September, 2009

We have launched a new Facebook page called C2D – Client to Datacenter. Why are we doing this? Well, we talk alot about Management, and our team also talks a lot about Virt. Our intent is to pull together the overall Microsoft management + virtualization...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available to TechNet Subscribers. Visit this link to access the software. The VMM 2008 R2 software can be found in the “Servers” section of the page. Enjoy!

Hey everyone, my friend over at Intel - Bill York created a really cool demo of vPro working with ConfigMgr. In his video blog he uses a ConfigMgr advertisement to remotely and securely wake-up (boot) Intel vPro systems and push an automated BIOS upgrade...

***THIS INFORMATION COULD CHANGE*** Today, the System Center team is excited to share with you our plan to release System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 . This new release of the ConfigMgr is packed with some extremely cool features, which over...

Please join us for a Microsoft Office Live Meeting open exclusively to members of the System Center Influencers Program. If you aren't a part of our System Center Influencer program send your bio and Windows Live ID to scnetsup@microsoft.com . Tuesday...

Hi everyone, a lot of us are spending a lot of time building for the Windows 7 launch . This means writing content, working with our friends in the Windows Division, and running demos or integration scenarios. Part of this is recording demos in MS Studios...

Hi everyone, for those of you out there that are following Windows 7 and the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack , some important announcements were made today regarding their roadmap. Check out their blog here. I wanted to highlight 1 particular release...

Hey everyone, I just had a chat with our friends over in the Cloud Computing Infrastructure Team, and they wanted to let all of you know they now have a team blog. Their blog is intended to be a hub to highlight their partners, customers and internal...

Today we at last put together what I hope to be the first of many Live Meeting sessions for the members of our influencers program . Sacha Dawes, a technical product manager on our team, presented on end-to-end monitoring of IT services in the datacenter...

Hi everyone, we have had some feedback about running Windows 7 on Configuration Manager 2007, and we wanted to get something released on what version of ConfigMgr supports Windows 7 clients. Recently a posting went live about the support for Windows 7...

Hi everyone, if you are interested in asking any questions to the System Center and Intel vPro teams, join us on our Tweetup. A collection of us are now in the Moscone Center, and you can ask questions to the team by submitting a question using the hashtag...

As the Technical Product Manager on the Integrated Virtualization Team here at Microsoft, I am excited about the opportunities virtualization gives our customers to solve their business needs. As more of our customers move towards virtualizating their...

We are pleased to recognize Bob Cornelissen, Theo Carpenter, Ben Lee, Tim McFadden, and Klaus Seidel in our community as they were notably involved in September. Not only are these influencers members of our System Center Influencers Program but have...

I regularly hear from customers that one of the biggest challenges (and costs) they face in server and datacenter management is compliance. It just seems to take a lot of time and effort to make a compliant environment a reality. (This is clearly part...

An email just fluttered into my inbox today that caught my eye, from Jason Buffington, one of our technical product managers, calling attention to a great blog post from one of our customers in the community. Basically, the customer was grateful for receiving...

We are pleased to announce the beta release of the next generation of System Center Data Protection Manager ! There are lots of reasons to be excited about DPM 2010. Here are a few: Virtualization folks get item-level restore from within VM backups...

We are pleased to announce the beta release of the next generation of System Center Essentials! SCE 2010 is designed specifically for mid-sized organizations and delivers a unified physical and virtual IT management experience. It enables you to better...

With the launch of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange, System Center has been building a collection of stories with our friends in the different product groups. Its exciting to see the efforts of everyone on our team light up with the launch...