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It looks like the guys over at SCUG.dk have arranged yet another exiting event – http://scug.dk/content/SystemCenterUserGroupMeeting-November2010.aspx. Pretty interesting names on the speaker list, Wally Mead & Johan Arwidmark.

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Relaying on this as hopefully some of you can help the System Center Research Team: “The System Center Research Team is conducting a study to understand the effect of cloud computing on how enterprise level IT departments structure their work. To that end, we would like to extend a request for participation in brief phone interviews to talk about your IT department and company as it migrates to the cloud (public and/or private).  If you’re willing to participate, we would be able to provide gratuity.  Please send e-mail to sawebb@microsoft.com or kdecker@microsoft.com if you are interested in participating in this…

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Overview Data Protection Manager 2010 is part of the System Center family of management products from Microsoft. It delivers unified data protection for Windows servers such as SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Virtualization and file servers — as well as Windows desktops and laptops. DPM is designed as a best-of-breed backup & recovery solution for Windows environments from Microsoft. DPM provides the best protection and most supportable restore scenarios of your Windows environment from disk, tape and cloud. Windows customers of all sizes can rely on Microsoft to provide a scalable and manageable protection solution that is cost-effective, secure and reliable.…

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You’ve properly heard about it and soon you’ll have the chance to try it out yourself. The System Center Online team has announced the upcoming beta release of System Center Online Desktop Manager, expected to be released this year. Register to be notified when the Desktop Manager beta is available here. Here’s what will be included in the upcoming release: Updates Management Workload:  Manage the Microsoft updates from a web-based console.  Review available updates, choose updates and deploy to selected computers or groups of computers.  Imagine WSUS from the cloud. Policy Workload: Provides the ability to configure operational settings of…

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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: 08:30 – 10:00 Opening Keynote 10:15 – 11.30 System Center Configuration Manager: "State of the Union" 11:45 – 13:00 How Microsoft IT Uses OSD for Deploying Windows 7 14:15 – 15:30 Easing the pain: Techniques for managing drivers with SCCM and MDT 16:00 – 17:15 Configuration Manager Hardware Inventory Customization 17:30 – 19:00 Configuration Manager MVP Reception 19:00 – 21:00 The myITforum.com Party Opening Keynote The opening keynote was like always a great "show" including a…

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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…

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