The Ottawa Business Journal from Ontario, Canada reports that N-Able has joined the System Center Alliance. The System Center Alliance is made up of Microsoft Partners, and specifically ISV’s who have technologies which are for and integrate with the System Center Suite of Products. N-Able are different in that they have signed an agreement with MS to integrate their software with the future versions of MS’s System Center Products.
The integration of third parties into System Center has had a checkered history. Some examples which spring to mind are ABC Software and their abortive Software Metering Solution for SMS 2.0, Crystal Reports and their horrific reporting for SMS 2.0 and of course the long running feud with Wise software in regards to SMS Installer.
Read the full article here
Sphere: Related ContentIt’s been kind of quiet here lately. Since leaving Dimension Data, I’ve been working on a new product called Community Engine. We’re producing a leading edge, semantic web application, with all the bells and whistles of Silverlight, Active Directory and a slew of other technologies which will produce probably the coolest web platform since apache….
We hit beta 1 last week and are currently deep in issue management driving to beta 2.
We’re running a significant web farm at a co-location facility, performing management with System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Configuration Manager and a ton of powershell and other features.
It’s a tough job; I’m managing a team of devs as lead architect, a bunch of UI designers and a full featured operations team.
I’ve got a little more time now and will post updates as I get them…
| BrianMadden.com reports a piece of news from the softgrid team’s blog about a set of forthcoming Webcasts. The first one is on Wednesday this week, and it’s all about System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and Service Pack 1. Even if you haven’t yet deployed ConfigMgr (and you should), these Webcasts are a valuable use of a short amount of time…. I remember the day we had to read manuals….. <grin> |
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[Link]moroyer writes in the Intel vPro Expert Centre blog, showing a great and interesting video of System Centre Configuration Manager extensibility to do power management on Intel vPro client devices directly through the ConfigMgr console. I knew it wouldn’t be long, given the fact that the MMC SDK is now usable and ConfigMgr is sooo extensible. However this is a fantastic example of how key vendors like Intel are going on to make the System Centre family so much more than Microsoft management products ever have been.
Sphere: Related ContentDownload details: SC Configuration Manager 2007 ICPs
International client packs or ICPs have been a staple of the SMS world for years. Microsoft have released the ICP’s for System Center Configuration Manager 2007, so you can now deploy the conifugration manager cient files in the specific languages. I link it here for your information.
Overview
International Client Packs (ICPs) contain international-language clients to use with System Center Configuration Manager (SC Config Mgr) 2007. ICP downloads contain only the Config Mgr client files, not the English-language SC Config Mgr 2007, which is required.
ICP1 contains the following languages:
* English
* French
* German
* Japanese
* Spanish
ICP2 contains all languages from ICP1 plus the following:
* Chinese (Simplified)
* Chinese (Traditional)
* Czech
* Danish
* Dutch
* Finnish
* Greek
* Hungarian
* Italian
* Korean
* Norwegian
* Polish
* Portuguese (Brazil)
* Russian
* Swedish
* Turkish
System Requirements
* Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003
* System Center Configuration Manager 2007 - English version
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MOSS Rich Text Editor Styles - modify and add new styles
Create Silverlight 1.1 applications for SharePoint with VS2008
Automating SharePoint development tasks using CodeRush
The ‘One Click Rollout’ versus ‘Clicking It Together’ deployment method
Create custom site definitions which include CEWPS and using resource files for their content
Who will do it first? Tafiti Search Visualization on top of MOSS 2007 Search?
Using a Config File for Windows SharePoint Services Timer Jobs
Installing Sharepoint on Windows Server 2008
MOSS Tells Me “Access Denied” to Edit a Workflow Task, But I Really Do Have Access
SharePoint Designer, Current Item’s “Encoded Absolute URL” and HTTPS
Sharepoint 2007 a defacto standard
1 Minute can take a long time in a SharePoint
Happy “Indexing” Holidays - Microsoft Filter Pack Released
Creating Custom Wikis in SharePoint
Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint
Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint- The Generic Value Of Overlapped Recycling
Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint- Why SharePoint Requires It
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Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint- Scheduled Recycling
Overlapped Recycling And SharePoint: A Hidden Benefit
Cancelling a SharePoint Workflow
Simple SharePoint web part to display maps
Developer Map for SharePoint Products and Technologies
Tuesday Morning SharePoint Reading
Hardware Recommendations and SCCP SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool beta models
Using the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard
BDC Calendar Web Part now available
Forms Based Authentication Articles Published
WSS 3.0 SP1 works fine - what a nuisance !
