BigFix Days Virtual User Conference
Connect with the BigFix team in this series of exclusive virtual user conferences.
May 9 & 10, 2023 | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
About BigFix Days
The BigFix Days virtual user conference is an opportunity for BigFix users to connect with the HCL BigFix team in a lively, interactive setting. We’re coming to you LIVE – from our home offices to yours – to share new features, platform configuration tips and techniques and BigFix best practices content with you!
Come for the whole afternoon, or just the session that interests you. Either way, we’ll be glad to have you join, and we promise you’ll get something out of your visit. Join us to collaborate, share information and ideas, make new contacts, and learn something new.
Event Agenda
DAY ONE
Session Topic
Presenter
Session Summary
Time Start
Time End
Introduction and Welcome
Rhonda Studnick Kaiser Director, Customer Experience, BigFix
Event Opening Remarks
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
Keynote Address
John Golembiewski
VP of Product Engineering and Technical Advisors
John Golembiewski shares his perspectives on the focus of BigFix, a few items on upcoming releases, and a little secret project that you have to attend BigFix Days to find out about.
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
BigFix Roadmap
Aram Eblighatian
BigFix Product Manager
The BigFix team works day and night around the globe to help customers keep their environments running. In this session, you will hear from product team leaders on what we hear from our global customers, our feature priorities, the latest deliverables, what's committed on the roadmap as well as long term vision.
10:30 AM
12:00 PM
Break
Break
12:00 PM
12:15 PM
Relay Affinity using IPSubnetInfo
Casey Cannady
BigFix Professional Services
Casey Cannady from the BigFix Professional Services team is going to talk about how you can better automate dynamic relay affiliation using network data. We'll show you how to do it and tools that can augment the capability.
12:15 PM
12:45 PM
BigFix Web Reports from Scratch
Jason Cordell
BigFix Technical Advisor
Jason Cordell, BigFix Technical Advisor, will be presenting on how powerful BigFix Web Reports truly is and how you can create/customize reports easily via filters and dropdowns. From time to time, there's a need for a report that can’t be created in that manner. This session will walk through the process of creating a custom report from scratch, while leveraging various methods to simplify the hard parts (session relevance).
12:45 PM
1:15 PM
BigFix CyberFOCUS - Latest and Greatest
Daniel Mitchell
BigFix Technical Advisor
Daniel Mitchell, BigFix Technical Advisor, will demonstrate new capabilities and features in CyberFOCUS Analytics v1.1. In addition to the already powerful reporting found via the Mitre APT, CISA KEV, and PLA dashboards this session will highlight new features like prescriptive remediation guidance, adjustable PLAs, and device drill-down capabilites.
1:15 PM
1:45 PM
Fun & Prizes
Daniel Mitchell
BigFix Technical Advisor
Rhonda Studnick Kaiser, Director of Customer Experience - BigFix
Wrap up, fun & prizes!
1:45 PM
2:00 PM
DAY TWO
Session Topic
Presenter
Session Summary
Time Start
Time End
Welcome to Day 2
Daniel Mitchell
BigFix Technical Advisor
Day 2 Opening Remarks
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
Using Operating System Deployment to Migrate to Windows 11
Brad Sexton
BigFix Technical Advisor
Brad Sexton, BigFix Technical Advisor, will break down how you plan and determine eligible devices due to the requirements of windows 11. Once devices are deemed compatible you will walk through the upgrade process to limit user impact.
10:15 AM
10:45 AM
Building a BigFix Lab on a Budget
Ken Vendler
BigFix Technical Advisor
Ken Vendler, BigFix Technical Advisor, will be presenting on the topic of setting up a BigFix Lab environment on a budget, including reasons why having a dedicated lab can be helpful. We will also cover how to avoid breaking the bank when selecting hardware, hypervisors, and other infrastructure. Finally, we will cover maintaining the security of your lab environment as well as backup considerations.
10:45 AM
11:30 AM
A Word from BigFix Support
David Langridge
BigFix Support Technical Lead
David Langridge, BigFix Support Technical Lead, will provide you with information on best practices to interact with our BigFix Support teams to positively impact your support case outcomes and speed the process of getting the right information in the ticket the first time.
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
Break
Break
12:00 PM
12:15 PM
Get Ready. Get Set. Get Certified!
Kathy Nguyen
BigFix Technical Advisor - Enablement
Kathy Nguyen, BigFix Technical Advisor - Enablement, will share information on the new BigFix certification program and how you can get certified.
12:15 PM
12:30 PM
BigFix API
Jared Levy
BigFix Technical Advisor
Jared Levy, BigFix Technical Advisor, will be taking the audience through a 30 minute introduction into a fixlet designed to back up the content for a specific site. It will show how to make an api call to pull back data from the infrastructure. It will format the data, and use it to form another call that will actually export the content into a directory as .bes files that can be imported in the future.
12:30 PM
1:00 PM
Fun & Prizes
Daniel Mitchell
BigFix Technical Advisor
Rhonda Studnick Kaiser, Director of Customer Experience - BigFix
Wrap up, fun & prizes!
