This blog article will highlight some of the new features in Live Maps v5:

• Automatic Network Topology Mapping
• ‘Show Affected Live Maps’ Alert Task
• Dynamic Maps
• Integration With Service Manager 2010

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We are pleased to announce the availability of Live Maps v5. This release contains improved integration with problem and incident management processes which unleashes even more usability scenarios and extends the reach of Live Maps to a greater audience.

Live Maps v5 also contains major time saving improvements by automating the creation and maintenance of maps. Live Maps v5 is the only platform that brings automatic network topology diagrams and dynamic datacenter maps to Microsoft System Center.

For more information:

Press releases:

• Live Maps v5 Announcement
• Live Maps v5 Integration with Service Manager 2010

 Blog post:

• New in Live Maps v5

The new version of Live Maps can be downloaded here. Customers and partners can request a v5 license key by sending an email to sales@savision.com. Free copy users can request an updated key here.

During the Microsoft Management Summit 2010 in Las Vegas Microsoft took a new approach with their hands-on lab infrastructure. Microsoft replaced the fat desktops running the lab VMs locally with thin clients and 42 central servers capable of running over 4000 VMs.

To deploy and manage this virtualized environment Microsoft used System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System Center Operations Manager and Savision Live Maps. Have a look at the interview with Barry Shilmover for more details.

More details on Live Maps...

We are proud to announce the release of Live Maps 4.1 for Operations Manager R2. This update contains, besides some fixes and performance improvements, a number of new features that have been added based on customer feedback. Some of the new features are highlighted in this article, a complete overview can be found in the release notes.

The new release can be downloaded here. If you are upgrading from Live Maps v2 or v3 a new license key is needed. Free edition user can request an updated key here, customers can request a new key by sending an email to sales@savision.com.

Feature Highlight

Health Details

A feature has been added to the Live Maps drawing view that allows you to optionally display the health details of a nested map or object. The details show the number of child objects in a particular state and the total number of open alerts.

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The Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) Strategic Information Technologies serves the quintessential distributed work force, consisting of some 1.300 individual schools, more than 50 district offices, as many as 16 technical colleges, and other education related sites. With an Active Directory implementation storing nearly 500.000 user accounts, 150.000 computer objects and 2.500 servers the DET IT department faces a real challenge to keep this environment under control.

Read this case study and learn how DET uses System Center Operations Manager 2007 with Savision Live Maps to gain visability and get in control.

“This not only give us visibility to alerts, it shows us all of the dependencies on the alert. It was impossible to get this critical information so quickly before Live Maps.” Nicholas Long, Manager, Enterprise Platform and Development, DET.

Last week our partner OpsLogix released their Intelligent Management Pack for BlackBerry.

The Intelligent Management Pack for BlackBerry checks the status of your BlackBerry Enterprise Server infrastructure as a whole, checking every individual component providing a comprehensive state and performance view for your BlackBerry Enterprise Server infrastructure. Furthermore, it not only alerts & reports on BlackBerry Enterprise Server issues, but also monitors the most critical component; the SRP connection to RIM.

Besides offering the first native solution for BlackBerry monitoring with Operations Manager Opslogix uses Live Maps technology from Savision to offer a graphical health overview of the BlackBerry infrastructure. Check out their website for more information.

Today we posted the recording of the System Center Operations Manager ISV Über Demo, ISV solutions for cross-platform monitoring, regulatory auditing and advanced visualizations.

There are over forty minutes of demos and everything is running on SCOM R2! This is a great session for Microsoft field, partners and SCOM users that shows real world examples of how to get the most out of your System Center investment leveraging native third party solutions like BridgeWays, Savision and Secure Vantage Technologies.

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This year at MMS we held a great breakout session and showcased how System Center Operations Manager can be optimized with partner solutions to address cross platform monitoring, security and compliance plus enhanced visualizations. Given the feedback and community requests we decided to host two live webcasts next month on June 3rd, at 7am and 1pm PST, to redo the ISV Über Demo.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to see firsthand how easily SCOM can be extended to address real world business problems, reduce complexity and TCO for IT, all while maximizing your ROI in System Center.

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Today Windows IT Pro, the authoritative and independent resource for everything Windows, named Savision Live Maps (Live Maps) the number one add-on for Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr). In an article written by Cameron Fuller, OpsMgr MVP and author of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, Windows IT Pro lists and ranks the five must have extensions for OpsMgr, putting Live Maps in first place.

Live Maps allows IT organizations to easily conceive, build and maintain large-scale monitoring maps. Wizards and templates allow IT professionals to quickly construct dynamically updated network and application topologies, geographical views, complex business processes and executive dashboards. A seamless integration into the OpsMgr console, integration with Sharepoint, a full featured web console and a soon to be released Vista gadget ensure that employees at all levels, from the IT operator to the business executive, have access to the information needed to proactively manage IT problems.

Read the whole article at the Windows IT pro website.

We are proud to announce that the Dell has chosen Savision Live Maps v3 to be a part of their global monitoring service offering. Within this service offering Dell engineers install and configure Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 in combination with the latest version of Live Maps.

Dell is a very important partner for us, as they have presence in many of the fortune 500 companies. These fortune 500 companies benefit the most from our solution as they tend to have the most complex IT environments.

For more information on the Dell Service Offerings visit the Dell website.

At the MMS in Las Vegas we showed off the new Savision Live Maps Vista gadget, that's going to be part of the new release of Live Maps. We got nothing but great feedback and want to share it with those of you that weren't able to make it to the MMS.

Each gadget shows a summary of the state of a specific view. Using a fly-out you can open the view itself straight from your desktop. The cool thing is you can run multiple instances of the gadget in the sidebar. You don't even need to have the OpsMgr console installed. I find that since I run a set of these gadgets I hardly open the OpsMgr console anymore.

So... this is what it looks like on my desktop.

There is a free version of Live Maps available, download it now.

More information about Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 can be found here.

Like every year Savision will be present in the exhibiting hall of the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas (26-30 April). You can find us at booth 225 where we will have Live Maps v3 for Operations Manager 2007 on display.

This year you will also be able to learn more about Live Maps in two break-out sessions:

SO33: OpsMgr 2007 R2: Driving Compliance with ACS

TS40: ISV Solutions for Cross-platform Monitoring, Regulatory Auditing and Advanced Visualizations

See you in Vegas!

The Netherlands - Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Savision B.V., the leader in Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager visualization, today announced the availability of a free version of Live Maps for Microsoft Operations Manager 2007. Microsoft Operations Manager administrators everywhere can now benefit from the extraordinary visualization capabilities of Live Maps v3. The free version is fully functional and allows IT organizations to create three maps of any type.

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Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 is on display at the Cebit in Hannover Germany. With 4,300 exhibiting firms from 69 countries on hand Cebit is really the No. 1 marketplace for digital solutions, trends and innovations - and has the biggest and best conference program for the ICT community.

Live Maps is shown as part of a new green solution created by Rittal and Microsoft.

Read more about this green solution at the Rittal website.