MMS 2018

Description:
The cloud introduces agility and flexibility, but it does not remove the need for standards and processes that ensure the environments are built right and governed to business standards. This session introduces you to Azure policy management and governance. Take control of your Azure assets through policies and standards that provide the controls that are in place in traditional IT but aligned to the agility of the cloud. Take control of your cloud investments and apply standards in an automated and consistent manner to ensure your cloud environment is in line with your organization policies. Samuel Erskine and Peter De Tender take you on the journey from Azure governance zero to hero.

What you will learn:

• Understand Azure policy management and governance and how to start using it.
• Enhance your skills in Azure by going from where to start to being in full control
• Understand and implement the processes used in traditional data centers in the agile, flexible and elastic world of Azure

Description:
During this session Cameron and Robert will walk you the benefits and pitfalls when it comes to empowering your business leveraging the concepts of public cloud services such as Microsoft Azure. Learn from other's mistakes as there isn’t enough time to make them all yourself! After this session you will be enriched with insights of how you start your public cloud journey or your next step forward towards a more efficient organization. With both Robert’s and Cameron’s shared knowledge you will gain a perspective on how to get started or to enhance what you may have previously done. Learn what building blocks there are that you can work with and how you can redesign your on-premise business services towards Azure Cloud concepts.

What you will learn:

• How to use your business services to migrate workloads to Azure
• Benefits of migrating business applications to Azure
• Options to migrate workloads to Azure & Case study of a re-platform
• How to design your application with Azure building blocks

Description:
Your DevOps team has built a new app on Azure PaaS. They have come to you and need help monitoring all the moving parts. Uh-Oh! How do you proceed? What options do you have? Azure has so many monitoring tools what can and should you use? Come to this session for a deep dive with Cameron Fuller and Steve Buchanan to learn how you can leverage out of the box monitoring tools on Azure to monitor applications built on PaaS in Azure.

What you will learn:

• How to monitor PaaS services in Azure like web apps, and SQL as a Service.
• A best practice look at the monitoring options available in Azure.
• How to run real world tests on PaaS applications to gain insight via telemetry.
• How to bring data from monitoring tools like app insights, OMS, Azure monitor, security center, and Azure advisor into a single customized dashboard.

Description:
Microsoft has a variety of Azure services that work together to provide complete management of your cloud and enterprise resources.  We'll start this session by contrasting the System Center generation of tools with our current generation of cloud tools.  We'll then  categorize those services, discuss how they interact with each other, and help you understand where management in Azure is headed. 

What you will learn:

• The transition of Microsoft management tools from System Center to Azure.
• Different areas of management and which Azure tools work together to address each.
• Common functionality in Azure that can be leveraged across multiple management services.

Description:
In the forever changing world of IT, Microsoft has dropped another bomb called Azure Stack. Azure Stack is the one true Hybrid cloud. With this new technology comes new roles and responsibilities. Utilize best practices of CloudOps to unleash its full potential and learn how it can be the underpinning platform for DevOps in your orginization. Between Azure and Azure Stack there is so much to learn. Come to this session to get a jump start on this hybrid cloud technology from Microsoft MVPs. You will learn how to get started, implementation strategies, and guidance for deploying Azure Stack in your environment.

What you will learn:

• Hybrid Cloud…Why you should care?
• What is takes to prep for and deploy Azure Stack
• Best practices of CloudOps
• How Azure Stack can fit into your DevOps CI/CD pipeline