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We are pleased to announce the release of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit. The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit includes three tools designed to help improve the Operations Manager Administrator experience. Included: Schedule...

In December 2010, Gartner released its latest Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis (ECA) . Microsoft was very pleased to see that in consideration of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, Gartner placed Microsoft in the Leader Quadrant of its ECA MQ ! To read Gartner’s ECA Magic Quadrant...

In October 2010, Microsoft announced that it had acquired AVIcode, Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary.  ( blog post on acquisition ) Tweet Today, we are pleased to announce the release of AVIcode 5.7 !!     AVIcode is available exclusively in connection with the purchase of System Center...

[5th Nov 2010 - Updated the title of the blog - from "Windows Azure Monitoring MP ..." to "Windows Azure Application Monitoring MP ..."] We are pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) of the Monitoring Management Pack (MP) for Windows Azure Applications (version 6.1.7686...

Following the original release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 we are pleased to announce the associated release of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Pack. The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack provides the capabilities for Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and R2 to discover SQL Server 2005...

We have posted two new Virtual Labs for you to complete! TechNet Virtual Lab: Monitoring SharePoint 2010 The objective of this lab is to provide a basic introduction to using Service Level Monitoring to monitor services provided by SharePoint Server 2010. By the end of this lab you will be better...

We are pleased to announce the release of the Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors Cumulative Update 2! The following is new in this update: Support for HP Operations Manager for UNIX v9 . This update enables support for HP Operations Manager for UNIX v9 with the Operations Manager...

It’s always great to see blogs on our System Center products, especially when it relates to a recently acquired technology, and when it comes from outside the organization. Marnix Wolf from the Netherlands has written this introductory blog on Opalis with Operations Manager , where he shares his experiences...

My colleague Chris Fox has been hard at work creating a series of podcasts that focus on Operations Management, and that have been published through Opsmanjam.com , as well as through Zune Marketplace and iTunes . Today the following six podcasts available for download: Series Introduction Baelson Duque...

Released last week, the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper is an interactive document that helps you plan and size deployments of Operations Manager 2007 R2. Recommendations from this Microsoft Excel-based tool will include the recommended hardware specification for each server role, topology diagram...

Just release, version 6.1.7599.0 of the Operations Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2 delivers some new and updated standard and operational data reporting capabilities. This management pack delivers ‘self-monitoring’ of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 infrastructure, and includes the following...

Further to my blog on the consolidated updates for Operations Manager a couple of days ago, I’m pleased to announce that the team has pushed through the final localizations [Chinese (Simplified and Taiwan) and Portuguese (Brazil)] for the Cumulative Update for Operations Manager 2007 R2. The details...

Available for download today, the Operations Management Pack for Distributed File Server (DFS) Namespaces (version 6.0.6321.0) monitors the DFS Namespace Service on Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2, and Windows Server 2003. It can also be configured to monitor the health of DFS Namespaces...

The Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 is the solution to allow your employees to safely use the Internet. To assure that it is operating optimally, the Operations Management Pack for Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 – released earlier this month (version 7.0.7695...

Now available for download, the Operations Management Pack for Windows Server 2008 R2 Direct Access Server supports a rich set of Alarms, Monitors and Agent Tasks that can be used to successfully and efficiently manage a Direct Access server. Through Operations Manager, the Direct Access Server Management...

Two important product updates for Operations Manager customers: The Cumulative Update for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (localized for English, Japanese, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Korean) and Update rollup for Operations Manager 2007 SP1 (all available localizations...

You may or may not have noticed it yet, but the System Center Catalog has been transitioned over to Microsoft Pinpoint , which should be your first stop to find out about all the different management packs, connectors, extensions and applications available from Microsoft and its partners for System Center...

Use the Service Level Dashboard to keep mission-critical, line of business applications up and running. In these three short screencasts, IT Pro Evangelist Matt Hester shows how you can use the Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to keep mission-critical, line of...

As you read in Jeff’s blog post this morning, there’s a lot going on for System Center at TechEd Europe this year in Berlin! In fact, System Center is one of the featured demonstrations in this afternoon’s IT Pro keynote, presented by Stephen Elop and Robert Wahbe, and starting at 3:30pm Berlin time...

More great news from the Operations Manager product group – the release of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit . This new resource kit aids authors in the creation, modification and assessment of operations management packs (MPs). Using the following eight tools contained...

Just released, this update for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 adds support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (both 32-bit and 64-bit) and Solaris Zones (Whole and Sparse Zones). This update demonstrates Microsoft’s continued investment in delivering end-to-end heterogeneous monitoring for...

The Active Directory team has just released an updated version of the Operations Management Pack for Active Directory (version 6.0.7050.0). This latest update includes: Support for Windows Server 2008 R2. Additional support for: Active Directory Web Services (ADWS) for Windows Server 2008 R2; Active...

This month, three SC folks headed down to Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa to support Microsoft TechEd 2009 Africa . TE Africa had a great turnout on their own, and it was really exciting to visit with our African customers around DPM , SCCM , SCOM and Service Manager . In all, our...

Hi, my name is Patrick O'Rourke. I typically blog over at the Microsoft Virtualization team blog , but wanted to share the following survey findings with this community today. See a summary of the survey results here . First, here's some background on the survey: The survey was conducted online...

[Updated June 17th: Corrected comment on Ops Mgr 2007 R2 trial length - is 180 days, not 160. Thanks Cleber!] Utilizing some of the new capabilities in Operations Manager 2007 R2, such as PowerShell hosting and new monitoring templates, the new Exchange 2007 MP for Operations Manager 2007 R2 is now...