December 2015 Meeting Notes

MMS Recap

• Great to be around the community of System Center people
• It's what MMS used to be
• Like the break out sessions after the main session - very interactive
• Liked the openness of the speakers. Since there is no recording, etc., it seems that experts were more forthcoming
• After parties were great
• Birds of a Feather - the one on one was very enjoyable
• Perhaps a brown bag session

MMS Suggestions

• More tables [where?]
• Sunday preconference - some of it was repeated in the main conference [we can only do so much there but we'll try harder]
• Publish the 'who's who' of people that are attending or presenting. (Microsoft product group, etc.) [Featured speaker list should do this]
• Ask the Experts - include not only MVP's but product group people (example: EMS)
• Present on the SCCM App Model
• Perhaps some level 100 or 200 sessions
• more DEVOPS
• Case study session
• End to End real world
• ITSM sessions
• Soft skills?
• Effective communication
• Effective leadership
• ITIL?
• Process?

Find out how to download all the sessions - PowerShell script
Um, MMS 2016 is almost here!

Golden Nugget gained

• Perhaps NO level 200 or 100 sessions
• Windows 10 service
• OMS
• Server 2016 will allow VM's inside of a VM
• Virtual TPM
• SMA
• How other companies apply technology
• Michael Nystrom - storage spaces on Server 2016
• SCCM do's and don'ts

Sponsor: Flexera
Application management using best practices of services management
AdminStudio Suite - Package management. Push applications directly to SCCM
Workflow Manager - SLA and application lifecycle - tie into SCSM or other Service Management platforms
AdminStudio - inventory and rationalization of software
App Portal - End user self service application, imaging, hardware, etc. Licensing.

Windows 10 - Nash
PSA: IE 11 and below are EOL in Jan
.Net < 4.5.2
Install KB2775511 - you can import this into WSUS and then SCCM will recognize it the next time it syncs.
Install Windows Management Framework 4

Updates - push out recommended updates. Not just Critical and Security. Microsoft tests their updates on machines that are fully patched.

Nash said 'writted' instead of 'wrote'