The Atlanta Systems Management User Group would like to announce our first meeting of 2018.  We are honored and excited to have as our sponsor this month Adpativa.  Adaptiva helps provide smart scaling for the enterprise with their robust selection of endpoint management and security solutions. 

Joining us will be Ami Casto, Adaptiva's technical evangelist who is responsible for leading the company's efforts to engage with and contribute to the technical systems management community. Ami is a featured speaker at numerous ConfigMgr and Windows 10 related user groups and events throughout the industry.  Ami's discussion topics will be:

Shiny Modern ways of managing Windows 10

This session is a quick walk through of Autopilot and device redeployment through Intune. Will also cover subscription activation.

Deploy Windows 10 Quickly with Adaptiva’s Windows 10 Accelerator Program

Are you excited about Windows 10? So is Adaptiva! We created the Windows 10 Accelerator Program to help enterprises rapidly plan and test, deploy, and maintain Windows 10. In this session, we will show you some of the Program’s exclusive Microsoft MVP videos, training and guides and provide techniques for using Adaptiva OneSite, Adaptiva Client Health for Windows 10 and community tools to speed your Windows 10 migrations. Let Adaptiva take the stress out of moving to Windows 10 today.

Please join us on March 22, 2018, for our 6:00pm meeting at the Microsoft Technology Center at the Avalon, Alpharetta, GA.  You can reserve your spot by registering below.

We are pleased to announce our next meeting, sponsored by 1E.  We look forward to having Troy Martin provide a presentation on some of the new technologies being developed at 1E, as well as an open forum discussion on October 12, 2017, at the Microsoft Corporation offices in Alpharetta, GA.  

We will be sharing additional details in the future for this event.  Food and drink will be provided.

We request that everyone RSVP by going to the following site
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/atlanta-systems-management-user-group-meeting-10122017-tickets-38229701065
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Microsoft's address is 1125 Sanctuary Pkwy #300, Alpharetta, GA 30009

http://www.1e.com/

By now, many of you may have heard that the event we co-sponsor with two other groups, Atlanta TechStravaganza, has been canceled for 2018.  This is normally one of our feature events that we regularly participate in, and are sad not to be able to represent this year.

Not to worry, we are looking to attempt to host another ATLSMUG meeting in the month of August to replace this event.  At present time, we are still working on logistics and speakers, so be prepared to see us again.  

It is our goal to continue to grow from our meetings at the Microsoft Innovation Center from May.  Looking forward to growing our group again.

Join the Atlanta Systems Management User Group for a meeting at the Microsoft Innovation Center in downtown Atlanta, our first meeting to be held at this location. We'd like to welcome Jeff Stokes as our featured speaker, and as part of our first visit to the MIC, we'd like to have a small round table discussion about what you, the user community, would like to learn about in future meetings.

Windows 10 Imaging and Servicing - Jeff Stokes
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Windows 10 brings changes to the practice of image creation and deployment. It also has a different servicing model from previous versions of Windows. Hear from Jeff, author of "Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit", as he walks us through these changes and highlights best practices for Windows 10 imaging.

​Bio:
Jeff is a seasoned IT professional who has presented at TechMentor, Microsoft Tech Ready, Tech Ed, and other conferences and user groups. Major in troubleshooting and performance analytics, Minor in Deployment and VDI. He also writes and dabbles in big data analytics. He is a consummate gamer in his spare time.

One final update to all our users. As part of the ITI Roadshow: beer + pizza + win10, we are happy to say there will be prize giveaways at our event this Friday! 

It is finally here, the ITI Roadshow in Microsoft's Alpharetta offices is this Friday! Don't miss out on a chance to learn about and interact with Windows10. Bring your coworkers and friends and join us for beer + pizza + win10. 

We have made a few tweaks to the agenda, consolidated some content and streamlined the experience a bit. See below for more details. The main things to note are that registration is starting at 12:00. Come in, sit down, grab some food, some drinks, and relax for a minute. Presentations will begin at 12:30 with Bruce Lyons kicking things off. Stephen Owens will then be taking over, and finally we will open up the floor around 3:00. At that point, we will be ready for q&a, additional demos, announcements for upcoming events, or anything else you may be interested in. 

Don't forget to register for the ITI Community Roadshow! Who doesn't love a beer + pizza + win10 event?

Our very own Bruce Lyons will be hosting the ITI Roadshow Windows 10 content, and will be joined by PowerShell's Stephen Owens who will be discussing Windows 10 Implementation Tips & Tricks. Don't miss out!