October, 2009

As you may have noticed, this week Microsoft released public betas of two new System Center IT management products: DPM 2010 and SCE 2010 . However, what you may not be aware of is that there's a much broader story unfolding. Over the last 3-4 years,...

Happy Friday everyone, I wanted to pop 2 interesting news items your way that have hit the wires late this week. The first, was an interview with Bob Muglia , President of the Microsoft Server and Tools Division. In the interview, Bob talks about the...

We are in a series of conversations this week with Utility Companies from North America. The discussions are really interesting. This week we spoke with our Virtual Team members in MSIT (our internal IT department ) and the Puget Sound Energy company...

Just released by our Solution Accelerators Team …. the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Updated for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 , this guide outlines the critical infrastructure...

I’d like to flag for the community an upcoming Microsoft Office Live Meeting open exclusively to members of the System Center Influencers Program . Here are the Live Meeting details: Technical Overview: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and...

Just saw this article this morning—came over the Microsoft news service. Definitely interested to see that Microsoft rated well as a social media marketing company according to Charlene Li. My own experience suggests we have a long way to go from changing...

The Active Directory team has just released an updated version of the Operations Management Pack for Active Directory (version 6.0.7050.0). This latest update includes: Support for Windows Server 2008 R2. Additional support for: Active Directory Web Services...

Just released, this update for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 adds support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (both 32-bit and 64-bit) and Solaris Zones (Whole and Sparse Zones). This update demonstrates Microsoft’s continued investment in...

The Forefront team have just released an operations management pack (MP) for their Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (OCS) solution. With this MP (version 10.2.0320.0), organizations using Forefront Security for OCS can be alerted through...

Just in time for Windows 7, today we are announcing the availability of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP ) 2009 R2! If you are an MDOP customer, you can download MDOP 2009 R2 through the Microsoft Volume Licensing Site (MVLS) . For others who...

More great news from the Operations Manager product group – the release of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit . This new resource kit aids authors in the creation, modification and assessment of operations management packs...

We’ve got some great technical webcasts coming up in the next few weeks on virtualizing Microsoft server applications, in particular for SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint. You may wonder what this is doing on the System Center team blog, and I can...

A few weeks ago, while I was in Redmond, I had the chance to sit down with Leslie Kitz (also in the System Center team) to talk about how DPM 2010 adds to what Exchange 2010 does for data protection and availability. After talking about how DPM 2010 stacks...

Today has been a huge day here in Redmond. The campus us buzzing, as today is the day Windows 7 is available to the world . It is also the day that SP2 for ConfigMgr hits our websites, for you to manage Windows 7, Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 and...

Hey everyone, its been a great week for Windows and System Center. Earlier in the week I had a chance to sit with Brad Anderson, Corporate VP here in the System Center team and talk about the latest points of interest that cross his desk. The camera rolled...

We are really pleased to announce the release of the Windows Client OS Management Pack to support Windows 7. You can download this from here . The wave of Windows 7 client support keeps rolling this week, with an update to the Client MP for Operations...

Hey everyone, recently I had the pleasure of sitting with Mark Aggar, who is an Environmental Technologist here at Microsoft. We had a great chat about Environmental IT, and how Microsoft is delivering solutions to you that are based in sustainable engineering...

Hey everyone, we are really pleased to announce the new release of the OpsMgr ‘07 MP to support monitoring Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 in a 64-bit environment with Operations Manager 2007 R2 or Operations Manager 2007 SP1 (with hotfix KB971541) . This...

Hi guys, we continue in our 4 part series with Brad our Corporate VP today as we talk about the world of Windows Server. We thought on the day Server releases, we could share our conversation. Here is Part 3 in our 4 part series……. enjoy! Jeff Wettlaufer...

Nifty YouTube video circulating around that does a fine job of presenting data on social media—how it’s changing the culture of communications and so necessarily the way companies need to shift the way they market their products and services. It also...