MMS 2019 Jazz Edition: Full Schedule

8:00am CST

WMI over HTTPS - The ConfigMgr AdminService

Description:
Come experience the magic of the ConfigMgr AdminService. This session will take you through the inner workings of the AdminService, how to interact with and even how to integrate it into Power BI (Due to technical issues with 1906, we may not be able to demo the Power BI bits). This never before seen content will knock your socks off!

What you will learn:

Deep understanding of what the AdminService is and what it can do
How to interact with the AdminService
Accessing OData with the AdminService to use in reporting
PowerShell Scripting with the AdminService

Speakers

Kim Oppalfens

Microsoft MVP, Senior Consultant, OSCC

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

Adam Gross

Microsoft MVP, Blogger, A Square Dozen

Adam Gross is a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP and Computing Solutions Manager at Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. in The Woodlands, TX where he shares management duties for a ConfigMgr and Intune infrastructure which supports ~9000 clients. He’s also a consultant for System Center... Read More →

WMI over HTTPS The ConfigMgr AdminService pptx

Monday November 11, 2019 8:00am - 9:45am CST
Salon

ConfigMgr, Automation

Skill Level Deep Dive

10:00am CST

Real-Time ConfigMgr with CMPIVOT & Scripts!

Description:
Real-time automation with CM! This is the moment you've all been waiting for! This session will focus on how CMPivot and Scripts will help you and your customers query data and perform actions at scale, across your entire environment. Prepare to be dazzled!

What you will learn:

How to use CMPivot and Scripts
Troubleshooting these new features
Right tool for right job! Good practices for using CMPivot and Scripts, and when to use alternatives (like Hardware Inventory, Software Distribution, Configuration Items, etc).
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Speakers

Jason Sandys

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

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

Tom Degreef

Senior Consultant, OSCC

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

Real Time Actions pptx

CMPivot MMS2019 docx

Monday November 11, 2019 10:00am - 11:45am CST
Salon

ConfigMgr, CMPivot

Skill Level Deep Dive

1:00pm CST

Bios & Firmware Management Deep Dive - Option 1

Description:
Maintenance of systems today is much more than ensuring Windows is patched and you have the latest drivers as part of your OS deployment and in-place upgrade strategy. With issues such as Spectre and Meltdown companies suddenly realised that there was a requirement for patch machines not only at a software level but also at the underlying firmware level. In this session you will learn how to master automation of BIOS management, ensuring you can automate deployment of settings, understand the threats posed for business buy in and also patch your firmware through the use of PowerShell and OEM methods.

What you will learn:

Get business buy in strategy for BIOS management
Understand the risks associated with firmware upgrades
Get real world examples of patching firmware at scale
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Speakers

Jörgen Nilsson

Trusted Security Advisor | Microsoft MVP, Onevinn AB

Jorgen is working as a principal consultant at Onevinn in Sweden. He has been working as a consultant since 1993 with a focus on Enterprise Client Management and System Management. Involved in many projects and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, MVP in Enterprise Mobility and deliver... Read More →

Maurice Daly

Microsoft MVP, Principal Cloud Architect, CloudWay

Maurice is a Microsoft MVP (Enterprise Mobility, Security) and Principal Cloud Architect at CloudWay. His IT career began over 20 years ago, spending time in both in-house roles and as a external consultant.His primary focus is management of devices through Microsoft Endpoint Manager... Read More →

BIOS & Firmware Management pptx

Monday November 11, 2019 1:00pm - 2:45pm CST
Salon

ConfigMgr, OSD

Skill Level Refresher

3:00pm CST

Windows 10 Customizations & Modifications - Option 1

Description:
Windows 10 comes with a lot of built-in apps that really are not suited for the enterprise! During this session we will go through what can be customized, what should be customized and what we shouldn't touch at all. Microsoft is investing a lot in this area to so we will cover the latest changes in behavior when doing upgrades, GPOs, Policies, modifications and app updates. What has changed in the latest version of Windows 10?! Don't make the same mistakes as many others, come to this session and learn about it!

