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Top Ten Events in Systems Management During 2007

December 31, 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: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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: , , , , , ,

Troubleshooting WMI With WMIDiag

August 22, 2007

If you have never worked with Microsoft PSS, PFE, QFE, MCS, RRE, or any other arm of their professional support staff you may not be aware of the tools that these army of men and women come equipped with to resolve issues. These are often home grown, field developed, custom tools that these same folks have written to help customers and the support staff at Microsoft quickly resolve issues and the WMIDiag tool is a prime example of this. Often these tools are used only by the Microsoft staff and are...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , , , , ,

MMS 2007 - Day 2 - Keynote Speech

March 27, 2007

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: , , , , , , , , ,

MMS 2006 - Keynote Videos

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...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: , , , , ,