Scott Moss at myITforum.com

The Atlanta Southeast Management User Group invites you to attend the next SMUG meeting scheduled for October 9th, 2009 for a day of great presentations, discussions, and networking.

Registration Link: Register Here!!!

SWAG will be given away at the end of the meeting. You must be present to win!

DATE & TIME

October 9th, 2009
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Lunch provided courtesy of SAVision!!

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES

Garth Maynard

Garth Maynard recently joined Siemens Corp. as a SMS\SCCM engineer. He is responsible for the day-to-day SMS operations and infrastructure across North America, and is assisting in the SCCM roll out for North America. He has more than 16 years of experience in the IT field, and has supported a variety of client and server platforms in a modern enterprise environment. Some of his more notable projects have been in the arena of scripting automation which included Perl, Java, VBScript, and Powershell.

Greg Cameron

Greg Cameron is a Senior Technology Specialist with Microsoft working in the Communications Sector. He has been with Microsoft for over 6 years and has been involved with technical sales of Virtualization, Server Operating System and Management solutions. Greg has been in the Technology industry for 10 years, working at a Fortune 10 company working with Server Operations/Architecture Management and Technical Sales/Consulting consulting. Prior to entering the Technology industry he served as an Officer in the United States Navy and is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He currently lives in Atlanta,GA.

Ted Sendler

Prior to joining the System Center Support specialty in March of 2008, Ted enlisted and served in the United States Marine Corp from 1992-1996.
He first worked at Microsoft as a contingent hire in the Directory Services group in June of 2004. At the end of contract he chose a position with Lowes on the Intel Engineering team.
After Lowes, Ted  joined the Wachovia’s Corporate Information Security team with the main task of redesigning Wachovia’s security monitoring implementation of MOM 2005.
Since March 2008, Ted has worked in his current position and is a SME in many areas of the MON vertical.

Brian Huneycutt

Brian is currently a developer (more a jack-of-all-trades really) on the Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering team. He started as a Support Engineer handling consumer desktop support issues at Microsoft in 1999. After having his fill of "No, there is no double right click, just a double left click" and "I'm sorry sir, I cannot help you with your ISP's login password issue" he escaped transitioned to the SMS team, where he quickly learned the value of the SMS logs. Once firmly entrenched in the SMS world, he worked through all levels of support, ending up as an Escalation Engineer ("What do you want to debug today?") prior to moving to the product team. These days he still partners with CSS (current acronym for Support) on problem investigations, along with development work on hotfixes, service packs, and generally anything that needs either fixing or a very long email. Those fleeting moments of free time are split between family, tooling around town in a little Triumph Spitfire, or making sawdust in the garage / workshop.

Thank you for your continued Support!

Scott Moss
President - System Center Virtual Users Group
Vice President - Atlanta SMUG http://www.atlsmug.org

The next System Center Virtual User Group meeting #8 will be October 15th, 12 noon central start time. We have a great mix with presentations from AVICode, to Security Auditing SP2 for ACS a technical overview, as well as a technical demo of Creating Linked Reports in the R2 Authoring Console.

Agenda (Central Time Zone)

Registration

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

PC Audio only for Attendees

Audio will only be available through Live Meeting

Presenter Bios

Simon Skinner

Simon Skinner is the principal engineer for SecQuorum in France. SecQuorum is a System Center specialist hosting Ops Mgr R2, AVIcode Intercept studio and SCCM (education only). He is a regular blogger on System Center Central as well as a technical planner for a large global Public Relations company. Simon in the past has done Microsoft Technical pre sales for a large Microsoft Gold Partner as well many implementations of  Ops Mgr and SCCM.

Jeremiah Beckett

Jeremiah Beckett is the founder and president of Secure Vantage Technologies, Inc. (SVT) a Microsoft Gold partner that specialized in security and compliance auditing software for System Center technologies. Jeremiah is a recognized industry expert in IT security and compliance bringing over 10 years expertise in enterprise management. Jeremiah is a regular guest speaker at Microsoft events and author of the ACS Master Class Series, ACS Wiki on System Center Central plus contributing author in SCOM R2 Unleashed ebook.

Pete Zerger (MVP)

Pete Zerger is a consulting partner with AKOS Technology Services and has nine years of experience in the IT industry. He focuses on design and deployment of enterprise operations management, directory services, and messaging solutions. Pete holds an MCSE for Messaging, an MCTS for SQL Server 2005, and he is a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Operations Manager. He is founder of System Center Forum, a popular community site covering Operations Manager 2007, Essentials 2007 and the System Center Suite.

Thank you for your continued support!

Scott Moss

president - System Center Virtual User Group

vice president - Atlanta Systems Management User Group

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Overview

The Windows Server Operating System Management Pack consists of the following five management packs: Microsoft Windows Server Library, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Discovery, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Monitoring, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. The Microsoft Windows Server management packs monitor the performance, health, and availability of Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 Server.
By detecting, alerting on, and automatically responding to critical events and performance indicators, management packs reduce resolution times for issues and increase the overall availability and performance of your Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 Server operating systems, thereby helping to reduce the total cost of ownership.
NOTE: You need to install the English MP before you import localized language packs.
Feature Summary

• Availability
  • Key Operating System Services: Required services are checked for status (for example, running, not running, or paused).
  • Storage: Logical hard drives are checked for availability, sufficient free space, and integrity of the NTFS partition.
  • Network: Network adapters are checked for connection health, name and IP address conflicts.
• Performance
  • Processor: System processor(s) performance is checked system-wide. Processors can optionally be monitored on a per processor basis.
  • Memory: Memory consisting of physical memory and virtual memory (also known as page files) is monitored using the following performance indicators:
    • Available memory (in MB)
    • Pages per second
    • Page file percent usage
  • Disks and Partitions: Logical disks/partitions and physical disks are monitored, and performance data is collected for average disk seconds per read, disk seconds per write, and disk seconds per transfer. Depending on which version of the operating system is being monitored, either logical or physical monitoring is enabled by default. Refer to the MP guide for more detail.
  • Network Adapter: Network adapters are monitored for the number of bytes received per second, the number of bytes sent per second, and the total bytes per second. In addition, the health state of the network adapter is evaluated and is set to Healthy if connected and Critical if disconnected.