August 2010 - Technology Rollup Mail - Manageability

News

Management Pack Authoring Guide Complete!

The final section of the Operations Manager Management Pack Authoring Guide just went live!

https://blogs.technet.com/b/mpauthor/archive/2010/07/14/management-pack-authoring-guide-complete.aspx

Configuration Manager & SMS

Steve Rachui’s Manageability blog – ConfigMgr/OpsMgr

https://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/

System Center WebLog by Russ Slaten

https://blogs.msdn.com/rslaten/

The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog

https://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/

The Deployment Guys

https://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys

System Center Configuration Manager Solutions

https://blogs.technet.com/mwiles/

Carlos Santiago's Manageability Blog - Configuration Manager

https://blogs.technet.com/carlossantiago/

Michael Niehaus' Windows and Office deployment ramblings

https://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/

Paul Thomsen at myITforum.com

https://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/pthomsen/default.aspx

Jeff Gilbert's Web blog at myITforum.com

https://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/default.aspx

Operations Manager & MOM

The Operations Manager Support Team Blog

https://blogs.technet.com/b/operationsmgr/

Kevin Holman’s OpsMgr Blog

https://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/

Jonathan Almquist on Operations Manager

https://blogs.technet.com/b/jonathanalmquist/

Jimmy Harper’s Operations Manager Blog

https://blogs.technet.com/b/jimmyharper/

Other

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

https://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/

The App-V Blog

https://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/

The Out of Band Management Support Team Blog

https://blogs.technet.com/oob/

Documents

Microsoft Operations Framework

MOF 4.0 is practical guidance for IT organizations. With the release of version 4.0, MOF now reflects a single, comprehensive IT service lifecycle—it helps IT professionals connect service management principles to everyday IT tasks and activities and ensures alignment between IT and the business.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=457ed61d-27b8-49d1-baca-b175e8f54c0c

Downloads

Operations Manager

Windows Server DHCP Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

This management pack monitors DHCP infrastructure health, availability, and performance.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e5b48bef-4b21-4743-b562-580ec7984b24&displaylang=en

Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack

The Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack helps you manage your System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 infrastructure by monitoring the health of the Operations Manager components and services.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=61365290-3c38-4004-b717-e90bb0f6c148&displaylang=en

Configuration Manager & SMS

Download Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Beta

Forefront Endpoint Protection simplifies and improves endpoint protection while greatly reducing infrastructure costs. It builds on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, allowing customers to use their existing client management infrastructure to deploy and manage endpoint protection.  This shared infrastructure lowers ownership costs while providing improved visibility and control over endpoint management and security.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/ff182914.aspx

BDD and MDT Archive

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1 is the recommended process and toolset to automate desktop and server deployment. The support status of earlier versions is outlined here.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=02a2605d-51e8-469f-be4a-1dd2af580502

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 VHD

This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e0fadab7-0620-481d-a8b6-070001727c56

Events/Webcasts

Other

TechNet Webcast: How to Deploy Microsoft Office and Manage Windows Clients in Midsized Organizations (Level 200)

Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 brings unified physical and virtual management to midsized organizations that have up to 500 client workstations and 50 servers. Attend this webcast to learn how easy it can be to deploy Microsoft Office 2010 and maintain client workstations running Windows operating systems for updates. We also look at backing up client computers running Windows with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010.

Presenter: Jason Buffington, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

View other sessions from Managing a Microsoft Infrastructure: Improve Reliability and Performance

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42364#42364

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) On-Demand Webcasts

https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42363

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42365

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42555

Microsoft System Center Overview On-Demand Webcasts

https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42366

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032454027&culture=en-US

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