LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
MMS 2012 brings together leading experts in desktop and device management, and datacenter and cloud technologies who will share their insights in a variety of formats and forums — all designed to foster the sharing of ideas, promote best practices and accelerate your technical learning. The full menu of learning sessions is available to you throughout the five day event.
The hands-on learning experience MMS offers is a unique opportunity to dive deeply into the wide range of existing as well as new products and solutions being released in the coming year, allowing you to evaluate the latest technologies against the needs of your organization.
We are worked with some of the best and brightest engineers, thought leaders, researchers and IT professionals, people just like you, to finalize this year’s event. To get an idea of the breadth and depth of the learning opportunities made available at MMS, check out the MMS 2012 Session Catalog.
The products and tracks being covered at this year's event include:
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| SERVER & CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT This focus area covers how to deliver a flexible and cost effective server and cloud infrastructure using tools and solutions you are already familiar with today. Learn how to virtualize workloads, build a private cloud, scale your services through a public cloud or create an optimal mix of all three. Microsoft Server & Cloud infrastructure management solutions help you efficiently manage your datacenter today while enabling future transitions to cloud computing. |
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| CLIENT & DEVICE MANAGEMENT This focus area covers how Microsoft desktop solutions enable the provisioning, securing, and maintaining of new devices over private or public networks, and via local or virtual applications. The latest solutions address critical emerging requirements such as management of user-owned devices, streamlined IT compliance processes and management of virtualized user environments. Microsoft desktop solutions greatly simplify the deployment and management of traditional and virtualized desktops as well as the increasing number of devices in corporate environments. |
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| CONTENT TRACKS | Products and Technologies |
| SERVER & VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENT Microsoft’s Datacenter solution provides a comprehensive platform on which to build and run your infrastructure. Whether you want to virtualize workloads, build a private cloud, scale your services through the public cloud, or have a mix of all three, Microsoft datacenter solutions can help you better manage your datacenter today and accelerate your journey towards cloud computing. This track will provide solution best practices and technology deep dives on Identity Management, Manageability, Virtualization, Storage, and Networking. You will understand all the tools you need to run a highly efficient and modern datacenter. |
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| FABRIC INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT Whether you are transitioning to a private cloud, or managing disparate Datacenter assets, you have to configure, deploy and manage the compute, storage and networking components of your infrastructure. This track is designed to show you how to support the needs of self-service users, to monitor and manage resources to required service levels, and dynamically maintain resources to provide a resilient environment that adapts to changing workloads and minimizes costs. |
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| SERVICE DELIVERY & AUTOMATION Configuring and deploying service delivery and automation with System Center 2012 is about consistently delivering self-service IT capabilities, enabling your customers to request services when desired, and allowing providers to ensure that the services they offer are supported through integrated process and systems automation. This track is designed show you how to monitor and operate service delivery and automation with System Center 2012, with focus on the sustained management and delivery of IT services through a consolidated view of assets and services, and the orchestration of proactive and reactive processes supporting sustained services and integrated reporting. |
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| APPLICATION MANAGEMENT System Center 2012 provides rich and powerful capabilities for Application Management. Come learn how to deploy and configure services in a Private Cloud, deploy and manage applications on Windows Azure, and enable Application Self Service. This track is designed to show how System Center 2012 provides quota driven delegated access to resources, the management of application resources, and the setup and configuration of application performance monitoring. These resources are monitored and operated as services in a private cloud, with rich performance monitoring information, including deep code-level insights into how applications are performing, either in your private cloud or in Windows Azure. |
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| CLIENT & DEVICE MANAGEMENT Microsoft client solutions greatly simplify the deployment and management of corporate-owned physical and virtualized PCs as well as personal devices in corporate environments to enable the flexible workstyle of today’s users. This track is designed to demonstrate how to plan, deploy and manage PCs and devices on Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 or 9. Sessions will help you gain deeper insights into how desktop virtualization, cloud services, and HTML5 can address your evolving business and IT requirements. Additional sessions will cover deployment and management tools including System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and the cloud-based Windows Intune solution so you can achieve a highly secure and well-managed IT environment. |
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Session Formats
MMS offers the greatest depth of technical training available. This year's content will be presented in a number of different formats accommodating different learning styles and allowing various levels of interaction with experts at the event.
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KEYNOTE SESSIONS | Microsoft Executives share Microsoft’s latest initiatives and long term plans in the desktop and device management, datacenter, and private cloud space. |
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS | These are 75 minute presentations by industry experts, typically with live demonstrations on a management product or technology. Speakers at these sessions may be Microsoft experts, Microsoft Partners or industry leaders. |
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INSTRUCTOR-LED LABS | During Instructor-led labs (ILLs) an instructor provides an introduction to each lab topic and leads attendees step-by-step through the lab procedure for a specific topic. Places in all Instructor-led lab sessions may be reserved in advance though the MMS 2012 attendee web site “Session Scheduler” tool. |
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SELF-PACED LABS | Self-paced hands-on labs offer walk-up access to all lab topics allowing you to complete your choice of lab topic in your own time. No lab instructor is present but Lab proctor support is provided in this area during session time-slots and the area remains open outside session times without proctor support. |
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SPEAKER Q&A SESSIONS | On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday all the speakers from that day’s breakout sessions are available for follow-up Q&A about the topics they presented that day. The informal format allows you to ask any questions arising from that day’s topics in a casual environment. Beverages and snacks will be provided. |
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CERTIFICATION EXAMS | Get certified at MMS this year! Microsoft Certification enables you to keep your skills relevant, applicable, and competitive. In addition, Microsoft Certification is an industry standard that is recognized worldwide. |
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EXAM CRAMS & STUDY HALLS | Exam crams and study halls help you prepare for taking a certification exam by serving up valuable practice exams, study resources, and Microsoft Certified Trainers onsite to assist you. |
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BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS | These informal sessions allow small groups of attendees to meet and discuss a topic of common interest peer-to-peer or with Microsoft or Industry experts. Bring your questions, your experiences and your curiosity to these gatherings moderated by Microsoft staff, Industry experts or your peers. |
