This is an exciting week for System Center! Today Cireson has released the SCSM Outlook Console. This tool lets you work with Service Manager from Outlook. Here is what you can do with it: create, view, edit, and complete incidents, changes requests, problems, activities, and service requests. Here is a link to it on CIreson’s website:
http://www.cireson.com/app-store/scsm-outlook-console/
Also today Veeam released a version 6.5 of the Veeam Management Pack for VMware. This lets you monitor and manage your VMWare environment from SCOM. Check out the new features here:
http://www.veeam.com/vmware-microsoft-esx-monitoring-features.html#whats_new
Remember later this week on October 18th System Center 2012 R2 will be available From Microsoft.