Deployment CD second edition out now

Johan Arwidmark from TrueSec has released a new version of his excellent Deployment CD.

The CD covers Lite-Touch Deployments using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Zero-Touch Deployments using System Center Configuration Manager 2007. The first version covered these topics using MDT 2008 while the new edition uses MDT2010 and SCCM Sp2 R2.

The CD consists of step-by-step Guides and Video Tutorials:
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SCCM 2007 R3 Announced

The System Center team has today announced the plans for the upcoming SCCM 2007 R3.

The added features are mostly about power management,  a feature I think captures the zeitgeist in a great way.

In these times of financial crisis, IT-departments are looking to cut costs, and are at the same time encouraged to “think Green IT”

The upcoming release of the SCCM 2007  R3 can help IT-departments address both these concerns – by providing tools for power management for SCCM 2007 clients.
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Hyper-V Management Pack for SCOM 2007 released

On Friday Microsoft made the Hyper-V Management Pack for SCOM  2007 available for download from the Microsoft Download Center.

Features include:

• Management of critical Hyper-V services that affect virtual machines and host server functionality
• Management of host server logical disks that affect virtual machine health

• Full representation of virtualization in a single Hyper-V host server, including virtual networks, virtual machines, and guest computers

• Monitoring of virtual machine hardware components that affect availability

Get it here!

The hard to find SystemCenter Partner forums at Microsoft

Rod Trent over at myitforum posted these links to the Config Manager and Operation Manager Partner Forums.

I believe you will need a Microsoft Live Account associated with a Microsoft Partner to log in.
Configuration Manager:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnersystemcentercm

Operations Manager:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnersystemcenterom