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...

We get a lot of questions regarding support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in the previous versions of our System Center products, and while this information is published in the TechNet Library it’s fairly spread out and at times difficult to find...

This week at TechEd, we’re sharing our excitement about the upcoming releases of Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, and Windows Intune. By itself, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager can: Deploy and...

TechEd North America is officially underway, and it's time to roll out the red carpet ! It began this morning with a post and video on the new Microsoft Cloud OS YouTube channel from Microsoft Server and Tools President Satya Nadella on “The Enterprise...

The word is out, there’s great stuff coming up ahead for you at TechEd North America! At this premiere event for IT professionals and enterprise developers, you’ll be able to choose from among nine tracks covering Microsoft’s latest...

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...

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...

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...

On May 21, Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) continues its monthly series of free Q&A sessions led by Microsoft technical evangelists. This month, we’re releasing several great System Center 2012 SP1 courses and have invited Symon Perriman to...

The Microsoft Server and Management Studios User Research team is looking for IT Professionals to join our customer panel. Your participation in this panel will help us understand customer requirements, workflows, and usage trends when working with Windows...

We are launching a new Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series this week!  This continuing education series of presentations will be delivered by some of our MVPs on various topics around Window Server and System Center.  The content...

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. This update includes a bunch of great fixes for App Controller, Operations Manager, Service Manager, Orchestrator and Data Protection Manager. You can get all the...

Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 is now available for download and includes fixes for Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager. The article below discusses the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft System Center 2012 as well...

Today, we are pleased to announce the commercial availability of Global Service Monitor (GSM), a Windows Azure-based service with active Microsoft Software Assurance coverage for System Center 2012 server management licenses. Learn more about GSM and...

Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President, Windows Server & System Center, is talking about the concept of the “Cloud OS” today on his new blog called “ In the Cloud ”.  Brad has been a transformational leader of our System Center and Windows Server...

Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) provides free online training on the technical scenarios that are important to your company and your career. Stay current on the Microsoft technologies you need in your job today, build new skills for the future, or prepare...

System Center Universe 2013 was a great success!  We had hundreds of people in attendance in person and thousands watching live on the webcast!  The speakers and presentations they gave were really excellent.  The Catapult Systems team...

The System Center Universe 2013 conference is coming up this week – Thursday, Jan. 31st!  Set aside a day to spend listening to some of the top System Center Speakers and get to know some more people in the System Center community!  The event...

This morning we announced the general availability of System Center 2012 SP1!  While the RTM bits have been available for a few weeks already to TechNet/MSDN subscribers and volume licensing customers, today marks the broad availability of System...

The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2013 is coming up soon!  It’s going to be a super event for thousands of people from all over the world interested in System Center and Windows Server to get together to network and soak up lots of great information...

      On behalf of Microsoft and the event host, Catapult Systems , you are invited to join us at System Center Universe 2013 ! The second annual System Center Universe is a one-day globally available technical event featuring Microsoft...

The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2013 is going to be held in Las Vegas again next year.  The date is set – April 8-12, 2013.  MMS is the can’t miss Microsoft conference dedicated just to management.  You don’t want to miss out on five...

If you liked the original System Center Blogs app that was published last year for Windows Phone and Android , you’ll be happy to know that both apps have now been updated, plus there is a new version now available for iOS . The updates include bug fixes...

For the last few years, the System Center Blog here at http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter has been run by the System Center marketing team. They moved to a combined System Center + Windows Server + Cloud blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/server...

Hello everyone, some of you may remember my posts over the past few years here regarding System Center, and Client Management topics. I wanted to post a brief update here on this blog about where I will be blogging moving forward. After an amazing year...