Microsoft Ignite 2017 is right around the corner, September 25–29 in Orlando, Florida. There are more than 1,537 sessions, but I wanted to share a list of sessions that will tell you everything about Azure security and operations management. Feel free to use this list to help create your personal schedule or on-demand viewing. Also, be sure to follow our Twitter @MS_Ignite for updates. Enjoy!
Note: Click each session to go directly to that session's page on the Microsoft Ignite website.
Must-see foundation sessions
Monday: Datacenter transformation – a roadmap for platforms, processes, and people (Jeffrey Snover, 4:00 PM)
Tuesday: Azure security and management for hybrid environments (Jeremy Winter, 9:00 AM)
Wednesday: Implement a secure and well-managed strategy for your Azure resources (Scott Woodgate, 9:00 AM)
Security sessions
Tuesday: Simplify hybrid cloud protection with Microsoft Azure Security Center (Sarah Fender, 10:45 AM)
Wednesday: Respond quickly to threats with next-generation security operation, and investigation (Meir Mendelovich, 10:45 AM),
Cloud attacks illustrated: How unique insights from Microsoft help you defend against attacks (Tom Teller, 4:00 PM)
Thursday: Protect Azure IaaS deployments using Microsoft Azure Security Center (Sarah Fender, 9:00 AM)
Friday: Defense against the dark (cloud) arts: Azure security deep dive (Andy Malone, 12:30 PM)
Monitoring sessions
Tuesday: Gain full-stack insights into your hybrid IT environment and take action with Azure solutions (A.S. Sivakumar, 2:15 PM)
Thursday: Snapshot debugging and Microsoft Azure diagnostics in action: (Nikhil Joglekar and Dan Taylor, 9:00 AM),
Analyze & Debug applications across your DevOps workflow with Azure Application Insights (Evgeny Ternovsky, 10:45 AM),
Gain visibility into network performance and availability with network monitoring solutions in Azure (Abhishek Pathak, 10:45 AM)
Friday: Monitoring, diagnosing and debugging with Azure networking (Abhishek Pathak and Vijay Tinnanur, 9:00 AM),
The improved Azure Log Analytics: A powerful query language with machine learning, and more (Ketan Ghelani, 10:45 AM)
Backup and disaster recovery
Tuesday: Business continuity for your business running in IaaS (Vishal Mehrotra, 12:30 PM)
Wednesday: Optimize Azure for Disaster Recovery (John Savill, 12:30 PM)
Thursday: Application-aware disaster recovery for VMware, Hyper-V and Azure IaaS VMs with Azure Site Recovery (Abhishek Hemrajani, 10:45 AM),
Protect your data with Microsoft Azure Backup (Vijay Tandra Sistla, 2:15 PM)
Governance
Wednesday: Implement governance in Azure at scale with policy-based management (Joseph Chan, 9:00 AM)
Thursday: Make the most of Azure by using Cloudyn to monitor, allocate and optimize your cloud spend (Robert Reynolds, 9:00 AM)
System Center
Tuesday: System Center for the modern datacenter: First look at advancements coming this year (Bala Rajagopalan, 4:00 PM)
Thursday: Microsoft System Center 2016 in action: Customer use cases to implement today (Mahesh Narayanan, 4:00 PM)
PowerShell, configuration and automation, extensibility
Wednesday: PowerShell Unplugged with Jeffrey Snover and Don Jones (Jeffrey Snover, 2:15 PM),
Manage Configurations and Update/Patch Windows and Linux Servers with Azure Management (Ravi Kiran Chintalapudi, 4:00 PM)
Thursday: Manage hybrid cloud and transform your workplace with PowerShell and Azure Automation (Eamon O’Reilly, 12:30 PM),
Azure Management technical framework for partner extensibility (Evan Hissey, 4:00 PM)
