Microsoft is offering a number of new ways to deliver the Windows desktop to end-users with Med-V, App-V etc. But which technology do you choose for your organization? depending on individual needs, users may derive very different benefits from the available...

Actually, been online for at least a month or two, as far as I can tell. But want to give you the link and make sure you're aware of what's going on. Why? Because Service Manager is on the way soon ( available currently in beta ) and keeping you informed...

A little note off the beaten track of this blog, but not too far astray... Seattle and the Puget Sound get socked in by some weather, a little snow and ice and we all run for our tea, pillows, and blankies, sending out earnest WAH ("working at home"...

System Center is very excited to announce the release of Service Pack 1 for DPM 2007. What is new in Service Pack 1 http://www.microsoft.com/SystemCenter/DataProtectionManager/en/us/WHATs-NEW.aspx DPM 2007 SP1 x86 http...

We are just a few days away from releasing Service Pack 1 for DPM 2007, and part of the release is updating our existing content and adding new materials. The DPM Team has been working with the Microsoft Solution Accelerators group to develop this IPD...

I’m pleased to announce that the new beta of System Center Service Manger is now available. This beta includes the updated infrastructure components that will both deliver the performance we are targeting for the release and support our objective of delivering...

The System Center Operations Manager team is excited to announce the availability of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta , which is ready for you to download through Microsoft Connect today! As announced and demonstrated by Brad Anderson at TechEd...

At IT Forum last week, the general public got a chance to see DPM 2007 Service Pack 1. It isn't quite released yet, but still tracking really well for December. So, to give everyone else a taste of what is in SP1 -- check out this video on EDGE.TECHNET...

Just want to let you know about some changes we're beginning to make in our TechNet site to help you find relevant community resources for System Center-related topics, both on Microsoft sites and off... Contextualizing Social Bookmarks Chris over at...

For those of you planning migration or upgrade activities, the Solution Accelerator team this week released the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2. Details and download information can be found in their blog post linked here and below is a...

Just wanted to highlight a few partner announcements I’ve heard and seen at the show today in Barcelona. App-V (formerly SoftGrid) has great momentum and announced several new great partners who have developed business value add-ons for this new release...

Bunch o' news coming out of Barcelona today and this week relating to System Center, and I want to use this post to keep track of the more notable items, including announcements, links to blog posts, and posted vids. At the Service Manager and System...

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...

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...

I recently attended a smallish conference in Scottsdale, AZ, hosted by MarketingProfs, called the Digital Marketing Mixer . Now, granted, this event has little to do with the System Center business directly, but it does have a bearing on the ways in which...

Virtual Machine Manager 2008 has been released! Microsoft's much-awaited update to VMM 2007 helps bring home the reality of physical-to-virtual machine management, playing a key role in the System Center suite of products and solutions for the data center...

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...

In conversations with customers and partners, most organizations running SharePoint are now considering running it on virtualized servers. Last week, Michael Noel, partner at Convergent Computing – a Microsoft Gold Partner and SharePoint MVP, sat down...

Earlier this week, I sat down with our friends at Total Wine to talk about how they are using System Center. It's one of the first times that I've gotten to talk about technology and 'wine' instead of 'whine" - so check out the TechNet Radio interview...

Latest in our budding series w/ Brad Anderson, GM of MSD. This time, Jeff Wettlaufer chats with Brad about what's going on in terms of desktop virtualization and Configuration Manager 2007 R2, from the application level to the hardware level, the latter...

Hello All. It wasn’t so long ago (March 2007) that Microsoft unleashed System Center Operations Manager 2007 as a successor to Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, and it’s only been a few months (April 2008) since we followed up with a pretty major announcement...

My colleague and office mate, David Mills, and I sat down the other week and shot a short video of him explaining and showing System Center Essentials , our mid-market IT management solution. One thing about working at a place like this is there's no...

We're starting in about an hour -- 9:30 AM Pacific Time on Friday, September 26th What better way to start the weekend than being sure that your data protection solution ' has got your back ' (pun intended) for your database server farm? So,...

Many announcements queued up for this week as the Virtualization Launch gets underway today. Check out these resources for the latest and greatest: Virtualization Team Blog : latest announcements, news, and, well, blog posts. Virtualization Site : Hub...

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...