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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
System Center Configuration Management with Remote SQL installations

So, for the ones that want to install System Center Configuration Management with a Remote SQL box...here are some things you HAVE to consider when installing Config Manager along with a Remote SQL server. You will get to the following error: Setup Fails to Install SMS Provider Components When using...

Posted to Ron Crumbaker at myITforum.com, Inc. (Weblog) by rcrumbaker on 10-12-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003 KBs, SMS Topics, SQL Topics, SCCM 2007, System Center, SMS, System Management, Microsoft
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Podcasts

On the System Center Configuration Manager site there is currently a list of five audiocast or podcasts that you can listen to. They are all fairly short and cover a specific area of ConfigMgr. Wally kicks it off with the best practices for upgrading and setup, and also discusses a few new features and...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-06-2007
Filed under: Packaging, Patching, System Center, TechNet, Microsoft, SCCM 2007, OSD, SUP, BDD, ConfigMgr, Configuration Manager, SCCM, Podcast
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Release Candidate

The DPM website has been updated ( www.microsoft.com/DPM ) - with new information on the upcoming release of DPM 2007, pricing/licensing details, and best of all - new downloads. We have a release candidate for DPM 2007 - and now everyone can start to evaluate it. This evaluation downloadable is the...

Posted to Ron Crumbaker at myITforum.com, Inc. (Weblog) by rcrumbaker on 10-03-2007
Filed under: System Center, Microsoft
Microsoft ConfigMgr Community Forums Now Live

In another move to get away from the newsgroups Microsoft has opened up the System Center Configuration Manager Community that includes a web based forums section . On the front page you will find a link to the subforums of ConfigMgr, Microsoft employee blogs, MVP blogs (not mine however?), and links...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-15-2007
Filed under: System Center, News, TechNet, Microsoft, myITforum, SCCM 2007, Blog
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Released

The other day SCVMM went RTM . So what does this mean? This is a management tool that will allow you to rapidly deploy/create VM's, manage the resources they are using, suck in a physical server to a VM config file (or P to V) and add new virtual resources to existing VM's. If you use Virtual...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-08-2007
Filed under: System Center, News, Microsoft, PowerShell, Virtual Labs, Virtual Server
Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Delayed

What is the status? Windows Server 2008, formerly Longhorn, will be delayed until Q1 of 2008 but will be available to SA and MSDN subscribers prior to RTM. SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 are scheduled to be released with Server 2008 so I can only assume they will be delayed as well. Vista SP1...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 08-30-2007
Filed under: Active Directory, System Center, Beta, Vista, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, SCCM 2007, NAP, ConfigMgr, Server 2008
Troubleshooting WMI With WMIDiag

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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 08-22-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, SMS Tools, Scripting, Tools, System Center, TechNet, Microsoft, WMI, VB Script
System Center Desktop Reporting (Added)

Microsoft has added a fifth piece to the Desktop Optimization Pack, System Center Desktop Error Reporting. From the looks of the brief description this doesn't add a whole lot of detail but since they modified the MOM licensing to make you pay $20 per hook into the db we can't complain too much...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 06-08-2007
Filed under: System Center, News, Microsoft, SoftGrid
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

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