Minnesota Sytem Center User Group

Well the summer is nearly over and we'd like to start having regular user group meetings again. Please consider joining us on Thursday 8/21/2008 at the Microsoft Bloomington Office where free food and beverages will be provided. This month we'd like to start off by having Officer Elections. We will then have a presentation / discussion on patching with SCCM. This will involve:

• Overview of WSUS 3.0
• GPO settings for Windows Updates
• Strategies that others are using with Windows Update including with Forefront
• SCCM WSUS integration
• Monthly Patch Cycle walk through with SCCM
• Problems other have seen installing / deploying via SCCM / GPO's
• Explain some of the differences in using ITMU and SMS versus WSUS and SCCM

Finally, we will have come cool swag to give away this month, including a free (full) copy of Windows Home Server. The only catch is we're doing registrations differently this month. Please use the clicktoattend link at the bottom to let us know if you are coming. This will help with pizza and beer counts, and it's the only way to be eligible for the swag drawings. Rather than send an outlook invite out we will try this registration method. You will have to complete a few questions and register and then register for the event.

Hope to see you there next week. We will try to get back to a monthly or every other month schedule now that summer is winding down. I'd also like to ask for volunteers that have been involved with SCOM if they would consider helping with a future meeting to discuss how your organization has implemented SCOM.

http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=130709

Due to conflicts in schedules with the user group's President & Vice President, we're also going to take July off. If any of you feel you'd still like to make a mini-meeting (informal dinner\drinks), use the contact form and drop me a note.

The bright side is we have some cool swag for August's meeting. For example, one person will go home with a copy of Windows Home Server!

Due to conflicts in schedules with the user group's President & Vice President, we're going to take June off. If any of you feel you'd still like to make a mini-meeting (informal dinner\drinks), use the contact form and drop me a note.

We will meet again next Wednesday 5/14 at the Microsoft Bloomington Office, 9th floor - around 4:30pm. This month we will focus on discussing what we took back from MMS, as many from our group attended.  As for the format, we will officially call this a round table discussion session, but we will try to have 3-4 different attendees discuss their top take away points and probably break into groups after that.

Everyone who attended would agree that there was a wealth of information at the conference, so if you were unable to attend this is a good opportunity to find out what will be coming in the following months with System Center.  If you were there and like me you were triple booked for every session hopefully we can fill in information on sessions you may have missed.