Premier Operations Day 2016

Experts from Microsoft share their secrets,so you can do more with less….

Be there or be square!

The Premier Operations Day is a very popular event in The Netherlands organized by Microsoft Premier Field Engineering and Microsoft University. Where other events talk about new and upcoming technologies, the Premier Operations Day is focusing on administration of existing Microsoft technologies. 2016 is the seventh time this event is organized. The speakers on this event are engineers who work with large and complex IT infrastructures on a daily basis. Who else can give you the tips and tricks you can use to optimize your environment and make your life easier?

The day consists of 16 presentations, divided across four technology tracks. Robin Heringa, a Technology Solution Professional for Datacenter technologies, will present the opening keynote.He will be showing you what new functionalities Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 will have to makethe life of an administrator easier.

All content will be presented in English.

Date: Friday April 22nd 2016Time: 9:00 Doors open with breakfast 9:30 Start 16:15 DrinksLocation: Microsoft, SchipholPrice: 5 Support Assistance (SA) p.p.Registration: You can register with your Service Delivery ManagerInformation: For more information, please contact the Microsoft UniversityE-mail: nlu@microsoft.comPhone: 023-5656510

Schedule

Increase your operational agility with Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016

LEVEL 200

9:40 – 10:45

Keynote

PresenterRobin HeringaTechnology Solutions Professional Datacenter

Robin is a Technology Solutions Professional at Microsoft with 15 years experience in IT, specifically on virtualization and cloud technologies. Robin has been a solution architect on multiple large private and public cloud deployment projects in the public sector and financial services.

Description2016 will be an interesting year for the Microsoft data center platform with the release of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016. What new capabilities are introduced in these new releases and how can they help you to increase your operational agility while decreasing the required effort.

How can technologies like Storage Spaces Direct, cluster rolling upgrades, shielded virtual machines and the upcoming release of Windows Azure Stack assist you in operating your current, Microsoft based, data center environment and help you prepare for incorporating hybrid or public cloud into your IT infrastructure.

Cloud

Office 365: The Next Generation Admin

LEVEL 300

PresenterMark van LunenburgSharePoint Premier Field Engineer

Mark is a Premier Field Engineer supporting SharePoint and has been working with SharePoint since early 2007, a real SharePoint enthusiast. Helping customer with their business and technical needs.

Extend your Operations Manager environment while simplifying the management of your datacenter assets (on premise as well as in the cloud)

Systems & Service Management

LEVEL 200

PresenterSerge ZuidingaSystem Center Operations Manager Premier Field Engineer

Serge joined Microsoft in 2014 as a Premier Field Engineer with a specialization in System Center Operations Manager.

He loves designing and writing custom Management Packs using as much PowerShell as possible. But he also enjoys giving a training so he can share his knowledge.

In his spare time, he is a soccer referee.

How to improve your Lync/Skype for Business environment

Other

LEVEL 300 / 400

PresentersJohan VeldhuisExchange and Lync/Skype for Business Premier Field Engineer

Johan Veldhuis works as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft CSS and is specialized in Exchange and Lync/Skype for Business Server.

Ivan JankovicExchange and Lync/Skype for Business Premier Field Engineer

Ivan Jankovic started as an Exchange engineer, until he was asked to implement a LCS pilot environment. He has worked with every version of Lync/Skype since then and is one of the first in The Netherlands who created a SIP trunk with 2007R2 in a live production environment. Currently he helps Premier customers lift their Lync/Skype for Business to a high level.

SQL Server 2016, so many new features, where to start?

Data platform

LEVEL 200

PresenterJacky van HogenSQL Server Premier Field Engineer

Jacky van Hogen is working as a SQL Server Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft. In this role she assists Microsoft customers with the implementation of complex SQL Server infrastructures and with SQL performance issues.

Slot 01

DescriptionSo you made your way into the O365 cloud, which is offering you lots of functionality and storage. But how do you monitor all of this in terms of storage and privacy? Are you in control? Do you know what your users are actually doing?In this session we will be diving into the tools and capabilities that Office 365 has to offer, which enable you to be in control and will help you to be the generation administrator.

DescriptionMicrosoft offers OMS as an incredible new hybrid management service that currently supports Azure, AWS, Windows Server, Linux, VMware and OpenStack.

But, you can also leverage OMS to extend your Operations Manager environment as well!

In this session, I will show you what OMS is all about and how you can leverage OMS to extend your Operations Manager environment and enjoy all the benefits OMS has to offer for your on premise datacenter assets.

DescriptionSQL Server 2016 is still in preview but many new features are available already. This session shows you some of the new features that will really impact the way you design, configure and maintain your SQL Server databases.

A few examples of the content of this session are, Temporal tables, tables that let you time-travel within your OLTP databases, Stretched tables, store your cold data transparently in Azure, Always Encrypted, encrypt all your data in rest and much more.

DescriptionAlways wondered how you can improve your Lync/Skype for Business environment? Then this is a session you don’t want to miss. During this session we will share the latest best practices and will explain you how to improve your environment by using several tools: Call Quality Methodology, Key Health Indicators, etc.

