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Friday, November 07, 2008 12:32 PM
[MMS] Mark your diaries for the 9th December 2008…
The MMS 2009 site is now live with registrations officially opening on the 9th December. However, don’t think there’s no reason to drop by the site now as YOU can win one of 4 Portable Media Players by...
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Friday, May 02, 2008 12:17 PM
MMS 2009 - Dates for your diary
MMS 2009 will take place from Monday 27th April until Friday 1st May in Vegas, not surprising because I doubt there are many places that can accommodate 4,000+ attendees (wonder if they'll increase...
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Friday, May 02, 2008 11:59 AM
MMS 2008: OpsMgr 2007 interop connectors for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console and HP OpenView for Windows and UNIX
At MMS 2008 Microsoft has announced the availability of the Betas for the Opsmgr interop connectors for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console and HP OpenView for Windows and UNIX. More details at: http://blogs...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:12 PM
The Latest from MMS 2008
Trying to keep up with what is happening at MMS isn't always easy, but the System Center Team Blog is doing a great job (as are all of the other bloggers): http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/pages...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:48 AM
Brad Anderson's Keynote at MMS 2008
Joseph Hinkle has done a great write up of Brad's keynote which is always one of my favourite MMS sessions: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jhinkle/archive/2008/04/30/mms-2008-keynote-2-brad-anderson...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:40 AM
MMS Day 2 - Product Roadmap details announced for specific tools
On MMS Day 2 Microsoft announced the product roadmap details for the following tools: Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Release Candidate 1 Asset Inventory Service (AIS) 1.5 Advanced Group Policy...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:41 AM
MMS 2008: System Center Configuration Manager "State of the Union"
Another great write up by Michael Niehaus on Bill Anderson's "State of the Union" ConfigMgr session - an MMS MUST attend session if you use ConfigMgr. It's been a busy year with exciting...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:31 AM
Public Beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 announced
Microsoft announced at MMS the public beta release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (formerly referred to as code name “Virtual Machine Manager vNext”) is now available. " System Center...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:27 AM
Microsoft Expands Datacenter Management Offerings With Advanced Heterogeneous and Virtualization Capabilities
LAS VEGAS — April 29, 2008 — Today, before an audience of more than 4,000 IT professionals and partners at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2008, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and...
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Monday, April 28, 2008 2:41 PM
More opportunities to meet and give your feedback to the SC Content Managers
Just came across this and thought some of you at MMS might find it interesting: " There's a lot planned for the Microsoft Management Summit next week in Vegas! I'll be there, as will several...
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Monday, April 28, 2008 2:27 PM
At MMS? Do your bit and help Microsoft
MMS Focus Group are a great way for YOU to have your voice heard and one session I would have loved to have attended (had I been there), is this one tomorrow. So if you're in Vegas, pop along to this...
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Friday, March 28, 2008 12:02 PM
1E at MMS 2008
Once again 1E will be exhibiting and presenting at this year's Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). Don't miss out on your opportunity to hear how their products solve real-world problems and to...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:38 PM
Your Last Chance to Save $300...!!!
Just a quick reminder that the Early Bird Registration for MMS 2008 closes TODAY so if you want to save $300 get in quick: https://www.mms-2008.com/public/registration.aspx
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:25 PM
New FAQShop Articles 7th June 07...
A couple of updates today: Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Three more great free utilities added to the SMS 2003 Tools and Utilities page [07/06/07] Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS] Checkout...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:24 PM
It's on it's way...
Just got this: “This e-mail serves as confirmation that your MMS 2007 DVD set has been shipped and you should be receiving it within 1-2 weeks” However, then I read this: “(International...
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Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:46 PM
MMS UK Sold Out BUT....
Blimey, the UK MMS Event I blogged about the other day ( http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/chobbs/archive/2007/04/16/mms-coming-to-the-uk.aspx ), is now full. BUT Microsoft have created a waitlist so if you...
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Monday, April 16, 2007 9:40 AM
MMS coming to the UK…
On Tuesday 1 st May Microsoft will be hosting a “Mini-MMS” event here in the UK entitled “ Microsoft Management Summit (UK) - Are you in control? How to manage and secure your infrastructure ”. This event...
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:57 PM
Rodney Jackson's Slides and Tools now available on the MMS website...
Microsoft have now resolved the issue with Rodney's PPT Slide deck and utilities not appearing on the MMS website. To access these simply log into the MMS site, click on "Session Scheduler" and then filter...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:08 PM
HP Client Catalog for SMS announced at MMS 2007
As announced during Bill Anderson's "State of the Union" presentation at MMS this year, HP have now released a Client Catalog for SMS. More details here ...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:26 PM
Goodbye old friend...
Well after many years of sterling service my 1E mini optical mouse has finally given up on me (not surprising after the bashing it's had from me over the last few years). I was given my little rodent friend...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:35 PM
My Blog updated with MMS Stuff
Well I've just finished updating my Blog with all of the "stuff" from MMS (publishing the content on the relevant dates), so if you want to find out what happended at MMS drop by...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:21 PM
My MMS Pics
OK, to make things easier I've decided to split my MMS pics out onto three separate pages as follows: USS Midway - The pictures I took whilst aboard the USS Midway which I visited on the Sunday MMS - Pictures...
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Friday, March 30, 2007 3:30 PM
MMS Day 4 - Thursday 29th March
Today's keynote was a panel of big companies that use System Center including EDS. Had a meeting with Neil Sanderson who is the Product Manager for System Center in the UK. Looks like there will be a ...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:25 PM
Other highlights from MMS Day Three
Other things of note coming out of yesterday include: Having lunch with Microsoft and Rod to discuss ways of improving the Systems Management Community Attending a meeting with 1E and some other large...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:07 PM
System Center Bloggers
Had an interesting meeting with Microsoft yesterday and a few other bloggers. Basically Microsoft want to work with us to help us spread the love on System Center. We tossed around some ideas and they...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:57 PM
MMS Day Three - Wednesday 28th March
Attended the keynote: SMS 2003 SP3 will be available in April SCCM Live Asset intelligence coming – Your Site Server connects over the Internet to a server in Microsoft to receive updates to the Asset...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:20 PM
Co-presenting SC34 - Microsoft Management Communities
Well I've just finished helping out Rod co-present the Microsoft Management Communities session by explaining how I got into SMS in the first place, the history of FAQs and FAQShop and what's involved...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:44 PM
MMS - SY03 - SCCM Deployment Part 1
Attended this session and made the following notes: SCCM Improvements Multi-threaded Hardware Inventory Object replication to Secondaries eliminated Multi-threaded file dispatch manager on Management Point...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:32 PM
MMS - SY05 - SCCM What's New in Software Distribution
Attended this session and made the following notes: Branch DP Can install on XP/ Vista machine Need lots of disk space No auto deploy of Branch DP – Need to assign to specific machine so no fallover like...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:03 PM
MMS Day Two - Tuesday 27th March
This is the first "proper" day of MMS. The day started with the keynote in which I found out: There's a new version of SQL due next year (wasn't aware of that one). SCOM 2007 was officially announced as...
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