Thursday, April 19, 2012

System Center App Controller and Windows Azure Sessions at the Microsoft Management Summit 2012

Updated 4/18/2012 at 12:30 PM with links to videos available at this time (marked ) and 4/19/2012 at 8:00 AM (marked ••)

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There were 10 breakout and birds-of-a-feather sessions covering System Center App Controller and four Windows Azure sessions as of 4/17/2012 at the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 (@system_center, #MMS2012) being held in Las Vegas, NV on 4/16 through 4/20/2012. Microsoft promises that session video archives (as recorded audio and PowerPoint slides) will be available shortly after the sessions are presented. From the Digital MMS page:

Watch Sessions On Demand

imageMMS offers over 175 breakout sessions across 5 technical tracks. That is a lot of content to take in! If you are unable to attend the event, or even if you will be there in person, you'll be able to view any breakout sessions you may have missed within 24 hours of the live presentation on the Digital MMS site. Just log in and start watching! [Requires registration.]

Non-Attendees may peruse the complete MMS Content Catalog to see what will be available. MMS attendees may also sign in to the site to access the Schedule Builder to view and add sessions to their schedules for the week.

imageThree Windows Azure-related videos are available as of 4/18/2012 at 10:45 AM PDT via links in the Windows Azure Sessions section.

The Day 2 keynote included a lengthy App Controller demonstration. See the first entry in the App Controller Sessions section.

imageI’ll update this post with links to additional videos as they go live as indicated by the Application Management list’s icon to the right. Links require sign-on with your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Windows Live ID and open the Digital MMS main page. Click the Keynoted & Sessions link and select Application Management from the list. I’ve requested that the MMS 2012 team enable links directly to session archives.


App Controller Sessions


Keynote, Day 2: Microsoft Private Cloud. Built for the Future. Ready Now.

Cloud computing and the delivery of true IT as a Service is one of the most profound industry shifts in decades. Join Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Management and Security Division, as he shares Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing and shows how System Center 2012, as part of the Microsoft private cloud, will enable you to deliver the promise of cloud computing in your organization today.

Note: An App Controller demo by Ryan O’Hara and Vijay Tewari begins at 00:37:23 and ends at 00:44:30. Ryan continues with a System Center Operations Manager service monitoring demo at 00:49:30.

A transcript of the Day 2 Keynote probably will be available tomorrow.


AM-B305 App Controller: Installing, Configuring, Connecting to Private and Public Clouds, Working with VMs and the Library

In this session we cover the deployment of Microsoft System Center 2012 App Controller and how to configure the connections to System Center Virtual Machine Manager private clouds and Windows Azure subscriptions. We cover how to create user roles to delegate access to the Azure subscriptions, how to work with Virtual Machines and application resources in the library.


AM-B307 Application Management: Configure and Deploy Applications in Private and Public Clouds

  • Speaker(s): Adam Hall, Cory Delamarter
  • Track(s): Application Management
  • Video Available from Digital MMS
  • Session Type: Breakout Session in the Application Management Group
  • Product(s): App Controller, Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager

In this session we look at how we configure, deploy, manage and operate services in the private cloud; how we deploy and monitor Windows Azure applications; and consolidate Azure subscriptions with App Controller to allow organizations to delegate access to them. We discuss how IT can provide Application owners and developers with access to rich performance monitoring information with deep code-level insight into how the application is performing for the end user. We also look at Application Self Service, Quotas, Delegated resources, managing application resources, and the setup and configuration of application performance monitoring.


AM-L301 System Center 2012 Application Self-Service and Managing Applications across Clouds

  • Track(s): Application Management
  • Session Type: Self-paced Lab
  • Product(s): App Controller, Virtual Machine Manager

Learn how Microsoft System Center 2012 provides an application self-service experience, and manages applications in both private clouds and the Windows Azure public cloud. This lab includes App Controller and Virtual Machine Manager and focuses on the Application Owners' experience when they have been delegated resources and capacity to manage their applications.


BOF12 New to Microsoft System Center 2012

  • Speaker(s): Cameron Fuller
  • Session Type: Birds-of-a-Feather
  • Product(s): Configuration Manager 2012, Data Protection Manager, Endpoint Protection, Operations Manager, Service Manager, System Center Suite, Virtual Machine Manager

The long-awaited System Center 2012 product release is here! In this Birds-of-a-Feather discussion we will have an open forum focusing on new features available in System Center 2012 components including Configuration Manager/Endpoint Protection, Operations Manager, Service Manager, Data Protection Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, App Controller and Orchestrator. Additional topics include how the System Center 2012 stack works better together and how we can automate common processes using workflows in System Center.


FI-B308 Getting to the System Center 2012 Datacenter Stack

  • Speaker(s): Charlie Satterfield, Jim Livingston
  • Track(s): Fabric Infrastructure Management
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Product(s): Advisor, Data Protection Manager, Operations Manager, Orchestrator, System Center Suite, Virtual Machine Manager

Do you own or are you looking at purchasing the Microsoft System Center suite? Are you hoping to benefit from the System Center 2012 solutions based on Operations Manager, Orchestrator, Service Manager, and App Controller? Hear from a team that is upgrading their datacenter management and monitoring stack to System Center 2012. Learn about their upgrade approach, opportunities for re-architecture, and see how some of the new features are already improving the monitoring service in production.