Lunch 12:00 – 12:4511:00 – 12:00

AdoptionFundamentals:Why you shouldinvest in changemanagement

PresenterNiek HasselaarAdoption Premier Field Engineer

Niek Hasselaar is an Adoption Specialist, who joined Microsoft in early 2014. As an Adoption Specialist he is part of a global team, helping Premier customers all across EMEA in realizing the value of their Office 365 investment. He delivers 3-day workshops, which help organizations manage the people side of change based on a selected cloud workload.

I chose the cloud, how do I align my processes?

LEVEL 100 Technical, 200 Process

PresentersMarcel SmitOperations Premier Field Engineer

Marcel has built up 20+ years of experience in helping IT Organizations on the People and Process part. This includes readiness of the customer organizations moving to the cloud. His current work at Microsoft is concentrated on helping customers implement the changes needed in the processes, skillset and organizational structure when moving to the cloud.

Sander BrokkeOperations Premier Field Engineer

Sander joined Microsoft in August 2011. He has more than 15 years of experience in IT service management with a strong background in IT management tooling. He supports Microsoft Premier customers in optimizing their organization and processes for IT services running on Microsofts technology. Currently Sanders focus is shifting to adoption and operations of Microsoft cloud services.

Tino DonderwinkelCloud Premier Field Engineer

Tino Donderwinkel is specialized in Office 365 and Azure and has helped many large Enterprise-customers making the transition to the Microsoft Cloud.

Managing Exchange the right way

LEVEL 200 / 300

PresenterPeter KremersExchange and Lync/Skype for Business Premier Field Engineer

Peter Kremers is a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft Services, specialized in Exchange, Lync, and Office 365. He helps Premier customers in the Netherlands and throughout Europe with designs, migration assistance, and health checks.

SQL Server 2016,so many new features, where to start?

LEVEL 300

PresenterMenzo SteinhorstSQL Server Premier Field Engineer

Menzo Steinhorst is Senior Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft Services. In this role, he supports Premier customers with using SQL Server. Topics vary from High Availability to code reviews. His focus lies on performance tuning of SQL Server. Menzo works for Microsoft since February 2008.

DescriptionWant to know more about adoption of Office 365? This session gives an overall introduction to Adoption and Change Management.

DescriptionOne driver for Cloud Adoption is the ability for organizations to gain efficiency and cost savings. IT organizations who move their compute to Azure and O365, expect to visualize the cost savings and be able to demonstrate their efficiencies. In this session we will share how we helped a large multinational with the adoption of modern service management processes to achieve the capabilities to operate and manage their cloud services. We will provide an overview on what was tweaked on a process procedure level in the wider sense, with a deeper dive into less usual processes; financial and capacity management.

DescriptionNo application comes without performance problems. You can spend hours and hours on troubleshooting the exact cause, or you can use this method that will nail the problem in only a few steps. Disclaimer: we’re talking about finding the issue, not solving it!

The method presented works on PAAS/IAAS and on premise databases of SQL 2012 and up.

DescriptionBased on experience from the field, this session contains various topics that will help you run Exchange the right way. Ranging from setting up a new Exchange 2016 deployment to disaster recovery, and all the (troubleshooting) tools we need for this.

LEVEL 200

Slot 02 12:45 – 13:45

Systems & Service Management Data platformCloud Other

Cloud a new area for Operations

LEVEL 100 Technical, 300 Process

PresenterEdwin GriffioenOperations Premier Field Engineer

Edwin Griffioen is an expert on IT Service Management and working in this field for 15+ years. In 2006 he joint Microsoft to continue his passion for IT Service Management and Operations, but then being able to make it more and more applicable in Microsoft environments using the latest Microsoft technologies. The list of customer projects he did run or participated in as a consultant, trainer, workshop facilitator or implementer is very long. Topics as Operations Strategy, System Center utilization, MOF 4.0, Private Cloud, Optimizing Monitoring, Software Update Management are key in his contributions and delivery’s.

ATA demystified

LEVEL 200

PresentersErik ThieSecurity Premier Field Engineer

Erik Thie is working for seven years as a Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft Services. The past few years his focus is on security. In this role, he delivers security health checks at customers and works on PKI implementations.

Dirk-Jan van der VechtSecurity Premier Field Engineer

Dirk-Jan is a Senior Premier Field Engineer with 10+ years experience in the IT security field and several security certifications like CISSP and CISSP-ISSAP. He started working at Microsoft 16 years ago as technical support specialist, specialized himself in security products like ISA and moved to a role as security specialist 8 years ago. The delivery of security assessments, security awareness sessions and security consultancy are his main activities.

Advanced SQL Server monitoring usingExtend Events

LEVEL 300

PresenterPeter JonkSQL Server Premier Field Engineer

Peter Jonk is a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft Services and supports customers to get the most out of SQL Server. Areas of expertise include high availability, SQL migrations and performance tuning.

