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Essentials 2007 SP1 Improves performance, usability and supportability
Essentials 2007 SP1 supports more SNMP protocols, allows cross platform archectures of managed clients and servers and has improved management pack and reporting functionality. What does this mean to you as an IT Generalist? Improve monitoring and troubleshooting diagnostics for your Windows-based servers, Windows-based clients, applications and network devices New updates of management packs for Microsoft...
Windows Server 2008 is a supported platform for the Essentials 2007 SP1 Server, Console and Agent
Essentials 2007 SP1 management server, console and agent on computers running Windows Server 2008 will be fully supported by CYQ208. Management packs for Windows Server 2008 and it's role will be available as well in the same timeframe. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the next generation of the Windows Server operating system and provides significant improvements to the base operating system over...
Essentials 2007 SP1 Improves management pack quality
Essentials 2007 SP1 supported Managment Packs follow these guidelines, simplifying IT management: Rules which generate alerts are directly actionable. No alert is generated that is not directly actionable or does not require user attention. Alerts automatically resolve the problem wherever technically possible. In the event that automatic resolution is not possible, tasks should be provided for assisting...
SP1 Improves Support for Remote SQL Servers
Essentials 2007 SP1 supports using a remote SQL Server 2005 instance on a computer with a different architecture (x86 or x64) than the computer running the Essentials 2007 management server Optimized for the Intel Itanium processor, SQL Server (64-bit) takes advantage of advanced memory addressing capabilities for essential resources such as buffer pools, caches, and sort heaps, reducing the need to...
Now you can Monitor SNMPv1 devices with Essentials 2007 SP1
A real improvement of Essentials 2007 SP1 is to the Computer and Device Management Wizard with the ability to now support discovering SNMPv1 devices. The discovery process configures the Essentials 2007 Server as a proxy agent for any SNMP-enabled network devices you discover, and subsequently do the device polling via SNMP GETs. If you have upgraded your existing installation of Essentials 2007, you...
May's Technet Magazine Features Essentials 2007
May's TechNet Magazine features a folded poster insert on System Center Essentials SP1. The poster provides a architecture diagram on how Essentials works on each of the key feature areas: Monitoring, Inventory, Software Distribution & Updates. It also includes a section on what is new with Service Pack 1. It's definitively cool poster I'll be hanging in my office!
Don't Upload WSUS 3.0 SP1 from Windows Update! It's already in Essentials SP1
WSUS 3.0 SP1 will soon be available from Windows Update . But Essentials 2007 users should not download the update from Windows Update. Hopefuly you have already heard that for planning purposes, WSUS 3.0 SP1 should not be applied to Essentials 2007 directly. Additionally, System Center Essentials 2007 RTM will not be upgraded to WSUS 3.0 SP1. Essentials 2007 SP1 includes WSUS 3.0 SP1. These are the...
Essentials 2007 SP1 topics at MMS 2008
Time to start thinking about attending Microsoft Management Summit 2008 from April 28 to May 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. IT professionals interested in learning more about WSUS 3.0 SP1 and how it interacts Essentials 2007 SP1 will have a chance to have their questions answered during two sessions on the topic, Partners can attend a session and learn more about Remote Operations Manager 2007 and how it...
Discount Registration for TechEd 2008
Just a reminder that TechEd 2008 for IT Professionals will be this June 10-13, 2008 in Orlando Florida. Register by Friday, April 4, 2008, to receive the discounted rate of just $1,795—that's $200 off the regular rate of $1,995. Registering now will also give you a better selection of room choices. Here is you chance to speak with experts on the newly released Essentials 2007 SP1. Technical tracks...
How to Install Essentials 2007 Agent on ISA Server 2006/ISA Server 2004
It is possible to install a Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 agent on a computer that is running Microsoft Internet Server Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 or Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004. Back to the top To configure an ISA Firewall configuration with a System Center Essentials 2007 agent, you must manually install the agent. Then, you must create access rules...
Upgrade a Remote Essentials 2007 Console to SP1
I've been watching the forums and two questions seem to be cropping up repeatedly. One is on using the SP1 feature that allows managing workgroup servers. I must have intuited this question since yesterday's post was on this very topic. The second question has to do with applying SP1 to a system. You will need to update your agents on all systems and you will need to upgrade your remote consoles...
Managing workgroup-joined computers in Essentials 2007 SP1
Management of workgroup-joined computers is now supported in Essentials 2007 SP1. Supporting the management of workgroup-joined computers requires additional configuration on the Essentials 2007 management server, as well as additional preparation on the managed computers. For detailed instructions on preparing the management server to manage workgroup-joined computers in Essentials 2007 see http:...
Monitoring MySQL using Essentials 2007
I just ran across a great post by Tom Swanson on how he monitors MySQL using Essentials 2007 . Check it out! In his post, Tom describes the steps he took to create custom monitors and how to work around monitoring ODBC drivers. The steps include: Make a custom monitor that checks all the MySQL services are running OK Watch for the particular ports used by MySQL to make sure they are live from outside...
It's Here! It's Here! Essentials 2007 SP1 now available!
I just received word from the Product Manager for Essentials 2007, Rene Garcia. Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 has just been announced at Microsoft Convergence in Orlando, Florida. You can download the product at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sce/cc304525.aspx Several new enhancements have been added to Service Pack – all of them have been requests from users of Essentials. · Support...
New KB: Update distribution issues in System Center Essentials 2007
Problem: In Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007, you import updates from partner catalogs. When you do this, you experience the following symptoms. Symptom 1 The update source files are not correctly downloaded to the server that is running System Center Essentials 2007 during the import process. These files can not be distributed to the managed hosts. Symptom 2 When selecting Import updates from...
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