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Our latest collection of beta releases are now available for download. We hope you’ll take the time to preview and provide feedback on these new materials. These materials will provide organizations with the resources to apply MOF guidance to Microsoft products and technologies. This collection...

After incorporating great feedback from our beta participants, we’re excited to announce that two new guides— MOF Management Reviews and MOF Service Mapping —are available for download. Thanks to those who helped us develop these latest extensions to the MOF core content! Download MOF Management Reviews...

Thanks in part to your participation at every stage of its development, a new MOF implementation guide is now available for download. The Getting Started with MOF 4.0 guide is the first step to a more efficient MOF implementation. The guide provides role-and situation-specific guidance, focused on...

The Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) team is excited to announce the first release in a new series of MOF Action Plans. Download the premier release now: MOF Action Plan- Redistributing the Workload IT pros are faced daily with challenges that require actionable results. We think they’d benefit...

We’re continuing to extend core MOF content with two new companion guides: Cross Reference ITIL®V3 and MOF 4.0 and Using MOF for ISO/IEC 20000. These guides compare MOF with some of IT’s most widely used service management guidance. They’ll give you: · An overview of IT Service Management (ITSM...

Hi All, One of the first things people realize when looking at implementing a service management framework, whether it is ITIL, MOF, or another, is that they must not only be adopted but also adapted to your individual organization's needs. You have to decide which of the described processes are relevant...

Picking up from the last posting where I detailed our overall approach to the IT Service Lifecycle and briefly discussed the purposes of each of the four phases, today I wanted to drill into a bit more detail into the Plan and Optimize (P&O) phase. And while names have changed since I originally...

Development has continued at a frenzied pace over the past couple of months on the MOF update and we do have some work to show for it. But before I present the MOF IT Service Lifecycle, its phases, and our new graphic, I'd like to review a few of our core design principles with you to make sure we're...

We have now spent some time talking about IT Governance as well as the Business IT Planning phase of the lifecycle and so I wanted to jump ahead a bit from planning straight into the Operations and Support phase of the lifecycle, with emphasis on the Operations piece. Please understand that I am intentionally...

IT business planning is an increasing important topic in the world of today's IT professional. We continuously see problems arising from not including IT operations early enough in the planning process which leads to services being designed with little thought given to operational concerns and serviceability...

For a slight change of pace, I wanted to let everyone know that today we have officially released Windows Vista Service Lifecycle Management (WV-SLM). WV-SLM is the first of a new line of MOF offerings designed to take service management best practices and make them real for the IT professional by applying...

There has been a lot of really good discussion and follow-up commentary around my IT governance posting from last week and so I wanted to provide a little more detail around what we mean we talk about IT governance. For us, IT governance is a very simple concept with far-reaching implications that impacts...

Our Mission Statement: Ensure that IT does the right thing at the right time for the right reasons. Anyone who has ever heard me teach has heard me comment that I have a perhaps odd fascination with mission statements. I like the fact that something so short and simple, if done correctly, can have...

Today someone posed the rather straightforward question of who is the true audience for MOF, and why we'd focus entirely on the IT pro? That's a very good question and it raises the point that I don't think we've done a good job to date in articulating our views on the target audience. As we've been...