Microsoft Updates Systems Road Map

LAS VEGAS—On the two-year anniversary of the launch of its Dynamic Systems Initiative, Microsoft Corp. set out an aggressive road map for the next two years to take its manageability forward.

Among the coming developments are new versions of both Microsoft Operations Manager and Systems Management Server.

MOM Version 3, due in the next two years, will move to model-based management to allow for more service-oriented monitoring rather than element monitoring, said Kirill Tatarinov, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows and Enterprise Management Division, in his keynote address at the Microsoft Management Summit here Tuesday morning.

"You can define models of services you are delivering and monitor the service as it is delivered to end users," he said.

Microsoft will also make MOM more extensible, enhance the interface to make it more task-oriented, and allow different operators to have their own interface depending on their roles. That roles capability will be delivered through greater integration with Active Directory.

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