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Last week there was a flurry of information and activity around TechEd North America. So many announcements and sessions , so little time. Several of the product groups posted information on what they have been working on, and we wanted to make sure and bring your attention to “ Transforming your...
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Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Take a look at Brad Anderson’s, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, perspective on Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy, our private cloud solutions and the economics of those solutions versus VMware. Click here to read more.
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Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Cloud computing is as big a transformation, and opportunity, as the technology industry has ever seen. Partners and customers can look to Microsoft for the most comprehensive cloud strategy and offerings, in order to improve their business agility, focus and economics. Today, at the Worldwide Partner...
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The 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is kicking off today, and with over 12,000 attendees expected, it promises to be an exciting event. The Server and Cloud team at Microsoft has been working furiously over the last few months to make this a successful event for our partners. Over the...
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Everyone is talking about the Cloud. At next week’s Worldwide Partner Conference, you and 12,000 other partners will be encouraged to take the cloud conversation to the next level from traditional virtualization to cloud-based computing. As your customer’s trusted advisor, you will best be...
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Ananthanarayan Sundaram
Imagine the following movie clip playing at a datacenter near you…..an application owner comes to a web site that you as the datacenter administrator offers, simply specifies a few characteristics of their app – say it needs 99.9% availability, app data can’t leave the US & I need...
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11 Nov 2010
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MSMQ 4.0 and 5.0 get New Operations Management Packs
Michael J Baiano
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) enables applications to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporary offline or otherwise inaccessible. In the past week I’m excited to announce the addition of new operations management packs for both version 4.0 and 5.0 of MSMQ, which...
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11 Apr 2010
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Management Pack for Windows Server 2008 R2 Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) available in all 11 localized languages
Michael J Baiano
[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...
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System Center Configuration Manager Reporting Dashboard Beta released
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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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Application Compatibility Toolkit Connector Update
JeffWettlaufer
To help our customers accelerate their testing and deployment of Windows 7, we are really pleased to announce an update to the ACT Connector for Configuration Manager. The Application Compatibility Toolkit Connector (ACT Connector) assists administrators with collecting the necessary computer and application...
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Operations Management Pack for Windows 2008 R2 Direct Access Server Now Available
Michael J Baiano
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...
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System Center at the TechEd Europe IT Pro Keynote
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As you read in Jeff’s blog post this morning, there’s a lot going on for System Center at TechEd Europe this year in Berlin! In fact, System Center is one of the featured demonstrations in this afternoon’s IT Pro keynote, presented by Stephen Elop and Robert Wahbe, and starting at 3:30pm Berlin time...
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Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Hi Patrick here with a quick heads-up about an upcoming teleconference that might be of interest. Are you interested in hearing about how other IT pros are reacting to economic conditions and where they’re investing? Do you have questions about Microsoft’s efforts to help IT depts be more cost...
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18 Jun 2009
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Operations Manager 2007 R2 hits RTM
Michael J Baiano
Late yesterday the RTM of Operations Manager 2007 R2 was approved , which immediately initiated the next stage of the process ... getting this latest version of Microsoft's end-to-end monitoring product for IT environments and datacenters out to YOU ! Read more in our overview whitepaper , What's New...
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22 May 2009
Blog Post:
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 beta now available
Larry Grothaus
Exciting news for System Center, Windows Server Hyper-V, and VMWare customers. The beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available on the Microsoft Connect site for download . If you don't already have access to VMM on the Connect site you can get to it here by simply filling out...
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16 Mar 2009
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MaximumASP and Hyper-V: System Center, Front and Center
Dave Morehouse
Interesting guest post over on the Virtualization blog from Dominic Foster, CTO at a company called MaximumASP. The "money quote": During our research we found the TCO of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with System Center to be a less expensive solution than a similar toolset from VMware. Being...
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6 Aug 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
Blog Post:
Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0, Simplifying IT Service Management
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
On Tuesday at the Microsoft Management Summit we presented a breakout session on the new Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0 . It was really exciting to finally be able to show MOF 4.0 off, since we’ve been working on it for the last year. And today Brad Anderson formally announced the release MOF 4.0...
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1 May 2008
Blog Post:
MMS 2008 Day 1: Big Day for The Data Center
Paul Ross
We’re just half a day into MMS 2008 and it’s already been a big day for our customers and the System Center team. This is the largest MMS in history and the huge crowds have so far been thoroughly rewarded for making the trip to Las Vegas and haven’t even had to bet cash to get it. (That is only gambling...
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29 Apr 2008
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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
Blog Post:
System Center and the RSA Conference
JeffWettlaufer
Hi everyone, my name is Jeff Wettlaufer and I am the Sr. Technical product Manager for System Center Configuration Manager. This week at RSA System Center will be present like never before. With the recent releases of System Center Configuration Manager , Operations Manager , Data Protection Manager...
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11 Apr 2008
Blog Post:
Better Together: Windows Server 2008 and the System Center Suite
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Benefits and Compatibility Overview Can you feel it!? The anticipation is growing as we count down to the Windows Server 2008 launch. Appropriately, the launch theme is “Heroes Happen Here.” Heroes are big these days. Just ask my wife how much she has spent on superhero action figures and books...
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26 Feb 2008
Blog Post:
Optimize Your Virtualization Deployments
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Hi, I’m Larry Orecklin, general manager of System Center product management and virtualization marketing. I’m in San Francisco this morning at a virtualization conference hosted by Bernstein Research, who provides investment research to institutional investors. It’s been interesting for me to see the...
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13 Dec 2007
Blog Post:
Welcome to the official System Center blog from Brad Anderson
Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team
Hi and welcome to the first post on the official System Center blog and please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Brad Anderson and I’m the General Manager for the Management and Solutions Division at Microsoft. In this position I oversee the teams responsible for the development and engineering...
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24 Oct 2007