The Microsoft Management Summit has the reputation of being the MS conference to go to if you can only go to one of them. It’s aimed at the techies and has techie content. This year will be an interesting one.
- Somewhere behind the scenes, ConfigMgr v.Next is taking shape. We got a sneak peak at TechEd last November. There’s probably more detail available now.
- ConfigMgr 2007 R3 should be ready by now. It was due around the end of Q1. We’re beyond that. It wouldn’t surprise me if the announcement was made on Monday, in line with the conference for System Center junkies.
- DPM 2010 is also due around now. Don’t be shocked to hear a lot about it next week.
- We’re about half way through the current release life of OpsMgr 2007 R2. I wonder if there’s going to be some talk about OpsMgr v.Next?
- There’s lots of other stuff that if you forced me to guess, I’d say will be happen on Monday too.
- Attendees will probably start to get some meat on the bones of the new Opalis acquisition. Everything I’ve read so far seems like it was written by Citrix Marketing: all fur, no meat. There will allegedly be integrations into other System Center products at the end of the year.
According to a tweet I saw a couple of days ago, the keynotes will be streamed live. Tuesday will focus on servers. Wednesday will focus on clients. I’ll be trying to tune in if it isn’t at some crazy hour locally.
EDIT:
Here are the details of the keynotes:
- Tuesday, April 20, 8:30 – 9:45 AM PST: Managing Systems from the Datacenter to the Cloud, Bob Muglia, president, Microsoft Server and Tools
- Wednesday, April 21, 8:30 – 9:45 AM PST: User Centric Client Management, Brad Anderson, corporate vice president, Management and Services Division