March 2007 - Posts

MMS Day 4 - Thursday 29th March
Today's keynote was a panel of big companies that use System Center including EDS. Had a meeting with Neil Sanderson who is the Product Manager for System Center in the UK. Looks like there will be a "Best of MMS" session in the UK on the 1st May - more...
Posted: Mar 30 2007, 09:30 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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Other highlights from MMS Day Three
Other things of note coming out of yesterday include: Having lunch with Microsoft and Rod to discuss ways of improving the Systems Management Community Attending a meeting with 1E and some other large companies about setting up a forum to share experiences...
Posted: Mar 29 2007, 09:25 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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System Center Bloggers
Had an interesting meeting with Microsoft yesterday and a few other bloggers. Basically Microsoft want to work with us to help us spread the love on System Center. We tossed around some ideas and they've gone away to chew things over so watch this space...
Posted: Mar 29 2007, 09:07 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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MMS Day Three - Wednesday 28th March
Attended the keynote: SMS 2003 SP3 will be available in April SCCM Live Asset intelligence coming – Your Site Server connects over the Internet to a server in Microsoft to receive updates to the Asset Intelligence catalog Automatic OS image management...
Posted: Mar 29 2007, 08:57 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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Co-presenting SC34 - Microsoft Management Communities
Well I've just finished helping out Rod co-present the Microsoft Management Communities session by explaining how I got into SMS in the first place, the history of FAQs and FAQShop and what's involved with being an MVP. It was a bit daunting standing...
Posted: Mar 28 2007, 11:20 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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MMS - SY03 - SCCM Deployment Part 1
Attended this session and made the following notes: SCCM Improvements Multi-threaded Hardware Inventory Object replication to Secondaries eliminated Multi-threaded file dispatch manager on Management Point (used to transfer data from the MP to the Site...
Posted: Mar 28 2007, 08:44 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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MMS - SY05 - SCCM What's New in Software Distribution
Attended this session and made the following notes: Branch DP Can install on XP/ Vista machine Need lots of disk space No auto deploy of Branch DP – Need to assign to specific machine so no fallover like with SMSNomad Up to 2,000 per site Doesn’t support...
Posted: Mar 28 2007, 08:32 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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MMS Day Two - Tuesday 27th March
This is the first "proper" day of MMS. The day started with the keynote in which I found out: There's a new version of SQL due next year (wasn't aware of that one). SCOM 2007 was officially announced as going RTM with it becoming available the first week...
Posted: Mar 28 2007, 06:03 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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MMS Day One...
And they say Monday is the quiet day of MMS It's been a VERY hectic day for me personally. Lots of meetings with different folks on working together to better serve you guys in the community, meeting old friends like Garth, Dave Jaffe, Rod and Megan,...
Posted: Mar 26 2007, 11:48 PM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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Where I'll be at MMS...
I want to meet as many of you as possible at MMS - you know what I look like from my picture on here so come on up and say "hi". Of course I'll be at Registration this morning, hanging round the Alumni lounge at various times but most of the time I'll...
Posted: Mar 26 2007, 09:48 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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For all you MMS Newbies - don't be afraid...
... we're here to help. MMS can be a bit daunting for anyone that's never been before (I know I found it a bit daunting being in an area with thousands people none of which I knew and trying to work out what I should do). But things have DRASTICALLY improved...
Posted: Mar 26 2007, 09:32 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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What a day - Top Gun style...
So I was at a bit of a loose end today before the SMS Expert get together tonight at the Omni (thanks to Dave and the other guys at SMS Expert - it was great to see old friends and make a few new ones). What to do today? I did think about going over the...
Posted: Mar 26 2007, 12:58 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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In Sunny San Diego...
Well folks I arrived yesterday in San Diego for MMS which officially kicks off tomorrow night. This is my fourth MMS and I've never managed to get a direct flight from the UK to Vegas and the same was true for my trip here. However, what was weird this...
Posted: Mar 26 2007, 12:55 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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SMS 2003 SP3 FAQs...
I've started a new page dedicated to SP3 FAQs which I'll be adding to as and when I across stuff to post. If you want to see anything added on this (or in fact any other area of FAQShop) just drop me a note....( read more ) Read More...
Posted: Mar 20 2007, 10:28 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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Microsoft's Survey on Community
I caught this on Rod's blog and wanted to share it with you as this is YOUR chance to shape the future of the Microsoft Systems Management community so please take a couple of minutes to complete it: " Microsoft has just launched an online survey targeted...
Posted: Mar 19 2007, 05:48 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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FAQShop Newsletter coming soon...
I just wanted let everyone know that I plan to release the Newsletter in April. If you: A re interested in receiving it all you need to do is click here and press the 'Send' button to send a subscription email. Have any colleagues or know of anyone that...
Posted: Mar 19 2007, 03:12 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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SMS 2003 Webcasts...
I know it's been over a year now since Microsoft last did any SMS-related Webcasts but they are still an AWESOME source of information and worth investing the time in to watch. I've just finished updating a complete list of all the Microsoft SMS 2003...
Posted: Mar 16 2007, 11:09 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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New FAQShop Articles 15/03/07
SMS 2003 Why do I get the "Automatic Client Discovery Was Unsuccessful" message when I click the "Discover" button? Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS] If your users are seeing this error when they click the "Discover" button in the "Systems Management...
Posted: Mar 15 2007, 10:36 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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Come and see the 1E folks at MMS...
One of the highlights of MMS has to be a visit to the 1E folks who make some AWESOME products which are well worth checking out. If you decide to pay them a visit tell them Cliff sent you To find out more click here ......( read more ) Read More...
Posted: Mar 15 2007, 07:03 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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Microsoft and F5 Ink SCOM 2007 Deal
" Microsoft and F5 Networks announced Tuesday they have signed an OEM deal that will put Redmond’s System Center Operations Manager 2007 on F5’s management appliances. The announcement comes just two weeks before the annual Microsoft Management Summit...
Posted: Mar 15 2007, 03:38 AM by Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com
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