Modern Provisioning: How to Super Charge Windows Autopilot Scenarios

Modern Provisioning using Windows Autopilot, a cloud-based service that simplifies the deployment and management of Windows 11 devices. It allows you to configure devices remotely, without the need for physical access or imaging.

In this session we will share our “notes from the field” showing how to super charge your Windows Autopilot scenarios, getting the most out of Windows Autopilot, what you need to know to Super Charge Your Windows Autopilot for your scenarios.

We will share tips and tricks, customizing and optimizing your Windows Autopilot configuration, So You can benefit from all the best features and capabilities of modern provisioning. You can:
• Enhance the user experience by reducing the time and steps required to set up a new device.
• Enhance the user experience by reducing the time from start to finish, allowing for the end user to get productive faster.
• Streamline the management and maintenance of your devices by adding a few tweaks and notes from the field.

This session is intended for IT professionals who are responsible for deploying and managing Windows devices in their organizations, and who are interested in learning more about Windows Autopilot. The session assumes a basic familiarity with Windows, Entra ID, and Microsoft Intune.

Breaking Free – Fast-Track Your Journey to Cloud-Native Device Management

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face the constant challenge of balancing security and usability in their IT systems. While security is essential to protect data, assets, and reputation from ever-increasing cyber threats, it often imposes restrictions that affect user productivity, satisfaction, and performance. But what if security and usability weren't opposing forces?

This session takes you on a transformative journey from traditional, legacy-bound device management to modern, cloud-native solutions. We'll demonstrate how prioritizing usability can actually *increase* security—by reducing user errors, boosting satisfaction, and building user trust in IT systems.

**What You'll Learn:**

- **Breaking Free from Legacy Constraints** - Strategies for reducing dependency on domain-joined devices, network drives, and network printers while maintaining operational excellence
- **The Cloud-Native Advantage** - Exploring the benefits and opportunities of moving Windows devices toward modern management approaches
- **Windows Autopilot Device Preparation** - Streamlining device provisioning for a seamless out-of-box experience
- **Windows Autopatch** - Automating updates to keep devices secure without disrupting productivity
- **Zero Trust & Desired State Configuration** - Implementing security frameworks that protect without compromising the user experience
- **Navigating Change Management** - Overcoming organizational and user resistance when transitioning from legacy to modern management
- **Measuring Success** - Defining KPIs, gathering user feedback, and tracking adoption metrics to demonstrate value and continuous improvement

**Session Highlights:**

This session is packed with best practices drawn from real-world implementations. As IT professionals who have navigated this journey with numerous organizations, we'll share hands-on experiences, lessons learned, and proven techniques that work in production environments.

Expect a highly technical session featuring:
- Live demonstrations of modern management techniques
- Advanced configurations and deployment strategies
- Practical tips you can implement immediately
- Real-world scenarios and solutions

**Who Should Attend:**

Whether you're just getting ready to modernize your device management approach or you have already started the journey, this session is for you. You'll walk away with actionable insights and advanced techniques that you can bring back to your organization and start implementing right away.

**Key Takeaways:**

1. A clear roadmap for transitioning from legacy to modern device management
2. Understanding how improved usability drives better security outcomes
3. Practical implementation strategies for cloud-native Windows management
4. Advanced techniques for Zero Trust security in a modern workplace
5. Confidence to fast-track your organization's journey to the cloud

**Learning Objectives:**

After this session, attendees will be able to:

1. Design a strategy to reduce or eliminate dependency on domain-joined devices, network drives, and network printers
2. Implement Windows Autopilot Device Preparation for streamlined, zero-touch device provisioning
3. Configure Windows Autopatch to automate updates while minimizing user disruption
4. Apply Zero Trust principles and Desired State Configuration to enhance security without sacrificing usability
5. Develop a change management approach to drive user adoption and reduce resistance
6. Define and track KPIs to measure the success of modern device management initiatives

Target Audience: IT Professionals, System Administrators, Endpoint Managers, Security Professionals

AI for IT Professionals: Beyond the Hype

AI is everywhere—but how do you actually use it to get real work done as an IT Professional?

