Actually, "Extending System Center" is a pretty broad title, because that could cover at least an entire chapter in a book (and it does, in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed!). However, I wanted to mention a new product, Essential Business Server (EBS 2008), available from Microsoft as a Release Candidate beginning May 2008. The EBS product, geared towards the medium-sized market, runs on Windows Server 2008 and uses Essentials in the background. Essentials is part of EBS, but you don't actually see it. This is a very cool example of how Microsoft can use the System Center technology in the background as the management component for other products.
For information about System Center Essentials, (which is a plural "EssentialS"), see my previous blog posts at http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23533 and http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21315.
For a pre-release look at the EBS product, check out my co-author John Joyner's post at http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!576.entry. The entry also discusses integrating EBS into Microsoft's Remote Operations Manager offering.
Kerrie Meyler, a Microsoft MOM MVP, is an independent consultant and trainer with more than 15 years of Information Technology experience. A previous senior technology specialist at Microsoft, she focused on infrastructure and management solutions, presenting at numerous product launches. More recently, she presented on Operations Manager 2007 and gave several podcasts at TechEd 2007.
Kerrie has worked with Microsoft Learning to develop Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) for several courses, including the Implementing Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 course, and did the beta teach for that course.
Kerrie is the lead author of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed
Check out an excerpt from System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, Chapter 3: Looking Inside OpsMgr.
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