Microsoft has taken the wraps off its new licensing plans for System Center 2012…. See here for more info - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-details-new-licensing-plans-for-its-cloud-management-suite/11673

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I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks catching on my Microsoft certifications for some of the areas I focus on and passed the following exams:   70-401: TS: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Configuring 70-400: TS: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring 70-638: TS: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Configuring   [...]

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Display names of the services changed in the R2 version of SCOM 2007.  The names themselves did NOT change, so if you use ‘net stop’ or ‘net start’ that will not be affected. If you are looking for the services in the services.msc, the new names are list below. It had me stumped for a few [...]

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A colleague of mine has created an excellent Maintenance Mode GUI for System Centre Operation Manager based on Powershell forms. Head over to http://yangtao-blog.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!78150852A51B249C!209.entry to find out more.

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