In this highly interactive, demo-packed session, we'll cut through the hype and show you exactly how we're leveraging modern AI language models in our daily work. Whether you're managing devices, troubleshooting issues, writing scripts, or documenting solutions, AI can be your ultimate productivity multiplier—if you know how to use it right.

Starting from the world of device management, we'll explore practical use cases that apply to IT Professionals across the board. From crafting PowerShell scripts and analyzing log files to summarizing documentation and automating repetitive tasks, you'll see AI in action—live and unscripted.

**What You'll Learn:**

- How to leverage AI as a daily productivity tool for IT tasks
- Real-world applications of AI in device management and IT operations
- Tips and tricks for getting the most out of AI language models
- How to balance speed with quality when using AI-assisted workflows

**Session Highlights:**

Expect minimal slides, maximum demos, and plenty of interaction. We want YOUR questions, YOUR scenarios, and YOUR challenges—because the best way to learn AI is to see it solve real problems.

- Live, unscripted demos showing AI in real IT scenarios
- Interactive Q&A—bring your challenges and watch AI tackle them
- Practical prompting techniques you can use right away
- Tips for validating and improving AI-generated outputs
- A peek behind the scenes at how we use AI daily

**Who Should Attend:**

This session is packed with best practices drawn from real-world experience and is perfect for IT Professionals at any stage of their AI journey. Whether you're just scratching the surface of AI and curious about where to start, or you're a seasoned user looking for new tricks and techniques—this session has something for you. Device management specialists, system administrators, and anyone who wants to work smarter, not harder, will walk away with practical ideas they can implement immediately.

**Key Takeaways:**

1. Practical ideas you can implement immediately
2. Best practices for maintaining quality and accuracy
3. Confidence to embrace AI as a trusted tool in your IT toolkit
4. A healthy dose of inspiration to explore further

**Learning Objectives:**

After this session, attendees will be able to:

- Understand how modern AI language models can enhance IT workflows
- Learn effective prompting techniques to get accurate, useful results
- Discover practical AI use cases for device management and beyond
- Develop strategies for validating AI-generated outputs to ensure quality

Come ready to participate, ask questions, and witness the art of the possible. Let's get things done—together, with AI!

A Cloud PC is Born

"A Cloud PC is Born", is a transformative session focusing on the future of computing through cloud-native Windows devices.

In this session, we'll explore the compelling advantages of embracing cloud-native, Windows 365 and how these can revolutionize your organization's approach to technology, making it more effective, productive, user-centric, powerful, and cost-effective.

Learn about the evolution from hybrid-joined devices to cloud-native Windows PCs, and why this shift is crucial for modern enterprises and how cloud-native PCs will streamline IT management and operations, enhancing user productivity with seamless access to resources.

Discover the key benefits of adopting cloud-native devices, including enhanced productivity, user-centric experiences, powerful performance, and cost-effectiveness. Furthermore, you will get an in-depth look at Windows 365, the world's first Cloud PC, and how it integrates seamlessly into your existing IT ecosystem.

Join us in this session to discover how embracing cloud-native Windows devices can transform your IT landscape, driving effectiveness, productivity, user satisfaction, powerful performance, and cost efficiency.

Target Audience: IT professionals, business leaders, and decision-makers looking to modernize their IT infrastructure.

From Blank File to Production: Enterprise-Ready Remediation Scripts for Microsoft Intune

Most organizations still treat Microsoft Intune remediation scripts like one-off PowerShell files held together with duct tape - written to fix the immediate problem with no thought for what happens at scale. The difference between scripts that break and scripts that scale is not cleverness - it is a proven, standardized approach to how remediation scripts are structured from the start.

As organizations move from Group Policy to cloud-native device management, remediation scripts are becoming a critical operational layer - yet most teams have no shared standard for how to write them. Constrained Language Mode, silent script failures, and limited visibility into execution results make the gap between ad-hoc scripts and production-ready automation wider than ever.

