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May 02, 2006
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...
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April 28, 2006
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...
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April 27, 2006
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...
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April 26, 2006
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...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, Packaging, Patching, Beta, Vista, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006
April 26, 2006
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...
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April 26, 2006
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...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, Patching, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006
April 25, 2006
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...
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Filed under: Vista, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006
April 25, 2006
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...
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Filed under: Group Policy, Security, Vista, Microsoft, MMS 2006
April 25, 2006
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...
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April 25, 2006
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...
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April 25, 2006
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...
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April 25, 2006
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...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, Scripting, Group Policy, Vista, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006
April 24, 2006
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...
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