Wednesday, January 24, 2024
8:00 a.m. PT - 11:00 a.m. PT

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Featured Speakers


  • Greg Schulz
    Founder and IT Analyst, ServerStorage IO Greg has worked as the customer in various IT organizations in different roles, as well as a vendor, consulting analyst and author of several books including “Software-Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials” (CRC Press). Greg brings a diverse background with real world perspective across applications, data infrastructures, hardware, software, and clouds. Greg is a Microsoft MVP Cloud Data Center Management and previous ten-time VMware vExpert.

  • Travis Roberts
    Author and Product Marketing Manager, Nerdio Travis is Product Marketing Manager at Nerdio, a two-time Microsoft MVP and Microsoft certified trainer based in Minneapolis, MN. Travis has over 23 years of experience with Microsoft infrastructure and management. He has held numerous technical certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, and Cisco throughout his career. Travis is on the board of the MN Azure User Group and speaks on Azure and Azure Virtual Desktop. He is also the author of “Zero to Hero with Windows Virtual Desktop” and other Azure-related courses available at Udemy.com.

  • Craig Hinchliffe
    Product Manager, EMEA at Nerdio Craig Hinchliffe is a distinguished Technical Sales Professional and Product Manager at Nerdio, renowned for his expertise in fostering robust customer relationships and delivering tailored technical solutions. His career has spanned pivotal roles at notable tech companies like HashiCorp, Okta, and a significant 13-year tenure at Citrix. At Citrix, Craig's versatility shone through multiple roles, from Presales Architect to Principal Product Manager, where he drove product innovation and strategic initiatives, particularly in the finance vertical. He developed Citrix Workspace and holds a patent in this area. Across his career, Craig's commitment to technical excellence and customer-centric approach has established him as a key player in driving business strategy and technology solutions in the enterprise sector.

Why Attend

If you’re like most organizations, a lot of your mission-critical applications and workloads have already moved to the cloud. Cloud creep is real -- and now it’s hitting identity governance and virtual desktop infrastructure. If your company hasn’t already moved from on-premises Active Directory and VDI to Entra ID and Azure Virtual Desktop, you need to start getting ready for when it finally does.

Don’t go it alone! Join us for this free, three-hour summit where our panel of experts and industry insiders will help you determine the best ways to plan, configure, migrate and manage your most critical infrastructure solutions for the cloud era. Whether you’re looking to learn more about cloud-based identity management with Entra or cloud-based VDI with Azure Virtual Desktop (or both!), we’ll guide you through the intricacies of building a more secure, scalable and cost-effective environment. Register today!

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Agenda

  • 8:00 a.m. PT:
    Active Directory vs. Entra ID Crash Course
    Greg Schulz, Founder and IT Analyst, ServerStorage IO
    Entra ID is the new Microsoft name for what was formerly known as Azure Active Directory (AAD), a Cloud-based identity management for use with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), among other Cloud services. Not sure about the role and components of AD and Entra, as well as other companion technologies such as Kerberos, NTLM, SAML, OpenID Connect, OU, OAuth, SSO, federation, and 3rd party tools, what they do, how and where to use them? No worries, we will cover those along with other topics, technologies, and trends in this crash course.

    Join Greg Schulz, Author and senior analyst at Server StorageIO and Microsoft MVP Cloud Data Center Management, as he discusses the need for Cloud identity management, the role of on-prem AD as well as Cloud-based Entra, along with various related technologies to help you prepare, plan, migrate and manage your Cloud and hybrid environment in 2024.

    What you will take away from this discussion:
    • The need for Cloud-based and hybrid identity management
    • What's the difference between Active Directory and Entra ID
    • Components and technologies related to AD and Entra ID management
    • Hybrid identities for users, groups, and resources
    • Best practices, tips, and recommendations
  • 9:00 a.m. PT:
    Azure Virtual Desktop Prerequisites Crash Course
    Travis Roberts, Author and Product Marketing Manager, Nerdio
    Is your organization planning for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)? AVD runs on Azure, and proper configuration is a prerequisite for a successful AVD deployment. This session reviews the Azure requirements for AVD and outlines steps to take before you start with AVD.

    After attending this session, you will be able to:
    • Understand the Entra ID identity requirements for AVD.
    • Prepare a subscription with the permissions required to manage AVD.
    • Design for network connectivity in Azure and On-premises.
    • Know the storage requirements for AVD and the options available to store data in Azure.
  • 10:00 a.m. PT:
    Moving to Azure Virtual Desktop from On-Prem VDI
    Craig Hinchliffe, Product Manager, EMEA at Nerdio
    Many organizations are interested in moving away from on-premises VDI to cloud-based AVD. Shifting platforms is no small task. Applications, infrastructure, change management, and cost are all considerations for a successful migration. In this session, we review steps to take to migrate successfully from an on-premises VDI solution to AVD.

    Topics for this session include:
    • Getting started with a migration timeline.
    • Developing a strategy for identifying and migrating applications to AVD.
    • Imaging and updating virtual machines.
    • How to run a successful pilot deployment.

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