WP8, MS Surface, IOS, Android, Mac OS X and oh… Windows 7 and 8 and so much more to come. How are we going to manage that? In a good way?
This session shows the best of SCCM 2012, Windows Server 2012, Windows Intune, Exchange 2013, MDT and more to manage the complete set of clients you will face in the upcoming years where users want to bring their own devices. It goes without saying that these devices could also be pushed out from your company. They still need to be managed. Join Alex de Jong to keep the WTF?! from BYOD.
Bio
Jan Egil Ring
Jan Egil Ring is a Lead Architect, trainer, speaker, and Windows PowerShell MVP at Crayon Norway. He maintains a blog where he shares scripts and writes about different technologies that he works with. He is also a contributor to the Microsoft Technology User Group (MTUG) in Norway.
Bio
Ingar Kopperud
Ingar Kopperud is a Lead Architect, and has been working with system management products since 1999 and within Crayon since 2005.
Ingar primarily works with System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Deployment where he has followed the evolution since SMS 2003 with OSDFP and BDD Enterprise. Ingar has designed and deployed Configuration Manager and OS deployment solutions for many companies, including some of the largest in public and private sector, in the Nordics
Synopsis
Configuration Manager 2012 - Automation using PowerShell
Configuration Manager 2012 have many tedious tasks both in regards to Setup & Configuring and every day operations. This session shows some of them and how we can automate these using PowerShell while saving time, get control over deployment of infrastructure and ensure a uniform way of operating.
Bio
Kent Agerlund
Kent Agerlund lives in Denmark and travels the world as a Senior Configuration Manager, consultant and Trainer for Coretech A/S. Kent has been working with SMS since 1996 and as a trainer since 1992. Kent is a Microsoft Configuration Manager MVP and certified MCSA/MCSE/MCTS/MCITP Enterprise Administrator/MCT.
Synopsis
Configuration Manager 2012 - Software Update Management
Join Kent Agerlund on this tour on Software Update Management. During this session, Kent Agerlund will discuss how to setup and configure Software Update management within Configuration Manager 2012 to solve the daily challenges around patching your environment with Microsoft.
Bio
Kent Agerlund
Kent Agerlund lives in Denmark and travels the world as a Senior Configuration Manager, consultant and Trainer for Coretech A/S. Kent has been working with SMS since 1996 and as a trainer since 1992. Kent is a Microsoft Configuration Manager MVP and certified MCSA/MCSE/MCTS/MCITP Enterprise Administrator/MCT.
Synopsis
Configuration Manager 2012 – Advanced infrastructure
Join Kent Agerlund, as he will give walk you thru deploying System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 in different environments with a focus on high availability and performance optimization. Some of the keywords in this session are offload SQL, fault tolerance, Internet based clients, multi domain environment, alternate content providers. Expect to see lots of live demos in this presentation.
Bio
Johan Arwidmark
Johan Arwidmark is the Chief Technical Architect with Knowledge Factory. He is a consultant, author and all-around geek specializing in Enterprise Windows Deployment Solutions.
Johan speaks at several conferences each year, including MMS and TechEd around the world. He is also actively involved in deployment communities like deploymentresearch.com and myitforum.com, and he has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Setup & Deployment.
Johan is known for an energetic and humorous style, tackling complex concepts using simple "Real World" scenarios and lots of live demos. His areas of expertise include: Enterprise Windows Deployment Tools and Solutions, MDT, WinPE, USMT, WDS, and ConfigMgr.
Synopsis
Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 OS Deployment – New Features
The uber-demo spaceship has landed... Join Johan Arwidmark in an hour live demo on how to build a Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 deployment solution, based on Configuration Manager 2012 SP1. Learn about the new OSD features, learn about deploying to EUFI enabled hardware, as well as deploying Windows To Go for the enterprise network.
Bio
Wally Mead
Wally has been with Microsoft for 20 years, and working with Systems Management Server since SMS 1.0 was in development. He started in the training group developing and delivering training courses on SMS 1.0 through 2.0, then moved to the SMS product group to assist TAP customers in the SMS 2003 and Configuration Manager TAP programs. He still works with customers through hands-on labs, presentations, and demonstrations at industry events, as well as working with customers in TAP programs, and monitoring the System Center Configuration Manager TechNet forums.
Synopsis
Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 Overview
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has many enhancements and improvements over previous releases of Configuration Manager. And the SP1 release of Configuration Manager 2012 adds many new features and enhancements from the original release. This session will provide an overview of many of the new features coming in Configuration Manager 2012 SP1.
Bio
Olav Tvedt
Olav Tvedt is working at Evry as Consigliore, the formal title is Advisor but he loves to get his hands dirty on the technology. Experience from all kinds of environments has given him a deep understanding on how to really take the best advantage of the systems to make them work for you. Olav is an MVP and well known, popular speaker both national in Norway and international at events like TechEd Europe and North America. He always show his passion for the technology, likes to have lots of demos and have twinkle in his eye when presenting.
Synopsis
Configuring & tuning Windows 8
How do you configure your clients? We will show you the new Group Policies in Windows 8 and other tools to make your system better and more secure. Expect demos and tips from Microsoft Springboard and Technet. And of course lots of Windows 8 stuff like tuning the new start menu, Windows store and more.
Bio
Wally Mead
Wally has been with Microsoft for 20 years, and working with Systems Management Server since SMS 1.0 was in development. He started in the training group developing and delivering training courses on SMS 1.0 through 2.0, then moved to the SMS product group to assist TAP customers in the SMS 2003 and Configuration Manager TAP programs. He still works with customers through hands-on labs, presentations, and demonstrations at industry events, as well as working with customers in TAP programs, and monitoring the System Center Configuration Manager TechNet forums.
Synopsis
Deploying and Managing Windows 8 with Configuration Manager 2012 SP1
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 is the only release of Configuration Manager that provides full support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, including deployment of the new operating systems. This session will cover the deployment of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, as well as the management capabilities of the new operating systems once they have been deployed as Configuration Manager clients.
Bio
Mikael Nyström
Mikael Nystrom is a Microsoft MVP and Senior Executive Consultant at TrueSec, with an extremely broad field of competence. He has worked with all kind of infrastructure tasks in all kind of environments, enterprise to small business. He is working deep within products such as System Center 2012 (the full suite), MDT, Windows Client, Windows Server and Hyper-V. Mikael is a very popular instructor/speaker and is often used by Microsoft for partner trainings as well as to speak at major conferences such as TechEd, MMS, etc. Lately Mikael has been deeply engaged in the development of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 as a part of the TAP.
Synopsis
Deploying Windows to Go in real life
Creating a Windows To Go drive is pretty straight forward, but will it really work in your organization. In this session we will go through how to make the needed customization so that when the end user plugs it in a computer it will be domain joined, customized to fit the org, including applications and ready to be used.
Bio
Johan Arwidmark
Johan Arwidmark is the Chief Technical Architect with Knowledge Factory. He is a consultant, author and all-around geek specializing in Enterprise Windows Deployment Solutions.
Johan speaks at several conferences each year, including MMS and TechEd around the world. He is also actively involved in deployment communities like deploymentresearch.com and myitforum.com, and he has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Setup & Deployment.
