Microsoft Deployment Has Been Released

Overview
Microsoft Deployment unifies the tools and processes required for desktop and server deployment into a common deployment console and collection of guidance. The fourth generation deployment accelerator adds integration with recently released Microsoft deployment technologies to create a single path for image creation and automated installation. Microsoft Deployment’s tools and end-to-end guidance reduce deployment time, [...]

Monitoring VMWare ESX Server with OpsMgr 2007

I just got done going through a document that Jonathan Hambrook has posted over on his blog, and must say it is extremely useful. If you have the need to monitor VMWare ESX Server with OpsMgr 2007 and don’t know where to start, this how-to is definitely a great place to start! You can find the [...]

New System Center Catalog is live

 I saw this posted over at www.systemcenterforum.org:
The new System Center Catalog is live for SCOM 2007, SCE 2007, MOM 2005 and SCCM 2007. 
Here are the URL’s: 

All Products:  https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/catalog.aspx
Operations Manager 2007: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/opsmgr07.aspx
Operations Manager 2005:  https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/opsmgr05.aspx
Operations Manager 2000: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/opsmgr00.aspx
Configuration Manager 2007:  https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/configmgr07.aspx

System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 – RC1 is now available

You can find it here: http://connect.microsoft.com
If you aren’t already part of the beta connect group you will need to add it.
The new features that are in Operations Manager 2007 SP1 are:
·         Improved performance and reliability when working with alerts, overrides, and searches.
·         In all Alert views, performance has been increased through better fetching and [...]

Boris Yanushpolsky has released MPViewer 1.2

Boris Yanushpolsky has released a new version of MPViewer. This tool is great for viewing the configuration of Management Packs. This newest version is especially good as it now has the ability to export the information to HTML. You can find the MPViewer here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/10/30/mp-viewer-1-2.aspx
Cheers! – Geoff