Check out Bryan Keller and Deb McFadden's blog post to learn how Configuration Manager 2012 offers streamlined client management and VDI. Read Bryan and Deb's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

Redmond Magazine has unveiled the winners of its annual Redmond Readers Choice Awards. We are proud to announce that Microsoft System Center products made an impressive showing, taking home 18 awards. Read the full post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

Take a look at Bill Anderson's blog post, Principal Program Manager Lead for System Center Configuration Manager, where he wraps up the two part blog series on the five key conceptual changes in ConfigMgr 2012 that will fundamentally change the way that you think about delivering applications in the...

Check out Bill Anderson's blog post, Principal Program Manager Lead for System Center Configuration Manager, where he kicks off a two part blog series that touches on the five key conceptual changes in ConfigMgr 2012 that will fundamentally change the way that you think about delivering applications...

Check out Adwait Joshi's blog post, Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center, where he announces the availability of the release candidates for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (formerly known as Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012). Read...

Take a look at Bryan Keller's blog post, Lead Program Manager for System Center Configuration Manager, where he discusses the Application Catalog functionality that is now available in Configuration Manager 2012. Read Bryan's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

Take a look at Bill Anderson's blog post, Principal Program Manager Lead for System Center Configuration Manager, where he discusses the user/device affinity features in Configuration Manager 2012. Read Bill's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

Check out Bill Anderson's blog post, Principal Program Manager Lead for System Center Configuration Manager, where he discusses user centric app deployment and the challenges of "thinking user first." Read Bill's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

Take a look at Jeffrey Sutherland's blog post, Lead Program Manager for Microsoft's Server and Cloud business, where he discusses how Configuration Manager 2012 can help you enable consumerization of IT. Read Jeffrey's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

Check out Deb McFadden's blog post, Principal Group Program Manager for Microsoft's Server and Cloud business, where she discusses the new Configuration Manager 2012 blog series that will be starting this week. Read Deb's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

@   Adam (Bomb) of TechNet Edge made some GREAT Videos during MMS, Check them Out: The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) and TechNet Edge have a great relationship – their audience is a dedicated, specialized IT Pro audience, and Edge has been on site doing interviews with them for the past 4 years...

UPDATE as of March 21- 2011. This survey is now closed. Our System Center Configuration Manager User Experience research team is conducting a short online survey and your participation would be most appreciated. The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete. The survey addresses topics such...

Hi everyone, we are only a few weeks away from MMS, and we wanted to get you the list of ConfigMgr 2012 Breakout sessions we are running. Each session is a link to the session details, speakers etc. This list does not include partner owned sessions, Instructor Led Labs or Hands on Labs, BA01 Configuration...

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 as a shared announcement across the ‘wave 12...

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 not get accepted, it would be recommended to complete...

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 ability to deliver desktop security on your existing...

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 teams, lab and exercises to help in understanding...

Hey guys, we just wanted to get you a heads up that the TechNet landing page for the Configuration Manager VHD Test Drive program has updated, so the VMs should now be a little easier to find.  You can find the link here . Jeff Wettlaufer Sr Technical Product Manager System Center, Management and...

Hi everyone, we have been working hard to get all of our labs posted to the TechNet platform. Today we are pleased to let you know that they are live and available!  We have a collection of Beta 1 labs now available for you to access on demand to learn about the next release of System Center Configuration...

Hi everyone, we have had incredible interest in our Community Evaluation Program for ConfigMgr v.Next, that starts this week.  The program application is still open, and we are still accepting entry.  Are you thinking about some free training, or do you want to learn more about what is available...

Hey everyone, we have had some questions about what program means what, and what is the best way to evaluate, or provide feedback on System Center Configuration Manager v.Next technology. The list below attempts to position the different programs available and what they involve. The CEP is effectively...

The Microsoft® Configuration Manager team is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for participation in the Configuration Manager v.Next Community Evaluation Program (CEP). The goal of this program is to provide early adopters a streamlined approach to evaluating Configuration...

Good morning everyone, we are growing our screen shot libraries, and placing them in a few places for you to access.  Facebook is 1 place that so far has been requested by you, the audience to use.  So, a few places you can go to look.  As a first effort (more to come) we have dropped...

Hey everyone, following from Bill’s post on User Centric, we have also posted a video online demonstrating RBA, or Role Based Administration in ConfigMgr v.Next.  What is RBA?  RBA a simplified administration of security permissions within the ConfigMgr environment.  This allows organizations...

Editor’s note – this is going to be part 1 in a multipart series walking through the details of Microsoft’s strategy on “User Centric Management ( UCM ) ” to help provide you with details and expectations . Expect updates to this every week or so to put together the full...