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


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  • Collaborate more effectively to cut operational costs.
  • Compress endpoint management cycles.
  • Enforce compliance in real-time and improve productivity.
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