MMS 2008 - Tuesday 2
Session: Advances in SMS & ConfigMgr Client Health Management. Very good presentation; I won't repeat it here because it was Paul Thompson, and it's all on his blog already, or he said he'll be posting the missing bits soon. He also mentioned a 1e product, coming out this summer, Wakeup 5.5 which does have some client remediation.
A lab on DCM; then caught the last half of Wally Mead's ConfigMgr07 Part II. The main point I got out of that (because he mentioned it several times) was to implement a Fallback Status Point (FSP); and (this is the part apparently forgotten by many), in their installation line make sure to reference what that FSP is, so during client installation, messages are sent to the FSP. He also demo'd (accidentally, I believe--he forgot to set it up in his demo before starting), setting verbose log to 1 for HKLM\software\microsoft\sms\data discovery manager\ verboselogs; this enabled your ddm.log to show the computer name in the log; not just "computer successful" entry.
Session: Community. Mention was made of a Codeplex based offline reader. People were reminded of Connect, and a virtual usergroup "systemcenterusergroup.com" mentioned.
MyITForum party: as always, it was fun reconnecting with people. Also lost of new people got buttons, so it was great to meet new people, both to MMS and to Myitforum.