Martin Buckley - on systems management

Now posting on Nexus SC

martinbuckley — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:01:04 GMT

I’m now posting on the System Center team blog - http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/default.aspx...(read more)

Partner press releases from Microsoft Management Summit

martinbuckley — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:27:21 GMT

Microsoft Management Summit was a week or so ago in Las Vegas – we had dozens of partners put out Press Releases detailing their integrations and extensions to the System Center platform. 1E www.1e.com 1E LOWERS THE COST ON MANAGING WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS...(read more)

System Center Partner Solutions Guide – April 2009

martinbuckley — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:42:26 GMT

Finally the team got the Partner Solutions Guide to print. Here is a proof copy (right) next to the 2007 partner guide on the left. This will be printed and shipped to Las Vegas - in time for the Microsoft Management Summit. A big thanks to all...(read more)

Growing a partner eco-system

martinbuckley — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:08:12 GMT

When I started in this role – just over a year ago – there were around 25 partners in the Microsoft System Center Alliance. Most of those were founder members of the Alliance which was announced at TechEd/IT Forum in Barcelona in November 2007. The original...(read more)

System Center and Power Management

martinbuckley — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:57:54 GMT

There has been a lot of talk recently about ‘Green IT’ and how power management can safe significant money for an IT organisation. Just this last week there was and article in InfoWorld reporting that $2.8B per year is spent on keeping PCs powered on....(read more)

Silect - CP Studio

martinbuckley — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:03:46 GMT

I'm in Ottawa, ON, Canada - just about to visit with a small, really focused System Center partner Silect . Silect have a couple of great products focused on consulting and deployment teams as well as the IT Pro tasked with creating knowledge. Of real...(read more)

System Center Configuration Manager - differentiation whitepaper

martinbuckley — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:27:08 GMT

Here is a partner and customer facing whitepaper describing the benefits and market differentiators for System Center Configuration Management. Executive Summary This document is designed to provide an overview of the benefits and market differentiators...(read more)

Blogging

martinbuckley — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:23:23 GMT

I came to the realisation that I’d not blogged about technology for weeks on my personal site - and for months here on TechNet. The problem I’ve got is that most of the work with partners is still not released and is under NDA. That really...(read more)

System Center Configuration Manager installation

martinbuckley — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:22:19 GMT

Ying Li wrote a great article on installing SCCM on Windows Server 2008. Saved me a lot of time scrubbing my docs. You can read the blog post here with a follow up from Don Hite on updating to SCCM R2 here ....(read more)

Collecting the pieces for a single server installation

martinbuckley — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:23:55 GMT

Ok – after a long delay here is the first part of the article on installing a single server SCCM demo server. Collect your pieces first: Hardware A suitable server for Windows Server 2008. I’m installing Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition on a 32...(read more)

Single server install

martinbuckley — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:55:16 GMT

Apologies – this is taking longer than expected to get the content and videos together. Hopefully this week,...(read more)

System Center partner readiness training

martinbuckley — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:36:37 GMT

Here’s an exclusive. A new series of partner readiness training is coming next month. Starting with a series of training webcasts and moving to a partner bootcamp across the globe – this set of training will assist development, integration and deployment...(read more)

Microsoft System Center Alliance – requirements and behind the scenes

martinbuckley — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:26:46 GMT

I’m back in the rhythm of things after a week or so of pure ITIL v3. Today I’ve been looking at very different processes – the back office pieces that make up the System Center Alliance. I blogged earlier about the high level aims of the System Center...(read more)

Microsoft Operations Framework

martinbuckley — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:51:15 GMT

Oh joy. I’ve been digging into the mapping between ITIL v3 and the new Microsoft Operations Framework v4. There are a lot of white papers from Microsoft: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc506049.aspx There is also a good MOF v4 overview from...(read more)

ITIL v3 Manager Bridge

martinbuckley — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:34:21 GMT

I’ve been out of the office all week taking training. One of my areas of specialty is ITIL – I’ve been in Brisbane, Australia taking the ITIL v3 Managers Bridge training and exam with The Art of Service . One of my future blog posts will most likely cover...(read more)