Last Chance to get registered for the Bellevue IT Camp!

  • Article

 

Next week is our Bellevue IT Camp followed by Portland a couple of days later! This is going to be a GREAT event with some great content for the community. We have allocated a large block of time for open discussion and I am very interested in knowing what topics you would like to discuss. Please comment here or send to me in email or Twitter.

Also, we want to leverage the community as much as possible for peer-to-peer assistance. if you have an area of expertise that you feel you would like to offer up, please contact me so I can install you as an expert for the open topics discussion.

===========================================================

To register, please visit the appropriate links for your city.

March 13, 2012 Bellevue, WA

March 15, 2012 Portland, OR

===========================================================

Join us for our upcoming IT Camp where we are changing the format and structure of our in-person events! We are implementing the following changes:

  1. The events will start at 8:30 AM and end at 4 PM (versus 8 AM – 12 PM)
  2. We will have a Hands-On component as part of the afternoon agenda
  3. You get to help pick the content / topic of discussion for a good portion of the presentation slots (and maybe even get to present yourself if you want)
  4. We will only have two “official” presentations – one from Microsoft and one from Veeam

To participate in the afternoon session, you will need to bring your own computer (laptop preferred) with the following minimum configuration:

  • 4GB RAM (8 GB preferred)
  • At least 20GB of free disk space (75 GB preferred)
  • x64 compatible processor with Intel VT or AMD-V technology

I encourage everyone to start posting suggestions for topics to be discussed during the Open Topics sections. Also, if you have a topic that you would like to discuss, then please say so when posting your comment to this blog post. I am a firm believer that we can all learn from one another as we all have unique experiences and talents that we bring to the table. I look forward to reading your topic suggestions and then seeing you at the events!!

Agenda and abstracts of Sessions

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Check-In and Welcome

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM: Get out of Dodge: Migrating to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Is your infrastructure still clinging to the 2003 x86 server architecture? But with every day that goes by, you worry more and more that the other shoe will drop. You know you have to bite the bullet and get these critical services over to more modern hardware paired with the current supported revisions of the server platform. These are the services that keep the lights on, the servers running and most importantly: the users happy! This demo-intensive session covers how to migrate essential services like DHCP, DNS, File/Print, Certificate Services and more.

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Veeam Presentation

Discover how System Center 2012 can be leveraged to manage coexisting private cloud technologies from the metal to the app! This session will focus on the following System Center 2012 components: Virtual Machine Manager, Orchestrator and Operations Manager and how each technology can manage both Hyper-V and VMware Hypervisor platforms.

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Open Topics

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Open Topics

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM: Hands-On-Lab: Configure Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (Free version)

There are many IT Pros who have expressed interest in using the free version of Hyper-V Server. In this hands-on-session, we will demystify the configuration steps necessary to get Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 up and running so you can start using the free tool. As most folks know how to install an OS, we will not bore you with a 35 minute install; instead we will provide a VHD file with the product pre-installed, but not configured. We will help everyone configure their machines to boot to VHD and complete the configuration steps.

Following the configuration of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, you will import the System Center 2012 RC VMs provided by Veeam so you can also get guided hands-on-experience with their management product.

 

Cheers!