Hi all, I am Karthik Jayavel and I work in MPSD on Settings Management (Desired Configuration Management), Power Management and Mobile Device Management. In this blog entry we are going to walk through the implementation of Exchange Connector feature...

Hi, I am Naveen Kumar Akkugari and I work at Microsoft in the Management Platforms and Service Delivery (MPSD) organization. I work on the Configuration Manager Infrastructure team which provides services to roughly 300,000 client machines at Microsoft...

Hello, My name is Satish Petwe and I wanted to share some details about our deployment experience of System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (SCEP) in the client environment at Microsoft. We have deployed SCEP on about 280,000 machines as I write this...

In this second blog of mine, along with my coworker Partha Chandran, we are going to talk about the Distribution Point migration from Configuration Manager 2007 using the migration feature of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Before we dive into...

In this series we will be blogging about some of our best practices using System Center Configuration Manager for updates deployment. I work on managing updates to 280k clients at Microsoft, so I have a lot of interest in this space. To start with I have...

Hi folks, I am Arun Chengi and I manage a team of very talented individuals who work tirelessly in delivering various software delivery services at Microsoft and to several external customers we manage. I have been in the IT industry for nearly 20...

Have you been looking for a way to visually see the status of SQL replication within your System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) environment? If you have, keep reading; this blog introduces three custom reports I use for watching replication...

One of the folks on our team just posted about his infrastructure experience in MSIT migrating to System Center Configuration Manager 2012. Read about his experience here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shitanshu/archive/2011/10/16/configuration-manager-2012...

Jim Livingston, wrote up this blog post about how he leverages SCSM: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2011/04/26/extending-incident-properties-and-forms.aspx

I recently conducted an audit of all software inventory rules set within the various environments my team manages. I wanted to perform this audit for several reasons; one of which was to ensure there were no “*.exe” rules still lingering in...

Hi, my name is Dharmendra Thotakura. I am an engineer at Microsoft, and I specialize in Configuration Manager Application Management, Application Catalog, Role Based Access and User Device Affinity. For my first post on this System Center in Action blog...

Interested in how Microsoft is using Opalis? Join this IT Showcase webcast live to hear from two folks on this team that are using Opalis to automate some of the patching process on the client side and in the datacenter. Charlie Satterfield & Jim...

Ever wonder how Microsoft patches the 280k desktops in Microsoft? Join this webcast for more information - https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032487347&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Patrick...

Watch this presentation to hear how the team uses System Center Operations Manager to monitor www.microsoft.com as well as other large websites. Brian Copps walks through working with the application development team, Azure monitoring, integration into...

The organization where I work provides a management & monitoring service for a number of different online properties managed within Microsoft. We leverage a shared System Center 2012 Operations Manager component platform infrastructure which reduces...

One of the benefits of dogfooding is to be able to use new technology before it's fully released. System Center Configuration Manager 2012 has some great new features and our team is doing more than just testing it - they're deploying it across 150,000...

In case you haven't seen these links, there are two new papers published on how Microsoft deployed ConfigMgr in our desktop environment. Quite a few of the blog posts on this System Center in Action page are related to the work that went into the deployment...

Our team provides operations for the Windows Intune Platform and also provides front-line support for customers using Windows Intune. You can say we're partial to seeing some great customers influencing the future of cloud-based IT management and security...

It's the first System Center in Action post - here's a link to an Opalis story. We've got more Opalis stories coming... stay tuned! http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2011/04/05/msit-internal-opalis-adoption-using-opalis-to-move-files-across...

Energizer, one of the customers we manage, had a case study written about them recently regarding their Forefront deployment. They included some thoughts around Forefront Signatures as well as ease of deployment. One of the key subject matter experts...

Here's the URL: http://bit.ly/iuZz2h to watch the webcast on how Microsoft Uses Opalis.

Are you headed to the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2012 this year? This event (already sold out!) is one of our favorite conferences, not to mention that the event is in sunny Las Vegas. MMS provides a great opportunity to meet with other IT Professionals...

Bryan Allen and Mike DeGooyer will be presenting on Thursday, November 10th about their deployment experience in Microsoft IT with Configuration Manager 2012. They've gotten beyond 150,000 clients on Configuration Manager 2012 - over half of the 280,000...