February, 2010

We are pleased to announce the Beta release of our Dashboard Solution Accelerator. The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard lets customers utilize a browser based graphically rich reporting experience that showcases the robust reporting...

Hi everyone, we have had a number of requests to share some experiences with the new Dashboard beta we have released . We have had several requests for some screen shots of an environment with some data. Here are some sample screen shots from a demo VM...

Hi everyone, recently we recorded a look into the new scale and performance improvements we will ship in ConfigMgr 2007 R3. There are 3 main areas of enhancement being made to the core capabilities of ConfigMgr. These are as follows: Delta Active directory...

We are very excited to announce that the Release Candidate for DPM 2010 is now available for public download. Download the Release Candidate for DPM 2010 If you would like to see more about what the RC looks like, please watch our TechNet Webcast from...

Hi everyone, recently at the Intel Developer Forum , we sat down with our friends at Intel and recorded a demonstration of the integration between ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 and Intel vPro. The video is now live, and is available here on Edge. I hope you find...

Just release, version 6.1.7599.0 of the Operations Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2 delivers some new and updated standard and operational data reporting capabilities. This management pack delivers ‘self-monitoring’ of the Operations Manager...

Last week we blogged about some early lessons learned from Windows 7 deployment. It seems like this is a pretty hot topic, as today more information has come out from Forrester in a CIO article written by Shane O’Neill . Over the past six months Forrester...

Just released, an update to the Operations Management Pack for the Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 adds support for IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, and extends support for IIS 7 running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. Now at version 6.0.7600.0, the...

Available for download today, the Operations Management Pack for Distributed File Server (DFS) Namespaces (version 6.0.6321.0) monitors the DFS Namespace Service on Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2, and Windows Server 2003. It can also be...

[That’s probably the longest blog title I’ve ever written, so I welcome suggestions/comments on how to make it shorter! Also updated title to reflect _11_ available localizations.] Version 6.1 of the operations management pack for RRAS is now available...

Over the next several weeks, we are pre-releasing several whitepapers around DPM 2010’s Release Candidate. The first WP to be released is about how to protect Microsoft Virtualization environments – including Hyper-V R2, Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005...

Hey everyone from GMT +1. The System Center team is sitting at a very early breakfast in Amsterdam this morning, looking outside at the 6” of new snow that fell overnight. We are here this week to talk about Windows deployment, with some of our biggest...

Hey everyone, we are commencing a 5 part series on this blog about Client Deployment, and based on some recent trends, publications and evaluations we have determined there are 5 topics we will focus on. These will post in the below order. The topics...

Microsoft System Center helps you get the most from your mission-critical messaging infrastructure with management solutions that enhance the availability features built into Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. In this webcast on March 3, 2010 , we look at...

For those of you who have been following the Service Manager blog , you’ve seen the wealth of content that our Service Manager team have been busily communicating. My colleagues Travis Wright sent me the consolidated list below, which cover a superb wealth...

Hey everyone, the System Center Team is heading to Amsterdam for the week of Feb 8th. We will be in town presenting to the EMEA Infrastructure, Deployment and Management Council at the Microsoft Netherlands Schiphol Office . While the event is not open...

Hey everyone, as we continue our cadence on the topic on Windows 7 deployment, our team here in Redmond had a chance to meet with Randy George at Information Week to talk about the System Center capabilities. We spent a few hours with Randy walking through...

A few weeks ago my colleague Brett Williams and I presented, “Reducing IT Costs with System Center Datacenter Management” as part of the Microsoft Thrive Live! series. The webcast is now available for viewing on-demand through Microsoft TechNet Edge ...

Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) is formally being discontinued. The most recent version, SCCP 2007, is no longer available. No new versions of this standalone capacity planning tool, as well as any new or updated application capacity planning...

Hat tip to Bob Cornelissen for his write up of our most recent Live Meeting on SharePoint and System Center , given as part of the System Center Influencers Program (wait… what’s that ?). At the end of his write-up, Bob has this to say: It is no secret...

Further to my blog on the consolidated updates for Operations Manager a couple of days ago, I’m pleased to announce that the team has pushed through the final localizations [Chinese (Simplified and Taiwan) and Portuguese (Brazil)] for the Cumulative Update...

The Security Compliance Manager tool provides centralized management, a security settings database, customization capabilities, and export flexibility for security baselines, accelerating an organization's ability to efficiently manage the security and...

The Security Compliance Manager tool provides centralized management, a security settings database, customization capabilities, and export flexibility for security baselines, accelerating an organization's ability to efficiently manage the security and...

Service Manager is soon to be the latest offering in the System Center product suite, and delivers an integrated platform to help organizations automate and adapt their IT service management best practices (such as those found MOF and ITIL). Focused on...

Looking at virtualization but unsure about your options? Thinking about migrating to Windows 7? Interested in VDI and Server Virtualization? Want to save on costs but wondering about ROI? How to improve IT flexibility? Have more questions than answers...