June, 2009

Hi, my name is Patrick O'Rourke. I typically blog over at the Microsoft Virtualization team blog , but wanted to share the following survey findings with this community today. See a summary of the survey results here . First, here's some background...

Today marks a significant milestone in HP’s 25+ year relationship with Microsoft. At Microsoft Management Summit, HP announced Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center. The first product of its kind, HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System...

I wanted to get a note out to you about our recent efforts at integrating OEM specific deployment customizations into the powerful OS Deployment features in ConfigMgr. The OEM Deployment Packs provide the ability to extend the capabilities within the...

Many questions have been coming in regarding the process and steps that customers will need to follow to upgrade or install Operations Manager 2007 R2. As indicated in my last blog post that announced the RTM of (the English-only version of) Operations...

Hi everyone, we have released our Service Pack 2 beta onto Connect! You can find access to the download here . What’s in the SP2 beta? Quite a bit actually, here are some details. Service Pack 2 for Configuration Manager 2007 delivers new platform support...

[Updated June 17th: Corrected comment on Ops Mgr 2007 R2 trial length - is 180 days, not 160. Thanks Cleber!] Utilizing some of the new capabilities in Operations Manager 2007 R2, such as PowerShell hosting and new monitoring templates, the new Exchange...

Now available through Microsoft training partners -- classroom-based training on System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 with SP1. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/syllabi/50213A.aspx About this Course This two-day instructor-led...

A warm welcome to the many readers of this blog from the System Center Alliance team. You many have seen mention of the System Center Alliance – either online or a the Microsoft Management Summit – but for many people this may be the first time you have...

Hi everyone, as you may have heard, we are releasing a Solution Accelerator that will attain certification for ConfigMgr as an SCAP-validated tool with FDCC scanning capability. If you or someone you know works in a US government agency – you are aware...

I posted this a couple of months ago on my TechNet blog – I will repost it here for broader readership. Written at: Issaquah, WA [Originally posted – 19 May 2009] Microsoft Management Summit was a week or so ago in Las Vegas – we had dozens of partners...

Later today, we’ll be delivering a TechNet webcast on managing System Center Data Protection Manager in large enterprises. Essentially, there are three things we want to cover: Using PowerShell to automate tasks across DPM servers Using the DPM management...

On Tuesday, June 23rd from 10:30am – 11:00am (PDT), join a teleconference with Bob Kelly, corporate VP of Infrastructure Server Marketing. Bob will talk about the state of IT within the context of results from a new Harris Interactive study of 1,200 IT professionals from the U.S., United Kingdom, Japan and Germany. The study was commissioned by Microsoft’s Server & Tools Business. There will be time for your questions following the brief presentation. Submit questions over the phone or you can submit them at any time leading up to or during the teleconference by tweeting with the Twitter hashtag, #qs4ms. If you are interested in attending, please REGISTER NOW. Once you open the invite box, you can save and close to your calendar. ...