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Two new Twibes to follow for MMS 2009

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT

We’ve created a couple new Twibes for those Tweeters wanting to get the most out of MMS 2009 through up-to-the-minute news and information.

First, there’s the System Center Twibe: http://www.twibes.com/group/systemcenter

And, of course, the best one, the myITforum.com Twibe: http://www.twibes.com/group/myITforum

MMS 2009 - Registration Now Open

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Registration for MMS 2009 is now open!

Early-bird Rates Currently Available

There's no time like the present to come learn how the latest IT management products, solutions and technologies from Microsoft can help reduce costs and maximize availability for your organization.

This year's content will focus on how integrated management solutions can help minimize the cost of planning, deploying and operating IT Services while maximizing their availability within your organization. IT Professionals and Technical Decision Makers—like you—can take advantage of the increased number of Hands-on Labs and breakout sessions at MMS 2009, with extended session and lab hours during the week.

Register today for MMS 2009 and get ready to:

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Learn about the latest IT management solutions from Microsoft and Partners in more than 120 breakout sessions.

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Test-drive new products and technologies in the Hands-on Labs, offering over 9,000 lab places, most led by expert instructors!

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Meet face-to-face with Microsoft and Industry experts, and your peers—in the Expo Hall and at networking events throughout the week.

Learn from the Experts

The sessions at MMS 2009 will again be presented by the top experts in Windows IT Management. Staff from the Microsoft product teams representing the System Center, Windows Server, Windows Client, Security and Solution Accelerator teams will be covering the latest releases, updates and solutions available for IT Management.

In addition, many industry experts and consultants will be presenting the latest best practices and real-world tips and tricks they have developed on customer sites. This includes topics presented by the internal Microsoft IT team, who are typically the first to deploy and manage all Microsoft IT solutions in a live environment.

Finally, you will also be able to hear from your peers – other members of the IT community who have advice, real world lessons and powerful shortcuts to share. Customers actively using Microsoft products to manage their IT environment will be presenting real-world case studies based on their own experiences.

Hands-on Labs

Hands-on Labs, always one of the most popular offerings at MMS each year, return with even more topics in 2009. A wide range of both self-paced and instructor-led lab topics will be provided, allowing attendees to try out a variety of products, solutions and technologies live. Lab topics will cover scenarios such as deployment, upgrade, configuration and administration across a wide range of environments.

This year new lab topics are being added to demonstrate how to integrate multiple products to implement solution scenarios such as "Data Protection and Disaster Recovery" and "End-Point Security Management". In addition new labs topics will explain how to manage a variety of heterogeneous platforms and applications in your environment.

Bring Your Questions to MMS 2009!

Join us at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas for a week of deep technical information and tips on how to run your IT infrastructure at maximum efficiency—knowledge you'll get nowhere else!

Learn more about session content, Hands-on Lab topics, and Registration options at http://mms-2009.com/.

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TechNet Edge: The System Center portal

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Released recently, the System Center portal on TechNet Edge gives you a central location for Microsoft created videos:

http://edge.technet.com/systemcenter/

Microsoft’s categorization of support and unsupported methods and operations

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Even though you have found a process or procedure that works great for what you need, what does it mean when Microsoft says that it is unsupported?

Here’s how Microsoft categorizes supported and unsupported scenarios…

Supported Scenarios:

Microsoft has thoroughly tested the product or solution, and can confirm the features or functionality work as designed/tested.
Microsoft will work to resolve the customers problem through normal troubleshooting, based on how the product or solution was designed and tested.
Microsoft will triage Hotfix requests for designed/tested features or functionality. In other words, Microsoft will investigate the effort, risk, and value in developing a Hotfix and create one if warranted. Alternatively, they might offer workarounds that the customer can employ to achieve the same desired behaviors.

Unsupported Scenarios:

Microsoft has tested the product or solution, and can confirm the feature or functionality will NOT work.
Microsoft will not provide support for customer problems known not to work. Microsoft will make a reasonable effort to provide documentation for known “unsupported” scenarios.
Microsoft has not tested the product or solution, and cannot confirm the features or functionality work as designed/tested.
Non-Microsoft products or solutions are not generally tested against Microsoft products or solutions. Therefore, Non-Microsoft products or solutions are not supported by Microsoft.

