Ignite 2016 Sessions + Downloader

Note: Due to Microsoft putting Ignite 2016 contents on YouTube and a new portal, I had to rewrite the download script. Mattias Fors was also working on this, and after integrating his contents pointers, I present you Ignite2016Download.ps1. Check the description on Technet Gallery page for usage options.

Today, the Ignite 2016 event will kick off in Atlanta, US. The agenda contains the whopping number of 1412 sessions, of which 395 touch Office 365 and 133 Exchange in some way or another.

With those numbers it is impossible to attend every session for folks interested in these topics, but luckily Microsoft will also publish Ignite 2016 sessions on Channel 9 this year.

Some of the interesting sessions to watch out for are (links should resolve to on-demand sessions, as they become available):

Session	Description	Speaker(s)
BRK1021	Unplug with the Microsoft Outlook experts	Julia Foran, Gabe Bratton, Allen Filush, JJ Cadiz, Eduardo Melo, Amanda Alvarado, Victor Wang, James Colgan
BRK1044	Dive deeper into what’s new and what’s coming in Outlook on the web	Dave Meyers, Eduardo Melo
BRK2033	Discover Office 365 Groups – overview, what’s new and roadmap	Amit Gupta, Christophe Fiessinger
BRK2035	Learn about advancements in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection	Jason Rogers, Phil Newman
BRK2053	Connect your business critical applications to Outlook and Groups	David Claux
BRK2044	Discover what’s new and what’s coming for Office Delve	Cem Aykan, Mark Kashman
BRK2093	Design your Exchange infrastructure right (or consider moving to Office 365)	Boris Lokhvitsky, Robert Gillies, Adrian Moore
BRK2139	Protect your business and empower your users with cloud Identity and Access Management	Nasos Kladakis
BRK2170	Discover what’s new with Microsoft Exchange Public Folders	Sampath Kumar
BRK2215	Debate the top 10 reasons not to move your Exchange on-premises mailboxes to Exchange Online	Tony Redmond, Greg Taylor, Steve Conn
BRK2216	Unplug with the experts on Exchange Server and Exchange Online	Greg Taylor, Timothy Heeney, Jeff Mealiffe, Ross Smith IV, Wendy Wilkes
BRK2217	Discover modern support in Outlook for Exchange Online	Julia Foran, Amir Haque, Gabe Bratton
BRK2218	Move from Exchange 2007 to Modern Exchange	Greg Taylor, Steve Conn
BRK2219	Meet twin sons of different mothers – Exchange Engineers and Exchange MVPs	Tony Redmond, Jeff Mealiffe, Andrew Higginbotham, Jeff Guillet, Karim Batthish
BRK2220	Peer behind the curtain – how Microsoft runs Exchange Online	Paavany Jayanty, Eddie Fong, Karim Batthish, Mike Swafford
BRK3000	Unplug with the experts on Microsoft Exchange Top Issues	Nino Bilic, Nasir Ali, Amir Haque, Shawn McGrath, Timothy Heeney, Gabe Bratton, Angela Taylor
BRK3001	Explore the ultimate field guide to Microsoft Office 365 Groups	Tony Redmond, Amit Gupta, Benjamin Niaulin
BRK3007	Investigate tools and techniques for Exchange Performance Troubleshooting	Nasir Ali, Jeff Mealiffe
BRK3019	Manage Microsoft Office 365 Groups	Eric Zenz, Vince Smith
BRK3023	Understand how Microsoft protects you against Spoof, Phish, Malware, and Spam emails	Jason Rogers
BRK3045	Use Microsoft Graph to reach users on hybrid Exchange 2016	Venkat Ayyadevara
BRK3046	Build intelligent line-of-business applications leveraging the Outlook REST APIs	Venkat Ayyadevara
BRK3074	Discover what’s new in Active Directory Federation and domain services in Windows Server 2016	Sam Devasahayam
BRK3109	Deliver management and security at scale to Office 365 with Azure Active Directory	Brjann Brekkan
BRK3139	Throw away your DMZ – Azure Active Directory Application Proxy deep-dive Throw away your DMZ – Azure Active Directory Application Proxy deep-dive	John Craddock
BRK3216	Plan performance and bandwidth for Microsoft Office 365	William Looney, Ed Fisher
BRK3217	Run Microsoft Exchange Hybrid for the long haul	Timothy Heeney, Nicolas Blank
BRK3219	Migrate to Exchange Online via Exchange Hybrid	Michael van Horenbeeck, Timothy Heeney
BRK3220	Deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2016	Brian Day, Jeff Guillet
BRK3221	Understand the Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Architecture	Ross Smith IV, Mike Cooper
BRK3222	Implement Microsoft Exchange Online Protection	Jennifer Gagnon, Wendy Wilkes
BRK3227	Ask us anything about Microsoft Office 365 Groups	Eric Zenz, Darrell Webster, Christophe Fiessinger, Martina Grom
BRK3253	Experience Scott Schnoll’s Exchange tips and tricks	Scott Schnoll
BRK3254	Cert Exam Prep: Exam 70-345: Designing and Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2016	Vladimir Meloski
BRK4031	Overcome network performance blockers for Office 365 Deployments	Paul Collinge
BRK4032	Dive deep into Microsoft Exchange Server High Availability	Andrew Higginbotham
PRE18	The previous decade called…they want their Exchange Server back	Michael van Horenbeeck, Greg Taylor, Sampath Kumar, Andrew Higginbotham, Timothy Heeney, David Espinoza, Nicolas Blank
THR1005R	Dive deeper into what’s new and what’s coming in Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Windows	Misbah Uraizee
THR1011R	Dive deeper into what’s new and what’s coming in Outlook mobile	Allen Filush, Victor Wang, James Colgan
THR2007R	Fight back with advancements in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection	Phil Newman, Atanu Banerjee
THR2054	Understand the risk and value of your public folder data BEFORE you migrate	Dan Langille
THR2190R	Secure your sensitive email with Office 365 message encryption	Gagan Gulati, Ian Hameroff
THR3001R	Migrate DL to Microsoft Office 365 Groups	Siva Shanmugam, Loveleen Kolvekar
THR3015	Use RMS in Microsoft Office 365	Nathan O’Bryan
THR3040	Automate Exchange deployment with Powershell Desired State Configuration	Ingo Gegenwarth
THR3082	Secure Office 365 in a hybrid directory environment	Alvaro Vitta

