Month: May 2008

Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0

Have you heard of MOF?  Have you heard of ITIL?  ITIL is a system of operations, procedures, service delivery, etc that was created by the UK government.  It’s designed to enable an IT service provider to provide a quality service.  The key word is service.  Everything is a service, e.g. your web application, your Risk calculations system, etc.  Services are made up of components, e.g. a network, servers, Windows, IIS, SQL, etc.  Improving your service and guaranteeing quality is based on knowing what your configuration is, managing changes to that configuration and wrapping everything up in procedures.

Microsoft tailored ITIL to a Microsoft network and included a bunch of best practice and guidance.  They called it Microsoft Operations Framework.  It’s now on it’s 4th major release, MOF 4.0.

Check it out.  Lots of company’s are looking at ITIL and MOF.  Getting yourself to be an expert could make you a lot of money in the future!

Windows 2008 Stuff I’m Working On or Planning To Soon

I’ve been distracted a little lately by work and by Windows Server 2008.  There’s some W2008 stuff I’m planning on doing or have already done:

  • Setting up the the typical W2008 (2 domain controller) domain (whitepaper): content done, just need to edit.  Will share it here ASAP.  Probably be before the end of the month – my weekends and weeknights are already chock-a-block.
  • Windows 2008 and Branch Office Infrastructure (75 minute presentation): Done.  Any user groups interested should drop me a mail and we can discuss travel and accommodation expenses.
  • Windows 2008 GPO and Preferences: I’m really interested in this and want to do some sort of paper and put together a presentation/demo for the Windows Server 2008 User Group.
  • Windows 2008 Domain Controller backup and recover: Again, I’m really interested in this and want to do some sort of paper and put together a presentation/demo for the Windows Server 2008 User Group.

Realistically, the last two will coincide.  The presentations for the user group would be sometime after the summer and the whitepapers would be made available days afterwards.  Watch this space.