Service Modeling Language - insight and other views

Hello Readers - a welcome from your humble blog author to the first post of January 2008 for the Service Modeling Language (SML) Insight Blog. News on the topic of Model-based Management: The Common Model Library ( CML ) working group, a consortium...

The last few weeks have brought forth interesting modeling-related and services/architecture-related announcements from Microsoft, including the October 30, 2007 Oslo announcement. As taken from the Microsoft Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business...

Reference documents have been recently published by Microsoft to provide examples, how-to details, and technical guidelines for model-based configuration management. These technical reference guides and step-by-step best-practices documents are based...

I'm sharing an invitation I've just received... On 24 October, 2007, two LiveMeeting sessions will be held to review plans for Microsoft Systems Center Certifications, specifically certifications for Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM...

Checking in on two efforts in the Service Modeling Language (SML) environs this month: COSMOS: The COSMOS (COmmunity-driven Systems Management in Open Source) Reviewing the COSMOS systems management project from the Eclipse standards organization...

First Update: A transcript of the System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Desired Configuration Management (DCM) TechNet Chat from July 2007 is available at the Microsoft TechNet website: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans...

I attended a July 2007 http://TechNet.Microsoft.com technical chat with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) product team, where capabilities of the SCCM 2007 pre-release product were reviewed. One of the items of discussion was SCCM...

Previously in the blog, I shared details about the SERVERMANAGERCMD.EXE command line management interface for Windows Server 2008 (previously codenamed Windows Server "Longhorn"). By first launching the CMD.EXE command line tool (and you may want to...

Earlier in June 2007, the XML-aligned Service Modeling Language (SML) Working Group, with oversight from the World-Wide-Web Consortium (W3C), held their first face-to-face meeting. The location of this meeting was the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington...

It is helpful when a big-picture view of a new topic is tied to understood and emerging products/practices. Some of this big-picture presentations are described as "elevator pitches" or the "50,000-foot view" (you can call it the 15,000-meter view if...

First Things First: You might ask: "When is the next quarterly community briefing webcast?" Don't worry: You didn't miss a webcast! The quick answer is: The next briefing webcast will be scheduled when we have new and useful information to share...

With the recent release of the pre-release Beta 3 version of Microsoft Windows Server codename "Longhorn", there are some interesting under-the-cover ways to see first-hand how the Service Modeling Language is used to provide configuration data for the...

IT press and media outlets have recently provided comments and quotes about the Service Modeling Language Specification, in light of the acknowledgement of the SML Spec submission to the World Wide Web Consortium. A few online links have been added through...

As posted at http://www.w3.org/Submission/ , the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has acknowledged the member submission of the Service Modeling Language (SML) specification documents . Version 1.0 of the specification documents, namely the SML Language...

OK, OK: You were too busy testing the new application, or racking servers, or deploying new client systems, or perhaps you were just too busy MANAGING the business infrastructure at your company. For some reason, you just didn't have a chance to attend...

One way Microsoft shares information about the formative Service Modeling Language (SML) Specification work is by hosting a series of quarterly "modeling community" briefings. Two briefings were held in June and September during 2006 by webcast (using...

It's Calendar Year 2007! The Service Modeling Language Specification continues to gain definition, participation, and momemtum of adoption. Public and semi-public events will feature information and recommendations on model-based management practices...

FIRST NOTE: My associate, Mr. Pratul Dublish, recently spoke at Microsoft TechEd Developers conference in Barcelona, Spain. His full-room session provided a background on the SML Specification and highlighted Microsoft's implementations of model-based...

I was able to attend a recent ISV workshop titled “Design For Operations” where members of the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism Team provide much focus on a single question: “How much does it cost to know if my application is working?” Now...

I was in an interesting meeting, surrounded by Very Smart People, all trying to express ways to demonstrate DSI - the Dynamic Systems Initiative. First, we recalled (from http://www.microsoft.com/DSI ) the summary position of DSI: "DSI ... self...

Subscribers to the Directions On Microsoft newsletters ( http://www.DirectionsOnMicrosoft.com ) will find an overview of the SML Platform in the October 2006 issue. The teaser/summary for this article states: " A multivendor systems management...

SML Specification co-author and Working Group member William Vambenepe of Hewlett Packard has published an article titled "SML Improves Management Automation" at this URL: http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2006/090406-tech-update.html In this...

Service Modeling Language (SML) has entries in the Wikipedia . The SML Wiki can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Modeling_Language The SML Wiki provides an overview of SML and model-based management, as well as a facts list on SML...

Sam Ramji interviews Praerit Garg on Service Modeling Language for Port 25 ( http://port25.technet.com ), the blog/podcast portal with a mission to provide "conversation with customers and the industry, wherein people can talk openly and honestly about...

A timely post on the http://blogs.technet.com/io/ blog: Members of the Microsoft [DSI] Infrastructure Optimization team review the positive impact that standardization of a modeling language will provide for IT infrastructure optimization. To the point...