How to protect and recover your old school Active Directory with Windows Azure

LEVEL 300

PresentersArjen de JongDirectory Services Premier Field Engineer

Arjen de Jong is Senior Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft Services. He has many years of experience with Disaster Recovery simulations for Active Directory and has performed a large number of AD Risk Assessments. In his spare time he likes practicing karate and has a passion for flight simulators.

Willem KasdorpDirectory Services Premier Field Engineer

Willem Kasdorp is working as a Premier Field Engineer for the last fifteen years. He helps customers with designing, implementing and administering Directory Services. He likes to spend his spare time with his family and with hitting a small yellow ball across a net.

DescriptionThis session will show you how to extend on premises Active Directory to Azure. Once in Azure you can protect your Domain Controllers using the Azure Backup Vault. From that, you can test and execute all Active Directory recovery scenario’s in Azure.

DescriptionCloud is here to stay and it will impact IT operations.

Cloud readiness is a hot topic for many IT organizations, especially on the impact for IT operations. Many Enterprises and Service Providers are challenged on how to align their organization needs, processes and people for optimal delivery of cloud services.

This session will dive into the world of Cloud Operations. What is the impact of Cloud on the service portfolio, the roles and the current set processes? How do the available cloud models relate to this impact? Are ITIL and MOF processes still the valid answer? How to align the organization to take maximum value out of the Cloud capabilities?

An overview of cloud and its impact will be given in this session, as well as guidance for journey. Real world examples and good practices will be part of this session.

DescriptionExtended Events were first introduced in SQL Server 2008 and should be used instead of the SQL Profiler which is deprecated since SQL Server 2012. This session will explain and demo new tracing features which were not possible in the Profiler such as low level tracing in the engine and causality tracking.

Prerequisites: Attendees should already understand the basics of Extended Events.

DescriptionMicrosoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) is a simple and effective solution that helps you protect your enterprise on-premise resources from advanced targeted attacks. ATA does not only detects known malicious attacks (like Pass-the-Hash, Pass-the-Ticket, Skeleton, Reconnaissance, etc.), it also catches known security issues like broken trust and weak protocols. In this session we’ll demo various popular attacks to reveal if and how these are detected.

Slot 03 14:00 – 15:00

Systems & Service Management Data platformCloud Other

DescriptionWhere Dev meets Infra Design. This session will cover how to develop and deploy your IaaS on Azure with the help of Visual Studio. Use Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online to keep track of your versioned infrastructure. Use one template to deploy your Development, Test, Acceptance and Production environment. Set up networking, storage, compute, and roles like AD and SQL. And finally deploy with a single click.

LEVEL 300

PresenterTheo KostelijkSystem Center Operations Manager/Orchestrator Premier Field Engineer

Theo Kostelijk is Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. He acted in different roles within Microsoft and has therefore large experience in datacenter technologies, cloud solutions and everything in between. In his spare time Theo is a musician.

How to use Docker with MicrosoftContainers

LEVEL 300

PresenterRobert HartskeerlSQL Server Premier Field Engineer

Robert Hartskeerl is a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft Services. Based in The Netherlands he travels to customers in Western Europe to assist them with their challenges on SQL Server. With more than 15 years of experience in the SQL Server area there are little secrets for him. From disaster recovery to creating a data model or resolving corruption to performance troubleshooting. He can handle it all. With more companies migrating to Azure he is also focused on the cloud platform and strategies for the public and private cloud.

DescriptionIn this session you learn how to call Cloud REST API’s using PowerShell to retrieve deeply hidden data from your Microsoft Band.

LEVEL 300

PresenterStefan StrangerSystem Center Operations Manager/PowerShell Premier Field Engineer

Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, who is often lazy and that’s why he needs to automate everything.

Columnstore indexes & Non-clustered B-tree indexes, getting the best of both worlds

LEVEL 300 / 400

PresenterMarkus BohseSQL Server Premier Field Engineer

Markus started his career in HR, but has switched to IT in 1995. From the start his interests were with databases and data analysis. That is why in 1999 he specialized in MS SQL Server. After working many years as a consultant, teacher and DBA, he joined Microsoft in 2012 as a PFE (Premier Field Engineer).

Cloud Infrastructure Development

DescriptionThe new kid on the block is Containers. We will take a look at what containers actually are and where they become useful. And once you are excited and start running them how do you manage your containers? One of the options that has been there long before Microsoft Containers were born was using Docker. Microsoft works closely with the open source community to get the Docker experience ported to Windows and to make sure administrators will have a seamless experience whether they are using Docker on Linux or Windows. This session will be hands on with slides where needed.

DescriptionSince the introduction in SQL Server 2012 columnstore indexes have evolved quite a bit. But so far they didn’t live well together with traditional B-tree indexes. Come and learn how SQL 2016 bridges this gap and how you can now use both types of indexes together to optimize your data warehouse queries.We will investigate best practices on how to build and maintain columnstore indexes. How non-clustered indexes can further improve query performance and more.

Little know ways to get deeply hidden data from your Microsoft Band

Slot 04 15:15 – 16:15Drinks 16:15

Systems & Service Management Data platformCloud Other