Experts Live Europe 2017

As the threat landscape for enterprises grows larger every day, IT teams need to be armed with the right tools and technologies to fight security attacks. This session looks at how enterprises can both proactively manage their security hygiene to prevent attacks and also rapidly investigate and repair security issues when they happen. It also takes a deep dive into Windows 10 security features and how you can best implement them to make your enterprise more secure. Discover how to harden your attack surface and drive compliance across your organization using proven Microsoft and peer-to-peer technologies. Hear the latest industry research on endpoint security trends, learn from real-life case study examples, and see technical demonstrations of endpoint security and configuration management best practices using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and Adaptiva’s ClientHealth. Key topics covered include: Key Windows 10 Security Features and How to Use Them; Best Practices for Securing and Speeding Windows 10 Deployments; Techniques for Driving Security Compliance on a Massive Scale; How to Rapidly Prevent and Respond to Security Attacks Using Automation; Tips for Avoiding Network and End User Impacts While Securing the Enterprise

Keeping up with the patching of non-Microsoft applications is a pain for you, but leaving those applications unpatched will get you in trouble with security teams and leave your company exposed to unnecessary risk. Join Kent Agerlund, Microsoft MVP and Chief Technical Architect at CT Global and William Melby, Software Vulnerability Management Specialist at Flexera to see how we can help you automate and accelerate patching of non-Microsoft applications using your Microsoft infrastructure.

Join our Head of Product Management, Dieter Gasser, as he talks about feature highlights in the latest versions of itnetX software products, upcoming functionality in the pipeline, and brand-new service and product offerings. In this session, we will cover: How to integrate an external payment system into the ITSM Portal for System Center Service Manager (SCSM) - How to effectively work with external non-SCSM data in the ITSM Portal - How to validate user input against external non-SCSM data in the ITSM Portal - What other features are planned for the upcoming release of ITSM Portal - How to design business processes in SCSM with timeouts and delays - Introducing Asset Management for SCSM - Introducing ixMigration for SCSM, a brand new offering enabling DevOps in SCSM by assisting you in managing your SCSM configuration across multiple SCSM environments - Introducing DSC Manager, a brand-new offering for managing DSC clients and configurations in a web interface. This session is not just slideware, but you will be the first to see our new features and offerings in action! The demos will be presented by Anton Gritsenko from our development team, and Ryan Bartram, a member of our Automation Team.

Bob Cornelissen will give you a guided tour on how to get more context from your OMS subscription using Live Maps. Bob will highlight the new service mapping feature in OMS and how this fits together with SCOM. During this session you can ask questions on how to make sure your SCOM investment enhances your OMS data, as well as provide your business with the insights you really need to stay on top of your IT services.

*** Must attend interactive session for #configmgr and #scsm admins ***

*** Topics: #configmgr #endpointmgmt #swd #osd #automation #scsm #assetmanagement #selfservice #toomanyhashtags ***

Join Cireson to learn how to tackle one of the most common and challenging IT requests - onboarding and provisioning a new employee. We'll be showing you killer solutions that remove the headache of manual steps and streamline automation for modern IT experiences. We'll present a live demo with real life scenarios from cradle-to-grave, discussing the challenges from interfacing with hiring managers, to engaging asset repositories, deploying software, and finishing with the provisioning of end points, highlighting along the way tips n' tricks you can bring back to any organization with System Center and Cireson.

In this session, HPE will show the details of their implementation of the integrated system for Microsoft Azure Stack.

Every Analyst review, technical article or blog post on Cloud Services always mentions Automation. These articles promote the benefits of the Self-Service Portal, automated deployment across multiple clouds, security management, cost management of utilisation and agile migration of on-premise to cloud and migration across cloud platforms. What they don’t tell you is how you get started with automation and then grow your automation over time. Automation your way – whether you are looking for; On-premise, System Center Orchestrator or SMA. Cloud, Azure Automation or Hybrid Automation. Come and hear how Kelverion’s automation products, solutions and experience can enhance and make Microsoft Automation Solutions a reality in your company.

Join this session to learn about the innovative Solutions from Axians and NiCE for System Center and Microsoft Operations Management Suite. Axians myOperations Portal for System Center includes: Advanced and automated Patch Management; The Service Designer, which provides you with a turnkey solution for the Integration of Business and IT Services into System Center; The very customizable and easy to use Self-Service and Analyst Portal for System Center Service Manager. NiCE and Axians will demonstrate in a joint demo case, the combination of best in class application monitoring. This session will also feature the rich Axians Service Designer for building a dashboard for key business applications. Based on many years of experience in customer projects, be sure to find one of your pain points covered in this session!

Your application workloads have been running on-premises and you have likely begun moving some of those applications and services to the public cloud, resulting in a hybrid deployment. Architecting a highly scalable disaster recovery and business continuity strategy to protect the hybrid cloud is a new challenge with which IT is being faced. Join us as we discuss and demonstrate some of the cutting edge innovations from Veeam and Microsoft that will enhance your application availability. Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise this session will provide great information, new ways to use Azure and detailed designs that leverage state of the art technology from Microsoft and Veeam.

Today’s exploit kits simplify cyber-attacks for even inexperienced hackers. Combine that with the availability to anyone of sophisticated hacking tools that were once the purview of G-man-level surveillance, and that’s our new reality. Come get a look at how recent headline-making attacks entered systems, spread rapidly, and wreaked havoc on a global scale. And learn how you can protect against these and others with native operating system defenses, freely available Microsoft solutions, and 3rd-party products that are up to the task.

From the largest data centers, to test labs, to your home network: Royal Application's powertools for IT-Pros help you manage any kind of IT-infrastructure - even using the COM port on your switch. A long list of supported protocols (RDP, VNC, SSH, and many more) as well as unique cross-platform management capabilities (Hyper-V, vmware, PowerShell, etc.) on Windows, macOS and mobile will help you deal effectively with your daily DevOps challenges.

From Service Map in OMS, to Application Dependency Mapping from ServiceNow, everyone wants to automatically discover and map applications and their dependencies. In this deep-dive session, learn how you can leverage the native capabilities of Microsoft SCOM to automatically discover your applications, including individual process connections between nodes, and view live health and performance data all the way across complex, cross-platform applications.