Today another Community Evaluation Program started, this time for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. During this session the CEP was explaned bt Kenon Owens, the Technical Product Manager of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 beta. The next following months I will try to follow this CEP also and report the information back to you, but since the Configuration Manager CEP is my priority I might have to skip some sessions. Read the session summary!
Archive for May, 2011
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MayLooked half a year ago in iTunes for Technet content but everything I found was really outdated. Today I came across the System Center Podcast in iTunes. As the description says, this podcast is designed to provide relevant information about the System Center Suite. The podcast aims to assist organisations with maximizing their System Center investment through advice and expertize from MVP’s and experts who bring a wealth of knowledge and a combined experience that is unparalleled.
The System Center Podcast is a monthly produced podcast featuring some of the most respected and knowledgeable MVP’s and experts in the community. Panelists will include Pete Zerger (OpsMgr MVP), Roger Zander (SCCM MVP), both from our partner Winworkers, Maarten Goet (OpsMgr MVP) and Andy Dominey to name just a few. I think I will be a subscriber from now on 
The first two podcasts are:
Episode 1 MMS 2011 (24 March 2011)
Pete Zerger, Oskar Landman, Andy Dominey and Dan Kregor talk about the new products and features announced at MMS 2011
Link
Episode 2 – Head in the cloud (20 may 2011)
Pete Zeger and Wally Mead talk about the announchments of TechEd, Opalis Integration Server 6.3 Unleashed, the Private Cloud, the Community Evaluation Program and lot’s more.
Today another Live Meeting session of the Configuration Manager 2012 Community Evaluation Program was held. The subject this time: Hierarchy Technical Overview. With Configuration Manager 2012 lots of nice things in the Configuration Manager Hierarchy are changing. Let’s see which nice things will change
Today D.C. Tardy, Senior Program Manager of the Configuration Manager team guided us the through the changes.
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MayYesterday the System Center related recordings of TechEd North America were published on the System Center Team Blog Site. The sessions contain a lot of System Center information and content that was presented at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas this year.
Since there is not going to be a TechEd conference in Europe this year, the System Center team placed the links to the recordings and slide decks of most of the System Center Related sessions of TechEd North America which was held in Atlanta last week. See and enjoy the new features of for instance Configuration Manager 2012, Service Manager 2012, Orchestrator 2012 and Operations Manager 2012.
Follow this link to the post of the System Center Team Blog. To see all the TechEd sessions, please follow this link!
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MayThe migration of SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007 was not an easy migration. Microsoft is going to make the migration of SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012 fairly easy. Read an earlier blog about the migration process and for sure watch this movie
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MayDuring this high level meeting about the new Application Model in Configuration Manager 2012 an earlier session was repeated. In this blog I will be a summary about this session and most of the information can also be found in the slide deck of the session.
Nevertheless, Microsoft invested big time to create a new application model where the user can be the center of the deployment / management of the applications. In my opinion, this worked out well and Configuration Manager is going to be a mature configuration management platform.
Last but not least, I won the monthly price of the Community Evaluation Program, thanks guys!
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MayMore than a month ago the rerun of the Configuration Manager 2012 Community Evaluation Program was started. A couple of days ago the new schedule of the sessions where published on the CEP site. See the list below, the topics are subject to change 
| Meeting or Event | Event Date |
| Overview Live Meeting | 4/6/2011 |
| Migration Live Meeting | 4/27/2011 |
| Application Management Part1 | 5/4/2011 |
| Hierarchy Simplification | 5/25/2011 |
| Application Management Part2 | 6/8/2011 |
| Application Migration Tool | 6/22/2011 |
| Application Q&A Session | 7/13/2011 |
| Forefront Endpoint Protection | 8/10/2011 |
| SDK | 8/24/2011 |
| Software Update Management | 9/7/2011 |
| Cross Platform | 9/21/2011 |
| Device Management | 10/5/2011 |
| Settings Management | 10/19/2011 |
| OS Deployment | 11/2/2011 |
Peter Daalmans
Technical Consultant and Enterprise Client Management (Configuration Manager/Windows Intune) MVP with Microsoft partner IT-Concern with a primary focus on the System Center Suite and Microsoft Exchange. Writing blogs and sharing his knowlegde on ConfigMgrBlog.com.
Co-author of Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager book from Sybex.
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