April 2006 - Posts
MMS 2006 - Odds and Ends
Best place for breakfast, real breakfast. Brians’ Eatery & Drinkery 828 Sixth Ave. San Diego, Ca 92101 Breakfast Lunch Dinner and Late Night The staff is very friendly and helpful. It is several blocks up from the Convention Center but it was right around the corner from my hotel. The food was great, no waiting in line for a table, and it is kind of out of the way. At night they have live entertainment...
MMS 2006 - Day 4 - Industry Panel of Experts
What an honor to sit on the panel of industry experts, I think everyone up there knew 10x’s as much as I do about SMS (SCCM). Being up there reminded me that I really need to sign up for Toasmasters, being in front of that many people doesn’t really bother me but public speaking is definetly a skill you learn and we usually only get a few chances to practice. The question regarding the...
MMS 2006 - Day 5 - Web Remote Tools
The final session I went to this week was Ron’s Web Remote Tools presentation. the day before Ron was telling me that there have been a few people that have taken his code and used it without giving him credit, and some even pawn it off as their own! People are fascinating to me. Anyways Ron discussed how the next version will have a batch file to make the changes needed to adapt it to your own environment...
MMS 2006 - Day 4 - Closing Party (Sea World)
My birthday party was at Sea World this year, from what I heard last year it was at Circus Circus and it was a flop. My wife, daughter, and I had a great time, the food was good, I didn’t see anyone that was too drunk, and we won so many stuffed animals that I needed a garbage bag to carry them all; a good time was had by all. The Sea World staff was very friendly and helpful and the fact that I did...
MMS 2006 - Day 4- Keynote
Today's speaker is Ron Markezich CIO and Vice President of Managed Solutions. The speech today was regarding how IT works internally at Microsoft. There were two demos one showing scorecard in which they showed live internal data about the configuration of their SharePoint servers. The data was collected into Excel using a Pivot table and it did not go well for Neal. There were several problems with...
It's My Birthday!
Today is my birthday! 35 years ago I started this journey to today and so far its been great… I am having a party at Sea World and anyone can come, if you don’t have a ticket then you can stop by the registration desk in the lobby of the SDCC and purchase one for a mere $75, if you are 5 or under you can get in free so my daughter has plenty of kids to play with. If you can’t make the party then you...
MMS 2006 - Day 3 - SMSv4 (SCCM 2007) Beta 1 and Beta 1 Refresh Features
Presented by Josh Pointer and Michael Kelley IF YOU MISSED THIS SESSION MAKE SURE YOU ATTEND IT - THE SLIDES DO NOT DO IT JUSTICE YOU MUST SEE THE DEMOS!!! Included in Beta 1: (You may want to skip this section and get to the good stuff in Demo 1 below) Operating System Deployment (OSD) Software Updates Management (SUM) New UI Based on MMC 3.0 Filter Drag and Drop for patch and folders!!! Branch DP...
MMS 2006 - Day 3 - myITForum Party - SMS Expert
It looks like SMS Expert was able to workout more space with the convention center for tonight's myITforum party. The first set of tickets were all snatched up after the first few hours. SMS Expert has been trying to get more space to allow more attendees for the party and was able to get Microsoft and the SDCC to give us more space. If you have a ticket I will see you there, if not hurry down to their...
MMS 2006 - Day 3 - Keynote
Today’s keynote speaker is Krill Tatarinov, Corporate Vice President, Windows Enterprise Management Division formerly with BMC and PATROL Software. There was not a whole lot of new information in this speech it was more of the same from yesterdays keynote but with a little more detail. A couple new announcements below. Microsoft Promises - Second round Ensure your business is always running Eliminate...
MMS 2006 - Day 3 - What's New in SMS 2003 R2?
Bryan Keller Program Manager SMS eXtreme Team and Quincy Milton Group Manager SMS eXtreme Team. What is it? New point release. Available for purchase if you are not an SA customer, if you are an SA customer then its free Built on SMS 2003 SP2 (SP2 is a pre-req) Available in Q2 - end of May or early June Enhancements: Deprecated AC support for Windows 200 SP3 Systems and XP RTM Added FQDN support AD...
MMS 2006 - Day 2 - Vista Management Overview
So what is new for managability in Vista you ask…Well here are a few areas. User account control Group policy additions and flexibility New Event Viewer Additional WMI providers Windows Resource Protection (WRP) Task Scheduler – Improved So more specifically the user acct control means that users are now allowed to do things they should have been able to do without admin rights, things such as manage...
MMS 2006 - Day 2 - Group Policy What's New in Vista and Longhorn
David Power - Program manager Some pretty cool stuff, some of it is redundant. What's new? New in Vista is that GP's no longer run under Winlogon but instead run as a shared service and the service itself has been hardened by requiring local admins to have elevated privileges to stop the service, the service will also auto restart from any error. Network Awareness - policy application is not network...
MMS 2006 - Day 2 - SMS 2003 Files Session
This session’s presenter was Rodney Jackson, this session is where they review common support issues and their solutions followed by a Q&A sessions where customers can ask support related questions. I will cover some of the tools he talked about since myITforum.com has most of the areas he discussed covered in the forums. (You can get these tools from your TAM or Microsoft Support) SMS Client...
MMS 2006 - Day 2 - SMS State of the Union
This was a session by Dustin Ingalls the SMS (SCCM) Product Manager and Bill Anderson the Lead Program Manager for SMS. This is always a very popular session at MMS and it started by them coming on stage with a SMS 2.0 box and putting it to rest, both of them dressed in brown monk robes with the hoods covering their faces. They covered the fact that 2.0 went EOL in March, some of the enhancements in...
Day 2 - MMS 2006 - Keynote - Announcements
Very briefly before I have to run off to the SMS State of the Union… Some major announcements at the Keynote: SMS is being renamed to System Center Configuration Management MOM will also adopt the new “System Center” branding System Center Service Desk was announced WS-Management ratification by DMTF Monad is now known as PowerShell More info on Service Desk: ERP solution for IT...
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