Authoring PRO-Enabled Management Packs

Patrick Pendergast (SCVMM Program Manager) has posted that there is a document out to help create PRO enabled MPs.
http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/08/25/writing-pro-enabled-management-packs.aspx
This is a 32 page document starting with explaining what PRO is.
Physical Resource Optimization (PRO) is extended through a System Center Operations Manager 2007 management pack.
PRO enables you to  augment the available knowledge in the management packs [...]

VMM 2008 R2 RTMs

Good news for virtualisation management fans as System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SC VMM) 2008 R2 has now been released and general availability is for 1st Oct.
http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/08/24/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-vmm-2008-r2-rtms.aspx
The post mentions a webcast coming up in September.
…upcoming TechNet session ‘Technical Overview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2’. Presented by our Technical Product Manager Kenon Owens, [...]

Windows Server 2008 R2

RTM was with Windows 7 but it is now available for download on (at least TechNet Plus) and MSDN. This means that System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is not far away. This is probably the one System Center family member that has most synergy with OpsMgr. For more info about SCVMM R2 there [...]

MMS Keynote – Brad Anderson

Brad Anderson did this morning’s keynote. This was more focused than yesterdays but was still quite low energy with not much excitement or feedback from the audience. Most of his talk was futures and about focusing on the client and end up with a demo of the next version of Config Manager showing that an [...]

Operations Manager in 2008 Review

I was going to to this at the end of 2008 but other things got in the way.
The big news was that SP1 was released in February. Not just bug fixes but enhancements with the key one speeding up the console so that it was usable. Still not a speed demon but so much more [...]

Disk Space CPU % Report Part 2

I blogged in June about this nice report that comes with the Virtualisation MP. I received a number of comments and I have seen the post mentioned in the newsgroups. As I said in the previous post it is report that many people want – Product Group take note!
Some info about this report.  I mentioned that [...]

MMS Press Announcements

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 [...]

MMS Announcement Predictions

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 [...]

New Stuff

As well as the release candidate for SCOM SP1 there is a lot of new management stuff.
WSUS SP1 RC is also available on Connect.http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2007/11/06/wsus-3-0-service-pack-1-release-candidate-now-available.aspx
PowerShell 2 community technology preview.http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/11/06/the-community-technology-preview-ctp-of-windows-powershell-2-0.aspx
Eric Berg talks about the new System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM?) and how it differs from SCCM with the now embedded Device Management Feature Pack that was [...]

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.