TechEd 2014: SCSM / SCOM Sessions + Hands On Labs + Videos + More Sessions!

Here is the list of sessions I've found for TechEd 2014.

Videos:

SCSM Presentations:

  • DCIM-B308 Advanced Lessons Learned from Implementing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager
    • Monday, May 12 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
    • Speaker(s): Anders Asp
    • Topic: System Center Service Manager
      • After working with System Center Service Manager for five years, we've managed to learn quite a bit of what to do and what not to do. This session teaches you many of the DO's and DON'Ts on the technic, architecture, organization, and process side.

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  • DCIM-B332 Bringing ITSM Capabilities from Microsoft System Center Service Manager to Windows Azure Pack
    • Tuesday, May 13 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
    • Speaker(s): Anders Ravnholt, Patrik Sundqvist
    • Topic: System Center Service Manager, Windows Azure Pack
      • Learn how integration between System Center 2012 R2 and Azure Pack delivers efficient IT Service Management. Leverage the native capabilities of System Center Service Manager to bring governance, support and the Service Catalog into Azure Pack. Allow service providers (Hosters or Enterprises) to easily create and monetize new services, Users to consume these by allowing them to request new services as well as raising requests and incidents for existing services from within Azure Pack.

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  • DCIM-B355 Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager in the Hybrid Cloud
      • Leverage the capabilities of Service Manager and its expandability to support your on-premise and hosted cloud solutions. Come and hear the System Center Service Manager product team talk about single and multi-tenant solutions, how to manage capacity and scale, and utilize the tool to its full potential. Our team discusses the 2012 R2 release of our Update process to help support Service Manager's growth in the market. Hear directly from the product team about our existing transitions into the cloud.

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SCSM Hands-On Labs:

  • DCIM-H303 Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Lab 3: Automation & Self-Service
    • Topic: System Center Orchestrator, System Center Service Manager
    • This lab guides you through key Autoation and Self-Service tasks using System Center 2012 R2 App Controller and Operations Manager to manage and monitor enterprise applications at scale across public, private, and hosted clouds. In this lab App Controller will deploy and scale out an application, then Operations Manager will monitor a distributed application and a SQL server, then configure and view application performance monitoring.
  • DCIM-H312 IT Service Management with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager
    • Topic: System Center Service Manager
      • In this lab, explore System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager from the viewpoint of an analyst who is responsible for reviewing and responding to incidents, change management, release management and reporting.

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  • DCIM-H313 Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Lab 4: IT Service Management
    • Topic: System Center Orchestrator, System Center Service Manager
      • This lab guides you through key IT Service Management tasks using System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager to manage and support the IT help desk, based on ITIL principals and best practices. In this lab Service Manager is used to navigate common IT service management activities such as release, incident, change and SLA management, along with chargeback and incident reporting.

SCOM Presentations:

  • DCIM-B228 Effective Capacity Planning of Your Infrastructure Resources with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Reporting
  • Thursday, May 15 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Speaker(s): Gordon McKenna
  • Topic: System Center Operations Manager
  • The information you need to make the right choices about how you plan capacity for your private and public cloud infrastructure is at your fingertips in the data that you collect with Operations Manager. All you need to know is how to best utilize the Operations Manager datawarehouse, reporting, dashboarding, and Microsoft SharePoint to bring this information to the surface and then visualize it.
  • DCIM-B329 Building Highly Effective Dashboards in Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
    • Monday, May 12 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
    • Speaker(s): Jeremy Winter, Ryan Benson
    • Topic: System Center Operations Manager
      • This session covers the brand new innovations in the Operations Manager dashboard infrastructure that allows you to build custom dashboards for any audience.
  • DCIM-B369 Extending Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
    • Thursday, May 15 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
    • Speaker(s): Daniele Muscetta, Joseph Chan, Satya Vel
    • Topic: System Center Operations Manager
      • This session covers how Operations Manager as a platform has been extended with System Center Advisor to provide Operational Intelligence about customers’ environments by capturing their operational/machine data into a big data store in Azure. Come see how easy it is to collect logs, explore them in real-time and visualize the results. On top of that come learn about the built-in add-ons that deliver intelligence for Capacity Planning, System Updates and Malware Protection.
  • DCIM-B381 Overview and Enhancements in Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

    • Wednesday, May 14 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
    • Speaker(s): Charlie Satterfield, Daniel Savage, Lloyd Giberson
    • Topic: System Center Operations Manager                        This session provides an overview of the most stable enterprise monitoring product available today and the new innovations that arrived in R2 and since. This session also features a panel discussion with members of the System Center Product Group. Related Sessions
  • DCIM-B415 Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager: Mastering Historical Monitoring Data

