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The Service Level Dashboard is an application built on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It is designed to work with an existing Operations Manager 2007 R2 infrastructure configured to monitor business-critical applications. The dashboard evaluates an
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YAASAFTSAT (AKA Yet Another Awesome Solution Accelerator From the Solution Accelerator Team) :) Check out the new Service Level Dashboard 2.0 Beta for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RC1 This free Solution Accelerator collects and monitors operational
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On Friday, I blogged about “ Project Sundance ”, which is an upcoming release from the Solution Accelerators team that combines the Vista/XP/2003/2008/Office security guides with the Configuration Manager Desired Configuration Management (DCM) packs for
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If you are in charge of maintaining the security baseline at your company, you know that there are two key problems you face. First of all, there are a LOT of security settings to tweak within Windows. The services you harden and lock down
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I just ran into the following contest on a banner ad of all places... It looks like if you try out any of our current line of products (Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, DPM, and the like), you are entered to win some killer prizes! https://www.microsoft.com/Infrastructure/Evalu08/
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This white paper provides guidance and script samples for integrating System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Virtual Machine Manager 2007 to provide automated software updates for virtual machines stored in a VMM library (offline). By automating
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Many of Microsoft's enterprise-level applications use SQL Server on the back end to host data, content, etc. CRM, Operations Manager, Sharepoint... You get the idea. While many companies have Database Administrators (DBA's) to manage their business-critical
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Some useful videos to accompany the release of Service Pack 1 for Operations Manager 2007 ... (or you can pick up the Eval version here ) Learn from the experts how to use the many features of Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) as well as address
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Some highlights... Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008 This software is an optional supplement to Windows Server 2008. In Windows Server 2008, the Streaming Media Services role (which includes the latest version of Windows Media Services)
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With the upcoming Windows Server 2008 release, there are a TON of cool books coming out from MSPress. You can always check out the list here ( http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/hop/ ), but the books that will be lining my bookshelf upon release are: MCITP
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Photographers get to call their lenses "glass", so server engineers can get away with calling their servers "iron" :). Quite often on the internal discussion lists, I see questions along the lines of "my customer is going to implement Exchange 2007 in
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Unified Tools and Guidance for Desktop and Server Deployment Automation. Download it today! We are pleased to announce the official release of the Microsoft Deployment Solution Accelerator! Microsoft Deployment is the next version of Business Desktop
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Time for part two of my DPM 2007 Series ( Part 1 showed installation ), Protecting Exchange 2007 with DPM 2007... Let's Go! Let's start with required reading, and then I'll walk through the process with screenshots: System Center Data Protection Manager
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Data Protection Manager (hereafter DPM) is an awesome addition to the System Center suite of management products. While DPM 2006 worked well for backing up file servers, DPM 2007 now handles: Blending continuous data protection with traditional tape backup
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