In order to provide a more consistent experience with the System Center product family, we've moved new blog content from the Opalis, Orchestrator and System Center Cross Platform sites to other System Center sites. For Opalis / Orchestrator content, see the Orchestrator blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator . For Operations Manager cross-platform content, see the Operations Manager blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam .

Adam Hall just announced a couple new articles that were published on Opalis and the next version of Opalis, Orchestrator: We have published two new articles that discuss how to evaluate the Reach and Scale of Opalis. These articles and associated Runbooks were created and tested in Opalis, and they will equally apply to the Orchestrator Beta. You can get all the details here . J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer The App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/ The WSUS Support Team...

This post has been updated for Orchestrator 2012 and re-posted to the new Orchestrator blog site: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2012/05/07/new-configuration-manager-2007-ip-extension-testers-needed.aspx

Looks like Microsoft’s own Charles Joy announced the next addition to his collection of OIS 6.3 QIK based Integration Packs (IPs) on CodePlex. As you can see from the blog title, this one is all about PowerShell: If you have worked with PowerShell in OIS, you have likely needed to reference blog posts which address workarounds for PS running from x64 machines: http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/11/29/opalis-6-3-running-powershell-scripts-on-64-bit-operating-systems.aspx http://blogs.technet...

Not sure how I missed this one back when it first posted but our very own Charles Joy posted a great video demo over on his blog about how to use Opalis to update the Hyper-V VM integration components: Have you recently upgraded your Windows Server 2008 R2 machine with Hyper-V to Service Pack 1? Well, some unique changes to Hyper-V come along with that upgrade. One of these is the need to upgrade the Integration Services (Components) for each of the VMs on your Hyper-V Server. This video shows how...

This post has been revised for Orchestrator and moved to the Orchestrator blog here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2012/05/04/oit-quick-tip-using-powershell-switch-parameters-in-cli-activities.aspx

This post was written by Marian Stanescu I work in a small team at Microsoft that manages and monitors about 5,000 servers used to run a few of the larger Microsoft online sites. To process our data, we constantly need to move files across untrusted domains.  We used to do this with a 3 rd party tool but it required its own infrastructure and management. Working with Opalis, we found a way to move those files using Opalis workflows. As this improvement has saved us a lot of time, I thought I...