In ConfigMgr 2007 it is difficult to have a true High Availability (HA) solution. This because it isn't supported yet in ConfigMgr 2007; we must wait for ConfigMgr 2012 for that. There are possibilities however with dividing roles on multiple servers, or install it on a Virtual Machine. Then there will be possibilities with VMware ESX (VMotion) or Microsoft Hyper-V (Live Migration) to create a HA environment. ConfigMgr 2007 is not HA then, but the platform on which it's running is.
During TechEd North America 2011 Atlanta, the System Center Roadmap for 2012 is presented. As you can see all products from this suite become RTM at second half of 2011. About end 2011 or begin 2012 the complete suite will be presented as System Center 2012 suite.
In ConfigMgr 2007/2012 Wake On LAN (WOL) functionality is available. This can be used to schedule OS deployment, Software distribution and Patch management during non-working hours to wake-up devices. In ConfigMgr there are a few checkboxes which must be set to make it functional. In this blog I will describe which settings there are, and what else is needed on routers/switches.
In my blogs published before, I wrote about Patch Management in ConfigMgr 2012. How the setup is done, needed for automatically download and publish Software Updates. Have a good look at http://henkhoogendoorn.blogspot.com/2011/04/patch-management-in-configmgr-2012-beta.html for that.
During Microsoft Management Summit 2011 the System Center Roadmap 2011-2012 is presented. As you can see all products from this suite become RTM at second half of 2011. About end 2011 or begin 2012 the complete suite will be presented as System Center 2012 suite.
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Jul 4, 2011
Do you remember when you first saw Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect in action? Playing games without a controller! It looked kind of dumb at first, people standing in front of a TV making exaggerated and weird moves, but when you tried Kinect yourself for the first time, it was fun to do and it worked pretty well. However, after a while it turns out that Kinect is a 1.0 version with it’s own limitation and you’ll have to wait for a year before new games will come out that uses all of the capabilities of the Kinect. This is kind of the feeling I have now about Ericom AccessNow for VMware View, the HTML5 client for VMware View. At first you think it’s probably not that good without a “real” VMware View client installed, but once you try it, you’re amazed how easy it is to setup and use it. After a short while, you see the limitations the product still has and you’d rather wait for a next version which has more features and has a better user experience.
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