Matt Goedtel on Operations Management : Service Pack

What's New in Operations Manager 2007 SP1 You Ask?

mgoedtel — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:43:00 GMT

Here is a link to TechNet that outlines the key improvements and features included in Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb821996.aspx

Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 - RTM

mgoedtel — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:25:00 GMT

Today the product group has announced that Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 has officially RTM'd and has been released to the web. You can download the upgrade package from here - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ede38d83-32d1-46fb-8b6d-78fa1dcb3e85&DisplayLang=en and here is the download for Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Product Evaluation - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3b6a44c-a90f-4e7d-b646-957f2a5fff5f&DisplayLang=en

The release of this service pack is important as it improves the performance, functionality, and capabilities of Operations Manager.

A colleague, Clive Eastwood has posted the Upgrade Guide for SP1 here - http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2008/02/22/operations-manager-2007-service-pack-1-rtm-upgrade-guide.aspx

Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 SP3 Released

mgoedtel — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:25:00 GMT

Today we have released Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Service Pack 3 to the public. The two main features of this service pack, as you may be aware of are the following:

Full support for the Windows Vista operating system and Windows Server codenaned "Longhorn."
Asset Intelligence providing reports on Microsoft licenses owned, deployed and how they were purchased (i.e. MSDN, Select, etc.), software consolidation by category to help you in license reporting efforts, and the ability to identify hardware and software (core and non-core) assets to support your upgrade needs.

To download this new version, click here: http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/evaluation/2003/sp3.mspx