Deploying site columns and content types to sharepoint webs
An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology: Webcast (12-17-2007)
SharePoint Task Lists and Visio Integration
SharePoint Service Packs (the definitive list)
Selecting a user in a SharePoint form: Sample of using the PeopleEditor
Hardware Recommendations and SCCP SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool beta models
How to move My Sites to a new Content Database and Web Application
Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Who will do it first? Tafiti Search Visualization on top of MOSS 2007 Search?
Create Silverlight 1.1 applications for SharePoint with VS2008
How to verify versions number after applying Service Pack 1 (SP1)?
The documentation update has been completed
(OCSCM)Free Tool to manage OCS 2007 users Contact list ( instead of VB Scripts)
Beware Breaking Changes to ItemStyle.xsl
Installing SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 RC1
Server farm configuration not complete
Thinking of using SharePoint for extranet collaboration? Contact me!
Possible glitch in SharePoint Designer Service Pack 1
‘Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.Permissions’ is obsolete: ‘Use the RoleAssignments property instead’
Update on the Permission Denied Problem with Images in eLumenotion SharePoint Skinner
SharePoint the Facebook for Business?
Announcing New System Center Operations Manager 2007 Packs for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007
Why Alternate Access Mappings will give you a headache
Shared Service Provider Setup Issues
Disable MySite and MyLinks in MOSS 2007
Customizing the ‘layouts files’
Can I display multiple web parts from a single list?
Tribal Thunder (SharePoint White Papers Available)
Excellent post about making SharePoint xhtml compliant
A Bug with CustomAction in the Actions Menu
Error Detatching from Page Layout
Adding Silverlight to SharePoint (with no coding)
Performance recommendations for storage planning and monitoring
HP and F5 Whitepaper on Configuring BIG-IP LTM with Web Accelerator for SharePoint Deployments
An efficient way to set web control values
Web Part Gallery: Change Web Part metadata tool
Showing attachments in a Content Query Webpart
Modify SharePoint Document Icons
Edit history removes deniability excuse
Content Migration in SharePoint
Crawling Sites Protected by Forms Authentication with Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007
Excellent SharePoint Backup Strategy Whitepaper
Task timeout control in MOSS 2007 Workflow - the workaround for the Delay activity bug
SharePoint Workflow Basics, Part 1
(via Virtual Generations)
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In this edition of the Friday Deployment podcast, we discuss the updated configuration manager document library, new beta programs and more. This podcast uses AT&T Natural Voices.[display_podcast]
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Download an updated version of the documentation for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 for a computer running the Configuration Manager console.
The Configuration Manager Documentation Library has been updated. The Documentation Library is the primary documentation for Configuration Manager 2007. The November update contains new material and fixes to documentation problems reported after Configuration Manager 2007 was released. Refer to “What’s New in the Configuration Manager Documentation Library for November 2007” for a list of topics that are new or updated in this version. The updated smsv4.chm will have a date of 11/06/2007 and will overwrite the existing smsv4.chm in %systemroot%\help. This information is also available online in the TechCenter Library http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680651.aspx.
Feature Bullet Summary:
The Documentation Library includes the following types of information:
* Setup and upgrade instructions.
* Information about new features and backwards compatibility.
* Conceptual descriptions about the technologies and features in Configuration Manager 2007.
* Procedural topics describing how to use the various features in Configuration Manager 2007
* Step-by-step topics to guide you through sample deployments
* Scenario topics to provide examples of how the technology might be used
* Security and privacy information about the features
* Troubleshooting information
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myITforum.com : Using Microsoft Virtual Machines With ConfigMgr 2007: “ConfigMgr 2007 allows you to use Microsoft Virtual machines for running your ConfigMgr environment on Intel based machines. You can use either Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 as the guest operating system.
All of the site server roles can run as virtual machines only with the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 edition as the Microsoft Virtual PC version does not support all roles. Since the support is for Intel based machines you cannot use a Macintosh with either version.
It is also important to note here that you cannot manage the guest operating systems unless they are in an active state or running. It is also worth noting that if you are running a static image version of Virtual PC it cannot be inventoried or updated with the ConfigMgr client on it.
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(Via MyITForum.)
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System Center Virtual Labs Available!
McAlynn.com » System Center Virtual Labs: “Several months back I posted the availability of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 virtual labs on Microsoft’s website. However, after recently revisiting the site I noticed that the product groups have been very busy preparing additional labs for the entire System Center suite. In addition to a slew of labs available for SMS 2003, there are a few others available for Configuration Manager 2007, plus three for Operations Manager 2007, two for Softgrid and one each for Capacity Planner and Essentials.
Check out the full array of offerings at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb539977.aspx
(Via McAlynn.com.)
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