The Arizona Systems Management User Group 10-year Anniversary Meeting – A Taste of MMS has come and gone. It was a fantastic way to celebrate 10 years of AZSMUG with an all-star line up and a surprise special guest, David James – Director of Engineering for Configuration Manager.

 

 

Kicking off the meeting, Peter Daalmans started the day presenting Session 1 on How to cope with the rapid release of ConfigMgr.

He then presented the first sponsor session: Parallels Mac Management for our sponsor Parallels.

Next up was Kent Agerlund presenting Session 2 of the day on What’s new & trendy in Microsoft EMS.

Session 3 of the day was presented by Brian Mason – SQL Server 2016 & ConfigMgr – What you need to know.

Lunch was presented by our gold sponsor 1E. The pizzas were so large, user groups in Texas would be jealous.

Think @miketerrill and @1E_Global ordered a couple of medium pizza’s 😉 #AmericanSize #AZSMUG pic.twitter.com/AVOFNnOoiD

— Peter Daalmans (@pdaalmans) October 7, 2016

1E’s Shaun Cassells presented the lunch time sponsor session – Windows 10 Servicing in the Real World.

After lunch we jumped right into Session 4 of the day with the All Speakers (plus David James) Q&A. This turned out being an excellent interactive discussion with great insights on things from David and Michael Niehaus. Everyone was engaged even after those extremely large pizza slices.

We also posted several Twitter polls throughout the day and used these as discussion topics during the Q&A (BTW if you are not on Twitter, get on Twitter!):

Poll 1: What version of ConfigMgr are you using in production?

#AZSMUG What version of #ConfigMgr are you using in production?:

— Mike Terrill (@miketerrill) October 7, 2016

 

Poll 2: How many ConfigMgr clients do you manage?

#AZSMUG How many #ConfigMgr clients do you manage?:

— Mike Terrill (@miketerrill) October 7, 2016

 

Poll 3: Are you using Microsoft EMS today?

#AZSMUG are you using Microsoft EMS today?:

— Mike Terrill (@miketerrill) October 7, 2016

 

Poll 4: What version of SQL are you using with ConfigMgr?

#AZSMUG What version of SQL are you using with #ConfigMgr?:

— Mike Terrill (@miketerrill) October 7, 2016

 

Poll 5: Do you have ConfigMgr integrated with Intune?

#AZSMUG Do you have #ConfigMgr integrated with #Intune?:

— Mike Terrill (@miketerrill) October 7, 2016

 

Poll 6: When do you plan on deploying Windows 10?

#AZSMUG When do you plan on deploying Windows 10?

— Mike Terrill (@miketerrill) October 7, 2016

Michael Niehaus presented Session 5 on What’s new for enterprises in Windows 10 1607.

Finishing out the day with Session 6, Greg Ramsey did a deep dive session on Using PowerShell with ConfigMgr.

The examples that he covered can be download from his blog. Midway through Greg’s session the Midwest Management Summit afternoon cake arrived and it was yummy.

Wrapping up the day for a final speaker picture. Thanks again to all of the speakers for presenting and our sponsors Microsoft, 1E, Coretech, Midwest Management Summit and Parallels for making this event possible. I am already looking forward to the 20-year anniversary meeting!

Originally posted on https://miketerrill.net/