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.
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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…
| Michael Campbell has posted an article with slides describing the how-to’s of desktop error management with System Center. For years now, we’ve had a really good idea what our servers are doing but almost no idea about the performance of desktops. The only information we’re really getting is anecdotal and from the help desk. With the increases of WAN bandwidth, coupled with greater client side instrumentation, we’re now able to manage and measure the performance of the desktop. I think most corporate SOE techs are going to be really surprised when they see just how badly their SOE is performing in production. Maybe the end-users are right; maybe it does all keep crashing and maybe it is really slow… Time to find out <grin>. |
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| 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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Although this site has lots of details about Windows XP Embedded (XPe), the comments about System Centre and SMS show that the embedded and devices community is starting to adopt SMS 2003 and ConfigMgr. This is ideal in retail environments who can use ConfigMgr for Servers, BackOffice and Point of Sale Devices… Rock on Embedded support  |
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Don Hite at myITForum has posted an article on command line actions for the ConfigMgr Console. While this is a useful reference, anyone really wanting to extend the MMC Console for ConfigMgr needs to spend a good deal of time (as I have) navigating the vagiaries of the MMC 3.0 SDK before attempting this… However, if you are competent at OOP and C#, you can quite quickly get a working console going. Just Remember, the Listview pane has no idea where you are in the tree view pane, and cannot really share data… However getting a working prototype is quite easy and very, very cool… |
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techlog.nl have provided a document showing you how to deploy Windows Server 2008 with System Center Configuration Manager. As with all things pre-release, this information is probably subject to change (so beware!). I’ve found with most releases of Microsoft Operating Systems, that deployment is the thing they leave to the very, very last. |
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Rod and the boys at myITForum.com have been showing off again with polls and surveys. This one’s one of my favourites and at time of publishing (21:46), shows most respondents have 97%-99% success rates on Software Distribution with ConfigMgr. For those new to this genre, with SMS 2.0 RTM, we were happy if any machine installed most software (just kidding)! |
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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.
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myITForum.com has another interesting job posting for a SMS Administrator at the US Department of State… Now that is a large SMS Environment. (Posted by Dan Thomson) |
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