FI-B328 How to Build a Microsoft Private Cloud in Your Own Lab in 1,000 Tiny Steps with Free Trial Software

  • Speaker(s): Harold Wong, John Weston
  • Track(s): Fabric Infrastructure Management
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Product(s): Advisor, Data Protection Manager, Operations Manager, Orchestrator, Virtual Machine Manager

You have probably worked with Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center before. But how do you use these tools to build out your own Private Cloud? Harold Wong and John Weston share real-world experience from building out a mini private cloud. Learn what worked and what they would do differently next time. They discuss System Center 2012 (Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Orchestrator and App Controller). Free software: http://aka.ms/syscntr12.


FI-IL301 System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and App Controller: Creating, Deploying, and Managing Service Templates

  • Speaker(s): Anand Balasubramanian
  • Track(s): Fabric Infrastructure Management
  • Session Type: Instructor-led Lab
  • Product(s): Virtual Machine Manager

Learn how to delegate access to Private Cloud resources, create virtual machine and service templates. Learn how to make changes to existing service templates, and the application self-service user experience.


FI-L301 System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and App Controller: Creating, Deploying, and Managing Service Templates

  • Track(s): Fabric Infrastructure Management
  • Session Type: Self-paced Lab
  • Product(s): Virtual Machine Manager

Learn how to delegate access to private cloud resources, create virtual machine and service templates. Learn how to make changes to existing service templates, and the application self-service user experience.


SD-B306 System Center 2012 Self Service: The Future of SSP

  • Speaker(s): Adam Hall, Sean Christensen
  • Track(s): Service Delivery & Automation
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Product(s): App Controller, Service Manager

In this session we explain how the capabilities in SSP have been incorporated into Microsoft System Center Service Manager and App Controller, what the solution looks like, how you get there, and what to tell your customers.


SV-B293 HP VirtualSystem: The Ideal Foundation for Deploying a Microsoft Private Cloud

  • Speaker(s): Paul Gavin
  • Track(s): Server & Virtualization Management
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Product(s): App Controller, System Center Suite, Virtual Machine Manager

This session describes the HP VirtualSystem and Appsystem for Microsoft and shows how these configurations can be used as a foundation for Microsoft Private Cloud using HP and Microsoft technologies including HP BladeSystems, storage technology and HP Virtual Connect. This session describes how to use Microsoft System Center 2012 components including Virtual Machine Manager and App Controller to deploy a 3-tier virtualized environment in a Microsoft Private Cloud.


Windows Azure Sessions


AM-B205 Welcome Windows Azure: An Introduction to Microsoft’s Public Cloud Platform

  • Speaker(s): Craig Kitterman
  • Track(s): Application Management
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Product(s): Windows Azure
  • Video available in the Application Management track

Windows Azure is a powerful multi-purpose and highly scalable public cloud platform, providing pay-as-you-go resources to run mission critical applications. IT departments can deliver huge elastic scale to the business without large capital expenditures allowing your cost structure to map directly to business growth – always matching the demand curve perfectly. In this session, we explore the services and capabilities that are part of the Windows Azure platform such as compute, storage, messaging, CDN, networking and more – that you can take advantage of today!


AM-B308 System Center and Windows Azure, Part 1

  • Speaker(s): Adam Hall, Craig Kitterman
  • Track(s): Application Management
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Product(s): System Center Suite, Windows Azure
  • Video available in the Application Management track (App Center demo at ~00:30:00)

In this session we explore how to configure and deploy applications into Windows Azure using Microsoft System Center 2012.


AM-B309 System Center and Windows Azure, Part 2

Building on AM-B308, in this session we continue our exploration of managing Windows Azure with Microsoft System Center, and look at how we monitor the health and performance of hosted services. We also take a look at how we manage SQL Azure.


AM-B322 Deploying and Managing Applications on Windows Azure

  • Speaker(s): Adam Hall, Craig Kitterman
  • Track(s): Application Management
  • Session Type: Breakout Session
  • Product(s): System Center Suite, Windows Azure

In this session we dive a little deeper into the structure of a Windows Azure application and how it differs from a traditional on-premise or private cloud application. We discuss the architecture of Windows Azure and explore how its various services can be easily used by Developers and IT Professionals. Finally, we look at what Windows Azure application packages actually look like and how to deploy, monitor, and scale those applications.


SV-L308 Online Backup Service for Windows Server

  • Track(s): Server & Virtualization Management
  • Session Type: Self-paced Lab
  • Product(s): Windows Azure, Windows Server

In this lab, use Windows Server Backup to back up your critical data to Windows Azure. This lab teaches you the entire set of workflows around backing up and recovering your data to Windows Azure.


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