OakLeaf Systems: Cloud Management/DevOps Sessions at Microsoft Management Summit 2011

Monday, February 28, 2011

Cloud Management/DevOps Sessions at Microsoft Management Summit 2011

The Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (@mmsteam, #mms2011) takes place on 3/21 through 3/25/2011 at the Mandalay Bay hotel, Las Vegas, NV. Following are links to and abstracts of 28 sessions in the event’s “Cloud Management” track as of 2/28/2011.

Sessions covering Windows Azure, SQL Azure and related topics are marked •

BA15 Windows Intune: PC Management with Cloud Services and Windows 7

Speaker(s): Alex Heaton, Nilesh Bhide
Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Cloud Management, Systems Management
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Windows Client, Windows Intune

Windows Intune™ simplifies and helps businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows® cloud services and Windows 7.  Windows Intune brings together cloud services for PC management and security with a Windows upgrade subscription – all without the need to set up enterprise deployment infrastructure. Learn how simple it is to set up and use Windows Intune to deliver management essentials – such as updates, malware protection, and asset inventory - to PCs located virtually anywhere.

BA39 Windows Intune (Beta) In Real Life

Speaker(s): Erdal Ozkaya
Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Cloud Management, Systems Management
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Windows Client, Windows Intune

Windows Intune is Microsoft’s latest cloud service designed to simplify and help businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services & Windows 7.  Windows Intune is a comprehensive offering that includes PC management, malware protection and a Windows upgrade subscription. In this session I will give you demos and details about how Windows Intune is currently being used in the real world and all the benefits it has delivered to help keep my clients productive, and ultimately successful.

• BB01 What’s new in Operations Manager 2007 since R2

Speaker(s): Justin Incarnato
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Operations Manager 2007, Windows Azure

Join us to learn of developments that have taken place since the R2 release of Operations Manager 2007, including cumulative updates R2 and new tools for MP authoring. You'll also hear about some of the new capabilities that are being rapidly developed, including monitoring of applications running on Azure and the ability to leverage Visio and SharePoint 2010 for your distributed applications.

BD51 Virtualizing SQL Server with Hyper-V

Speaker(s): Brett Shoemaker, Edwin Yuen
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V, Microsoft SQL Server

This session covers virtualization scenarios for SQL Server 2008 R2 and how the  combination of Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center solves them. We will perform a deep dive into SQL Server with Hyper-V. The session highlights examples of SQL Server performance under Hyper-V and best practices for a successful deployment. Finally, we also touch upon partner solutions, including the PRO packs and how these solutions enhance the benefits of running SQL Server virtually.

BD52 Virtualizing SharePoint Server with Hyper-V

Speaker(s): Edwin Yuen
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V, SharePoint Server, Virtual Machine Manager

This session covers virtualization scenarios for SharePoint Server and how the  combination of Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center solves them. We will perform a deep dive into SharePoint Server with Hyper-V. The session highlights examples of SharePoint Server performance under Hyper-V and best practices for a successful deployment. Finally, we also touch upon partner solutions, including the PRO packs and how these solutions enhance the benefits of running SharePoint virtually.

BD53 Virtualizing Exchange Server with Hyper-V

Speaker(s): Edwin Yuen
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V, Microsoft Exchange, Virtual Machine Manager

This session covers virtualization scenarios for Exchange 2010 and how the  combination of Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center solves them. We will discuss the various deployment scenarios for Exchange and perform a deep dive into its use with Hyper-V. The session highlights examples of Exchange performance under Hyper-V and best practices for a successful deployment. Finally, we also touch upon partner solutions, including the PRO packs and how these solutions enhance the benefits of running Exchange virtually.

