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Grab it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AC7F42F5-33E9-453D-A923-171C8E1E8E55&displaylang=en&displaylang=en Overview The Windows Server Cluster Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of your Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 cluster deployments. It monitors Cluster services components—such as nodes, networks, resources, and resource groups—to report issues that can cause downtime or poor performance. Feature Summary Some of the …

If you’re after a baseline for your OS Security then have a look at http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml#microsoft This website contains Security guides for 2003 Server, Vista & XP from the NSA

The SQL 2000, 2005, and 2008 MP’s have been updated. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/cc539535.aspx Changes in this release, from 6.0.6460.0: Fixed performance issues caused by excessive CPU utilization and script timeouts from Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries in the following management pack discoveries: Discover SQL Server 2005 Database Engines (Windows Server), Discover SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Windows …

Brief Description This document describes the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and 2007 R2 telephony integration strategy. You can grab it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8CDE0C3A-042E-445B-A514-2D12ED5B2AC2&displaylang=en

You can now download a complete pre-built test environment for trying out all these features of OCS 2007 R2. This environment contains prebuilt domain controller, exchange server and different flavours of OCS R2. They are all in a 60-day trial period. They are all VHD files and you will need Hyper-V to run them. You …

Live Mesh has been updated:   We are pleased to announce that our next update is now available. The new build contains a number of reliability and performance improvements; we’ve highlighted the key fixes below. By default your Live Mesh software will automatically update itself within 24 hours of the new build being posted, but …

I am looking to run Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 to have a play with and thought I’d set myself a challenge of getting it up and running on a SQL 2008/2008 Server platform. Obviously one of the pre-requites of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 is SQL so I am using SQL 2008. This post …

HP have released a document on HP Proliant hardware and software is required to run SBS 2008 RC0 on Proliant servers. You can read this document at: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01479108/c01479108.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

SQL 2008 RC0 released for Technet subscribers: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/details/default.aspx?pm=p:334