Beta invitation for System Center Reporting Manager is officially in beta. Below are invitation instructions from Eileen Brown so get on it if you’d like to play with this next generation reporting/monitoring tool.
1. Go to the Microsoft Betaplace Site and sign in with your Microsoft .Net Passport ID. If you don’t have a Passport account, you will need to first complete a Passport registration.
2. Enter the Guest ID “SCGUEST” (this ID is case-sensitive).
3. Click on the Systems Center Reporting Manager 2005 link.
4. Click on the Nomination link on the left side of the page.
5. Fill out and submit the nomination form and expect that in 24 hours you will have access to the beta build.
If you’re not familiar with the above, System Center is what I like to call the next suite Microsoft assault on the OS platform. It integrates platform management, disaster recovery, reporting, performance scorecards and basically gives a lot of us in the Enterprise ready-to-go tools that we’ve already had to write on our own. Things like DPM fall into it.
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