If you are not at the MMS like Stefan and myself then you can check out all the press announcements at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/default.mspx.
Microsoft give the press the news but they are not allowed to publish until the keynote is finished but you can read the press announcement for the speech at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/apr08/04-29MMS08PR.mspx
Key points
Public beta for System [...]
If you need to quickly see what servers have the Proxy Enabled setting (needed for AD, Exchange, cluster and others) then you can use PowerShell or one of the tools available (the one by Boris is my favourite) but did you know that you can simply create a view?
Go to My Workspace and create a [...]
A number of people have mentioned that the Authoring Console has now RTMed and is available in 32 and 64 bit. See http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/04/25/authoring-console-is-now-available.aspx for links to download.
I looked at my current version on my test system and the version number said 6.0.6278.0 (). I uninstalled that, just in case, and installed the RTM version. It [...]
While looking at the database sizes in the new Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability Guide it struck me how large the reporting database could become. More so as I am working with a client on MOM 2005 at the moment to try and tame the reporting database which is up to 500 GB.
This database [...]
Stefan left this comment on the DB size post from yesterday.
I was contacting Kerrie yesterday with the same questions. This is her answer to why their figures differ from Satya’s.
“Hi Stefan, yes we did look at that while we were working on the book. Satya came out with his several months after ours. We take [...]
Pete mentioned that the new sizing and performance guide had some changes. One area I looked at was database size. I picked out these figures from the white paper and stuck them in a table to make it easier to see what was going on. The increases in size are linear with the number of [...]
An interesting article that Techlog highlights mentions that Microsoft should buy companies to fill in the gaps in their heterogeneous monitoring to compete with the Big 4 (Tivoli, CA, HP and BMC). The article also mentions that perhaps there may be announcements at MMS. The trouble buying companies is integrating them. And there is the [...]
This has now been updated for the Windows 2008 SDK. It is quite amazing how much info it will gather. I particularly like the ability to graph the CPU by process or thread. Useful in your bag of tools if you need to do some analysis on a server where you know there are performance [...]
There is a lot of useful information about SCOM 2007 but it is scattered in white papers or various blogs. Luckily some of the bloggers have created lists which are useful.
List of hardware requirements – guide and spreadsheet by Sata Vel (DeploymentMan from the Product Group)http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/04/10/opsmgr-2007-hardware-guidance-what-hardware-do-i-buy.aspx
OpsMgr security account rights mapping – what accounts need what [...]
I saw it on the MyITForum and Scott mentions it here. You can put in $25 and win a free ticket to the conference as Secure Advantage has donated a ticket to MyITForum. Need to enter by this Friday – 18th.
Although Scott mentions it is for charity the actual money will go to Rod Trent’s [...]
