Evolving your Automation with Hybrid Workers and ConfigMgr in the Cloud

Please join us for the first Melbourne Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Meetup for 2017. Kicking off the new year with the highest rated topics from the recent survey and we have University of Melbourne presenting what they've been doing in the Cloud lately.

Meetup Sponsor: Readify for Pizza and drinks

Agenda

5:00pm - Arrival and networking

5:30pm - Food and drinks arrive

6:00pm - Opening and Updates - "What's New in Azure?"

6:10pm - Topic 1: Evolving your Automation with Hybrid Workers - Kieran Jacobsen

Abstract: Azure Automation wants you to automate everything, everywhere. Hybrid Workers allow Azure Automation to reach new places within your infrastructure, allowing for more automation and less complexity. This session covers the basics of Hybrid Workers before looking at balancing workloads, managing resource dependencies, integrating with web hooks and monitoring job execution. The is a great session for anyone who is automating infrastructure or cloud resources.

7:00pm - Topic 2: ConfigMgr in the Cloud – Everything You Need to Know - James Bannan

Abstract: ConfigMgr is now fully supported to run in Azure, but architecting in Azure isn't the same as on-premises, and it's an environment which is constantly evolving. In this session, we'll look at everything you need to know from an architectural perspective to ensure that your Azure-based deployment of ConfigMgr is robust, whilst avoiding all the gotchas.

7:45pm - Customer Spotlight - The University of Melbourne - Tommy Carron and Robin Frousheger

8:00pm - Home time