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System Center is a comprehensive management platform that enables you to more easily and efficiently manage your IT environments, including your server infrastructure and client devices. With System Center 2012 SP1, you get the most cost effective and flexible platform for managing your traditional datacenters...

Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President for the Windows Server & System Center division, launched a new blog yesterday called In the Cloud . With regular posts, podcasts, and videos, Anderson plans to use this space as a venue for discussing how IT decision makers can assemble best-of-breed cloud...

Hilton Lange, a Software Development Engineer on the Virtual Machine Manager team, has been working on a three-part series covering Intelligent Placement in Virtual Machine Manager 2012. He has just published the final installment, in which he delves into custom rules that help you control where your...

Do you manage, monitor, and automate VMware in your datacenter using System Center 2012 SP1? If so, you might want to check out this half-day Jump Start course being presented by the IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning, and Microsoft Virtual Academy. The event, which takes place on March 14th...

Nigel Cain and Damian Flynn recently discussed Virtual Networking in VMM 2012 SP1 on the Virtual Machine Manager Engineering Blog . They continue on this topic with their latest post Networking in VMM 2012 SP1 – Logical Networks . Here they take a closer look at Logical Networks and review some...

Microsoft Virtual Academy has released a new training series that delves into System Center 2012 SP1 Service Manager. Topics covered include: - Import Data and Runbooks - Build and Publish Request Offerings - Create, Invoke & Monitor - Chargeback These sessions are now available to view online...

Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management, or AGPM, is a powerful tool designed to help teams of administrators manage and track Group Policy Objects (GPOs) without stepping on each others’ toes. But who needs AGPM? Is it complicated? And where can you go to get it? Jeremy Moskowitz, a Group Policy...

This past week, System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 was made available. This was an important step for our Cloud OS vision . The Cloud OS provides a consistent platform for infrastructure, apps, and data that can reside in any datacenter — be it a private datacenter, a service provider’s...

Back in September, Microsoft announced its strategy around unified device management and how the next releases of Windows Intune and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager would deliver on that vision. As part of this week's update to our Cloud OS vision , we’re pleased to announce that System...

Microsoft has announced the immediate availability of System Center 2012 SP1. This release is full of new features that light up the new functionality found in Windows Server 2012. The combination of System Center 2012 SP1 with Windows Server 2012 provides the foundation of what we call the ‘ Cloud...

The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) brings together the brightest IT professionals from around the world to increase their technical expertise through deep hands-on training, best-practice sharing, and interaction with innovators in desktop, device, and datacenter management, as well as cloud technologies...

In Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V added the capability to store virtual machine (VM) resources on network shares hosted on NAS devices as an alternative to SAN remote storage. The Hyper-V storage stack in Windows Server 2012 now supports increased resiliency for network disconnects for these VM resources...

Microsoft’s Private Cloud is built on the industry leading foundation of Windows Server and System Center. The System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) update enables System Center to run on and manage the final version of Windows Server 2012, released earlier this week . System Center 2012 SP1...

We are very pleased with the reception System Center 2012 has had since its release in April. Many organizations are in the process of deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager to help embrace consumerization while still maintaining corporate compliance and control. Over the past few months...

It’s sometimes easier to think about cloud computing in all or nothing terms – move everything into the cloud or leave everything as-is, on-premises. But, as most know, the emerging reality is more of a hybrid approach, combining both cloud and on-premises resources. Windows Server 2012 and...

Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 had support for Virtual Machine templates (VM templates). At their core, VM templates consist of three main artifacts: one or more virtual disks, a hardware profile (define hardware characteristics of the virtual machine) and a guest OS profile (define Windows Operating...