Sunday morning I’m leaving for TechEd Europe in Berlin. One of the biggest Microsoft events in Europe for IT Pro’s. As a Microsoft MVP, I’ve been invited to work as a Microsoft Product Expert in the System Center Configuration Manager booth. This is a true honor for me and I’m really looking forward to get to work in the booth again. When I’m not working in the booth, I plan to see some of the great Deployment, ConfigMgr v.Next and Forefront Endpoint Protection sessions, presented by some of my favorite speakers. Here are some of the sessions I’m really looking…
Browsing: System Center Configuration Manager
08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast and Registration 09:15 – 10:00 Keynote: Future of the Data Center & Desktop 10:00 – 10:15 Introduction to SCUG.DK 10:15 – 10:30 Break 10:30 – 11:30 What’s new in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1 11:30 – 11:45 Break 11:45 – 12:45 ConfigMgr 2007 R3 Techincal Update 12:45 – 13:15 Break and Lunch 13:15 – 14:15 ConfigMgr v.Next: Migrating from ConfigMgr 2007 14:15 – 14:30 Break 14:30 – 15:30 ConfigMgr v.Next Application Management 15:30 – 16:00 Q&A, prize drawings, softdrinks and beers. Session Details What’s new in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1 Speaker: Johan…
One of the challenges with managing drivers in Configuration Manager is related to way drivers are imported into ConfigMgr. Duplicate drivers are ignored by default, so they don’t get put into the specified categories. The System Center Configuration Manager team has made a hotfix available that changes the driver import behavior. The hotfix is available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2213600. I’m not 100% sure if this will change from the way we handle drivers today, but I need to to back to my lab and figure that out…
The System Center team is very excited to announce the release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3. This release is a significant accomplishment for the engineering team for a lot of reasons. Not only does ConfigMgr R3 drive new scenario support to existing world class capabilities, it raises core functionality to new levels of industry leading status. Download the evaluation here. Full story here.
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Congratulations! You have been selected to participate in Tech·Ed Europe 2010 as a Microsoft Product Expert in the Technical Learning Center (TLC). That was the words, from Microsoft, in the mail I’ve just received. Last year in Berlin, was my first time as a Microsoft Product Expert (Ask the Experts), and I’m really looking forward to get the chance again. So if you get the time, please drop by the System Center Configuration Manager booth, and talk to us See you in Berlin!
What is better than spending a moment to kick off a completely automated process to redeliver an existing operating system as a virtual machine within a new build of Windows 7? Answer: Making the entire process "zero touch" without necessitating a visit to the target computer or manually initiating the migration! P2V Migration for Software Assurance can now be implemented using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System Deployment as well as native Lite Touch Installation with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010. Computer refresh, replace and restore task sequence templates for Configuration Manager are included and documented in this Beta…
The Adobe Flash Player team has just released a new SCUP catalog. The catalog contains the newest update for the Adobe Flash Player 10.1. This catalog should be available from the Microsoft Partner catalog soon, but in the interim you can find it here.
Keep up to date with the recent KB articles for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 System Center Configuration Manager 2007: http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=12769 System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2: http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=13876
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 and SP2 now support Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 as a Configuration Manager 2007 site database. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services. No software updates are required. Source and more Configuration Manager Support Announcements for June 2010 here.