Lucky Number 13 - at MMS!
Summary: I'm attending MMS for the 13th time! I hope you'll attend my presentation.
Can you believe it's April already? Yes, it's our favorite month of the year - Microsoft Management Summit month! (ok, maybe it's not the favorite month for all of you, but it's got to be a close second or third.) I'm honored to be speaking on the Microsoft IT ConfigMgr story:
BG02 Best Practices from Microsoft IT's Use of Configuration Manager 2007 SP2
Thursday, April 22 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Titian 2206
Paul Thomsen will discuss the insights found by the Microsoft team which runs ConfigMgr internally to manage 270,000 desktop clients, 15,000 datacenter servers, and related environments. Like the product itself, their best practices continue to evolve, including the use of server virtualization, adding services like App-V, and optimizing the hierarchy to ease the migration to ConfigMgr v.Next.
As noted in a previous post, I've spoken on similar topics 5 times previously at this conference (out of 19 presentations) - it has been a very popular topic, with lots of subtopics, so I'm confident it will be something you will enjoy. We manage a challenging environment but have a great team which often works with the ConfigMgr product team itself, so we're pleased to share insights that we expect will be useful in your operations.
On a personal level I'm amazed that I'm now up to 13 times attending (and speaking at) the conference. I remember being blown away to realize that I had hit number 10 a few years ago. The pattern just keeps rolling on. It's very cool to me. It will be a pleasure to see old friends and new.
p.s. Those that follow this blog will have noted that I've been very absent lately. Blogging always comes and goes in waves but I have been particularly neglectful in the last 7+ months. The reality is that a lot of my work over the last couple of years has been very 'research' oriented and thus hasn't lent itself to blogging (as much as I wish I could). I've partially compensated for that by being reasonably active on Facebook, though that's not technical, and I'm working on a new blog for my latest hobby - electronics. Eventually the recent projects will get to a public stage. And I'm planning to do a series here on the history of SMS, which I'm very excited about.