System Center

I'll have to add this to my list of OCS goodies for future reference.

The management pack (MP) for OCS 2007 R1 has been updated for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM).

Official description below:

The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Management Pack for SCOM 2007 monitors the health of computers running Office Communications Server 2007 on Windows Server 2003 and alerts IT administrators about critical health conditions that indicate degraded performance.

The management pack monitors and provides alerts for: Automatic notification of events indicating service outages, performance degradation, health monitoring and centralized management.

Download it from here.

Although you should probably be using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 Update 1 (say that five times fast) for any new desktop rollout or DDPS session, the older versions are handy to have around for features/operating systems that get retired/depreciated over time.

If you have a need for any of these versions:

BDD 2.5 Standard
BDD 2.5 Enterprise
BDD 2007
Microsoft Deployment
MDT 2008

You can grab them from here.

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, a new hypervisor-based server virtualization product (like ESXi), will be released within 30 days and be available at no cost via the Web.

Microsoft will demonstrate live migration feature of Windows Server 2008 R2. And the next version of Microsoft Hyper-V Server (the one after 2008) will have live migration capabilities.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 will be released within 30 days [not a surprise], which will manage Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 or VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.

Microsoft’s global server OEM partners ... report that nearly 100% of their customers who order Windows Server 2008 with hardware are also choosing to have Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V included with their order.

Dedicated virtualization lab established within the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center.

Originally spotted here.