Patrick Egloff's WebLog : Microsoft System Center

Announcing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Beta 2

pegloff — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:54:00 GMT

Microsoft just announced the public availability of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Beta 2. This is the first beta of the new verison of MOM "going public".

You can read the Beta 2 FAQs @ http://www.microsoft.com/mom/evaluation/beta/opsmgrfaq.mspx or go directly to the download page @ http://connect.microsoft.com/programdetails.aspx?ProgramDetailsID=500

Please note that you will need to fill-out a short survey but should then get access to the beta bits immediately after.

More to come ...

Patrick

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Some Blog Links

pegloff — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:01:00 GMT

Sorry if it has been rather quiet here - I'm pretty busy supporting a local telco preparing the public launch of the IPTV Edition of Microsoft TV (more on that in the near future)

For those wanting some recommendations on blogs I check daily:

Microsoft Switzerland Security Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/ms_schweiz_security_blog/)
My colleagues Roger and Urs blooging on the latest security topics
Swiss IT Professional & TechNet Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/chitpro/)
Lots of news for the ITPro audience
MOM Product Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/)
The latest and greatest directly from the product team in Redmond
Andrzej's "IT Thoughts" Weblog (http://blogs.technet.com/alipka/)
Fellow Microsoft Consulting services member Andrzej posting on MOM and other IT management topics
Windows PowerShell (http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/)
Lately renamed from "Monad" - very active blog on this great new technology, heavily used by the next releases of MOM and Exchange (amongst others)

Patrick

BTW: I use Windows Live Beta for this - and Outlook 2007 as soon as my notebook is ready for it!

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MMS Day 2 Announcements

pegloff — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:34:00 GMT

The second day of the Microsoft Management Summit kicked-off with Kirill Tatarinov key note, looking back on what we have achieved in Microsoft System Center product line so far and what's on the roadmap for the next 18 months

You can watch a replay of his speech @ http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0604/27755/MMS_Conference_MBR.asx

Patrick

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MMS Day 1 Announcements

pegloff — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:20:00 GMT

The Microsoft Management Summit opened earlier today in San Diego.

You can watch Bob Muglia's key note @ http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0604/27755/MMS_Conference_General_Session_Keynote_MBR.asx

He's key note was all around the following four promises:

Advance the Business with IT Solutions
Manage Complexity, Achieve Agility
Protect Information, Control Access
Amplify the Impact of Your People

And for those looking for the accouncements made:

Official names for upcoming products
MOM ‘V3’ becomes System Center Operations Manager 2007 and SMS ‘V4’ will be named System Center Configuration Manager 2007
New products
We announced the intention to deliver an offering in the Service Desk arena – codename System Center ‘Service Desk’
Now RTM
System Center Reporting Manager 2006 is released to manufacturing (RTM)

The press release for these announcements is available @ http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/apr06/04-25Management.mspx

Patrick

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Sign-up for the Swiss Systems Management Event 2006

pegloff — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:43:00 GMT

Have you heard of our Swiss Systems Management Event 2006?

If not, check out our website at http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/technet/de/event_systemsManagement.mspx.

This full day event will take place on February 22, 2006 in the World Trade Center in Zurich.

We will start with an introduction to our Dynamic Systems Initiative (presented by my Swiss colleague Markus Klein) and the continue with a 45min session on the new System Center products (with me as the presenter).

I can already tell you that it will be a session packed with demos on these products:

System Center Data Protection Manager
System Center Capacity Planner
System Center Reporting Mananger

There rest of day our partner will be presenting their solutions and how they can add great value to our products in the Systems and Operations Management space.
There will also be a Mini-Expo with booths from Microsoft and partners, and you will have the chance to further discuss your interestes with us.

I hope to see many of you Wednesday in a week.

Patrick

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