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Nomad Enterprise Webcast - March 5

February 27, 2008

It is not often I blog about 1E, I think it has only happened once before actually. Even before I got an offer from them they told me they didn't want me to blog about them or their products because they didn't want my blog to turn into PR for 1E. And over the last year I have not talked about the products at all. But as you may have noticed the number of posts I put up have also dropped dramatically. Well I spend most of my time working with the 1E products, back when I was at ESRI I spent...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , , , , ,

ConfigMgr SP1 and R2 Webcast

February 20, 2008

What's coming SP1 and R2...find out Wednesday Feb. 27th by attending Jeff's webcast. Register here . TechNet Webcast: Configuration Manager SP1 and R2 Overview (Level 300) Event ID: 1032369053 Register Online Language(s): English. Product(s): System Center. Audience(s): IT Professionals. Duration: 90 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 shipped recently, but we are not done...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , ,

Microsoft Deployment FAQ Online

January 26, 2008

Grab this link and bookmark it as the MD team will be updating the post as the FAQ grows. Lite Touch Installation Q: Is it possible to change the text IT Organization in the task sequence dialog box? A: Yes! You can set the variable _SMSTSORGNAME in the custom settings.ini to match the text you want to use. For example to set the text to Microsoft Corporation, add the following line to your customsettings.ini: _SMSTSORGNAME = Microsoft Corporation Q: What is the purpose of each of the task sequence...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , ,

Desktop Management with System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft SoftGrid

December 27, 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032358169&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US TechNet Webcast: Optimizing Desktop Management with System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization (Level 300) Event ID: 1032358169 Register Online Language(s): English. Product(s): System Center. Audience(s): IT Professionals. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) One...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: , ,

Systems Management Support WebCasts...And ConfigMgr Too

December 19, 2007

Merry Christmas... This is a whole list of Systems Management WebCasts that go back as far as 2000 with some SMS 2.0 stuff, here is some newer SMS 2003 WebCasts, and here is a search string for ConfigMgr WebCasts, I couldn't find a page that just listed all of them. Past Support WebCasts Support WebCast: Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: Latest trends in vulnerabilities, malware, and potentially unwanted software - Level 300 - Wednesday, 07 November 2007 The Microsoft Exchange Server 2003...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: , , , , , ,

BDD 2008 Beta 3 Available On Connect

September 17, 2007

The ConfigMgr compatible version of BDD (Beta 3), which I will call BDD 2008 for now, is available through open beta on the Connect site. The RTM version is expected to be out in November of this year. In this version there is the previously discussed multicasting , USMT, WAIK, and ACT 5.0. On Friday October 5th there is also a webcast on deploying an OS with ConfigMgr, you can register for it here . Official announcement below. Deployment 4 is the code name for the next version of Business Desktop...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , , ,