Service Manager 2010 officially goes RTM

Bob Muglia announced at the keynote at MMS that Service Manager 2010 is now officially RTM.

downloadable 180 day eval copy... here

Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Beta released

Following Brand Anderson's announcement yesterday at the keynote, the Config Manager R3 beta has been released on connect. If you've subscribed to it, you can start downloading the bits. Stuff that is in R3:

• Power Management
• OSD Enhancements
• Dynamic Collection Evaluation
• Delta Discovery
• Enhancements on Collections and DCM
• Scalability of support for up to 300,000 clients per site hierarchy

MMS2010: Excited and Sad

I've arrived in Las Vegas and excited about MMS 2010, however, i feel sad as well as this year is not going to be the same.

Due to the Icelandic Ash Cloud, alot of european based speakers and delegates have had to cancel their trip. Not sure what's going to happen to the sessions which had these speakers scheduled but generally its going to affect MMS2010 in a big way. I was looking forward to meeting up with good friends but it looks like thats not going to happen this year.

Will be reporting as much as I can from MMS2010 in hope that it will benefit those that could not make it due to this.

SCCM 2007 Dashboard

The SCCM 2007 Dashboard has been officially released. It comes with built-in reports that is accessed through Sharepoint Services so it can be viewed wthout the SCCM console.

Just downloaded it and will post up some findings after fidlingwith it.

Download it here