http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/default.mspx
Just found the above, it should have all the launches/announcements in case we miss them!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The Dynamic Desktop
This keynote was presented by Brad Anderson who is one of Microsoft's general managers. He led into by talking about how the baby boomers are retiring and that by 2012, 30% of the workforce will be made up of Gen Y. The framing here was all about how Gen Y are tech savvy and will demand more flexible ways of working.
"The Dynamic Desktop provides a consistent experience for users independent of device or location".
Microsoft's belief is that now and in the future we should consider the client, the user not their device and we need to ask ourselves questions along the lines of how do we deliver applications and data to the user.
The next step was a quick demo of Application Virtualisation, so a .pptx was clicked on and Powerpoint was installed in the background in around 10 seconds. Pretty swish! They made an edit and saved it, they were then able to log in from another device and have the same file with the edit via VDI over Terminal Services gateway and so on. This works with the Vista Folder redirection I briefly mentioned in one of my earlier posts.
In Q3 the next version of the MDOP pack will be released and they highlighted that the product at launch was the fastest selling on Volume Licensing they have ever had. As Brian mentioned MDOP is only available via Software Assurance.
System Centre and it's add-ons were highlighted as the best way to provide and manage the dynamic desktop and Microsoft rightly argue that you should be able to use one tool to manage physical/virtual and client devices/servers. They claim to be providing this one stop shop.
Next up was a demonstration of Network Access Protection via Windows 2008, it showed how a device gets quarantined, remediation work is carried out (patch applied for example)and then the device is allowed to connect. The feature will allow you to set policies and do a check before implementation so you can understand the effect of any change. I guess this is much like the Resultant Set of Policy feature in AD GPO's.
Attached Knowledge Services was a good example of some innovative thinking. This is where all the System Centre suite report back to Microsoft (with no identifying info) the health of an environment, its make up and so on. This has then allowed Microsoft to create baselines to allow companies to see how they compare. Furthermore, if you are performing badly in some area you can query the data to find out what to change to help your environment. Taking this further, Microsoft have found that where one customer experiences specific problems, they can use this information to proactively warm others who may be getting to a similar situation, before the problem even arises. Whilst this has a tinge of big brother to it if i were a suspicious mind, the opportunity here is fantastic. This would clearly be a big reputational boost to Microsoft and its services, as well as a stability/reliability boost for its customers. Unless of course you are the customer that has to have the problem first ;-)
Finally, in a bit of a Columbo style "Just one more thing" moment a quick demo was performed using a USB stick to plug into a machine and from there he again managed to show his apps. This is similar to what Mars Office on a Stick is trying to do, but here it would be native to Microsoft. No further details were given but it was a slick show stopper demo.
One slight irritation was that they put up their roadmap of the System Centre suite, all the products are to go to the next version on 2010. Were they our replacement for Zenworks, we could face doing a rollout and a version upgrade as soon as the rollout completes. Having said that, we all know how their deadlines slip!
After this session, I am left feeling quite positive about where Microsoft see the future, they clearly recognise the problems Mars sees and are already looking to address them. It is like they have been stealing from my Client Architecture Framework document though!
"The Dynamic Desktop provides a consistent experience for users independent of device or location".
Microsoft's belief is that now and in the future we should consider the client, the user not their device and we need to ask ourselves questions along the lines of how do we deliver applications and data to the user.
The next step was a quick demo of Application Virtualisation, so a .pptx was clicked on and Powerpoint was installed in the background in around 10 seconds. Pretty swish! They made an edit and saved it, they were then able to log in from another device and have the same file with the edit via VDI over Terminal Services gateway and so on. This works with the Vista Folder redirection I briefly mentioned in one of my earlier posts.
In Q3 the next version of the MDOP pack will be released and they highlighted that the product at launch was the fastest selling on Volume Licensing they have ever had. As Brian mentioned MDOP is only available via Software Assurance.
System Centre and it's add-ons were highlighted as the best way to provide and manage the dynamic desktop and Microsoft rightly argue that you should be able to use one tool to manage physical/virtual and client devices/servers. They claim to be providing this one stop shop.
Next up was a demonstration of Network Access Protection via Windows 2008, it showed how a device gets quarantined, remediation work is carried out (patch applied for example)and then the device is allowed to connect. The feature will allow you to set policies and do a check before implementation so you can understand the effect of any change. I guess this is much like the Resultant Set of Policy feature in AD GPO's.
