The second keynote of MMS 2012 focused on users and their connected devices. Specific points from the keynote include the following items: Announcements: MMS 2013: New Orleans in June Brad Anderson said Microsoft will be providing "Deep integration with Windows, IOS and Android" Windows InTune Pre-Release announced GeekNotes: InTune: All lab systems at MMS 2012…
I have an auto-generated entity framework Entity Data Model Designer File (edmx). And while I am using Data Annotations for validation purposes, there are times when retrieving the maxlength of an entity property programmatically would be very useful. In some cases, I may want to simply truncate the value, rather than throw an error if…
A Texas state agency has engaged Catapult Systems to assist them in planning, designing, and implementing a Unified Communications (UC) solution based on Microsoft Lync. Already using Office Communications Server 2007 for IM and presence, the agency wishes to enhance their existing environment by upgrading to Lync Server 2010. Catapult has designed a Proof of…
Headed down to registration around 0800 – HOLY COW, the line was long! It took about an hour to get through registration. The Shwag is pretty nice: The shirt is a gray Nike polo, the bag is pretty understated and functional – good stuff. I started my day first thing with SD-IL306 System Center…
Paul Mestemaker presented a solid session today on System Center Advisor at MMS. The following is my summary from the session: System Center Advisor: Microsoft support sees common underlying root causes. Advisor is designed to identify these root causes – what is the issue and how to resolve it in a cloud based solution. Available…
I’ve built the technical aspects of my career on combining technologies from Microsoft, that are easy to sell into enterprises that require the confidence that comes from their extensive support contacts and huge market footprint, with open source technologies that steer the direction of technology ahead of the enterprise curve – eventually to be embraced…
The first keynote of MMS 2012 represented the 10 year anniversary for MMS! Specific points from the keynote include the following items: Announcements: System Center 2012 was officially announced: A USB Key provided for MMS attendees with all of the System Center 2012 software Windows Server 2012 name announced! (Previously referred to as "Windows Server…
Today started off as you would image, with registration. Let me first off say that the event staff and everyone working from Microsoft did an excellent job. But even with the best efforts of all these fine people the registration process took forever! No worries though, I spent the time chatting up one of my…
Since I adjusted the focus of my subject matter on this blog over the past couple of weeks, one of the main subjects I’ve been talking about is continuous delivery. This is a term coined in a book by the same name. I’m attempting to summarize some of the concepts in the book, and putting…
So…if MoSCoW isn’t just the fifth largest city in the world and the beautiful capital of Russia, what is it? MoSCoW is a qualitative technique for prioritizing requirements and is an easy, approachable way to work with project stakeholders to determine the importance and criticality of a requirement to the implemented solution. MoSCoW stands for: M –…
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