I'm Rob Marshall, a consultant who specialises in the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager product. I like to share, i do so by blogging and helping out when I can in the MS SMS newsgroups and participating in the ConfigMgr MVP program.
I was awarded and joined the program in 2009. It'd be an understatement to say it has to be one of the best experiences an IT engineer can have, if they really enjoy specialising in a product.
My biggest weapon for troubleshooting is, my formidable knowledge, no, only joking, you, the community. I find if I cannot answer a question, then I can usually find the answer from using Bing\Google, pouring over the documentation, and if that doesn't work, tinkering in mine or someone elses virtual lab.
The blogs pretty much about ConfigMgr, but it is also a platform for me to express my random urges to display something I've stumbled across, and that I imagine would entertain you or what not as equally as it did me.
Microsoft have pretty much confirmed that ConfigMgr SP2 will RTM on the 22nd of October 2009, in-line with the Windows 7 release.
Great effort guys, well done to the ConfigMgr product team for getting this release aligned with the Windows 7 release.
It's not available yet obviously, but expect to see it appear here
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configurationmanager/en/us/default.aspx
We plan to put this in to the test environment the moment it is available for download. A few weeks of testing then it enters our production environment as it fixes a few things we're waiting on, as well as giving us access to Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 without the need for those patches previously supplied by MS.
All I have for you in terms of release information is a tweet from Jeff Wettlaufer: http://twitter.com/JeffWettlaufer/status/4998793961
There she blows captain!
www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx