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Infrastructure & Management User Group–31/1/2012

Hi guys, Thank you all for attending the meeting last week, it was great seeing a lot of familiar faces. Attached below are the two presentations from the event, first one the overview I gave on System Center 2012 (and we will delve more deeply into each product in the next UG meetings) second presentation is the one Daniel Petri gave about migrating from AD 2003 to AD 2008 R2. Next meeting is scheduled for March 18th and will be on two of the most requested topics from our poll: Hyper-V Tips and...

System Center 2012 Technical Overviews

Check out the following presentations from a recent open house we held: System Center 2012 Technical Overview View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo   System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Overview View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo     System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Overview View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo     System Center Operations Manager 2012 Overview View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo     System Center Virtual Machine...

Two Events for September

Hi, We are sponsoring two events this September. First one is on the 18th, I will be lecturing @ Microsoft Infra Days 2011 on a seminar called “The Future of Microsoft Infrastructure Platform – The Complete Roadmap”, below is the invitation (follow the link for more details):   The other event we sponsor is Microsoft main event for Middle-Market clients, an event titled “Be what’s next” that will be held on the 19th. I will be presenting the session on “Building & Managing Services with...

Infrastructure & Management Virtual User Group – "Best of Tech-Ed" Meeting No.2–Opalis

מפגש וירטואלי לקהילת Management & Infrastructure בנושא: Best of Tech-Ed 2010 – מפגש 2 10.02.2011, 16:00 – 17:30 אירוע TechEd 2010 מתקיים השנה באילת בסוף נובמבר. מיד לאחר אירוע נקיים בקבוצת המשתמשים סדרת הרצאות בשם Best of TechEd 2010 אשר בהן יועברו מיטב ההרצאות מ-TechEd, לטובת כאלה שלא היו או כאלה שרוצים לבוא שוב ולשאול שאלות. מפגש מספר 2 יוקדש לפתרון ה-IT Automation מבית מיקרוסופט – System Center Opalis סדר יום: 16:00-17:15 – Opalis IT Process Automation - Introduction and Technical Overview...

UG Session No.1 Summary

Hi, Sorry for publishing the PowerPoint slides so late, end of year is always a bit hectic for me Our next UG meeting is on January 13th, I’ll post the agenda later this week.   Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Overview View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo .

Tech-Ed Israel 2010–Jalasoft implementation @ Egged

Hi, This Tech-Ed We had the pleasure of hosting Chen Amram, Open Systems Department Manager @ Egged who talked about the successful Jalasoft implementation Dario did.   Egged has a large-scale SCOM implementation, monitoring hundreds of server, switches, routers & databases (SQL & Oracle) etc. and they use their monitoring and management solutions in a way that enable them to control a very large environment with few IT people. But more importantly, it’s nice to see how they are willing...

Infrastructure & Management User Group - "Best of Tech-Ed" Meeting No.1

מפגש קהילת Management & Infrastructure בנושא: Best of Tech-Ed 2010 – מפגש 1 09.12.2010, 17:30 – 19:30 אירוע TechEd 2010 מתקיים השנה באילת בסוף נובמבר. מיד לאחר אירוע נקיים בקבוצת המשתמשים סדרת הרצאות בשם Best of TechEd 2010 אשר בהן יועברו מיטב ההרצאות מ-TechEd, לטובת כאלה שלא היו או כאלה שרוצים לבוא שוב ולשאול שאלות. סדר יום: 17:30-17:45 - התכנסות 17:45-18:45 – Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 - Here it Comes! 18:45-19:00 - הפסקה וכיבוד קל 19:00-19:30 – Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 - Here it Comes! 19...

Tech-Ed Israel 2010–Service Manager Session Summary

Hi all, I still cant believe how many of you got up so early in the morning after the party to attend my session… I thought I’ll be alone, luckily I didn’t stay in the hotel room to sleep some more… Thank you for all your feedback about the session, I’m very happy to know a lot of people liked it, thanks.     As I said in my previous post about the Opalis session,  you are more then welcome to come to the “Best of Tech-Ed” batch of sessions at “Infrastructure & Management User...

Tech-Ed Israel 2010– Opalis Session Summary

Hi guys, Thanks for so many of you for coming to my session today on Opalis, I got some really good feedback from you (via SMSs, emails and face-to-face) and I really appreciate it I’m attaching the PPT from the session, and a quick list of all URL links: – Dario Blog - Opalis – 8 Minutes Videos – System Center Opalis Home – Microsoft Pathways – Opalis – TechNet Webcasts   Oh, one last thing, do come to the “Best of Tech-Ed” batch of sessions at “Infrastructure & Management User Group” ...

Tech-Ed Israel 2010 - 3-Tier Remediation using Opalis

Hi, As I wrote in a previous post , on of my Tech-Ed sessions this year is on Opalis. As a quick preview, I wanted to tell you about one of the many demos I’m going to show in the session. Consider this scenario, an application uses multiple servers – an IIS server, an Application server and an SQL server. I’m sure you’ll agree that most (if not all) monitoring solutions (like SCOM, Patrol, Unicenter etc.) can perform some kind of basic recovery operation (like restarting a stopped service) if they...

Dario @ Tech-Ed Israel 2010

שלום לכולם, רציתי לעדכן שהשנה התבקשתי להעביר בטקאד את ההרצאות הבאות: 1. Opalis IT Process Automation - Introduction & Technical Overview (יום שני ב-11:30) – מעבר על מוצר ה-Run Book Automation החדש שרכשה מיקרוסופט לפני שנה ונכלל היום בחבילת System Center. בהרצאה אני אראה איך אפשר להשתמש ב-Opalis כ-"מוח הניהול" המרכזי ולהגדיר בו Workflows שיאפשרו לדוגמא למשתמש קצה למלא Change Request בפורטל ה-Helpdesk שבעקבותיו ירוץ תהליך אוטומטי מורכב של יצירת סביבה וירטואלית שלמה (כולל הגדרות ב-SAN...

Tech-Ed Israel 2010 - Introducing System Center Service Manager

Hi Guys, Service Manager 2010 is the newest System Center family member, announced just half a year ago. One of my Tech-Ed sessions this year is about integrating Service Manager with products like integrating with Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) to handle user provisioning, integrating with SCCM to handle Self-Service software distribution, integrating with Opalis to create a whole set of virtual server etc. One of the session highlight is how Service Manager integrate with Provance IT Management...

Tech-Ed Israel 2010 - Opalis IT Process Automation: Introduction & Technical Overview

Hi all, One of my Tech-Ed sessions this year is on Opalis, a new Run Book Automation (RBA) product Microsoft bought last year. Opalis represents a great opportunity to drive down the cost of your datacenter operations while ensuring your processes are codified, auditable and repeatable. As a preview of the Tech-Ed session, take a look on two funny videos Mark Gosson (Evangelist - Solutions Architecture @ Microsoft) recorded last month showing what’s changed after implementing Opalis in an organization...

Enterprise Management Open Houses Summary

Hi guys, We held two open houses this week, one on February 22nd at MediaTech Haifa and the other on February 24th at Microsoft Raanana. I would like to thank the large number of people who attended, it was great hearing your comments and questions. Attached below are all the PowerPoint decks from the events: Physical And Virtual Server Management View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo . Newest Family Member - IT Automation With Opalis View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo . Dynamic Server...

Infrastructure & Management User Group Summary – 18/11/2009

Hi guys, It was very nice meeting you all yesterday at the re-birth of the Infrastructure & Management User Group. Below is the presentation for the main subject we talked about – “Windows 2008 R2 Overview”. We will continue next month, on December 17th with the subject “Active Directory improvements in Windows 2008 R2”. In the meantime, share your thoughts and interesting finds at the group site - http ://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=2389097 Have a great weekend and take care! :) What's...