Microsoft Cloud User Group - Manchester - 6th November

Welcome to the final MSCUG Manchester meetup for 2018 :)

If you fancy speaking at any of our events get in touch. [masked]

More info on our venue here https://bruntwood.co.uk/our-locations/manchester/neo/

Event Address - Neo, 9 Charlotte Street, M1 4ET

6:00pm – Networking

6:30pm – All that is new with Win32 app delivery from Microsoft Intune - Peter Egerton - Enterprise Mobility MVP

“In this session Peter will take us through the recently announced Win32 application delivery capabilities from Microsoft Intune and you will learn what you need to use this, how to use it and how it works. This is a significant step in the evolution of the product and the part it plays in the Microsoft Modern Management story”

7:15pm – Break, networking and Pizza :)

7:45pm – Zero to Mobile Hero - Intro to Xamarin and Azure DevOps - Luce Carter - Developer Technologies MVP

"You can be faced with a nightmare of Xcode, Android Studio, Objective C, Swift and other options. This means not only learning multiple languages and frameworks but also having to support two different codebases for the same application. But Xamarin Native and Xamarin.Forms offer a powerful, cross-platform development solution for .NET developers looking to target smartphones, tablets, TV’s, computers and IoT devices.

In this talk, Luce shares what Xamarin is including Native and Xamarin.Forms for both C# and F#, how to get started creating a simple HelloWorld app from scratch and a more complex example (will involve at least one Azure service including Cognitive Services for facial recognition). Also how to use Azure DevOps for Continuous Integration and some awesome examples of apps written using Xamarin including ones used to save lives!

Luce will take examples from
(link: http://xamarin.com/customers)
xamarin.com/customers as well as show this demo about how Xamarin was used alongside other technologies to aid with Skin Cancer prediction.

This talk will include slides, demos, code samples, live coding and the audience will walk away feeling like they too can create a mobile app in just a few minutes and carry their work around with them in their pocket or backpack!"

8:15pm – Automating Windows Servicing using Microsoft solutions & Community tools - Simon Binder - Enterprise Mobility MVP

Have you looked at the servicing model of Windows 10 and thought: "Is Microsoft mad, my organization will never cope with this?!" If so, this session is for you! (and no, they are not!)

I'll walk your through how to create an automated solution for WaaS using Intune & ConfigMgr. To spice it up, OMS, Azure Automation and community tools are added to the mix. With this you'll have tools, knowledge and inspiration to start building a solution that suit both your need environment.

8.45pm - 9.00pm – Wrap up and Finish Wrap up and head to the pub for more networking.