·         19u30 one hour lunch

·         20u30 Config Manager vNext overview by Wally Mead

In this presentation, we'll discuss the future of Configuration Manager, and look at the next release, currently called Configuration Manager vNext. We'll look at some of the major themes the new version will include, and discuss some planning that you can start today in order to be ready for this new version of Configuration Manager

·         21u30 Q&A and Drink

Speakers:

Wally Mead, Microsoft

Wally has been with Microsoft for 17 years, and working with Systems Management Server since SMS 1.0 was in development. He started in the training group developing and delivering training courses on SMS 1.0 through 2.0, then moved to the SMS product group to assist TAP customers in the SMS 2003 and Configuration Manager TAP programs. He still works with customers through hands-on labs, presentations, and demonstrations at industry events, as well as working with customers in TAP programs, and monitoring the System Center Configuration Manager TechNet forums.

Kim Oppalfens (MVP, SCCM Expert)

Kim Oppalfens is an MCT that was awarded MVP begin April 2005. He was born the 22nd of may in the Year 1975.

He is an independent consultant owning his own company OSCC which stands for Oppalfens System Center Consultancy. As the company name implies the primary focus is around designing, implementing & migrating to products in the Microsoft system center family. He was awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in April 2005 and has been re-awarded every year since then. Additionally Kim has been an active Microsoft certified trainer since 2000. He likes to stress that he is happily married, and is the proud father of Lennart and a little baby daughter called Lauren which was born on the 23rd of may in 2008. To top this all of, Kim is a self-proclaimed overall nice guy with a great sense of humor.

Kenny Buntinx (MVP,SCCM Expert)

 I have been breaking and then fixing computers since I was 10, and doing it professionally for the last 12 years. Working at Computacenter is great fun. I deliver projects on a broad range of areas, but my specialties are in the IT lifecycle management area , especially SMS / System Center configuration manager , Active Directory, scripting and application packaging. I have a great wife supporting me completely in what I am doing .In my private time ( not that I have much ) I try to spend as much time with my family as possible.

Sponsors:

OSCC

OSCC is a consultancy firm specializing in projects in the systems management area. OSCC is run by Kim Oppalfens, who has a wealth of systems management expertise, and uses this expertise to help its customers to achieve an easier to manage ICT environment. Kim focuses on the entire lifecycle of systems management.

As an industry expert Kim is a frequent speaker and ask-the-expert guest at both national and international events. Additionally he is a technology enthusiast, and as such can be often found assisting other in public forums, or playing around in his own well-equipped “Best practices lab” were new ideas and new products are tested on a regular basis. Currently he Is “secretedly” working on a SCCMAutoDoc a program to Automatically document an SCCM Sites configuration. You can download the SCCM AutoDoc from here: http://scug.be/media/g/sccmautodoc/default.aspx 

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 from 3:30 PM to 10:00 PM (GMT+0100)

System Center User Group Belgium

The main goal of the UG is to share experiences and knowledge with each other. We want to provide the Belgian System Center community a single point of entry through our website. Besides the website we also want to provide the necessary resources and infrastructure to deliver technical quality content, created for users by users. Furthermore we want to organize meetings, sessions and hands-on labs on a regular basis.