Category: Video

System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1 Beta will be out soon with a lot of enhancements

On the last Edge Show on Channel 9 guest of Symon Perriman was Ake Pettersson, a Senior Program Manager for System Center. They discussed the upcoming changes in System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1. It seems Global Service monitor will not be the only one feature introduced in this service pack. With SCOM 2012 SP1 we will be bale to monitor WCF, MVC, .NET Window Services, SharePoint 2010, Azure SDK trough Application Performance Monitoring (APM) adding Global Service Monitor to this SCOM 2012 is now supporting a a wide variety of applications. Symon and Ake also discussed the integration of OpsMgr with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS) by showing a couple of demos also. In the end of the show Ake mentioned that the Beta of System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1 will be out soon which means that we will have also Betas for all System Center 2012 SP1 components. With such pace may be we will be able to get the final version of SP1 short after Windows Server 2012 is released to RTM.

Watch the full show here.

System Center Service Manager free webinar

Cireson is organizing free SCSM webinar titled “Everything you need to know on System Center Service Manager 2012”. The webinar is scheduled for 15th of August. Registration and more information you can find here.

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages – Microsoft vs. VMware

More than a dozen videos were released at Technet site related to Hyper-V and System Center 2012. These videos are 4 courses part of Microsoft Virtual Academy. All these videos compare Microsoft Technologies against VMware’s. Even though these videos are created by Microsoft they show very accurate the difference between the technologies that are compared. We can see that how Microsoft is turning from follower to a leader in a lot of areas in the Virtualization and the Private Cloud. No further explanation is needed you can just watch the videos and make up your mind for the capabilities that both companies offer:

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of Hyper-V Server 2012 over VMware ESXi 5.0

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of System Center 2012 over VMware’s Management Technologies

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.0

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of the Microsoft Private Cloud over the VMware Private Cloud

Microsoft System Center Extensions: Security with Squadra Technologies secRMM

Squadra Technologies is a System Center Alliance partner and develops management packs specifically for System Center. In this video you will see demo of the product secRMM which provides monitoring and authorization for mobile and removable media devices.

Several Sessions for System Center 2012

Here are some interesting sessions published recently on TechNet: