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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...
Essentials 2007 Catalog Now Available
The Essentials 2007 catalog home page is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/essntls07.aspx?SCPProdID=4 . This catalog will help you find software related to Essentials 2007 that will extends the management and communication capabilities of your installation across your infrastructure.
System Monitoring using System Center Essentials 2007
The Monitoring pane in the Essentials 2007 console provides users a method to find relevant monitoring data to take appropriate actions to maintaind a healthy network. The Monitoring pane displays various aspects of monitoring data that Essentials 2007 collects. Each object in the Monitoring pane is either a view type or a folder that contains a collection of views. The Find, Search, and Scope buttons...
Download Trial of Jalasoft's Xian Io for Essentials 2007
Extend the capabilities of Microsoft System Center Essentials to network devices, UNIX servers and non-Microsoft applications like VMware VirtualCenter and MySQL. Xian Io is a comprehensive network monitoring solution, designed to monitor performance, availability and reliability on the most common SNMP-based network devices. Xian Io extends the management infrastructure of System Center Essentials...
How System Center Essentials 2007 Can Save Your Company Money in 2008
A criticism I often hear about System Center Essentials 2007 is that it costs money while there are other free tools out there that do the same thing. To me, that is sort of like saying it costs money to get a new computer with 4 gigs of RAM, a 160gig hard drive, a 21" flat panel monitor, wireless access and the latest software but my brother is giving me his five year old system with a dial-up...
SystemCenterForum Creates Shared Repository for Resolving Essentials 2007 Alerts
SystemCenterForum has created a shared repository for how to resolve alerts for Operations Manager 2007, System Center Essentials 2007 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. This functionality is available through a management pack called “ReSearch This!” which was created through contributions from the team at SystemCenterForum and MVP community members. ReSearch This! provides a task which does a...
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...
