With only hours before one of the most attended IT conferences of year begins, I though I would share the VMWorld 2016 EUC Sessions I’m looking forward to attend this year. Granted the conference started for some on Saturday, for others (like me) starts on Sunday and for most will start on Monday, there is still time to adjust your agenda.
As usual the break-out sessions are not first-come-first-serve, pre-registration for the sessions opened a few weeks ago and if you took advantage of that, you have a seat saved for you but if you didn’t, one can still go and stay on the line and hope for a few open seats.
This year the EUC content is divided in 5 subtracks: Virtual App And Desktop Delivery, Identity Security, Industry Solutions, Mobile Productivity Apps and Unified Endpoint Management. These subtracks will allow the attendees to focus even more on specific products/areas. For example if you are interested on Airwatch the Mobile Productivity Apps subtrack is what you should select on your app filter.
The following are the sessions that I will be trying to attend, some of the sessions have also Self-Paced labs that you can attend in case you want to get a closer look or you couldn’t get in. Additionally, the description for each session is my interpretation of the official description and the reason why I would recommend the session.
- Application Management and Delivery with VMware Identity Manager 2.6 – #ELW-1753-MBL-1
- Subtrack – Identity Security
- Tech Level – Intermediate
- Self-Paced lab – SPL-1753-MBL-1
- Description: How to configure VMware Identity Manager, how it can be integrated with Horizon leveraged for delivering applications and desktops
- VMwareAirWatch: Workspace ONE, Single Sign-ON and VMware Identity Manager Workshop – #ELW-1757-MBL-3
- Subtrack – Mobile Productivity Apps
- Tech Level – Intermediate
- Self-Paced lab – SPL-1757-MBL-3
- Description: Integrate AirWatch and Workspace ONE to enable SSO from any device to any application. The integrationof the different management consoles will also be reviewed
- Advances in RemoteDisplay Protocol Technology with VMware Blast Extreme – #EUC7601
- Subtrack – Virtual App and Desktop Delivery
- Tech Level – Intermediate
- Description: Technical deep dive of the Blast Extreme protocol, how to utilize it with vGPUs, how to fine-tune it. How compare/contrast with PCoIP.
- On-Premises Workloads with Cloud-Based Management: Technical Deep Dive into Horizon Air Hybrid Mode – #EUC9217
- Subtrack – Virtual App and Desktop Delivery
- Tech Level – Intermediate
- Description: Delivering virtual desktops and mana applications from on-premises infrastructure, while centrally managing it all from the cloud. Closer look at the product architecture, see the product setup and deployment in action.
- Askhe Experts: Practical Tips and Trickts to Help You Succeed in EUC #EUC9992
- Subtrack – Virtual App and Desktop Delivery
- Panel Discussion
- Description: Tips and Tricks about EUC deployments from EUC Champions experts and the opportunity for us attending to ask tough questions.
- What’s New with Horizon 7 – #EUC8404
- Subtrack – Virtual App and Desktop Delivery
- Tech Level – Introductory
- Description: Hear about the what’s is new with Horizon such as just-in-time desktops, smart policies, blast extreme, etc.
- Troubleshooting 101 for Horizon – #EUC8243R
- Subtrack – Virtual App and Desktop Delivery
- Tech Level – Advanced
- Description: Learn about skills and tools to troubleshoot Horizon top 10 issue.
- Unify Endpoint Management AcrossMobile and Desktops – #EUC7644R
- Subtrack – Unified Endpoint Management
- Tech Level – Business Solutions
- Description: Managing Laptops, Desktops, Chrome, Mac, Windows, Android and iOS from a single tool with Airwatch.
- Optimize Storage infrastructure forHorizon Performance – #EUC9610-SPO
- Subtrack – Virtual App and Desktop Delivery
- Tech Level – Intermediate
- Description: How to address key storage challenges that impact Horizon, best practices to increase IOPS and decrease latency, how to attain high levels of availability and scaling for growth.
- Under the Hood with Identity Manager and Office 365 – #EUC8745
- Subtrack – Identity Security
- Tech Level – Intermediate
- Description: Making Office365 deployment easier through federation between on-premises AD and Azure AD. How to publish Office 365 apps in a portal
- Architecting Highly Available, Scalabe and Resilient Enterprise Mobility& Desktop/Application Solutions – #EUC8784-SPO
- Subtrack – Virtual App and Desktop Delivery
- Tech Level – Advanced
- Description: Identifying critical components of an EUC environment how to make them highly available, how to test the availabilty and best practices recommendations.
There are many more great sessions during this conference and some of you will agree or disagree with me on my picks. Let me know which one I missed. If you are attending #VMword and any of these sessions reach out and we can compare notes.
Have a great conference and thank you for reading.