Calgary Systems Management User Group

Speaker: Kevin Kaminski (http://www.linkedin.com/in/kkaminsk)

Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 is far from being a collection of bug fixes. This meeting is to review upcoming feature enhancements in this release. Highlights of this release are as follows:

• App-V 5.0 Support
• Deployment and Management of Windows 8
• Enhanced Automation Through Powershell Support
• OSX and UNIX Support
• Real-time Actions for Endpoint Protection
• What whent away with 2012 and how to cope.

We will be sending out a Live Meeting link for the online attendees and for those who can show up in person there will be lunch provided along with giveaways. As always out thanks go out to our sponsors Microsoft and CoreTech for this meeting. Next month Flexerra will be coming into town to talk about the more enterprise aspects of their application lifecycle solutions.

Register for in-person or online @ http://csmugcm2012sp1.eventbrite.com/

Tim Mangan
App-V 5.0 Beta
Flying in from Boston, Tim (aka the Godfather of App-V) is Co-author of the GridMasterTraining.com App-V courseware, one of the first App-V MVPs and manages to hold down a Citrix CTP as well. Tim has also authored books, made countless utilities and has toured the world teaching and speaking at various engagements.

Kevin Kaminski
Advanced Sequencing with App-V
As the second author of the GridMasterTraining.com courseware and The Client Book about Microsoft App-V, Kevin spends his time more on the consulting side but also speaks at various international events, teaches and is a fellow App-V MVP.
Agenda11:00-11:15am Reception11:15-11:30am Welcome & User Group Update with Kevin Kaminski11:30-12:30pm App-V 5.0 Beta with Tim Mangan12:30-12:45pm Lunch Break12:45-1:45pm Advanced App-V Sequencing with Kevin Kaminski
Tim ManganApp-V 5.0 BetaFlying in from Boston, Tim (aka the Godfather of App-V) is Co-author of the GridMasterTraining.com App-V courseware, one of the first App-V MVPs and manages to hold down a Citrix CTP as well. Tim has also authored books, made countless utilities and has toured the world teaching and speaking at various engagements.Kevin Kaminski Advanced Sequencing with App-VAs the second author of the GridMasterTraining.com courseware and The Client Book about Microsoft App-V, Kevin spends his time more on the consulting side but also speaks at various international events, teaches and is a fellow App-V MVP.

Registration

http://appvdeepdiveday.eventbrite.com/

Architecting and Supporting the Back-End Infrastructure for the Consumerization of IT

Windows 7 is the hottest OS on the planet, but as end-users try to use non-Windows devices for work it is more important than ever that IT stay on the ball. VDI is the solution to deliver Windows 7 securely on both unmanaged Windows clients as well as non-Windows devices.

This free lunch and learn session will show you how to plan for, build, and manage your VDI environment on Microsoft’s Hyper-V, using Citrix’s Xen Desktop and System Center Virtual Machine Manager to manage it, including creating templates, easy provisioning, and improving the end-user experience.

Come see how you can make your life easier while giving the end user what they want in a safe and secure way!

About Mitch

Mitch Garvis is a Renaissance Man of the IT world. Aside from being a partner with SWMI Consulting Group, he is a Virtual Partner Technology Advisor for Microsoft Canada and has contributed to numerous certification exams for Microsoft Learning. He seems to collect certifications, and trains on a variety of topics including System Center, server virtualization, desktop deployment, and security. We think that parts of Windows 7 really were his idea. You can read his blog at www.garvis.ca, or follow him on Twitter as @MGarvis. He makes his home outside Toronto where he has one wife, two kids, two dogs, and two minutes to himself per day.

Time: Monday, 2 April 2012 from 11:30 to 14:30 (MT)
Registration: http://vdi-yycsteptour.eventbrite.ca/

Date: Friday November 25, 2011

Time: 11:30am-1:30pm

Location: Microsoft Canada

110 9 Ave SW, 8th Floor

Calgary, AB

T2P 1M9, Canada

Agenda

First Speakers: Kevin Kaminski & Steve Hall

Break: Feedback from the Build Conference that Happened in Anaheim this Year

Second Speaker: Alex Bethleham from Desktopsites

First Speakers: Kevin Kaminski & Steve Hall

Topic: State of Computing

Details: Many people are migrating to Windows 7 but what does that really mean? Tablets, alternative form factors, virtual and traditional PCs are the technologies many organizations are coping with. This presentation will give insight into the current trends and challenges facing organizations.

Second Speaker: Alex Bethlehem

Topic: Introducing Konnect Elite

Details: This affordable management stack for VDI will manage everything from the hypervisor up to the application provisioning. By using a unified management interface that leverages Microsoft’s products to build a familiar and unified management interface

Please Register for FREE (this will allow us to properly plan for food.)

http://csmugfallwinter2011.eventbrite.com/

Just a FYI about A couple of events coming up with Tricon and Microsoft at the Microsoft office in downtown Calgary.

October 26/2011: Maximizing the value of your Microsoft Enterprise Agreements
http://events.linkedin.com/Maximizing-value-Microsoft-Enterprise/pub/813836

De-Risk your Windows 7 Deployments (Microsoft, 1E, TriCon)
http://events.linkedin.com/De-Risk-Windows-7-Deployments-Microsoft/pub/797052

Believe it or now it is time to be thinking about TechDays.ca! TechDays will be different this year with less dates but the promise of a more rich in-person experience with year round learning capabilities online. For those of you who want the scoop and to keep in touch should follow the Canadian IT Pro blog and more specifically have a look at the following post.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2011/07/05/here-s-the-scoop-on-techdays-2011.aspx

Also Microsoft is giving away TechNext subscriptions for the first 300 registrants. Check it out over here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2011/08/30/register-now-for-techdays-2011.aspx

There are lots of players out there in the Virtualization Market. All of them have options to help you build a highly available solution to virtualize and protect your servers all with varying costs associated with them. Did you know Microsoft has a solution that you can cut your teeth into even if you are just learning the ropes and don’t have access to high end SAN hardware? Join us for a demo intensive 90 minute session that builds a solution from scratch and gives you the skills to bring this technology into your organization or customer environments for a fraction of the cost of the competitors offerings (you know who we’re talking about). This session will cover the story of an organization looking to enhance their current infrastructure and virtualization solutions. It will start with the requirements, proceed into the build process and demonstrate all of its capabilities including post deployment management. Do you have questions to ask? Are you more familiar with “the other guys” offerings and need to have some clarity on what is actually capable with the Microsoft Virtualization offerings? This session is for you – we’re leaving plenty of time for questions along the way.

Calgary Registration
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032488251&Culture=en-CA