Johan is known for an energetic and humorous style, tackling complex concepts using simple "Real World" scenarios and lots of live demos. His areas of expertise include: Enterprise Windows Deployment Tools and Solutions, MDT, WinPE, USMT, WDS, and ConfigMgr.
Bio
Mikael Nyström
Mikael Nystrom is a Microsoft MVP and Senior Executive Consultant at TrueSec, with an extremely broad field of competence. He has worked with all kind of infrastructure tasks in all kind of environments, enterprise to small business. He is working deep within products such as System Center 2012 (the full suite), MDT, Windows Client, Windows Server and Hyper-V. Mikael is a very popular instructor/speaker and is often used by Microsoft for partner trainings as well as to speak at major conferences such as TechEd, MMS, etc. Lately Mikael has been deeply engaged in the development of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 as a part of the TAP.
Synopsis
Developing Hydration Kits – IT Pro Automation at its best!
Join Johan Arwidmark and Mikael Nyström, two of the world’s foremost deployment experts in a dazzling session on developing hydration kits, solutions to automate the installation of your entire environment, from a single press of a button. And yes, we are talking about setting up several different machines with images and then installing AD, joining machines to AD then AD is up, DHCP, IIS, SQL, WSUS, and System Center 2012 etc. Basically we are getting everything up and running while we play on the Xbox. Oh, did you want that lab with Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and SQL Server 2012? Not a problem, do you want extra fries with that order?
Bio
Alex de Jong
Alex de Jong is a natural born geek and is freelancer for Microsoft. Next to delivering technical sessions at international events he is often hired as a Trainer and Consultant. He speaks regularly at Technet Intracks, Microsoft Partner events, product launches and User Group Seminars. Alex focuses on network- and computer management products such as Windows Intune, SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM and Windows client deployment tools. Alex also is a contributing author on the Dutch Microsoft IT Pro Community blog: blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/itprocommunity. Alex distinguishes himself with his passion for technology and the gift to entertain audiences with complex technologies, even during the “just after lunch sessions”.
Synopsis
Direct Access, the 2012 edition
So, ever tried to install Direct Access? Or were you afraid of IPv6, Teredo and IPSec? Don’t forget that Direct Access is “the ultimate VPN on steroids that rules”. Join Alex de Jong during his easy to understand deepdive on Direct Access. This session, which has been top rated on several events already, has been updated to the Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 platforms. Learn how to setup Direct Access in ten easy steps.
Bio
Joris Langewouters
Synopsis
Enterprise Mobile and ThinOS Cloud Management
Dell Wyse Cloud Client Manager is a comprehensive tool that allows administrators to manage both their mobile devices (IOS and Android) as well as their cloud clients (ThinOS and Xenith) using a simple and intuitive cloud-based management interface.
Time:
Day 1 10:05 - 11:05Bio
Magnus Björk
Magnus Björk is a Most Valuable Professional with over 16 years of experience working with Exchange. Magnus is the founder mailmaster sweden, a consultant company dedicated to Exchange. With Exchange 2013 Magnus is now working with his eight version of Exchange and loves to share his experience and passion as a speaker and through his blog and on Twitter. As a Messaging Architect he has faced many different challenges and has been working in several global messaging projects. In his spare time Magnus has a great interest in Formula 1.
Synopsis
Exchange 2013 - The news
In this session you will learn about all the new stuff in Exchange 2013, what has changed, what has been removed and what you need to think about before you deploy. The session is presented by Magnus Björk, MVP. Magnus has over 15 years of experience with Exchange and has already spent a whole year together with Exchange 2013.
Bio
Magnus Björk
Magnus Björk is a Most Valuable Professional with over 16 years of experience working with Exchange. Magnus is the founder mailmaster sweden, a consultant company dedicated to Exchange. With Exchange 2013 Magnus is now working with his eight version of Exchange and loves to share his experience and passion as a speaker and through his blog and on Twitter. As a Messaging Architect he has faced many different challenges and has been working in several global messaging projects. In his spare time Magnus has a great interest in Formula 1.
Synopsis
Exchange 2013 – Architecture deep dive
Exchange 2013 brings you a lot of new features and functions but how does it work? In this session we go “back stage” of Exchange and take a look at the architecture that makes it all work. Prepare for some heavy theoretical stuff, demos and some light bulb experiences.
Bio
Scott Schnoll
Scott Schnoll (MCT, MCSE, MCSA, and MCM/MCA Instructor) is a Principal Technical Writer on the Exchange User Education team at Microsoft where he authors content on a variety of content related to Exchange Server, including high-availability, site resilience, virtualization, and more. He is a frequent speaker at major industry conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft TechDays, The Experts Conference and more. Prior to joining Microsoft, Scott authored Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Distilled (Addison-Wesley, 2004) and he was the lead author of Exchange 2000 Server: The Complete Reference (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2000). Scott is a former long-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server, Windows and Rights Management Services.
Synopsis
Exchange Server 2013 High Availability and Site Resilience
Exchange Server 2013 offers many enhancements for redundancy, availability and recovery. This session focuses on the improvements in the areas of high availability, site resilience in Exchange Server 2013. It includes details on the introduction and integration of managed availability, database availability group network enhancements, namespace changes, site resilience, and datacenter failovers.
Bio
Scott Schnoll
Scott Schnoll (MCT, MCSE, MCSA, and MCM/MCA Instructor) is a Principal Technical Writer on the Exchange User Education team at Microsoft where he authors content on a variety of content related to Exchange Server, including high-availability, site resilience, virtualization, and more. He is a frequent speaker at major industry conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft TechDays, The Experts Conference and more. Prior to joining Microsoft, Scott authored Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Distilled (Addison-Wesley, 2004) and he was the lead author of Exchange 2000 Server: The Complete Reference (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2000). Scott is a former long-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server, Windows and Rights Management Services.
Synopsis
Exchange Server 2013 Virtualization Best Practices
This session covers both the requirements and the best practice recommendations for running Exchange Server 2013 in a hardware virtualization environment. It begins with a brief overview of Microsoft’s support requirements for running Exchange in a virtualized environment, and then dives deep into best practices around storage and network configuration and monitoring and advanced hypervisor features. If you’re running or planning on running Exchange in a virtualized environment, you won’t want to miss this session.
Bio
Kent Agerlund
Kent Agerlund lives in Denmark and travels the world as a Senior Configuration Manager, consultant and Trainer for Coretech A/S. Kent has been working with SMS since 1996 and as a trainer since 1992. Kent is a Microsoft Configuration Manager MVP and certified MCSA/MCSE/MCTS/MCITP Enterprise Administrator/MCT.
Synopsis
Handling 3rd party updates with System Center Configuration Manager 2012
Join Kent Agerlund on this tour on handling 3rd. and custom updates within a Configuration Manager 2012 environment. During this session, Kent Agerlund will discuss how to setup, configure and integrate System Center Updates Publisher 2011 and Secunia CSI with Configuration Manager 2012. The session will provide you with tips and tricks to solve the daily challenges around patching your environment with Microsoft and non-Microsoft updates.
Bio
Olav Sandbakken
Synopsis
How did we transform our local datacenters into a state-of-the-art cloud environment?
In this session you will learn how we transformed our datacenters into a state of the art infrastructure environment, and what this means for our clients and ourselves. The Local Cloud solution (private and public), initially released in Norway brings together the company’s expertise in cloud consulting and technologies with our offerings in Iaas, Saas, PaaS. With technologies such as Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows Server R2 with Hyper-V, Microsoft System Center 2012 and Microsoft Lync.