Attached Knowledge Services was a good example of some innovative thinking. This is where all the System Centre suite report back to Microsoft (with no identifying info) the health of an environment, its make up and so on. This has then allowed Microsoft to create baselines to allow companies to see how they compare. Furthermore, if you are performing badly in some area you can query the data to find out what to change to help your environment. Taking this further, Microsoft have found that where one customer experiences specific problems, they can use this information to proactively warm others who may be getting to a similar situation, before the problem even arises. Whilst this has a tinge of big brother to it if i were a suspicious mind, the opportunity here is fantastic. This would clearly be a big reputational boost to Microsoft and its services, as well as a stability/reliability boost for its customers. Unless of course you are the customer that has to have the problem first ;-)
Finally, in a bit of a Columbo style "Just one more thing" moment a quick demo was performed using a USB stick to plug into a machine and from there he again managed to show his apps. This is similar to what Mars Office on a Stick is trying to do, but here it would be native to Microsoft. No further details were given but it was a slick show stopper demo.
One slight irritation was that they put up their roadmap of the System Centre suite, all the products are to go to the next version on 2010. Were they our replacement for Zenworks, we could face doing a rollout and a version upgrade as soon as the rollout completes. Having said that, we all know how their deadlines slip!
After this session, I am left feeling quite positive about where Microsoft see the future, they clearly recognise the problems Mars sees and are already looking to address them. It is like they have been stealing from my Client Architecture Framework document though!
The 5 pieces of MDOP
This session was a quick runthrough of the 5 (soon to be 6) products that are available through MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack)
I guess the first thing to note is that MDOP is only available to customers that buy Software Assurance, which is Microsoft's version of the maintenance contract. It looks like relatively good value and seems to be the resting place of products that Microsoft have recently acquired
Desktop Error Monitoring is the first product, which allows a company to collect all the Dr. Watson error events from the desktops that are sent to Microsoft and analyse them. This works well with the second tool which is branded DaRT (Diagnostic and Recovery Tool) which you may have heard of as Winternals prior to Microsoft buying it. This allows centralised diagnosis of blue screen type events, and recovery in software related crashes. Useful where desksiders aren't available!
Advanced Group Policy Management isn't particularly relevant to us today, but when we start using Active Directory for our desktops this could well be critical, as it allows auditing and workflow for any policy changes. Seems to me that this should be in the core product though...
Asset Inventory Service (AIS) is a 'cloud based' inventory service that could be really useful for those hard to reach devices (salesforce laptops!), although when I spoke to the product manager he seemed a bit stumped on how you'd actually get the client onto the machines in the first place. Seems like a fairly large oversight to me! This product used to be known as AssetMetrics
Last and most interesting of all was Application Virtualisation (formerly SoftGrid), which is the application virtualisation technology. Loads more to discuss in up and coming sessions so I'll just say that this product is aimed at Application to Application isolation, and doesn't address Application to Operating System isolation, which is where the sixth product will come in (Enterprise Desktop Virtualisation, formerly Kidaro)
I guess the first thing to note is that MDOP is only available to customers that buy Software Assurance, which is Microsoft's version of the maintenance contract. It looks like relatively good value and seems to be the resting place of products that Microsoft have recently acquired
Desktop Error Monitoring is the first product, which allows a company to collect all the Dr. Watson error events from the desktops that are sent to Microsoft and analyse them. This works well with the second tool which is branded DaRT (Diagnostic and Recovery Tool) which you may have heard of as Winternals prior to Microsoft buying it. This allows centralised diagnosis of blue screen type events, and recovery in software related crashes. Useful where desksiders aren't available!
Advanced Group Policy Management isn't particularly relevant to us today, but when we start using Active Directory for our desktops this could well be critical, as it allows auditing and workflow for any policy changes. Seems to me that this should be in the core product though...
