April, 2011

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 empower people to be productive from anywhere on whatever device they choose. Jeff Wettlaufer...

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2, R2 and R3 now supports the Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 operating systems for client installation. The Configuration Manager console and branch distribution point are supported on these platforms...

We’ll I am finally starting to get caught up from MMS 2011!  It was great to see many of you there at the conference!  I wish we could have MMS every month (especially if I could just go and not have to present)! I was going to write up a blog...

A new TechNet Gallery site has been set up (in beta for now) to enable people in the community to more easily share solutions with each other.  Right now we have just one contribution from Steve Beaumont up there to backup your unsealed MPs, but...

Back in February we hosted a Service Manager Deep Dive Summit where the Program Managers from the product team presented on various topics in depth: Incident and Problem Management – Ketan Ghelani Change Management  - Vladimir Bakhmetyev CMDB &...

Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho been busy over in the TechNet Wiki , creating lots of articles on all kinds of Microsoft virtualization technologies.  This one walks you through installing the App-V Sequencer and Sequencing an app (making the virtualization...

We're pleased to announce the release of the new Microsoft Security Update Guide, Second Edition . Fully revised and updated from the first edition, which was released in 2009, this edition focuses on best practices for prioritizing and testing security...

Jim Truher and I have been seeing some usage of the SMLets Get-SCSMObject cmdlet lately that will cause really bad performance when run in a production environment. Things will work fine in a dev/test environment where the quantity of data is small but...

Here’s another article written by Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho that’s over in the TechNet Wiki. This one walks you through installing the App-V Management Server and getting it all set up for streaming: The System Center Application...

If you are performing Disk to Tape (D-T) backups using System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 or 2010 (DPM), after adding data sources (DS) to a protection group (PG) for two or more protected servers, the backup jobs may not be scheduled for any...

New to Microsoft MED-V v2 or just wondering what all the buzz is about? If so then head over to the TechNet Wiki and check out the great new article written by Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho: Imagine that you need to migrate all your farm of workstations...

New to Microsoft App-V or just wondering what all the buzz is about? If so then head over to the TechNet Wiki and check out the great intro written by Microsoft MVP Leandro E. Carvalho: There is a solution provided by the MDOP package called Microsoft...

@   Adam (Bomb) of TechNet Edge made some GREAT Videos during MMS, Check them Out: The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) and TechNet Edge have a great relationship – their audience is a dedicated, specialized IT Pro audience, and Edge has been on...

Our resident video blogging extraordinaire, Charles Joy has posted another great video demo and instructions on how to use Opalis to automate the updating of Hyper-V Integration Services after you update to 2008 R2 SP1. From Charles post: Today’s Video...

Hi everyone, a few weeks back we posted a survey where you could provide feedback on the User Experience research we are working on.  This survey has recently closed, but for those who did take the time, THANK YOU, we really appreciate it.  ...

Hi Service Manager fans! A while back I facilitated a series of Service Manager Deep Dive sessions for partners and customers on specific capabilities within Service Manager.  Enjoy!  I’ve also now fixed the broken links. Incident & Problem...