CTSMUG at myITforum.com

Next CTSMUG meeting - June 24 2011

CTSMUG — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:39:00 GMT

9:30 – Welcome and Coffee
10:00 – ConfigMgr 2012 – Hierachy
11:00 – ConfigMgr 2012 – Migration from ConfigMgr 2007
11:30 – ConfigMgr 2012 – Content Deep Dive
12:00 – Lunch (Provided by EminentWare)
1:00 – EminentWare integration with System Center Configuration Manager 2007
2:00 – ConfigMgr 2012 Security – Roles-Based Access Control (RBAC)
2:30 – ConfigMgr 2012 – Client Agent Settings
3:00 – ConfigMgr 2012 and “Managing” Mobile devices
3:30 – Post-Meeting Social at Sam’s Boat

Visit our new CTSMUG site for more information and to register!

http://www.ctsmug.org

Central Texas Systems Management User Group - May 12, 2011

CTSMUG — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:00:00 GMT

MMS 2011 was another wonderful info-packed week. Join us May 12th for a review of MMS 2011, highlighting the System Center Products scheduled to release later this year.

We'll also dive deep into ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2.

9:30 - Welcome and Coffee
10:00 - MMS 2011 Review
11:00 - ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2 Overview
12:00 - Lunch (Provided by Secure Vantage)
1:00 – DCM v ACS: An Audit Comparison presented by Secure Vantage
2:00 - ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2 – Part 2
3:00 - Open Forum Discussion
3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Sam's Boat

Driving Directions

Central Texas User Group Meeting - 11 March 2011 - REGISTER NOW

CTSMUG — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:56:00 GMT

Register here: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=154084

Featured Products/Topics: Microsoft System Center, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft Systems Management Server

Recommended Audiences: IT Managers, IT Professionals, CIO, IT Directors

MMS2011 fast approaches. Please come and join us for some previews of content that will be covered at the conference. Whether your attending and want to jam pack more info by freeing up breakout session time or unable to attend, there is sure to be something for everyone. Our afternoon will be filled with great MDT Update 1 information from the incomparable Michael Niehaus

Recommended Audiences: IT Managers, IT Professionals, CIO, IT Directors

9:30 - 10:00 Welcome and Coffee

10:00 - 12:00 MMS2011 Previews

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (TBD)

1:00- 3:00 MDT2010 Update 1 and Beyond - Michael Niehaus

3:00 - 3:30 - Open Forum Discussion

3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Sam's Boat

Hope y’all can come!

CTSMUG Meeting - 14 January 2010 - Register TODAY!

CTSMUG — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:49:00 GMT

http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=152682

**UPDATED 4 JANUARY 2011**

What better way to kick off the New Year then presentations from 1E and the OSD Wizards from Dell Chris Minaugh and Mark Haralson in the sunny and hopefully warm city of Austin, Texas

Recommended Audiences: IT Managers, IT Professionals, CIO, IT Directors

Chris Minaugh and Mark Haralson will be presenting some of their tips and tricks with using pre-execution hooks and OSD.

ConfigMgr MVP Ed Aldrich will present and demonstrate 1E's latest products, including WakeUp, NightWatchman, Shopping, and Nomad, as well as NightWatchman Server Edition. He will also present on 1E's latest product, "Asset Management Platform", a true software licensing management and tracking solution. Rod Trent will also be on hand to provide some technical insight into the solutions offered by 1E.

9:30 - 10:00 Welcome and Coffee

10:00 - 11:30 OSD and pre-execution hooks

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch (Provided by 1E)

12:30- 3:00 1E Products Presentation and Demo

3:00 - 3:30 - Open Forum Discussion

3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Sam's Boat

Hope y’all can come!

CTSMUG Meeting - December 3rd 2010 - Register Today!

CTSMUG — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:31:00 GMT

(note that we're starting the meeting an hour earlier than normal).

Charles Joy, Tech Evangelist - Solutions Architecture from Microsoft, will introduce Microsoft’s Opalis product offering. This presentation will include a product overview, customer use case examples, and live demonstration. Open discussion is encouraged as we walk through a series of demonstrations which illustrate the power of Opalis and its integration capabilities to System Center as well as the Datacenter as a whole. The session will finish with a “How To” for creating your own custom solutions and integrations.

Travis Wright (twitter) Will present on System Center Service Manager. Travis Wright is a Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft System Center Service Manager product team. The session will start out with a high level overview of Service Manager to introduce everyone to the newest product in the System Center suite. Following that we’ll dive right into implementation best practices, customizing, and examples of automating IT with the Service Manager platform. We’ll also take a look at the roadmap of future releases of Service Manager.

