May, 2011

Hi, I am Nitin Bhat, Program Manager on the SCVMM team. Today I am going to provide you with sample PowerShell scripts to leverage our investments made for networking and storage. These scripts would execute against the SCVMM 2012 Beta builds. The best...

Hi everyone, my name is Alaks Sevugan (Senior SCVMM Program Manager) and today I’d like to go over the concept of Services in SCVMM 2012.  A Service is the deployed instance of a collection of Virtual machines with applications, OS roles and features...

Here’s a heads up on another interesting article I found over in the TechNet Wiki. This one is by Microsoft Partner Kristian Nese and it talks about creating both logical and virtual networks with SCVMM 2012: So far, I am really impressed by...

Hi everyone, Alaks Sevugan here.  So, have been following my previous posts on Services Overview and Service Templates ? If not, this will be a good time to review the blog posts. In this post, I will be covering how to customize and deploy a Service...

If you’ve been following the blogging efforts of the System Center support and product teams for any length of time then you know we have quite a few different blogs based on the technology or product we focus on.  For example, we have the App-V...

Hi everyone, Biddappa Berera here, and today I’d like to talk about the scaling of services deployed to hostgroups and private clouds in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. A service in VMM 2012 is a logical grouping of virtual machines that the...

I just wanted to let you know about a couple of our System Center support engineers that were recently profiled on Microsoft’s Customer Service & Support (CSS) People First blog.  There’s a chance that you might have talked with one of these...

Hi everyone, Konstantin Zoryn here, and today I’d like to talk about importing and exporting Templates in SCVMM 2012.  System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM 2012) allows creating service and virtual machine templates and there are many...

Hi everyone, Alaks Sevugan here, and today I’m going to talk about updating your Services.  We have already seen how image based composition makes deployment a breeze, however most of you probably deploy an application once - so the real power in...

Have you ever wondered how we pull off an event like TechEd 2011 where we have to setup the demo environments at the different SIM Pods for all of the different products we have?  If so then here’s a special behind the scenes view into how we did...

Have you had an opportunity to look at the new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta , yet? Are you confused as to all of the new features and capabilities and how do I learn about all of this good, new stuff? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a place...

Here’s another new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one tells you how to troubleshoot the "Not Responding" host status in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and System Center...

Hi everyone, Rajeet Nair here, and today I’d like to talk about troubleshooting Service Deployment in SCVMM 2012.  As you probably know, one of the key new features in VMM 2012 is Service Deployment. Alaks Sevugan has posted blog entries that provide...

Here’s a heads up on yet another cool article I found over on the TechNet Wiki today regarding System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. This is another one written by Microsoft Partner Kristian Nese and it talks about creating Failover Clusters with...

A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well.  I won’t go into all the details as you can read that...

Here’s a heads up on another interesting article I found over in the TechNet Wiki. This one is by Microsoft Partner Kristian Nese and it talks about creating Hyper-V hosts with SCVMM 2012: Several new deployment options in VMM 2012 make the life of an...

Hi everyone, my name is Alaks Sevugan (Senior SCVMM Program Manager) and today I’d like to take a minute to discuss Service Templates in SCVMM 2012.  Service Templates are being introduced in VMM 2012, to capture the Service model definitions. Service...

Hi everyone, my name is Stephen Baron (VMM Program Manager) and I want to take a minute to tell you about a couple exciting new features in SCVMM 2012 – Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization. Introduction System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM...

If you’ve ever said to yourself “Wow, I sure wish I knew more about all the really cool things System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 could do” or “I wish there was a site that had all the best SCVMM 2012 resources all in one spot” then I’ve got just...

I know this isn’t SCVMM specific but I thought you might want to know about a great training opportunity we have coming up at the end of the month for Office 365.  On May 24th through 26th Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day Jump Start tailored...