January, 2010

To help our customers accelerate their testing and deployment of Windows 7, we are really pleased to announce an update to the ACT Connector for Configuration Manager. The Application Compatibility Toolkit Connector (ACT Connector) assists administrators...

The Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 is the solution to allow your employees to safely use the Internet. To assure that it is operating optimally, the Operations Management Pack for Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010...

Now available for download, the Operations Management Pack for Windows Server 2008 R2 Direct Access Server supports a rich set of Alarms, Monitors and Agent Tasks that can be used to successfully and efficiently manage a Direct Access server. Through...

Yes, it really is an established day. Check out http://dataprivacyday2010.org/ : This is a great day to think about “ How private is your backup? ” System Center has some capabilities to support Data Privacy Day within Data Protection Manager. Check out...

I wanted to get you guys a link to a very cool site , as we are seeing a lot of interest in providing data around how System Center can reduce your IT costs. Check out this site, lots of interesting data from real customer engagements…… Kind regards Jeff...

Hi everyone, Kenon Owens (@ms_int_virt) and Jeff Wettlaufer (@jeffwettlaufer) are live in Toolbox.com chatting today this morning about all things System Center. Come join us, the entrance is free, and there is a LOT of great discussion happening. Here...

Hi everyone, we have a new Windows 7 case study available. The below insert is a TechNet radio interview with John Baker, and David Feng, IT Director for Sporton International. Sporton deployed Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service...

On Tuesday, February 2, 2010 10:00 AM-11:00 AM. PST, we are hosting a Live Meeting presentation for System Center influencers entitled, “Microsoft SharePoint and System Center,” presented by Jason Buffington , Microsoft technical product manager. Please...

Two important product updates for Operations Manager customers: The Cumulative Update for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (localized for English, Japanese, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Korean) and Update rollup for...

Hey everyone, over on the ‘ Because it’s Everybody’s Business Blog’ we have just posted some additional perspective on the Microsoft and HP joint investment. check it out here . If you want to follow twitterstreams on the agreement, check out #HPMSFT...

Hi again everyone. We just got a new video interview with Brad posted about the HP relationship. Its a great way to learn more about what the HP and Microsoft relationship means for everyone, Brad was the man on point from the MS side, and has some great...

Hi everyone, we have a new demonstration video to show you on the new OS deployment options included in the upcoming ConfigMgr R3. Here is a short video of the new capability in action. Jeff Wettlaufer Sr. Technical Product Manager System Center

I am really pleased to announce we have released all of the ICPs for ConfigMgr SP2. International Client Packs (ICPs) contain international-language clients to use with System Center Configuration Manager 2007. ICP downloads contain only the Config Mgr...

Briefing for Microsoft System Center Service Providers Join us to learn more about the new "Intel vPro Technology Alliance". This exciting program is for manageability service providers. By integrating the innovative security, manageability and cost-saving...

New Opalis Overview Videos Now Available As announced in December , Opalis is now part of the System Center family . We are really excited about the value that the Opalis IT Process Automation can deliver to our customer’s datacenter environment. Since...

For those of you waiting on the edge of your seat for Microsoft's integrated virtual and physical IT management solution for midsize businesses, the Release Candidate is here! Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 provides a unified IT management solution...

Over the past week, I spent some time thinking about what an impact either really effective or ineffective communication can have on businesses or society as a whole (yes, I tend to get philosophical sometimes). I also thought about how my birthday is...

This week SMS 2003 moves out of mainstream support, and enters what is called Extended Support. This is a natural transition for every Microsoft product. Information about the SMS 2003 product lifecycle can be found here . SMS 2003 has been an incredibly...

Today Microsoft and HP announced a $250 million engineering, sales and services partnership to advance cloud computing and help customers better use IT for business success. You can read the press release and other materials and watch videos of Steve...

As you may know, we’re currently running a blogging contest on topics related to System Center and Virtualization. So far we’ve done a few rounds of it and have received diverse submissions from the System Center influencers community . Matt White was...

Hopefully you have been enjoying the DPM 2010 beta since September, but we are almost finished with the Release Candidate and our last milestones towards delivery. Please join us this Thursday, January 14 at 9:00 AM Pacific US Time to see what is coming...

Today we are announcing the opening of the Technology Adoption Program nominations for the next release of System Center Configuration Manager. The Technology Adoption Program is designed to provide a consistent experience for Microsoft customers to obtain...

We are excited to announce that two important new server management capabilities will be available through purchasing Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) and Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD) licenses. System Center Service Manager will...

On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:00 AM-11:00 AM., we are hosting a Live Meeting presentation for System Center influencers entitled, “So you Want To Move from a VMware Infrastructure to Microsoft,” presented by Kenon Owens, Microsoft Virtualization product...

I just saw this post today on CIO.com about some IT capabilities predicted to be hot topics….. worth a look. “As more companies expand virtualization deployments and consider cloud computing, the average IT environment will grow ever more complex. For...