Essentials 2007 SP1 topics at MMS 2008
Time to start thinking about attending Microsoft Management Summit 2008 from April 28 to May 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
IT professionals interested in learning more about WSUS 3.0 SP1 and how it interacts Essentials 2007 SP1 will have a chance to have their questions answered during two sessions on the topic, Partners can attend a session and learn more about Remote Operations Manager 2007 and how it integrates with Essentials 2007. Essentials 2007 SP1 will be highligted in several different sessions, including a hands-on lab that takes you through installation, configuration and use of System Center Essentials 2007.
Topics specifically on Essentials 2007 include:
Architectural Overview of System Center Essentials 2007
Speaker: David Mills
Essentials 2007 is a new unified management solution designed for midsize businesses with 50-500 PCs. Get an overview of Essentials 2007 and understand how it enables IT professionals in midsize organizations to proactively manage their IT environment with increased efficiency. Essentials 2007 helps you keep your systems up-to-date with tools that accelerate problem resolution and enable automation of system updates and data collection.
Supporting Your End-Users with Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007
Speakers: Essentials product team, responsible for many areas of the product's development
In this session, you will learn how you can use System Center Essentials 2007 to more effectively support your end-users in a mid-size business (50-500 PCs)by deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting mission-critical applications, services and operating systems in your IT environment. We will walk through deployment of Office 2007 and demonstrate how to use Essentials 2007 to effectively manage business critical applications. We will then demonstrate Essentials 2007 desktop management capabilities which support the Windows Vista operating system.
System Center Essentials 2007: What's New in SP1?
Speaker: Ty Balascio
Essentials 2007 is a new unified management solution designed for midsize businesses with 50-500 PCs. In this session you will get an overview of updates being delivered in SP1 to improve the installation and configuration process and provide compatibility with Windows Server 2008. We will also describe and demonstrate new features such as configuring workgroup-joined computers for management and managing Windows Server 2008.
Introduction to System Center Essentials 2007
In this lab you will walk through the installation, configuration and use of System Center Essentials 2007. System Center Essentials is a systems management product designed for medium sized businesses and this lab will demonstrate some of the key capabilities of Essentials 2007 including managing computers, software and hardware inventory, software deployment, update management and monitoring
WSUS 3.0 SP1 with discussion of Essentials 2007 include:
Deploying WSUS 3.0 SP1
Speaker: Marc Shepard
This talk will discuss best practices for deploying WSUS3 SP1. It will cover various network architectures, upgrades from earlier versions of WSUS, integration with Server 2008 and a brief overview of how WSUS is used in other management products such as System Center Configuration Manager and Essentials 2007.
Managing WSUS 3.0 SP1
Speakers: Cecilia Gutierrez, Marc Shepard
This talk will discuss best practices for managing WSUS 3.0 SP1 server(s). The focus will be on operational best-practices, not deployment strategies (which is covered in session SE07). Topics will include: backup, server cleanup, DB tuning, rolling out new updates, integration with Server 2008 and a brief overview of how WSUS is used in other management products such as System Center Configuration Manager and Essentials 2007.
Partner specific session on ROM 2007:
Microsoft System Center Remote Operations Manager 2007: Deployment and Configuration
Speakers: Essentials product team, responsible for many areas of the product's development
Learn how Microsoft partners can move from a break-fix to an annuity-based IT support business! Remote Operations Manager 2007 is a new platform which Microsoft partners can use in conjunction with System Center Essentials 2007 to provide proactive remote IT management for their small and midsize business customers. This session will also cover in detail the process of deploying and configuring this solution as well as using it to provide great deep remote IT management for Microsoft products.
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