Greetings NWSCUG! Here’s a friendly reminder for our meeting on Friday. Please register – we hope to see you in person in Bellevue, but if not, we’ll catch you on Teams!
Greg
Our Sponsors
NWSCUG – March 15th – Sponsored by 2Pint!
Greetings NWSCUG! No need to Beware the ides of March here – we have a fantastic lineup of speakers! Special thanks to our new sponsor, 2Pint Software!
10:00 – 11:00 – Follow the White Rabbit – Johan Arwidmark
11:15 – 12:15 – FAFO about 2Pint
12:15 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 – Off to Never, Never Land – Mike Terrill
2:15 – 3:15 – Endpoint Privilege Management Deep Dive – Anton Varshavkiy
Follow the White Rabbit – In this session – besides the obvious Matrix reference – you will learn what’s going on behind the scenes during OS Deployment of Windows 11. Bare metal deployments as well as Inplace upgrades (aka servicing). You will learn about the Windows Setup Engine, the various Setup Passes, Unattend.xml files, and how WinPE and other Windows ADK Features maps to ConfigMgr OSD.
FAFO about 2Pint – Round table with Andreas Hammarskjöld, Johan Arwidmark, Mike Terrill, Michael Niehaus
Come join us to hear tales from the front lines of product development at 2Pint Software. This is casual and relaxed and we’ll be telling you all about our latest research findings and roadmap for product development. Come on and settle in for a session of lively conversation and behind-the-scenes demos from the folks at 2Pint Software. You never know what you might learn! We might even have a release of a new software products up our sleeve!
What you will learn:
- What does 2Pint software do?
- What is 2Pint Software cooking in their labs?
- What craziness are 2Pint Software’s customers up to?
- Will the future be bright or not?
Off to Never, Never Land – WinPE, WinRE, disk partitions, join domain service account(s) and why all of it matters today. In this session you will learn about why you should care about these items and how they can impact your environment. Learn how to correctly configure/manage each so that they do not bite at the worst possible time.
Endpoint Privilege Management Deep Dive – Anton is one of the lead developers on the Intune team, and is going to go deep! He will also go into troubleshooting, as well as be ready for any of your ‘why’ or ‘how’ questions for both Intune and ConfigMgr.
Microsoft MVP Johan is a consultant, instructor, speaker and author. He is an all-around geek specializing in Systems Management and Enterprise Deployment Solutions. Johan is a Technical Fellow at Mirolus and 2Pint Software, but this blog, its content and opinions are his own. You can reach Johan on Twitter: @jarwidmark, or connect with him via LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jarwidmark
Microsoft MVP Mike is a Principal Engineer at 2Pint Software, specializing in the design and implementation of operating system deployments, operating system upgrades, peer-to-peer, bandwidth management, and PXE solutions as they related to various systems management platforms (Configuration Manager/Intune). His career has been focused on systems management and operating system deployment for over 26 years and is a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Mobility since 2016. He also runs the Arizona Systems Management User Group.
Managing Meeting Logistics for our User Group
Recently, I had an X conversation about how we manage attendee registrations and determining how many will be ‘in the room’ vs on the Teams link. NWSCUG is a nonprofit, and we strive to keep our costs down. We previously used EventBrite, but they gradually started remove or reduce the free options (such as email lists and free registrations), prompting us to look for alternatives.
Below, you’ll find what we’re currently doing. Your feedback is welcome; we’ll always try to use the most efficient route. We are all volunteer, so less is more :).
Hybrid Teams Meeting with Registration
While we encourage attendance in person at our beautiful Bellevue location, we’ve decided to stay hybrid in order to include a global audience. As part of registration, we aimed to capture the attendees’ intent (in-person or online only). Recent enhancements in Microsoft Teams meetings (configured as a webinar) have simplified tracking both attendance and attendee intent. A shout-out to Nathan Z and @DenMEMUG for the hot tips on this one.
Take 10 minutes to review Getting Started with Teams Webinars (and if you just watch the 3-minute video, you’ll probably know enough to be dangerous).
And in case you missed the memo, Microsoft is now providing a Microsoft Community Tenant with five E5 licenses for free!
How to Notify Attendees of Upcoming Meetings
Our hosting platform is WordPress.com (the Explorer plan). We encourage attendees to Subscribe or Follow our blog, which will automatically notify them whenever we publish a new post (note: when publishing a new blog post, you can choose whether to notify subscribers).
The advantage of using Subscribe/Follow is that it’s just built-in, and it also allows attendees to opt out whenever they’d like. You can use third-party integrations for a richer feature set, but we decided to keep it simple for now.
So that’s it for now! That’s our secret sauce and it’s pretty low maintenance. Leave your comments or suggestions for improvements below.
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