This session breaks down what enterprise-ready remediation scripts actually look like. The session walks through a modular, production-ready script structure designed for real-world environments - consistent logging, robust detection logic, idempotent remediation, error-safe recovery, and standardized error handling. The structure returns results to Microsoft Intune, writes detailed logs to the device for troubleshooting, and optionally forwards collected data to a centralized service like Log Analytics for fleet-wide visibility. The session also demonstrates how GitHub Copilot can accelerate script development without sacrificing quality.

Through live demonstrations, the session builds remediation scripts from scratch, explores real-world examples including Constrained Language Mode pitfalls, and shares the thought process behind scripts that run reliably at scale. The patterns and practices covered apply equally to platform scripts, custom compliance discovery scripts, and other PowerShell workloads managed through Microsoft Intune - all based on lessons learned from production use across enterprise environments.

What to expect

The session covers the following topics through live demonstrations:

- Unpack the anatomy of a remediation package - from configuring Visual Studio Code with workspace settings, extensions, and PSScriptAnalyzer rules, through detection scripts, remediation scripts, execution contexts, and how Microsoft Intune orchestrates them
- Demonstrate structured script patterns - idempotent remediation, error-safe recovery, condition checks, and standardized error handling that prevent deployment failures
- Build a remediation script live using GitHub Copilot - from a blank file through PSScriptAnalyzer validation to a deployment-ready package
- Explore real-world examples: LSA protection monitoring, unquoted service path remediation, and PowerShell execution policy configuration
- Implement CMTrace-compatible logging and reporting that traces exactly what happened on each device
- Handle PowerShell Constrained Language Mode constraints that silently break scripts in production

What to take home

Four takeaways attendees can apply immediately:

- A reusable script structure with condition checks, structured error handling, and CMTrace-compatible logging - applicable to remediation scripts, platform scripts, and custom compliance discovery scripts alike
- Confidence to build detection and remediation pairs that handle edge cases - 64-bit requirements, execution context validation, and missing registry paths - without trial-and-error deployments
- A practical approach to reporting and troubleshooting that gives visibility into script execution across the device fleet
- Experience using GitHub Copilot to accelerate remediation script development while maintaining structure and reliability

Getting started with GitHub, Git and Visual Studio Code

Every IT professional writes code - they just do not call it that. PowerShell scripts, configuration baselines, and deployment fixes live in folders no one else can navigate. The difference between a folder of scripts and a professional body of work is structure - and that structure reflects who you are and how you work.

This session targets device administrators and IT professionals with no or limited GitHub or Git experience. It is not a session for developers. Attendees learn how to turn an unstructured folder into a version-controlled repository - with change history, safe collaboration, and a professional way to share their work.

With more teams adopting infrastructure-as-code practices and community-driven PowerShell repositories growing rapidly, version control is a core skill for IT professionals - not just developers. A well-structured repository signals quality, makes work accessible to others, and sets the author apart.

The session is a demo-heavy, hands-on walkthrough covering the full journey from first install to confident daily use. Every concept is demonstrated live using a publicly available repository and companion wiki that serve as a take-home reference. All demos are based on real-world experience from production use and hands-on learning.

What to expect

The session covers the following through live demonstrations:

- Set up a complete working environment - Visual Studio Code, Git, and GitHub - ready for daily use
- Turn a folder into a professional project by adding the configuration files, documentation, and structure that make your work navigable and shareable
- Structure your repository with README, CONTRIBUTING, LICENSE, community health files, and consistent formatting - so your folder reflects the quality of your work
- Download files and repositories programmatically using PowerShell and the GitHub REST API
- Use GitHub Copilot as a learning companion to generate, review, and understand PowerShell scripts - and explore Vibe Coding as a mindset for AI-assisted coding

What to take home

Participants leave with practical skills and a reference they can use immediately:

1. A structured repository that reflects how they work. The ability to turn a folder of scripts into a professional, version-controlled repository - with clear documentation, consistent formatting, and the configuration files that signal quality to anyone who finds the work.

