Written by a kind of “crash test dummy.” Check out and comment on David Elliott’s experiences installing and operating System Center Essentials 2010 , from square one. In his words, “… if I succeed in getting it up and running, then I should derive some pretty spectacular benefits from it.  Ours...

[Re-blog of the original post on the BIEB blog portal ] MMS 2010 , which ran April 19th-23rd in Las Vegas, was voted by its attendees (up 51% over last year) as one of the most successful conferences of the series! Many thanks to all who attended, and to our sponsors (including our platinum sponsors...

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...

Special shout out to Leandro Carvalho and Michael DeNapoli, who were our January blog contest winners, posting blog content about the January theme: Microsoft Virtualization . As congratulations, they each will receive a $100 gift certificate. Take a moment to read the winning blog entries Understanding...

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...

Hat tip to Bob Cornelissen for his write up of our most recent Live Meeting on SharePoint and System Center , given as part of the System Center Influencers Program (wait… what’s that ?). At the end of his write-up, Bob has this to say: It is no secret that I just love the System Center line of products...

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...

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Nifty YouTube video circulating around that does a fine job of presenting data on social media—how it’s changing the culture of communications and so necessarily the way companies need to shift the way they market their products and services. It also explains in global terms why I’m doing what I’m doing...

Just saw this article this morning—came over the Microsoft news service. Definitely interested to see that Microsoft rated well as a social media marketing company according to Charlene Li. My own experience suggests we have a long way to go from changing our megaphonic, push marketing to something much...