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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...
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...
Deploying Office 2007 with System Center Essentials 2007
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a solution designed for IT administrators in midsized organizations that include up to 30 servers and 500 client computers. Administrators can use the System Center Essentials 2007 to secure, update, monitor, and track their IT environment. With System Center Essentials, you can perform the following tasks: Use the inventory feature to collect and examine...
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...
Essentials 2007 and SQL
SQL Server is a very sophisticated technology that requires expert tuning, maintenance and monitoring. SQL Server is used by many applications and services and must be stable or its dependant products will be unreliable. Very large IT infrastructures have dedicated teams for each element of the infrastructure. In smaller companies a dedicated DBA is rarely an option. Dedicated tools are needed to aid...
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...
N-able partnership with Essentials 2007 in the news
I spotted a couple articles further dicussing the new partnership between N-able, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, and System Center Essentials 2007. N-able Technologies(R) to Deliver Next Level of Interoperability to Managed Service Providers Worldwide N-able inks interoperability deal with Microsoft In case you missed it, yesterday's post was an inteview with N-able's VP of R&D, August...
N-able Technologies to Partner with Essentials 2007
N-able (pronounced en-able ) announced today that they will be partnering with System Center Essentials 2007 to provide a remote management solution for midsized businesses. Here is an interview with August Wehrmann, Vice President of Research & Development at N-able Technologies to help explain this new product. Who is N-able? N-able Technologies is a global supplier of remote management technology...
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...
Essentials 2007 Management Packs - Cataloged and Uncataloged
In an earlier post I identified a number of partner management packs for use with Essentials 2007. There are loads of additional custom MPs that don't show up in the standard Microsoft catalogue that can be used either as is or with slight modifications customized for your specific needs. Here is a summary of what is currently available: You can start with the Microsoft catalogue and see what is...
Issues Fixed in Essentials 2007 SP1
Posted at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949389&sd=rss&spid=12684 The following issues have been fixed in System Center Essentials 2007 SP1: 943111 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943111/) Description of System Center Essentials 2007 post-release hotfix rollup 936339 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936339/) Windows-based computers are not displayed in the Network...
New KB: Discovery and Agent Approval issues with Essentials 2007 in Service Provider Mode
SCENARIO Run Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 in Service Provider mode. You may experience the following symptoms related to agent approval: Symptom 1 After a System Center Essentials 2007 server is configured to Service Provider mode, computers managed by the Operations Manager server must be discovered and then approved in Operations Manager. However, it may take several hours to approve these...
Dell Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007
The Dell Management Pack for Microsoft System Center now supports Essentials 2007. The Management Pack provides a list of Dell-specific views that you can use to observe and drill down the system status in a network. Fixes and Enhancements: Added support for System Center Essentials 2007. Enhanced health drill down model in Diagram views from overall Dell Hardware health to individual hardware components...
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