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.
Check out the latest VHD release for ConfigMgr v.Next Beta 1, awesome that you don't have to deploy the infrastructure and layer eveything on to test drive the product, just fire this thing up as a VM or even boot off it:
Hello everyone, we wanted to get this information to you as soon as possible. We now have released a fully configured virtual machine for ConfigMgr v.Next Beta 1. Based on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 OS, this is a fully built virtual machine ready to import into your Hyper-V environments.
This is something the ConfigMgr team has done for a few major releases, starting back at the ConfigMgr 2007 RTM timeframes. We are really excited to get you guys this type of access, to help you evaluate the latest and greatest ConfigMgr v.Next release. We are also in the process of uploading the hands on labs for ConfigMgr v.Next as well, look for that announcement soon.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2010/08/18/configuration-manager-v-next-beta-1-now-on-vhd-test-drive-program.aspx