June, 2010

Hi guys, in this post we continue our theme with ‘what we heard you asking us at TechEd USA 2010’.  As we mentioned in a post earlier this week, we have been talking here in Redmond about the trends of questions posed to us at TechEd by you. ...

Hey everyone, we have a few new papers we wanted to make you aware of.  System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 (Beta) adds a complete set of power management tools, scale and performance enhancements, and mobile device management tools helping...

Hey everyone, coming back from TechEd USA, a few of us were discussing some topics that came up, and a common thread was what version of ConfigMgr is needed for what?  So, we thought we would list out the order and min requirements at a product level...

Hey everyone, coming off of TechEd USA, we have had tremendous interest in the ForeFront Endpoint Protection integration to ConfigMgr.  Here is a short video demonstration of the integration. This integration is based on 3 areas:  infrastructure...

As mentioned in our announcement of the RTM of Service Manager 2010 , Course 50217A: Planning, Deploying and Managing Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 became generally available on May 17th 2010 and is now posted to the catalog on the Microsoft...

Update: On June 25th, 2010 M icrosoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 was made available in China. Original Post: M icrosoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) is not currently available in China and the software...

Please note: this is a guest blog post by one of our close partners at Intel. The Intel Core vPro Processor Management Pack v1.0 for System Center Service Manager 2010 is now available for Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 , extending Intel...

Written by a kind of “crash test dummy.” Check out and comment on David Elliott’s experiences installing and operating System Center Essentials 2010 , from square one. In his words, “… if I succeed in getting it up and running, then I should derive some...

Announcing two new 300-level TechNet webcasts on Service Manager 2010: Reporting and Business Intelligence with Service Manager 2010 (with Chris Lauren , Monday, June 28th @ 1pm (PT)). Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 includes an extensible...

Hey everyone, rolling through TechEd USA 2010, some comments have come up about Configuration Manager 2007 R3 and viewing the reports in SQL Reporting Services.  We thought we could put a short demo together to help get the Reports copied in. The...

Two new guideline documents have been posted to the System Center in Action website, providing best practices on how to monitor hosted applications in Windows Azure, and some tips and tricks from the Microsoft Operations team on how they monitor microsoft...

Hi everyone, I wanted to pass along a blog that a team mate here in Redmond has been working on.  Jason is a Program Manager working on the Configuration Manager team and he has a great blog rolling about some pretty  advanced topics. Very useful...

Hi everyone, we wanted to get a demo put out there to showcase the new features of ConfigMgr managing a windows 7 machine.  In this demonstration, we show the integration of Application virtualization (App-V) with System Center.  We showcase...

As a Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) administrator, you might hear quite often a seemingly simple (but in reality very difficult) question: How many workstations our company exactly has? You know exactly how many ConfigMgr clients are on the ConfigMgr...

In this video I shot recently, Brad Anderson, CVP of Microsoft's Management and Security Division, speaks with Sumir Karayi, founder and CEO of 1E, about 1Es solutions and products that work with System Center Configuration Manager in deploying Windows...

Hey guys, I wanted to make you aware of an interesting post about how MSIT is using System Center technology, as well as the new Solution Accelerator for Dashboard reporting.  People always ask us how does it work internally at Microsoft, how do...

Hey everyone, I hope you are enjoying TechEd USA 2010.  The guys in the team just let us know they have posted a new Configuration Pack for Configuration Manager 2007.  I wanted to get a blog out ASAP for you…… The Microsoft Exchange Server...

A couple of years ago, I had to plan a Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) hierarchy for a customer who had about 6000 workstations and a couple of hundred servers in one city. They wanted to manage both their workstations and servers with ConfigMgr. We...

Hey everyone, I wanted you to know about another blog posting from the OS Deployment PM Team, this is part 2 in a series regarding OSD Bootable media……. I would highly recommend checking these guys out, they are placing some great material out there about...

As I mentioned in an earlier post on this blog , David Elliott has been busy doing a production deployment of System Center Essentials 2010 for his small business. Now, SCE 2010 is really intended as a midsize business IT management solution (up to 500...

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Operational Configuration Pack is designed to be used for managing the configuration of Exchange 2007 servers. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings affecting the configuration...

Hey everyone, we were in London for an EMEA ‘Best of MMS’ event a week ago and while there, had a chance to catch up with some great partners to talk about Windows 7 deployment, the Optimized Desktop and customer experiences. In this video, Jeff speaks...

Hey everyone, we were  in London for an EMEA ‘Best of MMS’ event in a week ago. and while there, had a chance to catch up with some great partners to talk about Windows 7 deployment, Optimized Desktop and customer experiences. In this video, Jeff...

Hey there everyone, We are all heading to New Orleans this weekend for probably one of the biggest events of the year for us.  Last year in LA we had an amazing event, but this year is even bigger.  There are over 10,500 guests, partners, SMEs...

It is with great sadness that we learned this weekend of the passing of one of our longest team members – Roberto Di Pietro. Roberto was  a Senior Premier Field Engineer based in Rome Italy.  His focus was primarily SQL, but in the recent years...