For my part Rob I think that this was an oversight in the product and I would hope that this functionality will be introduced in short measure What are the commercials on this? Are you planning to charge for this and if so, how much? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] Management Points finally tamed Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 10:25:14 +0100
Thanks all, I may be an MVP, I may have been doing this since SMS 1.x came out, I might “get“ Wally Meads sense of humour about Notepad and actually understand his reasoning, but I am JUST LIKE YOU! Some are indifferent about MP usage, I think to turn a blind eye to it and assume the Global Network will tolerate all kinds of noise is just plain wrong. I said this the very first day I was introduced to the new MP concepts in CM12 RTM in Redmond, and I’ve been an advocate for change ever since. It should not be assumed that adding noise to the line is okay, it is not, and if it is added it should only be so because it cannot be controlled. I’m sure a lot of you have had to tell the customer that this is uncontrollable, you’ve heard the disappointment from the customer, and the resignation that there’s nothing that can be done, you’ve probably designed to have the MP’s at the Core of the network and put up with the many hops Clients make around the Global Network to reach them, well now something can be done about it, you can put an MP right next to your Clients and make them use I 100% of the time. You no longer need to tell customers that the product’s Management Points simply cannot be tamed, they can, as is evident from LocationAware, and, something not taken into account yet, the constant and very noisy Notification Channel is now localised as well. I’ve always disliked telling customers that I “can’t do that” with the most power Enterprise Systems Management solution out there. This was, is a gap in the product. I’ve just filled it. The Management Point story was always a weak point in the implementation, now we have options. I’m very much interested in your opinions and thoughts on the above. Robert From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anoop C Nair Sent: 01 July 2014 02:30 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] Management Points finally tamed Super. This is what we were expecting from Microsoft but I don't think they can include this feature very soon :) kudos to Rob. I'll get in touch with you offline for a demo :) Regards Anoop On 30 Jun 2014 22:28, "Robert Marshall" <[email protected]> wrote:I have a small announcement for the list, please excuse the commercial aspect of it. LocationAware, the product I’ve been working on for the last few months is now ready for release. http://www.smsmarshall.com/Pages/LocationAware.aspx I’m announcing it here as it introduces a new design element into ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 and R2 Hierarchies that will be of interest to all Hierarchy architects. You can now totally control Management Point usage within a Hierarchy. Robert Marshall – ECM MVP
