Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0

The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0 helps organizations maintain virtual machines that are stored offline in a Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager library. While stored, virtual machines do not receive operating system updates. The tool provides a way to keep offline virtual machines up-to-date so that bringing a virtual machine online does not introduce vulnerabilities into the organization’s IT infrastructure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8408ecf5-7afe-47ec-a697-eb433027df73&DisplayLang=en

Estimating Database Sizes for OpsMgr 2007

Here is a good article on estimating database sizes for OpsMgr 2007.

http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!171.entry

a non-secure implementation of OCS

This article, http://www.voipshield.com/news/press-releases-details.php?year=2008&id=20, talks about security concerns in OCS's use of RTP protocol.

But for anybody who is following the best practises of implementing OCS, Microsoft responded that VoIPShield's test is "on a non-secure implementation of OCS, which you would have to disable as we are secure with a default installation."

watch this demo of BI, Performance Point and Virtual Server

SCOM 2007 R2

Announced in Brad Anderson’s keynote today in Barcelona at Teched IT Pro.

The public web site was updated too – check it out here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/opsmgr/dd239186.aspx