March, 2011

I am very excited to be able to post this article, welcoming System Center Orchestrator to the System Center suite! As was communicated by Brad Anderson in Tuesday’s MMS keynote and on the Nexus news bulletin , System Center Orchestrator is the official...

Hi everyone I have posted a new Opalis – Service Manager runbook sample over on the Opalis Blog where we want to add a user as an approver of a Review Activity in a Change request. This sample is a good example of how integrated the System Center solutions...

Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology pros. Registration for “ Microsoft Virtualization...

At the Microsoft Management Summit on Tuesday, 3/22/11, Brad Anderson announced a new capability in System Center 2012 called Project Codename “Concero”. Before I actually talk about what it is, let me first talk about what the word “Concero”...

The Configuration Manager team is pleased to announce the release of the German and Chinese Simplified Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 builds. For German users, the International Client Pack (ICP) with the German (DE-DE) client is also available. German...

The Configuration Manager team is pleased to release a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Physical to Virtual Migration Toolkit. This tool is designed to assist organizations in their migrations from Configuration Manager 2007, to Configuration...

Hi everyone We unveiled the next version of Opalis at MMS last week, which will be known as System Center Orchestrator.  We also showed for the first time some early builds and did a short demo using Orchestrator. Well, for those of you who could...

Hi everyone, the OS Deployment PM team has posted another great blog about PXE Setup and Boot Image Management.  Here is an excerpt from their intro. “In a previous post, I talked a little about the changes to the distribution point and integration...

Hi Folks - wanted to make sure all of you know about the Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Customer Roundtable event we have coming up on March 10 at 9am PST. Kraft Foods, Royal Caribbean and Login Consultants are going to be speaking with Mike Silver...

Hi Service Manager Fans, MMS 2011 is fast approaching, not long to go now.  I’m excited to catch up with everyone and share what’s been happening and what’s coming with System Center and specifically Service Manager. Here’s the list of Service Manager...

Provide customers with an end-to-end IT governance, risk, and compliance solution from Microsoft The Microsoft Solution Accelerator and the System Center teams are pleased to announce the availability of the Microsoft IT GRC Process Management Pack SP1...

Hi everyone I have had a few questions on this topic recently, and we do apologize for the delays that have occurred. We ARE committed to updating the 3rd Party IP’s, and we DO have this work stream underway.  I can confirm that we have the logistics...

The System Center Team is pleased to announce the Beta of the Virtual Machine Manager Self Service Portal 2.0 SP1 (VVMMSSP 2.0 SP1). This public Beta is available through Connect . The VMMSSP 2.0 SP1 Beta allows an organization to abstract physical resources...

Hi everyone I am very excited to announce that the Opalis vNext TAP (Technology Adoption Program) application process is now open. The TAP programs are very restricted on the number of participants, and have a high level of participation required. ...

Hi Everyone, We are very excited to present Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) at MMS- you will see a lot of FEP this year! Here’s the list of Forefront Endpoint Protection Sessions at MMS, please make sure to check them out. Please stop by at the FEP...

Wow! I can’t believe MMS 2011 is right around the corner. There are be so many cool things happening at the show, and many different sessions that will be vying for your attention. I didn’t want you to miss any of the VMM sessions that will be going on...

A press release published today confirms that Target Corporation has 1,750 stores running Hyper-V and, in a related case study , it shows how Microsoft’s Virtualization solution will save the company millions of dollars in hardware, electrical,...

From the sold-out Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, Brad Anderson posts about empowering our customers with Private Cloud computing. This post comes directly from the Official Microsoft Blog . View the related press release here . Private Cloud...

Microsoft is proud to announce the Release Candidate of System Center Advisor, formerly known as Microsoft codename “Atlanta.” This new cloud service enables customers to assess the configuration of their servers so they can proactively...

Today Microsoft announces new IT solutions to streamline PC and device management, empower productivity and enable the modern enterprise, highlighting the release of Windows Intune, System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 and the next version...

Virtualization Nation, We’re having a great week at a sold-out MMS 2011 in Las Vegas! To say it’s a busy week would be a huge understatement. Honestly, there’s so much happening, I can’t blog about all these topics and begin...

This week we are extremely pleased to release Beta 2 of Configuration Manager 2012.  We thought it would be helpful to provide a technical introduction to the product, and share with you some places and programs you can use to get your hands on it...