Xerox CentreWare for SCOM

I came across this today. You need to register to get the download. I have not tried it as I do not have Xerox printers but if you do it may be useful.
Xerox CentreWare for Microsoft SCOM is a device manager software application that provides the ability to identify, view, and centrally manage Xerox network [...]

Trichotomy

OK. Trichotomy is not a real word but it seems to sum up things better than dichotomy. I find it easier to think of SCOM 2007 as three separate programs bundled as one – think of very early versions of Office. My previous post on SCOM 2007 Architecture (my most read post) goes into more details. [...]

System Centre Webcasts for July

Thanks to Eileen
TechNet Webcast: Deploying System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Level 200)Monday, July 02, 2007 – 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Pacific TimeWally Mead, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporationhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032343568&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Deploying System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Clients (Level 300)Friday, July 06, 2007 – 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Pacific TimeWally Mead, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporationhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032343641&Culture=en-US
TechNet [...]

AD Integration and DCs

Why Domain Controllers can’t be used with AD Integration.
Good response from Marc Reyhner (Microsoft Developer).
“To control which agents go in to what management groups we set an ACL on the object in AD representing the management group.  Computers which should have access to the management group are granted read permissions to the SCP (service connection [...]

MP Notify for 2007

With the current range of MPs and the upcoming list that Walter blogged about there was no mention of MP Notify. The MP Notifier MP for MOM 2005 generated an information alert when an updated management pack was released. So I wondered what had happened to. I was reading the MP guide and found the answer.
In [...]

What’s Going on With AEM Licensing?

I was under the impression that AEM was free (certainly to SA customers) because CER was free to SA customers. But it looks like I was wrong. Mike Betts (www.momanswers.net) posted a question in the newsgroup about it.
So I did some digging (and I did have to dig to find the document – and when [...]

New System Center Webcasts for June

Thanks to Eileen for this info.
TechNet Webcast: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Technical Overview (Level 200)Monday, June 11, 2007 – 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeChris Avis, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporationhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032340807&Culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)Monday, June 18, 2007 – 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeBlain [...]

VHD Demos

SC VMM 2007 beta 2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d4e8bc52-3c3b-4bae-b937-987da892fad7&DisplayLang=en
SCE 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27342759-e9d6-4073-918c-e9dff77d0206&DisplayLang=en
Both require registration.

Not Everyone likes SCE

I posted a while back that I liked System Center Essentials (SCE) and Pete and Bjorn have also been complimentary about it. There is a good article on SystemCenterForum.org on when you should use SCE and when you should consider SCOM, WSUS and SMS. However we do tend to blog about MOM and SCOM mainly. So [...]

Database Size Estimation

Kerrie and Cameron have done some good investigative work and come up with a good rule of thumb for sizing up the three SCOM 2007 databases. Much easier to use than to try and put all the info into System Center Capacity Manager. You get three tables with number of agents v grooming interval (or [...]