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Essentials 2007 and Windows Essential Business Server

Anonymous — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:29:00 GMT

Microsoft has conducted a tremendous amount of research on IT practices in mid-sized businesses. Hundreds of customer visits, focus groups, establishment...(read more)

Dell Management Pack available for Essentials 2007

Anonymous — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:34:00 GMT

The Dell Management Pack enables System Center Essentials 2007 to discover and monitor the status of Dell systems and printers on a defined network segment...(read more)

Essentials 2007 SP1 Improves performance, usability and supportability

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:53:00 GMT

Essentials 2007 SP1 supports more SNMP protocols, allows cross platform archectures of managed clients and servers and has improved management pack and...(read more)

Windows Server 2008 is a supported platform for the Essentials 2007 SP1 Server, Console and Agent

Anonymous — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:50:00 GMT

Essentials 2007 SP1 management server, console and agent on computers running Windows Server 2008 will be fully supported by CYQ208. Management packs for...(read more)

Essentials 2007 SP1 Improves management pack quality

Anonymous — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:52:00 GMT

Essentials 2007 SP1 supported Managment Packs follow these guidelines, simplifying IT management: Rules which generate alerts are directly actionable....(read more)

Essentials 2007 One Year Ago Today

Anonymous — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:43:00 GMT

Happy Birthday Essentials 2007!

http://blogs.technet.com/aralves/archive/2007/05/06/system-center-essentials-rtm.aspx

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/socal/archive/2007/05/06/system-center-essentials-goes-rtm.aspx

SP1 Improves Support for Remote SQL Servers

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:50:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Deploying Office 2007 with System Center Essentials 2007

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:33:00 GMT

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a solution designed for IT administrators in midsized organizations that include up to 30 servers and 500 client...(read more)

Intel Active Management Technology Management Pack for Essentials 2007

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:33:00 GMT

The Intel® Active Management Technology Management Pack for Essentials provides support for Intel AMT Technology version 2.0 and later. The Intel AMT MP...(read more)

Create a Simple Event Detection Monitor in Essentials 2007

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:50:00 GMT

How to Create a Simple Log File Event Detection Monitor in Essentials 2007 A simple log file event monitor queries a log file for specific text and sets...(read more)

Now you can Monitor SNMPv1 devices with Essentials 2007 SP1

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:48:00 GMT

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...(read more)

HP ProLiant Management Pack for Essentials 2007

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:35:00 GMT

HP Proliant Management Pack v1.1 The HP Server Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 and Essentials 2007 support the following features: User Defined...(read more)

May's Technet Magazine Features Essentials 2007

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:22:00 GMT

May's TechNet Magazine features a folded poster insert on System Center Essentials SP1. The poster provides a architecture diagram on how Essentials...(read more)

Reporting in Essentials 2007

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:17:00 GMT

Reporting in Essentials 2007 provides a very simple method to generate a report. SQL Server 2005 Express as well as other higher editions of Yukon are supported. Reports can contain data from the following sources:

WSUS
Operations Manager
AEM

The reporting feature in Essentials 2007 is available immediately after installation without performing any additional steps.

There are four reports that are generated directly from WSUS datasources, summarizing hardware and software inventory.

Computer Hardware Inventory Report
This report shows the details of all hardware found for the selected computer(s). Each computer’s inventory is shown in a new report section.
Hardware Group Summary Report
This report provides a summary of your hardware components along with drill-down capability to view computers which match the selected criteria.
Computer Software Inventory Report
This report shows the details of all software installed on the selected computer.
Softwater Inventory Summary report
This report provides a summary of your software assets along the drill-down capability to view computers which match the selected criteria

Essentials 2007 and Remote Operations Manager 2007

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:18:00 GMT

Remote Operations Manager 2007 is a partner solution to provide remote managed services to small and midsize customers. ROM 2007 simplifies the monitoring...(read more)