Online Seminar - Understanding System Center 2007: Operations Mgr 2007, Configuration Mgr 2007, Service Center
 

 

In this free seminar, Rand Morimoto, President of Convergent Computing along with Alec Minty, Senior Consultant and System Center expert (both authors of Unleashed-series books from Sams Publishing) presented and demonstrated:

  • what’s new with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (aka SMS v4)

  • what’s new with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (aka MOM v3)

  • best practices at migrating from SMS/2003 to SCCM/2007

  • best practices at migrating from MOM/2005 to SCOM/2007

  • how SCCM/2007 assists with pushing out patches, updates, and full system images

  • what type of reports you can generate out of SCOM/2007 that meet regulatory requirement requests common of auditors for Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, and FISMA

  • how organizations are leveraging SCCM/2007 and SCOM/2007 to improve systems management and lower their cost and effort of administration, without having to spend precious IT time “managing the management system”

  • tips, tricks, and best practices at planning and implementing SCCM/2007 and SCOM/2007 including how many servers an organization needs, how long it’ll take to install and get operational, and what it’ll take to manage on an ongoing basis

  • sneak preview on what System Center Service Desk is, and how organizations are leveraging this helpdesk tool that is based on SharePoint 2007 technology for providing backend support to managing a network environment

  • brief overview of other System Center tools such as Data Protection Manager (due to rev to v2 this summer), and Virtual Machine Manager (that is critical to managing virtual images and VM sessions)

You should download and print the slide deck that was used throughout this session

 

Video #1 (1-hr 19-min): Microsoft System Center Strategy, and System Center Operations Manager 2007

Video #2 (1-hr 6-min): System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Service Manager, System Center Data Protection Manager, System Center Virtual Machine Manager

 

Rand Morimoto is the President of Convergent Computing and lead author for the Unleashed series of books from Sams Publishing.

 

Alec Minty is a Senior Consultant for Convergent Computing, co-author of the book “Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed” and an international public speaker on SMS 2003 and System Center 2007

 

Convergent Computing is a technology consulting firm headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area that helps organizations plan, implement, and support their networking environments. If your organization can use assistance implementing, supporting, or just getting better use of your Windows Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, or other network or application technologies, please contact our organization for assistance mailto:sales@cco.com