From being on my way to bed Sunday evening I am now in Las Vegas. Just arrived to Hotel Venetian in Las Vegas last night; after 35 hours travelling from Denmark. Late Sunday evening (20:30) I heard a rumor on Facebook saying; that if we could be at the Copenhagen airport within 23:00 we could be transported to Oslo where a flight was waiting to take us to Washington or NY. I Called SAS and got the rumor confirmed (Huge thank to Stefan Schörling, Swedish ConfigMgr. MVP – great to have a friend who’s spending most of his Sunday evening [...]

The first SCUG user group meeting has just been announced over at SCUG.DK - http://scug.dk/content/Events.aspx. It’s going to be a very interesting day with some cool sessions hosted by no other than Mr. Wally Mead :-) Agenda 09:00 – 10:00  Breakfast and Registration 10:00 – 10:15  Welcome and introduction to SCUG.DK and SCUG.SE 10:15 – 11:15  To be announced 11:15 – 11:30  Break 11:30 – 12:30  What's new in Configuration Manager 2007 R3 (Wally Mead) 12:30 – 13:15  Break and Lunch 13:15 – 14:15  What's new in Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 (Wally Mead) 14:15 – 14:30  Break 14:30 – 15:30  [...]

Last conference day at MMS is always a short day and this year was no exception. The last sessions I attended this year was: Troubleshooting OSD deployments with Johan Arwidmark. Once again Johan delivered a brilliant presentation as he ran through a operating system deployment while showing the various steps that goes on behind the scene. Configuration Manager 2007 Console Extensions with Greg Ramsey and Matthew Hudson who is also one of the developers behind some of the world famous “Config Mgr. Right Click Tools”. Developing extensions to console in Config Mgr. has changed a lot since SMS 2003. SMS [...]

The conference started without a keynote so no new program announcements today. For that reason I thought I would start with some facts about the next Config Mgr. SP2. Config Mgr. SP2 Will be released 90 days after Windows 7 New Operating System Support Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 SP2 Windows Vista SP2 New and improved features Out of band management Intel Active Management Technology Integration - Version 2 Wireless Management: Wireless Profile Management (mobile ONLY) End Point Access Control: 802.1x support Persistent Data Storage: Non Volatile Memory or Third Party Data Store (3PDS) Access Monitor: [...]

I am starting to grow old :-( woke up this morning with pain in my legs from the last few days of running. So no running this morning, instead I was spend the morning rearranging my schedule for today. My problem is that I have so many sessions I want to see and only so little time. The opening keynote by Brad Anderson was a great mix between new announcements, demos and a look into the future. One of the new interesting members of the System Center family is System Center Online Desktop Manager. I haven’t a short name for [...]

Wauw is the word that first comes to my mind when I think of the next version of Config Mgr. Today at the State of the Union session – brilliant as always – the next version of Config Mgr. was revealed to the public for the first time. The version doesn’t yet have a name (at least not a public name). So we refer to it as Config Mgr. .Next or CM .Next From the short demo I have made my own personal top 6 list of new cool features and improvements. Performance No more MMC console I repeat NO MORE [...]

Been up really early due to a 9 hours time zone change. Full with energy I started the day with a short run on the Strip. After Breakfast I went to the registration got my badge, a fancy new bag with a lot of “goodies” in it. For me Monday was SQL day. First session on performance tips and tricks then two sessions with SQL Reporting Services in available with Config Mgr. R2. Based on the information from the session I have made my top 5 list of reasons why you should migrate your reports to SRS: Performance Report caching [...]

I am prepared for this year main event – Microsoft Management Summit 2009 in Las Vegas. The event is not as big as Teched but still; in order to survive you need to be well prepared. I have filled out my schedule, checked out the various “after parties” and made arrangements to catch up with “soulmates” that I haven’t seen since MMS 2008. This is in essence what makes MMS such a special event. The conference offers a great chance to mix technical learning along with socializing with interesting people from various System Center communities. Well; I am prepared and [...]