Summer 2004 Webcast Series: 11 More Steps to Mastering SMS 2003

September 23, 2004: This webcast demonstrates an upgrade of an SMS 2003 site to SMS 2003 SP1.

September 14, 2004: Microsoft IT is using SMS 2003 to manage the deployment of security and software updates across the enterprise. In this webcast, Brian Keogh and Paul Thomsen discuss using this Microsoft technology, the adopted processes and the lessons learned.

September 9, 2004: This webcast discusses issues customers have encountered in their SMS 2003 deployments to help you prepare for your deployment.

August 27, 2004: This webcast covers an implementation of SMS in an organization to operate as a patch management solution. This will include preparing the environment for SMS, installing SMS server components, and deploying SMS clients.

August 19, 2004: This webcast looks at the requirements for management points, and how to troubleshoot common installation failures.

August 19, 2004: This webcast is an end-to-end overview of evaluating your business environment for a SMS deployment. It covers the analysis of your goals and business needs; and steps through the analysis of your environment to determine the right tools to use. In this session we will walk through the process of analyzing a computer environment to determine the optimal placement and sizing of SMS systems.

August 5, 2004: Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) has great capabilities for monitoring Windows systems. The next version of MOM, called MOM 2005, includes components that monitor SMS 2003 environments. This webcast discusses how to monitor SMS 2003 SP1 using MOM 2005.

July 29, 2004: This webcast discusses the SMS Client Health Tool and how to implement it in your sites to monitor the health of your SMS clients.

July 16, 2004: This webcast shows how to collect data about your IT infrastructure and put it to best use. The webcast includes demonstrations of the document worksheets and the capacity planning tool.

July 8, 2004: This webcast, which is heavily demonstration-based, shows you the entire process of preparing Active Directory for SMS, installing a primary site server, installing SMS 2003 site systems, locating potential clients, and installing Advanced Client.

July 6, 2004: This webcast names and explains the different Advanced Client log files, and how to look for the logs and logging patterns in SMS log files that provide copious, varied, and useful troubleshooting information to help you keep your IT infrastructure running smoothly.

Test the capabilities of SMS 2003 in the sandbox environment of these free virtual labs.

Choose from three series of webcasts that will help you get in-depth information on SMS 2003.

Keep your skills and knowledge up to date with these free interactive webcasts.

Find previous webcasts about Systems Management Server.

View the streaming presentations online, download the slide decks, and/or read the transcripts of these multimedia presentations for MOM.

Find out how you can better realize the benefits of your Windows-based environment through this collection of webcasts pertaining to Microsoft management products and solutions.