Updated and new Management Packs April 30, 2009
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This month Microsoft released new and updated management packs:
Download from Microsoft – Windows Server 2008 Network Load Balancing for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6573.0)
Download from Microsoft – Message Queuing Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6587.0)
Download from Microsoft – Microsoft Windows Server Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6568.0)
Download from Microsoft – Windows Server 2008 Application Server Management Pack for System Center Opsmgr 2007 (Version 6.0.6587.0)
Download from Microsoft – Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6542.0)
Download from Microsoft – Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6542.0)
Download from Microsoft – Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6569.0)
Download from Microsoft – Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 (Version 6.0.6907.21)
UPDATE – Windows 7 RC1 Released (Now it is) April 18, 2009
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Today Microsoft has remove the information, someone was a bit to fast to publish it on the partner site:-)
Quote from the partner site:
We are pleased to announce that Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is available. Windows 7 RC is the prerelease version of Windows 7. Since this is not the final release, your PC will gather and send information to Microsoft engineers to help them check the fixes and changes made based on testing of Windows 7 Beta. Test-drive Windows 7 RC today to see for yourself—and to show your colleagues and customers—how Windows 7 delivers improved management, security, reliability, and performance. Download Windows 7 RCPartners: If you have a subscription to MSDN or TechNet, you can download Windows 7 RC now. Otherwise, you can download Windows 7 RC starting May 5, 2009.
Apparently Windows 7 RC is not available yet. As of now (21:30 Swedish time) I’m still seeing the old beta version.
If you have an MSDN or Technet subscription you can now download Windows 7 RC
Exchange 14 = Exchange 2010 and is now available for public beta test April 15, 2009
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Today Microsoft released the first public version of Exchange 2010.
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RC is now available on Microsoft Connect March 27, 2009
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Microsoft has now announced the availability of the Ops Mgr 2007 R2 RC.
Apply for the beta program and start test, there is allot of new features and especially improved performance in the product.
Updated Management Pack for System Center Network Device Monitoring March 27, 2009
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This week Microsoft released an updated version of the System Center Network Device Monitoring Library Management Pack. Note that this MP is only for System Center Essentials 2007 (even that you can move it to SCOM with some extra hacks)
Updated Management Pack for Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista Operating System February 25, 2009
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In the old release of the Windows Client MP, the discovery didn’t really work for Windows Vista machines. This is now fixed in the updated version (6.0.6520.0)
New IIS MP released, now supports IIS7 February 23, 2009
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If you are using Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7 you might want to download the new IIS MP. Note that you need to install the KB957123 update to SCE/SCOM before importing the MP.
Download Windows Server Internet Information Services MP from from Microsoft
UPDATE – The update is removed due to some problems after it is installed. More information about this and how to fix it can be found at http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/02/25/problem-with-the-iis-modules-qfe-957123.aspx
How to manage drivers for your HP machines February 17, 2009
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If you ever been working with OS deployment, you know that one of the biggest hassle is to download drivers and keep your driver “repository” up-to-date. Since some companies now need to download drivers for both Windows XP, Windows Vista and soon Windows 7 for both x86 and x64 architectures it gets even harder and more time consuming. The good new is that HP has a nice small tool that help you a lot. Below you can se some print screens of the tools.
- First you need to do some basic configuration. Here you can specify how/where you want the downloaded files. You also specify in what language and for what OS type/architecture.
- Then you select what type of machine and for what OS
- Click the “Find Available Softpaqs” icon on the left top of the application and it will now show you a list of all types of Softpaqs that are available
- Select the Softpaqs you want to download (there is quick selections if you click on the “Select Softpaq” drop-down-icon")
- Select “Download and unpack” (this is very useful if you need to import the drivers in some other tool that require the standard drivers instead of an exe file”), then click the “Download” icon to start the download
- The files will now be downloaded to your computer and also be unpacked. During the download you have Progress information in the lower left of the application. If you open the file explorer you will see the files and folders.
Download HP SoftPaq Download Manager from HP
If you have any other tool(s) that helps you manage drivers for other computer brands, send the info to me by adding a comment to this post
Microsoft TechDays 2009 December 22, 2008
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Anders Bengtsson (also Ops Mgr MVP) and I will deliver two sessions at TechDays 2009 in Västerås/Sweden. Our sessions are
- Operations Manager 2007 och System Center Essentials Tips and Tricks
- Managing Unix/Linux with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform
I out first session we will be showing a lot of tips and tricks from the real world, answers to common questions, and ways to work with the products to get more out of them. In our second session we will be showing how you can monitor non Microsoft boxes with Operations Manager 2007 R2.
You can find more info about the event here.
Microsoft – What were you thinking when you decided the different Vista versions? December 15, 2008
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Since I in the past weeks have had a couple of hardware failures on both my laptop and media center machines I wanted to make sure I had good backups of the machines. I’ve used the Vista Complete Backup on my laptop in the past, that time only to test a disk replacement. I really liked the feature so I thought this would be a good “extra” backup of my media center computer (except for file backup).
The problem – I couldn’t find it under “Backup and Restore Center”. I did a web search and found out it wasn’t included in the Vista version I use (Vista Home Premium). How come a feature like this is removed from any version of Windows. If you do need to remove it, remove it from the enterprise versions, not for the home users that really need a feature like this. So I the took the decision to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, this is where I run into the next problem:-( I use Swedish version of Vista and the Vista Ultimate DVD I had was in English. I couldn’t see any problem with this since Vista is language natural but I was wrong. I couldn’t do an upgrade between languages so I had to download a Swedish version of Vista Ultimate and do the upgrade. The other part I don’t understand is why I need to do a full upgrade when I upgrade between Vista versions – I thought it would be easi to this since Vista is componentized.
Conclusion – I really hope Microsoft reduce the Windows 7 versions to 2, one for the home users and one for the enterprise and to include all type of applications that can help home users to secure there data.
