SP 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 will be available on December 8th 2008. Along with the roll up update this release enhances many of the core features of DPM 2007. The key among them being Protection of Hyper-V? virtualization platforms Enhanced SQL Server 2008 protection Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows
SCOM 2007 Useful Links
Main Downloads page (catalog, documentation) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498232.aspx Operations Manager Product Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam SystemCenterForum.org http://www.systemcenterforum.org System Center Content Search (Vista gadget) http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=49e26ad0-113d-4f3d-a711-57f6530c75d9 System Center Operations Manager Blog Search: http://search.live.com/macros/microsoft_user_assistance/sc_operations_manager_blogs Event Flow Diagram http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2007/10/30/event-alerts-perf-data-flow-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx DWDATARP.exe (For setting Data Retention policies in the Warehouse) http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/05/14/data-warehouse-data-retention-policy-dwdatarp-exe.aspx End-To-End Task test: http://www.systemcenterforum.org/testing-end-to-end-notification-in-opsmgr-or-essentials-2007-mp/ Targeting Best Practices Poster: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/a/7/fa73e146-ab8a-4002-9311-bfe69a570d28/BestPractices_Rule_Monitor_REV_110607.pdf Best practices to use
New in the Windows 2008/Vista Auditing
Have you ever thought that 9 auditing options available in Windows (via Local security policy or GPO) are too general? Have you ever asked to make more granular auditing? Now you can. You have about 50 new subcategories to audit: System Security State Change Security System Extension System Integrity IPsec Driver Other System EventsLogon/Logoff
Recovering deleted files in Windows Vista with ShadowExplorer
Have you ever wanted to recover deleted files, only to discover you don’t have a backup ? With Windows Vista, you don’t have to worry All of the Vista version support an automatic backup mechanism named VSS (Volume Shadow copy Service). The VSS creates an automatic backup of files and folders within the OS volume
October Technet Magazine was dedicated to Virtualization
Check out the October issue of Technet Magazine. it was dedicated to Virtualization and has some good articles in it: Virtualization: An Introduction to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 The introduction of Hyper-V makes virtualization an even more compelling solution for IT environments. Get an overview of today?s virtualization market and see how Hyper-V improves
Connect to an SQL Server Instance from a remote server
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????? Windows 2008\Vista ??????? ??? ISA
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How to configure Remote Assistance to not prompt for user permission
Assuming this does not violate any of your internal security policies and procedures, and assuming you have control over the files contained on your XP workstations, you can make changes to 2 files to eliminate the end-user prompts asking for permission when using Remote Assistance to XP workstations. If you wish, you could modify just
A Great place for SCOM scripts
Check out Boris Yanushpolsky’s blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky). Boris is an SCOM Program Manager focusing on SDK and PowerShell. Utilities documented and available on his blog include: Putting a computer into Maintenance Mode using PowerShell http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/07/25/putting-a-computer-into-maintenance-mode.aspx Put specific components into Maintenance Modehttp://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/10/19/what-if-i-dont-want-to-put-the-whole-computer-into-maintenance-mode.aspx Take a group and puts all computers in the group (including the health service and
