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Jason Buffington
In December 2010, Gartner released its latest Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis (ECA) . Microsoft was very pleased to see that in consideration of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, Gartner placed Microsoft in the Leader Quadrant of its ECA MQ ! To read Gartner’s ECA Magic Quadrant...
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Opalis Software Availability and Roadmap News
Opalis
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...
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“5 Must-have IT Management Technologies for 2010”
JeffWettlaufer
I just saw this post today on CIO.com about some IT capabilities predicted to be hot topics….. worth a look. “As more companies expand virtualization deployments and consider cloud computing, the average IT environment will grow ever more complex. For enterprise IT managers in 2010, that means more tools...
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Microsoft Acquires Opalis Software
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
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...
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Compliance and Risk Process Management Pack Announced in Berlin
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
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...
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10 Nov 2009
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Featured Influencers for September
Dave Morehouse
We are pleased to recognize Bob Cornelissen, Theo Carpenter, Ben Lee, Tim McFadden, and Klaus Seidel in our community as they were notably involved in September. Not only are these influencers members of our System Center Influencers Program but have also been active by participating in our first Live...
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26 Sep 2009
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System Center at TechEd Africa 2009
Jason Buffington
This month, three SC folks headed down to Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa to support Microsoft TechEd 2009 Africa . TE Africa had a great turnout on their own, and it was really exciting to visit with our African customers around DPM , SCCM , SCOM and Service Manager . In all, our...
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11 Aug 2009
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Partner Confab and MMS Q&A with Brad Anderson (Videos)
Dave Morehouse
Coupla new videos coming in the immediate wake of MMS 2009, each starring our very own Brad Anderson. This a video with a business partner from HP, Scott Farrand, to talk about HP’s Insight Control for System Center: And this a video of Brad at the MMS 2009 Community Lounge, holding forth on the business...
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20 May 2009
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MMS 2009 All A-Twitter
Dave Morehouse
Or, more aptly, SOME a-twitter… Twitter was going to be used at MMS regardless of anything we might do, but we wanted to provide a simple and easily understood structure for the real-time 1-to-many, short-form conversation that Twitter can foster. Accordingly, we used the mms09 account for broadcast...
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MMS Day 2: Demos, Swag, and More
Dave Morehouse
Today started, like yesterday, with a keynote of note: this one with Brad and a stellar cast demoing new features and products for the desktop. Among others, the collected audience saw Jeff Wettlaufer demo a deployment of Windows 7 out to 20-some XP machines, all in something like 15 minutes using Config...
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30 Apr 2009
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Community Matters at MMS: Day 1
Dave Morehouse
Think I’ve convinced Garth Jones to post an article/blog post on user groups, special interest groups (SIGs), and study groups, which could be very helpful to those looking for info on how to engage/start such communities… when he does post it, I’ll be sure to link to it and tie the info into our influencers...
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29 Apr 2009
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MMS Day 1/2 Recap from the Community Lounge
Dave Morehouse
A day of ramping up, getting a feel for the space and the mission. The Community Lounge area is pretty much set up for hocking our wares. Apologies for the poor image quality, but here’s the basic set up with Joey and Adam in the background, editing fresh video for TechNet Edge . Also managed to...
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28 Apr 2009
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MMS 2009: Live in Las Vegas
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Events, Videos, Interviews & More from the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 in Las Vegas Find here collected System Center-related info, news, and more from MMS 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada (April 27-May 1, 2009). See also the MMS 2009 site . Can't make it this year? Watch keynotes and videos...
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23 Apr 2009
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Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Announced
Paul Ross
I’m pleased to let you know that you don’t have to travel all the way to Barcelona to hear the news that a beta of Operations Manager 2007 R2 is shortly going to be available. As announced today in our press release and on stage in Barcelona at Teched EMEA 2008 , the beta will be available by the end...
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3 Nov 2008
Blog Post:
System Center at TechEd Barcelona (VIDEO)
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
As we move through fall in Redmond and head to Barcelona to meet with our EMEA customers for TechEd ITForum, there are a number of things hot off the press for System Center. We took a few minutes with Brad Anderson to talk about recent developments and releases in System Center for both the data center...
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3 Nov 2008
Blog Post:
Operations Manager 2007 Receives Community Award
Paul Ross
I'm pleased to annouce that System Center Operations Manager 2007 has received another award - this time from SQL Server Magazine Editors' Best Community Choice awards. The product picked up the gold award for Exchange Server Monitoring tool . We're especially proud of this becuase of the broad cross...
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17 Oct 2008
Blog Post:
Configuration Manager 2007 R2 Is Released
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
The Configuration Manager team is pleased to announce the release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2! The installation kit is available through the Download Center. This release includes key enhancements in the following areas; Application Virtualization Management, Client Status Reporting...
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2 Sep 2008
Blog Post:
MOM 2005 SP1 Delivers Support of Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Further to last week's announcement on support of Windows Server 2008 by Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and Essentials 2007 SP1 , the Operations Manager team is pleased to announce that MOM 2005 SP1 is now supported on Windows Server 2008 (as detailed below). Full details on this support is detailed within...
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5 Aug 2008
Blog Post:
Operations Manager 2007 & Essentials 2007 Deliver Support for Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
The System Center Operations Manager team is excited to announce support of Windows Server 2008 by Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and Essentials 2007 SP1. This enables both Operations Manager 2007 and Essentials 2007 to successfully monitor, as well as be installed upon, the Windows Server 2008 platform...
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29 Jul 2008
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News: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to release by end of year
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
With the launch of Hyper-V, exciting news for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 with virtualization capabilities.
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2 Jul 2008
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A Note on New Server Branding
Dave Morehouse
Just occurred to me to give you a little info on the new branding/logo you've probably been seeing here and there for System Center and other products. At TechEd in Orlando this year, the new server branding was unveiled, boasting a new set of logos and design patterns for Microsoft server products....
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18 Jun 2008
Blog Post:
Future is Now: New Social Media Tools on TechNet
Dave Morehouse
Stuff to help you connect online with people and resources... I was a part of the team that was building these services a while back, and now I'm happy to report they've really started to bring it together. Here's some text from the official (internal: shhhhhh!) announcement: Today Microsoft announced...
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30 May 2008
Blog Post:
Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 Ships
JeffWettlaufer
Today we release Configuration Manager 2007 SP1! It is amazing to see that this was not a release based in bug fix, quite the opposite, there are hardly any hotfixes included in this release. This is a reflection of changes such as the ship of Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1. With...
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22 May 2008
Blog Post:
Operations Manager 2007 goes CROSS Platform!
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
If you haven't heard about it already, you surely soon will! At this morning's keynote at MMS 2008 in Las Vegas, Bob Muglia (assisted by Barry Shilmover) announced the introduction of the Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions Beta (Ops Mgr Cross Plat). What does mean? Well...
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29 Apr 2008
Blog Post:
System Center in the News
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Check back for more articles and blog posts about System Center products. Dave Marshall, a self-professed 'virualization freak' writes about how VMware predicts the death of the OS. Well, sort of. over at the InfoWorld's Virtualization report. He had a chance to speak with Zane Adam, Sr. Director...
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15 Apr 2008