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I wish you all a great 2010. Happy New Year!
Va doresc tuturor sa fiti sanatosi si bucurosi si sa aveti un an nou bun.
Craciun Fericit!
I wish everybody to be healthy and happy and have a prosperous New Year. Merry Christmas!
Joyeux Noël et une nouvelle année prospère!
Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr!
Kellemes Karácsonyt és boldog új évet!
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In the morning I went to the Rafal Lukawiecki's session on A to Z to usable security in Windows Server 2008 R2. As always Rafal entertained the audience while making an overview of the new security features. Looks easy when explained by Rafal.
After that I went to the exhibition where I joined Maarten for the last shift at the booth.
The conference ended up early in the afternoon.
In short, were five days full of activities and too little time to do everything. One cannot expect to see all the interesting sessions, but the recordings are made available for viewing on TechEd Online shortly after the conference.
It is usually enough to attend a few sessions to get updated about the new technologies and tendencies, but I get the most by just looking around in the exhibition and seeing what's new. And if it is interesting for me, I make a note and search for more details later.
I personally do not attend the conference for the sessions. I can easily get access to them afterwards.
I am more interested in meeting people, old friends, helping by staffing the booths or the HOLs, and have interesting discussions with the attendees.
For me this edition was a special one. It was the 10th TechEd I have ever attended. The first one was TechEd 2000 Europe just ten years ago, and I have attended TechEd each year ever since.
However the last five editions I have been doing staffing. It allows me to get the most out of the conference, while helping others to do the same.
I would link to introduce to you some of the MVPs and MCTs that I met and worked with this year at TechEd:
MVPs
Jannes Alink is an MVP on System Center Configuration Manager. He works at Inovativ a company specialised in System Center implementations based in Netherlands. You can read his blog at: http://www.jannesalink.com/
Maarten Goet is an MVP on System Center Operations Manager and founder of Inovativ http://www.inovativ.nl/.
Torsten Meringer is MVP on System Center Configuration Manager based in Germany. His blog is published at: http://mssmsfaq.spaces.live.com/
Update: Torsten has moved the blog to: http://www.mssccmfaq.de/
Ronni Pedersen is based in Denmark and is also an MVP on System Center Configuration Manager. His blogs can be found at: http://ronni-pedersen.spaces.live.com/ and on MyITForum http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rpedersen/
Vladimir Meloski is based in Skopje, Macedonia and is an MVP on Exchange Server and also an MCT. His blog can be found at: http://vmeloski.spaces.live.com/
Cristian Lefter is based in Romania and is an MVP on SQL Server and also an MCT. His blog can be found at http://sqlserver.ro/
MCTs
Catalin Albu is an MCT and currently works in Sweden at ECDC. However he still enjoys doing staffing at TechEd. http://se.linkedin.com/pub/catalin-albu/1/84/a2a
Gheorghe Dobrea and Angela Dobrea are a family of trainers from Romania.Their company, Intelprof is the best CPLS in Romania.
Tiberiu Covaci is an independent trainer based in Sweden. His blog can be found at: http://blog.multi-core.se/
Slavko Kukrika is an MCT based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He works at the Avtenta training center. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/slavko-kukrika/1/70/15a
Thursday I had two shifts at the Service Manager booth, basicaly the entire interval exhibition was open, but hey, I was free on Tuesday and attended all the interesting sessions :-).
This year they had a separate hall for all Microsoft stands - the Technical Learning Center (TLC). One third was dedicated to The New Efficiency campaign, which grouped the products launched this fall: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010 together with management and security products - System Center and Forefront families.
On the other side were all product booths and Microsoft Learning. There were also six Interactive Theaters placed in the exhibition area, these were small size rooms (up to 50 places) for discussions, interactive sessions and demos. These are modeled by the Birds-of-a-feather breakout sessions that become a norm in the TechEd North America.
The System Center product booths were in the New Efficiency area. I guess a short introduction of the products presented is in order:
First it was the System Center Configuration Manager booth, served by the omnipresent Wally Mead and Configuration Manager MVPs: Jannes Alink, Torsten Meringer and Ronni Pedersen (he actually went at the conference as a registered attendee, but stayed pretty much all the time at the booth helping in answering customer questions.
Operations Manager booth was next. Here I had the chance to meet Filip Lazar, a Romanian who is part of the Operations Manager team in Redmond and was a speaker at the conference. He stayed a lot at the booth, and I think he enjoyed to discuss with the customers and getting feedback on the product.
