MMS 2018

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:
With the last Log Analytics solution, you can now integrate your ITSM solution (On-Prem or in the Cloud) with Log Analytics, to generate alerts directly in your ITSM tool. During this session, we will present the ITSM supported tools and show some cool demos.

What you will learn:

• The power of Log Analytics with ITSM solutions
• Automate your service desk
• Increase your workflow automation processes

Description:
This OMS suite is just useful for work stuff, right? Still not looking outside the box on the capabilities of Log Analytics? Well prepare to be dazzled! This session will be packed with real life scenarios that demonstrate the versatile power of Log Analytics as your one stop insight-generating machine. Step out of the boundaries of your office and explore the world outside! See how easy it is to get the data and monitor your world with Log Analytics! The possibilities are virtually endless so start introducing them in your environment and apps as well. Come in with doubt whether it can be done, leave with the knowledge it can!

What you will learn:

• Think outside the Quadrilateral Parallelogram with this session on how to go beyond the obvious uses of Log Analytics
• Find out how we are trying to save the planet and save some cash while doing it
• Create insights with Log Analytics and even get a preview of the future
• See how to introduce these ideas into your business and be amazed what Log Analytics can do for you!

Description:
Bring on premises and Azure VMs under consistent management using Azure. As you move workloads to the cloud, ensure these have the latest management capabilities enabled to deliver consistent control using update management, inventory, desired state control, change tracking, and hybrid workers in Azure Automation. If you are currently using System Center Configuration Manager for managing servers, see how you can build upon these investments while moving to cloud based management using the latest technologies.

What you will learn:

• Get unified update compliance and scheduled deployments using update management in Azure Automation. See how to integrate with ConfigMgr while taking advantage of new capabilities only available from the cloud.
• Get inventory of your on-premises and Azure VMs for Windows and Linux and how to use this information to troubleshoot issues and generate reports on software in usage across the organization.
• Automate the configuration of machines with DSC during deployment to ensure compliance requirements and remove manual tasks required during VM provisioning.
• Identify changes that are causing drift within your managed environment and generate alerts to proactively identify changes that can be resolved and moved into your change management system. 
• Give controlled access to VMs on-premises and in Azure using hybrid workers so you no longer need to remote into machines and maintain strict access compliance. 
• Learn about the roadmap for these features and how you can start to take advantage of these in your organization.