Entries tagged with mms 2009 - TechNet Edge

Using Service Manager with Operations Manager

Adam Bomb — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

While at MMS last April, I ran in to Clare Henry on the Ask the Experts night, and she introduced me to a few members of her team and got a demo for me of Service Manager.
It's pretty slick - you can use the trouble ticket tool to drive activities in Operations Manager. This way your help desk people can have basic operations activities performed without requiring administrative permissions or OpsMan access.
You can find out more about Service Manager here. Oh, and look, you can take it for a test drive.

Community Q&A with Larry Orecklin at MMS

Adam Bomb — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Larry Orecklin is a General Manager in the System Center organization at Microsoft. He dropped by the community lounge at MMS to answer questions, including his thoughts on the importance of community, where Microsoft is going with virtualization technologies, managing clients, including our newly announced online management offering and more.

Brad Anderson Q&A from MMS 2009

Adam Bomb — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:39:00 GMT

New this year at MMS was the Community Lounge, which offered a comfy place to sit, some nifty swag, and an opportunity to ask questions of executives in Microsoft's System Center Division.
Brad Anderson, the General Manager of System Center, was the first of these Execs, and he answered questions on the future of hosted management services from Microsoft, the UI in the System Center Admin tools, and shared some of his own thoughts on the importance of the Management community.
The lounge area lighting wasn't the best, and we didn't have mics on the folks asking questions, but Brad does a good job of repeating their questions in his answers.

Visio Integration with Operations Manager R2

Adam Bomb — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:09:00 GMT

Right before MMS, I met with Dale Koetke and he showed me a new integration feature that his team is working on - Live data connections between Visio diagrams and Operations Manager data. This integration allows you to use your Visio diagrams as dynamic views into your data, instead of static pictures of the state of the network at one point in time.
Cool stuff!

MMS 2009 Day 2 Keynote Demo (On Stage)

Dave Morehouse — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:10:00 GMT

In this excerpt from the day 2 keynote at the Microsoft Management Summit 2009 in Las Vegas, Jeff Wettlaufer shows Brad Anderson how System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 can deploy Windows 7 over 20 laptop Windows XP installations--all done wirelessly and in under 20 minutes.

Check out the team blog for additional related posts, and also take a look at the Configuration Manager TechCenter on TechNet for related resources.

Behind the scenes at MMS for the Keynote Demo

Joey Snow — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:10:00 GMT

Hopefully you have had a chance to catch the interview I did with Jeff Wettlaufer regarding the demo he is doing at this years Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). Yesterday we made our way backstage for the keynote and had a chance to catch up with Jeff and get a view of things from behind the curtain (or big projection screen as is the case here).

Microsoft Management Summit 2009 Keynote Demo

Joey Snow — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Last week before I made the trek down here to Vegas, I was walking through building 44 on my way back from a meeting and I saw this conference room decked out with a ton of laptops on the table. Normally that's not a strange sight as most meetings look like that, but there were no people attached to them and Jeff Wettlaufer and Wally Mead were in the room. Jeff, Wally and the rest of the team were building a VERY COOL keynote demo for the MMS 2009 conference demonstrating migration of 20 laptop computers from XP SP3 to Windows 7 over WIRELESS! Yes I said WIRELESS! Check out the video and stay tuned for a second part shot from backstage here in Las Vegas.

Microsoft Management Summit 2009 Day 2 Keynot Recap with Brad Anderson

Adam Bomb — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Brad Anderson, General Manager of System Center, sat down with me to recap the announcements and demos shown in his Day 2 keynote presentation at MMS. He talks about System Center, Windows 7, System Center Online, and Service Manager.

CDW at MMS

Adam Bomb — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:31:00 GMT

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Microsoft Management Summit 2009 Day 1 Keynote Recap with Brad Anderson

Adam Bomb — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:07:00 GMT

MMS 2009 Day 1 keynote, presented by Bob Kelly, focused on the data center. I sat down with Brad Anderson, the General Manager in System Center, and he walked me through the announcements we made around Operations Manager and the other key announcements from the keynote.

Operations Manager R2

Adam Bomb — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Another cool MMS announcement, this time around the R2 release of Operations Manager. Sacha Dawes took me for a quick tour around the product, showing off the new reporting and cross platform support.
Find more info and download the Release Candidate at http://www.microsoft.com/opsmgr.

Vegas Baby!

Adam Bomb — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:42:00 GMT

It's Vegas!
Just wanted to let you all know that Joey and I will be in Vegas all next week covering the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) conference.
We've already seen a little bit of what's coming at the conference, and I gotta tell you, it's some cool stuff.
If we're not filming some cool new technology, you'll probably find us in the Community Lounge. If you're attending, keep an eye out for us and say hi. We may have something for you ;)