1:00 PM
1:45 PM
DAY ONE
| Session Topic | Presenter | Session Summary | Time Start | Time End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction and Welcome | Rhonda Studnick Kaiser Director, Customer Experience, BigFix | Event Opening Remarks | 10:00 AM | 10:15 AM |
| Keynote Address | John Golembiewski VP of Product Engineering and Technical Advisors |
John Golembiewski shares his perspectives on the focus of BigFix, a few items on upcoming releases, and a little secret project that you have to attend BigFix Days to find out about. | 10:15 AM | 10:30 AM |
| BigFix Roadmap | Aram Eblighatian BigFix Product Manager |
The BigFix team works day and night around the globe to help customers keep their environments running. In this session, you will hear from product team leaders on what we hear from our global customers, our feature priorities, the latest deliverables, what's committed on the roadmap as well as long term vision. | 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM |
| Break | Break | 12:00 PM | 12:15 PM | |
| Relay Affinity using IPSubnetInfo | Casey Cannady BigFix Professional Services |
Casey Cannady from the BigFix Professional Services team is going to talk about how you can better automate dynamic relay affiliation using network data. We'll show you how to do it and tools that can augment the capability. | 12:15 PM | 12:45 PM |
| BigFix Web Reports from Scratch | Jason Cordell BigFix Technical Advisor |
Jason Cordell, BigFix Technical Advisor, will be presenting on how powerful BigFix Web Reports truly is and how you can create/customize reports easily via filters and dropdowns. From time to time, there's a need for a report that can’t be created in that manner. This session will walk through the process of creating a custom report from scratch, while leveraging various methods to simplify the hard parts (session relevance). | 12:45 PM | 1:15 PM |
| BigFix CyberFOCUS - Latest and Greatest | Daniel Mitchell BigFix Technical Advisor |
Daniel Mitchell, BigFix Technical Advisor, will demonstrate new capabilities and features in CyberFOCUS Analytics v1.1. In addition to the already powerful reporting found via the Mitre APT, CISA KEV, and PLA dashboards this session will highlight new features like prescriptive remediation guidance, adjustable PLAs, and device drill-down capabilites. | 1:15 PM | 1:45 PM |
| Fun & Prizes | Daniel Mitchell BigFix Technical Advisor Rhonda Studnick Kaiser, Director of Customer Experience - BigFix |
Wrap up, fun & prizes! | 1:45 PM | 2:00 PM |
DAY TWO
| Session Topic | Presenter | Session Summary | Time Start | Time End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome to Day 2 | Daniel Mitchell BigFix Technical Advisor |
Day 2 Opening Remarks | 10:00 AM | 10:15 AM |
| Using Operating System Deployment to Migrate to Windows 11 | Brad Sexton BigFix Technical Advisor |
Brad Sexton, BigFix Technical Advisor, will break down how you plan and determine eligible devices due to the requirements of windows 11. Once devices are deemed compatible you will walk through the upgrade process to limit user impact. | 10:15 AM | 10:45 AM |
| Building a BigFix Lab on a Budget | Ken Vendler BigFix Technical Advisor |
Ken Vendler, BigFix Technical Advisor, will be presenting on the topic of setting up a BigFix Lab environment on a budget, including reasons why having a dedicated lab can be helpful. We will also cover how to avoid breaking the bank when selecting hardware, hypervisors, and other infrastructure. Finally, we will cover maintaining the security of your lab environment as well as backup considerations. | 10:45 AM | 11:30 AM |
| A Word from BigFix Support | David Langridge BigFix Support Technical Lead |
David Langridge, BigFix Support Technical Lead, will provide you with information on best practices to interact with our BigFix Support teams to positively impact your support case outcomes and speed the process of getting the right information in the ticket the first time. | 11:30 AM | 12:00 PM |
| Break | Break | 12:00 PM | 12:15 PM | |
| Get Ready. Get Set. Get Certified! | Kathy Nguyen BigFix Technical Advisor - Enablement |
Kathy Nguyen, BigFix Technical Advisor - Enablement, will share information on the new BigFix certification program and how you can get certified. | 12:15 PM | 12:30 PM |
| BigFix API | Jared Levy BigFix Technical Advisor |
Jared Levy, BigFix Technical Advisor, will be taking the audience through a 30 minute introduction into a fixlet designed to back up the content for a specific site. It will show how to make an api call to pull back data from the infrastructure. It will format the data, and use it to form another call that will actually export the content into a directory as .bes files that can be imported in the future. | 12:30 PM | 1:00 PM |
| Fun & Prizes | Daniel Mitchell BigFix Technical Advisor Rhonda Studnick Kaiser, Director of Customer Experience - BigFix |
Wrap up, fun & prizes! | 1:00 PM | 1:45 PM |
Schedule BigFix Demo
In this one-hour session, our product expert will walk you through ways to enable continuous endpoint compliance.
You will learn how you can
- Collaborate more effectively to cut operational costs.
- Compress endpoint management cycles.
- Enforce compliance in real-time and improve productivity.
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