System Center Capacity Planner 2007 has RTM'ed and is available for download via the following link http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sccp/default.mspx   Currently SCCP supports the following capacity model : Microsoft Exchange Server 2007   Capacity models soon to be available for download...

See http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/02/04/windows-server-2008-rtm.aspx   Now the OpsMgr 2007 support for Server 2008 clock starts ticking. Support requirements will typically be published within 90 days of RTM. At the moment Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 will be a requirement...

Read all about the release here http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx I've been running this for around a week now and I'm soooo happy in the performance gains I'm seeing:)

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Anders has posted a communication on the new release schedule for Service Pack 1, including a public Release Candidate (RC) planned for early November and final RTM planned for mid-February 08. Please see News about Service Pack 1 which explains more from a Microsoft communication around the release...

Today Microsoft announced the acquisition of Engyro corporation http://www.engyro.com , the company behind many of the product connectors and management packs for MOM 2005 and Operations Manager 2007. See http://www.momconnectors.com/media/press-releases/2007/060107.php for details of the acquisition...

The Operations Manager 2007 SDK documentation is now available on MSDN online : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb437575.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5d9d0b53-2320-4504-b079-72292b1a81d0&DisplayLang=en SC Operations Manager 2007 RTM'ed Thursday 22nd March. The 180 day evaluation version is available via the above link. Enjoy Clive

Well that time is nearly here. Everything is ready for go. After some considerable hard work by the architects, PM's, developers, testers and supporting personnel all is in place for RTM. Keep you eyes on http://www.microsoft.com/opsmgr as content becomes available. Knowledge base content will...

An update to the Availability Management Pack has been released (05.0.5000.0001). This corrects several issues, one which could affect new installations of the Availability Management pack where the ReliabilityAnalysisReporting task could return status 0x80040e37 (E_NOTABLE) during execution due to...

Several issues have been discovered with the Availability Management Pack release 05.0.5000.0000. As a result we have taken steps to address these in a maintenance release which will be available on our download site as soon as it can be arranged. This release will be 05.0.5000.0001. Issues that...

System Center Essentials Beta 2 is now available via http://connect.microsoft.com (you will need to have registered to obtain it).

The re-released Availability Management Pack has now released to the Web http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a61d369-b785-4550-bde8-84e734ec5e40&DisplayLang=en Per my previous blog to http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2006/08/21/448348.aspx this has several requirements...

With the forthcoming August release of the Availability MP that will make it the third release. There may be another update later this year too which will support Windows 2000 domain controllers (more on this when I know more). With that said, and with MOM installations moving between administrators...

Posted on the SMS and MOM Blog provided by PSS http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2006/08/21/448348.aspx

Localized versions of the SQL Server 2005 MP version 09.0.2047.0000 downloadable from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=79f151c7-4d98-4c2b-bf72-ec2b4ae69191&DisplayLang=en are available in Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) , French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean...

The Availability Reporting Management Pack was withdrawn from the Microsoft download site in early June due to technical problems (see may earlier post http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2006/06/02/431997.aspx ). The download site has been updated to reflect a target date on which we expect...

MOMResources.org are hosting an unsupported reindexing script for the SystemCenterReporting database. (Full details here http://www.momresources.org/scripts-momadministration.shtml ). The script is recommended for keeping the SystemCenterReporting database performant. When scheduled, the stored procedure...

The SQL Server 2000 - SQL Server 2005 Management Pack has been updated MP Version is now 9.0.2047.0000 Availabile via http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79F151C7-4D98-4C2B-BF72-EC2B4AE69191&displaylang=en Overview The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack provides...

Operations Manager 2007 Beta 2 is now available for preview. See http://www.microsoft.com/mom/evaluation/beta/opsmgroverview.mspx for details. FYI: The beta 2 build is 6.0.4086.0

I've heard this asked about a few times now so thought it best to confirm it. The current Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator Version 1.2 (available here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8d25c80d-c978-4b23-825a-7ae7b4775b0f&DisplayLang=en ) for MOM 2005 is not supported...

Microsoft management packs still awaiting updates to reports per my original post http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2006/05/12/428162.aspx The Virtual Server 2005 Management Pack is still awaiting a refresh of the report XML file for import on SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. http...

One MP I missed which still experiences the report import problem (see http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2006/05/12/428162.aspx ) is the Exchange 2000 /2003 MP for MOM 2005 (Version 06.5.7719), available for download here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EFDEA5C6...

The MOM System Requirements page http://www.microsoft.com/mom/evaluation/sysreqs/default.mspx has been updated to include SQL Server 2005 (yes this includes SP1 too).

MOM 2005 SP1 is supported on Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL Server 2005 (and SP1). The following web page will be updated to reflect this shortly http://www.microsoft.com/mom/evaluation/sysreqs/default.mspx