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Today, we’re happy to announce the beta release of Data Protection Manager 2012, with the latest and greatest System Center data protection capabilities. In its fourth generation, Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 builds on a legacy of providing unified data protection for Windows...

Today we are pleased to announce the release and availability of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 ! Organizations of all sizes use System Center Configuration Manager for better insight and control of their servers, PCs and devices across physical, virtual and distributed environments. Now...

This week Microsoft releases the IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Solution Accelerator or IT GRC solution.  IT GRC provides end-to-end compliance management and automation for a customer’s desktop and datacenter computers to assist organizations to simplify and automate IT compliance and risk...

At MMS 2010 and the Worldwide Partner conference , we articulated our holistic datacenter-to-cloud strategy. Specifically: a) How Microsoft's Server platform and Services platform uniquely enable delivering IT as a Service on your own terms - out of your own datacenter, service provider datacenters or...

Good morning everyone, we wanted to get you this update, following from an earlier post this morning on the cloud. Today a blog post was made announcing the Planning and Design Guide for Dynamic Data Center beta. The design process in the free Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Dynamic Data...

Hello All! We have seen tremendous excitement about the Opalis acquisition from customers and partners alike. This acquisition brings together the deep automation and orchestration expertise of Opalis with the integrated, physical and virtual datacenter management capabilities of System Center. Today...

Looking at virtualization but unsure about your options? Thinking about migrating to Windows 7? Interested in VDI and Server Virtualization? Want to save on costs but wondering about ROI? How to improve IT flexibility? Have more questions than answers? Join us at the Microsoft Virtualization Summit 2010...

Hi everyone, we have had a number of requests to share some experiences with the new Dashboard beta we have released . We have had several requests for some screen shots of an environment with some data. Here are some sample screen shots from a demo VM set we are running, but hopefully they will give...

Hi everyone, recently at the Intel Developer Forum , we sat down with our friends at Intel and recorded a demonstration of the integration between ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 and Intel vPro. The video is now live, and is available here on Edge. I hope you find it useful. For more information, please visit: System...

Hi everyone, recently we recorded a look into the new scale and performance improvements we will ship in ConfigMgr 2007 R3. There are 3 main areas of enhancement being made to the core capabilities of ConfigMgr. These are as follows: Delta Active directory Discovery – AD discovery has 2 main tasks. Discovering...

Hey everyone, the System Center Team is heading to Amsterdam for the week of Feb 8th. We will be in town presenting to the EMEA Infrastructure, Deployment and Management Council at the Microsoft Netherlands Schiphol Office . While the event is not open to the broader public we are around and would love...

We are pleased to announce the Beta release of our Dashboard Solution Accelerator. The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard lets customers utilize a browser based graphically rich reporting experience that showcases the robust reporting capabilities of the world’s leading system management...

The Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 is the solution to allow your employees to safely use the Internet. To assure that it is operating optimally, the Operations Management Pack for Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 – released earlier this month (version 7.0.7695...

Now available for download, the Operations Management Pack for Windows Server 2008 R2 Direct Access Server supports a rich set of Alarms, Monitors and Agent Tasks that can be used to successfully and efficiently manage a Direct Access server. Through Operations Manager, the Direct Access Server Management...

New Opalis Overview Videos Now Available As announced in December , Opalis is now part of the System Center family . We are really excited about the value that the Opalis IT Process Automation can deliver to our customer’s datacenter environment. Since the acquisition closed we’ve had lot of interest...

As you may know, we’re currently running a blogging contest on topics related to System Center and Virtualization. So far we’ve done a few rounds of it and have received diverse submissions from the System Center influencers community . Matt White was our November winner, for a post on Direct Access...

Hi, Everyone, Great news for enterprise, government and service provider customers who use System Center. I’m excited to announce that Microsoft has acquired Opalis Software , a Toronto-based private company that is a leader in IT process automation software. Opalis will become a wholly-owned subsidiary...

Just released, this update for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 adds support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (both 32-bit and 64-bit) and Solaris Zones (Whole and Sparse Zones). This update demonstrates Microsoft’s continued investment in delivering end-to-end heterogeneous monitoring for...

The Active Directory team has just released an updated version of the Operations Management Pack for Active Directory (version 6.0.7050.0). This latest update includes: Support for Windows Server 2008 R2. Additional support for: Active Directory Web Services (ADWS) for Windows Server 2008 R2; Active...

I regularly hear from customers that one of the biggest challenges (and costs) they face in server and datacenter management is compliance. It just seems to take a lot of time and effort to make a compliant environment a reality. (This is clearly part of the overall cost of a high degree of manual datacenter...

Today we at last put together what I hope to be the first of many Live Meeting sessions for the members of our influencers program . Sacha Dawes, a technical product manager on our team, presented on end-to-end monitoring of IT services in the datacenter. We had a healthy attendance--around 30 or...

Please join us for a Microsoft Office Live Meeting open exclusively to members of the System Center Influencers Program. If you aren't a part of our System Center Influencer program send your bio and Windows Live ID to scnetsup@microsoft.com . Tuesday September 15, 2009 11:00 AM PST As a...

[Updated June 17th: Corrected comment on Ops Mgr 2007 R2 trial length - is 180 days, not 160. Thanks Cleber!] Utilizing some of the new capabilities in Operations Manager 2007 R2, such as PowerShell hosting and new monitoring templates, the new Exchange 2007 MP for Operations Manager 2007 R2 is now...

Many questions have been coming in regarding the process and steps that customers will need to follow to upgrade or install Operations Manager 2007 R2. As indicated in my last blog post that announced the RTM of (the English-only version of) Operations Manager 2007 R2 , only the trial version of Operations...

Today marks a significant milestone in HP’s 25+ year relationship with Microsoft. At Microsoft Management Summit, HP announced Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center. The first product of its kind, HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center delivers the essential infrastructure management...