BH01 Overview of System Center Datacenter and Cloud management solutions

Speaker(s): Ryan O'Hara, Vij Rajarajan
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management, Server Management Technologies, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Data Protection Manager, Hyper-V, Opalis Integration Server, Operations Manager 2012, Virtual Machine Manager

Join us for an overview of how Microsoft’s cloud and datacenter management solutions can help your IT organization embrace private and public cloud computing, thereby enabling you to deliver IT as a Service to your business. Hear from none other than our respected engineering leader Vij Rajarajan, who runs the System Center cloud and datacenter product portfolio! You will experience in-depth conversations and demonstrations – think about core IT operations scenarios like provisioning your applications/infrastructure, service management, datacenter & cloud automation, in-depth application monitoring. You will walk away with a mental map of your organization’s own unique journey to the cloud and IT operations management’s crucial role towards realizing your vision!cloud and datacenter vision will be enhanced over the next 18 months, with upcoming releases and additional enhancements.

BH02 Technical Overview of Microsoft codename “Atlanta”

Speaker(s): Paul Mestemaker, Timothy Ng
Track(s): Cloud Management, Server Management Technologies
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Server

Offering highly available services in the datacenter depends among other things on adherence to best practices and awareness of the latest patches and updates. More information on managing your server environment can help increase uptime by decreasing the time to resolve unplanned downtime. Learn about Microsoft codename "Atlanta", an online Microsoft tool available to help analyze the configuration of server deployments, identify potential issues and data corruption, and provide more information about systems to make problem resolution faster and more efficient.

BH03 Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Modeling and Maintaining Virtualized Services in VMM 2012

Speaker(s): Amit Virmani, Nitin Bhat
Track(s): Cloud Management, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Virtual Machine Manager

This session provides a technical overview of the VMM 2012 Service Creation and Service Servicing features that includes creation of services in the private cloud.  Come and join us to hear about this feature and learn how using a model driven approach for creating applications in a virtualized environment can benefit your organization.

• BH04 Cloud Management with System Center

Speaker(s): David Armour, Vijay Tewari
Track(s): Cloud Management, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Azure

As organizations move to deploying services and applications in the cloud, it is important that they have a common management experience for deployment, visibility and control in a manner that is abstracted from the underlying cloud. This session provides an overview of the investments that System Center is making to provide this capability.

• BH05 Monitoring Azure Applications with Operations Manager 2007 R2

Speaker(s): Brian Wren
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Operations Manager 2007, Windows Azure

The new Azure management pack provides monitoring of applications running on Azure.  It also creates and discovers classes that you can use to create custom monitoring scenarios.  In this session, we will introduce the Azure management pack and provide a deep dive into how it operates.  We will also walk through examples of creating custom monitors using events and performance counters using Azure Diagnostics.

• BH06 Deploying Windows Azure Applications with VM Role

Speaker(s): Corey Sanders
Track(s): Cloud Management
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Windows Azure

Learn how to use the Virtual Machine Role on Windows Azure. We’ll demonstrate best practices for building and uploading customized OS images and deploying and managing services using those images.

BH07 Private Cloud Strategy

Speaker(s): Peter Meister
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V, Windows Server

IT departments are increasingly looking for instantly scalable, highly available infrastructure. Are you ready to deliver services and applications beyond servers, network and storage, and take advantage of the shift to Private Cloud Computing, leveraging capabilities such as self-service and metered-by-use? Join this session to learn about the Microsoft server platform-based private cloud roadma,; enabling you to move along the path to a more agile and dynamic IT environment.

BH08 Hyper-V Cloud Services - Delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service on the Microsoft platform

Speaker(s): Travis Gerber
Track(s): Cloud Management, Microsoft IT
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V

Microsoft solutions for private cloud, built on Windows Server, Hyper-V and System Center, are a key part of Microsoft's approach to cloud computing, enabling you to build out a dedicated cloud environment to transform the way your team delivers IT services to the business.



Come and learn from Microsoft Consulting Services how you can build and deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service on the Microsoft platform using advanced automation, self-service, monitoring, and service management solutions.