Asset Inventory Service (AIS) is a 'cloud based' inventory service that could be really useful for those hard to reach devices (salesforce laptops!), although when I spoke to the product manager he seemed a bit stumped on how you'd actually get the client onto the machines in the first place. Seems like a fairly large oversight to me! This product used to be known as AssetMetrics
Last and most interesting of all was Application Virtualisation (formerly SoftGrid), which is the application virtualisation technology. Loads more to discuss in up and coming sessions so I'll just say that this product is aimed at Application to Application isolation, and doesn't address Application to Operating System isolation, which is where the sixth product will come in (Enterprise Desktop Virtualisation, formerly Kidaro)
Content as a Service (CaaS)
Way behind on my blogging so I'll keep this one relatively brief
My first session of the week was all about the documentation that MS provides for the System Center suite. Pretty dry stuff, but some interesting nuggets could be found
"SuperFlows" offer a much more interactive way of understanding how the product should/could work, and is being integrated with the troubleshooting tools - If this type of documentation takes off then I see a lot of benefit for GTS style solutions here. Also nice is the ability to extract the documentation (e.g. visio docs) and annotate it with our own specific configuration information (server names etc).
see http://www.myITforum.com/absolutevc/?v=834 for more info and an interview with Mr. SuperFlow
I guess the only problem I see here is that this kind of in-depth documentation takes time, and we'll increasingly see product functionality released with limited (or no) documentation. I guess we may need to seek out the developer blogs more and more just to understand how to use products we've bought! The cynic in me is thinking about how this drives consultancy revenue
My first session of the week was all about the documentation that MS provides for the System Center suite. Pretty dry stuff, but some interesting nuggets could be found
"SuperFlows" offer a much more interactive way of understanding how the product should/could work, and is being integrated with the troubleshooting tools - If this type of documentation takes off then I see a lot of benefit for GTS style solutions here. Also nice is the ability to extract the documentation (e.g. visio docs) and annotate it with our own specific configuration information (server names etc).
see http://www.myITforum.com/absolutevc/?v=834 for more info and an interview with Mr. SuperFlow
I guess the only problem I see here is that this kind of in-depth documentation takes time, and we'll increasingly see product functionality released with limited (or no) documentation. I guess we may need to seek out the developer blogs more and more just to understand how to use products we've bought! The cynic in me is thinking about how this drives consultancy revenue
Users
It's been two days since we explored the strip and my feet still haven't forgiven me! One of the good things that came from our day of exploration was our discovery of one of the new 'chocolate lounges' here in Vegas. Naturally we decided to investigate!
We met the team of associates that run the Ethel chocolate lounge and asked them about the tools they used. As in our DOE session we found that IT is peripheral to their ways of working. The shop has a small workspace out back that is the office/storage area, and their we found a lonely looking SDS2000 laptop that the manager uses for email and MarsWeb access. Sametime was a novelty for them, as was the realisation that the GTS offered 24x7 support and could unlock their accounts!
On the non-IT side the store was fairly busy which was great to see - a fairly even mix of people buying chocolates to take away and groups enjoying chocolate drinks and fondue in store
Virtualisation 360
This session was all about what virtualisation is and Microsoft's view of the future. It had some great slides so I wont go into too much detail here.
Key points:
Key points:
- Prediction that in 5years time 75% of all servers will be virtual.
- The recent Kidaro acquisition allows MS to provide seamless windows for applications (like Citrix) whereas currently they can only provide full desktop sessions.
- System Centre Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) can do snapshots of virtual machines and restore to a different host in the event of failure. It will be possible to do the same with applications using SCDPM and MS Application Virtualisation.
- Heavy pushing of System Centre and its components as the one stop shop to manage physical and virtual as well as client and server, regardless of OS, Virtual host, hardware vendor etc.
- Different models of providing services to the end user (this could be part of my solution space for the Client Architecture Framework). Refer to the slides for further info.
- MS Assessment and Planning 3.0 - updated infrastructure tool to assess both server and client environments, it will tell you which servers could be virtualised and what applications for client devices. It generates a nice report with lots of graphs. It sounds like an interesting tool but they didn't go into how it makes those recommendations.
So that was all of my sessions for Tuesday, I'm now off to the keynote for Wednesday which is all about 'Managing the dynamic desktop'. Should be good!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Session Change
Next I was due to go to the Get IT Faster session, as soon as they got to the agenda I realised it was not relevant. The brief pitched it as enabling deployment and patch management, they key thing it missed off was using Dell's software for Dell Servers.
So I ducked out and went to the exhibition hall. i spent some time talking with Quest (Provision Networks division) which is all about their VDI solution and using it to make your corporation greener. They gave me a tshirt and if I wear it I can win a prize.
Yep, I wont be winning that prize!
I talked with some of the System Centre consultants and they confirmed that any existing MSI we have packaged for apps via Zenworks can be imported into SCCM no problem so that is good. They seemed iffy on whether OS builds for non-windows would be on the development path thought. This seemed surprising after Bob Muglia had pushed the products for managing a heterogeneous environment so much. I guess there is still a difference between managing your environment and creating it.
