I’m Larry Orecklin, general manager of the System Center group. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged here , but as I did last year at Microsoft Management Summit ( video here ) I wanted to take a moment to add some perspective on Day 2 at MMS. Before...

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...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 has RTM’d and GA via volume licensing is set for October 1. This is great news for all and I’d like to especially thank our VMM 2008 R2 Development, Product Management, and Test teams. Lots of hard work fueled...

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...

This free Solution Accelerator collects and monitors operational measurements for your line of business (LOB) applications. Its graphical dashboard makes it easy to keep tabs on service availability and performance, letting you: Spot trends in service...

Hello everyone, Elliott Morris here from the Management and Services Division. As part of my role, I have the privilege to drive efforts here at Microsoft around the War on Cost. This team is uniquely positioned to collect operational data from enterprises...

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...

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 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...

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...

"Community" is one of those great, big, giant words that can mean many different things. Its exact meaning in a context can shift depending on who you talk to, what they're into, and how they see the world. It's a word that holds so much promise because...

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...

Congratulations…it’s a Girl! No! It’s a Boy! No…it’s a brand new healthy and happy Service Pack from the proud System Center Essentials 2007 family. System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 has been delivered, or Released-to-Manufacturing (RTM), and is now available...

Hello. My name is Paul Ross and I’m a Senior Product Marketing Manager in the System Center team. I recently joined Microsoft from Business Objects and one of the key things I’ve been working on in the past few months is the launch of the new System Center...

Hi everyone, my name is Jeff Wettlaufer, and I am the Sr. Technical Product Manager for System Center Configuration Manager . We have an incredibly big year ahead of us, and from a Technical perspective I wanted to highlight some things you can expect...

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,...

Further to the exciting launch of the Cross Platform Extensions Beta at MMS 2008 in Las Vegas back in April, the team have been hard at work and you can now download the Beta 1 Refresh through Microsoft Connect ! The Beta 1 Refresh adds the following...

Today I wanted to provide an update on some information I posted back in July and also highlight some other exciting news that we came out with today. In my previous post , I discussed pricing and packaging changes we have coming to the Server Management...

A few weeks back, I had a chance to sit down with Brad Anderson, GM of Microsoft's Management and Services Division (the folks who build System Center). We talked for a handful of minutes about virtualization, Ops Manager x-plat extensions, and some strategic...

With the launch of Hyper-V, exciting news for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 with virtualization capabilities.

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...

Quick note to everyone to say we've got quite a line-up coming next week for the Management Summit in Las Vegas (April 28-May 2). We'll have announcements galore, videos, blog posts, new content, and a brand-spankin'-new product marketing site to unveil...

Today at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas, Brad Anderson, General Manager in the Management and Services Division at Microsoft, kicked off the day with the keynote "Managing the Dynamic Desktop." He introduced the concept of the dynamic...

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...

Later today, we’ll be delivering a TechNet webcast on managing System Center Data Protection Manager in large enterprises. Essentially, there are three things we want to cover: Using PowerShell to automate tasks across DPM servers Using the DPM management...