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Building on the success MOM 2005, System Center Operations Manager is the latest generation of Microsoft’s end-to-end service management tool.  Conor will demonstrate how to use SCOM to identify and resolve issues affecting the health of distributed IT services as well as deployment of management packs for monitoring products such as Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.  He will also discuss best practices for utilizing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to identify and report on hardware-level events.

Conor Wentz is a senior systems engineer on Software Logic’s infrastructure team.  In addition to his work with Microsoft’s System Center products, Conor specializes in network infrastructure and Exchange Server.  His most recent work includes design and deployment of unified communications solutions using Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 with support for corporate instant messaging, federated presence, video conferencing, and remote call control.