* This event was Recorded on Thursday, April 30, 2009. *

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032409727&CountryCode=US

Agenda

- Deployment and Performance Best Practices

- High Availability and Disaster recovery Best Practices

- Virtualization Best Practices

- OpsMgr R2 Deployment and Upgrade

- Deployment Case Studies

In the MMS keynote today Bob Kelly, Corporate Vice President, Server & Tools, announced that Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM will be released in 30 days.

If you are not at MMS like me you can still catch the keynotes streaming online live at https://www1.mms-2009.com/public/Headlines.aspx

Today was

The Dynamic Datacenter
Tuesday, April 28, 8:30am–9:45am PDT (GMT-8)
Bob Kelly, Corporate Vice President, Server & Tools

Tomorrow is

Managing Clients in a User-Centered World
Wednesday, April 29, 8:30am–9:45am PDT (GMT-8)
Brad Anderson, General Manager

You can also attend MMS virtually this year for $350 at

https://microsoft.crgevents.com/MMS-2009/Register/Contact/Default.aspx

which includes

• Live Webcast of the MMS 2009 Keynotes*
• Video Recordings of Breakout session topics**
• Downloadable PowerPoint slide decks from the Breakout sessions
• Hands-on Lab Manuals
• Sample files shared by Speakers
• Access to the MessagePoint system for online discussions with other attendees
• Copy of the MMS 2009 Post-show DVD set mailed shortly after the event (a $275 value)
• Copy of the MMS 2009 Hands-on Lab Walkthrough DVD mailed after the event (a $125 value)
• Access to all MMS 2009 Online content for 3 months after the event closes

An updated Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack has been released sorta.

**UPDATE**

The Management Pack has been updated on the site.

Here are the changes.

• Fixed performance issues caused by excessive CPU utilization and script timeouts from Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries in the following management pack discoveries: Discover SQL Server 2005 Database Engines (Windows Server), Discover SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Windows Server), Discover SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (Windows Server), Discover SQL Server 2008 Database Engines (Windows Server), Discover SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Windows Server), Discover SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (Windows Server).

• Fixed an issue where SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services and Reporting Services discoveries were not reliably discovering these objects on instances of SQL Server that did not have the Database  Engine installed.

• Removed the hard-coded exception in rules and monitors that prevented the monitoring of the System, Temp, and Master databases.

• Improved the means by which database discoveries recognize autogrowth enabled settings. Database discoveries now recognize both “KB” and “%” growth settings; previously the database discoveries recognized only the “KB” growth setting.

• Corrected typographical errors in product knowledge and improved the quality of the text.

After downloading the MP I realized that the file is still the old version  6.0.6460.0.   Hopefully Microsoft will fix this.   I left feedback to mpgfeed@microsoft.com to let them know.

3/31/2009 – Updated version 6.0.6569.0, which provided a number of fixes. Refer to the MP guide for more details.

The beta software is now available for download on Microsoft Connect. To download, simply go to our site on Connect and sign in with your Live Id.

What is VMM 2008 R2 Beta and what are its new capabilities?

VMM 2008 R2 Beta is a comprehensive management solution for virtualized infrastructure that takes advantage of many of the great new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta including:

* Live Migration: Enables the movement of running virtual machines from one virtual host to another with no downtime.
* Clustered Shared Volumes: Helps enable Live Migration and eliminates the previous one LUN per virtual machine requirement thus simplifying SAN administration.
* Hot addition/removal of storage: Allows the addition and removal of new virtual hard disks (VHDs) and iSCSI pass-through disks running on virtual infrastructure.
* Networking optimizations: two new technologies — Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) and Chimney – provide increased network throughput while reducing CPU load.