What you will learn:

How to customize Windows 10
Best practice & Tips and Tricks
Servicing
What not to customize

Speakers

Jörgen Nilsson

Trusted Security Advisor | Microsoft MVP, Onevinn AB

Gary Blok

Engineer, HP

Working on Intune & ConfigMgr along with Azure to develop improvements in endpoint management and reporting.I've worked in several areas over the past year, hardware OEM, finacial, state government, small startups, K-12, higher ed, and consulting.Best known for blogging on GARYTOWN... Read More →

Mark Godfrey

Software Engineer, Recast Software

Long time Systems Engineer, now a Software Engineer for Recast Software. Dedicated to making Systems Management easier via code. Tell me your troubles. I'd love to write you a solution in Recast RCT.

Windows 10 Customizations and Modifications Jazz pptx

Monday November 11, 2019 3:00pm - 4:45pm CST
Salon

Windows, Customizations

Skill Level Tips and Tricks

8:00am CST

SQL Queries - Back to the Basics

Description:
Often a ConfigMgr admin is also called upon to be a SQL or reporting expert as well. This session will show the Configmgr admin the basics of doing direct queries using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Examples will be shown, and explained, regarding tables vs. views, joining data from multiple views, discussing built-in indexes (and how to find them), demonstrating subselect queries and why one would use them; as well as other basic tips and tricks for the "accidental reporting person".

What you will learn:

Understanding Tables vs. Views
Subselect Query Examples
Finding existing Indexed Fields, and why that is useful to know.

Speakers

Steve Thompson

Principal Data Architect, Softchoice

Steve works for Softchoice as a Principal Data Architect. Focused on developing Softchoice capabilities with data services (structured and unstructured), SQL, BI, Big Data, Advanced Analytics and machine learning for Public Cloud platforms. This includes hybrid solutions that integrate... Read More →

Garth Jones

Microsoft MVP, Endpoint Insight Architect, Recast Software

Garth Jones is Senior Architect of Endpoint Insights at Recast Software. Recast Software is a company that develops products to extend the value of Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager (Current Branch), and Microsoft Intune. Garth started working with Systems Manageme... Read More →

MMSJAZZ SQL Queries Back to Basics v0.4 pptx

SQL Queries zip

Tuesday November 12, 2019 8:00am - 9:45am CST
Salon

ConfigMgr, SQL

Skill Level Refresher

10:00am CST

ConfigMgr is Innocent! Troubleshooting Software Installations

Description:
How many times do users or techs come to you saying that software failed to install because of ConfigMgr? In this session get the info you need to determine if it is ConfigMgr, the application, or the device. This will be a log heavy presentation regarding ConfigMgr, Windows, and application installations like EXE, MSI, and MSIX.

What you will learn:

Understanding of context of the install, like bitness or admin token, and how to properly test and reproduce issues
Common and less-common errors and how to find the resolution to each
Dive into pertinent logs (apps, packages, MSI, PSADT, event logs) to follow the path of an install

Speakers

Daniel Ratliff

Lead Systems Engineer, Humana Inc.

Daniel Ratliff is a Lead Systems Engineer focusing on Enterprise Windows Administration and Modern Device Management. He loves working with technologies such as MEMCM, OSD, and PowerShell while sharing their success with others. He frequents Twitter, /r/SCCM, WinAdmins Discord... Read More →

Bryan Dam

Patch Lover Extraordinaire, Patch My PC

After 15 years as a system administrator, most recently at a large Midwest supermarket, I've spent the last few as a software developer focused on trying to solve the day-to-day problems facing system adminsitrators. I'm active in the online support communities and most days you'll... Read More →

SampleLogs zip

SCCM is innocent! Troubleshooting software installations pptx

Tuesday November 12, 2019 10:00am - 11:45am CST
Salon

ConfigMgr, Troubleshooting

Skill Level Deep Dive

1:00pm CST

Shift to a Modern Desktop with Desktop Analytics - Option 1

Description:
Desktop Analytics is a new Microsoft cloud-based service that’s tightly integrated with ConfigMgr. Use Desktop Analytics to bring deeper insights into your deployments of Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus. In this session we’ll show how it works, and provide a real-world example of a customer using it in production.

