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Wanted -- a few good folks!
From Bill Anderson's Web blog:
"You don't want me on that wall -- you NEED me on that wall." Ah, I remember Jack Nicholson yelling this at the top of his lungs about the critical nature of what he and his team did in "A Few Good Men." Now, I won't equate building SMS to protecting America's borders, but I will say that we do NEED your help. With the incredible success of SMS as a product, as well as MS's enterprise management strategy all-up, we (the SMS team) are growing in leaps and bounds, and we need you on our wall! We have openings across the board for program managers, developers and testers to help support the current SMS product, as well as design and develop the next generations of SMS to come.
If you want to be a part of the team that builds the most used systems management product on the market, send a copy of your resume to SMSJobs@microsoft.com. NOTE: these positions are all based at corporate campus in GORGEOUS Redmond (Seattle), WA. So, a preference for the color "green" is a plus! :-)
Bill Anderson
Lead Program Manager - SMS
Microsoft Corporation
Organizational changes in SMS team
From Bill Anderson's Web blog:
Whew, I'm finally coming back to reality after MMS. What an INCREDIBLE event. I would say the most successful ever in many ways (the foremost for me being that my OS Deployment demo worked and I stayed employed while standing 5 feet from termination on stage with Steve Ballmer!).
For those of you that went, and attended Brad/my State of the Union session, you heard Brad mention a new role I'm taking, so I wanted to update you on some exciting new developments on the SMS team so as you see these faces and hear these names, you know exactly what each is doing.
Brad Anderson is the General Manager for SMS, System Center Capacity Manager and System Center Reporting Manager. He has been doing this for about two years now since coming to us from Novell. As you saw on stage with me, his passion is infectious, and you can see that all across our enterprise management products in general.
Brad has wanted to spend more time across all three of these product lines, so he has promoted Dustin Ingalls to the role of Product Unit Manager for SMS all-up. Dustin now runs all things engineering for SMS. This includes support of the existing product, as well as development and planning for future releases. Dustin has been the Group Program Manager the past two years, and brings his vast experience of running the datacenters internally at Microsoft to continue driving SMS forward as the best change/configuration management tool on the market (OK, so I'm a bit biased).
With Dustin moving up, he has named Kyle Smith as his new GPM. You may have seen Kyle speak at events before, or on a number of SMS webcasts. Kyle has a long history with SMS, including the Lead PM for SMS V4 planning and design up to this new promotion. Kyle hales from the world of MS Consulting Services before coming out to the product team four years ago and really defines customer focus in every thing he does.
Me? You heard Brad. I've left the world of product management and now am a Lead Program Manager working in parallel to define the next, NEXT version of SMS - SMS V5. The goal is to take a small team that will work in parallel to the shipping product to drive vision/scope, requirements, and specifications so that as SMS V4 ships, we can start building V5 and make sure we're delivering products in predictable cycles.
I would LOVE to cover all of the hundreds of folks working and contributing to SMS as their efforts are as important (if not more so) than the few names I highlighted here. But, since some org changes were announced at MMS, I thought this would be a good quick update for those.
For those of you that attended MMS, good to have seen you there -- and thanks for all your continued support!!
Bill Anderson
Lead Program Manager - SMS
Microsoft Corporation
MISCELLANEOUS: Is Google different than Yahoo and MSN?
[by Paul Teodorescu, 25 May 2005]
Google recent announcement that will allow users to personalize the Google home page with features they use frequently, like stock quotes, news and e-mail made waves last week.
> Read all Miscellaneous articles
MOM: SQL2000 SP4 and MOM2005
[by Jo Verbrugghe, 25 May 2005]
Do not install SQL2000 SP4 if you want to use it as the repository for MOM2005 RTM!
> Read all MOM articles
PATCH MANAGEMENT: Overall, Patching Windows systems may not be as expensive
[by Paul Teodorescu, 25 May 2005]
Since I have been around in the IT I was told and read that the total cost of ownership for the open source systems, which includes patching, are lower than for Windows.
> Read all Patch Management articles
POCKETPC: Password protect your Pocket PC
[by John Gormly, 25 May 2005]
If you're like me and are a heavy user of your Pocket PC, you probably have data on your PC you'd rather not have compromised if the device is lost, stolen, misplaced, or otherwise left unattended. Use this tip to protect your device.
> Read all PocketPC articles
SMS 2003: Help for Microsoft SMS Extended Security Update Inventory Tool Failures
[by Jeff Salisbury, 24 May 2005]
The SMS Extended Security Update Tool may fail due to problems with the Microsoft XML Parser.
> Read all SMS 2003 articles
WEB TECHNOLOGIES: Is Google different than Yahoo and MSN?
[by Paul Teodorescu, 24 May 2005]
Google recent announcement that will allow users to personalize the Google home page with features they use frequently, like stock quotes, news and e-mail made waves last week.
> Read all Web Technologies articles
WINDOWS WORKSTATION: Roaming Profiles Replacement help
NETWORKING: Network Rack Cable Management
GENERAL SECURITY DISCUSSIONS: HIPAA compliance
SMS INSTALLER: How to safely Reboot?
MOM: AD Replication
SMS 2.0: Mcafee 8.0 Class
SMS 2003: Enabling Certain users to Roll Out images using OSD...
WINDOWS PE: Change boot graphic
Top Users by Collection extension to the User Logon Audit Tool
by tmintner
Steve Bobosky sent me this additional Web report for his User Logon Audit Tool. This will show the top users by Collection.
Microsoft Component Installer Software Development Kit (Spring 2005)
[25 May 2005]
Tool for installing necessary Windows components that applications need to execute properly.
Completing Setup for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server Premium Technologies
[25 May 2005]
Find step-by-step instructions for installing ISA 2004 and SQL Server 2000 on your Small Business Server Premium Edition computer.
Live Communications Server 2005: All Technical Documents
[25 May 2005]
This download contains the full documentation set written for the initial release of Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, prior to the release of Service Pack 1.
SharePoint featured prominently in Office 12 plans
[25 May 2005]
The next version of Microsoft's Office suite of productivity applications will lean heavily on updated collaboration software designed to let users index and search e-mails.(SearchExchange.com)
Monad to make a pre-Longhorn appearance
[25 May 2005]
Microsoft's new command-line shell and scripting language will be built into both Windows Server 2003 R2 and the next version of Exchange Server. (SearchWin2000.com)
Three ways phishers are hooking you
[25 May 2005]
Researchers say the bad guys are getting a lot better at catching users on the phishing hook. Three methods are of particular concern. (SearchSecurity.com)
Book Talk: Maximizing ASP.NET
[25 May 2005]
A useful guide from developer and tool maker Jeff Putz comes along in time to help educate developers as they begin to encounter ASP.NET 2.0. (SearchVB.com)
IBM lights Candle
[25 May 2005]
Big Blue has unveiled a new IT service management suite, combining the products and services it acquired from Candle Corp. (Search390.com)
Domino's gets the door for VoIP
[25 May 2005]
Domino's Pizza is implementing Nortel's new communications manager in its branch locations, enabling it to economically converge separate voice and data services onto one network. (SearchEnterpriseVoice.com)
CCI ditches NetApp for OnStor gateways
[25 May 2005]
CCI ran out of performance and capacity on its NetApp filers and turned to NAS gateways from OnStor to pool its back-end storage. (SearchStorage.com)
Innovation -- IBM style
[25 May 2005]
Intended as a partner support mechanism, IBM's Innovation Centers have helped Big Blue strengthen its relationship with the ISV community. (Search400.com)
Runaway bride action figure!
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