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MMS 2026 Midway Edition
event starts
25 Oct 2026
event ends
28 Oct 2026
location
Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, California, United States
website
mmsmoa.com/mms2026midway
Welcome to MMS 2026 Midway Edition! As we gear up for this exciting event in San Diego, we want to ensure you have all the information you need for a seamless experience. Be sure to read up on guidelines and deadlines here. Attendees are seeking deep technical advice on all things related to systems management.
Join us for an unforgettable experience! MMS 2026 Midway Edition is more than just an event; it's a community coming together to learn, network, and make a difference. We can't wait to welcome our speakers, sponsors, and attendees aboard.
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126 submissions
Submitted sessions
Florian Salzmann
- AI Gave Us a Thousand Tools. Which Ones Survive Production?
- Intune at Scale: Automating the Boring Stuff with PowerShell and Graph API
- Diagnose Faster: Modern Troubleshooting for Intune-Managed Devices
- Build an AI "Second Brain" for IT Decisions You Can Defend
- AI-Ready PowerShell: Prompt to Pull Request
- Test Intune Mac Policies Faster with macOS VMs
- PSConnMon in Production: Proving What Happened in Complex Failures
- Implementing CIS Benchmarks with DSC v3 and Intune
- Top Must‑Knows for Every Intune Administrator
- Intune Graph for Intune Admins
- The top 10 hardening tips for your enterprise clients
- Top 10 Strategies for a Successful AI Journey in Your Organization
- Intune whats new / whats next
- Automating Tenant and Intune Management With GitHub Actions and Azure Runbooks
- SSL Certificate Automation With Powershell
- Transitioning Group Policies to Intune: A Guide for Success
- Preserving Digital Assets: A Survivor Guide for All
- Home Assistant: More Than Just Lights and Sensors
- The Real Internet Behind AI Datacenter Headlines
- Smarter DO and MCC Deployment: An Agentic Approach to Policy and Design
- What's a Token, Really?
- Practical Token Efficiency for AI Tools
- Beyond PIM: Identity Governance with Terraform
- Azure Bicep: From ClickOps to Declarative Cloud Engineering
- Zero Trust Fundamentals: Turning Microsoft Security into Action
- Think Less, Build More: GitHub Copilot & Agentic Development for IT Pros
- Extending Intune Reporting with Log Analytics and Workbooks
- Mastering App Deployment and Lifecycle Management with Intune
- Office Hours LIVE - Community Updates, Q&A, and Roundtable Discussions
- Windows Autopilot: Back to Basics, Forward to Excellence
- Inside Intune: Internals, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting
- Your Manager Doesn’t Speak Geek — Stop Sounding Like a Log File
- GitHub 101 for the Intune Admin – The session you always wanted but were afraid to ask for
- Stop Fighting Intune. Build Tools Your Helpdesk Will Actually Use
- Your Modern Management Journey: What to Fix, What to Keep, and What to Burn Down
Andrew Siebert
- How To Ship Your AI Slop
- Curtailing The Chaos: Setting Your Org Up for AI Success
- Managing Drivers with Intune and Autopatch: What Works, What to Watch For
- Why Didn’t My Device Get That Update? Inside Windows Update Applicability
- Building Better with Bicep
- Good policy design is hard. Enforcement is harder.
- Brigs & Breaches: Designing Tabletop Exercises That Strengthen Cyber Resilience
- Securing Your Fleet with Microsoft Defender
- Rewinding the Ransomware Attack: Lessons from the Incident Timeline
- Every Device Is a Security Boundary: Secure It by Design
- Rethinking Security Prioritization in Defender: Ranking Security Risk with Tier-Based Risk Score
- All Hands on Deck: Top 15 Microsoft 365 Defaults That Are Leaving Your Tenant Exposed
- Manage the Unmanageable with Microsoft 365
- Brewing Mac Magic: Microsoft Intune's Potion for Perfect Mac Management!
- Securing Modern Workloads with Entra Agent ID
- Modern Windows Security Bypassed
- From Shadow AI to Flagship: Governing AI in Your Microsoft Environment
- Agentic Apps for ConfigMgr: Wait… This Actually Works?
- Lets do this! Build your own Intune Agent!
- Inside Intune: A Deep dive into the Achitecture and Improvements.
- Inside the Intune Management Extension: Why Applications Fail to Install
- Decoding the Graph: REST APIs, Endpoints, and Dev Proxy Magic
- he ConfigMgr SDK Playbook: Supercharging .NET Automation
- Exception Handling 101: Debugging .NET When Things Go Sideways
- Autopilot Hybrid Join: It's Not as Bad as You Fear
- I’ve looked at life from both sides now: My journey from in-house admin to Intune consultant
- Intune Migration: How can I get from where I am to where I want to be?
