Two new things for System Center Operations Manager – Me and a Management Pack

This week, the OpsMgr team added two new items that are hopefully of interest to some of y’all.

A new Technical Product Manager … me !!  

I am very excited to be taking on OM!  Yes, I will still have DPM and SCE roles, but with those products wholly launched, am looking forward to joining a great OM 2007 R2 team as they start the ramp towards OM vNext.  Please do not start sending your 400-level, no-one-else-can-answer questions on OM to me yet.  Thankfully, there is a phenomenal community of OM MVPs and bloggers out there, with a great heritage of peer-level sharing and expertise.  But, as I ramp up and the vNext story gets closer, look for more OM stuff from me and highlighting some of the great OM SME’s in cyberspace. 

Having been a TPM for nearly five years now, its more of the same for me – conferences, webcasts, content, social-outreach, etc.  This is going to be a really fun year !

Management Pack for AD Certificate Services

I have been on the job less than a week and here is a new MP – how is that for productivity?!?!   Of course, most of the work was already done on it.  My contribution was simply to click an OK button, but still there was a small sense of excitement and trepidation as I reached for the mouse.  The Active Directory Certificate Services Monitoring Management Pack monitors service availability for Certification Authority (CA) servers running on a Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 managed machines, including server core installations, and provides alerts for critical events.

Click here to download the new MP for AD Certificate Services

As always, thanks for reading