Released a little over a week ago, Microsoft Systems Center Service Manager, is a product that ties together Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, helpdesk ticking functionality, change control tracking, and configuration change auditing. Since the product is literally brand new, not many people know what it is. There's a session tomorrow...
This session focused on a ton of tips and tricks for Windows and AD administration. The speaker went 100 MPH and it would be impossible to cover everything. But he will be uploading his presentation slide deck, scripts, and other goodies on his website here. He also wrote a book...
This session, Active Directory Recycle Bin, was presented by Mark Minasi, which is always a riot to listen to. In addition to really knowing his stuff, he's probably in the the top two TechEd presenters for style. Guaranteed laughs! Prior to Windows Server 2008 R2, when you delete an object it's...
This session focused on the all-new permissions model of Exchange 2010/SP1. Back in the days of Exchange 2003/2007, Microsoft had a very, very limited permission model that just consisted of a handful of rights. This caused problems in organizations where you want to granularly delegate permissions to specific groups such...
This session was really stellar, and covered a lot of good technical details. The session was so information packed that I'll just highlight a few of the major new features or enhancements in OCS 14.- The Central Management Store is a completely new feature that schematizes the definition of the...
This session was an interactive session, meaning it was in a small room, and most of the discussion was directed by questions. I thought it was very enlightening, and I learned a lot of good information about the integration between RMS and Exchange 2010/SP1. Integration is very easy and seamless....
I must say, the content of this presentation did not match the title. The session was more about Exchange 2010 features, not SP1. While the feature the presenter covered were fine and dandy and some were new to me, what I really wanted was the low-down on SP1. Here are...
This session was really a good demo of a plethora of Lync 2010 (AKA OCS 14) features from the end-user perspective, and some changes on the back-end. The slide deck wasn't available to download for this session, so listed below are only a fraction of the topics covered in this session. The...
This was a great session which covered the tight integration between Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2010. In order to take advantage of many of the new features in the 2010 releases, you need both Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2010. "Better together" features include:- Ignore a conversation – Deletes all existing...
This week I'm at TechED 2010 in New Orleans, and as part of the conference package I signed up for a pre-conference session on Exchange Server 2010. This was an eight hour session on Sunday covering a whole gamut of Exchange 2010 topics. The two presenters actually wrote a book,...
For those of you using ESXi 4.0 on HP servers, be sure to check out their new CIM providers. The CIM providers communicate hardware health status to the ESXi host and in turn, to vCenter. You can then configure alerts in vCenter to warn you of hardware health problems.The new...
A few days ago Cisco released a new version of their virtual Nexus 1000v switch, version 4.0(4)SV1(3). You can read the release notes here. Major new features include:- GUI configuration setup which creates VMware port groups, VLANs, turns on SSH, adds the plug-in to vCenter, and other nifty things.- ERSPAN...