Next it was the System Center Essentials 2010 booth. Vladimir Meloski, an MVP from Macedonia, with whom I worked several times at the Hands-on Labs on previous TechEds, was here. David Mills form the product team joined at the booth all week (when he was not presenting). They had product demos for System Center Essentials 2010 Beta.
Data Protection Manager booth was staffed by two gentlemans from MCS Austria. They presented both the current version - Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 and the future version
Service Manager booth was on the right side, just near the alley, so a lot of people were passing by, and stopped to ask questions. Especially after the first presentation about Service Manager on Tuesday, a lot of attendees came by, just to learn about the functionalities of the product. Booth was staffed by Maarten Goet from Inovativ (colleague with Jannes Allink), Arie de Haan a consultant from Belgium, and myself.
On the other side was Virtual Machine Manager booth and they were busy presenting the new features of the new Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.
I just want to share some of the questions that were asked by the attendees at the Service Manager booth while I was on duty.
First one was not really a question, but a request: Tell me what this product is doing. I got this usually in the first days, when were no sessions yet on Service Manager. And the standard answer was:
Service Manager is a service desk product and is currently in Beta 2. It has an CMDB that gets populated from external sources via connectors. At this time there are connectors for Active Directory, Configuration Manager and Operations Manager. From Active Directory gets information about computers, users, groups, printers and shares. From Configuration Manager gets the hardware and software inventory and the list of installed updates on each computer. And from Operations Manager gets configuration information about the monitored servers and service maps. The main advantage is that the CMDB is populated and maintained automatically, using configuration information collected directly from the infrastructure. It eliminates the risk of using outdated information, the CMDB reflects the configuration of the physical infrastructure.
On top of the CMDB there are implemented standard processes, as described by both ITIL and MOF. Service Manager Beta 2 includes Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and Risk and Compliance out of the box. A partner (Provance) is creating an Asset Management solution and will be available at the time Service Manager will launch. These are built as Management Packs, Service Manager is sharing the same infrastructure as Operations Manager and using Systems Modelling Language (SML) to describe the configuration of the systems. This ensures interoperability and one can even import management packs created for Operations Manager in Service Manager to have the same definitions and knowledge on both platforms.
Processes are implemented using Workflow Foundation and can be easily be customized using an Authoring Console to model the specific processes an IT organization has. Using the Autoring Console, an administrator can customize the CMDB by adding new classes and attributes, can customize the forms for entering and viewing information and of course can customize the processes by modifying the associated workflows, or create new ones.
Of course let's not forget the main functionality of Service Manager being the Service Desk. Service Manager is consolidating all the information about the infrastructure and also about the Incidents, Problems and Change Requests. The Helpdesk operators can use the console to get an integrated view of all this information and be able to act on it in the same console. Service Manager can be seen as an umbrella aggregating data from various management systems and presenting relevant informations to the operators and administrators. Standard Service Desk functionality is implemented, by using Tiers and Incident Queues. Each operator will have views with Incidents, Problems and Change Requests that are assigned to them. Service Desk Managers will have an aggregated view with all queues and can perform assignments or escalations.
The end users will have the opportunity to raise Incidents or Change Requests using different methods:
First they can call and the Service Desk Operator will enter the request manually uisng the console.
The second posibility is to send an e-mail to a predefined e-mail address for support. The e-mail will get converted automatically in to an Incident with some of the fields already populated from the e-mail.
The third posibility is to use the Self-Service Portal. Here the users can open Incidents or request software software installations and can watch the status of their requests. The Administrators can publish announcements in the portal and also Tips & Tricks and How To.
The best description of Service Manager will be that is an integrated Service Desk solution. And the key word here is integrated, because it will work best by connecting to Active Directory, Configuration Manager and Operations Manager and obtain up-to-date information about the infrastructure.
Well, that was just one question and I have repeated the above explanation, with slight variations, over and over. After the first session on Service Manager that took place on Tuesday, the attendees came with more specific questions.
A very frequent question was: It will have additional connectors? Especially with 3rd party management solutions like Remedy, Tivoli, OpenView or ERP and CRM solutions?
Well, I didn't knew the answer to this question. I personally expect that more connectors will be available by the time the Service Manager it will launch.
Another question was: How can I customize Service Manager?
