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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
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
Download Configuration Manager 2007 - Evaluation Software

Overview System Center Configuration Manager – previously Systems Management Server – represents a tremendous advance over its well-regarded predecessor, now providing the control necessary to more effectively manage change in today’s dynamic IT infrastructures. Manage the full deployment and update...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 08-27-2007
Filed under: System Center, News, SCCM 2007
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
System Center Essentials Goes RTM

Still in London, all of you should be asleep still, maybe just getting up on the east coast. System Center Essentials RTM With System Center Essentials 2007 being released you can now download the English version as a Trial . What is System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE 2007)? It's our new management...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 05-06-2007
Filed under: System Center, News
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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 03-27-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, System Center, Vista, News, SCCM 2007, SCOM, MMS 2007, Virtual Server, SoftGrid, SUP
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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