Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing

Today Windows Phone 7 was RTM:ed. I have followed blogs and press for a long time and it looks good but as we all know there is some features that we will miss. Now I really hope Microsoft understand that they need to do as Apple and Google has done – release updates to the phone regularly and this for free.

More information – Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing

A new challenge

I have now been working at Advisec AB for 10 years and 8 of them I have been part owner of the company. It’s been a lot of fun and I learned a lot during this journey but as of next Wednesday I have decided to accept a new challenge – the position as a Solution Architect at Dell where I will continue to focus on the System Center family.

I really look forward to this new challenge which will let me learn new things and meet new people.

I will continue to run my blog at http://blog.advisec.com

MVP renewal – 2010

Today I got my MVP renewal letter that informed me that I was re-awarded as Most Valuable Professional and therefore receiving the Microsoft MVP award for the fourth year in a row for doing a great job in serving the community by helping out on forums and other community events.

Link to my MVP Profile

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is now available to download

For all of you that have been waiting for SCOM R2 RTM release – you can now download the trial version from Microsoft. I’m not sure when it will be available for download from the VL site or the Technet/MSDN site but I guess it will be in a couple of days.

Download from Microsoft

What's New in Microsoft System Center Essentails 2010?

Are you using System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE)? Then you probably wonder what will be included in the next version. The SCE team has recorded a short video where they discuss and demo System Center Essentials 2010.

New features is:

• Virtualization – Full manageability of virtual machines. You will also be able to to a P2V directly from the console
• Better targeting of software
• Grouping of tasks
• Client and servers are now managed separately, this will give you the option have different patch option/configuration

I will publish more information when it become public available.

Check out this video from TechEd 2009

Link to the SCE team blog post

Visio Add-in for Operations Manager 2007 R2" Beta released

Have you ever wanted to create your own diagram views? Now you can download the Visio Add-in and add real time data to any Vision object.

Read more about the Vision Add-in from the System Center Operations Manager team blog

Download the Vision Add-in from Microsoft Connect

Note that this only works for Opsmgr 2007 R2 so it will not work for SCE or Opsmgr RTM SP1

Are you a Vista or Windows Server 2008 user, SP2 is now available for download

If you are running Vista or Windows Server 2008, you should now start to download the Service Pack 2  – As of now it is only available on MSDN and TechNet

New cool System Center products and features was showcased at MMS 2009

This week was an important week for everyone that is working with System Center Products. Last night I was looking at one of the keynotes (click to view “MMS Day 2 Keynote”) that Brad Anderson presented and during the keynote a couple of cool demos was shown. There were especially two of them that made me happy:

1. I must admit that I have never been a big fan of SCCM but the SCCM vNext looks really cool. The new way you can “target” application will really make life easier for the user. Below you  see a print screen of the product where you can configure how the application should be applied to “me” as a user depending on how and what I logon to. They also moved to the new “System Center Console” instead of the MMC:(To view this demo, go directly to 01:33:20)
   

UPDATE – Bill Anderson talks about the SCCM vNext

1. The second thing I wanted to write about is the new product System Center Online Desktop manager (SCODM). This looks like a “System Center Essentials” in the cloud product. In the first release it will be able to manage (To view this demo, go directly to 01:13:50)
   1. Update management (Windows Update)
   2. Host Protection (Forefront Client Protection)
   3. Remote Assistance
   4. Asset Management
   5. Desktop Monitoring
   6. Desktop Configuration

This product will be updated every 6 month and feature that were mention during the keynote was Software Deployment

The above print screen show you an overview of your hole environment as regards to updates, malware and policy setting

The above print screen show you an overview of the update status in your environment

The above print screen show you an overview of the malware status in your environment

UPDATE – Windows 7 RC1 Released (Now it is)

Today Microsoft has remove the information, someone was a bit to fast to publish it on the partner site:-)

Quote from the partner site:

We are pleased to announce that Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is available. Windows 7 RC is the prerelease version of Windows 7. Since this is not the final release, your PC will gather and send information to Microsoft engineers to help them check the fixes and changes made based on testing of Windows 7 Beta. Test-drive Windows 7 RC today to see for yourself—and to show your colleagues and customers—how Windows 7 delivers improved management, security, reliability, and performance. Download Windows 7 RCPartners: If you have a subscription to MSDN or TechNet, you can download Windows 7 RC now. Otherwise, you can download Windows 7 RC starting May 5, 2009.

Apparently Windows 7 RC is not available yet. As of now (21:30 Swedish time) I’m still seeing the old beta version.

If you have an MSDN or Technet subscription you can now download Windows 7 RC

Exchange 14 = Exchange 2010 and is now available for public beta test

Today Microsoft released the first public version of Exchange 2010.

Download Exchange 2010 Beta 1 from Microsoft

Read more about the new features in Exchange 2010