November, 2010

While we were in Berlin, Kenon and I had a chat with Adam Carter from Technet Edge.  We talk through where System Center is at today, and how you can get going with the private cloud today!   We hope you find this interesting and useful. ...

Hi everyone, we hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Charles Joy has written up a post and recorded another great 8 minute video demo to showcase the new SharePoint Integration Pack (IP).  The Integration Pack for Microsoft SharePoint enables you to...

Hi Everybody Just a quick post to let you know that the Opalis 6.3 Technet Library is now live at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff630946.aspx   As you can see in the screenshot below, this includes detailed information on the new System...

The Opalis 6.3 release today has been a major achievement, and the engineering teams have worked really hard to deliver this significant update. I went for a walk around the hallways today and interviewed the Program Managers for the Opalis 6.3 release...

Following on from this morning’s Opalis 6.3 release announcement, the download links for Opalis 6.3 are now live! Browse over to the Opalis site where you will find the links have been updated.  Note that there are now 3 links.  There are download...

I am very excited to announce that we have released the next version of Opalis to manufacturing (RTM) and will be available for download very shortly! Opalis 6.3 brings a wealth of integration capability to the System Center suite, including 4 new Integration...

The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.5 Beta. Join the MAP 5.5 Beta.   Members, bookmark this link to get the latest project details. Simplify planning for upgrade or migration...

This is a live demo by Travis Wright (Service Manager) and Jim Pitts (Opalis) recorded in Berlin at TechEd EMEA. Travis and Jim’s session was very well received, so we grabbed them and made them do it again straight after! In this demo, Travis creates...

The first day’s keynote out of the way, online chatter about TechEd Europe 2010 turned to session reporting, the announced naming of Configuration Manager 2012 (formerly “v.Next”), and continued absorption of Microsoft’s initiatives in cloud computing...

[11/12: Updated URL of Atlanta website ] This week during the day one keynote at the 2010 PASS Summit in Seattle, Microsoft Senior Vice President Ted Kummert announced the public availability of Microsoft Codename Atlanta , a new configuration assessment...

Imagine the following movie clip playing at a datacenter near you…..an application owner comes to a web site that you as the datacenter administrator offers, simply specifies a few characteristics of their app – say it needs 99.9% availability...

Hey everyone, hello from Berlin.  This week, Configuration Manager v.Next has moved to its official product name, System Center Configuration Manager 2012 .  Here in Berlin at TechEd Europe 2010, this official name has been shared with our guests...

We’ve been seeing quite a bit of chatter on the “internets” about the goings-on at TechEd Europe 2010 in Berlin, and it’s great to see the diverse impressions of attendees as the event happens. Net Noteworthies The announcements and news about a range...

Hello everyone, building on what Brad covered in his TechEd Berlin keynote, we are pleased to present Episode 3 of the Coffee Talk Series.  In this episode, Brad and Jeff begin to tackle the topic of Microsoft's vision for cloud computing through...

Hi everyone, we are pleased to announce that the Beta 2 TAP nominations are now open.  The ConfigMgr team will be accepting new nominations for Beta 2 through this process only.  If your organization applied for the Beta 1 TAP program, but did...

Looking for a solution that helps you reduce IT costs, while increasing agility for your organization? Build a foundation for your Private Cloud with the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manger Self-Service Portal 2.0 (SSP). Over the last year...

Hey everyone, we wanted to get a list of our sessions posted here for ConfigMgr.  These are a selection of breakouts, interactive and lunch time demos.  This list includes both in market and future releases.  Don’t forget of course to stop...

Hey everyone, we managed to get some time with Brad again, this time to talk about the upcoming events PDC and TechEd Europe.   In this video, Brad shares a brief preview of some of the themes of his keynotes, in particular Microsoft's approach to...

Hey everyone, we got a chance to sit and talk with Brad again to kick off the new ‘Coffee Talk series’ .  Brad and Jeff get together to talk about what the team has been working on in recent months, reviewing some of the important releases and developments...

The Release Candidate of Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 shipped today and is now available for download here . FEP was built on Configuration Manager 2007 (R2 and R3 supported), so anyone with Configuration Manager deployed now has the unique...

Hey everyone, greetings from TechEd Berlin.  We wanted to make you aware of a new whitepaper that has been published by MSIT Showcase, where we highlight best practices and success stories from within Microsoft IT department.  We are rally pleased...

One of our engineers from France, Bruno Saille has written a very useful tool, the Opalis UI generator. The goal of the Opalis UI Generator is to let an Opalis administrator browse graphically through all policies with a custom start activity, pick one...

Hey everyone, we have had a lot of inquiries about when our MSDN and TechNet subscribers will see their subscriptions updated with the R3 bits.   TechNet and MSDN subscriber downloads share the same backend so software is published to them simultaneously...

The Community Evaluation Programs for Configuration Manager v.Next, Forefront Endpoint Protection and Opalis have launched and are we are excited to be guiding participants in their evaluation process.  Members have access to live meetings with product...