What you will learn:

Use Desktop Analytics to inventory apps in the organization that can impact Windows and Office feature updates
Optimize groups of devices for pilot deployments based on cloud insights
Orchestrate your Windows and Office upgrades and updates using ConfigMgr, cloud-connected with Desktop Analytics
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Speakers

Matthew Hudson

Desktop Engineering Manager, Schlumberger

Matthew is a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Mobility, working in the Energy Sector. He has over 120,000 machines within his responsibility. Microsoft Configuration Manager, Windows OS, MacOS, packaging applications, Intune, Jamf, Azure VD, and Windows 365 all fall under my team. I have... Read More →

Matt Call

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

Matt is a Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft Security team, working on Windows Security, incubation, and other various integrations. He's spent a majority of his life working/consulting/architecting Windows clients in extremely large enterprises. Because he has, he also pertains... Read More →

Shift to a Modern Desktop with Desktop Analytics MMS Jazz pptx

Tuesday November 12, 2019 1:00pm - 2:45pm CST
Salon

Windows, Desktop Analytics

Skill Level Deep Dive

3:00pm CST

Manage ConfigMgr Internet-Based Clients with CMG

Description:
CMG allows us to manage our internet facing clients. Previously we have used Internet-based client management where we had to configure secure internet-facing site systems so that internet-based clients could communicate. This was a good technology with many advantages. However, there were also some disadvantages. Now we can use CMG to manage these clients. It consists of a Microsoft Azure cloud service and a ConfigMgr site system role that communicates with that Azure service. Internet clients can then use the Azure service to communicate with ConfigMgr. This is really cool technology and gives us many advantages over traditional internet based client management. In this session we'll learn how to set up a CMG.

What you will learn:

Understand the typical CMG management scenarios and which features are supported
See how the CMG actually works to deliver these features
Learn about the prerequistes for configuring a CMG, including certificates and firewall ports
Know how to create and use the CMG to manage internet clients

Speakers

Peter Daalmans

Microsoft MVP, Workplace Architect, Daalmans Consulting B.V.

Peter is a Principal Workplace Consultant / Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer at Daalmans Consulting with a primary focus on the Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager and Enterprise Mobility. Peter is awarded every year as a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP (Configuration... Read More →

D.C. Tardy

Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft

D.C. is passionate about helping customers get to current branch. He was previously responsible for Cloud Management Gateway, on-prem MDM, SCCM client, server infrastructure/hierarchy, B&R and for service deployment of Windows Intune into Windows Azure. He is also interested in helping... Read More →

CMG MMSJazz pdf

Tuesday November 12, 2019 3:00pm - 4:45pm CST
Salon

ConfigMgr, CMG

Skill Level Deep Dive

8:00am CST

ConfigMgr & PowerShell - The Essentials

Description:
This session will focus on tips and tricks for how to get the most out of ConfigMgr automation using PowerShell, WMI, and the ConfigMgr cmdlet module. We’ll analyze performance, discuss testing, and demos!

What you will learn:

When to use cmdlets, query WMI and/or SQL
Examples for running scripts, updating objects, and leveraging status messages
Automation best practices

Links:
Demos - https://github.com/1RedOne/mmsJazz
Setting up Status Message Filters https://gregramsey.net/2014/05/19/running-actions-based-on-configmgr-status-filter-rules-with-powershell/
CM Speed Test - https://foxdeploy.com/2018/07/18/faster-configmgr-collection-manipulation-speed-test/
Push Messages from PowerShell - https://foxdeploy.com/functions/powerbullet-pushbullet-for-powershell/
mmsSQL - https://github.com/fredbainbridge/mmsSQL
Long Running / High Impact Queries- https://www.sqlserver-dba.com/2016/10/how-to-find-longest-running-queries-in-sql-server.html

Even better TestLab - Olympia v2 - preconfigured CM Tech preview lab with domain and clients ready for testing https://olympia.windows.com/Info/Enrollv2

Speakers

Greg Ramsey

Microsoft MVP, Senior Enterprise Architect, MMS Staff

Greg Ramsey, Enterprise Mobility MVP, is Senior Enterprise Architect at Dell, Inc. He has a B.S. in Computer Sciences and Engineering from Ohio State University, and has coauthored many books over the years. Greg is a cofounder of the Ohio SMS Users Group and the Central Texas Systems... Read More →

Stephen Owen

Automation Engineer, Wells Fargo

I'm an automation engineer who loves to write PowerShell and C# and have years of experience in consulting servicing clients of every size. I've covered my exploits writing PowerShell for every API and service you can imagine on my blog FoxDeploy.com (I didn't say they were well-written... Read More →

Jazz Edition CM and PowerShell pptx

Demos zip

Wednesday November 13, 2019 8:00am - 9:45am CST
Salon

ConfigMgr, PowerShell

Skill Level Refresher

10:00am CST

Securing The Modern Workplace

Description:
Today we face a real threat to businesses, who in their goal to offload the responsibility of maintaining systems on-premise, abandon seemingly once important security limitations and controls to move to the cloud. The modern world with all that the M365 suite offers many controls and strong foundations, so its important that we understand these. Here we will discuss how to secure the foundations of your modern management migration, to ensure that your journey does not become one that makes your company famous for all the wrong reasons. Understand conditional access, discover what is going on in your environment with cloud app security, and reach back into your hybrid on-prem AD with ATP.

