In this video, Jeff Wettlaufer, a Sr Technical Product Manager for System Center at Microsoft demonstrates Configuration Manager 2012. In this demo, Jeff shows how to improve IT effectiveness through new efficiencies for both the Administrator and the...

Coupla new videos coming in the immediate wake of MMS 2009, each starring our very own Brad Anderson. This a video with a business partner from HP, Scott Farrand, to talk about HP’s Insight Control for System Center: And this a video of Brad at the MMS...

Hey there everyone, we wanted to make sure you knew about the new Configuration Manager ‘Configuration Pack’ for Service Manager, that is now available here .  This Configuration Pack for DCM  helps track configuration best practices for your...

Hello All! We have seen tremendous excitement about the Opalis acquisition from customers and partners alike. This acquisition brings together the deep automation and orchestration expertise of Opalis with the integrated, physical and virtual datacenter...

Today marks a significant milestone in HP’s 25+ year relationship with Microsoft. At Microsoft Management Summit, HP announced Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center. The first product of its kind, HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System...

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...

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...

Hi everyone, we are really excited to release the Beta 2 VHD of ConfigMgr 2012.  You can download this VHD here . This download comes as a pre-configured Virtual Hard Disk (VHD). It enables you to evaluate System Center Configuration Manager 2012...

Wanted to bring to your attention a neat little bit of code that some colleagues in our user assistance/docs org have developed and released to the Live Gadget Gallery: a Web content search gadget for System Center . This gadget offers the following features...

Hi, All, We are pleased to announce that the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 RC is now ready for the general public. This release adds support for the Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1...

Hi everyone, we have been working hard to get all of our labs posted to the TechNet platform. Today we are pleased to let you know that they are live and available!  We have a collection of Beta 1 labs now available for you to access on demand to...

The System Center Operations Manager team is excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) of Operations Manager 2007 R2 , which is ready for you to download through Microsoft Connect today! Operations Manager 2007 R2 delivers key...

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...

Greetings! My name is Beckett Thomsen and I am the product manager for System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP), among other responsibilities. I'm excited to let you know that the Release Candidate for SCCP 2007 is now available for download. SCCP 2007 helps...

I wanted to get a note out to you about our recent efforts at integrating OEM specific deployment customizations into the powerful OS Deployment features in ConfigMgr. The OEM Deployment Packs provide the ability to extend the capabilities within the...

Check out David Mills's blog post, Senior Product Manager for System Center, where he announces the Release Candidate of Operations Manager 2012. Read David's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

Hi everyone, we continue our series today with some implementation coverage of the Power Management features in R3. Monitor Current Power Usage and Settings  - Successful implementation of a client power management plan ideally requires multiple...

If you missed MMS this year (and even if you didn’t) we’ve got a great webcast series on Service Manager 2010 starting next week. Full details and links to registration (or replay, if after the live broadcast) are as below. All times are US Pacific (West...

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...

Hey everyone, coming back from TechEd USA, a few of us were discussing some topics that came up, and a common thread was what version of ConfigMgr is needed for what?  So, we thought we would list out the order and min requirements at a product level...

As we demonstrated a few weeks ago at MMS, the System Center team is working in partnership with Citrix to integrate the management of XenApp with Configuration Manager. We’ve put together a white paper that outlines how the new capabilities can be used...

Use the Service Level Dashboard to keep mission-critical, line of business applications up and running. In these three short screencasts, IT Pro Evangelist Matt Hester shows how you can use the Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for System Center Operations...

In this post, we are highlighting Panu Saukko, a Microsoft MVP based in Finland.  Panu has been a technical trainer and consultant for the last two decades and has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 1995.  Since 2005, he has been...

[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...

Following the Orchestrator 2012 Beta announcement and the previously posted What to Expect in the Beta below is a list of articles that will answer the majority of the questions that you will ask . We will be creating and posting a lot of documentation...