Managing your applications?
If you are an IT administrator who has 25 - 500 PCs I'd like your opinion. Would you rather manage your applications independently or would you like to be able to manage them in one place? Said another way, if you had a single console to administer your applications do you see that as a good thing or would you rather "fall out" to the native management console that each application vendor developed?
One of the benefits of the Windows Server System is that each server application has to meet a certain criteria in order to obtain the WSS logo. BTW, there are serveral Microsoft product groups that use the WSS acronym--in this blog post I'm referring to Windows Server System. The criteria ensures (99% of the time) that an administrator who purchases a WSS-logoed product will be certain that that app will support a Microsoft Operations Manager management pack, an MMC snap-in, Virtual Server, etc. What do you think of that level of integration? You don't have to comment when feature "x" is missing from WSS app y". I hear you and empathize with your frustration when a piece of integration is missing (fortunately, that happens less and less as the criteria bar is raised).
