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The big news this morning was the “re-branding” to System Center. We now have System Center Configuration Manager 2007(still not sure how to pronounce SCCM) instead of SMS v4. The admin console looks to be much improved, a much more task oriented interface.

Monad has been renamed PowerShell and is still very very cool. There’s more info here and here. Download RC1 and play with it.

Still not sure why I should upgrade to sms2003 sp2. Ooh, I can discover AD security groups… that might be useful, maybe, possibly.

Vista seems to have some nice management stuff built in. The event viewer has been xml’ized and you can even subscribe to events and kick off tasks based on system events. Pretty nice stuff.

Call me stupid, but I guess I never realized how closely the SQL views and wmi classes mirrored each other.

One tidbit that I never knew, launch the sms console with the following command: sms.msc /sms:nodeinfo=3D1 This will launch the console with an extra node tab revealing guid and wmi instance data. I just realized that it is documented here, along with a few other commandline options.

I have in fact seen two other powerbook users besides myself here. Lots of Dells, a few Thinkpads, not so many Apples, who’d a thunk it.

Enough rambling for now.

Currently in SanDiego for mms2006. More info on that later. Here’s the view from my hotel room. You can find more up on my flickr page.

Was it worth manually inserting the correct time into the db table and changing the date/time format just for my own amusement? Clearly the answer is yes. If you can’t amuse yourself by being a geek, what else is there in life? Oh, and for the record the rss2 feed uses gmt time by default – change get_lastpostmodified() from ‘gmt’ to ‘blog’ and the second arg in get_post_time() from true to false and I assume everything should be good. This was a handy resource in figuring this stuff out. I don’t think these changes should cause any problems, but ya never know.

fun stuff…