But it wasn’t a real improvement. Searching for a MP on the new website was like searching for a needle in a haystack. So many customers of mine didn’t use PinPoint that much anymore and rebranded it into PainPoint. Which is bad, because Microsoft moved the MP Catalog to a new website for some very good reasons. One of them was to bring all System Center related products together in a single place on the web.
But the complaints were taken seriously by Microsoft and many improvements were done in order to get it right. So PinPoint was becoming better every month. But none of those improvements are like the most recent one. For a day now PinPoint has been rebranded into Microsoft System Center Marketplace: 
What it does? As Microsoft states: ‘…is specifically designed to help business customers find trusted Microsoft System Center experts, and applications and services that enhance and easily integrate with Microsoft System Center products…’
Besides the looks many things have been changed for the better, also searching for a MP!
Follow this small procedure and find any MP you need:
- Under the header Search by Product, click on Operations Manager;
- In the Search bar, enter any MP (like DNS, IIS, SQL, AD, WINS, Forefront, Exchange and Lync), hit the Search button and be surprised!
When you want to know what the latest MP is, follow this small procedure:
- Under the header Search by Product, click on Operations Manager;
- Click on the button Release Date and the latest MP will be shown on top.
So the MP Catalog is back in business with a lot of added features! Nice!
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