Time:
Day 1 12:45 - 13:45Bio
Brian Komar
Brian Komar, president of Komar Consulting, has been involved in Microsoft PKI since the beta testing of Windows Server 2003. Brian worked as a contractor on the product team at Microsoft during the development of Windows Server 2003 PKI, authoring several whitepapers on the technology. In addition to authoring whitepapers, Brian has authored a course on Microsoft PKI and has authored two books on Microsoft PKI. Brian speaks at several Microsoft industry conferences on the topics of general security, PKI, and identity management. These conferences include Microsoft Tech Ed, Microsoft IT Forum, The Expert Conference, and the Nordic Infrastructure Conference. He is known for delivering the “under the hood” sessions that look at the details of technology and reveal how systems really work in a network.
Synopsis
How the DigitNotar changed the landscape for issuing globally trusted certificates
The DigiNotar attack lead to the collapse of one of Netherland’s biggest commercial certificate organizations. The ramifications of this attack affect anyone who owns a CA that chains to a commercial CA. This session reviews the details of the DigiNotar attack and describes how this affects all of us. The session will include demonstrations on how you will have to setup up a commercially rooted CA in the future, including all cross-certification constraints required.
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Kristian Nese
Kristian Nese is the CTO at Lumagate, and part of his job is to provide technology overviews, proofs-of-concept, technical demonstrations, and technology assessments for customers and partners. This includes all kinds of activities like troubleshooting, design and create an optimized architecture for their datacenters, remove business blockers towards the transition to cloud computing, pre-sales, training, presentations and workshops.
Kristian’s bread and butter is virtualization and cloud computing, and he’s responsible for System Center, Hyper-V, Windows Server and Windows Azure, and has a strong team of consultants under his wings who are struggling to give you the best System Center experience in the market.
Kristian is also a well-known speaker and author, and has written and participated on many books related to Microsoft technologies.
Synopsis
How to configure and deploy a Microsoft Private cloud
With all the stunning new enhancements in Windows Server 2012 and especially Hyper-V, it’s time to get things straight from the bottom and up with System Center 2012 SP1. This session will focus on integration and architecture in the cloud infrastructure. Learn how to design for high availability and minimal service interruption with Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Service Manager, Orchestrator and App Controller to deliver IT as a Service within your organization and to your customers.
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Mikael Nyström
Mikael Nystrom is a Microsoft MVP and Senior Executive Consultant at TrueSec, with an extremely broad field of competence. He has worked with all kind of infrastructure tasks in all kind of environments, enterprise to small business. He is working deep within products such as System Center 2012 (the full suite), MDT, Windows Client, Windows Server and Hyper-V. Mikael is a very popular instructor/speaker and is often used by Microsoft for partner trainings as well as to speak at major conferences such as TechEd, MMS, etc. Lately Mikael has been deeply engaged in the development of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 as a part of the TAP.
Synopsis
Hyper-V in Windows 8
Windows 8 has finally got a Hyper-Visor and in this session you will learn how you can use it, how it works and all the features and functions that the client Hyper-v have.
Bio
Ragnar Harper
With great passion Ragnar is helping Microsoft’s customers build their infrastructure solutions. Over the last 15 years Ragnar has been working with Microsoft technologies – focusing on security and infrastructure. His recent projects has been planning and designing datacenter transformations within different industries – to build cost-effective, flexible, highly scalable, highly available datacenters based on Microsoft technologies. Ragnar is currently living in Indonesia, working as an Infrastructure architect at Microsoft Asia Pacific.
Synopsis
Infrastructure as a Service with Windows Azure
Do you want to run your virtual machines in the cloud?
In this session we would look at different scenarios for leveraging Windows Azure for Infrastructure as a Service.
We would then look at the mechanisms available within Windows Azure, and how we could leverage those.
This will give you a clear understanding about computing, storage and networking with Windows Azure for Infrastructure as a Service scenarios.
We would further look into how you can integrate Windows Azure with your own datacenter.
Bio
Johan Arwidmark
Johan Arwidmark is the Chief Technical Architect with Knowledge Factory. He is a consultant, author and all-around geek specializing in Enterprise Windows Deployment Solutions.
Johan speaks at several conferences each year, including MMS and TechEd around the world. He is also actively involved in deployment communities like deploymentresearch.com and myitforum.com, and he has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Setup & Deployment.
Johan is known for an energetic and humorous style, tackling complex concepts using simple "Real World" scenarios and lots of live demos. His areas of expertise include: Enterprise Windows Deployment Tools and Solutions, MDT, WinPE, USMT, WDS, and ConfigMgr.
Synopsis
Inside Windows 8 – Mastering the Setup Engine
This session dives deep into the Windows 8 setup engine, explains the driver store, log files, device driver ranking, and much more. It goes deep into the configuration passes, the Windows Servicing Stack, Windows System Image Manager, and Deployment Image Service and Management (DISM) and the Native Boot from VHD stack . You can expect lots of tips, tricks, and live demos in this session.
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Jeffrey Snover
Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer and the Lead Architect for the Windows Server & System Center Division. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products. Snover has over 32 years of industry experience with a focus on management technologies and solutions. He was an architect in the office of the CTO at Tivoli and a development manager at NetView. He has worked also as a consulting engineer and development manager at DEC, where he led various network and systems management projects. Snover held 8 patents prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered 30 patents since. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics. Snover will be one of NIC Second Edition`s key speakers.
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Inside Windows Server 2012 Multi Server Management Capabilities
Windows Server 2012 offers excellent total cost of ownership as an integrated platform with comprehensive, multicomputer manageability. Two areas in which Windows Server 2012 improves multicomputer management are Server Manager and Windows PowerShell 3.0. Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 helps you efficiently deploy and manage roles and features on the local server, on remote servers, and on both online and offline virtual hard disks. It also provides a multi-server experience where you can centralize your Windows Server management in a single view, and streamlined your server configuration and deployment from the same window. Windows PowerShell 3.0 provides an extensive platform to help you manage server roles and automate management tasks. With access to over 2400 cmdlets (a tenfold increase from the previous version), Windows PowerShell 3.0 offers comprehensive management across your datacenter. This session overviews these subjects in detail and prepares you for enhancing your management capability.
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Martin Lidholm
Martin Lidholm works as a product manager for Uclarity AB for IT-Communication. Martin was the first Lync MVP in sweden. As a highly respected Unified communication architect, Martin har unique experience to realise and implement complex solution for both national and international customers. Martin has thirteen years of experience within communication and collaboration.
Synopsis
Lync Server 2013: Architecture Overview
How was it possible to add multi-party video and still handle thousands of users? How did the group chat fuctionality finally become a part of the Lync topology and how did the topology became simpler in this version. During this session we’ll dig in to the technical improvements made in the Lync Server 2013 platform.
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Ståle Hansen
As a Lync MVP and Technical Evangelist at Atea Ståle spend most of his time with Proof of Concepts, talking with customers and helping them adopt and implement the latest technology. He is an avid speaker at both internal and public seminars, maintains the blog http://msunified.net , contributes to The UC Architects Podcast and co-authors a Lync Master Class.
