Northwest System Center User Group

NWSCUG Meeting on July 17th!

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Greg Ramsey

Hello All,

The next NWSCUG meeting is Friday, July 17th at 11:00 am at the Civica Building in Bellevue, WA. Below is the agenda. Looking forward to seeing you all there!
11:00 – New Easy Setup for Onsite Configuration Manager: Sangee Visweswaran and Kerim Hanif, Microsoft.
12:15 – Lunch
12:30 – Sponsor Presentation: Parallels – Parallels Mac Management: How to Manage Macs Beyond Native Microsoft SCCM. Presenter – David Spackman, Parallels
1:45 – Deep Dive- Understanding Content: Kerim Hanif and Prasanna Kumar Jayapal, Microsoft.

See you all there!

Parallels Mac Management
IT teams today need practical solutions for controlling and managing the increasing numbers of Macs in their networks. In this session, Parallels, the experts in solutions to support Macs in Business, presents real-world guidance for supporting Macs in Windows-heavy environments. Join us for a an overview of Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft System Center Configuration manager, a plug-in that extends your Microsoft SCCM tools and processes to fully manage Macs. Learn how to discover and enroll Macs into SCCM, collect hardware and software inventory, deploy software, patches or scripts, enforce compliance via OS X configuration profiles and all the key features of this award-winning product.

Sangeetha (Sangee) Visweswaran is an engineering manager working in the Enterprise Client and Mobility Division in Microsoft. She has worked in this space and in Microsoft for 15 years. She has worked on various areas of the SCCM product and the Microsoft Intune service . Her current areas of ownership include the On Premise Server infrastructure, Server deployment and Operating System Deployment. Outside work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and 2 kids and riding her bike.

Prasanna Kumar Jayapal is an engineering manager on the SCCM team, responsible for Content Infrastructure, Software Updates and Resource Access scenarios. Prasanna has been in the System Center org for 10+ years and worked on SC ConfigMgr, Windows Intune and SC Advisor products.

Kerim has been on the SCCM team for the past 2.5 years, He is responsible from Content, Settings, Server Deployment and Resource Access features as well as moderator for forums, and privacy and accessibility of SCCM. Before SCCM, he was a PM in SCVMM, for 6 years. And before SCVMM he was in the field working as a Technical Solutions Professional (TSP) for Microsoft Turkey for 3 years.
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Have questions about July 2015 NWSCUG Meeting? Contact Randall Smith, Wally Mead, Paul Thomsen, Greg Ramsey

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NWSCUG Meeting for June 26th!

Posted on June 4, 2015 by sccmexpertsea

Hello Everyone!

The agenda for the next meeting of the NWSCUG has been set. Our next meeting in June 26th, 2015 from 11 to 3. See below for location.

Meeting Agenda:
11:00 – Welcome and Introductions
11:05 – Deploying and Managing Windows 10 – Michael Niehaus
12:15 – Lunch (Sponsored by 1E)
12:45 – Sponsor presentation – 1E
1:45 – Microsoft Operations Management Suite Introduction – Vlad Joanovic
3:00 – Open discussion, door prizes, and closing remarks

Deploying and Managing Windows 10
This session will focus on how you will deploy and manage Windows 10. We’ll discuss MDT, ConfigMgr, as well as the Windows Image Configuration Designer (WICD). You’ll also learn about upgrade scenarios to help you make the best decision for deploying Windows 10 in your enterprise. You will also learn many OS deployment best practices along the way.

Microsoft Operations Management Suite Introduction
Introduction, overview and roadmap to the recently announcement Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS). Learn how you can gain control over any hybrid cloud. Also learn how it interacts with existing System Center environments. OMS helps you with Log Analytics, Automation, Availability and security.

Michael Niehaus is a senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, responsible for helping enterprise IT pros with Windows deployment and manageability needs. Prior to joining the Windows Commercial team, Michael was a longtime program manager and developer for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, having joined Microsoft in 2004 after spending 14 years working in enterprise IT.

Vlad Joanovic is a program manager working in Enterprise Cloud Group\System center and Services team on the newly announced Microsoft Operations Management Suite. Vlad was most recently in the developer division focused on the Application Insights service helping developers ensure their applications are available, performing and succeeding throughout the application lifecycle. Before that Vlad spent over a decade working with IT administrators and held roles across many features on System Center Operations Manager. Vlad graduated with a Bachelors of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo and lives in Seattle with his wife, 3 kids and 4 chickens. In his spare time he can be found renovating a turn of the century home in Seattle’s Madrona neighborhood.

The NWSCUG meets at the Civica Building located at 205 108th Ave NE, Suite 400 (Microsoft NW District Office) Bellevue, WA 98004. We meet every third Friday of every month (except this month, obviously). The mission of the NWSCUG is to provide timely information on anything related to Microsoft’s System Center Products and to help our members be more productive. Anyone that uses or has an interest in the System Center Product Suite is free to join and we encourage our members to spread the word about our group.

We look forward to seeing you all on June 26th!

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Slides from Our May 2015 Meeting!

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Greg Ramsey

Big thanks to all who attended our meeting last Friday. It was a great opportunity to meet our peers in the community, and share our thoughts on System Center.

You can download the slides from Wally, Greg and Paul from this link.

For Aaron’s session, check out his slides and recording from Ignite.

See you on June 26th!
Greg