TechDays 2012 Belgium – Sponsoring and partnerships at the technology conference for developers and IT Professionals

Total workstation lockdown isn't for every machine in your organization, but some machines require it. It's usually those "public walk up" machines that we need to manage a little bit differently; the machines that are in the cafeterias, the lobby and the library. The more we think about it, these kinds of machines are everywhere in our organization - inviting attack and ruining our day. Who knows what crazy things people are doing ON these machines - visiting strange web sites and installing evil software. The good news is that Microsoft has a slew of solutions to help you with this very specific problem. And it doesn't mean you need to turn the thumbscrews and go from 0 - 100% lockdown either. Microsoft has a variety of technologies you can choose (and mix and match) to make sure your workstations as locked down only as much as they need to be. In this session, Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz will demonstrate a myriad of ways to make your public desktops more secure. You will also learn about some non-Microsoft tools to help enhance your control of this notoriously difficult situation.

The changes in Windows 7 mean you need to update your troubleshooting skills. Jeremy Moskowitz, Group Policy MVP of GPanswers.com and author of ‘Group Policy Fundamentals, Security and the Managed Desktop’ is just the guy to bring you the know-how. In this session you’ll learn why you can no longer just run gpresult.exe to get the results you want. You’ll discover what happens if you reconnect to network after a long absence. You’ll learn how to crack open the Windows 7 event log and trace Group Policy flow to figure out what might be going on. You’ll learn how to troubleshoot the new Group Policy Preference Extensions. You’ll learn how other areas, such as Offline Files and Group Policy Software Installation, can be tweaked to give you just the information you need to fix what ails you. If you’re looking for Group Policy answers to your troubleshooting questions, this is the session for you.

Microsoft SQL Server code-named “Denali” empowers organizations to be more agile in today’s competitive market. In this session you will learn about key features of SQL Server “Denali for Database Management, Development and Business Intelligence. By the end of the session you’ll understand the key features, and understand how to implement these in the latest CTP release of SQL Server “Denali”.

As servers are consolidated into VMs, the availability of those VMs is becoming increasingly important, along with providing disaster tolerance and business continuity. This session covers considerations of multi-site clustering, where virtual machines can be configured on a Hyper-V Failover Cluster that spans across sites. Learn how to conduct live migrations across datacenters and considerations of Cluster Shared Volumes with replication software.

This technical session will discuss Hyper-V and Failover Clustering live migration, deployment considerations, licensing, upgrades, host clustering, guest clustering, disaster recovery, multi-site clustering, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, hardware and validation. What are the pros and cons of each virtualization? What's right for my customer and their scenarios? What about combining physical and virtual machines in the same cluster? This session will include a live demo setting up a Hyper-V Cluster and performing a live migration from scratch.

Have you ever wanted to know how to deploy a full VDI infrastructure using the joint Microsoft and Citrix offering. This one day seminar will show you an end to end walkthrough of how to build a full VDI deployment featuring both Microsoft and Citrix. These sessions will show you step by step how to implement a VDI infrastructure consisting of Hyper-V, with RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. It will highlight how to deploy and manage private desktops, pooled desktops, and also how to address shared and private storage for desktops. Finally it will walk you through the different application delivery models including streamed, hosted, and locally installed. Session 1: Hyper-V and VMM as a platform for VDI

Have you ever wanted to know how to deploy a full VDI infrastructure using the joint Microsoft and Citrix offering. This one day seminar will show you an end to end walkthrough of how to build a full VDI deployment featuring both Microsoft and Citrix. These sessions will show you step by step how to implement a VDI infrastructure consisting of Hyper-V, with RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. It will highlight how to deploy and manage private desktops, pooled desktops, and also how to address shared and private storage for desktops. Finally it will walk you through the different application delivery models including streamed, hosted, and locally installed. Session 2: Deploying Private Desktops.

Have you ever wanted to know how to deploy a full VDI infrastructure using the joint Microsoft and Citrix offering. This one day seminar will show you an end to end walkthrough of how to build a full VDI deployment featuring both Microsoft and Citrix. These sessions will show you step by step how to implement a VDI infrastructure consisting of Hyper-V, with RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. It will highlight how to deploy and manage private desktops, pooled desktops, and also how to address shared and private storage for desktops. Finally it will walk you through the different application delivery models including streamed, hosted, and locally installed. Session 3: Deploying Pooled Desktops

Have you ever wanted to know how to deploy a full VDI infrastructure using the joint Microsoft and Citrix offering. This one day seminar will show you an end to end walkthrough of how to build a full VDI deployment featuring both Microsoft and Citrix. These sessions will show you step by step how to implement a VDI infrastructure consisting of Hyper-V, with RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. It will highlight how to deploy and manage private desktops, pooled desktops, and also how to address shared and private storage for desktops. Finally it will walk you through the different application delivery models including streamed, hosted, and locally installed. Session 4: Deploying Applications and User State

In this energetic session, Jeroen van de Kamp and Ruben Spruijt will present all the important results and best practices for Virtualizing Desktop (VDI) and Remote Desktop Services (former Terminal Server) workloads, found in Project: “Virtual Reality Check”. This unbiased and independent R&D project started early 2009, and involved more than 850 tests. The goal of Project VRC is to analyze the developments in the Application and Desktop Virtualization market, and present the results in a unbiased and independent way. If you are looking for independent advice and a ‘Reality Check’ in relation to Virtualizing Desktop workloads … if you are searching for best practices for your Virtual Desktops … this is the presentation you must attend!

Dynamic memory is a new feature of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Join us to learn how Dynamic Memory enables Hyper-V to utilize system resource more efficiently and how this can benefit your environment. Also learn how Dynamic Memory works under the covers and what you should be preparing for with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. We will also have a look at System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 which supports this hypervisor functionality.

As enterprises turn to virtualization, in all its forms, users begin to “roam” in ways we never imagined just a few years ago. Even if a user sits at a single physical device, their experience stretches across remote desktop sessions, virtual machines, and virtualized applications. In order to maintain, let alone improve, productivity you must ensure a consistent, manageable and supportable workspace for your users. The pieces are all there: folder redirection, user profiles, group policy, ACLs, encryption, and DFS. But the intricacies and interactions of these technologies are surprisingly complex, and until you start managing them, your IT service delivery will suffer. In this session, you will learn best practices for putting the pieces together. Participants are expected to have a solid understanding of most or all of these technologies or be ready to learn them offline. This advanced session prepares you to take away ready-to-implement, useful solutions to corralling, securing, and managing user data and settings in both physical and virtual environments.

Can you still run your old apps on Windows 7? Learn about how Windows 7 breaks some of your apps, and then fixes them. Learn about the techniques available to fix the ones that are still broken, which techniques are better, and which should be avoided.

In this session learn how to address the business need of VDI. We will cover topics such as choosing the right storage model, identifying the appropriate business case for VDI, and deciding what form of desktop virtualization is right for you. Also in this session we will be taking time to answer questions directly to ensure you have the best possible understanding of VDI from Microsoft and Citrix.