For those that wish to view sessions offline, there is a script to download the slidedecks and videos. It does so by scraping the Ignite portal, downloading slidedecks from the portal itself, and videos from the related YouTube video link using an utility youtube-dl.exe (which you can also use to download playlists, quite neat). The script can take some parameters:

DownloadFolder to adjust the download folder.
Format to alter the dimensions and quality of the downloaded videos (see help for supported formats).
Title to filter on title keyword
Keyword to filter on description keyword.
Start to use a different version number to start scraping. Scraping is done sequentially; in the output you will notice a (#nnn) next to the title. That is the current post number.
NoVideos to skip downloading videos.

You can download the script from the TechNet Gallery here.

6 thoughts on “Ignite 2016 Sessions + Downloader”

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nextgennerdblog on October 4, 2016 at 2:38 AM said:

Reblogged this on Next Gen Nerd and commented:
Michel de Rooij did a great job putting together this script to download the PowerPoint and video files. You will need youtube-dl.exe to download the videos. Also you can search based on keyword or tittle so you only need to download the sessions you are interested in.

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Aleh Alisevich on October 4, 2016 at 12:10 PM said:

great job guys. Thanks!

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Josh on November 1, 2016 at 10:47 PM said:

You must provide a value expression on the right-hand side of the ‘-‘ operator.
At C:\Users\jsiddoway\Downloads\Ignite2016Downloader.ps1:273 char:61
+ $SessionsToGet = $SessionsToGet | where { $Speaker – <<<< in $_.speakerNames }
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExpectedValueExpression
I try to run the script but all i get is this error and i can't for the life of me figure it out.

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- Michel de Rooij on November 1, 2016 at 11:13 PM said:
  
  What cmdlet did you use to run the script? Speaker can be a single string entry, e.g. ‘Jeff Mealiffe’
  
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