Ignition sequence
My name's Grant Lockwood. I'm the Senior Server & Storage Engineer at Bendigo Health, located in central Victoria. As a result of the MVA Heroes competition, I'm also fortunate enough to be going to Microsoft Ignite next week. Pat has kindly allowed me to elbow my way onto the Technet Australia blog for the next week-and-a-bit to discuss all things Ignite.
At Bendigo Health, we're in the process of building a new hospital to help deliver on our vision of healthy communities and world-class healthcare. The build and design stage of a new hospital is a great chance to embed some cutting edge technology into patient care and business processes, and there's no better way to learn what works than by meeting 20,000 of the best and brightest and having a chat.
As you can imagine for an event like Ignite there's interesting sessions as far as the eye can see, to the point where my Tuesday looks like this:
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I haven't had a schedule this filled with clashes since the 2004 Big Day Out1
With that in mind, here's a few sessions from the first couple of days that I'm really looking forward to:
Platform Vision and Strategy Overview - Mark Russinovich, Jeffrey Snover, Jeremy Winter
Mr Sysinternals, Mr Powershell and Mr SCOM? That's like Microsoft's equivalent of Justice League. Can't miss.
The next era of computing: seeing the future before it happens - Harry Shum
New stuff is cool. New stuff that fundamentally shifts the way we live, work, move, play and make decisions? Even cooler. I think a lot of us get excited by the disruption that new technology promises, and how we can harness that for good2. Expect a crowd of excited people for this one.
Minasi's Guide to Managing Windows 10: New Windows, New Tools - Mark Minasi
I think every IT person has come across one of Mark Minasi's books, and every IT person ended up better at their job because of it. A How-To for Windows 10 from one of the most engaging technical authors going around is shaping up to be great.
Deploying Microsoft Surface Pro 3 in the Enterprise - Milad Aslaner, Joao Botto
Everyone that has received a Surface Pro 3 at our workplace has fallen in love with it. Doctors, execs, beancounters, community health nurses; they want more of them, to the point where we can't physically image them and get them out the door quick enough. Getting them integrated into our Config Manager online deployment will be a boon, rather than our current USB key-based method3.
I'll be back tomorrow with items of interest from the second half of the week, as well as notes on prepping for Chicago.
Cheers,
g-lock
1: Metallica, The Flaming Lips, Basement Jaxx and Afrika Bambaataa all at the same time. I kid you not
2: or, you know, whatever. I'm not here to judge
3: which is soooooo 2006