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Last week I posted a blogcast on Operations Manager 2007's ability to create and monitor Distributed Applications. This week, I am posting a blogcast about Operations Manager 2007 reporting. The new version has powerful reporting capabilities and I know of companies who bought OpsMgr even for that reason only! Join me in my 5 minute video to explore some features:
Techlog Blogcast: Operations Manager 2007 ReportingStay tuned for the next one about System Center Essentials. Also check out our Blogcast Archive for more great product and feature demonstrations. (more)
I will be doing a series of blogcasts the coming weeks to highlight several features of great new (and upcoming) System Center products.Most will be replicated from the demo's at my Technet Live presentation. The first one that I have recorded, is a blogcast about Operations Manager 2007 ability to create distributed applications:
Techlog Blogcast: Operations Manager 2007 Distributed ApplicationsStay tuned for the next one about Operations Manager 2007 Reporting. Also check out our Blogcast Archive for more great product and feature demonstrations. (more)
Keith Combs writes: The Windows Server 2008 Server Manager is a portal of sorts to the installation, configuration, management and monitoring of the roles and features. Your initial view of those roles and features will be rather empty because of course, you need to install the ones that are germane to your particular server.This screencast starts to get into the meat of WS 2008. In Beta 3, there are seventeen roles that are available in the GUI version of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. The Core implementation of Enterprise has a different set of roles so we'll defer that discussion to some of the Core step-by-step screencasts I recorded.
None of the 17 roles are installed by default. None of the 35 features are installed either. That is by design. The firewall is running and blocking traffic on initial setup of WS 2008 but very little else (from an attack surface perspective) is enabled initially in the server. Role or feature installation is a wizard driven piece of cake. You can also install roles via the command line if needed. (more)
Blogcast: Windows Server 2008 Server Manager
Keith Combs writes: Setting up Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 is pretty easy but there are a couple of initial configuration tasks that you should pay attention to. Fortunately, like most of the recent product developments, we give you a nice checklist on what to do in a step-by-step manner.After you get through the install and setup of WS 2008, you'll notice that the administrative account is automatically logged into and you are presented with a screen with those steps. What do you think the first step is? You guessed it! Create a complex password for the admin account. There are a number of simple steps in the first two sections of the task list. Most of the real work takes place in section three with the WS 2008 Server Manager which we'll defer to another screencast I'll post shortly.
This screencast will take five minutes to view and is very straightforward. Short is good. In fact, all of the screencasts I'm doing are intentionally being kept as short as possible. You'll see some subsequent demos take longer, but that's the nature of the beast as we go deeper and deeper into the topics. (more)
Blogcast: Windows Server 2008 Initial Configuration Tasks
Keith Combs writes: Setup for Windows Server 2008 (WS 2008) could not be easier. You won't find a ton of information on setup just yet but it's coming. Setup isn't nearly as sexy as the services and features in the product. If you spent some time learning the deployment tools with Windows Vista, that knowledge will come in handy.Windows Server 2008 installation is based on some of the same toolset and imaging technologies used by Windows Vista. When you boot from the WS 2008 DVD, Windows PE executes and loads the installation Windows Imaging (WIM) file. Within the WIM, you'll find multiple images that are available for customization and unattended installation. The product key you enter tells Setup which image to load and install. In the case of Windows Server 2008, you still need to give setup some help because there are two images for each key. One for the GUI version of the product and another for the Core version. We'll get to the differences in other screencasts down the road.
For today's demo, we are going to go through the GUI based install of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Beta 3. In another demonstration, we'll go though the process of installing Enterprise Core. (more)
Blogcast: Windows Server 2008 Setup
Operations Manager 2007 introduces role-based access control. IT administrators can define custom user roles to enable members of groups associated with the role to see only the events and views that have been assigned by the role. They can also control which tasks will be available to the role. This granularity allows the Operations Manager Console to be safely deployed to more users in the IT environment, since it can be given to users who only need access to certain types of information and their access privileges can be limited to just that information. Read-only access can be granted as well. In this Blogcast, we will give you a demonstration of that feature of Operations Manager 2007.
Techlog blogcast: Operations Manager 2007: role-based access
What's New in Microsoft ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2? Techlog has made a blogcast about the new features of ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2. In this blogcast, we discuss BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) caching, HTTP compression and Traffic Prioritization (Diffserver, QoS). We also talk about the technical changes; support for Windows Server 2003 R2, SQL 2005, CARP (Cache Array Routing Protocol) improvements and certificate alerts. Learn more about ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2 and how it can streamline branch office connectivity and security while protecting Windows clients and making the best use of data center IT resources!
Techlog blogcast: ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2
John Howard writes: "With Virtual Server 2005 R2 just a few days away from public availability, many of you will want to know more about Host Clustering - a new capability supported with this release - what better way to find out than with a live on-demand demonstration, so read on.Some of you may have been fortunate enough to see the demonstration of Host Clustering during the keynote presentation by Bob Muglia and Josh Cohen at IT Forum. For those that weren't that fortunate, I spent a significant chunk of the weekend building a poor-mans reproduction so you can see it in action any time you like through a simple blogcast."
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering Walkthrough