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Lync Server 2013: Best Practice Administration With System Center Operations Manager 2012
It is important to know about problems in the solutions before the end-user calls you. Active Monitoring is important. This session will show you how you can deploy this and talk about lessons from the field from a Lync perspective.
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Justin Morris
Justin Morris is a Lync MVP and Senior Consultant for Modality Systems where he designs, deploys and helps drive the adoption of Microsoft Lync in customers in the UK. He writes his own blog Justin Morris on UC, contributes to the TechNet NextHop blog and forums and is active in the UC on Twitter community. He is also the co-founder of the Microsoft UC User Group London and a contributor on The UC Architects podcast.
Synopsis
Lync Server 2013: Design for High Availability & Disaster Recovery
The latest version of Lync Server delivers impressive new high availability and disaster recovery features to ensure critical service levels are maintained for all Lync 2013 functionality. In this session with Lync MVP Justin Morris, learn how you can provide both Lync 2013 back-end server and pool level failover. Session features live demon on how to configure these features and client failover behaviour.
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Justin Morris
Justin Morris is a Lync MVP and Senior Consultant for Modality Systems where he designs, deploys and helps drive the adoption of Microsoft Lync in customers in the UK. He writes his own blog Justin Morris on UC, contributes to the TechNet NextHop blog and forums and is active in the UC on Twitter community. He is also the co-founder of the Microsoft UC User Group London and a contributor on The UC Architects podcast.
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Lync Server 2013: Migration Strategies & and Coexistence Strategies
Learn about what you need to know to migrate both your servers and clients to Lync Server 2013 along with coexistence considerations during your deployment. In this session we'll cover OCS 2007 R2 and Lync Server 2010 Front-End Pool migration, moving your Edge Servers and Federation configuration, along with client coexistence and deployment and Lync Server 2013 web services publishing requirements.
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Martin Lidholm
Martin Lidholm works as a product manager for Uclarity AB for IT-Communication. Martin was the first Lync MVP in sweden. As a highly respected Unified communication architect, Martin har unique experience to realise and implement complex solution for both national and international customers. Martin has thirteen years of experience within communication and collaboration.
Synopsis
Lync Server 2013: Mobility, Clients and VDI
One of the main focus areas in Lync 2013 is the meeting experience. A more personal user environment and multi-party video are some of the improvements. But Lync 2013 does not just improve the experience on the traditional desktop, it also makes it possible for us to attend meetings from other devices such as smartphones, tablets or just simply from a web browser. Come and see how Lync reaches out to a wide range of devices gives you the freedom to work wherever you want for real!
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Ståle Hansen
As a Lync MVP and Technical Evangelist at Atea Ståle spend most of his time with Proof of Concepts, talking with customers and helping them adopt and implement the latest technology. He is an avid speaker at both internal and public seminars, maintains the blog http://msunified.net , contributes to The UC Architects Podcast and co-authors a Lync Master Class.
Synopsis
Lync Server 2013: Network Quality considerations in LAN, WAN and WLANS
Voice over IP is will be available from all mobile devices in the Lync2013 timeframe. This sessions will show how you can design for voice and video in you Wi-FI as well as LAN and WAN, with live demo.
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Wally Mead
Wally has been with Microsoft for 20 years, and working with Systems Management Server since SMS 1.0 was in development. He started in the training group developing and delivering training courses on SMS 1.0 through 2.0, then moved to the SMS product group to assist TAP customers in the SMS 2003 and Configuration Manager TAP programs. He still works with customers through hands-on labs, presentations, and demonstrations at industry events, as well as working with customers in TAP programs, and monitoring the System Center Configuration Manager TechNet forums.
Synopsis
Managing Heterogeneous Environments with Configuration Manager 2012 SP1
Your environment may include other systems that you need to manage other than the traditional Microsoft Windows systems. In this session, we’ll discuss how you can manage non-Windows platforms, including Linux/Unix, Macintosh, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8.
Bio
John Craddock
As an infrastructure and security architect he has designed and implemented global distributed IT solutions, providing services to industry leaders including Microsoft. John is an international speaker, delivers technical seminars and sessions around the world and is a featured speaker at major IT conferences such as Microsoft TechEd and IT Forum.
Synopsis
Managing Identity in the Cloud with ADFS and Windows Azure
We’ve all come to expect single-sign-on to our on-premise applications and services, but what happens when we move applications and services to the Cloud? How do we achieve single sign on for SaaS services such as Office 365, our own applications in the Cloud and services we consume from partner organisations?
Federated Identity is the answer, come to this session and learn how federation allows the creation of an identity that can be consumed by services regardless of their location and ownership. You will discover how to build integrated identity solutions with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Windows Azure Access Control Services.
Bio
Brian Komar
Brian Komar, president of Komar Consulting, has been involved in Microsoft PKI since the beta testing of Windows Server 2003. Brian worked as a contractor on the product team at Microsoft during the development of Windows Server 2003 PKI, authoring several whitepapers on the technology. In addition to authoring whitepapers, Brian has authored a course on Microsoft PKI and has authored two books on Microsoft PKI. Brian speaks at several Microsoft industry conferences on the topics of general security, PKI, and identity management. These conferences include Microsoft Tech Ed, Microsoft IT Forum, The Expert Conference, and the Nordic Infrastructure Conference. He is known for delivering the “under the hood” sessions that look at the details of technology and reveal how systems really work in a network.
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Managing smart cards in all sizes of organizations
Smart Cards provide a higher level of assurance for network authentication (if they are deployed in a high assurance manner). This session looks at what is now available in the smart card space (both physical and virtual smart cards) and looks at some of the available smart card management systems of SORGS, MORGs, and LORGS. The session will focus on best practices to ensure that the smart card you issue provide a stronger confidence that the identity authenticating **IS** the person assigned the credential.
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Johan Arwidmark
Johan Arwidmark is the Chief Technical Architect with Knowledge Factory. He is a consultant, author and all-around geek specializing in Enterprise Windows Deployment Solutions.
Johan speaks at several conferences each year, including MMS and TechEd around the world. He is also actively involved in deployment communities like deploymentresearch.com and myitforum.com, and he has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Setup & Deployment.
Johan is known for an energetic and humorous style, tackling complex concepts using simple "Real World" scenarios and lots of live demos. His areas of expertise include: Enterprise Windows Deployment Tools and Solutions, MDT, WinPE, USMT, WDS, and ConfigMgr.
Synopsis
Maximizing Windows 8 Performance: Troubleshooting Tips
Ever thought about what Windows 8 (and Windows 7) actually is doing while you are waiting. Learn to troubleshoot and analyse of a wide range of performance problems including application start times, logon times, boot issues, deferred procedure calls and interrupt activity, system responsiveness issues, application resource usage, and much more.
Bio
Wally Mead
Wally has been with Microsoft for 20 years, and working with Systems Management Server since SMS 1.0 was in development. He started in the training group developing and delivering training courses on SMS 1.0 through 2.0, then moved to the SMS product group to assist TAP customers in the SMS 2003 and Configuration Manager TAP programs. He still works with customers through hands-on labs, presentations, and demonstrations at industry events, as well as working with customers in TAP programs, and monitoring the System Center Configuration Manager TechNet forums.
Synopsis
Migrating from Configuration Manager 2007 to Configuration Manager 2012
You may already have a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 environment installed, and now want to move to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager to take advantage of all the new features. This session will cover the process to migrate your existing sites and clients from Configuration Manager 2007 to Configuration Manager 2012.