And our very own Jason Sandys will also present, compliments of Catapault Systems.

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Coffee

9:00 - 11:30 System Center Service Manager with Travis Wright

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch (Provided by Catapault Systems), and an action-packed session by Jason Sandys (twitter)

1:00- 3:30 Opalis with Charles Joy

3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Sam's Boat

CTSMUG Meeting - November 12th 2010 - Register today

CTSMUG — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:03:00 GMT

Kerrie Meyler, MVP, will present an overview of System Center Operations Manager 2007. This will include an architectural overview, understanding of management packs, overrides, how maintenance mode works, and discussion of daily tasks performed by an OpsMgr admin.

Stephen Holcomb will present on extending ConfigMgr and MDT Operating Systems Deployment with DeployExpert.

Todd Hemsell will present on Operating System Deployment lessons learned, and tips and tricks.

9:30 - 10:00 Welcome and Coffee
10:00 - 11:45 Overview of Operations Manager 2007 (Kerrie Meyler)
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch (Provided by Altrinsic Solutions)
12:30- 2:00 DeployExpert for ConfigMgr (Stephen Holcomb)
2:00 - 3:00 OSD Tips and Tricks - Todd Hemsell
3:00 - 3:30 Open Forum Discussion
3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Sam's Boat

https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=151961

CTSMUG Meeting October 1 - registration is open!

CTSMUG — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:47:00 GMT

Please register: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=151051

Mark your calendars for October 1st 2010! Our very own Tim Mintner will present on MDT 2010 Update 1, and Lumension will be sponsoring the meeting as well as presenting a one hour session on "Device/Port Control and Data Encryption for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Customers".

What additional content would you like to see in this meeting??? More v.Next??? More R3?? Do you have other topics you'd like to hear about? Send us email: ctsmug@myitforum.com

Also, if you have something you'd like to share with the group, be it 5 mins or an hour presentation, send us an email and we'll get you on the agenda!

9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Coffee
10:00 – 11:00 ConfigMgr v.Next Beta 1 Review and Lessons Learned

11:00 – 12:00 MDT 2010 Update 1 (Tim Mintner)
12:00- 1:00 Lunch (provided by Lumension )
1:00 – 2:00 "Device/Port Control and Data Encryption for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Customers". (Lumension)
2:00 - 3:00 Topic TBD
3:00 - 3:30 Open Forum Discussion
3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Baby A's

Greg

Next CTSMUG Meeting - October 1st 2010

CTSMUG — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:43:00 GMT

What additional content would you like to see in this meeting??? More v.Next??? More R3?? Do you have other topics you'd like to hear about? send us email.

Also, if you have a something you'd like to share with the group, be it 5 mins or an hour presentation, send us the info and we'll get you on the agenda!

Greg

Central Texas Systems Management User Group – June 11th, 2010

CTSMUG — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:03:00 GMT

Join us on Friday, June 11th 2010 for a ConfigMgr v.Next overview, presented by Wally Mead! Wally will have three sessions during our meeting - he'll be driving through demos of new features in Configmgr v.Next. We'll spend the first session of the meeting talking about MMS 2010, and we'll have some time during the last session to discuss what you want to see in our next meeting.

*Microsoft has postponed their Austin office Move until July - so we're meeting at the "normal" MS venue.

9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Coffee

10:00 – 11:00 Microsoft Management Summit 2010 Review

11:00 – 12:00 ConfigMgr v.Next (Wally)

12:00- 1:00 Lunch (still looking for a sponsor)

1:00 – 2:00 ConfigMgr v.Next (Wally)

2:00 - 3:00 ConfigMgr v.Next (Wally)

3:00 - 3:30 Open Forum Discussion

3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Baby A's

Register Today!

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Central Texas Systems Management User Group – April 12th, 2010

CTSMUG — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:19:00 GMT

Join us April 12th for our MMS Preview!

9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Coffee

10:00 – 11:00 System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP) deep dive

11:00 – 12:00 ConfigMgr and PowerShell

12:00- 1:00 Lunch (Provided by Catapult Systems)

1:00 – 2:00 Server OS Deployment with ConfigMgr

2:00 - 3:00 Migrating from XP to Windows 7, and Open Forum Discussion

3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Baby A's

PowerPoint Slides from CTSMUG - Tim Mintner and Michael Niehaus

CTSMUG — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:59:00 GMT

We *Finally* posted the slide decks from our CTSMUG meetings with Tim Mintner and Michael Niehaus.

http://myitforum.com/cs2/files/folders/configmgr/entry145737.aspx

Great stuff in there - take a look, spend some time reviewing the slides!