- Windows 365 Cloud Apps, an easy way to publish apps!
- Managing your Azure Virtual Desktop environment with Intune
- Session Host Update, A great way to manage your Azure Virtual Desktop environment
- Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid - Features and Benefits
- Migrating to PowerShell 7
- Ten(-ish) learnings from ten years of Windows Autopilot
- Comprehensive guide to Windows Autopilot scenarios
- From SQL Runway to Dashboard Flight: Building SCCM Reports that Actually Take Off
- Command the Console: Supercharging SCCM with Custom Menus & Mission Control Tools
- Flight Deck Dashboards: Launching Enterprise Insights for Under $10/month
- Containers + AI: Why They’re Better Together for Modern Operations
- AI Tools in an Operations World: From Hype to Real Impact
- Windows 365 For Agents: The Cloud PC Is The Source For AI + Human Workloads
- Housekeeping for the modern endpoint admin
- Intune App Management : Automation, Insights, and Security
- Oops! Modern Managament Mistakes You Only Make Once
- Intune Tips and Tricks – 2026 fall edition
- Configuration Manager Advanced Troubleshooting
- Intune and Azure RBAC for the Windows Admin
- Intune Remediations at Scale: Best Practices, Tips & Tricks, & Enterprise Engineering Patterns
- Securing, Logging, and Monitoring PowerShell
- Whose Pipeline Is It Anyway? The Game Show Where Everything Is an Object
- PowerShell Hot Takes
- Top 10 Intune Fails & Fixes!
- How Global Secure Access changes Security forever
- The Jurassic Park of Intune
- Protect Your Code Supply Chain with Defender for Cloud DevOps Security
- Integrate Azure Monitor alerts from servers with your ITSM system
- Achieve Zero Trust objectives with Defender for Cloud and Defender EASM integrated with Defender XDR
- An Observability Renaissance: Azure Monitor comes of age
- Windows Resiliency: Is your WinRE healthy?
- Lights, Camera, Upload: A Guide to Starting Your IT YouTube Channel
- Windows 365 Unleashed: Scalable Cloud PCs Made Simple
- Mastering AVD Deployments: Azure, Azure Local, or AVD Hybrid?
- Mastering AVD Autoscaling: Choosing the Right Strategy for Maximum Efficiency
- Directory Showdown: Windows AD, Entra ID, and Entra Domain Services Explained
- Intune Basics to Brilliance: The "Intune Time" Myth-Busting Playbook
- From Meh to Meaningful: A Realistic Guide to Microsoft Secure Score
- How to Build Confidence in Your Users: Turning M365 Rollouts into Real Adoption
- Disconnected and Sovereign: Building a Private Cloud with Azure Local and M365 Local
- Protecting your Virtualization infrastructure with a isolated Fabric Domain
- Windows 11 Hardening: From Secure by Default to Secure by Design
- Community Tools for the Device Administrator
- Edge Management Service - the modern way to manage Edge
- Troubleshooting Tips From The Trenches
- Intune Administration: Real-World Solutions with PowerShell and Graph
- 10 security settings you must configure in Windows 11 - 2026 edition
- Midway Mission: Enforcing Order in the Windows 11 War Zone
- Getting Windows Autopilot to Work for You
- SQL-fu for Comanaged/OnPrem ConfigMgr
- Configuration Items and Custom Inventory
- ConfigMgr Fundamentals: Optimize Infrastructure and Security
- ConfigMgr Fundamentals: Advanced Techniques
- Inside the Worst Tenant We’ve Ever Seen
- Avoiding Policy Sprawl: Intune and Its Cloud Counterparts
- AI Goes Home: Build Tools with Foundry Local on Azure Local and Windows Server
- Build the MP Microsoft Forgot: SCOM and Azure Monitor Health Models for Azure Local
- Bake Your Own Cluster: Building a Real Hybrid Lab Without Selling a Kidney
- AVD Anywhere: Have Profile, Will Travel — Azure, Azure Local, and AVD Hybrid
- Trust No One: Zero Trust for the Hybrid Server Fleet
- Using AI for modern threat detection
- AI tips and tricks
- Empowering SOC Teams: How Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, MCP Servers, and Agents Drive Efficiency
- How Using AI Agents with Microsoft Sentinel Automate Triage and Create SOC Power Users