Tim DK

The next Belgian Techdays are scheduled for February 2012. For the past years the place to be was Antwerp, but for this edition  the event is moving to the south of Brussels  and will take place at Kinepolis Imagibraine in Eigenbrakel.

A quick glance at the session scheduler shows the following System Center related sessions:

• Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012
  Level 300 – Speaker: Adam Hall
• Configuring and Deploying a Private Cloud with System Center 2012
  Level 300 – Speaker: Adam Hall
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, Fabric Management, creation and consumption of the cloud
  Level 300 – Speaker: Vijay Tewari
• Settings management in ConfigMgr 2012, not your plain old DCM
  Level 300 – Speaker: Kim Oppalfens
• Deployment Day Session 4: Deployment using SCCM
  Level 300 – Speaker: Rhonda Layfield
• Deployment Day Session 5: Troubleshooting your SCCM deployments
  Level 300 – Speaker: Rhonda Layfield

Registration and full details at the Techdays 2012 site.

Note: tomorrow is the last day to register and benefit from the early bird discount!

Now that summer is almost over (did it ever start in Belgium?), it is time to break out the agenda and mark some dates for upcoming System Center events organized by the Belgian System Center User Group (SCUG).

A quick overview:

SC Orchestrator: notes from the field

A first session covering System Center Orchestrator, formerly known as Opalis.

• Date: 29th September 2011
• Time: 06.00 PM – 08.30 PM
• Location: Microsoft Offices, Zaventem (or via Live Meeting)

More details and registration here.

System Center Day

The 2010 edition was a big success, and the 2011 edition is expected to be even better. The 2012 SC product wave will provide plenty of content for discussion and on top there is confirmation there will be some international speakers on stage, including Wally Mead.

• Date: 3rd November 2011
• Time: 08.00 AM – 06.00 PM
• Location: Living Tomorrow, Vilvoorde

Keep in mind there will be no TechEd Europe in November, so the System Center day is probably your best chance to get up to speed early with the System Center 2012 products.

Event details and registration here.

SCUG Café Tour

A new concept, giving the opportunity to talk with the experts in a more informal setting.

• Date: 1st December 2011
• Time: tbc
• Location: Zaventem, tbc

More details and registration here.

Hope to meet you there.

Time to mark the agenda for the Techdays 2011.

The event is scheduled from the 26th until the 28th of April, in Metropolis Antwerp . The first two days are the actual conference days whereas the third day will be the deep dives day. These deep dives are full day workshops with a focus on some specific topics like DirectAccess and VDI.

System Center and Virtualization sessions highlight, from the session scheduler:

System Center:

• System Center Service Manager 2010 – Real life example: The coffee machine workflow.
  Level 300 session by Mike Resseler.
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Technical Overview.
  Level 200 session by Corey Hynes
• Opalis System Center Integration Packs Deep Dive.
  Level 300 session by David Allen
• Configuration Manager 2007 OS Deployment to deploy servers.
  Level 300 session by Kim Oppalfens

Virtualization:

• Failover Clustering & Hyper-V: Multi-Site disaster recovery.
  Level 300 session by Symon Perriman.
• Failover Clustering & Hyper-V: Planning your highly-available virtualization environment.
  Level 300 session by Symon Perriman.
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1: Dynamic Memory for Hyper-V.
  Level 300 session by Kurt Roggen

More information and registration details to be found on the Techdays 2011 website.

November will be a busy month with plenty of opportunity to learn about System Center products and meet people with the same interests. Two events for next month which I have marked on my calendar:

1) System Center Day

This event is hosted by the Belgian System Center User Group, or SCUG. On the agenda are a wide variety of System Center topics presented by the SCUG team MVP’s and some top speakers from Microsoft like Wally Mead and Travis Wright.

Place to be on the 3rd of November is Living Tomorrow in Vilvoorde, Belgium. Agenda and registration details can be found here.

2) TechEd Europe

The yearly re-occurring Microsoft event for the IT professional. The opportunity to update your skills, learn about the latest Microsoft technologies and meet with peers. Having had a quick peek on the session scheduler there will be plenty of sessions on SCCM vNext and other upcoming and recently released SC products.

This year the event is taking place again in Berlin. From the 8th till the 12th of November. More details on the TechEd Europe homepage.

If you would like to meet up at one of these events, make sure to leave a comment or send a mail.