Important message to all Danes attending MMS 2012 In Las Vegas – Order your free MMS jacket here, and register for the Danish Party: https://survey.enalyzer.com/?pid=t4p2f8cm
Enjoy.
Microsoft has started to publish the sessions for this year’s great event in Las Vegas.
Right now there is 80 breakout sessions published on the site.
Additional topics are being added daily, so check back regularly…
Available session: http://www.mms-2012.com/topic/list
Microsoft has designed a Private Cloud certification that is built on Windows Server 2008 and System Center 2012. The Private Cloud certification requires to pass 3 exams on Windows Server 2008 (Exams 640, 642, & 643). When you pass all the Windows Server exams, you need two System Center exams to achieve the Private Cloud certification.
Once you have achieved the Private Cloud certification, you will be required to show continued ability to perform on the latest versions of the Private Cloud technology by passing a recertification exam every 3 years.
Learn more about the Private Cloud certification here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-private-cloud.aspx.
If you are interested in the Administering and Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager certification, you can get your training started now by taking the beta course from a Microsoft partner – http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Course.aspx?ID=10747AB&Locale=en-us#tab1.
Even more exciting, for the first time, Microsoft are going to open up for beta exams for the Private Cloud to the public at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas.
Beta exams will be limited, but it will be free. Register for MMS today.
Update:
Beta Exam 71-243, Administering and Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is now available for registration at Prometric.
MMS 2011 offers a week-long community-focused networking opportunity you’ll get nowhere else—with face-to-face access to Microsoft and industry IT management experts. From Birds-of-a-Feather sessions to Focus Groups, Speaker Q&A, and networking lounges for working and meeting with colleagues, you’ll get invaluable peer-to-peer interaction. The MMS 2011 Expo, featuring the Microsoft Experts pavilion, will host more than 60 sponsors and exhibitors showcasing their latest products, services and solutions.
Registration for the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 is now open!
Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2011 will empower you with the insight, solutions and networking opportunities to succeed in your job today while preparing for the future. MMS is the premier event of the year for deep technical information and training on the latest IT management solutions from Microsoft, Partners, and Industry Experts. Reserve your place at Microsoft Management Summit 2011.
Register here: http://www.mms-2011.com/
Unfortunately I was unable to attend last year as a result of travel complications from the volcanic ash cloud, so I’m really looking forward to see you all in Las Vegas.
Call for Session topics is now public. If you ever wanted to present at MMS here is your chance! There is no telling what might be selected or not so make your topic interesting that could fill a room. Maybe it is an introduction to a topic or a deep dive. Everything is needed. “Real World” experiences are the greatest draws because the audience can relate to you.
If you are selected then you will receive the following accommodations:
Free speaker registration for the event
4 nights’ hotel accommodation during the event
Access to the on-site speaker lounge at the event
An opportunity to take Speaker Training on-site with top professional speaker coach Richard Klees
Content Goals
We are seeking session topics from Industry speakers which cover:
Real-world experience in the Windows management space
Best practices developed through actual deployments
Tips and tricks developed from real life experience
Session Format & Content
All Session slots will be 75 minutes, and should be pitched at a 300-400 (technical to deep technical) level for this audience. Live demonstrations are strongly encouraged.
The “Call for Sessions” entry page is located here https://www.mms-2011.com/CFT
The closing date for topic proposals from all speakers is midnight PST on November 24th 2010.
If you have a colleague or Industry contact who is interested in speaking at the event, please ask them to send email to mmsqs@microsoft.com. They will be sent a New Industry Speaker Access Code.
You can register for the event and if you are selected to be a speaker there is a process by which you can go through to receive a refund of your registration fee.
Yesterday at the Microsoft Management Summit, Brad Anderson announced during his keynote the release of ConfigMgr07 R3 Beta. Power management is at the core of the R3 release, it addresses the need that many organizations have to monitor and reduce the power consumption of their computers. ConfigMgr07 R3 Power Management leverages the power management features built into Windows to apply relevant and consistent settings to computers in the organization. There are three major components to power management in ConfigMgr07 R3:
1. Monitoring and Planning: Power Management collects information about computer usage and power settings for computers in the origination. Reports are provided to allow the administrator to analyze this data and determine optimal power management settings for computers.
2. Enforcement: Power management allows the administrator to create power plans which can be applied to collections of computers. These power plans configure Windows power management settings on computers, and different power plans can be configured for peak and non-peak working hours.
3. Compliance: After applying power plans to computers in the organization, the administrator can run reports to validate that power settings were correctly applied and to calculate power and carbon footprint savings across collections of computers.
In addition to power management, ConfigMgr07 R3 will provide customers with enhanced scale and performance support (scale to 300K managed clients per hierarchy, delta AD discovery, dynamic collection updates), as well as enablement of further capabilities for operating system deployment. A full list of the R3 features can be found on Microsoft Connect at the “What’s new in R3” post.
