Greetings from New Orleans!  We are all pretty jazzed to be in this amazing city.  This year for Microsoft, we have exceeded our registration targets by over 60%.  That means that this week there will be over 10,500 guests, speakers and...

One of the more common requests we receive from you regarding management pack availability is to communicate when new and updated releases become available. While we are looking to improve such an announcement capability in Pinpoint (the site of our new...

Hi everyone, Kenon Owens (@ms_int_virt) and Jeff Wettlaufer (@jeffwettlaufer) are live in Toolbox.com chatting today this morning about all things System Center. Come join us, the entrance is free, and there is a LOT of great discussion happening. Here...

Hello Service Manager Fans! A number of you have been posting comments and sending me questions on the availability, or lack thereof, of Service Manager 2010 SP1 on the download pages previously posted. We are in the process of addressing this and the...

We recently had a chance to sit with our friends in Windows and talk about Deployment. If you haven’t had a chance yet to visit the site , check it out. There are some really interesting topics posted over there………… We recorded about 45 minutes of discussion...

Hey everyone, over on the ‘ Because it’s Everybody’s Business Blog’ we have just posted some additional perspective on the Microsoft and HP joint investment. check it out here . If you want to follow twitterstreams on the agreement, check out #HPMSFT...

Good morning everyone, this AM an interesting article out of CIO.com circulated about the top tech priorities they saw through a survey of 405 IT professionals involved in buying technology products and services. “IT departments are focused on cloud computing...

Hi Folks - wanted to make sure all of you know about the Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Customer Roundtable event we have coming up on March 10 at 9am PST. Kraft Foods, Royal Caribbean and Login Consultants are going to be speaking with Mike Silver...

Hey everyone, you may have recently heard about the upcoming CEP for Opalis, from Adam at this post .  We wanted to let you know that shortly we will be providing details of 2 additional CEPs for Forefront Endpoint protection and Configuration Manager...

Briefing for Microsoft System Center Service Providers Join us to learn more about the new "Intel vPro Technology Alliance". This exciting program is for manageability service providers. By integrating the innovative security, manageability and cost-saving...

As you may have noticed, this week Microsoft released public betas of two new System Center IT management products: DPM 2010 and SCE 2010 . However, what you may not be aware of is that there's a much broader story unfolding. Over the last 3-4 years,...

On Tuesday, April 28 at 11:00am PDT, Microsoft will continue its webcast series on 'How to Invest in the IT Infrastructure You Have While Preparing for Tomorrow' with Part 2 : "Is There a Cloud in Your Future?" Register here Join Zane Adam, Microsoft...

Charles Joy has started posting some of his great Opalis knowledge to a new blog . On his site you can find videos and demo's on how to use Opalis and see the solutions in action. Charles has posted 4 videos to get started, and intends to keep adding...

Hello everyone, building on what Brad covered in his TechEd Berlin keynote, we are pleased to present Episode 3 of the Coffee Talk Series.  In this episode, Brad and Jeff begin to tackle the topic of Microsoft's vision for cloud computing through...

Hey everyone, we managed to get some time with Brad again, this time to talk about the upcoming events PDC and TechEd Europe.   In this video, Brad shares a brief preview of some of the themes of his keynotes, in particular Microsoft's approach to...

While the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 actually runs from July 11-15, 2010 in Washington D.C., the WPC 2010 Award Winners and Finalists have already been announced , and it’s great to see System Center partners represented throughout the...

Hey everyone, we got a chance to sit and talk with Brad again to kick off the new ‘Coffee Talk series’ .  Brad and Jeff get together to talk about what the team has been working on in recent months, reviewing some of the important releases and developments...

Wouldn’t it be great if you could run Windows Azure in your own datacenter?  Well, now you can!  With the recent release of Windows Azure Services for Windows Server you can run elements of Azure IaaS on premise in your own datacenter for virtual...

We’ve recently been running a series of TechNet Radio shows on Building a Private Cloud with technical evangelists Keith Mayer and Yung Chou to show you how to build and manage your hybrid cloud environment with System Center 2012 SP1. Tune in as they...

The System Center Universe is expanding to Europe!  A new System Center Universe will be held in Switzerland in September! For two days, IT professionals will get up to speed on the latest information about Microsoft System Center Cloud and Datacenter...