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Ivar Naggum
Ivar Naggum is a Lead Architect on Exchange and Office 365 at Crayon. He has worked with Exchange Server since before its inception in 1996 and has been involved in many of the largest Exchange implementations in Norway. For the past 3 years he has spent a lot of time with BPOS and Office 365 and has deployed and migrated many organizations to the cloud. He has been a Certified Trainer for 16 years and has held courses and presentations for many large audiences at e.g. Microsoft Technet seminars.
Synopsis
Office 365 - Deploying and migration
Office 365 is on "everybody's lips" and includes cost-savings and technology opportunities for organizations of almost any size.
But what does it really take to move all your users to Office 365 with Exchange, Lync and SharePoint Online? What do you need to know and what do you need to do?
Migrating to Office 365 for large and mid-size organizations involves a lot of technology that needs to work together. This session focuses on how to make it work.
Bio
Ivar Naggum
Ivar Naggum is a Lead Architect on Exchange and Office 365 at Crayon. He has worked with Exchange Server since before its inception in 1996 and has been involved in many of the largest Exchange implementations in Norway. For the past 3 years he has spent a lot of time with BPOS and Office 365 and has deployed and migrated many organizations to the cloud. He has been a Certified Trainer for 16 years and has held courses and presentations for many large audiences at e.g. Microsoft Technet seminars.
Synopsis
Office 365 version 2013. What's new?
Office 365 has been around for 2 years with 2010 versions of Exchange, Lync and SharePoint Online. The next version, 2013, is just around the corner with major upgrades of all services. What can you expect from the new version? How can you take advantage of them? How does it fit to your needs? In this session we will have a look at what the new version of Office 365 offers.
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Alex de Jong
Alex de Jong is a natural born geek and is freelancer for Microsoft. Next to delivering technical sessions at international events he is often hired as a Trainer and Consultant. He speaks regularly at Technet Intracks, Microsoft Partner events, product launches and User Group Seminars. Alex focuses on network- and computer management products such as Windows Intune, SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM and Windows client deployment tools. Alex also is a contributing author on the Dutch Microsoft IT Pro Community blog: blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/itprocommunity. Alex distinguishes himself with his passion for technology and the gift to entertain audiences with complex technologies, even during the “just after lunch sessions”.
Synopsis
Panel: Ask the Experts
On Thursday evening, meet Microsoft technology experts and peers to exchange feedback regarding the latest technology trends and how you can leverage these effectively in your business.
The session will be hosted by Alex de Jong. Panel of experts: Jeffrey Snover, John Craddock, Johan Arwidmark, Wally Mead and Scott Schnoll.
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Day 1 18:00 - 19:00Bio
Ragnar Harper
With great passion Ragnar is helping Microsoft’s customers build their infrastructure solutions. Over the last 15 years Ragnar has been working with Microsoft technologies – focusing on security and infrastructure. His recent projects has been planning and designing datacenter transformations within different industries – to build cost-effective, flexible, highly scalable, highly available datacenters based on Microsoft technologies. Ragnar is currently living in Indonesia, working as an Infrastructure architect at Microsoft Asia Pacific.
Synopsis
Planning and designing your Private Cloud
There is a huge change going on in how we plan, build and operate our datacenters.
Are you wondering where to start with planning your private cloud?
How do you plan your physical and logical models?
Networking? Storage? Computing?
In this session we would look at common patterns for a private cloud.
We would look at Microsoft’s offerings, and what value they bring to your organization.
Bio
Jeffrey Snover
Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer and the Lead Architect for the Windows Server & System Center Division. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products. Snover has over 32 years of industry experience with a focus on management technologies and solutions. He was an architect in the office of the CTO at Tivoli and a development manager at NetView. He has worked also as a consulting engineer and development manager at DEC, where he led various network and systems management projects. Snover held 8 patents prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered 30 patents since. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics. Snover will be one of NIC Second Edition`s key speakers.
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PowerShell CrashCourse
Learn about Windows PowerShell, Microsoft's interactive command line shell and scripting solution, directly from its inventor and architect— Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover. PowerShell combines the interactivity of KSH or BASH, the programmability of Perl or Ruby, and the production-orientation of AS400 CL or VMS DCL. Whether you’re solving the problem at hand or scripting, standardizing, and automating your IT processes, PowerShell can help.
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Raymond Comvalis
Raymond Comvalius (@nextxpert) is an independent consultant/trainer from the Netherlands. He is the author of multiple books about Windows client and security. As a consultant Raymond was involved with larger and smaller infrastructure development projects at various governmental and commercial organizations. Raymond presents at international events. He is an occasional editor for bink.nu and runs his own blog at www.nextxpert.com.
Synopsis
Raiders of the elevated token – the sequel: Understanding User Account Control and session isolation in Windows 8
User Account Control was a lot better to handle in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Still lot's of people tend to turn it off. Now Windows 8 is the next big thing. Is User Account Control still there and what does it do? Why are some applications still requesting elevation? Can I still turn off User Account Control in Windows 8? This session will demonstrate how User Account Control is a part of Windows 8 and how Windows Store applications are affected. Demo's show how security related compatibility issues caused by legacy applications can be analyzed and what solutions are available to fix them yourself. The session has an overview of potential issues and what tools can enable you to take control over both legacy applications and web applications accessed by Internet Explorer 10.Bio
Mike Resseler
Mike Resseler is mainly focussed on the entire System Center suite, combined with the MOF and IO framework. He has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a Senior Technical Consultant for Infront Consulting where he focusses on delivering projects with added value, and share his knowledge with the customers through training sessions and on-the-job training. He blogs for the System Center User Group Belgium and presents on many occassions about the system center products. Mike has been awared the MVP for System Center Data Protection Manager in 2010. You can follow Mike on twitter and read his blogs on http://scug.be/blogs/mike and http://scug.be/blogs/scdpm
Synopsis
SCDPM 2012 SP1: How does it work and what can it do for you
Join this session to get a deep understanding of how VSS works and what it can mean for your backups and recoveries. See the disaster recovery possibilities with SCDPM 2012 and find out how you can back up to the cloud. After all, back up remains your last and most important defense in recovering when murphy jumps in!
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Kåre Rude Andersen
Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1996, MCSE, TS and ITP in Microsoft Windows, SQL (also Microsoft), Exchange (MS) and Microsoft Operations Manager. Senior Consultant and have recently worked as a consultant at CSC, SAS, ISS, Nokia and Scandlines.
Synopsis
SCOM 2012 - The Successful Implementation
Implement monitoring of your Cloud, Network, infrastructure and Applications in a successful way. Many companies are implementing SCOM 2012 by default and get stuck when defining the monitoring of the infrastructure and own Applications. In this session you will learn about implementing SCOM 2012 in a way that makes the Applications smiles.
