This year, the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) has a 10th year anniversary, and like last year this great event is located at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. The first day at a conference is always very special. You can fell the excitement in the air from the attendees, Microsoft employees and the guest speakers that’s just can’t wait to get started. My schedule for the first day was the following: 10:30 – 11.45 Introduction to Windows PowerShell for Absolute Beginners 12:00 – 13:15 Windows 7 Deployment: Introduction to Microsoft Deployment Tools 13:30 – 14:45 SQL Performance Tips for SMS…
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Saturday I’m leaving for the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas. This is one of the biggest Management events in world for for IT Pro’s. This year my main focus will be on Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft Deployment (MDT 2010) and Windows 7 Deployment. Hopefully I’ll also get time to see some of the great sessions about Microsoft Hyper-V 2.0 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. 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…
Event Overview Microsoft is the first enterprise organization to use Windows 7 on a large scale, and that includes deployments using the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System Deployment (OSD) feature. OSD provides administrators with a tool to create images that can be deployed to managed and unmanaged computers. The OSD user interface, and features such as driver management and the User State Migration Tool (USMT), have been significantly enhanced. Join subject matter experts from Microsoft IT as they share best practices. These include complex scenarios such as using OSD with Network Access Protection (NAP). Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft…
A lot of questions that often pops up in various newsgroups and on the Microsoft TechNet forums are related to importing drivers in the Windows PE boot image. This article will walk you through this process step-by-step. This guide assumes that the following steps have been completed: The PXE Service Point are installed and configured. Command line support have been enabled for both the x86 and x64 boot image. The boot image is distributed to the PXE Service Point and a Distribution Point. A Task Sequence has been created and is advertised to the client. Identifying that a driver is…
Microsoft is currently building the update to System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr07) 2007 titled Service Pack 2. The ConfgMgr Technology Adoption Program (TAP) team is pleased to announce that we are now soliciting participation in the System Center Configuration Manager Service Pack 2 Product Validation program. What’s New? ConfigMgr07 SP2 will include new OS support along with improving on the Intel AMT integration. New Operating System Support Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 SP2 Windows Vista SP2 *Branch Cache a new Windows and Windows Server 2008 R2 feature for peer to peer content distribution will be supported…
During the last couple of days Microsoft has been migrating, the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 forums to a new and updated version. The forum migration is now completed and I encourage you all to try the new forum. So far it everything seems to be both faster and more reliable. Microsoft TechNet Forums http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories/ System Center Configuration Manager 2007 – Forum list http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/configurationmanager/ Here is each individual one if you are interested in only a single one: General – http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrgeneral/threads/ Announcements – http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrannouncements/threads/ Admin Console – http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgradminconsole/threads/ Asset Intelligence – http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrai/threads/ Backup and Recovery – http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrbackup/threads/ Desired Configuration Management…
Date: Friday, December 19, 2008 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 includes integrated provisioning and management support for Intel vPro/Active Management Technology (AMT) hardware management technologies. This integration provides a strong solution for enterprise management of both desktop software and hardware platforms within a single unified administration console. Join this webcast to learn how to provision and use vPro to extend the capabilities of System Center Configuration Manager to incorporate secure hardware and power management for a truly green managed enterprise desktop solution. Topics include: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 Intel…
Download the evaluation copy here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7376214F-CBA3-4E0D-81FE-AD52488BE3A3&displaylang=en System Requirements: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 Evaluation (you cannot install this version on a Volume License or MSDN installation).
The R2 release of System Center Configuration Manager is released today. Lots of people is already blogging about this new add-on to ConfigMgr. I haven’t played with all features yet, but the Client Status Reporting or “Client Health”, is one of the features I can’t wait to show to my customers. They will love it… Another great feature is the support for Unknown Clients without using the MDT add-on. I’ve never been a big fan of MDT, so I really enjoy this update. Version 5 is not around the corner so I wonder what will happen next… An R3 version…
The SMS 2003 Toolkit tool Package Loader Tool has been updated to support Configuration Manager 2007. The Preload Package Tool (PreloadPkgOnSite.exe) is used to manually install compressed copies of software distribution package source files on Configuration Manager 2007 sites. After package source files are installed, a status message is sent up the site hierarchy indicating the presence of the new package source files. This avoids sites higher in the hierarchy from copying package source files over the network when distribution points at child site are selected to host software distribution package content that has already been preloaded on them. The…