It is great to see how this community is growing, I like the video-way of being on top of industry related news, go deep and spend 20 minutes a day watching this 5-10 minutes videos and you will find yourself on-top of most of the MS management technologies http://edge.technet.com/Tags/System+Center/ The last toy of Ops Mgr... read more
Last Wednesday 18-February we had a TechNet webcast about the System Center Suite. If you want to go deeper you can download the session resources here: http://cid-5f9c7b75bd402dda.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/TechNet/2009-02-18%20-%20System%20Center%20y%20el%20Centro%20de%20Datos I recommend this session to earn a high-level perspective about the System Center Suite, on the online session you can watch demos about the following scenarios: Datacenter Deployment:... read more
Next week Southworks SRL will take part of the SMSE (Systems Management Server Enterprise) event series on Microsoft Argentina, targeted for MS EPG customers. From Southworks we will be involved as expert in the System Center family Solutions. I will be a speaker on sessions about: System Center Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager, System... read more
Here at Southworks we deployed many times from scratch a fully virtualized infrastructure and we have many lessons learnt so far. Since 2006, the industry is betting hard to workloads virtualization as it will address the increasing complexity IT environments are facing improving agility on the datacenter. In this post I will share a snapshot... read more
Jeff Jane CTO on Novell shares a great post series with us about Novell´s vision about the next level the IT industry needs to reach in order to address the increasing complexity we are facing. They call this the Fossa project and it is intended to be finished by 2012. So far we have 3... read more
Thanks to Wallis for this Management Packs Roadmap: The installation media contains Exchange Server 2003 Windows Server 2000/2003 AD Information Worker MS Server 2000/03 OS MS Client 2000 XP OS Windows Server IIS 2000/03 SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Windows SharePoint Services 2003 Windows Server 2000/03 Terminal Services SQL Server 2000/05 May 2007 SMS 2003 Office SharePoint... read more
Hi all! Well, after doing all the planning and designing stuff with SC Capacity Planner now it is time to deploy the solution. This Wednesday 6th we will deploy SCOM 2007 to enhace monitoring capabilities that today Capa8 has with MOM 2005. The session will be about: Assess HW and SW requirements. Most output from SCCP. Deploy SCOM... read more
On Thrusday 22 at Capa8 we will implement System Center Capacity Planner 2006 SP1 (available from TechNet Plus for free download and usage) and perform a What-If analisys about current deployments of Exchange 2003 and MOM 2005. We will also use System Center Capacity Planner 2007 Beta 1 (available at Connect) to plan future deployments... read more