Posted by: kurtsh | February 13, 2012

RELEASE: System Center Advisor now available for SA customers!

imageWell, apparently no one knows we released System Center Advisor.  ARRRRGH!

QUICK VERSION:  System Center Advisor is a no-charge benefit for Software Assurance customers.  Technically, it’s an agent that installs on some or all of your servers that reports information to a Microsoft-hosted cloud service.  That information is analyzed similarly to a Best Practice Analyzer and identifies areas of improvement or areas that are not following best practices.  These best practices are updated frequently since the service exists in the cloud.  Access to the reporting on these best practices against your servers is handled securely on an admin web site at http://systemcenteradvisor.com. 

Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of System Center Advisor (formerly Microsoft codename ‘Atlanta’) enabling IT Professionals to proactively avoid server configuration problems by assessing static, runtime and operational data to identify potential issues that cause outages or poor performance.

System Center Operations Manager is great at alerting you to server issues as they happen, enabling you to quickly respond – but what if you could actually prevent server configuration problems before they ever impact your server’s performance or availability?

System Center Advisor is a cloud service hosted on Windows Azure that regularly analyzes your servers’ configuration, drawing on the wisdom and experience of Microsoft support staff and its countless interactions with IT professionals to automatically highlight server configuration problems and their solutions for Windows Server and SQL Server. You check for any recommendations by logging into the Advisor portal. You also have the option of email alerts and recommendations delivered directly to your inbox.

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