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April 29 Day 3 MMS KeynoteBrad Anderson (GM of Management & Services Division) presented.
Business Update: his group is the fastest growing in Microsoft with a CAGR over 20%.
He spent about 15 minutes talking about his group's focus on the next generation of users i.e. kids today. He is very focused on the expectations of this group: mobility, instant gratification, etc. One imagines that focus at, say, facebook and not so much in a corporate esque product family like System Center. But it makes sense as the next generation of employees will very much be affected by System Center in their workplaces. Fascinating.
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April 28 Day 2 MMS: KeynoteNote: you can follow the twitter tag #caamms to follow all our activity at MMS 2009
Bob Kelly, Corp VP for Server & Tools ran the keynote.
Log Line: Everything is the freaking cloud.
Why
Announcements:
Assessment: classic Microsoft -- they are behind others (VMWare, Amazon, Cisco) but are making the right investments and are going in the right direction. The concept of federated heterogenous private & public clouds is fantastic. I am very concerned about the road to get there. App-V investment will grow using its own technology stack and for the forseeable future it will integrate poorly with SCCM. New toolkits are appearing with as yet undefined integration. Our world will get more complex before it gets simpler. Other notes:
April 27 MMS 2009 Day 1Day one of Microsoft Management Summit 2009 was pretty great.
Nick S., Tony M., and I were all on the same 8:10am flight. We got in, registered and split up for our first session. Given that we didn't arrive on Sunday night it wasn't going to be a full day.
My kickoff was a lab where we converted an SCCM installation from mixed mode authentication to native mode. This assumed you had a PKI infrastructure and then took something like 200 steps. You essentially requested, issued and applied two certs (document & server) to SCCM, verified that it could be converted, changed its mode to native, packaged, deployed and executed a test that proved native mode was working, configured the client for certs, converted the client to native mode, then created and deployed packages and authored and viewed reports to verify that SCCM was interacting with the client in native mode.
My second activity was to participate with Nick & Tony in a Service Manager focus group. Here we provided features and prioritized. It was pretty energizing and it was great to strengthen our relationship with the Service Manager team. It was a little tough for me because I kept having to participate in a conference call that I simply could not miss. I had to balance both as both were important.
Finally the three of us went to the hands on labs and I introduced both Tony and Nick to the joys of PowerShell. I think they dug it although I expect it looked pretty complicated at first glance. It kind of is, but then you get the hang of it. I still am getting the hang of it myself.
After that we went to the partner showcase. We didn't see anything that was game-changing there (yet!). We were looking for Silect or Quest but haven't found them yet. We did see F5 labs - they were showing some sort of management pack for BigIP. I'll have to go back to see what that looks like.
That's the summary for day 1. Details on these events later.
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