2. The daily Git workflow as a practical skill. Pull, stage, commit, push - practiced hands-on and ready to apply to real-world IT tasks from day one.

3. GitHub Copilot as a learning companion. Confidence to use AI-assisted coding to generate, review, and understand PowerShell scripts - with the judgment to validate output and build understanding along the way.

Participants also leave with access to the "Hello World" repository and its companion wiki as a take-home reference, along with companion exercises organized by topic to practice every concept covered in the session.

The art of balancing Windows Security and Usability

In today's world, organizations face a constant challenge of balancing security and usability in IT systems. Security is essential to protect data, assets, and reputation from cyber threats, but it can also impose restrictions and limitations on the users, affecting their productivity, satisfaction, and performance.
If the usability of application security features is weak, users will try to avoid or bypass them. However, if done correctly, security does not impact usability, on the contrary, usability increases security.
This delicate equilibrium is particularly crucial in the realm of the Modern Workplace, where security protocols are paramount to safeguard sensitive data and systems. Unfortunately, when forming the Modern Workplace, organizations are often met by strict self-propelled security requirements. We, however, propose to aim to follow the usability trio principle, often referred to as the usability triangle:
• Usability
• Security
• Manageability
The tree areas are all equally important, despite security measures often getting the “most airtime” we have focus on usability, pursuing goals to meet and exceed productivity requirements as well as deliver on expectations for more personal computing on the devices in use.
The art of balancing Windows Security and Usability, go headfirst into the intricate dynamics of the perpetual struggle between security and the pursuit of a great end-user experience.
The focus of this presentation is to show how security does not have to be a hindrance to usability, but rather an enabler, and we will discuss the following objectives:
• Explain the concept of security and usability and why it matters for both users and IT Professionals.
• Identify the common pitfalls and challenges of designing secure systems that are also user-friendly.
• Provide examples and Best Practices of how to balance security and usability in different scenarios and domains.
• Demonstrate how usability can increase security by reducing user errors, increasing user satisfaction, and enhancing user trust.
This session is for everyone working within the management sphere, whatever area within the usability trio you reside. All configurations, functional scripts and tools is freely available, and you will be able to start balancing Windows Security and Usability right after the presentation.

From slide deck to stage presence - five tricks for the introvert speaker

Most technical presentations fail before the speaker opens their mouth. Overloaded slides, no narrative, reading bullet points aloud - the audience checks out in the first five minutes. The problem is not nerves. The problem is that nobody taught IT professionals how to move from delivering a slide deck to actually speaking.

With more community events, user groups, and internal knowledge-sharing sessions than ever, the ability to present well is no longer optional for IT professionals who want to grow. Yet most advice targets professional speakers, not the IT admin who has 45 minutes, a PowerPoint deck, and a room full of peers.

This session tackles the five sins of presentation - the habits that turn a good topic into a forgettable slide deck - and offers five practical tricks to break free from them. Built on years of real-world speaking experience as a self-described introvert, the session connects unexpected influences - a smile, running a marathon, science, storytelling, and procrastination - to reveal how each one shapes the way we show up on stage.

The journey moves from understanding why presentations fail, through the mechanics of stagecraft and storytelling, to practical techniques for controlling nerves, owning the room, and finding your authentic voice - even when every instinct tells you to hide behind the slides.

What to expect

- Identify the five sins of presentation and recognize them in your own slide decks.
- Apply five concrete tricks to shift from "doing a presentation" to speaking with purpose.
- Explore how stagecraft and storytelling techniques translate to technical sessions.
- Discover why a smile, a marathon, science, storytelling, and procrastination all connect to how you perform on stage.
- Practice techniques for controlling nerves and managing energy as an introvert.
- Walk through real examples of what goes wrong on stage - and how to recover.

What to take home

- A checklist of the five presentation sins to audit any slide deck against.
- Five actionable tricks attendees can apply to their very next speaking opportunity.
- Techniques for managing nerves and energy before and during a session.
- A reframed perspective on what "being a speaker" means for IT professionals who are not professional speakers.