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VMWare countering?
23 July 2008 15:25

Article up on The Register about VMWare http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/23/vmware_q2_2008_earnings/ Cut through all the fancy figures, and diatribe and you get to what I think is the tucked away jewel in this story (for VMWare) ... ESXi (the light-weight version) will be free at the next release. And, what's the odds that the ESXi light-weight version... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, Microsoft, Hyper-V, VMWare

Looking for a UK based ConfigMgr admin
21 July 2008 12:32

Isn't it funny, as that saying goes, you wait around for a bus and three come along at once. Well I've not been waiting for a bus, instead I've been waiting around for some exceptional ConfigMgr projects to get stuck in too. I'm taken care of now, but wonder if there are any UK ConfigMgr consultants\contractors out there that are twiddling their... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, Community, SCCM2007, System Center. Configuration Manager 2007, Work, Contract

WMUG Event on the 15th of July 2008
21 July 2008 12:21

I just cannot believe it was only last Tuesday that we had the WMUG meeting take place. The days since just seem to have slide by, with hardly a chance to come up for air and jump on to the WMUG site. A big thank you to all that attended. A good time was had by all it seems, with great feedback on what you want to do at these events. We had (for us) an amazing... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, Community, WMUG Event

Configuration Manager 2007 SDK (V4.0) - Part 2
29 June 2008 23:04

Doh, had to correct a URL in my previous post The Configuration Manager 2007 SDK link on http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/default.mspx is still pointing at an invalid address ... pinged customer services to let them know, but doubt i'm the first ;-) Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, Community, SCCM2007, Microsoft, System Center. Configuration Manager 2007

WMUG Site Poll: SCCM in Mixed or Native mode
11 June 2008 15:16

I've just put up a poll on the WMUG website, i'm trying to gauge how many people will go for a Native mode implementation of SCCM. WMUG SCCM Mixed or Native mode Poll Apologies but the site is not setup for anonymous posting (spambots and trolls abound), so you'll need to sign in to participate. Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, SCCM2007, Microsoft, WMUG, Mixed, Native, Poll

WMUG Event - 12th May - Microsoft Reading Campus
14 May 2008 11:58

Yesterday evening, the latest WMUG event took place at the Microsoft Reading Campus. We had a great turnout, lots of questions asked of the MS Speaker (Paul Collins) who overviewed the System Center product range, and Gordon Mckenna who as usual, spent most of the Recap of MMS 2008 allocated time talking about Operations Manager! Unfortunately, David Scambler... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, Community, WMUG Event, Microsoft

Microsoft Technet On the Road - London venue - Jan 15th 2008
02 January 2008 13:45

If you live in the London area, or can easily commute in; then might be worth making some time to attend the day-long Microsoft event taking place, to promote the System Center range of products * System Center: Manage your core infrastructure from De sktop to Datacenter 15 January 2008 09:15 - 15 January 2008 16:45 GMT, London Welcome Time: 08:30 Event Overview... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, Community

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Product Feature Quizzes
21 November 2007 15:26

Steven Bink just blogged about this, thought it is worth reposting here: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Product Feature Quizzes Overview The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 User Assistance team has created a set of quizzes to help you assess your understanding of the dependencies and requirements for key features of Configuration Manager. These... Read More...

by Rob | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: System Center, Community, SCCM2007

Interview: The MS System Center Product Teams
15 November 2007 16:06

Members! We have a great opportunity to put together questions for the Microsoft System Center Product Teams, that will form the basis of a series of Interviews over the coming months. It would be great to get some questions put together that come from the Community itself, rather than just ones the WMUG team can generate. It would be really cool if any of you... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, Community

System Center Config Manager R2 - Summer 2008
13 November 2007 11:55

Heads up from Bink.nu on SCCM2007 R2 System Center Config Manager R2, next year: New features include Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 integration, and OS deploy multicast support. http://bink.nu/news/system-center-config-manager-r2-next-year.aspx I wonder if SCCM2007 SP1 will include the features integrated in to SCCM2007 R2? They should converge. Me... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, SCCM2007

SCCM2007 VHD - Evaluation
30 October 2007 18:14

Microsoft have released a SCCM2007 VHD for download at Microsoft Download Center Not too sure why it's saying the download can be between 551.6MB and 7551.6MB when there are several files that seem to be parts of a single archive: WIN03_SCCM.part01.exe - 700.0 MB WIN03_SCCM.part02.rar - 700.0 MB WIN03_SCCM.part03.rar - 700.0 MB WIN03_SCCM.part04.rar - 700... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, SCCM2007

SMS2003 MCP Exam 70-089
05 October 2007 01:21

I took the SMS2003 70-089 MCP exam today. 40 of the easiest questions i've ever had to answer! Got a score of 984 out of 1000 (that's worth some bragging rights surely?!?!), I must of missed a question :< I did hardly any prep-work for this exam . I use the product daily, and I think as long as you're up on the product and the feature packs you'll... Read More...

by Rob | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: SMS, System Center, Community

WMUG - System Center Configuration\Operations Manager presentation
30 September 2007 22:01

Hey there, Our first WMUG meeting has been confirmed, and we're busy putting together some good content for you! I'm especially looking forward to the day, as the first meet will be in the newly refurbished MS office at Cardinal Place, London . If you're interested in a unbiased and technical comparison of SMS2003 and System Centre Configuration Manager... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: Technology, System Center, Community

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Eval
24 September 2007 00:34

SMS V4, aka SCCM2007, was released without much fanfare on Friday 24th August. You can eval the product here . I'm not too impressed with the release of SCCM2007. I'm a member of several distlists, even on the SCCM Beta, and yet I didn't get a single email announcing the release of the product. It just seemed to appear on the scene and was propped... Read More...

by Rob | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: SMS, System Center

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (what a mouthful!) goes RTM!!!
28 August 2007 10:30

SCCM2007 is now RTM! Wow, cannot wait to start administrating this product in production. Happy days! Rather than redo what's out there, I might as well link straight back to Rod Trents posting that qoutes Bill Anderson Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: SMS, System Center