• BH09 Azure Planning and Migration with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) 5.5 Toolkit

Speaker(s): Martin Beechen, Venkat Ganti
Track(s): Cloud Management, Solution Accelerators
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Microsoft SQL Server, Solution Accelerators, Windows Azure

Are you ready for migration to Azure? Learn how to leverage the MAP 5.5 toolkit to streamline the migration planning process to Windows Azure and SQL Azure. MAP 5.5 inventories web applications, Microsoft Internet Information Services servers, Microsoft SQL Server databases, then analyzes performance while providing required cloud features. This session will feature a demo focusing on automated discovery and network-wide inventory of your customer environment.

BH10 Self Service for the Private Cloud

Speaker(s): Frank Zakrajsek, Suveen Kumar Reddy Vuppala
Track(s): Cloud Management, Solution Accelerators, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Virtual Machine Manager

As an Organization considers moving towards a Private Cloud environment, provisioning workloads and being agile when responding to a “customer” request become increasingly important.  How can a Centralized IT Organization do this without losing control of their infrastructure? Come discuss with us how the future of SSP should be evolved.

• BH11 Delivering Content Via Windows Azure CDN

Speaker(s): Jeremy Andrasik
Track(s): Cloud Management
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Windows Azure

Do you want to save time and money on web server deployments, and at the same time increase your performance and availability? The Azure CDN has been utilized by Microsoft for years to deliver content for many services that you utilize, including Windows Update, MSN Video, and Bing Maps. This powerful tool is now available for you via a simple configuration option in the Azure platform. This session will explain the technology, design considerations, and show you how to start using the service.

• BH12 Connecting Cloud and On-Premises Apps using Windows Azure Virtual Network

Speaker(s): Anthony Chavez
Track(s): Cloud Management
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Windows Azure

Windows Azure Virtual Network is a component of Windows Azure that enables customers to setup secure, IP-level network connectivity between their Windows Azure compute services and existing, on-premise resources..  In this session, we will give an overview of Windows Azure Virtual Network's functionality, discuss usage scenarios, and walk through the steps involved in setting up and managing a Virtual Network.

BH13 Best Practices for Hyper-V Cloud Implementation

Speaker(s): Peter Meister
Track(s): Cloud Management, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager

Want to build out a Hyper-V Cloud solution? Need to know the best practices for implementing, managing and growing your Hyper-V cloud topology? This session will focus on the various lessons learned during industry and internal implementations of Hyper-V Cloud.

BH31 Hey! You! Get Off My Cloud! - Exploit Protection for your Virtual Infrastructure

Speaker(s): Erdal Ozkaya
Track(s): Cloud Management, Security & Compliance Management
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V

Virtual infrastructure is the basis for rapid advances in data center design and cloud computing. With Hyper-V we have now ten times improvement in provisioning, services and elastic computing. This session will give you a brief review of this technology, and we will dive in to “opportunities” for exploit  protection and we will conclude our session with best practices to keep the bad guy out of our networks

• BI08 Identity & Access and Cloud: Better Together

Speaker(s): Brjann Brekkan
Track(s): Cloud Management, Security & Compliance Management, Server Management Technologies
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Microsoft Forefront, Windows Azure, Windows Server

Organizations have started using services such as Office 365 and Windows Azure but are worried about security and how to manage identities and provide access. This session goes through how Identity and Access from Microsoft with solutions such as Forefront Identity Manager, AD Federation Services, Windows Identity Foundation and Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Services play together to enable organizations to access cloud applications and also enable access for their customers and partners.

BK01 The Cloud Effect on Systems Management – Solutions for the Datacenter Infrastructure

Speaker(s): Enrico Bracalente, Jay Perusse, Tushar Oza
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management, Sponsors, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Opalis Integration Server, Operations Manager 2007, Virtual Machine Manager

The Virtual Era and Cloud Computing bring new opportunities and challenges to the management of your IT environment. The broad integration of Dell OpenManage™ and Microsoft® System Center simplifies the use of new technologies around deployment, update, and workflow monitoring in your data center. Whatever path you choose to the Cloud, Dell and Microsoft enhance operational efficiency across the physical and virtual layers of your infrastructure.

