January 27 2012 8:09 AM

MMS 2012, Session Declined & The Avengers?

The Microsoft Management Summit 2012 looks like it will be an incredible experience with all of the updates occurring in the System Center 2012 space (pun somewhat intended)! I highly recommend that if you can be there – be there. I think that this will...

January 26 2012 2:49 PM

ConfigMgr 2012–Notes from three days with Wally in Austin!

This summary is the work of a colleague of mine Eric Morrison who attended both the SystemCenterUniverse event and two days of user group meetings presented by the infamous Wally Mead. Well done Eric (and of course well done Wally for spending time with...

January 26 2012 11:23 AM

OpsMgr 2012 (#SCOM) and ConfigMgr 2012 (#SCCM) Q&A

The following questions are the result of yesterday’s self-proclaimed game of “stump the chump” with myself playing the chump in a room full of IT folks (who had some excellent questions on Configuration Manager and Operations Manager). The responses bel...

January 17 2012 11:59 AM

Why I am no longer an Operations Manager MVP… but I am a System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP!

There was an interesting discussion today (Taming IT with the Microsoft Private Cloud) which shows the deeper level of integration occurring in the System Center space. The following is my “Summary for Geeks” from the meeting above: Packaging and Pricing...

January 13 2012 2:36 PM

System Center Universe registration has passed the 1000 mark! (#SCOM, #SCCM, #SCVMM, #SCDPM, #SCSM)

Cool news update, I just received word that System Center Universe (www.systemcenteruniverse.com) has passed the 1000+ registration mark! Let’s make this into the biggest System Center community event ever!

January 06 2012 1:48 PM

The Center of the Universe is SOLD OUT-Join a simulcast location soon!

I just received notice that SystemCenterUniverse in Austin has officially sold out of tickets! That’s incredible news that I’m really happy to be able to say it but the even better news is this. We still have room in our simulcast locations and if you ha...

November 09 2011 10:51 AM

Dallas System Center 2012 Event–Q&A

There were several great questions asked during or directly after the System Center 2012 event that we did in Dallas on October 26th (#SCOM #SCCM #SCSM). I’ve been gathering answers from our team (ok, mostly I bugged Chris Nackers because most of these w...

October 21 2011 12:15 PM

System Center 2012 & 8 more reasons why Silverlight needs to run on Internet Explorer x64

Up until recently, the information below would have caused me little to no concern. However, as I have been digging deeper into System Center 2012 Silverlight is becoming more of a core piece of functionality. Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not saying that...

October 18 2011 11:55 AM

Coming to Dallas Texas – October 26th: "What’s New in System Center 2012?”

Do you work in System Center or are you interested in what’s coming in System Center 2012? If so and you live or work in or around Dallas, this event is for you! Registration is available here! I will be presenting on System Center 2012 including what’s...

September 09 2011 3:09 PM

Jason Sandys and Mobile Device Management in ConfigMgr 2012

I’ve been asked by lots of different groups of people what will be available in ConfigMgr 2012 related to mobile device management. While this is still a moving target as ConfigMgr 2012 isn’t currently released, ConfigMgr MVP Jason Sandys took a stab at...