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MMS 2026 Midway Edition
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25 Oct 2026
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28 Oct 2026
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Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, California, United States
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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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Morten Bøtkjær Nilsen, Kent Agerlund
- AI-Ready Data: Field-Tested Best Practices for Preparing Your Organization with Purview
- Zero Trust Meets AI: Securing Copilot and Every Other AI Your Users Found First
- AI-Ready Data: Field-Tested Best Practices for Preparing Your Organization with Purview
- Zero Trust Meets AI: Securing Copilot and Every Other AI Your Users Found First
- Practical Conditional Access: Policies, Demos, and fun!
- Zero Trust: Speedrun Your Journey - What Matters Most First (Identity and Endpoint Edition)
- Endpoint management Hot Takes
- "Intune Is Slow," So They Say - The Myths, and How to Make It Better
- Retro Tech, Modern Builds: The Art of the Cyberdeck
- Click Less, Automate More: Real-World Intune Automation with Azure Runbooks
- Stop Treating Azure Monitor Like a Public Utility
- Telemetry at Scale: Building an Azure Monitor Collection Strategy
- Give Us an Hour, We'll Lower Your Azure Bill
- Stop Chasing Alerts, Start Measuring Health
- Stop Automating Waiting: Designing Faster Intune Workflows
- IntuneStack: From Scripts to Scalable Intune Automation
- What Entra and Windows Hello Actually Trust: Hardware-Backed Device Identity, Explained
- Do You Actually Need EDR? A Field Guide for Endpoint Admins
- DEX on the Flight Deck: Building Your Own Endpoint Experience Score
- 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
- Time to Move On: Why It’s Time to Leave Hyper‑V Behind and Embrace Azure Local
- Lock It Down: Practical Security for Windows Workstations That Actually Holds Up
- Identity Under Attack: What Actually Works When Your AD and Entra ID Are Compromised
- From Breach to Business Again: A Practical Playbook for Recovering from Cyber Attacks
- From Bluescreens to Scripts: Practical Troubleshooting with Microsoft Copilot
Melissa McDonald
- App Install Autopsy: Diagnosing Win32, MSI & Store Deployment Failures
- Hops & Scripts: An AI-Assisted PowerShell Happy Hour Hackathon
- Taming the Browsers: Managing Edge, Chrome & Beyond with Intune
- Get AI Ready: Building the Foundation for AI Success
- Modernize Without Compromise: Adaptive Cloud
- Owning Your Career: Be the CEO of You
- Welcome to Azure: Start Your Cloud Journey
- Endpoint Privilege Management Unlocked
- Inside Windows Autopilot Device Preparation
- AI enabled Cloud PCs: Accelerating the future of AI Desktop Workflow
- Lets do this! Build your own Intune Agent!
- Drivers, OEM Tools, Task Sequences
- DeployR Community, Free your Task Sequence
- Hacking the Task Sequence 2026: DeployR Edition
- Ensuring Business Continuity: Challenges in Modern Endpoint Management
- What is WinRE and Why Should I Care?
- Next-generation OS deployment using DeployR Community Edition
- Migrating to PowerShell 7
- Ten(-ish) learnings from ten years of Windows Autopilot
- Comprehensive guide to Windows Autopilot scenarios
- Access Management is Hard - And Attackers Love It
- Securing Modern Workloads with Entra Agent ID
- Intune Suite
- MMS The Game Show
- Intune Open Topic
- Intune Reporting Adventures: From Basics to Brilliance
- Protecting the kingdom - Step 1 - Conditional Access
- Content, Content Everywhere - Delivery Optimisation Deep Dive
- Intune Network Requirements are a team effort
- A practical detailed guide to Application Control for Business
- Intune & ConfigMgr: A Business-Driven Approach to Co-Management
- Demystifying Local AI: Running Intelligent Automation on Hardware You Already Own
- Debate Me, Bro: Settling the Ultimate Intune App Deployment Rivalries
- The Dark Art of App Deployment: What Your Friends in Endpoint Management Never Talk About
- What you need to know about the future of Hyper-V Management
- Disconnected and Sovereign: Building a Private Cloud with Azure Local and M365 Local
- Protecting your Virtualization infrastructure with a isolated Fabric Domain
- Getting Started with YouTube - a beginners guide
- So... is winget Enterprise-Ready?
- Endpoint Privilege Management: now it's in E5, do we still need a third-party tool?
- Intune Deployment Rings: From Policy Chaos to Controlled Release
- Good policy design is hard. Enforcement is harder.
