March Meeting - Meeting Ed Aldrich!

We will hold our quarterly MiSC User Group meeting on Wednesday 3/26/08 at the Microsoft Bloomington Office. (Add to Oulook)

We're honored this month to have Ed Aldrich, Microsoft MVP - SMS, from 1e to showcase some products that can make your life as an admin much easier.

1e specializes in filling in the gaps Microsoft has left us to muddle through. Things we wish we had that don't come out of the box:

1eWakeUp wakes up machines ensuring they can receive the incoming critical patch. By automatically turning on computers for software and patch deliveries in synchronisation with Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), SMSWakeUp increases delivery success to 100%. This product also includes the very popular SMS Client Health reporting and fixing,

NightWatchman can force immediate system reboots without any loss of user data, to ensure that critical patches requiring reboots have the widest and fastest take up possible. This product also supports "green computing" initiatives via scheduled shutdowns of client systems (with related reporting) to conserve power off hours.

Nomad Enterprise enables OS releases, software applications and updates to be distributed quickly and efficiently to remote, server-less branch offices and to bandwidth-challenged environments. Nomad Enterprise ensures that software packages are only copied once over the WAN to make the most efficient use of available network bandwidth.

Shopping enables self-service, SMS/SCCM packaged application provisioning with proven scalability to suit any size of business up to enterprise-level. Shopping automates the complexities of application self-service, manages licenses automatically and enhances the capabilities of IT staff, approvers and desktop users.