MNSCUG August 2012 Meeting

Our next MN System Center User Group meeting will be Wednesday, August 15th from 5:00pm - 7:15pm at Microsoft's new Edina HQ building - 6th Floor, Lake of the Woods. We have two sessions slated for the evening.

Stephen Holcomb from Altrinsic will cover two tools that integrate with CM. And our VP, Steve Jesok, will do one on System Center 2012 Orchestrator.

Altrinsic is sponsoring the session so to help them get a good estimate of the food and drink cost, we'll ask that you register at ClickToAttend.

Enterprise Driver Manager (EDM) is the only solution in the world that enables the ability to completely analyze, standardize, deploy and update drivers on all your production widows systems. EDM inventories every single device and driver on all Windows systems in your enterprise. Driver problems, the systems affected and the best version of multiple drivers are identified. Desirable driver versions not currently available for deployment are automatically procured and loaded into the driver repository. EDM enables Driver standardization, increased driver security, and eliminates device driver conflicts. All questions regarding drivers in your enterprise are answered, and exposed in an actionable data console.

Deploy Expert (DX) is a System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) integrated process management solution for hardware independent image deployment (HID) and Windows OS migrations. DX reduces the workload and time required to achieve and maintain an enterprise HID capability by up to 95%. Whether you are deploying Windows 7, XP, 2003 or 2008 Server, the DX solution is natively integrated into SCCM presenting administrators with an intuitive GUI that manages a simple 4-step process to automatically perform system hardware inventory analysis, driver pack gathering, deployment solution job integration and change maintenance.

Stephen Holcomb has over seventeen years of IT industry background including extensive experience as a Systems Management Platform integrator and OS depoyment expert. Stephen and his staff have assisted hundreds of organizations with customized, automated OS deployment solutions. Customers include numerous Fortune-class organizations such as Wal-Mart, Boeing, Disney, Cisco, AT&T, multiple US military branches, commercial and other organizations representing virtually every vertical market and major geography. Stephen's vast experience in implementing customized, standardized image deployment solutions, has helped him to identify a market-wide need for fundamentally better processes and technology to automate Windows OS deployment and other key IT initiatives. With this mission, Altrinsic Solutions was founded in 2005, offering the first of several innovative products including Hardware Independent Imaging Solution (HIIS). The features and automation offered in HIIS have been continually extended, refined and advanced and are found in the next generation of OS deployment automation technologies - DeployExpert and Enterprise Driver Manager for Microsoft SCCM.