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