Check out this webcast. Event Overview Learn how to optimize Microsoft System Center Operations Manager for cross-platform devices, applications, and regulatory auditing requirements, and see how to create advanced line-of-business (LOB), geographic, and executive-level dashboards in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This webcast includes more than 40 minutes of demonstrations, and we provide customer examples of: Monitoring Oracle and Apache applications using BridgeWays Supporting Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and PCI audit requirements using Secure Vantage Technologies. Building intelligent views across solutions using Savision Live Maps. Integrating solutions with SharePoint Server. Presenters: Jeremiah Beckett, President, Secure Vantage Technologies,  Ryan Brennan, Chief Technology Officer, Secure Vantage Technologies, Rob Doucette, Software Development Manager, BridgeWays, and Dennis Rietvink, President, Savision Jeremiah Beckett is the founder and president of Secure Vantage Technologies, Inc. (SVT), a Microsoft Gold partner that specializes in security and compliance auditing software for Microsoft System Center and Microsoft Forefront technologies. Jeremiah is a recognized industry expert in IT security and compliance with more than 10 years of expertise in enterprise management. Jeremiah is a regular guest speaker at Microsoft events, author of the Audit Collection Service (ACS) Master Class Series ACS wiki on System Center Central, and contributing author to a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed ebook. He also holds a bachelor's degree in business IT management from the DeVry Institute of Technology in Phoenix, Arizona.

Today I created a video demonstrating monitoring your Unix and Linux servers with OpsMgr 2007 R2 for the Dutch LinuxWorld expo next week. I created this video so I can also have a moment to look around at the LinuxWorld Expo ;-) It’s part of a rolling presentation so I didn’t added any sound to it, but I thought it would be nice to upload the video anyway. In the video you can see that I’m monitoring two Linux servers, one Redhat and one Suse Novell machine in my demo environment. To demo the health of the Suse server I stopped the powersaved service on the machine and with the help of a geographical map created with the latest version of Savision Live Maps you can see that the Suse server is going from healthy to unhealthy and to healthy again after restarting the service.   See you at the LinuxWorld expo next week!

Source: Microsoft Technet Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Audience(s): IT Professional. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Join us for this informative session on deploying Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007, where you will gain useful insights into what worked, as well as what didn't, when deploying Operations Manager 2007 into different environments. You will have the opportunity to learn best practices for setup (including recommended approaches for disaster recovery and high availability), running Operations Manager in a virtualized environment, and more. Presenters: Rob Kuehfus, Setup and Deployment Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation Rob is  a Program Manager in the System Center Operations Manager product group.  Responsibilities include Setup, Deployment, Upgrade, AD Integration, High Availability, Disaster recovery, notification and maintenance mode.     Before coming to Microsoft, Rob has been working with MOM 2005 since late 2004 using it to monitor mission critical Active Directory, Exchange and Application environments.  Rob was a part of the Microsoft TAP program before coming to Microsoft and has been an early adaptor of System Center Operations Manager 2007.  Current certifications include MCSE 2003, CCNA, and ITIL foundations. View other sessions from: Managing a Microsoft Infrastructure: Improve Reliability and Performance If you have questions or feedback, contact us. Registration Options Event ID: 1032409726

Source: TechNet Edge Intro to System Center Essentials It starts with an intro to the product and the core issues it's designed to address, and he then shows us the product interface and gives us a walkthrough of the main features and benefits.

Source: NEXUS SC: The System Center Team Blog Brad Anderson, GM of the Management Services Division, talks with us about his perspective on Microsoft's developments and directions in the virtualization and x-plat spaces, and where System Center fits in. He also talks a bit about what's coming in the months ahead. If you want a quick overview from the top, this is it, folks. Microsoft's Investments in Virtualization and Cross-Platform Management

Source: UGTV (User Group Television) Because of my Achillus Tendor Rupture I can’t do much except watching tv (the Olympics) or movies on my laptop. That's why  I stumbled on a webcast from the User Group Television (UGTV) in which Barry Shilmover demoes Operations Manager 2007 managing heterogeneous environments (Cross Platform Extensions) (07:15). UGTV (User group Television) for ITPro Debuts!