What you will learn:

Secure your Azure AD environment
Understand the many portals and their use
Be proactive about cloud security, even if your role was not traditionally security focused

Speakers

Jan Ketil Skanke

MVP Enterprise Mobility, MVP Security, Principal Cloud Architect, CloudWay

Jan Ketil have been a Microsoft MVP since 2016 and are working as a Principal Cloud Architect at CloudWay in Norway. He has been working in the industry for Microsoft Partners and Microsoft for more than 20 years. He loves to speak about anything around Endpoint Management, Identity... Read More →

Maurice Daly

Microsoft MVP, Principal Cloud Architect, CloudWay

Securing The Modern Workplace pptx

Wednesday November 13, 2019 10:00am - 11:45am CST
Salon

Security, Security

Skill Level Deep Dive

1:00pm CST

ConfigMgr Security - Defending The Castle

Description:
The ConfigMgr product we've all grown to appreciate and love, is an incredibly powerful tool. With great power comes great responsibility so configuring your environment in a secure way and understanding the many underlying security related items used by ConfigMgr is no luxury. This two-part session aims to give you insight into all the security related items in ConfigMgr, and there are a ton of them. Things we'll cover, in different levels of depth, include (This is most likely not the full list): - Client approval - WMI Security - SQL Security - ConfigMgr RBA - ConfigMgr Multi-Factor Authentication - Authentication protocols used - Self-Signed & PKI based certificates as used by ConfigMgr - the new Token-based authentication Accounts and groups used by ConfigMgr, like the Network Access Account, client push account,...., - Mechanism that protects ConfigMgr content by using File Hashes - Special files in ConfigMgr

What you will learn:

Concrete tips in securing your ConfigMgr environment
Basic ConfigMgr RBA best practices anyone can and most likely should implement
Be better prepared in discussions with your security team
Using Configuration Items to up your security posture.

Speakers

Kim Oppalfens

Microsoft MVP, Senior Consultant, OSCC

Tom Degreef

Senior Consultant, OSCC

MMSJE Configuration Manager Defending the Castle pptx

Wednesday November 13, 2019 1:00pm - 2:45pm CST
Salon

ConfigMgr, Security

Skill Level Deep Dive

3:00pm CST

Shift to a Modern Desktop with Desktop Analytics - Option 2

Use Desktop Analytics to inventory apps in the organization that can impact Windows and Office feature updates
Optimize groups of devices for pilot deployments based on cloud insights
Orchestrate your Windows and Office upgrades and updates using ConfigMgr, cloud-connected with Desktop Analytics
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Speakers

Matthew Hudson

Desktop Engineering Manager, Schlumberger

Matt Call

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

Shift to a Modern Desktop with Desktop Analytics MMS Jazz pptx

Wednesday November 13, 2019 3:00pm - 4:45pm CST
Salon

Windows, Desktop Analytics

Skill Level Deep Dive

MMS 2019 Jazz Edition

8:00am CST

Kim Oppalfens

Adam Gross

10:00am CST

Jason Sandys

Tom Degreef

1:00pm CST

Jörgen Nilsson

Maurice Daly

3:00pm CST

Jörgen Nilsson

Gary Blok

Mark Godfrey

8:00am CST

Steve Thompson

Garth Jones

10:00am CST

Daniel Ratliff

Bryan Dam

1:00pm CST

Matthew Hudson

Matt Call

3:00pm CST

Peter Daalmans

D.C. Tardy

8:00am CST

Greg Ramsey

Stephen Owen

10:00am CST

Jan Ketil Skanke

Maurice Daly

1:00pm CST

Kim Oppalfens

Tom Degreef

3:00pm CST

Matthew Hudson

Matt Call

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