Language(s):
English.

Product(s):
Microsoft System Center.

Audience(s):
IT Generalist.

Duration:
60 Minutes

Start Date:

Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Event Overview

Microsoft System Center helps you get the most from your mission-critical messaging infrastructure with management solutions that enhance the availability features built into Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. In this webcast, we look at how System Center can improve the health and availability of your servers running Exchange with the Exchange Server 2010 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. System Center has application awareness built into its management solutions to help deliver guidance and best practices to Exchange administrators, ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are met and saving organizations money.

Presenters: Leslie Kitz, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation and Jon LeCroy, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Register here

Source: Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog

Sacha Dawes: “One of the more common requests we receive from you regarding management pack availability is to communicate when new and updated releases become available.  While we are looking to improve such an announcement capability in Pinpoint (the site of our new System Center Catalog – see my earlier blog for more information) the product team recently created a Twitter hashtag, #mpreleases, to help communicate of new and updated management packs. 

Of course, given the open nature of Twitter it’s not just for Microsoft to leverage.  Our partners, such as members of the System Center Alliance, MVPs, and more, can also leverage Twitter to announce and post links to more information about their management pack releases.

For more information on Twitter, check out http://www.twitter.com.  Details on hashtags can be found here.”

I checked the #hashtag but no releases yet via the #mpreleases hashtag. Only the announcement :-)

Source: Contoso.se

Two weeks ago I had an System Center Service Manager training in the UK together with some Microsoft Partners. Maarten Goet from Inovativ held an small System Center Service Manager competition for the best System Center Service Manager extension.

Although I was not on the same class as Anders Bengtsson and Patrik Sundqvist I also entered the competition with a PowerShell script that exported the Classes and Properties of the System Center Management Packs to a Visio Diagram. Kind like the OpsMgr Authoring Console Tool Visio MP Diagram Generator ;-)

But Patrik and Anders showed an Asset Management extension for Service Manager and they won fair and square.

More info on their extension can be found here.

Source: Solution Accelerators – Dashboards

The Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team started a blog and they are currently focusing on dashboards.

Check out their new weblog.

Have you ever tried to download the files on the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation webpage?

On this page you find all the technical documentation for Operations Manager 2007 R2. Pretty handy to have them downloaded on you workstation for offline reading. But as you see you need download each file separately :-(

And if you are as lazy as me you don’t like that. That’s why I created a PowerShell script using BitsTransfer to do this in one-click. Cool? I think so.

Just copy above script and save it to DownLoadOpsMgrGuides.ps1 and run it from PowerShell 2.0.

Screenshots:

Have fun with the OpsMgr Guides and using PowerShell!

As you know I’m a Premier Field Engineer for OpsMgr in the Netherlands and we are looking for a new OpsMgr Premier Field Engineer right now! So if you are interested, take a look at the next page (in Dutch) for more information.

If you want more information about what I do exactly, just use he contact form on my weblog.  And maybe will be working together shortly ;-)