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Make the MMS 2008 DVD playable off a network share and website

August 15, 2008

The following are the steps needed to modify your Microsoft Management Summit 2008 DVD playable from a network share or IIS website. Note : the content of the DVD is protected. As such make sure this content is only available to those approved to view the DVD (translation leave me alone DCMA zealots) Grab your trust (and now dusty) MMS 2008 DVDs (two of them) Create two network shares somewhere (default rights of read are great) Copy the entire contents of the DVD to a different share for each disk...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: ,

MMS 2008: Slides and Videos

May 07, 2008

Statistics (as of 5/7/2008) 5.52 GB 282 files Lab Manuals 24.9 MB 83 files Slide Decks 327 MB 121 files Session Video 5.18 GB 78 files Video Codec : WMV3 Name : WMP v9 (VC-1 Simple/Main) Audio Codec : 0x0161 (WMA v2) CBR Name : Windows Media Audio 9.2 Info : 0x01:22050Hz 32 kb/s tot (2 chnls) Looks like more video’s are on the way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ File list IE04_A%20Beginners%20Guide%20to%20Windows%20Powershell.pdf IN01_Essential...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: ,

MMS 2008 - Instructor Lead Labs

May 01, 2008

After going through a multitude of instructor led labs and self paced labs. I believe they are in need of a major overhaul. Following the bouncing ball labs are nice for instruction to installs. However, students tend to just rush through and not really learn what they are doing. The lab manual is wonderful basis for company documentation. Going forward, it would be better to have a few tasks to learn new aspects. Then be given challenges to do actions. People learn by doing, otherwise you should...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: ,

MMS 2008 - Tuesday's Keynote

May 01, 2008

Hero's Happen { Here } Server infrastructure improvements via Dynamic IT. Year 5 of the 10 year plan of Dynamic IT. Optimization Model * Basic * Standardized * Rationalized * Dynamic Also MOF 1.4 is released. "We are on the cutting edge but not bleeding to death." VMM 2008 Beta Support for: * Hyper-V * VMWare VSX Quick Migration via intelligent placement: * MS Virtual Server in offline mode. Soon to be announced online movement * VMWare VMotion works fine in VMM 2008 (move will running...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: ,

Beta of Microsoft's Hyper-V-compatible virtualization manager at MMS 2008

April 23, 2008

Network World senior editor John Fontana has sent Microsoft Subnet this guest blog. He is reporting from the IDG editors meeting with Microsoft in Redmond this week. He writes: Larry Orecklin, who runs the System Center business and virtualization, laid out the Microsoft vision on virtualization from the server to the desktop. He clearly put the emphasis on management, focusing on core pieces of System Center with Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Data Protection Manager and Virtual Machine...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , ,

See you all in Vegas - MMS 2008

January 09, 2008

Morning, I just recieved approval to attend MMS 2008. See you all in April! Best  ... Read the full post or  the 3 comments. Filed under: ,