January, 2009

To improve performance and scalability, you can install the Service Manager management server on a computer separate from the Service Manager database. This can be useful in situation where you only want databases installed on computers hosting SQL Server...

My name is John Downing and I am a technical writer for the System Center Service Manager team. Among other duties, I am responsible for documenting the installation and configuration of Service Manager. I’d like to discuss, at a high level, the topology...

Let Me Introduce Myself… Hi, my name is Oleksandr Golovatyi and I work in the System Center Service Manager QA Team as a Software Design Engineer in Test. I have 10+ years of software development experience for both Windows and UNIX platforms. I joined...

This post is a continuation of the series started with The System Center Platform in Service Manager . At the heart of the System Center common platform is the “model-based” database. By “model” here I am talking about the kind of model used for classification...

Hi. I’m Bill Anderson, a technical writer for System Center Service Manager. I’ve been working with PM Vladimir Bakhmetyev to put this blog post together to show you a little about how you can use change management features found in Service Manager to...

Hi, my name is Chad Rowe and I am a Program Manager for the System Center Service Manager team working on the data warehouse and reporting features. I’ve been with the team for about 8 months and prior to that I worked within Microsoft’s IT organization...

Hi, first let me introduce myself. My name is Kathy Tamanaha and I work on the System Center Service Manager QA (aka Test) Team as a Software Test Lead. I have spent the last 15 years at Microsoft as a Software Tester, working on various product teams...

Hi, I’m Travis Wright, a Senior Program Manager Lead on the Service Manager product development team. My team and I are responsible for part of the platform used in Service Manager and other System Center products. I spent 4+ years working on Operations...