November 2007 - Posts
Interview with Essentials 2007 Product Manager Rene Garcia
I conducted a short interview with Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 Product Manager Rene Garcia. Rene works in Redmond as part of the System Center Marketing team. 1) Tell me a bit about yourself; how you got into marketing, previous projects you have managed, favorite technologies, hobbies, etc. I’ve been in Microsoft for almost 10 years. I spent half of that time in the field doing product...
See Essentials 2007 at Microsoft Management Summit 2008
Attend the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 (MMS 2008) and learn more about Essentials 2007 and the other releases of Microsoft IT management solutions. Registration is available now at https://www.mms-2008.com/public/home.aspx . The summit will be returning to The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada from April 28 to May 2, 2008. The theme of this year’s Microsoft Management Summit is Integrate IT...
System Center Essentials 2007 Product Tour
As part of the IT Forum wave of announcements, an updated Adobe Shockwave tour for Essentials 2007 is now available. This browser based demo covers the key features of System Center Essentials 2007 including: - Setup - Configuration - Console features - Reporting - Monitoring - Hardware/Software Inventory - Software Deployment - Update Management Check out the Product Tour at: http://www.microsoft...
Top Ten Reasons to Use System Center Essentials 2007
Top Ten Reasons for using Essentials 2007: 1. Essentials 2007 provides a single console for your core management needs. That means a single product to purchase, deploy and learn. Server, Desktop and Network monitoring, software and update management and asset inventory under a single, easy to use, unified experience. 2. Keep your applications and your network up and running. Essentials provides multiple...
But exactly how DO I deploy Essentials 2007 in my environment?
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is an IT management solution targeted at IT professionals working in midsized businesses. This webcast walks you through the processes for deploying System Center Essentials 2007 in typical and complex network environments. Dustin Jones demonstrates the steps for migrating to System Center Essentials 2007 from existing network management products, including Windows...
Better together: Essentials 2007 and Remote Operations Manager
This morning I was reading Rick Vanover's article on TechRepublic covering 10 tips for remotely administering workstations . His article reminded me that Essentials 2007 does natively come with remote monitoring of desktops, but if you want to manage Essentials 2007 off site, that isn't part of the feature set. However, Microsoft System Center Remote Operations Manager 2007 is available to...
New Management Pack for Essentials 2007
Last week SystemCenterForum announced a new management pack called ReSearch This! SystemCenterForum is proud to announce the creation of a shared repository for how to resolve alerts for Operations Manager 2007, System Center Essentials and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. This functionality is available through a management pack called ”ReSearch This!” which was created through contributions from...
New news is old news when it comes to Systems Management
The difficulties of managing systems network continues to make headlines...and headaches. Take a look at these recent articles: Penny Crosman at Wall Street & Technology: Blog wrote this article on Data Centers Are Understaffed, Over Budget and Breaking Their SLAs Denise Dubie at Network World recently wrote The great networking debates . Microsoft MVP Bradley wrote Patching Sucks Across the Board...
Interview with Essentials 2007 MVP Pete Zerger
I conducted a short interview with Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 MVP Peter Zerger. Pete manages systemcenterforum.org , which is an excellent resource for Operations Manager 2007, Essentials 2007 and MOM 2005 users. He has great things to say about Essentials 2007 and offers thoughts on how customers use the product. 1) Tell me a bit about yourself; how you got into this field, the blogs...
August 2007 issue of TechNet features System Center Product Line
In case you missed it, Microsoft TechNet published in their August 2007 issue, a series of articles about Microsoft System Center products. Included in the August issue is a write up by David Mills on System Center Essentials 2007. His article, Getting Started with System Center Essentials 2007 covers three main areas: Installing and upgrading Configuring Essentials 2007 Troubleshooting steps This...
Why you shouldn't think of Essentials 2007 as an "Only Child"
Take a look at Carl Coken's article on Nexus SC and you'll understand the reference. Not only is Microsoft System Center Essentials part of the bigger Systems Center Family, there are partner's who extend the value of these products. As part of your Network Management planning, you would want to include not just the OS, database, middleware and Web servers but also the servers that they...
System Center Acronyms
As a follow-up for an earlier post that explains the System Center family I have a summary of acronyms for all of the System Center Products . Essentials 2007 is referred to with a number of names: SCE, Essentials, Essentials 2007, System Center Essentials, Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 and so on. If you find any other System Center acronyms you don't understand, leave me a post and I...
Personal Computer World Review of System Center Essentials 2007
Yesterday, Alan Stevens of Personal Computer World published a review of System Center Essentials 2007 Overall, the review is positive with the notable features including: Pros: Dashboard summary views drilldown to detailed information WSUS integration hardware/ software inventories software distribution tools Stevens was disappointed to find that it only supported Windows servers and clients and lacked...
