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The final release version of the System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Azure applications is now available. This monitoring pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of applications that are running on Windows Azure. Previously available as a release candidate (RC), this new Operations...

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...

The race to create the most valuable, relevant MP extension has concluded with a number of interesting submissions and one overall winner. Congrats to the Grand Prize Winner, Raphael Burri , who will receive a $500 USD Visa gift card for creating the SQL Server DB Mirroring MP , which extends the SQL...

Please note: this is a guest blog post by one of our close partners at Intel. The Intel Core vPro Processor Management Pack v1.0 for System Center Service Manager 2010 is now available for Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 , extending Intel Core vPro Processor remote management benefits to...

On Thursday, June 3, 2010, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Pacific, we are hosting a Live Meeting presentation for the community, titled “Overview of System Center Management Packs with Demo,” presented jointly by Vlad Joanovic , Sr. Program  Manager, and Dan Rogers , Principal Program Manager Lead, with special...

Further to the RTM of Service Manager 2010 , Provance Technologies today announced the RTM of their IT Asset Lifecycle solution for System Center Service Manager 2010 ! Provance delivers customers a rounded solution to IT Asset Lifecycle management, enabling customers to manage the financial, contractual...

We’ve got promos galore heading into the spring , but I want to call out one in particular that we’re really excited to be sponsoring. The Management Pack Extensions Contest , which we are officially launching today with our friends from System Center Central, is all about creating add-ons or extensions...

Sorry, couldn’t resist. For some reason that ol’ “Schoolhouse Rock” song bubbled to the surface of the boiling cauldron of my brainpan in these hyperactive days before MMS and Convergence . But, let me get to the point, straightway: We’ve got 3 promotions in flight, the tail end of one and two others...

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Hi, I’d like to announce a surprise addition to our schedule of Live Meetings for System Center Influencers, in the run-up to MMS 2010… On Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM. PST, we are hosting a Live Meeting presentation for System Center influencers entitled, “Building and Extending System...

Microsoft System Center helps you get the most from your mission-critical messaging infrastructure with management solutions that enhance the availability features built into Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. In this webcast on March 3, 2010 , we look at how System Center can improve the health and availability...

[That’s probably the longest blog title I’ve ever written, so I welcome suggestions/comments on how to make it shorter! Also updated title to reflect _11_ available localizations.] Version 6.1 of the operations management pack for RRAS is now available in all of the 11 localizations supported by Operations...

Just release, version 6.1.7599.0 of the Operations Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2 delivers some new and updated standard and operational data reporting capabilities. This management pack delivers ‘self-monitoring’ of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 infrastructure, and includes the following...

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...

Hey everyone from GMT +1. The System Center team is sitting at a very early breakfast in Amsterdam this morning, looking outside at the 6” of new snow that fell overnight. We are here this week to talk about Windows deployment, with some of our biggest customers in Europe, let alone the world. We have...

Recently released, version 6.0.6703 of the Operations Management Pack for BizTalk Server is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center, and soon to be available via the online service for Operations Manager 2007 R2 customers. Supporting Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 and BizTalk Server...

Just released, an update to the Operations Management Pack for the Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 adds support for IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, and extends support for IIS 7 running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. Now at version 6.0.7600.0, the IIS 7 management pack provides proactive monitoring...

Available for download today, the Operations Management Pack for Distributed File Server (DFS) Namespaces (version 6.0.6321.0) monitors the DFS Namespace Service on Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2, and Windows Server 2003. It can also be configured to monitor the health of DFS Namespaces...

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...

On Tuesday, February 2, 2010 10:00 AM-11:00 AM. PST, we are hosting a Live Meeting presentation for System Center influencers entitled, “Microsoft SharePoint and System Center,” presented by Jason Buffington , Microsoft technical product manager. Please note: This Live Meeting presentation is exclusive...

You may or may not have noticed it yet, but the System Center Catalog has been transitioned over to Microsoft Pinpoint , which should be your first stop to find out about all the different management packs, connectors, extensions and applications available from Microsoft and its partners for System Center...

Earlier this week we held the fourth of our Live Meeting sessions with member of the System Center Influencers Program , this one on System Center support for Exchange 2010 , presented jointly by Leslie Kitz, Jason Buffington, and Jon Lecroy. For a write-up from one of our very own influencers, Marnix...

Mark your calendars! On Wednesday, December 2, 10:00AM PST, we are hosting a Live Meeting presentation for System Center influencers on “Managing the New Mail Infrastructure: What you need to know about System Center for Exchange 2010,” presented by Leslie Kitz, Microsoft Product Manager. Join information...

What a great day in Berlin. This morning, Ryan O’Hara kicked off the Management Track for TechED EMEA. As part of this Ryan announced the Compliance and Risk Process Management Pack for Service Manager . The compliance and Risk Process Management Pack will be fully integrated with System Center Service...