I noticed that some of the snacks provided were Mars ones and that this snickers had some alternative labelling:
I chatted to some of the Citrix guys to get an update on some things and got a nice sticker for my laptop from VMWare.
Real World System Centre Successes
This was a presentation by 1E and was largely a sales pitch for their products than a discussion of real world success.
key figures:
key figures:
- Dell saved $1.8m per year on 50k PCs using Nightwatchman to power down PCs and monitors
- Verizon saved $1.3m on energy and $9.5m using the zero touch deployment technologies for 85k machines. Their deployments went from 6hrs per machine for Cloned HDD to 0.8hr with 1E products integrated into System Centre.
- 1E stated that ROI is generally achieved on all their products within the first 3-6 months.
They are adding multicast with failover to their Nomad product in Q3.
Launched PXE Lite 1.6 via this session. this has better technology to deal with branch offices and for re imaging.
1E are concerned with global warming, they showed that IT is responsible for 2% of man made CO2 (4% in USA) which is equivalent to the airline industry. Of that 2%, 39% is due to PCs and monitors being left on unnecessarily. This ties into some of their power management products.
By this point I have to say I was more than a little underwhelmed, they they launched Shopping 3.0. This product is essentially a web portal that IT can publish to end users. It works similar to other online shopping sites and allows a self service approach to end user requests. For example, if I wanted a new application I would log in and select it, the web site has the ability to charge if a license is required, or offer a rental period (ideal for project teams who may need short term access but not a dedicated license - this allows the organisation to minimise license purchases). Shopping 3.0 will then either complete the request, or pass it on to an approver by a workflow email. The approver can then choose to deny or accept. If accepted, Shopping will deploy the application via SCCM. All without any interaction from IT. The user can even login and check the progress of their order.
Shopping 3.0 can also be used to give access to file shares, group memberships, Active Directory objects/permissions/resources and so on.
Furthermore, over time it will email the user to ensure they still need the application and if they do not can uninstall the application (via SCCM) and ensure the license is then available for other users. In our environment this would be a great assett as many people change roles, but rights are not removed and applications rarely uninstalled. We would have the potential to save license costs, GTS costs and effort and streamline the process for our end users.
I was amazed that they presented this product last, I had seen 20 or so people leave before then but this was clearly their show stopper.
Boozy Firemen
I noticed this in the fire hose connection cabinet outside my room...
Does this mean the fireman/woman will rush to my aid as they have been bribed with beer, or will I die whilst they have a quick drink?
I did try the cabinet to check if it was locked and it was, so no idea how it got in there.
Colin's Bag
Colin asked me to get him a bag if I could for his laptop. I managed to get you this one...it ties in with the company's sustainability theme too!
Only kidding, the conference bag is perhaps more your style...
Introduction to System Centre Mobile Device Manager
This was a pretty interesting lecture and gave me a great overview of the product. Microsoft only released this product at the beginning of April (in this guise). They had some research from MED Finance that predicts that from 2006-2011 mobile messaging will grow 2.3x, however mobile corporate data access is predicted to grow 5.4x it's existing user base. This is where they see the key driver for mobile devices.
System Centre Mobile Device Manager(SCMDM) enables Windows Mobile 6.1 (shortly to be released) devices to be managed much the same as a PC or laptop. They can join the domain and have GPO's enfoced and so on. This allows admins to do things like:
System Centre Mobile Device Manager(SCMDM) enables Windows Mobile 6.1 (shortly to be released) devices to be managed much the same as a PC or laptop. They can join the domain and have GPO's enfoced and so on. This allows admins to do things like:
- Disable the camera
- Prevent writing to external storage
- Full device encryption
- OTA provisioning and boot strapping (yes even fresh from the box the end user can do this with no IT staff input giving them a fully compliant corporate IT build still, all via a customisable self service webpage)
- OTA software distribution (based on WSUS)
- Mobile VPN with session persistence (great for when you go through a tunnel on the train!)
- Application control and denial
- Remote wipe or block (i.e. someone knows where they left their device and can retrieve it but needs it to be temporarily blocked to stop misuse)
This is again configured via a System Centre snap-in and the service is provided by 3 server roles: Enrollment Server, Device Management Server and Mobile VPN Server (in DMZ).
There is a dependency on having Active Directory in the organisation.
