June, 2011

Hi everyone, for those of you that do not know I am moving on and leaving my role in System Center as a Sr Technical Product Manager for Configuration Manager. My 10 years in Microsoft have been absolutely amazing, first in the UK as an MCS Consultant...

Hi everyone The Orchestrator 2012 Beta Community Evaluation Program (CEP) has been building steadily over the last few weeks, and we are now well over 500 participants!  We have the foundations for a very strong technical community here, and it has...

Today we are very excited to announce the availability of two new Integration Pack (IP) Betas for System Center Orchestrator. We have published the new IPs for IBM Netcool and VMware vSphere which are available for immediate download by clicking the...

One of our internal teams who are doing a lot with Opalis internally here at Microsoft ran and recorded a webcast, and this recording is now available for viewing and download. I want to thank the MPSD team for doing this!  They have showcased their...

The next version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit—version 2012— is now available for beta download. To participate, register for MDT 2012 Beta 1 at Microsoft Connect. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Beta 1 rides the next wave of System Center...

At TechEd 2011, we announced that the OpsMgr 2012 Community Evaluation Program (CEP) is now taking applications. What is a CEP Many of you are likely familiar with Microsoft TAP’s, Technology Adoption Programs, where a small pool of customers partner...

Hi everyone We are very excited to announce the System Center Orchestrator 2012 Community Evaluation Program (CEP)! This program is designed to take you on a guided tour and evaluation of Orchestrator. There is a lot of new functionality since its...

We are pleased to announce the release of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit. The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit includes three tools designed to help improve the Operations Manager...

Hi everyone We have published two new articles that discuss how to evaluate the Reach and Scale of Opalis.  These articles and associated Runbooks were created and tested in Opalis, and they will equally apply to the Orchestrator Beta. Jim Britt...

Hi everyone, we are really excited to release the Beta 2 VHD of ConfigMgr 2012.  You can download this VHD here . This download comes as a pre-configured Virtual Hard Disk (VHD). It enables you to evaluate System Center Configuration Manager 2012...

Hi everyone This week we will be releasing the System Center Orchestrator BETA!  The team are locking down the build so keep an eye out for the announcement real soon . And on Thursday we will start the Orchestrator Beta Evaluation Program so make...

Hi everyone Get a virtual machine ready and crank up your Hypervisor because you are going to want to kick the tires on the System Center Orchestrator Beta! We have built upon the best features of Opalis and made some significant improvements to...

We have had a lot of requests for a Team Foundation Server Integration Pack, and the team has been working on, testing and using one internally. Zhenhua Yao who works in our Orchestrator Engineering team has written up a post describing how we did this...

Following the Orchestrator 2012 Beta announcement and the previously posted What to Expect in the Beta below is a list of articles that will answer the majority of the questions that you will ask . We will be creating and posting a lot of documentation...

Well the Orchestrator CEP is about to ramp up in a big way, we’ve had the introduction meeting and set the scene and the first product team meeting is next week !  You still have time to sign up and be part of the program … we have over 500 other...

A common question we get is “Do you have an Integration Pack for <insert a product/solution here>?” Charles even wrote a blog post on this back in the Opalis days! I wanted to ensure that everyone understood the powerful activities that come Out...