Rory McCaw Gets Ready for System Center 2012!

About Show #258

Richard talks to Rory McCaw of Infront Consulting about the System Center 2012 suite. The conversation starts with the starting point of System Center - Configuration Manager or Operations Manager, depending on the focus of your organization. From there, the entire suite is explored, including Virtual Machine Manager, Orchestrator, Service Manager, Data Protection Manager, Endpoint Protection and App Controller. Rory explains how the different parts of System Center fit together and why you want to slowly add each product to your organization. This is about getting to preventative IT rather than constantly battling the crises!

Rory McCaw is a Managing Principal Consultant and OpsMgr MVP at Infront Consulting Group, a Microsoft Managed, Gold Certified Partner with offices in the United States, Canada, Europe and Singapore and the author of a number of technical books, including How to Cheat at Managing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. Rory is also the technical editor of the SCOM 2007 R2 Unleashed book from Sams.

Rory actively consults to large organizations helping them architect, implement, configure and customize System Center technologies integrating them into their business processes. Rory holds numerous industry designations in addition to being an accomplished public speaker who has delivered numerous webcasts and online learning sessions on MOM 2005, SCOM 2007 and R2, SMS 2003, SCCM 2007, SQL Reporting Services, and Security. Rory has also spoken on these and other topics at industry events such as MMS, and TechEd globally.