Here's a great resource to get up-to-speed on the latest version of System Center 2012.    Virtual Lab System Center Operations Manager 2012: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building Your Cloud Infrastructure System Center Virtual...

Overview Microsoft System Center 2012 cloud and datacenter solutions provide a common management toolset for your private and public cloud applications and services to help you deliver IT as a Service to your business. System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides the monitoring component of this solution...

The Atlanta Systems Management User Group and System Center Virtual User Group invites you to attend the next SMUG meeting scheduled for April 22nd, 2011 for a day of great presentations, discussions, and networking. Registration If you are planning to attend the event in person, click here to Register...

East Region DPE is currently delivering a System Center Management Firestarter Series .  The PowerPoint presentations covering the following topics are available here for download: System Center Essentials System Center Operations Manager System Center Configuration Manager System Center Virtual...

Coming to a city near you!!  TechNet Events presents: To Manage and Deploy: Take control of your critical infrastructure with the Microsoft Management Stack . Move from crisis mode to enhanced IT control with the Microsoft management stack. Join your local TechNet Events team for a full day of live...

  The Atlanta Southeast Management User Group and System Center Virtual User Group invites you to attend the next SMUG meeting scheduled for October 11th, 2010 for a day of great presentations, discussions, and networking. You can attend IN-PERSON or VIRTUALLY !!!! Click on the registration button...

My original post for the ITPro Momentum Program was back in October 2007.  With Windows 7 Beta on public release I thought it was a good time for a little reminder to everyone to let you know about the program and get you signed up!!!   So, as before, check out the table below and see...

If you haven't looked at the TechNet Virtual Labs site then you're really missing out on a great resource!! Today I want to point out whats available for the System Center family in particular. if you want to "kick the tires" without having to go through all the setup process then go take a look at TechNet...

Are you working with System Center Operations Manager? Then download the Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Documentation . The download includes the following System Center Operations Manager 2007 guides: Operations Manager 2007 Operations Guide: This guide is a comprehensive resource...

The Operations Manager 2007 Key Concepts document is available for download. If you’re interested in getting more details on the models that are used in System Center Operations Manager 2007 then click here to download the document, its available in three formats – doc, pdf and xps. The following...

Operation Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate is available for download. From the download website here is some more detailed information on the service pack: New Features The new features that are in Operations Manager 2007 SP1 are: · Improved performance and reliability when working...

The Operations Manager 2007 Product team have put together this handy spreadsheet for calculating the size of your Operations Manager 2007 Database and Data Warehouse This tool is based on data from the Microsoft IT and some early adopter customers. To download the spreadsheet click OpsMgr2007...

If you’re responsible products in the System Center suite of products such as Operations Manager 2007 , Configuration Manager 2007 , Data Protection Manager 2007 , Virtual Machine Manager 2007 , Windows Update Services , Windows Power Shell and others, then you’ll want to check out the new System Center...

Several attendees to our live TechNet events these past few weeks have asked if there is a list of ports for the different components of Operations Manager 2007 that need to be opened if going through a Firewall. Although there is a slide in Session 1: Optimizing your IT Infrastructure with Microsoft...

At todays event in Ronkonkoma, NY several of you asked what the licensing costs are for the various System Center products we discussed. Below are some charts with the basic numbers, but to get more detailed information click on the links below: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Pricing and...

This month one the core topics we are talking about at the TechNet Live Events is System Center Essentials . Many times we have attendee overlap with the TS2 Partner Seminar in the afternoon. It was during a break from the TS2 sessions that I had an interesting question posed to me from an attendee....

During the demonstration a task was created and the default management pack was selected. When do you want to use the default management pack and when do you not want to use it? Always. By default, customizations are saved to the Default Management Pack. Also, Vendor Management Packs are sealed, any...

Are these same reporting capabilities also available in System Center Essentials? No. System Center Essentials has built-in reports with the management packs, but data storage is fixed at 40 days. Also, there is no report authoring capability. How about SQL 2005 SP2 and reporting services...

This question has come up a few times in the last few events I've had. Ideally, all the System Center Operations Management servers and the monitored machines are in a trusted boundary, i.e. same domain or forest. But what if you want to monitor machines that are outside the trust boundary? That's not...

Part of the content of our current live TechNet event seminars is System Center Operations Manager. Many of the attendees have asked if there is any documentation or books on the product. There aren’t any MSPress books out yet, but I did find this one in the Mastering Series from Sybex: Mastering...