May 2004 - Posts

• New SMS 2003 Training courses available.

  Managing Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2596afinal.asp This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). Students Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:23 PM by SMSPerfGuy | 5 Comments

• DP Client and Hardware Sizing

  Distribution Point (DP) sizing has always been a little trickily. The issue is that a distribution point is basically a file/IIS server and as such, how do we size a machine, whose performance is based on both the number of connections and volume of file Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:31 PM by SMSPerfGuy | 1 Comments

• How to become an SMS2003 pusher.

  Using SMS2003 and pushing the client to the desktop/laptop seems to be causing a little confusion for some of you. So I thought I’d move away from performance/ scalability discussions for a moment and attempt to outline this process. The Push Process Read More... Posted Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:43 PM by SMSPerfGuy | 6 Comments

• SMS2003 Hierarchy Capacity Planner and Hardware Sizer

  This tool is designed to assist SMS consultants and customers in the selection of a suitable SMS hierarchy design, as well as suggest likely hardware upon which to management the infrastructure. It is based on analysis performed by Kerry Lebel and myself Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 7:41 PM by SMSPerfGuy | 8 Comments

• Its a brand new world out there.

  This is all very new to me, its seems very strange writing to an audience i don't know. Anyway, welcome one and all. I don't want to waste your time I know you probably have thousands of Blogs to check. A little about myself and this blog. My name is Read More... Posted Friday, May 07, 2004 1:02 PM by SMSPerfGuy | 16 Comments