This year at VeeamON 2017 in New Orleans Dave and I will be presenting a total of 7 sessions.

We wanted to do a quick write-up on them to let you know when and where they will be.

First of all, let’s have a look at the floor plan for the Conference and Expo Hall in New Orleans.

On Wednesday May 17, 2017 come hang out with Dave and Myself at the Microsoft Booth # 103. There will be a presentation theater setup there and we have a total of 5 sessions that we are doing including:

(Note: The schedule might change so please be aware of this and check with the Microsoft booth for the final times once you arrive)

(Note2: We are going to be trying to livestream these session for you in case you can’t attend the conference and are still interested in the content)

Session # 1 – Earn your Black Belt Hyper-V Performance Troubleshooting

Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Date: Wednesday May 17,2017

Location: Microsoft TheaterBooth # 103

This session will include some amazing tips that we have obtained from our years supporting production Hyper-V Farms.

Session # 2 – Top Tricks for Backing up Hyper-V with Veeam Backup and Replication

Time: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

Date: Wednesday May 17,2017

Location: Microsoft TheaterBooth # 103

This session will have some great tricks for you to setup your Veeam Backup and Replication Environments properly for Hyper-V

Session # 3 – Azure + Veeam the best of friends.

Time: 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Date: Wednesday May 17,2017

Location: Microsoft TheaterBooth # 103

This session will showcase how we are using Azure VPN and Virtual Machines as Storage Repositories for Veeam Backup and Replication

Session # 4 – How to Setup your Storage Spaces Direct Lab in 20 Minutes or less

Time: 6:30 PM – 7:00PM

Date: Wednesday May 17,2017

Location: Microsoft TheaterBooth # 103

This session will showcase how to setup you own Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Lab in less than 20 minutes using PowerShell.

Session # 5 – Everything you need to know about ReFS in 20 Minutes

Time: 7:00 PM – 7:30PM

Date: Wednesday May 17,2017

Location: Microsoft TheaterBooth # 103

This session will walk you through the basics of why using ReFS for your Backup Repositories with Veeam is the best choice.

Session # 6 – Why PowerShell Direct is your Best Friend in Windows Server 2016

Time: 1:00 – 1:30 PM

Date: Thursday May 18,2017

Location: Microsoft TheaterBooth # 103

This session is a great primer to learn all about PowerShell Direct and how it can be used to script your lab builds with Hyper-V.

Session # 7 – Using Microsoft ReFS and Storage Spaces Direct as a Backup Target for Veeam

Time: 2:50 – 3:50

Date: Thursday May 18,2017

Location: TBD

In this session, we will build Storage Spaces Direct from scratch using PowerShell and have tons of amazing demos for you.

You had better bring you notebooks for this session as Dave and the rest of us have a lot of gold nuggets for you to walk away with.

Our team of Veeam Vanguards, Microsoft MVP’s, and Cisco CCIE will be around for the entire week. If you have any questions about Microsoft Technology just come find us or hit us up on social media.

Dave Kawula – @DaveKawula

Cristal Kawula – @SuperCristal1

Allan Rafuse – @AllanRafuse

Emile Cabot – @ecabot

See you next week at #VeeamON 2017 New Orleans.

Cristal Kawula

Cristal Kawula is the co-founder of MVPDays Community Roadshow and #MVPHour live Twitter Chat. She was also a member of the Gridstore Technical Advisory board and is the President of TriCon Elite Consulting. Cristal is also only the 2nd woman in the world to receive the prestigious Veeam Vanguard award.

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Twitter: @supercristal1 / @mvpdays / #mvphour

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