Today the midweek keynote, Manage Complexity and Achieve Agility with System Center, was presented by Kirill Tatarinov, Corporate Vice President, Windows Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft.

For your convenience I’ve uploaded the complete presentation as a Dia Slideshow.

Click here for the slideshow.

Some interesting announcements were made today by Kirill;

• SMS 2003 SP3 will be available in April and contains the AssetMetrix’ Asset management that was acquired last year.
• In a month from now System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 beta2 will be available.
• Also System Center Virtual Machine Manager beta 2 will become available within the next month.
• System Center codename ‘ServiceDesk’ will be renamed to System Center Service Manager, for this product a public beta will come available within 45 days.

Also a small roadmap of what to come in the System Center productline is shown;

System Center Roadmap

Some cool demo’s were given of SCCM with desired configuration management and a real cool demo of System Center Service Manager showing the provisioning interface build in sharepoint in combination with a cool Vista Sidebar gadget that lets the user track his changes or incidents.

Service Manager Sidebar Gadget

For more information on MMS please visit these blogs also :

Stefan Stranger
Maarten Goet

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