Using the Service Manager console, the administrator can customize the groups, lists, support queues and create tasks and templates.
Service Manager Beta 2 includes the Authoring Console which can be use to extend the CMDB< customize or create forms and workflows.
And of course for more advanced customizations, there's Visual Studio.
And of course the most asked question: When Service Manager will be available?
The official answer was: Service Manager Beta 2 is available now and can be downloaded from Microsoft Connect. The Release To Manufacturing is scheduled for the first half of 2010.
However Microsoft Management Summit 2010 conference is scheduled for April 19-23, 2010. In my opinion it will be a nice figure to have the product ready for launch at the conference :-).
For more details, please visit:
System Center Service Manager web site on Microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/service-manager.aspx
Service Manager Team Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/servicemanager/
On Wednesday I went to the Bill Anderson and Mark Florida session on Application Management (read Software Distribution) in Configuration Manager vNext (MGT303/MGT304).
Maybe the biggest change from the existing software distribution model is the user-centric approach. An application will be deployed to a user and will install on the devices he/she uses, based on affinity (Primary Device) and prefferences. Of course the curent deployment processes are not going away, we will still have the ability to target computers :-).
Configuration Manager vNext introduces some new concepts related to Application Management.
First we have an Application which contains metadata about the software being deployed. This is a combination of the curent Package and Program concepts.
Each Application will have one or more Deployment Types. Each will describe a method for installing an application in different way. There will be Deployment Types for installing the application using MSI, Script, App-V, MED-V, Terminal Services/Citrix, CAB files for Mobile devices.
This will allow for an integrated experience for deploying the application regardless the application setup method and target device. A Deployment Type will have mandatory methods for installing, uninstalling and repairing applications.
Instead of Advertisments we will have Deployments. A Deployment will contain Conditional Delivery Rules like minimum hardware requirements, dependencies, Primary Device etc.
These features will allow applications to be targeted at users and install on multiple devices based on Conditional Delivery Rules.
After that I went to a product demo on System Center Essentials 2010 (now in Beta).
Maybe the biggest new feature is the ability to manage virtualization hosts (Virtual Server 2005 and Hyper-V). The feature set will be very similar to Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.
We will have the ability to create virtual machines based on templates, to do P2V conversions, use Intelligent Placement to place the new VMs on a host.
I asked if these features are based on the VMM codebase, and the answer was yes. It will also support features like Failover Clustering for VMs and Live Migration (which are really features of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V).
Well, this means that System Center Essentials 2010 will be the best tool for managing medium virtualization infrastructures.
This is more than enough for starting a virtualization project. It will have the features of VMM 2008 for managing virtual machines and also the features of SCE for monitoring the services, do patch management and software installation, all in a single management console.
In the afternoon I was on duty at the Service Manager booth. Since many attendees went to Service Manager presentation a day before, this became very busy. Unlike the first days when the qyuestions wer general, asking about introduction in the product, this time they came with targeted questions. About these in the next post.
Another great session with round of speakers was MGT 310 - Improving User Service & Business Alignment with System Center Service Manager 2010.
Clare Henry explained that the power of Service Manager relies on integration. Currently the Beta 2 has connectors with Active Directory, Configuration Manager and Operations Manager. It will synchronize configuration information into the CMDB creating the Configuration Items. This way, the information in the CMDB is always in sync with the configuration of the physical infrastructure. Synchronization take place daily by default. By the time of the release I expect to see that additional conectors will be available.
Michael Nappi took the stage as the host for the rest of the presentation. He introduced the core functionalities: Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and Configuration Management, all based on ITIL and MOF reccomendations.
Charlie Chase joined on stage and together played a user-centric scenario - provisioning a new employee. Starting from the Change Request for creating new user account based on a custom template, he showed the process for creating new user, containing an approval activity and an automated action create the user acount in Active Directory and the Exchange mailbox. Michael played the role of the user, logged on with the new user account and opened Outlook. He received a Welcome e-mail, and then he went to Self-service Portal to request an application. Charlie then showed the Change Request that was created in the console, approved the application, then an automated activity kicked off and added the user to an Configuration Manager collection, so the application will install automatically.
Travis Wright joined and showed a little bit about the details of the process. He showed the change request template and the workflow for provisioning the user using Authoring Console, then he showed us the code for creating the user account and mailbox. It was of course a PowerShell Script. Then the entire team of speakers came in front and started answering questions.