Join us for demonstrations featuring the highly integrated Dell and Microsoft management solutions, focusing on process automation of compute, storage, and network resources with an emphasis on the Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) and the Microsoft® Opalis Integration Pack.

BK03 HP and Microsoft Tackle the Private Cloud Together

Speaker(s): Brad Kirby
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management, Sponsors, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V, Operations Manager 2007, Service Manager, Virtual Machine Manager

The HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V, part of the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program, combines the best of HP BladeSystem Matrix and Microsoft System Center to deliver infrastructure as a service from standard templates and workflows.  Once services are deployed, manage everything from the hardware infrastructure layer through the application all from within Microsoft System Center.  This session is designed for IT decision makers.

BK04 Anatomy of HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V

Speaker(s): Brad Kirby
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management, Sponsors, Virtualization
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V, Operations Manager 2007, Virtual Machine Manager

Learn how HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V works under the covers.  What is a template?  What is a workflow?  How has HP enhanced standard Matrix templates and workflows with PowerShell scripts.  How does it all work with Microsoft System Center?  This session is intended for IT implementers.

BK06 The Importance of Storage for Successful Hyper-V™ Cloud Architectures

Speaker(s): Richard Preston
Track(s): Cloud Management, Sponsors
Session Type: Breakout Session
Product(s): Hyper-V, Windows PowerShell

Flexibility and efficiency are key factors for successful cloud architectures, and no single physical component has more impact on these factors than storage.  In this session, you will learn how NetApp storage solutions with their storage efficiencies, granular manageability (integrated with Microsoft System Center and exposed through PowerShell cmdlets), and tight integration with Microsoft Enterprise Applications can be the cornerstone of highly effective and adaptable Hyper-V Cloud designs that enable enterprises to deliver truly Flexible IT.

• EH01 Cloud Management - Ask the Panel of Experts

Speaker(s): Andrew Conway, Clare Henry, Edwin Yuen, Jeff Woolsey
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management, Virtualization
Session Type: Panel Session
Product(s): Application Virtualization, AVIcode, Hyper-V, Opalis Integration Server, Operations Manager 2007, Operations Manager 2012, Service Manager, Windows Azure

Join the Cloud Management Experts to ask questions about all aspects of managing applications and services across both private and public clouds. Learn how Microsoft is making it easier for you to deploy private clouds. Understand the overall Microsoft Cloud Management strategy from a common set of management infrastructure elements and get answers on how Microsoft is delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) through its Hyper-V Cloud set of programs and offerings.

• KEY1 You! Empowered By The Cloud

Speaker(s): Brad Anderson
Track(s): Cloud Management, Operations Management, Security & Compliance Management, Server Management Technologies, Systems Management, Virtualization
Session Type: Keynote
Product(s): AVIcode, Hyper-V, Opalis Integration Server, Operations Manager 2012, Service Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Azure

Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of the Management and Security Division at Microsoft, returns to keynote both days at this year’s MMS. This keynote will cover Microsoft’s cloud computing offerings.  Brad will share how the cloud empowers IT Professionals by showing  how to build and manage a private cloud, with a special focus on Microsoft’s upcoming System Center release.

• LE08 HOL: Simplify Azure planning and migration with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) 5.5 Toolkit

Track(s): Cloud Management, Solution Accelerators
Session Type: Self-paced Lab
Product(s): Windows Azure

Simplify planning for migration to Windows Azure and SQL Azure with Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.5. Learn to streamline your move to Windows Azure & SQL Azure platforms using enhanced inventory, web applications analysis, and database readiness. MAP identifies web applications, Microsoft Internet Information Services servers, Microsoft SQL Server databases and analyzes performance then estimates cloud features like number of Windows Azure compute instances and SQL Azure databases.