- App Sprawl is the New Attack Surface: Controlling User Apps & Browser Extensions
- Cloud Apps Are Admins: Securing Entra ID Applications
- Patch Tuesday In Review
- AI Soup: I Read a Bunch of PhD Papers So You Don't Have To
- Software Updates → To The Cloud - Maybe
- PSADT 4.*
- Securing the Update Supply Chain
- Who needs a VPN, I don't
- Mastering KQL: A Guide for Endpoint Admins
- Know Your Tools, Own Your App Deployment
- Your Device, My Rules: Securing BYOD with Intune
- A Practical Menu of User State Options for Win11 & Win365
- Cutting the Cord: Moving from Hybrid to Cloud-Only
- Coding Agent Battle Royale: The Happy Hour Build-Off
- From Group Edits to Access Requests with Entra Access Packages
- Which Control Failed? Intune Compliance Reporting with PowerShell
- Beyond AD CS: 802.1X for Entra-Joined Devices
- From Activity Logs to Defensible Least-Privilege Roles
- Troubleshooting Application Installation: Who Screwed It Up??
- Stop Clicking. Start Thinking: Rethinking Intune Operations in the AI Era
- Conditional Access Masterclass
- Defender for Endpoint Internals
- Automating Access and Policy Assignment with Entra
- Phishing, malware, token theft, and beyond
- "We'll Fix It When It Breaks" Is not an Azure DR Strategy!
- Stop the Drift: 10 Azure Governance Steps from Chaos to Control
- From Shadow AI to Flagship: Governing AI in Your Microsoft Environment
- Graph API from Zero to Hero
- Home Automation with ESP32: Build the Sensor You Always Wanted
- The Mythos Effect: Why the Patching Race Is Over and Allowlisting Is Your Answer
- Windows 365 for Endpoint Admins
- Beyond Autopilot: What Happens After Enrollment?
- Autopilot Device Preparation: One Year Later
- Stop Building Intune Like It’s Group Policy
- Improvise, Adapt, Overcome: Create your own career journey
- GitHub Copilot in the SOCpit: Three moves to supercharge your SOC
- Driver & Firmware Management in ConfigMgr & Intune
- Par for the Course: PowerShell Golf Live
- Your Scripts, Everywhere: Using GitHub to Keep Your PowerShell Environments in Sync
- Local AI for IT Pros: LLMs Without the Cloud
- Stop Trusting Defaults: Master Intune & Entra ID Security Before You Crash and Burn
- Mastering Entra ID PIM: Stay Out of the Danger Zone of Privileged Access
- Mastering Secure Intune Automation with Managed Identities and Microsoft Graph
- Windows Autopatch: Let the Robots Patch So You Don’t Have To
- From ISO to One-Click Lab: Supercharging Intune Testing with a Hyper-V Quick Create Pipeline
- Intune Remediations at Scale: Best Practices, Tips & Tricks, & Enterprise Engineering Patterns
- Kill the Password: A Practical Guide to Going Passwordless
- Intune or ConfigMgr? A No-BS Debate Between MVP and Product Team
- Autopilot Is Changing: Mastering Intune Device Preparation Policies
- 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
- Extending Intune Reporting with Log Analytics and Workbooks
- Windows Autopilot: Back to Basics, Forward to Excellence
- Zero Trust Fundamentals: Turning Microsoft Security into Action
- Inside Intune: Internals, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting
- Think Less, Build More: GitHub Copilot & Agentic Development for IT Pros
- Your Manager Doesn’t Speak Geek — Stop Sounding Like a Log File
- Stop Fighting Intune. Build Tools Your Helpdesk Will Actually Use
- GitHub 101 for the Intune Admin – The session you always wanted but were afraid to ask for
- Your Modern Management Journey: What to Fix, What to Keep, and What to Burn Down
- 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
- 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!
- Modern Windows Security Bypassed
- Agentic Apps for ConfigMgr: Wait… This Actually Works?
- 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
- The 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!
- Session Host Update: A Better Way to Manage Your AVD Environment
- Windows 365 Cloud Apps: An Easy Way to Publish Applications
- Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid: Features and Benefits
- 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
- ConfigMgr 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
- Achieve Zero Trust objectives with Defender for Cloud and Defender EASM integrated with Defender XDR
- An Observability Renaissance: Azure Monitor comes of age
- Integrate Azure Monitor alerts from servers with your ITSM system
- Intune Tips and Tricks – 2026 fall edition
- Mastering App Deployment and Lifecycle Management with Intune
- Office Hours LIVE - Community Updates, Q&A, and Roundtable Discussions
- 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
- 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