Constructive Criticism for SCOM 2007
This posting was inspired by a recent discussion on the MOM/OpsMgr email discussion list.
The particular thread started a discussion about SCOM Slowness, and snow balled into full blown discussion of the good, the bad, and the ugly of Operations Manager (v3) which is currently at SP-1. In mid-discussion the following was brought up by Operations Manager - MVP Pete Zerger, I'll go ahead and copy a portion of his email to this post so I do not muddle up his words:
"We have a responsibility as the community to be constructively critical of the platform and communicate our concerns back to the product team in our bug reporting and feature requests so MS knows what needs work and attention. Remember that everyone can and should definitely communicate their day-to-day frustrations and hurdles back to MS through https://connect.microsoft.com. It's how we'll ultimately get what we want and need in the next revision."
If everyone who works with SCOM could take some time out to write down their pain points with SCOM in a constructively critical manner, and toss them on https://connect.microsoft.com this could help the entire Operations Manager Community. I know this can be difficult to do if you are in the trenches all day; however, we are the ones they are making the software for. If we do not tell them what features the product is missing or lacking how will they know?
Many good points of discussion were brought up in this thread, and I'm hoping that it will continue the next few weeks before MMS. It would be great if we could get this dialog going in birds of a feather discussion group at MMS with a few SCOM product managers so they can hear this too. You can easily subscribe to the myITForum.com email discussion lists here http://myitforum.com/lists/
To those who participate in the MOM email list, keep up the good work!