February, 2012

In Service Manager 2010 we had an announcements section of the self-service portal out of the box.  Out of the box the Announcements view is still there in the Administration workspace in the main console, but there isn’t a web part out of the box...

This post was written by Andrii Malinovskyi, one of the testers on our team.  Thanks Andrii! ============================================== Runbooks are imported from System Center Orchestrator using the Service Manager - Orchestrator Connector....

One of our partners – LINK Development – localized the 2010 self-service portal to Arabic. I announced this on our blog awhile back. http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2011/05/25/new-scsm-solutions-from-partner-link-development...

Did you miss System Center Universe?  No problem.  The sessions were all recorded and are now available for viewing on demand here: http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com/Agenda?sf3213864=1   In case you missed it, this is the site for the...

We will add a new product family to your WSUS server today – System Center . The System Center product family will contain updates for versions 2012 and higher of System Center products, which include System Center 2012 , a product that combines components...

In System Center 2012, because the portal is based on SharePoint 2010, it is possible for the user to self-select the languages displayed subject to the SharePoint administrators configuration. Here are the steps to enable this: 1) Install whatever...

UPDATE: Feb 14 2012 – Please read Given some additional testing we have verified that there is an issue here.  The code that applies a notification template will place curly braces (i.e. { and } ) around the GUID in the notification that is sent...

In Service Catalog portal, the Create Generic Request button is wired to create an Incident. Although you can modify the Generic Request Incident Request Offering, you cannot change the Generic Incident Request Template. Customers have asked ability...

This is from one of our datacenter TSPs, John Savill.  Thanks for writing this up John! ================================================================= Q. I am trying to import the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Discovery Management...

Following the release of System Center 2012 Release Candidate, Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate of the Orchestrator Integration Packs for the following System Center 2012 components: System Center 2012 Virtual...