May 2009 - Posts

The Live Meeting Recording for System Center Virtual User Group Meeting #6 May 21nd, 2009 is available for download. Get it Here!

Run Time:
Steve Rachui (SCCM Topic)                      start to 50:43:00
break/poll/technical problems                    50:43 - 1:06:00
Baelson Duque (OpsMgr R2)                   1:06:00 - 2:14:07

 

Thank you,

Scott Moss
President - System Center Virtual Users Group
Vice President - Southeast Management Users Group

Check out the R2 Web Site!

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/operationsmanager/en/us/default.aspx

R2 can also be found on Connect.

Have a great Memorial Day weekend!

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The next System Center Virtual User Group meeting #6 will be May 21st, 12 noon central start time. We have a good mix of SCCM and Operations Manager presentations.

 

Agenda (Central Time Zone)

Presenter Topic  
Scott Moss Introduction 12:00 - 12:05
Steve Rachui SCCM - Task Sequencing and Software Distribution 12:05 - 12:55
Baelson Duque System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Features 1:00 - 1:55
  Closing - open for questions 2:00 - 2:10

 

Registration

We have an excellent line up for this meeting so join us by registering here.

 

PC Audio only

Audio will only be available through Live Meeting.

Presenter Bios

Steve Rachui - Microsoft

Steve Rachui is a Manageability Support Escalation Engineer in the Product Support Services group at Microsoft. Steve was also a tech reviewer for the upcoming 'SCCM Unleashed' book. He has supported SMS since version 1.2. Steve can be reached via his supportability blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/.

Baelson Duque - Senior Program Manager - Microsoft 
Baelson Duque started at Microsoft as an Operations Analyst performing common Tier 1 Operations work. He then became a Systems Engineer and shortly thereafter, became a Tools Engineer building tools for Microsoft Game Studios Internet Operations team. There he owned the Monitoring Infrastructure where Baelson pioneered MOM 2000 as the Operations Monitoring Platform. Baelson is now a proud member of the Operations Manager Program Management team for the last 6 years and brings with him over 5 years of Operational Expertise from many levels in the IT Operations stack.

 

Thank you for your continued support!

Scott Moss

president - System Center Virtual User Group

vice president - Atlanta Systems Management User Group

The next System Center Virtual User Group meeting #6 will be May 21st, 12 noon central start time. I'm in the process of confirming speakers so look for a good mix of Operations Manager and SCCM in the Agenda.

Look for an update soon.

Scott Moss

president - System Center Virtual User Group

vice president - Atlanta Systems Management User Group

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Another great Microsoft Management Summit. So many news items I'll try and sum it up in a few lines.

Pre-MMS News:

Visio Add-in for Operations Manager 2007 R2 beta, is available for download on connect. Check out the momteam blog for more specifics on this tool.

MMS News:

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 will be released in the next 30 days. I'm hoping for a nice round of R2 Resource Kit utilities to follow the release of R2.

Connectors for R2 will be available 30 Days after R2 release. The following connectors will be available in the first release available, Universal Connector, BMC Remedy ARS, HP OpenView Operations For Unix, HP OpenView Operations For Windows, and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC). Over the next year expect the following additional connectors from Microsoft, HP Service Manager, IBM OMNIBus/Netcool, Universal "Inbound". I was hoping the Netcool connector would be available sooner but oh well.

One of the best series of this past MMS was "Scripting in Operations Manager 2007" presented by Brian Wren. I'm looking forward to reviewing the videos of these presentations, as so much information was thrown at you in during the 5 hour blitz of information.

There were several hundred announcements at MMS, I'll only cover two. The System Center Influencers Program. The System Center Influencers Program is a new community program that will give influencers—user group leads, MVPs, popular bloggers, and others recognized as influential in the community around System Center—the technical training content, people connections, and general guidance they need to enhance their credibility and impact in the community. (for more info on this new program see link)

The other announcement was for SystemCenterCentral.com. I will be using this site for both of the user group I run. I'm the President of the System Center Virtual User Group, and vice president of the Atlanta Systems Management User Group.

Personal Notes from MMS:

I've been added to the System Center Influencers program.

Pete Zerger handed over the System Center Virtual User Group for me to run.

I was once again triple booked the night of the myitforum Party, unfortunately I did not get a email telling me to come by because I got an award. I did not even know till the following day when I got it from Rod Trent. I was awarded the "Operations Manager guru and newshound and lasting contributor" award. Thank you for this award!

Future MMS News:

I've only seen one post on where and when MMS 2010 will be in Vegas, April 19 - 23 @ the Venetian. I hope this information holds out.

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