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The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager User Experience research team is conducting a short online survey and your participation would be most appreciated. The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete. The survey addresses topics such as the use of mobile devices in your work, and overall user experience with Configuration Manager. Your feedback and insights are extremely valuable and will go a long way in impacting the product direction. Please click on the link below to access the survey, and thank you in advance for your participation.
http://sccm.wufoo.com/forms/survey-of-mobile-devices-used-for-it-tasks/
For the field in the survey that asks for your user ID, please enter the month and day of your birthday (MMDD).
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How to Enrich SCCM while Creating an HR-Geo Mashup
Business decisions rely on context and relevance. A list of software installations, patches deployed or hardware models provides little actionable information for business decision makers. The information – even when clarified by normalization – must be presented in the context of cost, risk and benefit to actually drive action.
In this webcast, you will learn how modern cataloging technology can enrich your SCCM data and elevate the value of SCCM to the boardroom.
- See how to automatically providing context to normalized data increases the value of SCCM data
- Learn how normalizing can easily be integrated with existing internal systems to support relevant decision making
- Hear from John Nelson, President, Minnesota System Center User Group, on the value of analyzed SCCM information to business decision makers and how they are using it help drive corporate initiatives.
WHEN: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
TIME: 10:00am Pacific / 1:00pm Eastern
SPEAKER: Walker White, CTO, BDNA & John Nelson, President, Minnesota System Center User Group
--> REGISTER: http://info.bdna.com/20110315-SCCM3-Boardroom-Reg.html
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After updating to Acrobat 9.4.2, one of the following occurs when you print to a printer from Acrobat:
- Error: "Before you can perform print-related tasks such as page setup or printing a document, you need to install a printer."
- Nothing happens when you click the OK button in the Print dialog. For example, no progress bar appears and nothing is printed.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/891/cpsid_89178.html
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On March 23, we invite you to join us at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas or tune in to www.windowsintune.com (which should get updated later today) as we introduce the final version of Windows Intune and celebrate its commercial availability in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, United Kingdom and United States.
News from CeBIT: Windows Intune Coming Soon to a PC Near You!
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SMSMap is a freeware ConfigMgr 2007 / SMS 2003 hierarchy drawing tool. It is an all-in-one solution for creating Visio drawings of any combination of ConfigMgr 2007 and SMS 2003 site servers.
http://www.tondtware.com/default.htm
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Two new Instructor-led Lab topics have been added to the MMS 2011 Lab Schedule. These topics cover Application Virtualization (App-V)and will be led by Jeff Gilbert of Microsoft who will walk attendees through excercises using App-V in real world scenarios. The new topics and the times at which you can reserve a place are as follows:
| IC06 | Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 1 Sequencer Technology
Session Times: Wed, 11:45 am and Thu, 4:00 pm
In this lab participants will preview the upcoming release of the App-V Sequencer, including a streamlined user interface, built-in best practices and diagnostics and App-V Package Accelerators. The App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer makes packaging applications for App-V easy, fast and predictable. Participants will create a new App-V package, create an App-V Package Accelerator, create a package from an Accelerator and see how the Sequencer’s new diagnostics lead to App-V packages that just work. |
| IC07 | Advanced Application Virtualization: Sequencing Office 2010
Session Times: Wed, 11:45 am and Thu, 4:00 pm
In this lab participants will sequence Microsoft Office 2010 using the Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V. |
You will find a complete listing of all sessions and labs planned for the event, including these new labs, in the MMS 2011 Session Listing document.
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This blog is focused on authoring concepts for System Center Operations Manager. This is going to be the replacement for www.authormps.com
AuthorMPs - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
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Join Flexera Software and Microsoft's Chris Jackson, Principal Consultant, also known as "The App Compat Guy", for an expert discussion on a best practices approach to Windows 7 application compatibility testing and fixing. This Webinar will help you formulate a strategy and find answers to tough questions like--
· Are your business-critical applications compatible with Windows 7?
· How long and what resources do you need to prepare applications for migration?
· What is the fastest way to fix compatibility issues?
· What is the best approach to testing for Internet Explorer 8 compatibility?
“Windows 7: How to Formulate a Smart Approach to Application Compatibility Testing and Fixing”, Date: Wednesday, March 9th, Time: 9:30PT/11:30CT
Register http://mktg.flexerasoftware.com/mk/get/AS-APPCOMPAT-TESTFIX-WBNR
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Microsoft today has closed the hotel block as it sold out! Even after buying even more rooms to keep it open – it still sold out! So folks will need to work directly with the hotel from now on.
Registration is still open, and there are still rooms at the Mandalay Bay and the Luxor. There are also rooms left at the Luxor but THEhotel is going to sell out completely soon for Thu Night and onwards.
It’s a gangbuster year – daily registration rate is the highest EVER!
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Microsoft continues to investigate the issues some Samsung Windows Phone 7 users are experiencing but WinRumors has an unofficial fix that will get you up and running until Microsoft can address the problems fully.
Got a “bricked” Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone? Here’s the fix | WinRumors
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Several lab topics covering Forefront security products have just been added to the MMS 2011 schedule. The 8 self-paced labs (HOLs) offer an opportunity to work at your own pace through a variety of security and identity solutions while the instructor-led lab (ILL) will be led by Forefront expert Ronald Beekelaar who will lead attendees thorugh excercises using Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010. The new topics added are as follows:
| Self-paced Lab Topics (HOLs) |
| LI01 | Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 Overview |
| LI02 | Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 Overview |
| LI03 | Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC) Overview |
| LI05 | Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Overview |
| LI06 | Information Protection using AD RMS |
| LI07 | Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Overview |
| LI08 | Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Overview |
| LI09 | Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) and Direct Access: Better Together |
| Instructor-led Lab Topic (ILL) |
| II01 | Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 Overview
Session Times: Wed, 11:45 am and Thu, 4:00 pm |
For more details of these topics simply navigate to the MMS 2011 Sessions Catalog and filter by Track="Security & Compliance Management" and Session Type="Self-paced Lab". You will also find a complete listing of all sessions and labs planned for the event, including these new labs, in the MMS 2011 Session Listing document.
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Walks you through the process of setting up a working Remote Desktop Session Host that uses RemoteFX and is accessible by using Remote Desktop Connection in a test environment.
Download details: Deploying Microsoft RemoteFX on a Remote Desktop Session Host Server Step-by-Step Guide
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myITforum.com will be helping manage the Community Lounge at MMS 2011 this year. We’re still hashing out the details right now, but this is an exciting opportunity for the community to have a place at MMS to connect (well, other than our booth).
More to come on this. We’ll be sending out our yearly MMS-special newsletter soon to update you on all the myITforum.com at MMS madness.
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Each year the Microsoft Management Summit generates a slew of new activity on myITforum.com. We’re always ready and prepared as we see traffic numbers rise. The increase in traffic gives us (and Microsoft) a good indicator of how well received the conference really is for a given year. However, this year is definitely the most pre-MMS traffic we have ever seen. Traffic has risen 130% this month. This is an amazing indication that this year’s conference will be a complete success and that System Center is steadily climbing into the forefront of systems management!
If you’ve not registered yet, I suggest you do so quickly, as time is running out!
http://www.mms-2011.com
