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Top Ten Events in Systems Management During 2007

First of all, Happy New Year, and may everyone find that in 2008 that your glass is more than half full, you and your loved ones are all very healthy and overly happy, that your careers are very prosperous, and that you gain all that you desire and more. As we welcome another year and reflect on the year ending it is always nice to note what was the highlights of the year. So below is my personal top ten of 2007 when it comes to Systems Management. 10. Thursday, October 23rd, System Center Partner...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, System Center, Vista, News, TechNet, Microsoft, myITforum, SCOM, MMS 2007, Blog, OSD, SoftGrid, ConfigMgr

What's new for SCCM 2007 SP 1 and R2?

Omar at it again...I keep running into him and never take his picture! What's new for SCCM 2007 SP 1 and R2? SCCM 2007 is to be released, but the SP1 and R2 versions are already planned Configuration Manager 2007 SP1: Changes to support Vista SP 1 and LHS Key CCS reported bugs and CDCR's Configuration Manager 2007 R2: OS Deployment update Multicast with LH server, unknown machine Enterprise Scale application virtualisation (Softgrid) Source: Omar's Blog on Systems Management: What's new for SCCM...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: News, SCCM 2007, MMS 2007, SoftGrid

MMS 2007 - Day 2 - Keynote Speech

Rodney Sherwood starts off the keynote again this year with this comedy and a video of interviewing the stars at MMS. Senior VP Server and Tools, Bob Muglia was the keynote speaker. He started out with the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI). One part of the DSI is Virtualized infrastructure which consists of Virtual Server 2005 R2 and SoftGrid. Virtualization, OS virtualization "Viridian" Longhorn or Windows Server 2007, VPC, VS 2005 RS. Application virtualization is SoftGrid, focus now is on the client...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, System Center, Vista, News, SCCM 2007, SCOM, MMS 2007, Virtual Server, SoftGrid, SUP

MMS 2007 - Day 1 - MMS 2008 Dates and Location and Party Details

Now that registration has been open for a few hours I can divulge some more details that I couldn't yesterday. Over the last few months there has been a number of debates on where MMS 2008 will be, which location is better. I personally like San Diego. But it looks like I will be spending my next birthday in Las Vegas , MMS 2008 is going to be there from April 28th - May 2nd . Someone has even parked the mms2008.com web site with GoDaddy already. Closing Party Details The closing party this year...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: News, MMS 2007, MMS 2008

SCOM Goes RTM

Operations Manager 2007 is RTM! Sources within Microsoft tell me that the final code on System Center Operations Manager 2007 was signed off last night. The golden and final code, also known as RTM (Released to Manufacturing) will probably be available for RDP and TAP customers in the coming days. General availability should be in the coming weeks. Expect a big announcement at the upcoming Microsoft Management Summit ! My sources tell me that the trial version will be available very very soon and...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: MOM, News, SCOM, MMS 2007

System Center and Intel

I have been kind of surprised by the lack of announcements this year before MMS, it seems like there was a flood of info last year, but this sounds very exciting! This morning Intel is announcing comprehensive support for System Center . This support encompasses SMS 2003 R2, Operations Manager, and System Center Essentials. We will be announcing at MMS further support in SCCM 2007. This is extremely exciting news, it is everything from an add-on to SMS to Management Packs to delivery of System Center...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: News, SCCM 2007, Intel, MMS 2007

Vote for MMS 2007 BOF Topics!

Time to Vote for Birds-of-a-Feather Topics! As a registered attendee of MMS 2007 you now have an opportunity to vote for the Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) topics you would like to see at this year’s event. This year we will be hosting BOF sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday evening after breakout sessions are finished for the day. These informal community sessions allow attendees to meet and discuss a topic of common interest peer-to-peer or with Microsoft or Industry experts, covering questions on specific...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: News, Microsoft, MMS 2007