Bio
Jakob Gotlieb Svendsen
Jakob is a Senior Consultant, Trainer and Chief Developer at Coretech A/S, where he is one of the driving forces, in keeping Coretech a System Center Gold Partner and member of the System Center Alliance. Since he started at Coretech in 2007, he has focused on Scripting and Development, primarily developing tools, extensions and scripts for the System Center Suite. His main product focus is System Center Orchestrator, the former Opalis, a product he has been invited to speak about at different summits and user group meetings, becoming a renowned voice in his field. He is passionately devoted to the community, for which he contributes to, by being a moderator at TechNet, member of the TechNet Influencers team and sharing his knowledge at http://blog.coretech.dk/jgs
Bio
Kåre Rude Andersen
Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1996, MCSE, TS and ITP in Microsoft Windows, SQL (also Microsoft), Exchange (MS) and Microsoft Operations Manager. Senior Consultant and have recently worked as a consultant at CSC, SAS, ISS, Nokia and Scandlines.
Synopsis
SCOM 2012 – New Tools and fun stuff
In this session we will have a look of the many new tools for Operations Manager. We will use tools like Visio, Sharepoint, Visual Studio and a web camera to show you how to create a Management Pack on stage. Join the authors of the Coffee Management Pack to a session filled with practical samples and widgets.
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Patrik Sundqvist
Patrik is one of the founders of Gridpro AB (www.gridpro.se), works as a solutions architect and developer with special interest in self-service and process automation. Patrik has spent the last ten years on building process automation solutions on top of Microsoft products. By combining deep knowledge within infrastructure- and software development Patrik can see solutions that goes beyond the normal limits. With special interest in System Center Service Manager, Patrik was picked to be one of the authors of “System Center Service Manager 2010 – Unleashed”. In 2012 he was rewarded the “System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management” MVP award for his work with the Service Manager community.
Synopsis
Service Manager 2012 - Advanced customizations
Service Manager 2012 is built on a powerful, mature platform which allows you to easily customize and extend the product using either the console or the Service Manager Authoring Tool. This session however focuses on the scenarios where these tools aren’t enough. In this session I'll share useful tips and lessons learned that can help you become a hero when it comes to delivering advanced customizations for Service Manager 2012. See how PowerShell can be your best friend solving mysteries and how .Net widens the Service Manager platform beyond borders.
Bio
Jon Jahren
As an industry leading expert on SQL Server technologies for almost 20 years, Jon Jahren is a recognized authority on Database development, Enterprise software systems, Scalability, and Business Intelligence. Besides taking on challenges as a consultant, architect or strategic advisor, Jon is also well known by numerous of appearances at MS technical events as a speaker and educator on the Microsoft Application Platform. Building on a broad experience as well from different roles, Jon was a MS Product Manager and MCS Principal Consultant on SQL Server for 6 years before returning to his roots as an independent consultant, now running his own company Databasesentralen.
Synopsis
SQL - Clustering vs Mirroring vs Availability Groups
There's a new sheriff in SQL town, and his name is AlwaysOn Availability Groups. In this session we highlight the differences between clusters, mirrors and availability groups, and declare a winner while still recognizing the benefits and limitations of all three. If you have a HA/DR SQL Server solution, you should be sure not to miss this presentation.
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Conrad Murray
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Lars Yngvar Tømmerholt
Lars Yngvar Tømmerholt is Sales Director at Skill AS. He has broad knowledge and experience in IT technology and application of it to optimization of businesses. He sees it as a tool to achieve business goals and therefore has been used as a strategic advisor and partner in various settings with customers and Microsoft. Tømmerholt has worked with more than 10 projects on office365.
Tømmerholt started his sales career at E-group and over the years has become one of the most respected advisors to business strategy and IT.
Synopsis
Successful Migration to Office365
In this session, we will provide guidelines to migrate your organization to Office 365. From technical requirements for clients to the partner/customer responsibilities, topics covered during the session will outline the best practices for planning, infrastructure readiness, pre-staging the migration data, pilot to production processing, and more.
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Anders Ravnholt
Anders Ravnholt has been with Microsoft for 6 years in different roles, as a consultant, Tech Sales and now works as a Business Development Manager for the System Center product group. His expertise’s includes Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Service Manager, Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator and Virtulization. Today Anders manages bridging the field with our business to ensure proper readiness of the field on Data Center & Cloud is in place; creating a vehicle for the field to demo/use our System Center & virtualization products. Driving customer/partner/field feedback into product planning focusing on Service Centric/Datacenter automation, green computing and User Centric client computing. Anders has presented at numerous conferences among these Microsoft Management Summit, Campus Days, TechEd and TechReady.
Synopsis
System Center 2012 SP1 Overview
In this session we will tell about the new features in System Center 2012 SP1 and explain how these features can help drive hybrid clouds
Bio
Jakob Gotlieb Svendsen
Jakob is a Senior Consultant, Trainer and Chief Developer at Coretech A/S, where he is one of the driving forces, in keeping Coretech a System Center Gold Partner and member of the System Center Alliance. Since he started at Coretech in 2007, he has focused on Scripting and Development, primarily developing tools, extensions and scripts for the System Center Suite. His main product focus is System Center Orchestrator, the former Opalis, a product he has been invited to speak about at different summits and user group meetings, becoming a renowned voice in his field. He is passionately devoted to the community, for which he contributes to, by being a moderator at TechNet, member of the TechNet Influencers team and sharing his knowledge at http://blog.coretech.dk/jgs
Synopsis
System Center Orchestrator 2012 – Runbook Design for Service Manager
In this session we will dive into tips and tricks in designing production runbooks for Service Manager.
Learn the lessons we have learned in the field, and make sure your runbooks are fit for production environments.
The session will focus on real world examples and live demos.
Bio
Jakob Gotlieb Svendsen
Jakob is a Senior Consultant, Trainer and Chief Developer at Coretech A/S, where he is one of the driving forces, in keeping Coretech a System Center Gold Partner and member of the System Center Alliance. Since he started at Coretech in 2007, he has focused on Scripting and Development, primarily developing tools, extensions and scripts for the System Center Suite. His main product focus is System Center Orchestrator, the former Opalis, a product he has been invited to speak about at different summits and user group meetings, becoming a renowned voice in his field. He is passionately devoted to the community, for which he contributes to, by being a moderator at TechNet, member of the TechNet Influencers team and sharing his knowledge at http://blog.coretech.dk/jgs
Synopsis
System Center Orchestrator 2012 – Self Service with Service Manager 2012
The future is self-service! You see it everywhere, but now it has arrived for IT. In this session Jakob will show you how to utilize the new Self-service portal in Service Manager 2012, combined with System Center Orchestrator 2012 to make a fully automated environment with a great user interface, in a simple way!
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Jon Jahren
As an industry leading expert on SQL Server technologies for almost 20 years, Jon Jahren is a recognized authority on Database development, Enterprise software systems, Scalability, and Business Intelligence. Besides taking on challenges as a consultant, architect or strategic advisor, Jon is also well known by numerous of appearances at MS technical events as a speaker and educator on the Microsoft Application Platform. Building on a broad experience as well from different roles, Jon was a MS Product Manager and MCS Principal Consultant on SQL Server for 6 years before returning to his roots as an independent consultant, now running his own company Databasesentralen.
Synopsis
The Cat with nine lives: We crash a SQL Server in 10 different ways and show 9 ways to recover (and 1 that won't)
SQL Server has a lot of options for recovery, because there are a lot of things that can go wrong. In this practical session we will explore common crash scenarios, and show how SQL Server and a skilled DBA can (and can't) save the day. Welcome to a fun demolition day doing what we all fear: crashing SQL Servers.
