This week was an exceptional good week, but the the most important accomplishment is that I managed to pass my Google Apps certification exam and I’m now a Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist. It was now a matter of pride passing this exam, having been sponsored by a 3rd party who I hope will use my skills in the future.
Last week I attended ITCamp 2011 a premium conference held in Cluj-Napoca and organized by 2 communities: ITSpark and CodeCamp. Now that I have a bit more time off, I decided to write about my experience. The first thing that comes to mind is finally! While I like small community events with 20-30 participants, a big event like ITCamp was long overdue. I remember the last TechNet session I attended in Cluj was quite a while ago, in 2007. ...
Tomorrow I will be hosting a presentation and a workshop with fellow ITSpark members Chris, Cosmin and Tudy. As Tudy has already blogged, the event is part of a 3 cities road-trip (Cluj-Napoca, Bucharest and Timisoara), a series of events held under the auspices of Microsoft with the goal of bringing NGO and IT closer, so they can work and solve problems easier.
Right after New Years Eve I had to update some packages/advertisements for some new software. That was easy, but the problem was that none of the clients got the advertisements. I started to troubleshoot the problem and looked at the ConfigMgr Site Status. There I got some really nasty errors one for the MP Control Manager component and another for the MCS Control Manager. MP Control Manager detected management point is not responding to HTTP requests. The HTTP status code and text is 400, Bad Request. ...