The following four presentations has been zipped up and is available for download (20 megs).
| Presenter |
Subject |
| Greg Cameron |
SC Virtualization Management |
| Hal Rottenberg |
Managing VMWare w/ Powershell |
| Troy Wilch |
App-V/Softgrid w/ SCCM 2007 R2 |
| Jeremiah Beckett |
ACS Design and Planning |
We would like to thank our sponsors at Acresso and Secure Vantage for the continued support!
If you don't know, Secure Vantage is the go-to partner for turning OpsMgr (ACS) into a full-blown GRC engine. More information @ www.securevantage.com.
... and Acresso is the maker of InstallShield (probably remember when InstallShield was Macrovision). Get more detail @ www.acresso.com.
News:
The next meeting is being planned for February 3, 2009. Mark your calendars everyone! The agenda is wide open right now so feel free to contact us with suggestions or if you would like to present a topic.
Contact Us:
To get the latest news on meeting times and places, please join the SMUG mailing list:
Subscribe: atlantasmug-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: atlantasmug-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
For more information, contact one of your SMUG presidents.
Marcus Oh, President - marcus.oh@gmail.com
Scott Moss, Vice President - jscottmoss@gmail.com
Thank you for your Support!
Scott Moss - SMUG VP
The Southeast Management User Group invites you to attend the next SMUG meeting scheduled for November 14th, 2008 for a day of great presentations, discussions, and networking, at the Alpharetta Microsoft Campus.
REGISTRATION LINK
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=5B-11-D1-1D-08-92-D8-84-78-E1-CD-6A-5C-13-92-AA&Culture=en-US
DATE & TIME
November 14th, 2008
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Breakfast and lunch provided courtesy of our sponsors at Acresso and Secure Vantage!
THE AGENDA
| Presenter | Agenda | Start | End |
| | Breakfast/Meet and Greet | 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM |
| SMUG | Introduction
| 9:00 AM | 9:10 AM |
| Mark Mears | CCMWindows w/ SMS 2003
| 9:15 AM | 9:35 AM |
| Greg Cameron | SC Virtualization Management
| 9:40 AM | 10:50 AM |
| | Break | 10:50 AM | 11:00 AM |
| Hal Rottenberg | Managing VMWare w/ Powershell
| 11:00 AM | 12:10 PM |
| Evan Orgel | Best Practices for Traditional and Virtual Application Management (Lunch) | 12:15 PM | 1:25 PM |
| Troy Wilch | App-V/Softgrid w/ SCCM 2007 R2
| 1:30 PM | 2:40 PM |
| | Break | 2:40 PM | 2:50 PM |
| Jeremiah Beckett | ACS Design and Planning
| 2:50 PM | 4:00 PM |
| SMUG | Wrap Up
| 4:00 PM | 4:05 PM |
PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES
Mark Mears
Mark has been working with Systems Management Server since 1996 when version 1.2 was the current version. He spent 5 years at Microsoft assisting customers with their issues in PSS before leaving Microsoft and becoming an SMS consultant. For the past 4 years, he has been enjoying his time assisting a variety of customers with their Systems Management issues and designs. He is currently the operational SMS Administrator at Macy's Systems and Technologies in John's Creek. Greg Cameron
Greg Cameron is a Senior Product Technology Specialist with Microsoft working in the Communications Sector. He has been with Microsoft for 6 years and has been involved with technical sales of Virtualization, Server Operating System and Management solutions while at Microsoft. Greg has been in the Technology industry for 9 years in Server Operations/Architecture Manager for Fortune 100 company, Technical Sales and Consulting. Prior to that he served as an Officer in the United States Navy and is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He currently lives in Suwanee, GA.
Hal Rottenberg
Hal Rottenberg is an Admin Frameworks MVP living in Woodstock, Georgia. He is well-known in sysadmin circles for co-hosting the PowerScripting Podcast and heading up the PowerShellCommunity.org website. He is also currently writing a book titles “Managing VMware Infrastructure with Powershell: TFM” to be published by SAPIEN Press.
Evan Orgel
Evan Orgel is a Senior Solutions Engineer for Acresso Software (The Software Business Unit formerly of Macrovision). He supports Enterprise and Government companies working with Adminstudio, InstallShield and Flex Software Licensing products. Prior to joining Acresso Software, Evan Orgel was the Windows Desktop Operation Manager for a large global investment bank where he was responsible for managing the SMS Infrastructure, Software Packaging, Software Deployments, and Security Patch Management. He has over 15 years experience in Windows Systems Management.
Troy Wilch
Intellinet, Consultant
MCSA, MCSE, MCTS:MDOP/ConfigMgr/DDPS
10 years experience in Enterprise level networks
Worked with Softgrid 3.2/4.0/4.1/4.5 since 2005
MDOP Charter program member
Softricity certified professional (before acquisition)
App-V blog columnist on MyItForum.com
Level 5 author on BlogcastRepository.com for App-V video instruction (releasing soon)
Jeremiah Beckett
Jeremiah Beckett is the founder and President of Secure Vantage Technologies Inc. a Microsoft Gold partner that specializes in security and compliance auditing software for System Center and Forefront technologies.
The SMUG agenda for the November 14th meeting. This meeting will be at the Microsoft Office in Alpharetta, GA. When the RSVP link is ready I'll post it. Breakfast and lunch will be provided, as well as some swag.
