Ignite

Today I met Jeffrey Snover and had a lot of conversations with new IT Pro’s. That’s what I like about Ignite: connecting with Microsoft Experts and other IT Pro’s! Tonight is the Attendee Celebration at the Olympic Park. Tomorrow is the last day at Ignite and the conference will end at 14:00. Below are the sessions I can recommend and followed today: Understand Credential Security by Paula Januszkiewicz If you can attend a session of Paula, always do it because she has interesting sessions about security. She will demo how cached credentials work and will show you how to get the users credentials with Classic Data Protection API. Paula will demo how to decrypt KeePass if you use Windows User Authentication with the Data Protection API. Paula will show you how to extract credentials from a Windows service. You need access to the registry for this hack. She will show you how you get access to the password in a SID-protected PFX certificate file and how to access Windows with smart card authentication turned on, without a smart card. ProTip from the session: know and limit your domain admins! Domain admins can also do tricks as other users from the domain. Conduct a successful pilot deployment of Microsoft Intune You’ll learn how to start a successful pilot and get tips from the field. Follow me on Twitter for live news from Ignite!

Yes, a new day at the Microsoft Ignite conference! All the sessions are spread across 3 buildings (A, B, C) and I must say that this keeps you fit during the conference. On Monday, my iPhone showed me the following stats for the day: [ ](/images/2016/09/ignite-health-stats.png) 18.8 kilometers is around 11.6 miles! Today I really enjoyed the session with Jeffrey Snover and Don Jones about PowerShell. I don’t know if it was recorded and will be available later, but I can highly recommend it. ...

I’m sitting in my hotel room in Buckhead, Atlanta thinking about all the Ignite sessions of today. It’s around 23:00 and we will visit Ignite early tomorrow, so I’ll keep it short. The day started at the C-building with a nice breakfast. The keynote was presented in the Philips Arena which is the arena of the Atlanta Hawks basketball team. We went to the keynote quite early in the morning but still it was hard to find a good seat. ...

I’m so happy to tell you that I’m one of the 5 people from Avanade Netherlands that will attend Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta this year! We are all really excited as this is the first time that we attend a big conference like Ignite. Last year I followed a lot of online presentations from home, and the high quality of the presentations makes this the best Microsoft event of the world. ...