MMS 2018

Description:
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for building and managing microservice-based or containerized applications. Service Fabric is the same technology powering Microsoft’s Cloud technologies. This session is DevOps for IT pros by IT pros with a focus on the Application Lifecycle Management of a modern cloud application utilizing Azure Service Fabric. In this session Microsoft MVPs Lee Berg and Steve Buchanan will take you through the entire ALM story by utilizing CI/CD in VSTS integrated with service fabric using containers, infrastructure as code all the way to monitoring our infrastructure and application in real time with Application Insights and OMS. In this session you will gain insights into the process of developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and monitoring a cloud application with Azure Service Fabric.

What you will learn:

• CI/CD in VSTS with Azure Service Fabric infrastructure
• Deploying and managing containers with Azure Service Fabric
• Monitoring Azure Service Fabric with Application Insights and OMS

Description:
A typical A through Z sessions like we've done in the past with ConfigMgr Policies, Collections and State and Status messages. This time we'll dive deep into another core component of ConfigMgr, the Inboxes. ConfigMgr relies heavily on file-based triggers so knowing how to handle that will benefit every ConfigMgr Admin.

What you will learn:

• Understand the inner workings of the ConfigMgr Inbox system
• Manipulate Inbox files for personal gain & glory
• Knowing which files are supposed to be in the Inboxes by default and which ones can be cleaned up

Description:
Distribute on demand vs Distribute everywhere? Express Updates, Updates, Apps, Images it's all getting bigger! Learn how to avoid the swamp, and how to get out of it if you're already sinking. This is an Automated solution that ensures that you only push content where it's needed - and when it's no longer needed there - nuke it! Keep them DPs lean, mean and clean..

What you will learn:

• Understanding ConfigMgr Content Distribution
• How to Distribute on Demand successfully
• Good content grooming practice
• An Automated solution to take away and use

Description:
In this session Kim (aka @thewmiguy) and Tom will introduce you to WMI as used in ConfigMgr. Although knowledge of WMI has long not been considered crucial to be able to understand and work with ConfigMgr, having a thorough understanding and feeling of WMI and overall being comfortable with it is an incredible asset in this field. Disclaimer: This session will not cover the boring topic of WMI stability & fixing issues with it.

What you will learn:

• Find hidden gems in WMI more easilly
• Example on customizing ConfigMgr components without available UI
• Use WMI to influence ConfigMgr & Client behavior in a ton of different ways
• Implement ConfigMgr object lifecycle management example