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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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 12-31-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, System Center, Vista, News, TechNet, Microsoft, myITforum, SCOM, MMS 2007, Blog, OSD, SoftGrid, ConfigMgr
WMI Stability Improvements Fix For Windows XP

Back in May Microsoft released the same type of fix for Windows 2003 and now it is ready for XP clients. SMS admins understand the pain of WMI corruption as well as anyone, and probably better than most. Getting permission denied errors when it has nothing to do with permissions, trying to diagnose client...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 06-26-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, Patching, News, Microsoft, WMI
SMS 2003 SP3 Due Out Friday

Thanks Paul! SMS 2003 SP3: Friday Yes, SMS 2003 SP3 is due to be posted this Friday April 27th (yes, 2007). The most reliable of sources has confirmed it. I don't know any other details. For example, will Premier customers get the first hit at it? Or what time of day. But at least some peole will...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 04-25-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, News, Microsoft
Microsoft Announces Desktop Optimization Pack

Today it was officially announced that Microsoft will combine the recently acquired tools from Softricity, Winternals, and Desktop Standard into a single package that you can purchase for ~$50 per client. What this package gets you is SoftGrid application virtualization, group policy management/enhancement...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-17-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Group Policy, Tools, Vista, News, Microsoft
Microsoft Changes the WSUSScan.cab File

To make the WSUSScan file smaller they are getting rid of unsupported products. “… Microsoft is reducing the size of the WSUSScan.cab file by removing security updates for unsupported platforms, superseded security updates, and tools that are no longer needed.” Read it here . Changes...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 08-26-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, News, Microsoft
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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 05-02-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, MOM, System Center, News, 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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 04-26-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Packaging, Patching, Beta, Vista, Longhorn, 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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 04-26-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Patching, News, 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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 04-25-2006
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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 04-25-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

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