After the great All Stars Presentation on System Center, I went to Jeff Wettlaufer's presentation on System Center Configuration Manager SP2 and R3 (MGT301).
Jeff showed first the new features in R2 (which was just released on October 22, the same day as global availability for Windows 7). Beside new operating system support (Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2), he talked about improvements in client policy evaluation, BranchCache support, 64 bit architecture support, the fact that Asset Intelligence does not require a certificate anymore and also talked about the new vPro features supported in SP2.
Then he focused on the R3 features, especially on Power Management. R3 will be available next year and will enable Configuration Manager customers to manage power consumption on desktops by implementing power plans. Other features mentioned were Delta AD Discovery (down to 5 minutes) and improvements in Software Distribution. Have you ever thought that the Configuration Manager team have actually put delays in processing the policies into the product. Now they are removing the delays and the Software Distribution will be faster. Nice way to improve a product :-).
Next i switched to the Service Manager session. Again a great roundup of speakers: Michael Nappi, Clare Henry, Charlie Chase and Travis Wright showed the new features in Service Manager 2010 Beta 2. Will talk about this session in more detail in a separate post.
In the evening, the Exhibition Welcome Reception started. I was not on duty, but I joined the other Configuration Manager MVPs at the booth to help answer customer questions. And it was busy. Beer and wine were served and the discussions quickly became passionate. Event ended at 20.00 and then went with the Romanian delegation at a restaurant where we stayed until after midnight. And yes german weisbier is great :-)
On Tuesday morning I went to some presentations.
The first one was MGT200 - Microsoft System Center Roadmap and Strategy. This was supposed to be presented by Brad Anderson, but he couldn't come to Berlin. So instead, there was a great roundup of speakers presenting. Host was Ryan O'Hara. He invited each speaker to present and demo new features from each System Center product:
First Jeff Wettlaufer presented the Power Management features in Configuration Manager R3. These will allow you to baseline existing consumption, power management capabilities and create Power Management plans that will be applied to clients. It will also include detailed reports, so you can calculate the power consumption savings.
Kim Johnson presented the new Application Management features in Configuration Manager vNext (or is it 2011?). She demoed the user centric application deployments by installing Office Communicator to both a desktop and a Windows Mobile phone. Ryan mentioned that the System Center Mobile Device Manager functionality will be integrated in Configuration Manager vNext and announced support for Symbian devices on Nokia E-Series.
Sacha Dawes showed a demo about the integration between Operations Manager R2 and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Starting from an alert in OpsMgr he troubleshooted the issue using Health Explorer, identified the system as a failed Exchange Server. Fortunately he had a backup created in DPM and was able to restore the server. Then he switched to VMM 2008 R2 and made a P2V conversion of the server to a virtual machine. Through intelligent placement he selected the best virtualization host.
Kenon Owens presented the integration between Operations Manager and Service Manager to manage the incidents related to an application and troubleshoot the incident using Service Maps. He added a new Virtual Machine in VMM 2008 R2 using templates to increase the capacity of the service.
Jason Buffington came on stage and showed the new capabilities of System Center Essentials 2010 (beta) most notable being the virtualization management. Basicly, SCE 2010 will have a subset of the Virtual Machine Manager features for managing virtual hosts (Virtual Server and Hyper-V) This means SCE will become the best management console for virtualization in medium business.
Clare Henry announced a new feature of Service Manager 2010 (Beta2) - Compliance and Risk Management Pack. This will allow organization to define their control objectives and verify the compliance of existing systems from the configuration perspective. She added a new Compliance Program for Payment Card Industry and showed the controls already defined.
Ryan closed the session with a roadmap. For next year we will have new versions of the products: Data Protection Manager 2010, Service Manager 2010, System Center Essentials 2010.
Later edit: You can watch the recorded presentation for free on TechEd Online http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/ Search for Europe, MGT200
Today at 9.00 am I was at the conference center to prepare the demo station at the booth. I am doing staffing at the System Center Service Manager booth.
Wally Mead was already there preparing the Configuration Manager demos (did he ever sleeps?). I have uploaded my own VMs with Service Manager demos and as soon ast the exhibition was opened at 10.00 am, people started to come, asking questions about Service Manager. This is a very cool product, I could spend hours talking, however I had to point out all the important features squezzed in few minutes for each attendee (more like the elevator pitch). Travis Wright and Sandy Phadke from the product group came very soon and all three of us started responding questions. Travis brought the latest VMs with Service Manager Beta2 (I had the CTP version).
