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MMS 2006 Chairs

If you went to MMS this year you may recall those bean bag chairs they had sprinkled around the third floor. I was going through my Gizmodo feed at lunch and saw some inflatable chairs that reminded me of them. Was anyone able to get their hands on these chairs? I would love to replace my two “visitors” chairs in my office with these! Bill are you listening? '> Listen to this article  ... Read the full post or  the 4 comments. Filed under: et. all, MMS 2006

MMS 2006 - Keynote Videos

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/material.mspx Press Releases • Microsoft Announces Industry-Leading ISV Support for Management Technologies (April 26, 2006) • Microsoft’s Bob Muglia Details Progress in Delivering Self-Managing Dynamic Systems (April 25, 2006) Feature Stories • Kirill Tatarinov Discusses Innovations in Microsoft's System Center Family of Products (April 25, 2006) Executive Keynotes • Bob Muglia Keynote Webcast (April 25, 2006, Windows Media file, 1 hr., 16 mins...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, MOM, System Center, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

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. Best place for lunch. Cine Café 412 K St San Diego, Ca This is a sandwich shop that is located...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: et. all, Rants, MMS 2006, myITforum

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 instead of editing the pages directly. I did not mind having to do this because I forced me...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: SMS 2003, Scripting, Tools, MMS 2006, myITforum

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 not have to pay for parking, dinner, or anything was great. Nice job Microsoft! It’s not every birthday...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: et. all, Microsoft, MMS 2006

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 the configurations and Ron did not look very happy about the results. Microsoft IT Environment 340k...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: Microsoft, MMS 2006

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's What's new in the Beta 1 Refresh? - Matches Vista Beta 2 release time Deployment of Vista and Longhorn...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, Packaging, Patching, Beta, Vista, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

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 booth and see if they have any tickets left, but you should hurry – run actually they only have...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: News, MMS 2006

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 unnecessary complexity - making products easier to use Establish responsive infrastructure - being...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

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 Security Groups Discovery Multi threaded SWINV Integrated ITMU Features: Scan Tool for Vulnerability...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, Patching, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

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 their printers and change their power sheme. Probably the best feature of this is that legacy apps...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Vista, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

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 sensitive, no longer a 90 minute wait before refresh if a DC is detected. If a system comes out of...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Group Policy, Security, Vista, Microsoft, MMS 2006

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 Health Collections – If you have not seen or used this tool it will build collections based...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, Tools, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

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 SP2, the “Take Control Campaign,” the Device Management Feature Pack Road Map, R2, and...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

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, ITIL -based workflow, SDM-based CMDB, Process and Knowledge embedded Displays alert with MOM monitored...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, Scripting, MOM, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

Day 1 - MMS 2006 - Part 2

This was a long day, I managed to get into four sessions and spend some time at SMS Expert booth talking with Dave. If you have not seen the new version of ESD make sure you stop by and check it out, they have done some great things with it. I was not able to make it to the get together at the Marriott, I was tired and had not eaten since lunch so I got back to my room about 9:30, ate, and went to sleep. Hopefully I will be meet up with some of the myITforum people today. My wife and daughter arrive...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, Scripting, Group Policy, Vista, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

MMS 2006 - Registration

Well I am on-site at the convention center typing this. I am sitting in a beanbag style chair up on the third floor next to the sail area, I gotta say I would much rather have gotten one of these chairs than that XL jacket, it’s a nice jacket but I wear a medium, but the SMS v4 db test was the important part. Registration only took a few minutes, the lines were not long and even the line at Starbucks was short… It seems that the folks at eventpoint saw my cries for help on my blog and Andy Toth has...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Microsoft, MMS 2006