BDD 2007, SCE and SCVMM

Coming weeks, months I will be testing some of our new products. Beside using Vista and Office 2007 on daily bases I will also test some new products that are or will be soon be in the public beta phase.

So I will test Business Desktop Deployment 2007 (BDD 2007).I agree that BDD 2007 is not really a product it’s more a guideline on how to handle a Desktop Deployment project. Within the BDD you will find some products and documents that will help you define, design, rollout and support the rollout of Windows Vista and Office 2007.

“BDD 2007 incorporates the latest Windows Vista deployment tools: Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0, User State Migration Tool 3.0, ImageX, System Image Manager, Windows® PE 2.0, and Windows Deployment Services.”

See my next post for more info on how to download the BDD 2007.

I will also have a look at two new System Center products, System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE 2007) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).

Remember my blogpost about SCE 2007from the MMS 2006 event back in April. SCE 2007 will also be included into the new version of Windows Small Business Server.

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SCE 2007 will provide you:

  • A Proactive monitoring, troubleshooting and asset tracking to keep your IT environment secure and up-to-date,

  • A unified solution with a single console for managing your servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services, and

  • Efficient execution of complex management tasks like troubleshooting end user issues, monitoring, and server and client software deployment.

It is almost certain that we will get an best of MMS tour in Belgium where I will give a presentation about SCE 2007. SCE 2007 Resources: Whitepaper and Demo

 

Last but not least I will test the new System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).

SCVMM will provide you with a solution for consolidating underutilized physical servers to virtual machines. In addition it enables rapid provisioning of new virtual servers, centralized management, and takes advantage of standard hardware and file-level storage.

Remember also my blogpost on how Project Carmine became SCVMM.

I will keep you informed about my experiences with these products.

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