Modernizing Microsoft Windows

As part of next Thursday’s “Windows Takeover” theme at the Microsoft Ignite conference taking place in Orlando Florida, CollabTalk will be hosting the  4th of 5 tweetjams on Thursday, September 28th from 12:30pm to 1:30pm Eastern on a Windows-related topic — “Modernizing to Windows-as-a-Service” that will bring together an assortment of partners, MVPs, solution providers, and community influencers who will join us online as well as in-person!

These online discussions are open to anyone — you do not have to be on the panel to participate, but can login to Twitter and join in on the conversation at any time!

If you will be attending Ignite, you can participate in the tweetjam and live stream in the Community Center in the OCCC West Building, where the @REgarding365 team will be live streaming the discussion for those participating in-person. For the rest of the online community, please join the community discussion using Twitter and the #CollabTalk hashtag, or through our dedicated tweetjam site at http://twubs.com/CollabTalk.

This tweetjam is being sponsored by the Microsoft SCCM team, with our amazing stats provided, as always, by tyGraph.

If you have never participated in one of these tweetjams, it’s pretty simple: anyone can jump in and share their thoughts, or just lurk in the wings and absorb the wisdom of the crowd. Either way, it’ll be a TON of content to consume in a single hour. You can follow the live session using the Twitter UI of your choice (Twitter.com, Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Twubs, whatever). How it works is that I’ll post a series of questions every few minutes, and people will respond to Q1, Q2, Q3 and so forth with A1, A2, A3, always including the #CollabTalk hashtag with their answers. Feel free to reply as often (or as little) as you’d like, ask your own follow up questions, share relevant links, re-tweet others, and engage with the audience.

The questions we will discuss during the session include:

1. What have you found to be the biggest challenge of WaaS = getting to win10, and staying updated on current?
2. What percentage of your company is on Win10 1703+, and what is the biggest benefit?
3. What tools and processes do you use for keeping Win10 patched and secure? Biggest challenges?
4. What is your favorite new feature that shipped in either Intune or ConfigMgr in the last 12 months?
5. Do you think managing traditional desktops and mobile devices will converge?
6. In the IT world – what is the overlap of management tools like ConfigMgr/Intune and collab tools like SharePoint and Teams?
7. One year from now, what will be your measurement for success to track progress in modernizing your IT processes?

Of course, there will be side-questions, side-conversations, and wise-cracking throughout. This is open to the public, so please join in the discussion! The dialog is usually thought-provoking but also fun.

Participating on this panel (so far):

• David James (@djammmer), director of engineering for ConfigMgr at Microsoft
• Harjit Ghaliwal (@Hoorge), Microsoft MVP, IT Pro, technology & social media evangelist
• Mike Terrill (@MikeTerrill), Microsoft MVP, ConfigMgr and OSD specialist, OS engineer at Wells Fargo
• Wes Preston (@idubbs), SharePoint MVP, evangelist,  and owner at TrecStone
• John White (@diverdown1964), SharePoint MVP and cto at UnlimitedViz Inc.
• Nick Brattoli (@Byrdttoli), founder and lead consultant at Byrdttoli Enterprise Consulting
• Maarten Eekels (@maarteneekels), SharePoint MVP and cto for Portiva
• Kelvin Hoyle (@kelvin_hoyle), VanSPUG president, SPS Vancouver board member, systems specialist at WorkSafeBC
• Drew Madelung (@dmadelung), SharePoint and Office 365 MVP and architect at Concurrency Inc.
• Paul Keijzers (@kbworks), Office Servers & Services MVP and Office 365 specialist at Wortell
• Seb Matthews (@sebmatthews), consultant, entrepreneur, evangelist, freemason, world traveler
• Darrell Webster (@reoffice365), Office Servers & Services MVP and co-founder RE:Office 365
• Ed Senez (@edsenez), president at UnlimitedViz and TyGraph
• Nikkia Carter (@carterMcGServ), ceo at CMW LLC and tech speaker
• Alistair Pugin (@alistairpugin), SharePoint MVP and productivity evangelist at Britehouse
• Benjamin Niaulin (@bniaulin), Microsoft Regional Director, Office 365 MVP and evangelist at ShareGate
• Brian Culver (@SPbrianculver), SharePoint MCM and founder, president of Expert Point Solution
• Michal Sobotkiewicz (@michalsobot), founder and ceo of ObjectConnect and KanBo
• Eric Riz (@rizinsights), SharePoint MVP and ceo of Empty Cubicle
• Adam Levithan (@collabadam), Office 365 MVP and senior product manager at Exostar
• Heather Newman (@heddanewman), co-founder and cmo of ContentPanda
• Gokan Ozcifci (@xGokan), Microsoft Regional Director, SharePoint MVP, and IT infrastructure consultant at Neoxy
• Mack Sigman (@mack_sigman), senior director for professional services at Coras, chairman of FEDSPUG
• Stacy Deere-Strole (@sldeere), SharePoint MVP and owner of Focal Point Solutions
• Geoff Varosky (@gvaro), managing consultant at BlueMetal, president of Boston Area SharePoint Group, and co-founder of Boston Office365 User Group
• and your host, Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Microsoft MVP, founder & ceo of CollabTalk LLC

If you would like to join our panel, please drop me a line. Otherwise, everyone is invited. And if you can’t make the time, keeping watching the Twitter feed for updates via my Storify page. You can also watch my Twitters via @buckleyplanet for updates. And thank you again to the Microsoft SCCM team and tyGraph for your support of these CollabTalk tweetjams!

If you are interested in being a sponsor of a future tweetjam, please contact me at CollabTalk