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John Craddock
As an infrastructure and security architect he has designed and implemented global distributed IT solutions, providing services to industry leaders including Microsoft. John is an international speaker, delivers technical seminars and sessions around the world and is a featured speaker at major IT conferences such as Microsoft TechEd and IT Forum.
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Troubleshooting Federation, ADFS, and More
If the problem persists, contact the administrator of this site and provide the reference number to identify the problem. Reference number: 551e28c1-e9f1-4622-aa1d-dff0065e33b1e. Is that administrator YOU? If so, this session is a must. In this session John Craddock shows you how to troubleshoot federated identity with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), third-party identity providers, federation partners, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office 365. Learn exactly what traffic to expect on the network, how to analyze the payload, how to enable and view the claims transformations via the security logs, and other debugging techniques. This session is packed with useful tips and techniques acquired from John’s experience of deploying federated for enterprise customers.
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Daniel Wedel
Daniel Wedel has been awarded the Citrix Technology Professional title after his work with Citrix products for the last 10 years. He is the founder of Wedel IT and works as a Senior Consultant and Trainer in Norway. Daniel works for customers in Norway helping them design, implement and operate Citrix solutions. He is currently a Citrix Certified Instructor on the virtualization suite as well as a trainer on Appsense and RES. After 12 years in the IT-industry Daniel has done several presentations at the Norwegian User Group events as well as VirtualPower the biggest virtualization event in Norway. He was also awarded Citrix Instructor of the year - Nordic Region 2010.
Synopsis
User Profile Handling - Getting away from Roaming profiles
Can Microsoft UE-V compete with Citrix UPM, RES, Appsense and Norskale? We will dig into the different solutions provided by the different vendors and see use cases, advantages, disadvantages, best practice and how to know which one suits your environment. Comparison of complexity, setup, administration with live demos.
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Geir Aasen
Geir Aasen works as a Principal Systems Consultant at Dell(Quest) Software, where he has been since 2005. He has an architect role covering a broad range of Microsoft infrastructure solutions including advanced Active Directory management and migrations/consolidations. Before starting at Dell Software, Geir worked for 12 years in various global companies with infrastructure design and roll out projects.
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Using Quest One ActiveRoles to automate and secure your Active Directory environment
Struggling with regulations, rules and compliance for administering Active Directory, leaving us with a mixture of naming conventions, processes and homemade manual workflows, is familiar to all administrators and companies today.
This session will give you an opportunity to see beyond the un-controlled and un-managed Active Directory and enjoy the benefits of a simplified life as being the governor of a compliant Active Directory.
We will show how to setup automatic provisioning/deprovisioning based on an external feed from an HR database, delegating access to administer
various part of Active Directory in a safe and simple way, to your business.
We will also focus on the new functionality around workflows and how that can help you get a nice and easy automated change control
workflow for any change you like in your Active Directory.
Last we will show you the powerful Quick Connect technology and how easy it is to setup a connection to another system
and update this from your new consistent Active Directory data.
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Anders Ravnholt
Anders Ravnholt has been with Microsoft for 6 years in different roles, as a consultant, Tech Sales and now works as a Business Development Manager for the System Center product group. His expertise’s includes Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Service Manager, Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator and Virtulization. Today Anders manages bridging the field with our business to ensure proper readiness of the field on Data Center & Cloud is in place; creating a vehicle for the field to demo/use our System Center & virtualization products. Driving customer/partner/field feedback into product planning focusing on Service Centric/Datacenter automation, green computing and User Centric client computing. Anders has presented at numerous conferences among these Microsoft Management Summit, Campus Days, TechEd and TechReady.
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Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1
VMM 2012 SP1 adds a lot of new features. In this session we will focus on how these features can make it easier to manage your virtual infrastructure
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Kristian Nese
Kristian Nese is the CTO at Lumagate, and part of his job is to provide technology overviews, proofs-of-concept, technical demonstrations, and technology assessments for customers and partners. This includes all kinds of activities like troubleshooting, design and create an optimized architecture for their datacenters, remove business blockers towards the transition to cloud computing, pre-sales, training, presentations and workshops.
Kristian’s bread and butter is virtualization and cloud computing, and he’s responsible for System Center, Hyper-V, Windows Server and Windows Azure, and has a strong team of consultants under his wings who are struggling to give you the best System Center experience in the market.
Kristian is also a well-known speaker and author, and has written and participated on many books related to Microsoft technologies.
Synopsis
VM mobility in Hyper-v 2012
Uptime is everything. With so many new options for mobility, it’s important to know what’s going on under the hood, what to use when, and how to design properly for increased availability.
Shared-Nothing Live Migration, Live Migration, Live Storage Migration is one of the topics, as well as the underlying fabric resources. Learn what to put into consideration to build a mobile cloud infrastructure.
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Mike Resseler
Mike Resseler is mainly focussed on the entire System Center suite, combined with the MOF and IO framework. He has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a Senior Technical Consultant for Infront Consulting where he focusses on delivering projects with added value, and share his knowledge with the customers through training sessions and on-the-job training. He blogs for the System Center User Group Belgium and presents on many occassions about the system center products. Mike has been awared the MVP for System Center Data Protection Manager in 2010. You can follow Mike on twitter and read his blogs on http://scug.be/blogs/mike and http://scug.be/blogs/scdpm
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What is the future of virtualization backup bringing and how does SCDPM fits in
Once upon a time, Microsoft had a "if we build it, someone else will back it up" mentality. Today, Windows' built-in backup solution continues to evolve, Microsoft System Center 2012 is shipping the fourth generation of Data Protection Manager, and the workloads have never had so many resiliency and recovery methods as they now do. In this session we first examine the industry needs and top customer requests for data protection, based on ESG research. Then we look at various technologies from Microsoft to consider how these challenges are being met (or not). Along the way, we look at how VSS works within Windows.
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Kristian Nese
Kristian Nese is the CTO at Lumagate, and part of his job is to provide technology overviews, proofs-of-concept, technical demonstrations, and technology assessments for customers and partners. This includes all kinds of activities like troubleshooting, design and create an optimized architecture for their datacenters, remove business blockers towards the transition to cloud computing, pre-sales, training, presentations and workshops.
Kristian’s bread and butter is virtualization and cloud computing, and he’s responsible for System Center, Hyper-V, Windows Server and Windows Azure, and has a strong team of consultants under his wings who are struggling to give you the best System Center experience in the market.
Kristian is also a well-known speaker and author, and has written and participated on many books related to Microsoft technologies.
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What you need to know about Hyper-V replica
Do you have a disaster recovery plan for your organization and customers?
Join this session to learn what the free out-of-the box DR solution Windows Server 2012 is bringing to the table.
All from planning to configuration will be covered for a wide diversity of scenarios where Hyper-V Replica will be the solution to your business.
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Brian Desmond
Brian Desmond is an Industry recognized Active Directory and Exchange expert with diverse global background.
Over the past several years, Brian has had the opportunity to design, implement, and manage Active Directory, Exchange, and Identity Lifecycle Manager solutions for customers across the public sector, K-12 and higher education, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals verticals ranging up to 500,000 seats in size.
He will share his knowledge with us during NIC2012. Check out http://briandesmond.com/ for more information about Brian.
