May, 2010

On Thursday, June 3, 2010, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Pacific, we are hosting a Live Meeting presentation for the community, titled “Overview of System Center Management Packs with Demo,” presented jointly by Vlad Joanovic , Sr. Program  Manager, and Dan...

Today we are very excited to announce the release of Beta 1 for System Center Configuration Manager v.Next. System Center Configuration Manager v.Next is uniquely positioned to provide for powerful and flexible user-centric client management, allowing...

Even though energy-saving hardware has been around for a while, statistics show that organizations don’t often get the most benefit from these capabilities. In fact, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, less than 10 percent of all enterprise...

We are pleased to let you know about a new style of courseware available for Configuration Manager. This course will take you down the path of understanding how Configuration Manager 2007 can be used to perform common tasks such as Operating System deployment...

[Re-blog of the original post on the BIEB blog portal ] MMS 2010 , which ran April 19th-23rd in Las Vegas, was voted by its attendees (up 51% over last year) as one of the most successful conferences of the series! Many thanks to all who attended, and...

As the System Center team heads towards the release of R3, we are excited to release a refresh build of the ConfigMgr R3 beta. This release incorporates fixes as well as enhancements to Power Management reporting. You can access this refresh here . Jeff...

We are very pleased to announce the release of the Beta for MDT Update 1. This is a significant update to a well known addition to System Center Configuration Manager primarily for OS deployment, but MDT is much more than just a small add on. As organizations...

Apologies for the short notice, but we’ve got a great Live Meeting coming up this week that you should tune into… On Thursday, May 13, 2010, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Pacific, we are hosting a Live Meeting presentation for System Center influencers entitled...

As we demonstrated a few weeks ago at MMS, the System Center team is working in partnership with Citrix to integrate the management of XenApp with Configuration Manager. We’ve put together a white paper that outlines how the new capabilities can be used...

Hi guys, I just wanted to get you know that the OS Deployment PM team have started blogging again, and they plan for a lot of content to pop on their site. The blog used to be active, but it has been quiet for about a year. So check it out if you have...

Further to the RTM of Service Manager 2010 , Provance Technologies today announced the RTM of their IT Asset Lifecycle solution for System Center Service Manager 2010 ! Provance delivers customers a rounded solution to IT Asset Lifecycle management, enabling...

As virtualization continues to grow, the need to easily and systematically update VMs becomes increasingly important. The Solution Accelerator Team (SA) has been working diligently to address this and has recently announced the VM Servicing Tool 3.0 Beta...

If you missed MMS this year (and even if you didn’t) we’ve got a great webcast series on Service Manager 2010 starting next week. Full details and links to registration (or replay, if after the live broadcast) are as below. All times are US Pacific (West...

Following a successful MMS event a few weeks ago, where we demonstrated the process automation and integration capabilities of Opalis, we are pleased to announce the availability of Opalis Integration server 6.2.2 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This latest service...

Hey everyone, I wanted to just let you know we have a webcast coming up next week.  We hope you can join us. Start Date: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Session Length:  60 minutes Session Overview:   ...

Last week Brad travelled to San Francisco, to guest speak at the annual Citrix conference ‘Synergy’.  Here is an interview Brad did while there with Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix.   Jeff Wettlaufer  Sr. Technical Product Manager System Center

It’s fun and gratifying to have customers come back to you with positive feedback and evidence that you’ve delivered a solution which adds value to their business. Coming right on the heels of the System Center Essentials 2010 and Data Protection Manager...

Hi everyone, we hope you are having a great week.  Its been an amazing few days in Redmond, the Campus is lit up with excitement with the achievement of a major milestone.  ConfigMgr v.Next Beta 1 has been released, and the downloads within...

Hi everyone, what better to do over a long weekend than install the ConfigMgr v.Next Beta 1?  I would highly recommend standing up a new environment to test out what we are all talking about.  I couldn’t think of anything better to do! Actually...

Now that we're back from this year's MMS , let me provide some pointers to updated collateral which will hopefully serve as useful reference material. In addition to our website's Cloud computing infrastructure page , here is a high level technical...