If you are interested in evaluating Service Manager, the Beta 2 is available for download on the Microsoft Connect website. There is a lot of interest around this product, which is expected to be released next year. For more information it, check the Service Manager Team Blog at http://blogs.technet.com/servicemanager
In the afternoon went to the keynote. Steven Elop introduced the new products that are part of the New Efficiency launch: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange Server 2010, Forefront and System Center.
The nice surprise was a demo performed by Jeff Wettlaufer during the keynote. He covered pretty much the entire suite of System Center products starting with SLA Dashboard, monitoring a Direct Access server with Operations Manager R2, provisioning a new virtual server with Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, including intelligent placement and PRO, deploying the Forefront client with Configuration Manager R2, and updating a Task Sequence to include the client with all new Operating System Deployments, and finally showing the power management monitoring features.
Really cool demo showing how System Center products work together to provide a integrated management experience. Check out the System Center team blog for a coverage of the activities at TechEd Europe 2009 http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/11/09/system-center-at-the-teched-europe-it-pro-keynote.aspx
Yesterday was a long day. In the morning I went to conference registration and made a short review of the surroundings. At noon, the MCT Day Zero started. This was a special event for MCTs attending the Microsoft TechEd Europe 2009.
Tjeerd Veninga and his team just "got off the bus" finishing a roadshow event dedicated to Microsoft training and certification. More details here. http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/2009/11/getting-off-the-get-on-the-bus-tour
We had sessions on current training campaigns, courses, a soft skills session and a Windows Server 2008 R2 Deployment and Migration. Good way to start a conference. If you are an MCT interested in the content, the sessions were recorded and should be made available to the MCT Summit web site.
The evening was dedicated to the traditional MCT Dinner organized as always by Ronald Beekelaar. About 70 or so MCTs (including 6 Romanians) attended. Will not comment about the evening, or post pictures, but it was great to meet again and spend a few hours chating with other fellow trainers. Microsoft Learning people joined as well, and very passionate discussion started very quickly.
After the dinner, I went with Cristi Lefter through the city center, to take pictures. We spent about two hours walking between Potsdamer Platz, Brandenburg gate. There is a special anniversary for the Berlin City, on Monday, November 9 there are 20 years since the Berlin wall has falled. There is a big domino puzzle built in the center between Potsdamer Platz and Brandenburg Gate. Each piece is painted individually, with drawings about the Berlin wall fall. Hope to upload some pictures soon.
Service Pack 2 for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 was published on the web, in the same day with the general availability for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (Oct 22). You can find it at:
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Update upgrades a Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 installation
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3318741A-C038-4AB1-852A-E9C13F8A8140&displaylang=en
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Evaluation is a full version of the product that includes SP2 (slipstreamed) is valid for 180 days from the time of installation.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bad49573-6ad7-4521-a898-2ef99bc868c4
A full version (not eval) of the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 with SP2 slipstreamed should be available soon on the Volume Licensing and TechNet/MSDN subscribers sites.
Windows 7 Deployment tools are here. MDT 2010 was also released earlier. Are you ready to deploy?
In luna octombrie voi sustine o serie de webcast-uri dedicate System Center Configuration Manager.
Update: primul webcast a avut loc deja, puteti vedea inregistrarea urmand link-ul de mai sus.
Pe 28 oct sunt in roadshow asa ca vom face o pauza.
System Center Service Manager 2010 Beta 2 is available for downnload on Microsoft Connect.
https://connect.microsoft.com/
Some new features:
Problem Management (in Beta 1 we had only Incident Management).
- Question: What's the difference between an Incident and a Problem?
- ITIL Answer: An Incident is an unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service.
- A Problem is an unknown underlying cause of one or more Incidents.
Self-Service Portal - name says it all.
Workflow to create incidents automatically from e-mail. Also the ability to create incidents from Operations Manager alerts. These were in the CTP version as well.
Authoring console, for customizing forms, creating workflows and extending the CMDB model.
Official announcement here:
http://blogs.technet.com/servicemanager/archive/2009/10/02/service-manager-beta-2-has-shipped.aspx
Yeah, me too...
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM-ed on July 22, 2009.