    • Wednesday, May 14 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
    • Speaker(s): Oleg Kapustin
    • Topic: System Center Operations Manager
      • Many monitoring metrics can be used to analyze your infrastructure. Want to know how user activities impact your LOB applications? Need to plan future capacity? Think of moving to the cloud? There is no reason to allow blind guessing where knowledgeable decision can be made. In this session, learn how to collect and analyze historical monitoring data of any kind. The discussion includes methods and demonstrations of using both standard (performance, state, events, alerts) and non-standard types of data. You’ll also discover many tricks that will help you to understand the specialties of System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager monitoring data. Related Sessions
  • DCIM-B419 Monitoring SQL Server with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

    • Thursday, May 15 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM

    • Speaker(s): Simon Skinner

    • Topic: Microsoft System Center, System Center Operations Manager       Take a deep dive into monitoring Microsoft SQL Server with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Advisor and protection with System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager. This session is focused on the application SQL Server and how we can keep it in tip top condition. Related Sessions

      SCOM Hands On Labs:

  • DCIM-H302 Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Lab 5: Application Management

    • Track: Datacenter and Infrastructure Management
    • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
    • Topic: System Center Data Protection Manager, System Center Operations Manager
      • This lab guides you through key Application Performance Monitoring and Management tasks using System Center 2012 R2 App Controller and Operations Manager to manage and monitor enterprise applications at scale across public, private, and hosted clouds. In this lab App Controller will deploy and scale out an application, then Operations Manager will monitor a distributed application and a SQL server, then configure and view application performance monitoring. Related Sessions
  • DCIM-H307 Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Lab 2: Infrastructure Monitoring

    • Track: Datacenter and Infrastructure Management
    • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
    • Topic: System Center Operations Manager
      • This lab guides you through key Infrastructure Monitoring tasks using System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and Advisor to provide comprehensive monitoring of physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure (including VMware). In this lab Operations Manager, Data Protection Manager and Endpoint Protection are used to monitor, view, backup, recover, and protect the infrastructure. Related Sessions
  • DCIM-H310 Monitoring Your Datacenter with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

    • Track: Datacenter and Infrastructure Management
    • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
    • Topic: System Center Operations Manager
      • Learn about System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and what is new in this release. In this Overview lab, experience how to navigate the console, take a look at the new capabilities of network monitoring and application performance monitoring, and gain a broad understanding of the benefits Operations Manager delivers. Related Sessions
  • DCIM-H326 Managing Linux Servers with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

    • Track: Datacenter and Infrastructure Management
    • Session Type: Hands-on Lab
    • Topic: System Center Operations Manager
      • This lab provides an overview of new capabilities to manage Linux with System Center 2012 R2. Related Sessions

SCOM Instructor Led Training:

  • DCIM-IL309 Building Highly Effective Dashboards with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

  • Tuesday, May 13 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

    Speaker(s): Daniel Savage, Eugene Bykov

    Track: Datacenter and Infrastructure Management

    Session Type: Instructor-led Lab

    Topic: System Center Operations Manager

    This lab walks you through how to build dashboards in Operations Manager using the extensible and configurable dashboard and widget infrastructure.

    Complementary Presentations:

    • Day-5 May 16th #TE14D5 (link)
    • Speakers & Session titles: (Alphabetically ordered)
    • Chris Ross (@SCSMUS) Demystifying Service Manager Reporting
    • Damian Flynn (@damian_flynn) From Dev to Ops: Visual Studio, TFS and WAP
    • Hans Vredevoort (@hvredevoort) The Windows Azure Pack Usage Service and how it depends on System Center 2012 R2 components
    • Jason Sandys (@JasonSandys) A case study in deploying Windows with Third-party Full Disk Encryption
    • Johan Arwidmark (@jarwidmark) Advanced Troubleshooting – ConfigMgr 2012 R2 OSD
    • Marc van Eijk (@_marcvaneijk) WAP showdown – VM Template vs. VM Role
    • Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) Customer requirements first – Service Manager customizations without limits
    • Michael Niehaus (@mniehaus) Windows 8.1 Update – installing, deploying, using
    • Robert Hedblom (@RoberrtandDPM) How to deliver BaaS and RaaS in a modern datacenter
    • Pete Zerger (@pzerger) WAP: Web Sites for IT Pros
    • Wally Mead (#WallyMead) Leaving the Dark Ages: Migrating to Configuration Manager 2012 R2