System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) is certified to work with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.  Important Note – SCE2010 will not be enhanced to support Dynamic Memory and Remote FX which are new features that were added in Windows Server 2008 R2 ...read more

This is a repost of an article written by Milan Jajal that I put over on the Configuration Manager Support Team blog so if you follow that one you’ve probably already seen it.  Back when I originally posted this I wasn’t part of the SCE blog family ...read more

Symptoms You are using System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 and you try to designate a host that is in a workgroup and not in a domain.  The result is that it fails with the following error: Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact ...read more

So, you got your copy of System Center Essentials 2010 installed, you’ve run through your initial configuration, and now want to try out this virtualization thing. This post will guide you through creating and configuring your first virtual machine, and ...read more

At the Dynamics Convergence 2010 conference I mentioned to several people that it is possible to create a dynamic group based on whether a piece of software is installed or not but I never went into the details of how to do it. This posting describes ...read more

YES! It is finally here! We are very excited to announce the RTM of SCE 2010. You can read the official announcement at System Center Nexus , as well as the commentary from longtime SCE product manager, David Mills, at the Because Its’ Everybody ...read more

The nice folks at ZD Net in the UK just posted their review of SCE 2010, based on the Release Candidate.   Click here to read the whole review, but their bottom line was: Virtualisation is definitely the big draw for SCE 2010, but there are ...read more

The monitoring capability within Essentials comes from Management Packs, and the majority Management Packs that work with Operations Manager also work with Essentials. This is great, because it means there is a wealth of deep monitoring that is available ...read more

As we move from the Release Candidate to the final SCE product, we want to make sure that Microsoft Partners are ready to help our customers with the latest in systems management from Microsoft.  SCE 2010 is one of two System Center products that ...read more