Last month the Swedish Techdays took place and I had the opportunity to present a session about the new release of System Center Essentials 2010. The session was recorded and is now online if you couldn’t attend.
Microsoft has updated the Visio Add-in to support Visio 2010. Except support for Visio 2010 they added support to publish your Visio diagrams as live dashboards in SharePoint.
Today Microsoft announced the “Kin” phone. I’m not sure what to think yet, still to many questions unanswered:
How compatible is it with a upcoming Windows 7 Phones application store?
Does it have push mail? I think I heard them talking about contact from Exchange on the webcast but ’m not sure
Will it be sold outside US? If yes, will I be able to bye it in Sweden and from what operator?
I really like the “Kin Studio”- will this be the new version of the Windows live “My Phone” service and will it be available for all Windows Mobile phones?
Is there any limits on “Kin Studio” or can I upload unlimited amount of data? If not, what will it cost to expand it?
If you for example used a Swedish Windows 7/XP you haven’t been able to download the Microsoft Security Essentials in a easy way (only if you had the direct link to the download file) – You were told that it wasn’t released for you country. Now they changed that and until the tool is released in your language you can download the English version of it.
For those of you that don’t know what Microsoft Security Essentials is – It is a free antivirus/spyware software from Microsoft. It’s supported to run on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 (no server OS).
Today Microsoft announced that EBS is discontinued as of June 30th, 2010. EBS was the only server product that included System Center Essential out of the box.
If you want to try the new version of DPM, you can now download the RC version. There is a couple of new features that wasn’t in the beta version, one that I know people have been waiting for – Support for workgroup machines.
Yesterday Microsoft released the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Cumulative Update 2 (KB979490). This update fixes the blow issues (plus the fixes in KB973583)
The Log File provider rescans a file repeatedly if the size of the file has become smaller than last scan, generating old records and potentially causing performance issues on AIX computers and the Operations Manager Management server.
When the Operations Manager Management server fails over to another Management server, alerts in the failed server’s log files may be re-generated and CPU load may increase significantly.
The Cross Platform agent installed on a Solaris computer could stop working when the system configuration is changed. For example, when disks are added or removed on the Solaris computer.
The Operations Manager agent stops working on computers running supported version of Solaris where Hot Spare Pool is declared by name and there is no disk association.
The Operations Manager Management server fails to replace display string parameter while creating the alert for monitor state change.
Operations Manager generates ‘disk full’ alerts when mounting UFS CDROMs on any supported version of Solaris.
Certificate generation could fail when adding a new UNIX or Linux computer to the management group.
Note that this update need to be install on both Management Servers and gateway Servers