Heroes Happen {2008} - Good News for Hobart and Darwin!

If you go up to the Heroes Happen {2008} site, you'll notice an absence of Hobart and Darwin in the list of venues.

Good news! Microsoft are going to do a Wave launch in Hobart and Darwin. It's going to be scaled down relative to the launches in the other capital cities, but this is certainly better than nothing at all.

The dates I've been provided with are:

8 April - Darwin

15 April - Hobart

Contact Microsoft Partner Services on 132058, option 4 to make sure you're added to the invite list for these events.

Details will be added to the Partner Portal in due course.

MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition Install Problem

I decided to have a look at Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Workgroup Edition to see if it would help me in my management of several clients with multiple Windows servers.
I went to install it in a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine on my SBS2003 server. I installed a new instance of SQL Server 2000 and then upgraded it to SP4. The MOM2005 installer then failed the SQL prerequisite check - no SQL instances found! I then tried installing it on my SBS2003 box. It found only one SQL instance - my WSUS installation, but didn't think it was SP3 or later.
I then proceeded to find MSKB 902803, which gave me a modified msiexec install, but appeared to be targeted to MOM2005 and not the Workgroup Edition. I then managed to find a conversation in an Ars Technica forum. The process in summary is:

Load the registry editor and browse to:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer\CurrentVersion

Change the CSDVersion key from 8.00.2039 to 8.00.761

Instances can be found at:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\\MSSQLServer\CurrentVersion 

Run MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition setup

Change the value back when you are done.

This was the technique I used to successfully install MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition.