November, 2011

Organizations of every size – small and medium businesses, enterprises, and commercial hosting providers – have an insatiable need for storage. In Windows Server 8, we have invested significantly to deliver the most cost-effective platform...

A prior blog entry began our whirlwind introductory tour of some of the more significant platform storage enhancements being introduced in Windows Server 8 – this follow-up entry concludes our introduction. In Windows 8 Platform Storage –...

Hyper-V users have asked for a number of new networking capabilities and we’ve heard them. In codename Windows Server 8 we are adding many new features to the Hyper-V virtual switch for virtual machine protection, traffic isolation, traffic prioritization...

As posted yesterday on the Server Cloud blog , we have released the Release Candidate of Operations Manager 2012. This is a significant milestone release, and in this article we will explore how Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate delivers application...

Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 release candidate. It is available for download from Microsoft Connect, as described below. This release candidate includes new and updated features for FIM 2010...

Greetings Service Manager fans! I’m really excited to blog about some of the cool new capabilities that are available as part of the release of Service Manager 2012 Beta , specifically the new Service Catalog and Service Request Management capabilities...

We’re happy to announce that the Release Candidate of Operations Manager 2012 is now available! If you read our post on 10/27 about App Controller, Service Manager and Orchestrator, then you know cloud computing is making things much easier for...

More and more enterprises are looking to VDI to solve the challenges of managing the interdependencies of physical devices, operating systems and applications, while still keeping users productive. Desktop Virtualization is the process of separating and...

At its core, our highest-level definition of user-centric management is: The centralized policies for and delivery of all resources needed for corporate end-users to do their jobs anywhere on any device in a safe and compliant manner. There are...

I am so glad that the System Center Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate was recently released. This is an exciting release, and includes all of the new capabilities introduced in the Beta plus a few more. One of the important changes we made...

Tomorrow – Nov. 15 th – you can catch Mike Schutz, Senior Director of Windows Server and Virtualization Product Manager at Microsoft, and Samm DiStasio, Vice President of Microsoft Alliance and Solution Development at Citrix, talk about how...

The Microsoft Management Summit 2012 is packed with engaging ways to learn about how Microsoft management technologies enable a new breed of datacenter, private cloud and public cloud solutions, and deliver a more flexible and productive desktop infrastructure...

We’ve recently started working with the folks at a new virtualization & cloud social content network called PaperShare ( http://www.papershare.com ). PaperShare provides a way of aggregating content on specific topics geared towards vertical...

We discussed how applications are different in Part 1 , so now we’ll move on to how application targeting, rules, and relationships change in ConfigMgr 2012’s user-centric universe. #3: Application targeting will change dramatically in...

Redmond Magazine has unveiled the winners of its annual Redmond Readers Choice Awards. We are proud to announce that Microsoft System Center products made an impressive showing, taking home 18 award wins in a variety of categories including Network and...