LCSKid brings good tidings: the management pack for OCS 2007 is now out.
Hurray! This was a missing link in the case for Microsoft UC. I like that OCS gives you the ability to manage and provision users w/ several different feature (voice, video, conferencing, IM, presence, LiveMeeting) from a single place and a single application. But now you can monitor it all just like any other application in your MS environment. Ease of implementation, plus ease of administration, and now: ease of management.
In my previous post, The Case for Microsoft UC, I talked at a high level about the transformational vision of MS and UC. But now I am going to follow it up with a more pragmatic case for UC that deals with things like administration and management; things that show the real business value. And the SCOM announcement fits nicely into that. Stay tuned…