The product groups cannot test every possible scenario under the sun and there are many "edge" scenarios that Microsoft will never test, but which are perfectly reasonable solutions for customers.

Just because something is labeled "unsupported" doesn't mean that the product support will leave the customer to the wolves. Unless something is *known* not to work, they will still offer commercially reasonable support to the customer and will work to identify the root cause of the problem. In some cases, if the support engineer believes the problem is related to the unsupported configuration, they may ask the customer to repro the problem in a supported configuration before continuing the troubleshooting.

Microsoft Survey: Data Warehousing

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Answering these 10 questions will help Microsoft determine your needs and requirements, and Microsoft’s direction for Data Warehousing…

http://www.myitforum.com/absolutepm/polls/datawarehouse.asp

Formal Announcement: I’m speaking at TechMentor 2008 in Las Vegas

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

If you want to stop by, relive some MMS in Vegas memories, and even sit in on a session or two of mine, check out TechMentor 2008.

There are still 2 events left for 2008. One in New York, and one in Las Vegas. And, of course, with my history of MMS in Vegas, I think I picked the best one to speak at. :)

I’m bringing System Center to the TechMentor fold this year, which should really help expand the topic range and bring in a whole new audience.

The TechMentor folks have put together a cool video about the conference that you should take a gander at when you get time.

http://www.myITforum.com/absolutevc/?v=1033

And, when you’re ready to sign-up to attend, drop out to the following URL:

http://techmentorevents.com/

William Bracken gives his list of best forums for ConfigMgr resolutions

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Thanks, William, for including myITforum.com in the your list!

Read it…

http://www.clientarchitect.com/blog1.php/2008/06/22/best-forums-to-get-answers-for-sccm

BTW: myITforum.com promotes the same level of support for all of the System Center products. myITforum.com provides several email lists and also a huge number of active web-based forums.

Martin Buckley gives us an overview of the new System Center Alliance

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

No, folks. This thing (SC Alliance) is still alive – even though we’ve rarely heard about it since the initial announcement at TechEd IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona.

Martin Buckley has dedicated a portion of his blog to righting this wrong, and to help us all “Remember the Alliance!”

<gee, that sounds like a kinda battle cry, doesn’t it?>

Anyway…Martin has a nice overview of the SC Alliance on his blog right now. Check it out…

http://blogs.technet.com/martinbuckley/archive/2008/06/16/microsoft-system-center-alliance-overview.aspx

Also, if you want to read more about the SC Alliance as Martin posts information about it, you can bookmark the following page…

http://blogs.technet.com/martinbuckley/archive/tags/System+Center+Alliance/default.aspx

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grab the RSS feed for System Center Alliance

http://blogs.technet.com/martinbuckley/rss.aspx?Tags=System+Center+Alliance&AndTags=1

New myITforum.com specific functionality added to the System Center Windows Vista search gadget

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Microsoft has added some new functionality for myITforum’ers into their System Center Windows Vista Search Gadget today.

Now pages from the articles section of myITforum.com (http://www.myitforum.com/articles/*) will be returned in search results for the overall System Center search and for specific product searches. For example, when you set the gadget to search all System Center products, and then you click on the Blogs tab, these search results will now contain pages that have a URL that starts with http://www.myitforum.com/articles/. Also, if you set the gadget to search for Operations Manager, Essentials, VMM, or Config Manager, then pages from the articles section of myITforum.com will also be returned in the results.
Now when a user uses the “All System Center products” search, the results for the Forums tab will contain pages that have a URL that start with http://www.myITforum.com/forums/.
The blogs search definitions have also been updated for System Center (all products), Operations Manager, Essentials, and Configuration Manager to include results from myITforum.com blogs.

Better myITforum.com Forum results

To get better results for the myITforum.com forums, though, you need precede your search statement with “myitforum”.

Click on the tab.

Type something like:

Click the Search icon

And, you’ll see the myITforum.com forums solutions first…

Grab the System Center Search Windows Vista Gadget!