What's new in Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007)

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (MOM) 2007 is due for release in early 2007

With this new release, Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007) will help you:

• Proactively manage business critical IT services, including distributed applications, the supporting infrastructure and hardware, and end-user service delivery.
• Reduce the complexities of managing your IT environment by providing a monitoring solution that is designed with ease of use in mind.
• Provide a highly reliable infrastructure by leveraging Windows Server and SQL 2005 clustering for high availability and through agents that automatically failover to a secondary management server if connectivity to the primary server is lost.
• Include management packs with prescriptive knowledge developed by the application and OS development teams at Microsoft and verified in production deployments to improve monitoring, troubleshooting, and problem resolution for more than 50 Microsoft applications and Windows Server components.

New Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007) feature set: DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER

• End-to-end Service Monitoring

  Transition to proactive management of IT services

  Monitor the health of distributed applications down to the hardware

  Synthetic transactions to monitor performance

  New service-oriented views, dashboards, and reports

  Easy-to-use templates and Service Designer for creating service-oriented management packs

  Third-party management packs for network infrastructure and other applications and platforms

• Microsoft Knowledge

  Management packs that include Microsoft expertise for over 50 applications, servers, and clients

  Proactive problem management of crash and hang data via Windows Error Reporting

  Client utilization, reliability, and error monitoring of Windows Vista, Windows XP, and the Office suite

  Audit collection service efficiently archives security event logs

• Reliability and Security

  Role-based security for secure delegation of access to information

  Aggregate monitoring of client systems to focus on high-impact issues

  Self-monitoring of servers, database, agents, and connectivity

  Leverages Windows Server and SQL Server 2005 clustering and agent failover for high reliability

  Certificate-based authentication and encryption is supported across Active Directory trust boundaries

• Operational Efficiency

  Leverages Active Directory for discovery and agent configuration

  Automatically discover and deploy monitoring policies for new systems and applications

  New self-tuning thresholds adjust alerting to business usage patterns

  Easier to use, customize, and author reports

  Understand and easily locate information with overview pages and integrated search

  Microsoft Update for downloading server and agent updates

Extend SCOM's Active Directory Coverage with NetPro's award-winning solutions for Active Directory management .....more>>>

• ReportADmin Management Pack – Live and historical reporting for Active Directory
• ChangeAuditor for Active Directory Management Pack – Configuration change auditing for Active Directory
• DirectoryAnalyzer Management Pack – Real-time and proactive diagnostics for Active Directory
• DNSAnalyzer Management Pack – Proactive DNS diagnostics
• DirectoryLockdown Management Pack – Security monitoring and intrusion detection for Active Directory
• MissionControl for MIIS Management Pack – Complete operations management for MIIS
• eDirectory Management Pack – eDirectory monitoring and diagnostics

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