MMS 2011 - Key notes

Microsoft Management Summit(MMS) 2011 has finished not long ago. As you know it's a summit where new products and updates for existing products are announced. I'd like to write about news and update that were interesting for me.

1. SCOM 2012 Beta will be available soon for public download(Q2 2011)

- more supported configurations: application based on Java EE(WebSphere,WebLogic, JBOSS, Tomcat)

- RMS is not a bottleneck for your monitoring, MS can easily be added and removed because there’s a automatic failover between all the MS which are in the management pool

- new network monitoring features:

a) a complete new way of discovering new devices which are in your environment

b) added support for SNMP v3, IPV6

c) MSFT plans to support roughly ~90 vendors out of the box so not much customization needed

d) monitoring includes all the small bits and bolts of your network like Network Port monitoring, memory counters, VLAN health, HSRP health, connection health at end points

e) much better visualization (this is not just network monitoring through) with vicinity maps and gauges

- updated reporting and dashboards views

2. SCCM 2012 Beta 2 is available for public download.

I've already written a post about it. Here.

3. System Center Opalis was renamed to System Center Orchestrator

Here you can find more information about this product.

4. System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta

You can download it here.
More information: http://technet.microsoft.com/ru-ru/evalcenter/gg670988.aspx

5. Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) Beta
 

A very interesting product. It helps to automate the volumes encryption on client machines.

Here it's available for download: https://connect.microsoft.com/site1115/Downloads (Registration needed)

6. System Center Advisor

System Center Advisor (formerly Microsoft codename Atlanta) is a cloud service that enables IT professionals to assess their server configuration and proactively avoid problems.

More information here.

Official site

7.  System Center Concero

The initial release of “Concero” will enable customers to deploy, manage and control applications and services deployed on private clouds built using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and in the public cloud offering of Windows Azure. This provides a consistent and simple user experience for service management across these clouds.

More info.

Here you can find MMS videos:
MMS 2011 Day 1 Keynote video

MMS 2011 Day 2 Keynote video