Microsoft licensing - information for IT Pro's
When IT-budgets are under increased pressure, smart IT Pro’s look at software licensing and their cost: ‘How are we acquiring Microsoft licenses? Is that the most effective way?’. Next to that, understanding some licensing basics, allows for smarter buying: should we pay for CALs per user or per device? Do I need to pay for my testing-environment? Is there a way to obtain multilingual versions of some products for free? Will the server-virtualisation savings be offset by increased licensing costs?
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Application Virtualization and Configuration Manager 2007
With the release of Configuration Manager R2, the traditional Software Distribution feature has been extended to seamlessly integrate virtual application support. As part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, customers who have access to the Application Virtualization (App-V) capability, can now also use Configuration Manager to centrally manage their virtual application services. This session will demonstrate how the latest version of Microsoft Application Virtualization integrates tightly with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 to provide a powerful solution to deploy and manage virtual applications across an organization's many distributed desktops. This session promises to be technical and full of lots of demonstrations.
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Configmgr (R2) Task sequences – a very flexible delivery engine
Configmgr 2007 is the first Microsoft systems management product released that has Osdeployment built-in. The Configmgr implementation of Osdeployment is built on Task sequences. These task sequences can be as simple or as complex as you want them to be. This session will give you the run down, starting from some basic built-in task sequences, over tweaking them with a bunch of conditions and task sequence variable so you can make them do just about everyting you want (except for setting coffee).
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: Technical Overview and futures
This session will provide an overview of SC VMM 2008 and highlight some of the improvements and new features that will be available in Systems Center VMM 2008 R2
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Technical introduction into System Center Service Manager
This session will provide an overview of how Service Manager integrates across the System Center suite of products to provide automation of MOF/ITIL based best practices. Topics covered include the out-of-the-box solutions, System Center integrations, and high-level over view of technology components like workflow, forms and the CMDB.
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What's new in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
This session will showcase some of the improvements and new features that will be available in Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and provide you with an overview of what is planned for the next major release of the product.
| Session level: 200 |
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Windows PowerShell v2: the IT revolution, part two
The first version of Windows PowerShell radically simplified IT administration through a new interactive shell environment, scripting technology and layering of admin GUIs. Come and see the next release of PowerShell in all its glory: tons of new cmdlets, interactive script debugging, the new graphical environment "ISE", script cmdlets, modules, built-in support for transactions, first-class WMI objects, the Unified Code Execution Model and management for distributed environments using WSMAN and remoting.
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