Ronni Pedersen's deployment ramblings

Step into the System Center Virtual Labs for Free
No complex setup or installation is required to try out System Center running in the full-featured TechNet Virtual Lab. You get a downloadable manual and a 90-minute block of time for each module. You can sign up for additional 90-minute blocks any time.

Right now the following labs are available:

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager:

• Introduction to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
• Application Management
• Content Management
• Managing Clients
• OS Deployment Bare Metal
• Advanced Software Distribution
• Basic Software Distribution
• Software Updates
• Endpoint Protection
• Migrating from Configuration Manager 2007

System Center 2012 Operations Manager:

• Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring

System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager:

• Building Your Cloud Infrastructure
• Building a Service Template

All available labs: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/bb539977

Register for Event here.

Starts: 30 November 2011 13:00
Time zone: (GMT) GMT, London
Duration: 4 hour(s) 30 minute(s)

13:00-13:45 System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager

This 45 minute session will dive into the latest release of Microsoft’s multi-hypervisor management technology, System Center Virtual Machine Manger 2012.

‘VMM’ 2012 will allow you to optimise your existing investments by managing multi-hypervisor environments including Hyper-V, Xen and VMware! You can pool and dynamically allocate virtualised datacenter resources (compute, network and storage) enabling the self-service infrastructure experience your business demands. This is all delivered with flexible role based delegation and access control

13:45-14:30 System Center 2012 Operations Manager

It’s all about the App! In this 45 minute session we will cover how Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 can bring intelligent heterogeneous monitoring and management of your line of business applications, business services and the underlying infrastructure fabric including servers (physical and virtual), SANs and switches along with other datacentre resources.
Learn how business services can be measured against SLA’s and how this information can be surfaced to business and application owners.

14:30-14:45 Break

14:45-15:30 System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 makes it easier for you to empower users to be productive with a unified infrastructure that delivers and manages rich user experiences across corporate and consumer devices.

During this 45 minute session we will demonstrate the capabilities of the latest version of our flagship System Center technology which dates back 17 years to SMS 1.0

Patch/Application/OS deployment, power management, asset intelligence & mobile device management will all be covered through live demonstration.

15:30-16:15 System Center 2012 Service Manager and Orchestrator

Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 is Microsoft’s ‘best of breed’ ITIL & MOF service delivery tool. By integrating with the other System Center technologies as well as Active Directory & Exchange, SCSM can handle all problem, change & incident requirements generated in today’s fast paced world of ICT.

By working in conjunction with Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis), we can easily automate a lot of the day to day manual tasks an IT organisation face. This will enable you to build a cost-effective and flexible private cloud infrastructure that responds to incidents, problems and change requests on the fly with minimal if any ‘IT touch’.

16:15-16:30 Break

16:30-17:15 System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 continues to build on the legacy of providing unified data protection for Windows servers and clients as a best-of-breed backup & recovery solution from Microsoft, for Windows environments. Data Protection Manager provides the best protection and most supportable restore scenarios from disk, tape and cloud — in a scalable, manageable and cost-effective way.

Already a critical part of Microsoft private cloud infrastructures, Data Protection Manager provides the capability to protect virtual machines in your IT environment, as well as the applications running on them. With the 2012 release Data Protection Manager grows these existing capabilities with support for item level recovery, even when Data Protection Manager is running in a virtual machine

The waiting is finally over…System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) Has now gone RTM.
SCVMM provides a management solution for the virtualized data center that helps enable centralized management of IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms.

Highlights of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008:

• Support for VMs Running on Windows Server 2008
• Multi-Vendor Virtualization Platform Support
• Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)
• Host Cluster Support for “High Availability” Virtual Machines

Download evaluation copy here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=ED012990-6E86-4B43-9842-DA5C02FF1C83&displaylang=en

Read more about System Center Virtual Machine manager here:
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/default.aspx

With the RTM of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM), lots of pepole will start playing with all the cool new features. To help you getting started with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Microsoft has launched a couple of free online training courses for their virtualisation platform:

Clinic 5935 – Introducing Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008

This 2-hour online clinic provides IT Professionals experienced in Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 with the knowledge and skills to implement and manage Hyper-V in an IT environment.

Topics covered in the clinic include:

• Features of Hyper-V
• Features of server consolidation
• Hyper-V implementation
• Creation of virtual machines
• Dynamic datacenters
• Clustering in virtual environments

Student Prerequisites

• 3+ years of experience planning, implementing, and supporting a Microsoft Windows-based network using Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003.
• A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows Server 2003 credential or equivalent knowledge.
• Familiarity with operational best practices such as those described in the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) or Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/5935.mspx

Clinic 6334: Exploring Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

This 2-hour online clinic provides IT Professionals experienced in Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 with the knowledge to implement and manage Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.

Topics covered in the clinic include:

• Features and functionalities of VMM
• Implementation and management of VMM
• Management of VMM library
• Management of hosts by using VMM
• Implementation of virtual machine Self-Services

Student Prerequisites

• Experience in planning, implementing, and supporting Windows Server–based networks, operating systems and platform infrastructure. This may include experience in Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008.
• Knowledge of server virtualization and Hyper-V.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/6334.mspx