April, 2011

This is the much anticipated version that has been updated to support Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 so if you’ve been waiting on this one then your wait is now over: The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 monitoring management pack is designed to be used for...

It's the first System Center in Action post - here's a link to an Opalis story. We've got more Opalis stories coming... stay tuned! http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2011/04/05/msit-internal-opalis-adoption-using-opalis-to-move-files-across...

Server App-V, a core feature of SCVMM 2012, was created with one purpose in mind: making deployment and management of datacenter applications dramatically simpler. Server App-V provides a predictable, repeatable and consistent deployment/management experience...

Looks like the WSUS team has a new product category headed our way.  From the WSUS product team blog : A new product category will be added to your WSUS server under the Developer Tools, Runtimes and Redistributables family, entitled Visual Studio...

Microsoft’s John Vintzel is at it again with another great post on the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 beta.  This one covers monitoring the compliance of content and a new feature to validate content in the Configuration Manager 2012 infrastructure...

One of the things that has bugged me for a long time is how to create a PowerShell-based activity using QIK CLI, but also enable the use of switch parameters.It wasn’t until today that I really turned my attention to the problem because it was something...

From the MSRC blog: Today, we're providing advanced notification on the release of 17 security bulletins, nine rated Critical and eight rated Important. This month's bulletin release will address 64 vulnerabilities across Microsoft Windows, Microsoft...

Hey everyone, the PM’s are blogging again , this is a really solid topic as well.  We wanted to make you aware of it over here on this blog.  Their intro: In the last blog we covered Distribution Point Groups and the new ways to distribute and...

Marcel Zehner has created a new Opalis integration pack for SCSM.  So far it includes the following activities: New Features in V1.5: New Activity "Autoclose completed Change Requests" New Icons for better visibility New Activity "Autoclose...

Here’s another article written by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that’s over in the TechNet Wiki. This one talks about managing and installing Microsoft Application Virtualization packages: After the sequencing process of applications through...

Here’s another article written by Microsoft Partner and MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that’s over in the TechNet Wiki. This one walks you through creating a new Workspace Package using Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 2.0: Before users begin to use...

Hi Folks - here's a re-post of Ed Anderson's piece which went out on the virtualization blog today. I thought it was a good read for System Center blog as well. Enjoy. In speaking with folks interested in deploying virtualization, I tend to hear two...

A customer I visited last week had a requirement to show whether or not an affected user was a VIP or not.  Their current system has a little red label next to the users name that indicates whether they are a VIP or not.  My challenge was to...

Hi everyone One of the things that we promote as being easy to do and incredibly powerful is the Opalis Quick Integration Kit (QIK) and how it can be used to create your own Integration Packs and compiled .Net code. Well, this morning I did this for the...

Look there, in the sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No, it’s Server App-V – and, if everything that’s being said about it is true, it’s going to make your applications fly in the clouds! There has been a lot written...

This is a continuation of the Tasks series of blog posts: Tasks – Part 1: Tasks Overview Tasks - Part 2: Custom Console Tasks for Create, Edit, Delete In this blog post we will look at creating command line console tasks. These are the...

Based on your feedback, Microsoft is excited to announce we’re shifting Tech·Ed Europe back to the summer timeframe, resuming in 2012. Mark your calendars: the next Tech·Ed Europe will be held the week of June 25, 2012 at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition...

Looks like our very own Jeff Wettlaufer just posted a veritable salad of videos covering a few different topics relating to Configuration Manager 2012.  I have them listed below but you can view them directly from the source here . 1.  System...

Let’s say you create an incident – it has an ID of IR210: 2 minutes later you create another incident and it has an ID of IR262: You know that there couldn’t possibly have been 51 incidents created in the last 2 minutes because you are the only person...

Throughout the past couple of years, I have written extensively on MED-V v1.0. Now that version 2 of MED-V has been released, many experienced users of MED-V are discovering that while it achieves the same results as version 1.0, there are significant...

I’m Chris Green, Program Manager on the App-V team. I first joined Microsoft in June, 2009 and I was immediately assigned to the beginnings of a project that I would see right through to its release. That project was to make improvements to a component...

People sometimes ask why they can’t include some columns in the views that they want.  Here is a common one:  Why can’t I add the affected configuration item(s) as a column in my incident view? In order to understand the answer to this question...

This post was written by Marian Stanescu I work in a small team at Microsoft that manages and monitors about 5,000 servers used to run a few of the larger Microsoft online sites. To process our data, we constantly need to move files across untrusted domains...

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...

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 reduce costs by unifying IT management infrastructure. Jeff Wettlaufer Sr Technical...