MMS 2025 at MOA

Description:
Azure Local modernizes your on-prem infrastructure, but managing hybrid environments can be challenging. Gain practical tips and tools to maintain sanity while maximizing Azure Local's capabilities, especially with Azure Arc integration.

What you will learn:

• Tips for managing hybrid complexity with Azure Local's streamlined tools.
• Azure Arc integration for unified management and security.
• Real-world use cases to make your hybrid deployment stress-free.
• Managing expectations from an ever-evolving cloud product.

Description:
Azure Arc is evolving to deliver a unified management experience for Azure services across Arc-enabled machines and native Azure resources. Gain insights on streamlined onboarding and enhanced visibility into your machines while shaping this unified approach.

What you will learn:

• Overview of Azure Arc and how it extends the Azure control plane to manage infrastructure and compute resources in other clouds.
• Demo of Azure management services covering updates, change and inventory, monitoring, policy, and machine configuration.
• How Azure management services assist ConfigMgr customers in modernizing their management experiences.
• Roadmap of upcoming releases and features for Azure management services.

Description:
Avoid unnecessary expenses in Azure Monitor by learning to filter data effectively and store it cost-efficiently. Discover strategies to lower your monitoring bill while meeting your requirements, utilizing both core features and creative customizations.

What you will learn:

• Standard and custom methods for filtering data without losing functionality.
• Options and strategies for storing telemetry to optimize cost.
• Analyzing your charges to ensure you're cost-optimizing your monitoring configuration.
• Best practices for configuring Azure Monitor for cost efficiency.

Description:
Explore essential cloud-based tools for automating tasks in the Azure environment. Discover how to utilize Azure Functions, Azure Key Vault, and Azure Table Storage, all integrated with PowerShell. Walk through a seamless Auto Logon solution and learn how to sync graph data to devices for local scripting. Identify various problems that can be effectively solved using these building blocks.

What you will learn:

• Understand the basic building blocks for automating common tasks in Azure.
• Learn how to combine these building blocks to solve real-world problems.
• Discover how to integrate them all using PowerShell.
• Identify other problems that can be addressed with these tools.

Description:
Migrating from legacy agents to the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) introduces new challenges and opportunities for operations and security teams. Gain insights into Azure Monitor Data Collection Endpoints (DCE), Data Collection Rules (DCR), and Data Collection Rule Associations (DCRA). Develop a governance framework utilizing Azure Policy to automate and enforce monitoring objectives. Understand how to deploy and adapt Microsoft’s Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) for an efficient enterprise monitoring solution.

What you will learn:

• Best practices for deploying Azure Monitor/Microsoft Sentinel pipeline artifacts using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Utilizing Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA) for various IaaS and PaaS monitoring solutions.
• Tips for successful rollout and management of Azure Monitor Alert rules, including Windows Server and Active Directory.
• Methods to tune Azure Monitor alerts for an effective override strategy.