February 2022 - MC2MC Evening

Description:

We are thrilled to announce the date of our first event of 2022, on the 24th of February. Expect four top notch sessions from top notch speakers. Hope to see you all there!

This will be a virtual live event on Microsoft Teams. You can join the meeting here.

Tickets available, register here:

Agenda:

18h30 – 18u45: Welcome

18h45 – 19u30: Microsoft Azure practical guide for Office 365 Professionals by Tiago Costa (Microsoft Azure MVP)

Microsoft Azure provides a platform for Office 365 IT Professionals and Developers create a modern business platform. When creating solutions for the Cloud we want to use services that allow us to have highly-available and scalable workloads.
This session explores the most common Azure services a Microsoft 365 professional should use, the best architecture designs, patterns, DevOps approach and let’s not forget Governance. Attending this session, you will leave with working knowledge of what services to choose when customize and extend Office 365 workloads.
In addition to the tech content of this session you will take home the list of all the best tools and applications the great names in the Azure space use to make their life easier and blow our customers minds! Expect a full hour of Cloud happiness..

19h30 – 20h15: Seven(ish) practical tips to secure your corporate data with Microsoft 365 – 202202 edition by Peter Daalmans (Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP)

Employees demanding access to your corporate data and apps on their often own devices so that they can be productive. This can be a challenge for you as the Administrator, IT Manager or security counterpart in your organization.
During this session you will learn, via seven(ish) practical tips, how to allow users to bring their devices in your company and allow access to corporate data securely. You will learn when to use what product or what feature to comply to your own set of security rules.
Expect a demo heavy and fully up to date session based on real life experiences gained while working on many Microsoft 365 related projects! After this session you will be able to implement the tips in your own environment.

20h15 – 20h30: Break

20h30 – 21h15: Work with Azure Virtual Desktop like a Pro by Marcel Meurer (Microsoft Azure MVP)

Azure Virtual Desktop extent the possibilities of End-User-Computing in the Microsoft Azure cloud. There are many ways to manage the desktops and handle the application life-cycle. One straightforward way of doing that is by using free community solutions and modern software distribution technologies. Let’s start managing AVD like a pro with WVDAdmin, Project Hydra, a bunch of automatisms and the Windows Package Manager.

21h15 – 22h00: SMB over QUIC by Didier Van Hoye (Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP)

SMB over QUIC is here! It is available in Windows Server 2022 Azure edition which runs on Azure and on Azure Stack HCI. In this session, I explain the why and how of SMB over QUIC in Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition. Next, I walk you through the setup and explain the benefits of configuring a KDC proxy for this use case. Finally, I provide you with links to an elaborate testing guide so you can try it out for yourself.

22h00 – 23h00: …: BYOB (Bring-Your-Own-Beer) Social