October 2007 - Posts
My buddy Justin Zarb has some great information on System Center Virtual Machine Manager posted over on his blog so I thought I'd give you a heads up in case you missed it: ====== So I have been chatting to more and more people around System Center Virtual
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Sorry for the late notice but if you're planning on implementing our System Centers products this would be a good webcast to check out: ====== Language(s): English. Product(s): Longhorn. Audience(s): IT Professionals. Duration: 90 Minutes Start Date:
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Using the power of virtualization, you can now quickly evaluate Microsoft and partner solutions through a series of pre-configured Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs). You can download the VHDs and evaluate them for free in your own environment without the need
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Here are some Proof of Concept guidelines I put together that I thought you might find helpful. While this document provides an overview of installing Configuration Manager in a Proof of Concept (POC) environment, it should under no circumstances be considered
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http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937532 When you create a configuration baseline rule that includes more than 300 software updates in System Center Configuration Manager 2007, the configuration baseline is not evaluated correctly Sys Center Config Manger
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Here's an interesting issue I ran into the other day where a Task Sequence would fail in a very bizarre way. Turns out it was caused by a missing Registry key that caused Partition Manager (PartMgr) to fail to load and start. Symptoms: 1. When a Task
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Here's the list of new Knowledge Base articles we published last week: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=935914 You cannot use task sequence bootable media to run a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 image advertisement Sys Center Config Manager
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I know this is old news for some of you but we still seem to get questions now and then as to the availability of a trial software for System Center Configuration Manager so here's a heads up. To download the evaluation see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb736730.aspx
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You've probably already seen this but if not then here's a heads up as to the availability of an eval for System Center Data Protection Manager. To download the evaluation see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb727240.aspx . ====== For IT professionals
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You may have already seen this but in case you missed it and are looking to give System Center Virtual Machine Manager a test drive then this is the place to start. You can access the main page at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scvmm/default.aspx
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For details see http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032355427&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US ====== Language(s): English. Product(s): System Center. Audience(s): IT Professionals. Duration: 90
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For details see http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032353819&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US ====== Language(s): English. Product(s): System Center Data Protection Manager. Audience(s): IT Professionals.
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Here's yet another workflow for you. I hope someone is finding these things useful. J.C. Hornbeck
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There may be certain situations where you need to move the Operations Manager database (OperationsManager) from one SQL Server 2005-based computer to another, including the following: ยท The current server is experiencing hardware issues and is not considered
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Here's another workflow for you. enjoy! J.C. Hornbeck
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A while back I mentioned an issue where an upgrade of an SMS 2003 client to Service Pack 3 will cause NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing to fail. Well, there's a fix available for this issue available per Knowledge Base article 941820 . You can download
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Jeff Gilbert recently wrote a great blog on an issue that was found regarding the schema extension with SCCM. The intro is below and you can read the entire post at http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/archive/2007/09/29/upgrading-sms-2003-active-directory-schema-extensions-for-configuration-manager-2007.aspx
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Trika posted some information about a Webcast they're doing to go over the new MCP exams for Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) and Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM): the Systems Formerly Known As SMS and MOM. The dates and times
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We posted this deployment guide a while ago but we still get a few questions about it so I thought I'd send out a heads up. ==== Planning and Deploying the Server Infrastructure for Configuration Manager 2007 There are a number of different deployment
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Language(s): English. Product(s): System Center. Audience(s): IT Professionals. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Learn how you can perform large-scale deployments of Windows
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We get questions about ports all the time so I thought I would send a heads up on this. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is a distributed client/server system and as such, the distributed nature of Configuration Manager 2007 means that
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Here's another workflow for you: J.C. Hornbeck
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Looking for a Management Pack for MOM2005 or OpsMgr 2007? Check out our Management Pack catalog at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/catalog/catalog.aspx . Here you can find software you need to optimize Operations Manager with other applications.
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Here are the new Knowledge Base articles published between 9/16 and 9/22: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941462 On a computer that has Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, or Microsoft Systems
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Language(s): English. Product(s): System Center. Audience(s): IT Professionals. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a new unified
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