I’m now posting on the System Center team blog - http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/default.aspx

Microsoft Management Summit was a week or so ago in Las Vegas – we had dozens of partners put out Press Releases detailing their integrations and extensions to the System Center platform. 1E www.1e.com 1E LOWERS THE COST ON MANAGING WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS...

Finally the team got the Partner Solutions Guide to print. Here is a proof copy (right) next to the 2007 partner guide on the left. This will be printed and shipped to Las Vegas  - in time for the Microsoft Management Summit. A big thanks to all...

When I started in this role – just over a year ago – there were around 25 partners in the Microsoft System Center Alliance. Most of those were founder members of the Alliance which was announced at TechEd/IT Forum in Barcelona in November 2007. The original...

There has been a lot of talk recently about ‘Green IT’ and how power management can safe significant money for an IT organisation. Just this last week there was and article in InfoWorld reporting that $2.8B per year is spent on keeping PCs powered on...

I'm in Ottawa, ON, Canada - just about to visit with a small, really focused System Center partner Silect . Silect have a couple of great products focused on consulting and deployment teams as well as the IT Pro tasked with creating knowledge. Of real...

Here is a partner and customer facing whitepaper describing the benefits and market differentiators for System Center Configuration Management. Executive Summary This document is designed to provide an overview of the benefits and market differentiators...

I came to the realisation that I’d not blogged about technology for weeks on my personal site - and for months here on TechNet. The problem I’ve got is that most of the work with partners is still not released and is under NDA. That really...

Ying Li wrote a great article on installing SCCM on Windows Server 2008. Saved me a lot of time scrubbing my docs. You can read the blog post here with a follow up from Don Hite on updating to SCCM R2 here .

Ok – after a long delay here is the first part of the article on installing a single server SCCM demo server. Collect your pieces first: Hardware A suitable server for Windows Server 2008. I’m installing Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition on a 32...

Apologies – this is taking longer than expected to get the content and videos together. Hopefully this week,

Here’s an exclusive. A new series of partner readiness training is coming next month. Starting with a series of training webcasts and moving to a partner bootcamp across the globe – this set of training will assist development, integration and deployment...

I’m back in the rhythm of things after a week or so of pure ITIL v3. Today I’ve been looking at very different processes – the back office pieces that make up the System Center Alliance. I blogged earlier about the high level aims of the System Center...

Oh joy. I’ve been digging into the mapping between ITIL v3 and the new Microsoft Operations Framework v4. There are a lot of white papers from Microsoft: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc506049.aspx There is also a good MOF v4 overview from...

I’ve been out of the office all week taking training. One of my areas of specialty is ITIL – I’ve been in Brisbane, Australia taking the ITIL v3 Managers Bridge training and exam with The Art of Service . One of my future blog posts will most likely cover...

Now that Hyper-V is generally available I’ve been spending a few days building a test lab server using hardware loaned by AMD . On the surface the machine should be a fantastic workhorse for setting up a System Center virtual lab – a Dell Latitude D531...

I’m working on a doc that walks through installing SCCM 2007 SP1 onto Windows Server 2008. There are a few hoops to jump through – mostly around getting IIS up to shape – but it’s close. I’m trying to use a PowerShell script to get the IIS pieces in place...

As I mentioned in my earlier post – I will dedicate a few posts to describing the System Center Alliance and how it relates to you and why you should care – both as a customer, and as a development partner. The System Center Alliance was announced in...

I guess most readers won’t have heard of the Microsoft System Center Alliance . I’m not surprised – the web page is tucked away in the depths of microsoft.com – it’s not likely you’d find it by accident. In the next few posts I will introduce the System...

Interested in testing out the latest bits in SCCM 2007 SP1? Here’s a link to the download of the full evaluation which includes Service Pack 1. It’s still 1GB in size – but this should let you install cleanly and successfully on Windows Server 2008. This...

I’m still getting used to the blogging platform here; I turned on anonymous commenting so you don’t have to go through the signup rigmarole. Comments welcome, flames happily ignored.

Service Pack 1 for Configuration Manager 2007 was released a few days ago. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5AAE62E8-4B7F-4AF7-BE01-AEFAA4BF059A&displaylang=en It’s a 1GB download – so be aware of...

Where to start? The first post to any blog is the most difficult; tradition dictates that it should be an introduction to the blogger. After starting several blogs over the years this should be getting easier, not harder. The biographical pieces are quite...