There is a plan to do other device OS's in the future (such as RIM/Palm/Symbian but no timescales as yet as they are having some licensing discussions with those relevant rights holders.
All in all SCMDM looks to be aninteresting project and certainly an area we may want to investigate further should we be using SCCM in the organisation.
Mat's thoughts on the keynote with Bob Muglia
Today the first session was the keynote with Bob Muglia one of MS's Senior VPs.
The key things I took away are:
- Demo of System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) that showed its ability to do pre-OS (what we tend to call bare metal) install by configuring both the BIOS (to enable virtualisation) and RAID. Both core functionality for server distributions.
- SCCM will soon have the ability to multicast, better aiding network distribution without clogging the pipes.
- Early benchmarking of Hyper-V shows it to be pretty competitive with a v1 release with VMWare ESX which has had a couple of years headstart. Obviously they didn't state who paid for the benchmarking and it's independence or not, but interesting all the same.
- System Centre Virtual Machine Manager was released as a Beta. A very interesting product that can manage both Hyper-V and VMWare virtual environments from the one console. The only product current available to do this on the market now.
- Whilst Hyper-V can move virtual machines, it does require downtime albeit brief. VMWare today can do this with none. Microsoft have a live migration working in the lab and will be introducing it in the future.
- Next up, Cross Platform extensions for SCCM were announced that allow for the management of SUSE/Red Hat/Solaris/HPUX etc. Again allowing for an investment in one product (SCCM) to enable companies to manage their entire infrastructure environment.
- Finally, that we are all heroes for doing the jobs we do, tying into the Windows 2008 launch in Feb and the use of David Bowie's song. I for one have always known I'm a legend ;-)
Monday, April 28, 2008
The Strip
Brian suggested we use the Sunday to walk the Strip (what did you think I meant?) so I could see what all the different themes of the hotels were as I have never been to LV before. We also went to find the Apple store as my friend Adrie would like me to buy him a Macbook Air.
This is what we found when we got there...
Yes I framed the picture purposely, shiny and sexy as Apples products are, I do feel they are overpriced and over hyped. Interestingly a lot of recent articles on IT websites are suggesting that Macs will begin to both be pushed towards the enterprise market as well as pulled in by end users demanding them in non traditional Mac areas (i.e. non media uses). One of the sessions I am attending this week is about using System Centre to support non MS environments and Macs were specifically mentioned in the brief so that should be interesting.
So Adrie, I haven't bought you a Air as it was closed! I have also found that my bank has blocked my cards as they think they are being used fraudulently - I have now pointed out I actually am in the US and please will they let me have my money!
In another Mall we managed to visit the M&Ms store. I thought this would be for people to buy them but chocolate is perhaps the smallest range of items available. Whilst there are many colours of M&Ms to buy including the new Indiana Jones tie in flavour;
the majority of the merchandise available is things like clothing, stationary and so on. I think there were 4 floors and the shop was very busy which is great to see. It was also the first time we saw genuinely happy people that days with big smiles, people really identify with Red and Yellow and buy in to the brand, not just the products. No one in Casinos seem to be smiling! Some more pics of the shop:
I got to the end of the escalator hence the blurred action shot ;-)
and its consequences - 
I'm guessing that should get me the Homer award for a bit!
and as the team are into cars:
According to the USA Today I got this morning (Mon) the M&Ms car won yesterday, so congratulations to them!
The M&Ms store was the first time I had physically seen Ethel M's products too. There was more to come but Brian will blog about that.
As we walked back up the Strip we went to the Fashion Show Mall as Brian needed a book to read, here we found an open Apple store which was packed and had free Wifi and another store which claimed to be future technologies. Here there had an Asus EEE 700 (which has been superseded by the 900, but still looks good)
and some glasses with screens and earplugs for big screen action on the move.
and after 6 hours of walking we were done!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
It's morning already?
Well we're here and have all day to acclimatise (explore and try to stay awake) before we get stuck into the conference proper tomorrow. I'd better go find Mat at the free wifi point as he hasn't worked out how to blog from his phone yet :-)
Brian gets ID'd
Well it didn't even occur to me to mention it, until Brian said "I bet that is the first thing you blog" with a look of embarrassment.
That will teach him to get upgraded air travel and leave his team member behind in cattle ;-)
Anyhoo, after a laborious 21 hour journey we finally got to the hotel at 19.30 ish, ironically Terminal 5 was not a problem for us but the queue to get past immigration in LAX was about 2 hours with broken aircon and a mass of disgruntled visitors. Then the flight to LV was delayed almost 2 hrs, which in a way was lucky as we may have missed it due to the immigration wait. Silver linings and all that.
