Today at Tech•Ed 2005 Europe, Microsoft Corp.’s annual flagship European technical education conference for developers and IT professionals, Sybari Software Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, announced general availability of the Sybari Antigen management pack for Microsoft® Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. The management pack provides critical performance and availability data through the MOM 2005 console for Sybari’s Antigen for Microsoft Exchange and Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and enables IT administrators to rapidly identify and manage potential threats to the security of their network.

“Our customers have told us that they want a way to centrally manage and monitor server performance, availability and security, so we are excited to offer customers closer integration between Sybari Antigen and MOM 2005,” said Joe Licari, vice president of product management for Sybari. “Now corporations can extend their use of MOM 2005 and Antigen to better ensure that critical servers and applications are available and secure.”

MOM 2005 and MOM 2005 management packs are key deliverables of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative, a commitment from Microsoft and industry partners to help IT customers capture and use knowledge to design more manageable systems and automate ongoing operations.