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What’s new in Windows Server 2012 Active Directory
Windows Server 2012 is a monumental release for Active Directory. In this session, we’ll discuss all of the new features from virtualization to deployment and management to security so you can start thinking about how the upgrade will benefit your organization. We’ll discuss virtualization features like domain controller cloning, the new way to build domain controllers, and the all new security model – Dynamic Access Control.
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Brian Komar
Brian Komar, president of Komar Consulting, has been involved in Microsoft PKI since the beta testing of Windows Server 2003. Brian worked as a contractor on the product team at Microsoft during the development of Windows Server 2003 PKI, authoring several whitepapers on the technology. In addition to authoring whitepapers, Brian has authored a course on Microsoft PKI and has authored two books on Microsoft PKI. Brian speaks at several Microsoft industry conferences on the topics of general security, PKI, and identity management. These conferences include Microsoft Tech Ed, Microsoft IT Forum, The Expert Conference, and the Nordic Infrastructure Conference. He is known for delivering the “under the hood” sessions that look at the details of technology and reveal how systems really work in a network.
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What’s New in Windows Server 2012 PKI
This session looks at many of the new features available in Windows Server 2012 PKI (and those introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2). Windows Server 2012 introduces several new features including PowerShell-based installation and configuration, site-aware certificate issuance, shared Web server certificates, and virtual smart cards. This session looks at the new features and discusses how you can integrate them into your organization’s PKI.
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Raymond Comvalis
Raymond Comvalius (@nextxpert) is an independent consultant/trainer from the Netherlands. He is the author of multiple books about Windows client and security. As a consultant Raymond was involved with larger and smaller infrastructure development projects at various governmental and commercial organizations. Raymond presents at international events. He is an occasional editor for bink.nu and runs his own blog at www.nextxpert.com.
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Window 8 and the cloud: turbulence or a smooth ride
Windows 8 has lots of cloud integration functionality. Does that make it harder to implement this for your business or easier? Is cloud the introduction of new threads, or a new world of possibilities? This session shows what you get and what you won't get when you integrate Windows 8 with the cloud integration.The session will demonstrate what happens when you enable cloud integration in Windows 8 and how this can change the way Windows is used in the Enterprise.
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John Craddock
As an infrastructure and security architect he has designed and implemented global distributed IT solutions, providing services to industry leaders including Microsoft. John is an international speaker, delivers technical seminars and sessions around the world and is a featured speaker at major IT conferences such as Microsoft TechEd and IT Forum.
Synopsis
Windows Azure Insights for the Enterprise IT Pro
As an IT Pro, Cloud Computing in general, is a great opportunity to do more strategic things in your job. To be strategic, you need to know what Windows Azure is and you need to know about your new role in the application lifecyle. At the same time, there are new skills to learn, new technologies and new approaches to building, deployment and maintaining applications. In this session we will cover all these things, show you how to do some ITPro tasks and really focus in specifically on those area that you need to master.
Bio
Alex de Jong
Alex de Jong is a natural born geek and is freelancer for Microsoft. Next to delivering technical sessions at international events he is often hired as a Trainer and Consultant. He speaks regularly at Technet Intracks, Microsoft Partner events, product launches and User Group Seminars. Alex focuses on network- and computer management products such as Windows Intune, SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM and Windows client deployment tools. Alex also is a contributing author on the Dutch Microsoft IT Pro Community blog: blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/itprocommunity. Alex distinguishes himself with his passion for technology and the gift to entertain audiences with complex technologies, even during the “just after lunch sessions”.
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Windows Intune, cloud based Config Management for Clients
Find out about Windows Intune and browse the web together with Alex de Jong to manage client computers. Especially in a country like Norway, where companies often have small, serverless offices and users that need work from home because of the snow or “elger” blocking the road. :-)
Windows Intune will help manage your clients no matter where they are, including software deployments and mobile device management. After this session you know all there is about this beautiful computer management tool. Now let’s hope the internet connection works!
Bio
John Craddock
As an infrastructure and security architect he has designed and implemented global distributed IT solutions, providing services to industry leaders including Microsoft. John is an international speaker, delivers technical seminars and sessions around the world and is a featured speaker at major IT conferences such as Microsoft TechEd and IT Forum.
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Windows Server 2012 Hot New Features - A techie’s deep-dive into DirectAccess, Compound Identity and Dynamic Access
As a federation and security architect John Craddock has been involved in enterprise systems since the early days of Windows NT. His passion is for determining how things really work and then designing and deploying the most efficacious systems. John presented on Active Directory at one of the first Windows 2000 launch conferences in Geneva; of course this was only after delving deep into its inner workings. Now it’s time for Windows 2012 Server features to be scrutinised. In this session John will share his technical insight into a selection of hot new Windows Server 2012 features. These are DirectAcces improvements, Kerberos enhancements, compound identity, and file and folder authorization and auditing with Dynamic Access. Windows Server 2012 provides solutions for issues that have challenged his clients, these are definitely hot topics. John will share his perception on the new operating system and GUI and how he came to really appreciate its benefits. This session is not for you if you are looking for a general overview of all the new features of Windows Server 2012. It’s a 300-level session so it will provide fast track technical coverage of the selected features.
Windows server
Windows Server 2012 is now released, and Microsoft claims that Windows Server 2012 redefines the server category, delivering hundreds of new features and enhancements spanning virtualization, networking, storage, user experience, cloud computing, automation, and more. What have we learned from the early adaptors? Learn from the best in the business and let us show you what to do, what not to do and typical pitfalls.The technologies highlighted in this track include:
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server (earlier versions)
- Quest and other third party add-ons
Virtualization & Cloud
Come and learn from industry experts about best practices and advice on how to architect, design, deploy, and implement world-class solutions built both in the public cloud and hybrid solutions with private cloud. Or just learn how to deploy your own private cloud. We will dive into to the technicalities of Hyper-V, Office 365, Azure IaaS and related service offerings.The technologies highlighted in this track include:
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Azure
- Office 365
- Citrix and other third party software
System Management
The System Center 2012 suite has been in the market for almost a year now, and it’s time to show you how to architect, design, implement and/or upgrade your environment to the latest and greatest. The track session will focus on real life experience and news including SP1. We are very excited to show you the level of automation and integration you can achieve with Orchestrator in an heterogeneous environment. Expect stunning demos on deployment of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.The technologies highlighted in this track include:
- System Center Configuration Manager
- System Center Data Protection Manager
- System Center Orchestrator
- System Center Operations Manager
- System Center Service Manager
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- System Center App Controller
Unified Communication
Get ready for the next wave of unified communication solutions from Microsoft with Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and the next version of Office 365. In this track, we will uncover the fundamentals and new features of the server software for the applications and devices that people use every day. The UC track strengthens your knowledge of these platforms and technologies. Ready for the cloud yet? Let’s show you how to get there, or decide why you should not.The technologies highlighted in this track include:
- Microsoft Office 365, Wave 15
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
- Microsoft Lync Server 2013
Windows Client
Is it new? Is it cool? Is it more efficient and smarter than the last version? Come to see, hear and learn everything about Windows 8. Let’s have a look at application management, DirectAccess, Windows To-go, the UI formerly known as Metro, Security, Client Virtualization and more. Most sessions in this track will combine server and client feature as well as System Center functionality. So if you want to get ready for deployment of Windows 8, this will be the track for you.- Windows 8
- Windows Intune
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