Special thank you goes out to our presenters, sponsors Acresso Software, Secure Vantage Technologies, and to Microsoft for hosting the meeting.
| Presenters |
Agenda |
Time Start |
Time End |
| SMUG |
Introduction |
9:00:00 |
9:10:00 |
| Mark Mears |
CCMWindows w/ SMS 2003 |
9:15:00 |
9:35:00 |
| Greg Cameron |
System Center Virtualization Management |
9:40:00 |
10:50:00 |
|
Break |
10:50:00 |
11:00:00 |
| Hal Rottenberg |
Managing VMware w/ Powershell (Lunch) |
11:00:00 |
12:10:00 |
| Evan Orgel |
Best Practices for Traditional and Virtual Application Management |
12:15:00 |
1:25:00 |
| Troy Wilch |
App-V / SoftGrid w/ SCCM 2007 R2 |
1:30:00 |
2:40:00 |
|
Break |
2:40:00 |
2:50:00 |
| Jeremiah Beckett |
ACS Design and Planning |
2:50:00 |
4:00:00 |
| SMUG |
Wrap Up |
4:00:00 |
4:05:00 |
Thank you,
Scott Moss - SMUG VP
Its time to mark your calendars for the next SMUG meeting, Friday November 14th.
Details for this meeting are still being worked out.
The registration link should be available at the end of the week on the SMUG blog; the agenda will also be available on the SMUG blog once it is finalized.
http://www.systemcenterusergroup.org/blogs/smug/default.aspx
Thank you for your Support!
Scott Moss - SMUG VP
Welcome to the new home of the Southeast Management User Group of Atlanta. We are a system center user group based out of the metro Atlanta area. Our presentation and topics are usually about technology to manage, monitor, automate or script and in general, make the life of the administrator easier.
We are always excited to have presentations from current members, new members, and guests. If you're interested in presenting something, please let us know! We're always excited to hear about cool, new technology. Better yet, about how to do great things with it.
News:
Next meeting is being planned for the end of October or early November 2008. The agenda is wide open right now so feel free to contact us with suggestions or if you would like to present a topic.
Presentations and resources from July 28th SMUG meeting:
Thank you to all who attended and presented. I’ve zipped up the presentations into one file for easy download.
| Presenter |
Representing |
Files/Links |
| Stu Cartin |
iVision |
iXMSMUG.ppt |
| Hal Rottenberg |
PowerScripting Podcast |
powershell-community-resources-1213065951139635-8.ppt
Introduction to windows Powershell |
| Evan Orgel |
Acresso Software |
Move to Windows Vista or Virtualization without Repackaging Again.pdf |
| Duncan McAlynn |
Idea Integration |
System Center VMM 2008 Intro - Atlanta User Group.pptx |
| Brian Huneycutt |
Microsoft |
Sms_fixes.docx |
Brian Huneycutt’s additional resources:
SMS (and MOM) Supportability site (with some data sourced by the Sustained Engineering team): http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom
WMIDiag: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/help/wmidiag.mspx
WMI Repository / Stability fix for XP/2003:
933062: An update is available that improves the stability of the Windows Management Instrumentation repository in Windows XP (this in XPSP3)
933061: is the Server 2003 version.
Contact Us:
To get the latest news on meeting times and places, please join the SMUG mailing list:
Subscribe: atlantasmug-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: atlantasmug-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
For more information, contact one of your SMUG presidents.
Welcome to the new home of the Southeast Management User Group of Atlanta. We are a system center user group based out of the metro Atlanta area. Our presentation and topics are usually about technology to manage, monitor, automate or script and in general, make the life of the administrator easier.
We are always excited to have presentations from current members, new members, and guests. If you're interested in presenting something, please let us know! We're always excited to hear about cool, new technology. Better yet, about how to do great things with it.
News:
Mark your calendars! SMUG is scheduled for July 28th. We'll be meeting at the Microsoft Alpharetta location as usual. We've got a really exciting line-up of technology, practices, and cool stuff. Considering Powershell's prevalence in the Microsoft technology stack, we are going to try to have Hal Rottenberg as a guest speaker every quarter! Hope you find that as exciting as we do. Please make sure to attend if possible. Hal says he has some GREAT giveaways!
Please register to attend so that we can get an accurate headcount for lunch:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly
.aspx?EventID=3A-EA-C8-93-06-AE-CC-67-36-57-D2-2D-85-B0-4C-57
Here's the agenda:
| Topic | Time | Presenter | Session |
| Kickoff | 9:00 – 9:15 | Marcus/Scott | |
| IMX Solution from iVision | 9:15 – 10:30 | Stu Cartin, iVision | |
| InstallShield | 10:30 – 11:45 | Acresso Software | Achieving Application Readiness with AdminStudio |
| Lunch | 11:45 – 12:15 | | |
| System Center Virtual Machine Manager | 12:15 – 1:30 | Duncan McAlynn, Idea Integration | SCVMM v2 |
| Powershell | 1:30 – 2:45 | Hal Rottenberg | |
| Closing | 2:45 – 3:00 | Marcus/Scott | |
Contact Us:
To get the latest news on meeting times and places, please join the SMUG mailing list:
Subscribe: atlantasmug-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: atlantasmug-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
For more information, contact one of your SMUG presidents.
- Marcus Oh, President - marcus.oh@gmail.com
- Scott Moss, Vice President - jscottmoss@gmail.com