New Management Packs for SCE 2007 and SCOM 2007.

2 new management packs for System Center Essentials 2007 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 have been released in the past week. The more important of these new releases, in my opinion, is the updated Backward Compatibility MP. Improvements to this MP should allow for better more trouble free running of management packs upgraded from MOM 2005. Also just released is the MP for Exchange Server 2007, a huge help for those of us moving forward with our Exchange migrations.

You can find the new management packs, along with all the other MPs, here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb847850.aspx

Microsoft DPM 2007 RTMs

Microsoft’s new Data Protection Manager 2007, a part of the System Center family, has been Released to Manufacturing. DPM 2007 is a great product which I have been beta testing for a few months now, and includes the ability to backup Exchange (including 2007), SQL Server and SharePoint (both MOSS and WSS version). Those of you with Microsoft-centric shops, who are looking for a backup and archival solution, would be well advised to take a look at DPM 2007 now that the code is locked down.