AZSMUG Q1 2024 Meeting

Date and time: Friday, March 1, 2024, 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM MST-AZ

Location: phoenixNAP 3402 E University Dr, Phoenix, AZ 85034

Agenda:

10:30 AM – Welcome 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Tour 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Lunch 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Entra ZTNA - Ian Graham 1:35 PM - 2:35 PM Patch My PC 2:35 PM - 2:45 PM Break 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Everything You Wanted to Know About WUfB - Bryan Dam 3:50 PM - 4:50 PM Off to Never, Never Land 4:50 PM - 5:00 PM Closeout

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Social time at Little Miss BBQ-University sponsored by Patch My PC

Entra ZTNA - Ian Graham Ahead of GA Launch, this talk will review the main components of Microsoft’s ZTNA product offerings, Entra Private and Public Access, as well as discuss product fit, integration with existing software, and opportunities for customers to leverage new features on day one. A demo of both products will follow.

Ian Graham is a National Solutions Analyst at Sentinel Technologies. He has been with Sentinel for 3 years where his day-to-day work specializes in network security solutions with special interest in zero trust and mobile workforce.

Everything You Wanted to Know About WUfB - Bryan Dam Whatever the future of patching ends up being, it will be built on top of WUfB, or more specifically, the WUfB Deployment Service. We'll briefly walk through the history of Microsoft's patching solutions to understand how we got here. Then we'll dive into who built what and why it's awesome.

Bryan Dam, Patch Lover Extraordinaire. After 15 years as a system administrator, most recently at a large Midwest supermarket, I've spent the last few as a software developer focused on trying to solve the day-to-day problems facing system adminsitrators. I'm active in the online support communities and most days you'll find me on the SCCM subreddit or the WinAdmin's Discord channel.

Off to Never, Never Land - Mike Terrill 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.

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.

Custom Applications - Sponsor Session by Patch My PC We'll walk through a demo and deep dive into Patch My PC's latest (preview) feature: Custom Apps. During the demo, we will build and deploy a custom app or two through the Patch My PC Publisher. We will also provide insight into the future of this and other features from Patch My PC.

Sponsors

Patch My PC is a Colorado-based company made up of 92 GIF lovers who work remotely in locations worldwide. The distance between them doesn't change the fact that they are a very close-knit team. They collaborate daily to support over 6,050 enterprises worldwide on over 18.9 million devices. Small but mighty, the team is passionate about what they do, why they do it, and who they do it for. Their goal is to simplify how enterprises create, manage, update, and deploy third-party applications within Microsoft Configuration Manager and Intune while creating experiences and relationships with the customers who trust them.

phoenixNAP is a global IaaS provider founded in 2009 with a goal to commoditize enterprise-grade technology and make it accessible to organizations of different sizes. For over a decade now, our mission has been to provide outstanding value using state-of-the-art technology and service, while continually improving our technical and human assets.

Registration link: https://forms.office.com/r/4NVY1TxjTP

Thanks,

AZ Systems Management User Group