Welcome to MVPDays Online 2020 featuring content from Microsoft MVP’s from around the globe. Today’s show focuses on content related to Microsoft’s Azure Stack HCI and Storage Spaces Direct.   We have run these shows before, and with COVID-19, it has never been more important to focus on Security, so that is what we did with this show.   Over 60 % of the sessions are dedicated to Ransomware protection and hardening of environments to prevent threat actors from gaining access to our most critical resources.

Co-Hosts of this show are Dave and Cristal Kawula (MVP’s).   They are also the Co-Founders of MVPDays community roadshow, MVPDays Online, Blog at www.checkyourlogs.net , Founders of the MVPDays Scholarship fund and much more.

You can follow Dave and Cristal on Social Media – @Davekawula @SuperCristal1 @MVPDays #MVPHour #MVPDays

During the show, feel free to ask questions and be sure to follow our excellent speakers.

Our lineup of sessions looks like this:

14:00 – Keynote: Securing your Systems in 2020+

Description

If we compare the mentality of Microsoft in 2018 to Microsoft in 2020, they have moved from a “Let’s trust BYOD” to an absolutely “Zero Trust” model. On this keynote, Sami Laiho, world-leading security experts, talks about the most significant security threats out there and how they relate to servers and data centers.

Speaker: Sami Laiho @SamiLaiho

Senior Technical Fellow, MVP

14:30 – Session: Having fun with DiskSPD

Description: Little fun with DiskSPD and some insights on fine-tuning and testing.

Speaker: Allesandro Goncalves

15:00 – Session: Deploying Azure Stack HCI with MDT in WSLab

Description: WSLab scenario walkthrough on how to deploy Azure Stack HCI using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Speaker: Jaromir Kaspar Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft / Dave Kawula MVP

15:30 – Session: Protect your Admin Account and your Services Accounts!

Description: Working in the modern world means Cyberattacks, in masses. The most common way for attackers to gain access is YOUR admin account; approximately 80% of all attacks are based on stolen admin credentials. In this session, you will learn how to protect your admin account, and no strong password is not the solution; you need to change the way you work.

Speaker: Mikael Nystrom

DeploymentBunny, the one and only

16:00 – Session: Storage Replica, let’s take a trip

Description: Storage Replica is a built-in feature of Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI. It is also one of the main ingredients for Stretch in Azure Stack HCI. In this session we are going to talk about Storage Replica.

Speaker: John Marlin Microsoft

16:30 – Session: The two Azure STack HCIs and what to know about them!

Description: Azure Stack HCI is, without a doubt, the infrastructure star in the Microsoft On-Premises world. Now the second release is available, and it is time to talk about the new exciting possibilities you have with Azure Stack HCI in Windows Server 2019 and in Azure Stack HCI 20H2. Come and join Carsten in this session where he shares his learnings and best practices with Storage Spaces Direct Version 2 and the new kid on the block Azure Stack HCI 20H2.

17:00 – Speaker: Rick Vanover

Description

You don’t want to be the next ransomware headline. Let’s share some tips to be resilient against this threatscape for any scenario. MVP Rick Vanover and Azure-Certified Expert Karinne Bessette will share tips to win including how Azure, Microsotft 365 and other Cloud technologies can help win this fight.

17:30 – Speaker: Carsten Rachfahl

Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter MVP

18:00 – Session: Using PAW’s to manage your Azure Stack HCI solution

Description: Privileged Access Workstation (PAW’s) should be used to manage highly sensitive solutions; there is no question about that. The question is how to deploy and protect them correctly. Here is the session when you learn how to start using PAW’s

Speaker: Mikael Nystrom

DeploymentBunny, the one and only

18:30 – Session: Server Deployment across the Internet without any local infrastructure

Description: Yes, you can deploy servers and clients across the Internet, and it will be fast; the solution can be used for many reasons, one of them being recovery after cyber attacks. In this session, you will learn how to set up this free solution for Cloud-based OS deployment

Speaker: Mikael Nystrom

DeploymentBunny, the one and only

19:00 – Session: Deploying AKS in Azure Stack HCI cluster in WSLab

Description: In this session, you will learn how to deploy your AKS cluster inside an Azure Stack HCI cluster – all in WSLab that can run almost anywhere.

Speaker: Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft

19:30 – Session: Building a Guarded Fabric for Azure Stack HCI with PowerShell

Description: Protecting your Hyper-V Clusters, Backup Targets, and core infrastructure from intruders has never been more important. In this session, Dave will show you how he has automated the build process for a Fabric using PowerShell.

Speaker: Dave Kawula MVP @DaveKawula

Co-Founder MVPDays Publishing

20:00 – Session: Kubernetes Management with Azure Arc

Description: In this session, we will explore how to leverage Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes capabilities that allow Azure Arc to connect and configure any Kubernetes cluster across datacenters, edge locations, and multi-cloud.

Speaker: Janaka Rangama

Closing: Cristal Kawula MVP and Dave Kawula MVP

Thank you all for watching the show today.

Stay safe, and see you soon in person.