Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing

Today Windows Phone 7 was RTM:ed. I have followed blogs and press for a long time and it looks good but as we all know there is some features that we will miss. Now I really hope Microsoft understand that they need to do as Apple and Google has done – release updates to the phone regularly and this for free.

More information – Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing

A new challenge

I have now been working at Advisec AB for 10 years and 8 of them I have been part owner of the company. It’s been a lot of fun and I learned a lot during this journey but as of next Wednesday I have decided to accept a new challenge – the position as a Solution Architect at Dell where I will continue to focus on the System Center family.

I really look forward to this new challenge which will let me learn new things and meet new people.

I will continue to run my blog at http://blog.advisec.com

Migrating SCE to new hardware

Since the release of SCE 2007 there hasn’t been a supported way to migrate an existing SCE server to new hardware. The good news is that the SCE team has now released a Resource Kit and a documented the steps you need to do. Note that you need to upgrade your existing SCE 2007 to SCE 2010 and then you can migrate to new hardware.

Download the SCE Resource kit

Read the Step-by-step from the team blog

Extremely good Technet article for troubleshooting “gray” agents

I bet you got a agent in a “gray” state sometime. Now there is a very detailed KB that describe what can be the reason. This is useful for both SCE and SCOM admins

Link to the KB

MVP renewal – 2010

Today I got my MVP renewal letter that informed me that I was re-awarded as Most Valuable Professional and therefore receiving the Microsoft MVP award for the fourth year in a row for doing a great job in serving the community by helping out on forums and other community events.

I would also like to congratulate my friends Anders Bengtsson, Joachim Nässlander, Martin Lidholm and Magnus Björk who also got the MVP award renewed this year!

Link to my MVP Profile

MVP renewal – 2010

Today I got my MVP renewal letter that informed me that I was re-awarded as Most Valuable Professional and therefore receiving the Microsoft MVP award for the fourth year in a row for doing a great job in serving the community by helping out on forums and other community events.

Link to my MVP Profile

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1 Beta is available for testing

Microsoft just released the Update 1 beta for MDT 2010. MDT 2010 Update 1 provides new capabilities, such as:

· Support for Microsoft Office 2010.

· A new User-driven Installation (UDI) deployment method (formerly known as “Modena”) for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. UDI gives information technology (IT) staff control over the deployment experience while empowering users to interact with and customize their operating system deployment through an easy-to-use wizard.

· Improvements to the Deployment Workbench driver import process, detecting each driver’s true supported platforms.

· Many bug fixes and other small improvements.

Register and download the Update from Microsoft Connect Site

Windows Home Server V2 Beta – Code Name Vail is now available

Today the WHS team release a public beta of the next version of Windows Home Server.

Sing up to join the beta program

Read more about the new version on the WHS team blog

To view som of the new feature and see the server in action, click on the video below.

My SCE 2010 session from Techdays is now online (Presentation in Swedish)

Last month the Swedish Techdays took place and I had the opportunity to present a session about the new release of System Center Essentials 2010. The session was recorded and is now online if you couldn’t attend.

View/listen on my SCE 2010 session

Download the Powerpoint presentation

Visio 2010 Add-in now available for Operations Manager 2007 R2

Microsoft has updated the Visio Add-in to support Visio 2010. Except support for Visio 2010 they added support to publish your Visio diagrams as live dashboards in SharePoint.

Read more about the announcement

Download Visio 2010 Add-in For Opsmgr 2007 R2