NYMetro Core Infrastructure Specialist Team : Events

NYMetro Webcast Wednesday Series Schedule for August

ekamor — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:19:00 GMT

Our August Webcast Wednesday schedule is now set. Focus this month will be on Virtualization. Visit the registration link and add a reminder to your calendar to join us! As always, if there are topics you would like to see us address, please use the 'email'...(read more)

NYMetro WebCast Wednesday Series - July

ekamor — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:10:00 GMT

Last year we started a local effort to hold bi-weekly 1 hour LiveMeeting Webcasts to delve a bit deeper into various technologies which make up your Windows-based core infrastructure. We've had to alter our schedule just a bit to accommodate holidays,...(read more)

NYMetro WebCast Wednesday Series

ekamor — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:09:00 GMT

Well its almost that time when we (your New York Metro Area Core Infrastructure team) will start up our bi-weekly Wednesday Webcasts. Every other Wednesday from noon till 1pm (eastern) we will present on topics related to the products we cover. Here's what we have on tap for July:

July 2 (12pm-1pm) - System Center Configuration Manager 2007 - Asset Intelligence Feature Deep Dive
July 16 (12pm-1pm) - Using Overrides in System Center Operations Manager
July 30 (12pm-1pm) - Automating System Center Operations Manager with Powershell

August will be focused on Server and Virtualization topics then we will switch to a Windows Client focus in September.

If there are topics you would like to see us cover, please post a comment to let us know!

MMS 2002 – Day 2 Recap

ekamor — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:06:51 GMT

(from Boris Nisenbaum, Server & Networking TSP)

Today began with Brad Anderson's keynote. This year's topic for his keynote was "Dynamic Datacenter" and he did a good job show casting a number of Microsoft technologies which enable a truly agile and dynamic datacenter, capable of providing seamless integration and transition between back end server technologies and desktop functionality. From the Windows Server 2008 perspective, Brad demonstrated the synergy between Terminal Services Web Access, virtualized desktop and application virtualization for accessing individual's data from anywhere in the world at any time.

The other part of the keynote was dedicated to the enterprise service management, especially SaaS (Software as a Service) and S+S (Software + Service) models. He raised an objective of managing the attached Services (those that provide higher level of functionality compared with basic services available in the cloud) and provided a glimpse preview of Microsoft System Center Attached Knowledge Services. These attached services can allow enterprises integrate monitoring solutions with business intelligence so that data center infrastructure can be leveraged in the most optimal way. He provided an example where monitoring of the average CPU utilization of the servers in certain geography can allow the organization to develop an optimized approach to the server consolidation task.

Another interesting session I attended was also about managing a virtualized data center. It was called "Dynamic Duo: hardware and Software solutions for Virtualized Clients and Servers" and was delivered by Intel. This session showed how advanced Intel technologies, such as V-Pro and Intel-VT provide unprecedented levels of manageability and performance when used by virtualized clients and servers. An interesting demo of the performance enhancements provided by Intel-VT architecture used in Hyper-V was shown. Here the SQL Server virtualized workload implemented as table indexing task took actually less time on the Hyper-V guest than it took on a physical server! Of course, in real life the performance of the virtualized workload is not likely to be better than physical, the Intel-VT performance enhancements are obvious.

All in all it was another productive day, filled with information and interesting customer interactions.

MMS Day 1: Operations Manager Cross Platform Extensions in BETA now!

ekamor — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:11:06 GMT

Now that we are through the first full day of MMS 2008, I thought we'd share some of the happenings of the day.

This year's big announcements focused on our heterogeneous support and virtualization – here's the link to press release. With the cross-platform extensions for System Center Operations Manager 2007 folks will be able to monitor both Windows and Linux. This puts the plumbing in place using industry standard communications (WS-Management) and OpenPegasus which then enables you to leverage management packs to provide the rich monitoring capability that Operations Manager provides. To learn a bit more, watch this video.

The cross-platform extensions are available for beta testing now on the connect site. For more on this and other info direct from the System Center team, visit their blog.

Great upcoming event with Mark Russinovich

ekamor — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:54:00 GMT

Springboard Live! Virtual, Interactive Roundtable Event
Still undecided on Windows Vista? Join Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich and a panel of independent experts and others at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time, March 5th for a live, interactive discussion on adopting Windows Vista into a desktop infrastructure, and what Windows Vista SP1 means for you. Hear about challenges, solutions, workarounds, and tips & tricks from subject-matter experts and IT pros from around the world who have tackled Windows Vista adoption and deployment.

Upcoming Local Launch Events

ekamor — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:29:00 GMT

Don't forget, our local Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 Launch events are fast approaching. You can go to the http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/register/default.mspx site to register.

March 4, 2008 New York City, NY

April 29, 2008 Long Island, NY

June 3, 2008 Edison, NJ