December 2007 - Posts

Demystifying System Center – Do I need a Standard, or Enterprise Management Pack?
07 December 07 03:23 PM | sandeepm | 1 Comments   

System Center management packs for servers now ship as standard or enterprise for Operations Manager (OM), Configuration Manager (CM) and Data Protection Manager (DPM). Standard management packs are normally for basic Windows Server functionality (File, Read More...

Demystifying System Center – Management Server, Server Management or Client Management?
04 December 07 08:12 PM | sandeepm | 0 Comments   

With the introduction of System Center there are now new ways for customers to license the three primary technologies with different 'SKU' types. In the pre-System Center world SMS was really designed to manage clients, and MOM was designed to monitor Read More...

Filed under: Licensing, System Center

System Center and Forefront Acronyms
04 December 07 07:40 PM | sandeepm | 0 Comments   

As with our other products, it just wouldn't be Microsoft if we didn't release a whole bunch of new acronyms and shorthand notations to go with new products J Everyone is familiar with SMS (Systems Management Server) and MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager) Read More...

Filed under: Forefront, System Center, Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack (MDOP)

Demystifying System Center - What is System Center?
04 December 07 06:39 PM | sandeepm | 0 Comments   

Microsoft System Center (not Centre as many have pointed out!) like Microsoft Office is a collective grouping for our systems management technologies. System Center currently includes 4 different products: New Product Name Old Product Name System Center Read More...

Filed under: System Center

Introductions
04 December 07 06:38 PM | sandeepm | 0 Comments   

Hi everyone, My name is Sandeep Modhvadia and I work for Microsoft as a Partner Business Development Manager for Security & Management technologies. Through this blog I will share information geared for the partner channel to help partners better Read More...