August, 2011

Windows Intune now offers a number of improvements on reporting around hardware inventory.  Previously, Windows Intune had the ability to collect and display comprehensive hardware information about your managed PCs, but only on a PC-by PC basis...

Hi everyone Well, it seems like only yesterday that we were starting the Orchestrator 2012 Beta Community Evaluation Program , and here we are now heading to the final meeting! If you have been part of the Program, we thank you for the engagement and...

For those who already know me, it has been a couple of weeks since I relocated to the Seattle area and started working as a Program Manager on the Operations Manager Application Monitoring team and this is my first post on this blog. For those who don...

The following article applies to SCOM 2012 BETA and may or may not apply to RC or RTM release. I’ll try to repro the issue in the upcoming releases to see if the behavior changed and provide updates if necessary. I guess everyone is testing SCOM...

Hello, Today we published the August Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded six questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released and the Malicious Software Removal Tool. There was one question...

OM Community, System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 now supports SQL Server 2005 SP4 .  Note: We will have the Supported Configuration and a KB article posted in the next few weeks to make this more...

Hi everyone, Black Hat this year was really great. We spent a lot of time talking to people and getting new perspectives on the security landscape and of course, we announced the BlueHat Prize contest. The reaction to the contest was outstanding. In...

Here’s a heads up on another nice article I found over on the TechNet Wiki today. This is another one written by MVP Kristian Nese and it talks about creating compatibility profiles in SCVMM 2012: Another interesting feature that I have found quite useful...

Hi everyone, Steve Thomas here and I wanted to take a minute to talk about understanding and troubleshooting MED-V v2 URL redirection.  One of the most important reasons for deploying MED-V v2 is for legacy Internet Explorer browser compatibility...

That question in the title has caused some confusion with our customers. It usually comes up after " What is a Package Accelerator?" , or "There is a Package Accelerator for Office ?" If you follow the links above, you will go straight...

Hello all. It has been very nearly a week since our BlueHat Prize contest announcement at Black Hat. Now that everyone’s had some time to digest the basics, we’ve asked Senior Security Strategist and chief BlueHat Prize architect Katie Moussouris...

In this week’s video, Paul and Rich talk about the software license management capabilities in Windows Intune.  We cover the 2 areas of the License management workload: Microsoft Volume license agreements, and other agreements, which includes 3rd...

http://www.systemcentersolutions.com/blog/ I am a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager MVP and work for AKCSL, a Microsoft Gold Partner in the UK. I’ve been working with Enterprise Management Systems since 1999, when I joined NetIQ to...

The SCOM team is very happy to announce the release of Cumulative Update 5 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 . Cumulative Update 5 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues: Restart of non-Operations Manager services...

From KB 2590414 You are prompted for the latest version of the Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library management pack when you try to edit a new management pack in Operations Manager 2007 R2 When you try to edit a new management pack in the Authoring Console...

At TechEd 2011, we announced that the OpsMgr 2012 Community Evaluation Program (CEP) is now taking applications. What is a CEP Many of you are likely familiar with Microsoft TAP’s, Technology Adoption Programs, where a small pool of customers...

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/networking/microsoft-system-center-operations-manager-2012-easy-setup-bundled-features/4596 Takeaway: The public beta release of System Center Operations Manager 2012 is now available. Microsoft continues to add features...

Hello all. Before we look at next week’s bulletin release, we’d like to recommend – for those of you who missed it in the run-up to this year’s Black Hat conference – the third annual Microsoft Security Response Center Progress...

The OpsMgr team is very happy to announce the release of Cumulative Update 5 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 . Cumulative Update 5 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues: Restart of non-Operations Manager services...

Hi everyone The Operations Manager 2012 Beta Community Evaluation Program ( CEP ) kicks off next week! Throughout the CEP, you will be be taken on a guided tour of the Operations Manager 2012 Beta, with presentations from the Product Group and guidance...

Michael Guthrie, who is on our Operations Manager engineering team (and incidentally the guy who created my 2012 Beta Application Performance Management demo environment that I use) has posted a great article over on the Operations Manager Blog site....

Hi everyone The System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 provides an end to end monitoring solution for Dynamics AX 2012 has been released ! The Management pack automatically discovers the entire AX environment such as the databases...

This week, Jonathan is back to show us a new feature in Windows Intune: Group Policy conflict notifications and how to manage them. (Please visit the site to view this video) Enjoy! ...read more