Greg

Central Texas Systems Management User Group – March 5th 2010

CTSMUG — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:46:00 GMT

Jason Sandys (blog, twitter) will be presenting in the morning on ConfigMgr OS Deployment 101 and best practices, as well as demonstrating his OSD App Tree. In the Afternoon, the Dell IT guys (and gal) will present on Dell integration with ConfigMgr, focusing on OS Deployment. (see more at www.dell.com/configmgr).
Agenda:
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Coffee
10:00 – 12:00 OSD 101 Best Practices, and OSD App Tree
12:00- 1:00 Lunch (Provided by Dell )
1:00 – 3:30 Dell and ConfigMgr Integration (Dell Lifecycle Controller integration, Dell Server Deployment Pack, Dell Client Deployment Pack, Dell Driver Packs, Dell Repository Manager, Dell Server and Client Updates Catalog, and more!)
3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Baby A's

Jason Sandys, a Senior Consultant at Catapult Systems, has over 15 years of experience in development and systems management. Jason concentrates on implementing and supporting Microsoft-centric solutions for a wide variety of customers, focusing primarily on Configuration Manager and Operations Manager. Jason is a contributing author to the book System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed, is very active in the ConfigMgr community, and is a Microsoft MVP for ConfigMgr.

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Central Texas Systems Management User Group – January 22nd 2010

CTSMUG — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:21:00 GMT

Michael Niehaus (blog, twitter) will be presenting the entire day for a deep dive on Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 and ConfigMgr 2007 Operating System Deployment, and ConfigMgr R3!

Agenda:

9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Coffee
10:00 – 11:30 MDT 2010 - Advanced Topics (Working with databases, web services, etc.)
11:30- 12:30 Lunch (Provided by SoftwareOne )
12:30 – 2:30 MDT Extensions for ConfigMgr, OS Deployment Driver Management, and more!
2:30 - 3:30 ConfigMgr 2007 R3 overview, and open forum discussion
3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Baby A's

Register early! This meeting may be a sell-out!

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Central Texas PowerShell User Group - Friday Nov 6th

CTSMUG — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:41:58 GMT

You are invited to our first Central Texas PowerShell User Group! Our first meeting will cover the basics of PowerShell 2.0, as well as a demo from Sapien CEO Ferdinand Rios. Dr. Rios will demonstrate Primal Forms as well as how to create GUI interfaces for PowerShell.

Agenda:
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Coffee
10:00 – 11:30 PowerShell 101
11:30- 12:30 Lunch (Provided by Sapien)
12:30 – 1:30 Sapien Demo
1:30 - 2:30 PowerShell 201, and Open forum/discussion

Directions

Sapien will be giving away licenses for PrimalScript, PrimalForms, and other swag.

About Ferdinand Rios: Ferdinand Rios is a 23 year veteran of the software industry. During that time, he has been involved in almost every aspect of the business, from programmer, to project manager to CEO. Together with Alex Riedel, Ferdinand helps create the vision and direction for SAPIEN Technologies.

About Sapien: Now in its 23rd year, SAPIEN Technologies is the developer and publisher of the PrimalTools line of system administrator tools. Included in this product line are PrimalScript, an administrative scripting IDE, PrimalForms, a PowerShell RAD tool, PrimalSQL, a database neutral SQL query and management tool, and several other products. See the whole product line at www.primaltools.com.
SAPIEN Technologies offers more than just software: We give you more than 20 years of experience, powerful software applications, authoritative books, supportive communities, and real-world training. It's everything you need to learn new technologies, advance your skills in existing technologies, and work more effectively and more efficiently.

Central Texas Systems Management User Group – November 13th 2009

CTSMUG — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:18:10 GMT

Our very own Tim Mintner will be presenting the entire day for a deep dive on Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.

For those of you that don't know Tim, he's a former Microsoft MVP, and is currently transitioning from his role on the Microsoft Deployment Tookit team in Redmond to Xtreme Consulting group where he’ll be the lead Deployment Principal Consultant, where he’ll be based out of Austin. Tim has 15+ years of OS Deployment experience.

Agenda:

9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Coffee
10:00 – 11:30 MDT 2010 - Intro and Intermediate

11:30- 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 3:30 MDT 2010 - Advanced, and MDT Extensions for ConfigMgr
3:30 - Post-Meeting Social at Dave and Busters

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