March 2011 - Posts

BJ02 Top 10 Quickest, Easiest Ways to Get System Center Support for Free! #mms2011
31 March 11 01:57 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Lots of bacon!  The full community flavor has been uploaded.  Includes the MMS 2011 announcement of the Most Valued Community Contributor incentive program.

http://myitforum.com/cs2/files/folders/mms/entry156202.aspx

Announcing the Tech.Days Online Microsoft Management Summit, 21st April from 1pm #mms2011
30 March 11 12:22 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

 

With the Microsoft Management Summit having taken place last week, we were inspired to set up a new Tech.Days Online Conference to showcase the System Center suite of products. So here goes....

Announcing the Tech.Days Online Microsoft Management Summit, 21st April from 1pm - UK TechNet - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

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MMS Memories updated with MMS 2011 photos–now almost 1,600 photos #mms2011
30 March 11 10:10 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

Thanks to those who are sharing their MMS 2011 memories we now have *almost* 1,600 photo memories of MMS (we’re only 10 short).  There are quite a few more that we’ll be uploading over the next week or so, so stay tuned.

As always, the MMS Memories album sits at the following link:

http://www.myitforum.com/mmsmemories/

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Site changes to reflect product announcements at MMS 2011 #mms2011
30 March 11 10:04 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

We’ve rolled out some changes to the myITforum.com site properties over the past couple days to reflect product announcements and product changes at MMS 2011.

Forums

We added a brand new System Center Configuration Manager 2012 forum for chatting about the upcoming product and participation in the current  beta offerings.  ConfigMgr 2012 represents a huge change in “SMS”.

We added a brand new forum just for System Center Advisor. System Center Advisor (formerly Microsoft codename Atlanta) is a cloud service that enables IT professionals to assess their server configuration and proactively avoid problems.

We updated the Opalis forum to reflect the new product name change.  Opalis is now System Center Orchestrator.

Article sections

We added a new section in the Articles for System Center Advisor.

We modified the Opalis Article section to reflect the name change to System Center Orchestrator.

myITforum TV

We added a new section in the Articles for System Center Advisor.

We modified the Opalis Article section to reflect the name change to System Center Orchestrator.

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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 ships
29 March 11 04:07 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

 

The SP1 version of SCVMM 2008 R2 has shipped.

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/virtual-machine-manager.aspx

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 ships - Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

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myITforum.com partners SCCM Expert and App-DNA in post-MMS 2011 wrapup
29 March 11 03:54 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

On BrianMadden.com there’s a video talking about MMS 2011 and a couple of our partners are noted: SCCM Expert and App-DNA.

http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/tv/archive/2011/03/25/brian-madden-tv-35-mms-2011-round-up.aspx

myITforum Poll: How are you building your images for deploying operating systems?
29 March 11 03:51 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

How are you building your images for deploying operating systems?

Participate here:

http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=22837&z=120

MMS 2011 wrap-up: SCCM, apps, and the desktop make for a good show - Gabe Knuth - BrianMadden.com
29 March 11 03:42 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

 

This year marks the second time I've attended the Microsoft Management Summit, and I have to say that I took a lot more away from the show this year than I did last year. Last year, I was on the prowl looking for Microsoft-specific directions on desktop virtualization. This year, I dropped the "virtualization" part and decided to follow what's happening with the entire desktop (this is, after all, the Microsoft Management Summit). Part of that was out of necessity since there wasn't much in the way of desktop virtualization announcements, but another reason is that we're officially now dealing with the "concept" of the desktop, and not the physical device of the same name.

MMS 2011 wrap-up: SCCM, apps, and the desktop make for a good show - Gabe Knuth - BrianMadden.com

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The AutoCAD Network Administrator's Bible - 2012 Edition
29 March 11 02:30 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

 

It's alive!  Run for your lives!  Ahhhhh!  Ok, don't do that.  Run for the web site and order your copy today.  I hope you like it.  I tried to fill in the things I thought were missing in the previous book.

Skatterbrainz Blog: The AutoCAD Network Administrator's Bible - 2012 Edition

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myITforum Poll: Alternate OSD Solution
29 March 11 02:05 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

For those that utilize System Center Configuration Manager, do you also use an alternate operating system deployment solution?

