June, 2012

This is a guest blog post written by Bob Roudebush, a TSP at Microsoft. Thanks for writing this up and sharing with the community Bob! Prerequisites: This walkthrough was built using the System Center demo virtual machine environment. It assumes...

Expit, one of our System Center Alliance partners in Kuwait, has updated their SCSM – Project connector to version 1.1 to support SCSM 2012’s new features for release management and service requests.  This connector allows the IT team and the project...

As I write this post flying back from TechEd, North America ( check out Day 1 keynote ), it never ceases to amaze me how technology has really changed our lives!!! Speaking of which, what an honor that all of you voted System Center 2012 as best Microsoft...

Check it out.  Taught by yours truly.  Funny thing – I took the exams too and actually missed a question.  :) https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/system-center-2012-orchestrator-service-manager Abstract: ​In this course, we will...

Check out the System Center 2012 Guided Hands On Labs!  They are a set of 14 labs that cover how to use System Center to deliver IT as a Service using a Private Cloud.  The demos span across the three pillars of System Center – Application Management...

At long last we have the Data Warehouse move documentation! This is a follow up blog post to the one about How to move the Service Manager Database . The documentation how to do this will be added to the TechNet library once it has been formatted but...

This was another adrenaline filled week. A great TechEd 2012 in Orlando (see the keynote here) followed by System Center 2012 winning the best product award (thanks to all of you, we are humbled) and lastly being able to share the exciting new features...

There have been a couple of new blogs popping up lately that have some great content on them that I want to share with you. First is Rob Ford, a System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP from New Zealand.  His blog is at http://scsmnz.net...

GridPro has just released their latest version of WebFront, a web console for SCSM. This new, updated version includes support for SCSM 2012. It has new forms for service requests and release management which are new to SCSM 2012. It also has support...

The Management Pack for managing Service Manager with Operations Manager is now available! You can get it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29980 Reminder: for this release it is not possible to install a Operations Manager...

Exciting news from our partner Provance!   New versions of the Provance IT Asset Management Pack and the Provance Data Management Pack are now available for Microsoft System Center 2012 . In addition to enhanced performance and product experience...

This is a guest blog post from the illustrious Manoj Parvathaneni a Senior Support Escalation Engineer at Microsoft. Manoj knows a lot of things I don’t even know about because he works on gnarly customer problems all day everyday. He asked me to...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where a System Center Service Manager installation fails with a SQL version related error message. ===== Symptoms While either installing a fresh copy of System Center 2012...

To help you get started with using the Application Approval Workflow solution accelerator, Robbie McAlpine, one of the PMs on our team has put together a management pack that contains some sample service request templates: · Template one is...

By default the Query Results list is set to return a maximum of 2,000 objects.  If you want to increase that number you can easily do so by using either the IIS management console or editing the web.config file directly. If you want to use IIS then...

Whoa!  What’s with the new style?!  The System Center engineering team blogs are now part of the Server & Tools blog network which is a select few top tier blogs from the Server and Tools division.  This network is part of a larger...

I’ve put together a new TechNet Wiki page that is a “one stop shopping” index of the following things: · Forums · Galleries · Libraries (aka “docs”) · Survival Guides · Wikis · Engineering Team Blogs · Microsoft Employee Blogs · Community Blogs · MVP...