Check out these resources:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd361745.aspx
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/21/when-will-you-get-windows-7-rtm.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2009/07/22/windows-server-2008-r2-rtm.aspx
For Windows Server 2008 R2 I guess the most expected feature was Hyper-V Live Migration. At least for me.
If you are interested in deploying Windows 7, check out Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Beta 2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791.aspx
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 will also support Windows 7 deployment. A beta version is available on Microsoft Connect. Details here:
http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/06/18/system-center-configuration-manager-service-pack-2-public-beta.aspx
Best regards,
Adrian
I have disabled temporarily the creation of new users.
If you need to have a user for these forums please e-mail me the request. Details in the contact page of the company.
Best regards,
Adrian
Not a Ford Focus car, but a Focus bike.
http://www.marosbike.ro/preturi_BICICLETE_-_CITY_BIKE/Bicicleta_Focus_Marakas_2009-1210.html
I found that Marakas are those musical instruments (rumba shakers).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraca
It's a great bike, just went from the store from Calea Floresti in Cluj through the variant road in Zorilor (my home) and went uphill like a charm.
And I haven't used a bike since some years ago.
I can't wait to go on excursions near the city.
Adrian
System Center Configuration Manager SP2 Beta is available on Microsoft Connect web site:
https://connect.microsoft.com/
Please note that deployment into production is not supported (only if you are a TAP customer), so install it in a lab.
SP2 contains a list of hotfixes (document on the Connect site) and includes support for Windows 7 Beta and RC, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RC.
It also includes improvements in support of Intel AMT technologies including Out Of Band management over wireless.
Asset Intelligence no longer requires a certificate for online synchronization.
Happy testing!
Pentru ca toata lumea se lauda ca a castigat alegerile as vrea sa afirm si eu:
Am castigat alegerile cu o majoritate zdrobitoare, am votat cu cei 72% care nu s-au prezentat la vot. :-)
ITBoard organizeaza un eveniment dedicat produselor de infrastructura: Windows 7 si Windows Server 2008 R2 pe 5 iunie la Microsoft GTSC.
In cadrul evenimentului vor fi tratate si teme generale de interes precum securitatea.
Agenda:
- 10.00 – 11. 30 Sebastian Vijeu / Andrei Ungureanu: Noutati Windows Server 2008 R2: Hyper-V, Branch Cache, Direct Access, Deployment Services, etc
- 11.30 - 12.30 Adrian Stoian - Windows 7 Deployment
- 12.30 – 13.10 Pauza masa
- 13.10 – 14.00 Bogdan Morosan. Protectia datelor
- 14.00 – 14.30 Alin Stanca: Fabrica de virusi. Tendinte
- 14.30 - 14.45 Pauza cafea
- 14.45 – 15.45 Victor Constantinescu: Criminalitate informatica si inchisoarea pentru geeks.
Inscrieri la: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032417703&Culture=RO-RO
Today I had two presentations at the ITBoard meeting in Cluj-Napoca.
http://itboard.transcent.ro/
The first one was about Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.
I already had a working environment with RTM version but I thought I must show SCVMM 2008 R2.
So yesterday I downloaded the preconfigured VHD with SCVMM R2 Beta from the Connect web site, added it to my existing environment with Hyper-V RTM on my laptop and a DC virtual machine. Then joined the physical machine to the domain of virtual machines and tried to add the Hyper-V host in SCVMM R2 Beta.
Well, the issue was, this Hyper-V host was configured previously with another SCVMM 2008 RTM. So gave me the error 2912 described in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=971264
I have deleted the certificates on SCVMM and the Hyper-V. The issue was I have deleted not only the self-signed certificates issued by SCVMM, but also the certificates issued by Hyper-V host. So now is asking for credentials even in Hyper-V Manager when I connect to each each virtual machine.
I gived up at 1.00 am and today I have only showed a blank SCVMM console, with no hosts.
Conclusion: Don't change your demo setup before the presentation.
I hope I compensated with the second presentation I delivered today about App-V and MED-V.
I do receive SPAM, even with all the anti-spam filters enabled, some messages are still reaching my Inbox.
Today I received a message with the following Subject: Your SPAM Request has been canceled!
And in the body of the message: If this email is not spam, click here to submit the signatures to xyz - AntiSpam Service. Of course all the links are targeting some infected hosts.
How cool is that: they denied my request for SPAM. And more: they are asking me to report that the message is not SPAM.
Yes it is. And I didn't request any SPAM lately.
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