Navigate to Microsoft Connect today and download the ConfigMgr07 R3 Beta.
Download: https://connect.microsoft.com/site16
Friday I’m leaving for "Microsoft Management Summit 2010" in Las Vegas. The greatest Management event in the world for IT Pro’s. This time my main focus will be on Configuration Manager v.Next, Data Protection Manager 2010, Service Manager 2010 and MDT 2010 Update 1.
One of the great things about MMS is opportunity to meet with colleagues, customers, partners, fellow MVP’s and friends. If you want to have a chat, coffee or a beer during the event just give me a call +45 2085 9452 and I’ll arrange something.
So expect either blog silence or multiple blog posts about my week in Las Vegas. Either way I will enjoy the week.
From today, Monday April 5th, the Schedule Builder tool on the MMS 2010 Communications Network (CommNet) allows each attendee to reserve a place in up to six Instructor-led Lab sessions. This limit was previously three reservations per attendee.
As attendees from previous years may remember, the Instructor Led Hands-on Labs (ILLs) at MMS are very popular and as space is limited many lab sessions will be fully booked well before the event opens. This is especially true for the lab topics hosted on the opening day – Monday April 19th.
http://www.mms-2010.com/public/Headlines.aspx
Source: http://twitter.com/mmsteam
Today MMS begins… "State of the Union" is THE session, and MMS doesn’t start until this session…
My schedule for Tuesday was the following:
Opening Keynote
The opening keynote was like always a great "show" including a few announcements. The Keynote was presented by Corporate Vice President Bob Kelly and he talked a lot about Datacenter Management and "Cloud Computing". Something that we will hear a lot about in the coming years. He also talked about the importance of Dynamic IT, something Microsoft has talked about for last 4 or 5 years.
With Windows Server 2008 R2 almost being ready to be released, Microsoft Hyper-V 2.0 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is something everyone talks about. Edwin showed some really cool demos on the integration between Hyper-V, SCVMM and SCOM 2007 R2. There is no doubt that Microsoft will win some key customers that uses VMware today, with these upcoming releases.
System Center Configuration Manager: "State of the Union"
Bill and Josh on stage together is just awesome. Nothing at MMS beats this session…
One of the main reasons many people wants to see this session every year, is that we always get a sneak peak on what will happen in v.next and what great features they plan to add. This year was no exception.
They showed a great live demo on real code of ConfigMgr v.next. I don’t want to go through all the new features in this post, but I’ll promise to blog about most of the features when I get back to Europe.
The most important information right now, that might help you prepare for this upcoming release is the system requirements. All site roles requires 64-bit Windows. The only exception is the Standard DP that will run on Windows Server 2003 32-bit as well.
How Microsoft IT Uses OSD for Deploying Windows 7
Windows 7 is everywhere, and many of our customers is already asking about when we expect that they’ll be able to deploy Windows 7 using ConfigMgr, so I went to this session to hear something about what Microsoft IT has learned during the beta.
This session was awesome… The main speaker was Chris Adams, and I’ve never heard this guy do a talk before. He is truly a great speaker… This session is one of the best sessions I’ve ever seen (I’m not sure it’ll be as fun, if you could only hear him. Watching him on stage was amazing).
Microsoft’s users required significant enhancement of the OSD end-user interface, driver management, and USMT. These tools and "add-ons" was developed for internal use only, but they will all be shared on his blog within a week or so… Check it out at http://blogs.technet.com/osd.
Easing the pain: Techniques for managing drivers with SCCM and MDT
Managing drivers is always a pain, and there’s no perfect solution today to this problem. Michael Niehaus walked through different ways of managing drivers in WDS, MDT and ConfigMgr. As many of you already know I’m a "control freak", so this session will not change the way I manage drivers, but he showed some pretty cool PowerShell stuff that gave me some ideas to work with (yet another reason to get started with PowerShell J).
Configuration Manager Hardware Inventory Customization
My last session today was about hardware inventory customization. This session was presented by a friend and fellow MVP Sherry Kissinger. This was Sherry’s first talk a MMS, and she did a great job. She showed how to customize the information reported ConfigMgr clients to increase the scalability and relevance of data reported by Hardware Inventory. Most of this session was live demo, and she showed how to modify the files used to enable or disable inventory items step by step. Great Session!
If you want to read more about Sherry’s inventory optimization, don’t forget to visit her blog:
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/skissinger/
Configuration Manager MVP Reception
It’s not easy to get time to talk to everyone during the conference, so the ConfigMgr MVP Reception was a great opportunity to get to talk to some of the other MVP’s and the product team.
The myITforum Party
I was really looking forward to this party, but I got hit by jetlag, so unfortunately I had to leave early.
I was completely wasted…