At the moment I am struggling with scale, I keep getting lost walking from my room to the lobby and it takes 10 minutes and 2 different elevators when I do the way right. The indoor mall painted to look like it is out doors is huge and a little bit freaky. When you bodyclock is telling you it is breakfast, you are eating an evening meal and are sat in an area that looks like it is mid afternoon it is not surprising we were getting confused. I would have laughed at Brian falling asleep whilst trying to eat if I wasn't doing the same myself!
Having said that the hotel is very nice if not cheesily opulent, my room is bigger than my whole flat back in Reading, although I can get an internet connection in my flat. I'm trying this up stood at the end of the lobby check in desk as that's where the only free Wifi is.
I'm starting to see how everything is geared to making money off the punters...as I said the free Wifi means standing in the lobby, paid for Wifi is available elsewhere where there are seats but is incredibly expensive. Tomorrow when MMS starts I'll be able to use the MS network. They gym costs $35 a day, room phone charges are expensive and whilst they provide an in room fax and personal number for your stay, you guessed it, you pay to receive them. Everything is geared to get you out of the room and spending.
Today I think the plan is to do some exploring, on the map the Apple store looks relatively close, but I think in reality its probably a 40 min walk as I said the scales are a bit beyond my comprehension at the moment.
So what is the tech angle on this post you say (apart from the blogging/Wifi), well once I found the free Wifi CTM worked perfectly and I was able to use my EN provided Avaya softphone to call my girlfriend with a local cost call from my desk back in ISW, its this type of service Mars IS should be providing to the rest of the business, I have probably saved $10-20 on that call, multiply that by our travelling users and all the days they are away and you can see how small individual savings can become big savings! As my grandmother always said, save the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves. Lets hope we can continue this great work with the likes of the Web conferencing project and the innovations seen via the Sametime 7.5 POC.
So to get some media involved, here are pics from my window at 6am.
Look Ma no neon!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Brian's Agenda
Brians first post, harnessing the power of both cut AND paste
Monday, April 28
System Center Documentation: Content Innovations, Content as a Service, and Other New Architectures
Demonstration of all 5 tools available through the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
Tuesday, April 29
Opening Keynote
Maximizing the Return on your System Center Investment
Implementing Branch Distribution Points in Configuration Manager 2007
How do they do that?!? The most efficient, effective configuration management operations found in the field.
Delivering a Microsoft-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure from a Green Datacenter
Wednesday April 30
Opening Keynote
Microsoft Application Virtualization (Formerly SoftGrid): v4.5 Features
Connectors for System Center: The Microsoft Interop Strategy
MDOP: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, formerly from Kidaro
Intel vPro systems integration with Configuration Manager 2007 SP1
Thursday, May 1
Opening Keynote
Microsoft Application Virtualization - Publishing Lab
[Waitlist] IY02 Introduction to Configuration Manager 2007
Device Management with System Center Configuration Manager 2007
Operations Manager 2007: Audit Collection Services
Application Virtualization Management: The Enterprise of the Future using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and Microsoft SoftGrid
Friday, May 2
System Center and SoftGrid: Better Together
Mastering the Virtualization Domain -- Energize your Large Organization Using Microsoft Softgrid
MDOP: Asset Inventory Services (AIS) will count your software and your licenses
Monday, April 28
System Center Documentation: Content Innovations, Content as a Service, and Other New Architectures
Demonstration of all 5 tools available through the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
Tuesday, April 29
Opening Keynote
Maximizing the Return on your System Center Investment
Implementing Branch Distribution Points in Configuration Manager 2007
How do they do that?!? The most efficient, effective configuration management operations found in the field.
