This white paper discusses how Microsoft manages Web services today, the next generation of Web services management (in MOM 2005), and how DSI “bakes” management into Web services.

Delivering on the Dynamic Systems Initiative, Microsoft® Operations Manager 2005 enables increased levels of service availability for Windows Server System.

This guide provides information about the most common Active Directory monitoring scenarios, state monitoring definitions, tasks, reports, and views. This guide also includes instructions for deploying and operating the Active Directory Management Pack.

Online training modules for MOM 2005 and MOM 2005 Workgroup in areas such as architecture, planning and deployment, administration, and operations.

The MOM 2005 Software Development Kit (SDK) provides documentation and tools to customize and extend MOM 2005.

This guide provides information about the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Management Pack, including monitoring scenarios, deployment steps, operations tasks, and reference content.

This guide provides information about the Microsoft Windows Servers Base Operating System Management Pack , including monitoring scenarios, deployment steps, operations tasks, and reference content.

This guide provides information about the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Clusters Management Pack, including monitoring scenarios, deployment steps, operations tasks, and reference content.

This guide provides information about the Microsoft Windows DNS Server Management Pack, including monitoring scenarios, deployment steps, operations tasks, and reference content.

A problem has been identified in the MOM management pack import process. When importing management packs which share a root level rule group, product knowledge can be lost when using the replace option during import. This QFE resolves this issue to prevent any management pack product knowledge from being lost on import.