Participate in a yes/no poll here:

http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=22835&z=120

Microsoft Management Summit 2011 Recap - The Dell TechCenter
29 March 11 01:45 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

 

Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas just concluded and with the big announcement of System Center 2012 (beta now available), there is a lot to talk about. Dell highlighted many of it's Systems Management Packs that interface with Configuration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager in the Dell Booth at the conference and Dell team members gave several presentations during Conference breakout sessions.


Join us on the chat to talk about all things MMS 2011 !

03-29-2011 Microsoft Management Summit 2011 Recap - The Dell TechCenter

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MMS 2011 Day 1 Keynote back online–sort of… #mms2011
29 March 11 06:30 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

The day 1 keynote had to be taken offline late last week due to some issues with some of the video portions.  The TechNet Edge folks are still working on a final version, but a temporary (could be the final one, we’ll see) version has been put up for everyone to review.

MMS 2011 Day 1 Keynote

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Must See TV: BDNA in new TechNet Radio spot
28 March 11 08:24 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

If you were at MMS 2011, you could NOT miss the BDNA booth with the energy drinks and the small-scale tattoo parlor.  In addition to having cool setup at MMS 2011, BDNA also announced some serious tech at MMS 2011.

And, then today, I noticed that TechNet Radio has a special post about “how BDNA products can help System Center Configuration Manager admins improve their daily IT operations as well as realize the full potential of their IT budgets and infrastructure.”

Take a listen to the web cast and hear about how “Normalizing” your SCCM environment is HUGE value:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/technet-radio-it-time-optimizing-system-center-configuration-manager-with-bdna.aspx

 

Also, here’s some handy BDNA links:

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The MMS 2011 Twitter Army - Who to follow #mms2011
28 March 11 07:11 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

The 1st annual MMS Twitter Army was put together this year and it was a huge success.  If you followed the #mms2011 and #mmsfun hashtags, you saw an enormous amount of valuable content about MMS 2011. We’re already working to enhance and improve the Army for next year, but here’s the list of folks (Twitter handles) who enlisted this year.  These folks proved to be up to the challenge as MMS 2011 represented the best Twitter-covered conference with over 10,000 Tweets.

We’ll be putting together some full stats from last week to post soon so you can clearly see their valuable participation.  Follow these folks for great information all year round.

Incidentally, if your name does not show up on the list and you were at the Monday morning Tweetup, drop me a note with your correct Twitter handle.

Funny enough, too – some folks showed up without a Twitter handle because they just wanted the cool Twitter Army lapel pin!

2011 MMS Twitter Army:

@turbomac – MMS 2011 Twitter Army General!

@perlstalker – MMS 2011 Twitter Army General runner-up!

@mozbe

@briantucker

@Google_Fu

@mofmaster

@salwash

@jerry_dismukes

@joeygleason

@kenold

@ucbeercat

@aberges

@vmmdocs

@mniehaus

@chrstauffer

@jedimole

@dnemec

@sstranger

@vmdoug

@hypervbear

@rogertruss

@queenofnotes

@rickvanover

@juergkoller

@vzxdb6

@jwoznica

@philschwan

@bcolbyb

@mdl24

@jrobb259

@nonja_warrior

@rialtus

@shitanshuverma

@warrenatdell

@lbrownfromtx

@lhpelton

@blh95

@linton_brandon

@supermoe

@wiele

@fberson

@jimbezdan

@ddavidson

@cktjharris

@jeffwhite82

@greghstl

@rdcrumbaker

@dougenfield

@am314

@berlyd9

@definately

@oliverprist

@svallabh

@tomgon44

@kkaminsk

@reactorboy

@agcareyuf

@bjm23

@chrisnack

SCVMM 2012 Beta Overview - System Center Virtual Machine Manager
28 March 11 06:08 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

 

VMM 2012 features deep investments in server application virtualization, service design and service modeling all of which can be used to efficiently offer an on-premises private cloud. This is not the SCVMM of yesterday. It is packed full of new and exciting features!

SCVMM 2012 Beta Overview - System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

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