July, 2011

Many customers and partners have been excitedly anticipating the release of WebFront ever since it was announced at the Microsoft Management Summit earlier this year.  Well, the waiting is over!  WebFront was released yesterday!  Many of...

Jeffrey Snover ( @JSnover ), a Microsoft Disinguished Engineer,  the lead architect for Windows Server and the inventor of PowerShell gave a talk recently that I really think is a fascinating presentation on the current and future states of the cloud...

Just a quick note to let you know that Hotfix Package 7 for Microsoft App-V 4.6 All Languages: June 2011 is now available for download: This article describes a hotfix package that contains the latest hotfixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization...

Just a quick note to let you know that Hotfix Package 7 for Microsoft App-V 4.6 RTM: June 2011 is now available for download: This article describes a hotfix package that contains the latest hotfixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4...

Just a quick note to let you know that we just released a new ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 hotfix that addresses and issue where inaccurate software metering reports are generated on a primary System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 site server: The software...

Just a quick note to let you know about a new Knowledge Base article we just published.  This one discusses the AV exclusions you should implement when troubleshooting App-V client issues: ===== Summary The purpose of this article is to provide information...

Hi everyone As we have previously indicated , there are some changes in the Standard Activities (what were referred to...( read more ) ...read more

Hi Everyone We have published an article on the Orchestrator Blog that contains a SQL query you can run against your Opalis database that will identify any activities that you are currently using that have changed in Orchestrator. We hope your Orchestrator...

Here’s a heads up on yet another cool article I found over on the TechNet Wiki today regarding System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. This is another one written by MVP Kristian Nese and it talks about the concept of services in SCVMM 2012: For those...

Hello all -- This week we released a special Security Intelligence Report that showcases some of the data we amassed in the wake of the big Rustock botnet takedown in the spring of 2010. The new SIR also delves into the diplomacy, secrecy and intellectual...

I’ve had a few customers and partners ask how they can disable our out of box workflows so they can implement their own custom workflow logic in their own code. It’s actually really easy to do with a little “know how” and some...

On Thursday, July 14 th we will be giving online training to user groups about Failover Clustering & Hyper-V: Planning your Highly-Available Virtualization Environment .  This event is run in collaboration with Microsoft’s User Group Support...

This has been a big week for partner releases!  Earlier this week we announced the release of WebFront by GridPro , a web console for SCSM work item management.  Now, Derdack has announced the release of a Windows Phone 7 Application that analysts...

Everyone is talking about the Cloud. At next week’s Worldwide Partner Conference, you and 12,000 other partners will be encouraged to take the cloud conversation to the next level from traditional virtualization to cloud-based computing. As your...

The 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is kicking off today, and with over 12,000 attendees expected, it promises to be an exciting event. The Server and Cloud team at Microsoft has been working furiously over the last few months to make...

I just wanted to let you know  that we just published a great KB article on how to troubleshoot some common reasons for blank reports in System Center Operations Manager 2007.  If you ever have any trouble with OpsMgr reports then this is a...

Hello all -- Over the years we’ve often talked about exploit mitigations – DEP, ASLR, SEHOP and so forth – as effective tools for improving computer security, reducing risk, preventing attacks, and minimizing operational disruption...

Just wanted to let you know that the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 hotfix rollup package dated July 12, 2011 was now available for download.  Here’s the text from the KB describing the update: ===== INTRODUCTION This article describes...

Cloud computing is as big a transformation, and opportunity, as the technology industry has ever seen. Partners and customers can look to Microsoft for the most comprehensive cloud strategy and offerings, in order to improve their business agility, focus...

We’ve discussed this lots of times before in different blog posts in different forms, but I’ll just put it out here one more time in a condensed form.  You can use SMLets to delete objects from the CMDB.  Here are some examples: Get-SCSMObject...

[Today's post is provided by Rob Stack ] The latest downloadable update for the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library has been posted to the Microsoft Download Center. The June 2011 version is the newest downloadable update available and...

Hi everyone We have posted 2 new Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager in the Download Center.  You can download these and read more using the links below, and they will also be in the Catalog and PinPoint shortly. System Center Monitoring...

I just wanted to let you know that we have a couple new Management Packs for OpsMgr 2007 available in our Download Center: System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: The System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011...

There’s a lot of hype around the evolution of virtualization and management, and the emergence of cloud computing. One thing that everyone can agree upon however is that most customers want to take virtualization and management to the next level...

Hi everyone, Joao Madureira here.  I’m a Senior Support Escalation Engineer here at Microsoft and I wanted to take a minute to tell you about an issue we’ve been getting a couple calls on just in case you happen run into it as well.  It’s not...