Delivering a Microsoft-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure from a Green Datacenter
Wednesday April 30
Opening Keynote
Microsoft Application Virtualization (Formerly SoftGrid): v4.5 Features
Connectors for System Center: The Microsoft Interop Strategy
MDOP: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, formerly from Kidaro
Intel vPro systems integration with Configuration Manager 2007 SP1
Thursday, May 1
Opening Keynote
Microsoft Application Virtualization - Publishing Lab
[Waitlist] IY02 Introduction to Configuration Manager 2007
Device Management with System Center Configuration Manager 2007
Operations Manager 2007: Audit Collection Services
Application Virtualization Management: The Enterprise of the Future using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and Microsoft SoftGrid
Friday, May 2
System Center and SoftGrid: Better Together
Mastering the Virtualization Domain -- Energize your Large Organization Using Microsoft Softgrid
MDOP: Asset Inventory Services (AIS) will count your software and your licenses
Mat's Agenda
First post blogged directly from MS OneNote
Monday, April 28
7:30 AM - 8:00 PM |
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10:30 AM - 5:45 PM | Hands-On Labs: Self-paced & Instructor-Led | |||
3:00 PM - 5:45 PM | Breakout Sessions | |||
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM | SU33 Conquering the Summit - A Freshman Orientation Titian 2201B | |||
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM | Welcome Expo Reception |
Tuesday, April 29
7:30 AM - 5:30 PM | Registration Open |
7:30 AM - 6:00 PM | Alumni Lounge Open |
7:30 AM - 8:00 PM | CommNet Open |
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM | Opening Keynote |
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | SY41 System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008: Introduction Murano 3201A |
10:15 AM - 5:15 PM | Breakout Sessions & Instructor-Led Hands-On Labs |
10:30 AM - 7:00 PM | Self-Paced Hands-On Labs |
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM | SR33 Real-world System Center Success Including PC Power Management: Significantly Lower your PC and Server Management Costs Veronese 2405 |
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Expo Hall Open |
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Attendee Lunch |
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | SR36 Get IT Faster: Systems Management Solutions for Deployment and Update Veronese 2405 |
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | SV07 Virtualization 360 Veronese 2401B |
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | QA01 Breakout Q&A Session - Tuesday Meeting Point Area |
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOF) |
Wednesday, April 30
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Registration Open |
7:30 AM - 8:00 PM | CommNet Open |
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM | Keynote |
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Alumni Lounge Open |
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | SV01 Introduction to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Titian 2304 |
10:15 AM - 5:15 PM | Breakout Sessions, Instructor-Led Hands-On Labs, Self-Paced Hands-On Labs (proctored) |
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM | SR38 Extending the Power of System Center Configuration Manager to Heterogeneous Environments Veronese 2405 |
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Expo Hall Open |
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Attendee Lunch |
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | SY42 System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008: Deployment and Planning Murano 3201A |
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | SU32 Ask the Experts Panel Titian 2201B |
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Expo Hall Open |
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM | Self-Paced Hands-On Labs (unproctored) |
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | QA02 Breakout Q&A Session - Wednesday Meeting Point Area |
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Ask-The-Experts (ATE) |
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Birds of a Feather sessions (BOF) |
Thursday, May 1
7:30 AM - 7:00 PM | CommNet Open | ||
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast | ||
7:30 AM - 9:00 PM | Registration Open | ||
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM | Keynote | ||
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Alumni Lounge Open | ||
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | SM21 Analyzing 12,000+ IT Environments: What are the Lessons Learned? Bellini 2105 | ||
10:15 AM - 5:15 PM | Breakout Sessions, Instructor-Led Hands-On Labs, Self-Paced Hands-On Labs (proctored) | ||
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM |
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12:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Expo Hall Open | ||
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Attendee Lunch | ||
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM | SY15 System Center Configuration Manager 2007: Software Updates for the Enterprise – A day in the life of the Update Administrator Bellini 2001B | ||
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | SC31 Building the Perfect Master Image Bellini 2001B | ||
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM | Self-Paced Hands-On Labs (unproctored) | ||
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | QA03 Breakout Q&A Session - Thursday Meeting Point Area | ||
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Ask The Experts (ATE) | ||
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Closing Party |
Friday, May 2
7:30 AM - 12:45 PM | Self-Paced Hands-On Labs (unproctored) |
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM | CommNet Open |
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Breakfast |
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration Open |
8:30 AM - 12:45 PM | Breakout Sessions & Hands-On Labs |
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM | SE06 New Internet Savvy Windows Remote Management Capabilities Bellini 2105 |
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Alumni Lounge |
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SI22 Going Big with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Veronese 2401B |
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM | SY43 System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008: Operations and Best Practices Murano 3201A |
12:45 PM - 1:00 AM | Event Closes |
Pasted from <https://www.mms-2008.com/MySchedule_Print.aspx>
Consequences of Cloud computing
Saw this on CIO.com the other day and it made me laugh...http://www.cio.com/article/340013/Cloud_Apps_Third_Cube_From_the_Left
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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