Managed Exchange -> Exchange and Microsoft Operations Manager

Microsoft Operations Manager is a great product for managing not only your Exchange infrastructure but also the rest of your Microsoft (and non Microsoft) infrastucture.

Where it differs from a lot of other Management products is that it’s proactive rather than reactive.

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 helps provide you with the knowledge to avoid the avoidable–reducing the complexity associated with managing today's IT infrastructure environment and lowering the cost of operations. MOM 2005—a key component of the Dynamic Systems Initiative—provides manageability as part of the design and implementation of Windows Server System technologies. By delivering operational knowledge and subject expertise directly from the application developers, MOM 2005 helps simplify identification of issues, streamlines the process for determining the root cause of the problem, and facilitates quick resolution to restore services and to prevent potential IT problems. MOM 2005 helps businesses avoid common IT service woes.

I always recommend that customers should deploy MOM in their environment. It really is a must have product.

Now if you buy Exchange under EA or Select you can potentially get MOM included (offer runs from March 1st-August 31st 2006).

For more information go to How to Buy on the Exchange home page.