MMS Sessions : Day Four : Afternoon
Man, I wish that there were two or three of me here. No, what I need is a Time – Turner (sorry for displaying a bit of my Harry Potter geekerie there) so that I can attend about three sessions per time-slot. The stuff I saw today was great, and there were other things I wanted to see just as badly but couldn’t. Such is life at MMS. And also why they make the DVD.
Config Manager Case Studies
This was my favorite session last year, and this year did not disappoint. Rodney Jackson gave a non-stop list of tools, utilities, and case scenarios. There’s nothing like a real-world scenario to drive a point home. It was problem – diagnoses – fix, with great lists of things to look out for in different scenarios.
Tools mentioned included BitsAdmin, Netmon 3.1 One Click, Log Parser 2.2, Wfetch, and the great SCCM Client Center.
This deck will be downloaded, printed, and kept until next year’s sessions. Well done.
SC07 – GP Updates in Win7 and 2008R2
Another great, great session. There’s a slew of new policy settings for Win7 and 2008R2, but what’s really cool are the new tools. Group Policy extensions for Powershell! Imagine the possibilities! How about backing up only policies that have been changed in the last X days? Or generating a quick list of policies changed today?
And you want to make a bunch of geeks swoon? Show them a window that they can resize now but couldn’t before. Magic! Wonder!
I’d be remiss here not to plug the Group Policy Team blog, which our fine presenter might have mentioned once. Or fourteen times.
Tonight: the big Closing Party. My hopes are not high.