SolarWinds Orion Integration with MOM

When I previously looked at integrating SolarWinds into MOM before then SNMP was the only way to do it. A customer asked about integration recently and I assumed it would still be SNMP but I came across this press release from May 2006 that says that there is integration between SolarWinds and MOM
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-31-2006/0004371311&EDATE=%20
On the SolarWinds [...]

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance

Just announced today is the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance which will be available in January 2007 and contains 4 tools.

Microsoft SoftGrid
Microsoft Asset Inventory Services (looks like AssetMetrix as it is hosted)
Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (change management of GPOs and role-based delegation)
Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset (from Winternals purchase)

This will be available [...]

Updated Timelines

On Wednesday we had the UK day of the Best of MMS 2006 tour and good sessions from Vlad Joanovic and Wally Mead.
There were some timelines given out in the sessions.
SCOM 2007 Release Candidate by the end of this month (potentially)
SCOM 2007 RTM – Q1 2007 (I would say more towards the end of the [...]

WEMD buys DesktopStandard

The Windows and Enterprise Management Division are still on the aquisiyion trail and have purchased DesktopStandard specialist in Group Policy products.
 The Press Release and FAQ are on the companys web site at http://www.desktopstandard.com/.
It will be interesting to see how it will be branded and whether it will continue to be sold separately or integrated with SMS [...]

Delays to SCOM 2007?

SCOM 2007 release candidate should have been out by now. I suspect that there are delays.

So why do delays happen. Coding is a difficult task. I used to do it when I was younger but decided writing code was not for me and went into infrastructure. The thing is that you can not double the [...]